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The Kim family, Ki-taek, Chung-sook and their grown children Ki-woo and Ki-jung, scrape by in a cramped semi-basement flat in Seoul. When a friend arranges for Ki-woo to tutor the daughter of the wealthy Park family, the Kims see a chance to work their way, one by one, into the rich household.
In 1988, businessman Oh Dae-su is snatched off the street after a night of drunken trouble and locked inside a sealed room with only a television. For fifteen years he has no idea who imprisoned him or why. When he is suddenly set free, he hunts for his captor, crossing paths with a young sushi chef named Mi-do.
Seok-woo, a cynical, workaholic divorced father in Seoul, agrees to take his young daughter Su-an to see her mother in Busan. They board the KTX train with a mix of other passengers just as a sudden outbreak sweeps the country, and an infected woman slips aboard right before departure.
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.
Park Gang-du is a slow-witted man who sells snacks from a little stand by Seoul's Han River with his father. When a huge creature rises from the water and attacks the riverside park, it carries off his daughter Hyun-seo. After a phone call reveals she is trapped in the sewers, Gang-du and his family escape a government quarantine to search for her.
After 13 years in prison for the kidnapping and murder of a young boy, a crime she did not commit, Lee Geum-ja walks free, praised as a model of reform. But her gentle behavior behind bars was only a cover. Calling in favors from former inmates, she sets out to take revenge on the real killer.
Lee Jong-su, an aspiring novelist doing odd jobs in Seoul, runs into Shin Hae-mi, a childhood neighbor he barely remembers. Before leaving on a trip to Africa, she asks him to feed her cat, and when she returns she introduces him to Ben, a mysterious young man who leaves Jong-su uneasy.
When two North Korean soldiers are shot dead at a guard post inside the Joint Security Area, wounded South Korean sergeant Lee Soo-hyeok escapes back across the border. To calm rising tensions, Swiss Army Major Sophie E. Jean is sent by a neutral commission to investigate, and she soon notices that the stories from both sides do not add up.
Man-su, a longtime paper-company employee, lives happily in his childhood home with his wife Mi-ri and their two children. When the company is sold and he is laid off, he promises his family he will be back in the paper business within three months, but more than a year later he is still jobless and growing desperate enough to turn on his rivals.
Four years after a zombie outbreak overran South Korea and the whole peninsula was sealed off, former marine officer Jung-seok is living as a refugee in Hong Kong. Chinese gangsters hire him, his brother-in-law Chul-min and a pair of fellow refugees to sneak back and recover a truck holding 20 million US dollars, in return for half of it.
Soon after a mysterious Japanese stranger arrives in the mountain village of Gokseong, a strange sickness spreads, driving villagers to violently attack their own families. Police officer Jong-goo starts looking into the killings, and his fear deepens when his young daughter, Hyo-jin, begins showing signs of the illness.
After his fiancée Joo-yun is brutally murdered, secret agent Kim Soo-hyun vows to make her killer pay. Working outside the law, he sets out to hunt down the man responsible, a school bus driver named Jang Kyung-chul who has killed before, and his quest for vengeance turns into a vicious contest between the two men.
A widow sells medicinal herbs in a small southern town and dotes on her only son, Do-joon, a shy young man with an intellectual disability. When a high school girl is found dead and Do-joon is arrested on flimsy evidence, his mother is sure he is innocent and sets out to find the real killer herself.
After treatment in a mental hospital, teenager Su-mi returns to her family's isolated country house with her father and younger sister Su-yeon. There she clashes again and again with their unsettling stepmother, Eun-joo, as strange and frightening things begin to happen in the house.
In 1980, Kim Man-seob is a widowed taxi driver in Seoul, raising his child alone and buried in debt. When he overhears another driver boasting about a well-paid fare to Gwangju, he grabs the job for himself. His passenger is Peter, a German journalist hoping to report on the growing unrest there, which Man-seob knows nothing about.
Sang-hyun, a Catholic priest, volunteers for an experiment to find a vaccine for a deadly virus. The trial goes wrong, and although he seems to recover, he is left a vampire who craves human blood. At the same time, he finds himself drawn to Tae-ju, who is married to his childhood friend Kang-woo.
Oh Joon-woo is home alone in his family's Seoul apartment when zombies start attacking and infecting people outside. Barricaded inside and cut off from everyone, he struggles to survive as his food, water and phone signal slowly run out.
Insomniac Busan detective Jang Hae-jun, who sees his wife only on weekends, looks into the death of a retired immigration officer found dead below a mountain he liked to climb. Suspicion falls on the man's much younger widow, Song Seo-rae, a Chinese emigrant who cares for the elderly, and as Hae-jun watches her closely, he begins to develop feelings for her.
In 2092, with Earth dying and most of humanity living in poverty, Tae-ho, Captain Jang, Tiger Park and the android Bubs scrape by as a crew of space sweepers, sinking deeper into debt. On a job, they find Dorothy, a child robot said to hold a devastating weapon, and see a chance to cash in with a ransom.
Ko Bum-seok is the police chief of Hope Harbor, a small village of mostly elderly residents near the DMZ. When his cousin asks him to look into a cow with gaping wounds, local hunters blame a stray tiger, but the attacks keep coming, and with wildfires cutting off help, Bum-seok and his rookie deputy must defend the village.
