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In October 1986, two women are found murdered on the edge of a small town, and the poorly equipped local police are soon overwhelmed. Detectives Park Doo-man and Cho Yong-koo rely on violence and fake evidence, while Seo Tae-yoon, a better-trained detective from Seoul, joins the hunt as more killings follow.
In 2015, criminal profiler Park Hae-young finds an old walkie-talkie and hears Detective Jae-han, a man somehow speaking from the past who talks to him like an old friend. Working together across time, they crack a 15-year-old kidnapping and murder case, which leads to a cold case team led by Detective Cha Soo-hyun.
During the Korean War, student volunteer Oh Jang-beom barely survives a brutal battle and is shaken by what he has seen. He is then put in charge of a newly formed unit of untrained student soldiers, joined by a defiant young criminal named Ku Kap-jo, and ordered to hold a key position.
Crown Prince Sado, heir to King Yeongjo, sets out on a plot to kill his own father. The film moves back and forth between the crisis that follows and the long story of how father and son reached this point, from a king fixated on his young son's lessons to a boy who would rather paint and socialize.
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 Eager to connect, he finds the students withdrawn and wary of him, and as they slowly open up, he uncovers the terrible abuse they have suffered at the hands of the school's staff.
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.
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.
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.
The crew of a struggling fishing boat, the Jeonjinho, fails to bring in enough fish and agrees to smuggle thirty undocumented migrants into South Korea for money. On the way back, the boat runs into heavy fog and rough seas while being chased by the maritime police. Young crew member Dong-sik finds himself drawn to one of the migrants.
In 1968, after North Korean commandos sneak into the South in a failed attempt to kill President Park Chung Hee, the South Korean military gathers 31 outcasts, including convicts facing death sentences, into a secret team called Unit 684. Sent to the island of Silmido for brutal training, the men are promised their freedom and a fresh start if they complete a mission to kill Kim Il Sung.
In a South Korean village near a U.S. military base, local lives are shaped by the base's presence. Chang-guk makes his home in a rusting, abandoned Air Force bus with his mother, who teaches him English and keeps writing to his father in America, though every letter is sent back. Nearby are Eun-ok, a girl with a damaged eye, and a lonely boy, Jihum.
In the Philippines, former special forces soldier Baek Chang-gi runs a brutal online gambling ring and kills a worker who tries to flee. Back in Korea, Detective Ma Seok-do is looking into that worker over suspected money laundering and starts to realize the case reaches much deeper than it first seemed.
Kang In-gu is an ordinary businessman who is left with no choice but to help a secret National Intelligence Service operation. The target is Jeon Yo-hwan, a South Korean drug lord who has seized control in Suriname, and helping to catch him puts In-gu's life in serious danger.
Kim Do-gi, a former special forces soldier, drives for Rainbow Taxi, a secret company that takes on revenge requests from victims whose abusers have escaped the law. Together with CEO Jang Sung-chul, hacker Ahn Go-eun and two mechanics, he bends the rules to make criminals pay, while a prosecutor grows suspicious of the company.
In 1777, a year into his reign, King Jeongjo lives under constant threat from ambitious rivals at court and trains alone to defend himself. His one trusted ally is loyal servant Gap-soo, who grew up as an orphan trained to kill alongside his friend Eul-soo, now the deadliest member of a secret band of assassins ordered to kill the king within a day.
In Gwangju in May 1980, Min-woo lives a fairly quiet life with his younger brother Jin-woo, until soldiers suddenly turn their weapons on the city's people. As residents band together into a militia to protect their families, Min-woo finds himself caught in the middle. The film is based on the real Gwangju massacre.
Two North Korean agents, travelling on Japanese passports under the names Shinichi and Mayumi, are sent on a mission to bomb a passenger plane headed for Seoul. The film draws on the real bombing of Korean Air Flight 858 and the life of the woman agent involved.
Sohee, a high school student on a vocational track, is sent for field training at a subcontracted call center. The pressure and harsh work culture there weigh heavily on her. The film also follows detective Oh Yoo-jin, who becomes caught up in what happens to Sohee.
Kim, a widowed narcotics detective, is meeting a would-be informant named Kang when Kang is arrested for killing his girlfriend. Months later, Kang calls Kim from prison claiming he has murdered six more people, and Kim sets out to find the truth, never sure whether he can trust a word the killer says.
In 1997, as Korea slides toward a financial crisis, three stories unfold side by side. Factory owner Gap-su is paid with a risky promissory note by a department store; young analyst Jung-hak sets up a fund to bet against the economy; and central bank official Si-hyun warns that the country will run out of foreign reserves within a week.
Kim Jun is the son of a runaway palace slave and grows up among monks. Torn from his home in wartime, he is forced to set aside his peaceful nature and enter a deadly contest that might win him freedom from his masters, the powerful Choe clan, as Goryeo faces Mongol invasion.
In the early days of criminal profiling in South Korea, the country's very first profiler struggles to understand how serial killers think. At the same time, he fights to convince a doubtful society that studying criminal behavior is the future of solving crimes.
In the fictional city of Iltan, a string of murders blamed on a killer nicknamed Gap-dong goes unsolved. Detective Yang Cheol-gon pursues local man Ha Il-sik, who dies insisting he is innocent, and Ha's son Moo-yeom grows up to become a police officer to clear his father's name. Seventeen years later, new crimes echoing Gap-dong's begin.
Set during South Korea's Fifth Republic, this drama follows Chun Doo-hwan as he seizes power through a military coup and rules as a dictator. It portrays the era and the pro-democracy movements that rose up against his government, including the Gwangju uprising.
Stretching from Joseon's birth through King Sejong's time, this saga follows Yi Bang-won, fifth son of the dynasty's founder, who later rules as King Taejong. Devoted to keeping the young kingdom stable, he shows deep loyalty to his father and heir, but the killings carried out in his name stir bitter anger in return.
Kang Tae-joo, once a star detective, has been demoted and sent back home to Gangseong, but he still refuses to bend to injustice. He sees the town's serial murder case as a way to win back his reputation, yet he keeps clashing with prosecutor Cha Si-young, who bullied him back in school.
