Best Korean Thriller, Horror and Suspense Movies

Movies that keep you on the edge of your seat and keep you thinking to the very end.  Feel free to add your own items!

Mari Jan 31, 2020
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  • Parasite

    1. Parasite

    Korean Movie - 2019
    8.9
    1,285 points by 13 voters
    Kim Gi Woo is a young man who lives with his unemployed, poor family of four in a semi-basement. One day, his friend Min Hyuk tells him that he is leaving to ...more
  • Train to Busan

    2. Train to Busan

    Korean Movie - 2016
    8.9
    1,174 points by 12 voters
    Seok Woo, his estranged daughter Soo An, and other passengers become trapped on a KTX train (high-speed train) heading from Seoul to Busan during a disastrous virus outbreak in South Korea. (Source: ...more
  • Forgotten

    3. Forgotten

    Korean Movie - 2017
    8.5
    594 points by 6 voters
    After moving into a new house, the eldest son of the family, Yoo Seok, is abducted right in front of his younger brother, Jin Seok. After 19 days, Yoo Seok suddenly comes ...more
  • The Villainess

    4. The Villainess

    Korean Movie - 2017
    7.9
    472 points by 5 voters
    The story of a ruthless female assassin named Sook Hee, who from an early age has been taught to kill in Yanbian, China. She becomes a sleeper agent for South Korea's intelligence ...more
  • The Chaser

    5. The Chaser

    Korean Movie - 2008
    8.1
    386 points by 4 voters
    Ex-cop turned pimp Jung Ho is irritated because his girls keep disappearing without clearing their debts. One night, he gets a call from a customer and realizes the phone number matches that ...more
  • The Terror Live

    6. The Terror Live

    Korean Movie - 2013
    8.1
    377 points by 4 voters
    Yoon Yeong Hwa, once a top, national news anchor, gets demoted to radio news. One day, a call comes in during his radio show threatening to blow up Mapo Bridge. While it ...more
  • Tunnel

    7. Tunnel

    Korean Movie - 2016
    8.2
    376 points by 4 voters
    Jung Soo, an ordinary car dealer, is on his way home with a birthday cake for his daughter. As he drives into a tunnel, an unbelievable thing happens; the tunnel collapses on ...more
  • A Tale of Two Sisters

    8. A Tale of Two Sisters

    Korean Movie - 2003
    7.6
    296 points by 3 voters
    Su Mi and Su Yeon return home after an extended illness and hospital stay. Things have not been the same since their mother passed away. Their return is welcomed by Eun Joo, ...more
  • The Wailing

    9. The Wailing

    Korean Movie - 2016
    7.8
    292 points by 3 voters
    Within a seemingly peaceful village, a rash of mysterious and violent deaths suddenly occur. Police conclude poisonous wild mushrooms are to blame. Officer Jong Goo hears a rumour involving a nearby olderJapanese ...more
  • Door Lock

    10. Door Lock

    Korean Movie - 2018
    7.9
    287 points by 3 voters
    Kyung Min is an average female living by herself in a studio apartment. When she gets to her place after work, she finds her door lock cover left open. Slightly scared of ...more
  • Silenced

    11. Silenced

    Korean Movie - 2011
    8.8
    285 points by 3 voters
    Gang In Ho is the newly appointed art teacher at Gwangju Inhwa School, a school for deaf children. He is excited to teach his new students, yet the children are aloof and ...more
  • The Tower

    12. The Tower

    Korean Movie - 2012
    8.2
    274 points by 3 voters
    It's Christmas-eve. In an ultra-luxurious, 108-story, residential high-rise, Tower Sky, the annual White Christmas gala is underway, dazzling the elite tenants and their VIP guests. When unthinkable disaster strikes--and out of reach ...more
  • I Saw the Devil

    13. I Saw the Devil

    Korean Movie - 2010
    8.2
    194 points by 2 voters
    Kyung Chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. He has committed infernal serial murders in diabolic ways that one cannot even imagine and his victims range from young women to ...more
  • The Silenced

    14. The Silenced

    Korean Movie - 2015
    7.4
    192 points by 2 voters
    Back in 1938, when Korea was under Japanese colonial rule, Joo Ran is transferred to an all-girl's boarding school in Keijyo (old name of Seoul). The principal there exhibits exemplary behavior to ...more
  • Office

    15. Office

    Korean Movie - 2015
    7.0
    181 points by 2 voters
    An ordinary office worker named Kim Byeong Gook brutally murders his family and hides out in the office. Then the serial murderer starts picking off the employees of his company, his team ...more
  • Hwayi: A Monster Boy

    16. Hwayi: A Monster Boy

    Korean Movie - 2013
    8.3
    99 points by 1 voters
    A 5-member gang, led by Seok Tae, kidnaps a baby boy named Hwa Yi and raises the baby like their own son. The baby boy is now 17 years old and has ...more
  • Hide and Seek

    17. Hide and Seek

    Korean Movie - 2013
    7.6
    99 points by 1 voters
    Sung Soo is a successful businessman who lives with his wife Min Ji and their 2 children in a luxury apartment. Life is mostly good, except for an older brother from whom ...more
  • Pandora

    18. Pandora

    Korean Movie - 2016
    8.3
    94 points by 1 voters
    A nuclear power plant is built in a peaceful small town in South Korea. All residents praise the nuclear power station for bringing new jobs and life to the quiet town except ...more
  • Bedevilled

    19. Bedevilled

    Korean Movie - 2010
    7.6
    92 points by 1 voters
    Hye Won is a stern single independent woman who works in a bank in Seoul. She is very self-centered and doesn't care to help other people. However, due to problems at work, ...more
  • Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum

    20. Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum

    Korean Movie - 2018
    7.5
    87 points by 1 voters
    In 1979, 42 patients at Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital killed themselves and the hospital director went missing. Rumors and strange stories about the now abandoned Gonjiam Mental Hospital abound. An internet broadcaster recruits ...more
  • The Five

    21. The Five

    Korean Movie - 2013
    7.7
    86 points by 1 voters
    Eun Ah brutally lost her husband and daughter before her eyes when a serial killer attacked her family. To help her get revenge, she uses her organs as collateral to fund a ...more
  • Sympathy for Lady Vengeance

    22. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance

    Korean Movie - 2005
    8.0
    83 points by 1 voters
    After thirteen and half years in prison for kidnapping and murdering the boy Park Won Mo, Lee Geum Ja is released and tries to fix her life. She finds a job in ...more

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