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Parasitic creatures from outer space begin taking over human hosts, and a police squad called The Grey, led by Choi Jun-kyung, hunts them while keeping the attacks hidden. Supermarket cashier Jeong Su-in is stabbed one night, and a parasite that tries to seize her brain ends up sharing her body instead, something small-time thug Seol Kang-woo witnesses.
Hee-jin, a woman who does not speak, runs a remote fishing resort of small floating cabins, rowing guests back and forth and quietly supplying whatever they need. When Hyun-shik, a troubled man on the run from the law, arrives at the resort, an unusual and intense bond slowly forms between them, told almost entirely without dialogue.
In a near future where Earth is drying out, drinking water is strictly rationed. Scientist Song Ji-an joins a small elite crew led by captain Han Yun-jae on a trip to an abandoned lunar research base, where her sister died years earlier, to bring back a secret sample. What really happened at the station remains hidden.
Seh-hee and Ji-woo have been a couple for two years, and Seh-hee is consumed by jealousy and the fear that he is growing tired of her. Convinced he wants someone new, she vanishes without a word and undergoes cosmetic surgery, planning to win him back with a new face and a different name.
Park Ji-sang is a gifted surgeon at the country's top cancer hospital who is secretly a vampire, holding back his thirst for blood to save patients. He finds himself drawn to Yoo Ri-ta, an arrogant star physician and niece of the chaebol chairman who owns the hospital.
In spring 1945, under Japanese occupation, Jang Tae-sang runs the richest pawnshop in Gyeongseong, while Yoon Chae-ok is a tracker searching for her missing mother. Their paths lead them to face a strange creature created through hidden biological experiments carried out inside Ongseong Hospital.
Shim Eun-seok is a top judge with a chilly, aloof manner who is known for disliking young offenders. When she is assigned to a juvenile court in Yeonhwa District, she breaks with custom and handles cases in her own way, balancing her distaste for teen criminals with her firm beliefs about justice and punishment.
After her husband dies in a car accident, Lee Shin-ae moves with her young son Jun to Miryang, her late husband's hometown, hoping for a fresh start. When her car breaks down on the way in, local mechanic Kim Jong-chan comes to her aid, and he keeps helping out as she opens a piano school and settles into the town.
Kang In-ho arrives in the city of Mujin to start a new job as the art teacher at Ja-ae Academy, a school for Deaf children. Eager to connect, he finds the students withdrawn and wary of him, and as they slowly open up, he uncovers the terrible abuse they have suffered at the hands of the school's staff.
In 2019, Kim Seo-yeon visits her ill, estranged mother at her run-down childhood home and finds an old cordless phone. Through it she starts getting calls from Oh Young-sook, a frightened young woman living in the same house in 1999. The two begin talking across time, bonding over their troubled relationships with their mothers.
As a seven-year-old, Sook-hee watches her father being killed, and is later rescued from a terrible situation by the assassin Lee Joong-sang, who raises her and trains her as a killer. As an adult, she is recruited by South Korea's intelligence agency, handed a new identity, and offered freedom in exchange for ten years of service.
In the Chinese city of Yanji, ethnic Korean taxi driver Gu-nam is buried in gambling debt and tormented by worries about his wife, who went to work in South Korea and has not been in touch. After losing his job, he accepts an offer from a local gangster to cross into South Korea and kill a professor for money.
Cha Dal-gun is an overlooked stuntman raising his orphaned nephew Hoon. After the two argue, Hoon leaves on a school trip to Morocco, and soon Dal-gun learns that the plane has crashed, killing over 200 people. Arriving in Morocco for the victims' funeral, he spots at the airport a passenger who was supposed to have died on that flight.
A grim reaper is ordered to hunt down his partner, who has gone on the run. While searching, he gets caught up in a string of unsolved murders from 20 years ago, and his job of guiding the dead to the afterlife grows complicated as he starts breaking the rules against meddling in human lives.
Kim Gun-woo is a talented young boxer who wants a better life for his single mother, but she falls into the clutches of Smile Capital, a ruthless loan shark outfit run by Kim Myeong-gil. Desperate to help her, Gun-woo accepts aid from kindly moneylender Choi Tae-ho and forms an unlikely bond with Hong Woo-jin, a former marine who also boxes.
Genius profiler Lee Hyun comes back to Korea when a case stirs up a memory he believed was gone for good. Detective Cha Ji-an, on his new team, has quietly been looking into him, knowing his father was murdered and his brother vanished in connection with a criminal they both want caught.