During the reign of King Yeonsan in the late 15th century, street clowns and tightrope walkers Jangsaeng and Gong-gil flee to Seoul and start a new troupe. When their bold skit poking fun at the king gets them arrested, they are given one chance to escape execution: they must make the tyrant himself laugh.
Cha Tae-sik is a quiet man who runs a pawnshop, and his only friend is So-mi, the little girl who lives next door. When So-mi's mother steals drugs from a gang and hides them in a bag she leaves with Tae-sik, the gangsters come for the drugs and take So-mi, pulling him into a violent fight to get her back.
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.
Kim Sun-woo is a top enforcer who has served crime boss Kang loyally for years. Before leaving on a business trip, Kang asks him to keep watch over his young mistress, Hee-soo, whom he suspects of seeing another man. When Sun-woo catches her with her lover, he chooses to spare them, a decision that turns his boss against him.
Firefighter Kim Ja-hong is killed while on duty and is led into the afterlife by three grim reapers: Gang-rim, Hae Won-maek and Lee Deok-choon. As his guardians, they must defend him through seven trials over 49 days; if he passes, he will be reborn, and they will move closer to their own reincarnation.
In 1992, an elite group of North Korean soldiers trains under commander Park Mu-young to slip into South Korea as sleeper agents. Years later, South Korean agent Yu Jung-won and his partner Lee Jang-gil hunt for Lee Bang-hee, a deadly sniper from that unit, while Jung-won keeps the truth about his job from his fiancée Myung-hyun.
In an alternate 2009, Korea is still ruled by Imperial Japan. Masayuki Sakamoto, an agent of the Japanese Bureau of Investigation, and his partner Shojiro Saigo stop a hostage crisis at a museum, and Sakamoto grows curious about why the rebels were after a mysterious artifact and the foundation linked to it.
Scientist Seo Young-chul warns police of a bio-terror attack at the Dongwoo-ri Building, where a biotech firm is showing off a cell-regenerating slime mold. Among those inside are Kwon Se-jeong, an out-of-work professor hoping her ex-husband can help her find a job, and guard Choi Hyun-seok with his older sister. When an outbreak erupts, the building is sealed with everyone trapped inside.
Lee Ja-sung is a police officer who has spent eight years working undercover inside Goldmoon International, a crime syndicate run like a giant corporation. Chief Kang keeps putting off his promised transfer, and when Goldmoon's chairman dies in an accident, a fierce fight over who will replace him puts Ja-sung in even greater danger.
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.
Famed shaman Hwa-rim and her protégé Bong-gil are hired by a wealthy Korean American family whose newborn son has a mysterious illness. Blaming an angry ancestor's spirit, they team up with feng shui master Kim Sang-deok and mortician Yeong-geun to dig up and move the grandfather's grave on a remote mountain, though Sang-deok senses something sinister there.
In 1597, Joseon's navy has been cut down to about a dozen ships after a crushing defeat, and Admiral Yi Sun-sin is restored to command. As a huge Japanese fleet prepares to push toward the capital, he must face an overwhelming enemy at the Myeongnyang Strait.
An-na, an AI researcher who recently lost her husband, wakes up to find floodwater rising through her 30-floor apartment building. With her six-year-old son, Ja-in, she struggles to climb toward the roof as a huge disaster unfolds, and a mysterious call tells her that agents are coming to pick them up by helicopter.
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.
Car salesman Lee Jung-soo is driving home to Seoul when a newly opened tunnel caves in, pinning his car under concrete and steel. With a weak phone signal, he reaches emergency services, while rescue chief Kim Dae-kyung sets up outside and his wife Se-hyun waits for news. To stay alive, he must ration two bottles of water and a cake meant for his daughter.
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.
In 1933, with Korea under Japanese rule, resistance captain Yem Sek-jin is tasked with recruiting three unruly independence fighters, Ahn Okyun, Big Gun and Duk-sam. Their mission is to sneak into Seoul and kill a Japanese general, Kawaguchi Mamoru, along with the pro-Japanese businessman Kang In-guk.
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.
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.
After cat burglar Yenicall and her partners pull off an art gallery theft in Seoul, a visit from a detective convinces them to lie low abroad. They join a job led by master thief Macau Park, alongside a Chinese crew, to steal a 20-million-dollar diamond called the Tear of the Sun from a dangerous crime lord's mistress at a Macau casino.
As a boy, Nam-yi flees with his younger sister Ja-in when the king's guards hunt down their father, a skilled archer and officer. Thirteen years later, Nam-yi is a gifted archer and hunter, and when Manchu forces raid the village on Ja-in's wedding day and carry her off, he sets out to rescue her.
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.
In 2135, rising seas have made Earth unlivable, and humanity has moved to space shelters now locked in decades of war. Captain Yun Jung-yi is a legendary mercenary fighting to pay for her young daughter's medical care, until a failed mission leaves her in a coma. Years later, an AI company clones her brain to build a combat robot code-named Jung_E.
Three North Korean agents, trained since youth in an elite unit, slip into South Korea disguised as a village fool, a would-be rock musician and a high school student. With no new orders arriving, they slowly settle into everyday life in a small neighborhood, until a sudden mission throws everything into disorder.
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.
