Daehongsu (대홍수), released globally by Netflix on December 19, 2025 under the English title The Great Flood , became the most-watched Korean film in Netflix's history within weeks of its release. It also picked up some of the harshest domestic r…
"Never Say Die: The Red," releasing September 30, 2026, is an action-thriller based on the popular Naver Webtoon "Revival Man," following a job seeker whose only qualification is baseless confidence — until he discovers he revive…
"Possible Love" is director Lee Chang-dong's first feature since 2018's "Burning," premiering in Korean theaters September 23, 2026, as a Netflix original ahead of its streaming release, and stars Jeon Do-yeon, Sul Kyung-…
"Assassins" is a mystery thriller directed by Heo Jin-ho, releasing September 23, 2026, that uses the August 15, 1974 shooting at Seoul's National Theater — an attack that killed First Lady Yuk Young-soo and injured others during a nat…
"TAZZA: The Song of Beelzebub," releasing September 23, 2026, is the fourth installment in the long-running "Tazza" gambling film franchise, following two childhood friends turned business partners whose online casino empire coll…
The Korean remake of "The Intern," releasing September 16, 2026, reworks Nancy Meyers' 2015 Hollywood comedy-drama into a domestic office story, casting Choi Min-sik as a 37-year veteran of the workforce who joins a fast-growing fashio…
"Bi-gwang" is a family drama-thriller directed by Lee Ji-won, releasing in Korean theaters September 2, 2026, starring Ryu Seung-ryong and Ha Ji-won as a once-celebrated couple whose lives are upended, first by the sudden appearance of a d…
My Sassy Girl (엽기적인 그녀), the 2001 Korean romantic comedy that became one of the earliest and biggest drivers of the Hallyu wave across Asia, was also the first Korean film to ever sell its Hollywood remake rights — and yet when that remake finally a…
The Chaser (추격자), Na Hong-jin's 2008 directorial debut about a disgraced ex-cop turned pimp who races to save one of his missing prostitutes from a serial killer, became such a sensation in Korea that Warner Bros. bought its Hollywood remake rig…
A Tale of Two Sisters (장화, 홍련), Kim Jee-woon's 2003 psychological horror film based on a classic Korean folktale, became the highest-grossing Korean horror film of its era and one of the rare Korean releases to get a wide U.S. theatrical run — a…
Il Mare (시월애), the 2000 Korean fantasy romance about two people living two years apart who fall in love through letters left in a magical mailbox, holds a specific distinction in Korean film history: it was the first Korean film ever remade by Holly…
The Handmaiden (아가씨) is Park Chan-wook's 2016 erotic psychological thriller, a con-artist story set in 1930s Korea under Japanese colonial rule, loosely adapting British author Sarah Waters' novel Fingersmith — and it remains one of the most…
Memories of Murder (살인의 추억) is Bong Joon-ho's 2003 breakthrough film, a police procedural following detectives investigating a real, then-unsolved series of murders in a small Korean province in the late 1980s — and it remains one of the most ac…
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