Detective Ko Moo-chi, still haunted by a horrific crime he saw as a child, is determined to catch a psychopathic serial killer. With rookie officer Jeong Ba-reum at his side, he digs into what drives psychopaths and whether a tendency toward psychopathy could be spotted in a person's genes.
Yoon Hyun-woo is a loyal senior employee of the chaebol Soonyang Group until a member of the owning family betrays and kills him to hide a tax evasion scheme. He then wakes up in 1987 in the body of Jin Do-jun, the family's youngest grandson, and starts plotting revenge by aiming to seize control of the company.
Lee Byeong-gu, a conspiracy theorist obsessed with aliens, is convinced that invaders from Andromeda are about to attack Earth. With help from his childlike girlfriend Sunny, a circus performer, he kidnaps pharmaceutical executive Kang Man-shik, whom he believes is an alien commander, and holds him in his basement ahead of a coming lunar eclipse.
Hwang Si-mok is a dedicated prosecutor who lost his sense of empathy after surgery for an extreme sensitivity to sound. While investigating a murder, he teams up with police lieutenant Han Yeo-jin, and the two soon find their search for the truth blocked at every turn by powerful interests.
Yoon Jong-woo, a man in his twenties, moves to Seoul for a company internship. Short on money, he rents a room at Eden Studio, a cheap, gloomy dormitory full of odd residents, including his neighbor Seo Moon-jo. He plans to put up with it until he can afford to leave, but strange events start making him fear the people around him.
In a dystopian South Korea where people resent their leaders and society has fallen into chaos, trials are broadcast as a live television show. Three judges preside over these courtroom broadcasts, presenting themselves as the ones who will restore justice and peace to a nation in turmoil.
In 1953, ceasefire talks drag on while soldiers keep battling over hills along the 38th Parallel that change hands again and again. When a South Korean company commander at the Aerok Hills is found shot by a southern bullet, counterintelligence officer Kang Eun-pyo is sent to investigate and find a suspected mole.
In the Joseon era, Lee Dae-gil was born into a noble family, but his life fell apart when Keun-nom, one of his family's slaves, set fire to his home and scarred his face. Now he earns his living hunting runaway slaves, including a former general, while still trying to find the woman he loves.
Yeon Si-eun is a top student who cares only about his grades and is far from strong, yet he refuses to give in to the classroom bullies led by Jeon Yeong-bin. Using quick thinking and whatever is at hand, he fights back, and he finds unexpected allies in tough fighter Ahn Su-ho and troubled Oh Beom-seok.
Yeon is a lonely housewife struggling with depression and anger, and she discovers her husband has been unfaithful. She has been following news about Jin, a notorious prisoner on death row who keeps trying to end his life, and she begins visiting him, treating this stranger as though he were a former lover.
In December 2023, a massive earthquake and an extreme cold wave flatten Seoul, leaving just one building standing: Hwang Gung Apartments. Min-sung and his wife, Myung-hwa, live there and try to adjust as residents panic without power, water or any way to communicate, and that night a mother and her child from a collapsed building nearby beg to be let in.
Jin-seok moves into a new house with his parents and older brother Yoo-seok, and they are told that one room holding the previous owner's things is off-limits. That night, Jin-seok watches his brother get kidnapped and dragged into a car. When Yoo-seok returns 19 days later with no memory of what happened, Jin-seok starts to feel something about him is wrong.
Mo Seok-hee, the only daughter of the MC Group chaebol, was sent to America as a teenager after her mother was murdered. Fifteen years later she returns to Korea when her grandfather falls into a coma, and after a prickly first meeting she hires Heo Yoon-do, an honest neighborhood lawyer with no real office.
Byun Ji-sook, a department store clerk whose family is hounded by loan sharks, meets Seo Eun-ha, a congressman's daughter who looks exactly like her. When Eun-ha dies, the scheming Min Seok-hoon forces Ji-sook to take her place as the bride of lonely chaebol heir Choi Min-woo, who finds his new wife surprisingly different.
Su-min, an orphan, must leave his orphanage when he turns 18. Unable to afford university, he moves to Seoul and works several jobs, including driving drunk people home, to cover the cost of computer lessons. When his factory job ends he starts working at a host bar, where Jae-min, a man he once drove home who has since fallen for him, walks back into his life.
Eight strangers agree to be locked inside a building for a game that pays them money for every minute it lasts. Known only by their floor numbers, they must buy basic supplies at a hundred times the usual price, and at first they work together to keep the game going as long as possible.
During Japan's occupation of Korea in World War II, more than 400 Koreans are forced into brutal labor on Hashima Island. Pushed to their limits by the harsh conditions, they gamble everything on a bold plan to break out.
An old man lives on a run-down fishing boat anchored off the Korean coast, renting it out to tourists who come to fish. With him is a quiet teenage girl he brought aboard when she was six and plans to marry when she turns 17. Their isolated life is unsettled when a young student arrives with a fishing party.
Private Kang is a South Korean marine guarding the coastline near the Demilitarized Zone, desperate for the chance to take down an intruder from the North. One night he spots a figure inside the fenced-off area through his night-vision scope and, believing it is a spy, opens fire, only to kill a local civilian.
Jang Dong-soo, a feared crime boss, survives a brutal attack by a seemingly random serial killer. Detective Jung Tae-suk, whose superior dismisses his serial killer theory, wants Dong-soo's help, and the two very different men end up joining forces to hunt the killer, each for his own reasons.
Restaurant worker Eun-yi is hired as a live-in nanny for a wealthy couple: Hoon and his wife Hae-ra, who is expecting twins. Her main job is caring for their young daughter Nami, who slowly warms to her, but Hoon soon begins secretly flirting with her behind his wife's back.
In an alternate 2018 where Korea is still an empire, cheerful musical actress Oh Sunny marries the emperor. She is soon pulled into palace power struggles and a mysterious murder, and she joins forces with Na Wang-shik, an imperial bodyguard who took the job to avenge his mother.
In 1970s South Korea, President Park rules with total power through the KCIA. Its director, Kim Gyu-pyeong, is almost the second most powerful man in the country but faces a fierce rival in the president's security chief. When former director Park Yong-gak flees abroad and testifies before the U.S. Congress, pressure inside the government starts to build.
After President Park Chung-hee is assassinated in October 1979, martial law is declared and Major General Chun Doo-gwang is put in charge of the investigation. As he quietly gathers power, the principled Major General Lee Tae-shin is reluctantly appointed to command the capital's defense, setting the two men on a collision course.
Under President Chun Doo-hwan's military regime, student activist Park Jong-chul dies while being questioned by police. Commissioner Park Cheo-won moves to hide what happened by having the body cremated before any autopsy, but a stubborn prosecutor refuses to sign off. The film is based on real events.
Jeong Ji-an is a college student raised by her secretive uncle, Jeong Jin-man, after her parents' violent deaths, and he trained her in combat and shooting under the cover of odd hobbies. When news of his apparent suicide brings her home, skilled assassins suddenly come after her, and she learns his online farm-equipment store was something far more dangerous.
Years after an earthquake has turned Seoul into a lawless wasteland, Nam-san is a tough hunter who, with his friend Choi Ji-wan, scavenges to keep their small village of survivors going. When Su-na, a girl from their village, is taken by a rogue scientist named Dr. Yang Gi-su, they set out to bring her back.
In the future, a comet has destroyed much of the planet and the air has become badly polluted. Survivors cannot live without oxygen tanks and masks, which are delivered to them by a small group of elite couriers who carry these vital supplies through a harsh, broken land.
In 1990, detective Choi Hyeong-goo corners a serial killer who has murdered ten women, but the man gets away after a brutal fight that leaves Choi scarred. Fifteen years later, as the statute of limitations runs out, a man publishes a book titled I Am the Murderer, claiming the crimes as his own.
A year after a disastrous mistake leads to a hospital bombing that kills several SWAT officers, team leader Kang Ki-hyung returns to the NCI, an elite criminal profiling unit. He is immediately pulled into a serial murder case alongside a local violent crimes unit, including hot-tempered officer Kim Hyun-joon, who seems to hold a grudge against him.
A talented doctor is forced out of his hospital after the spoiled son of the chaebol family that owns it falsely accuses him of malpractice. He takes a job at a prison that houses the elite, planning to build enough powerful connections to get his revenge.
In 2010, with a presidential election looming, a driven prosecutor named Woo Jang-hoon is ordered to investigate the hidden slush fund of front-running candidate Jang Pil-woo. Gangster Ahn Sang-goo, meanwhile, grabs the key evidence for Lee Kang-hee, an influential newspaper editor he trusts, only to be betrayed and maimed, leaving him set on revenge.
