With Parasite winning the Oscar for best picture this year, movie buffs are busy exploring more movies from South Korea. These movies are rich in brilliant performances, strong narratives, and captivating visual grammar.
Here are some awesome South Korean movies where you can stream them.
South Korean Movies On Netflix
Snowpiercer (2013)
🍅95% ⌛2h 7m 🎬Action, Post- Apocalypse
What it’s about: In the post-apocalyptic world people are living on a moving train. The lowers class people in the last portion of the train decides to overthrow the high-class people in the front portion of the train.
Burning (2018)
🍅95% ⌛2h 2m 🎬Drama, Mystery
What it’s about: Jongsu and Haemi were close to each other. But, after her trip to Egypt, she becomes close to a charming fellow traveler. When Haemi goes missing, Jongsu suspects her new boyfriend.
Train to Busan (2016)
🍅93% ⌛1h 58m 🎬Adventure, Zombie
What it’s about: After a virus outbreak, everyone is being turned into zombies. The survivors are on a train to Busan. Unfortunately, some people on the train seems to be affected.
Okja (2017)
🍅87% ⌛2h 2m 🎬Adventure, Monster
What it’s about: A young girl, Mija becomes friends with the massive, hybrid animal, Okja. When the powerful company that made the animal comes after it, she must do everything she can to protect it.
South Korean Movies On Prime Video
The Handmaiden (2016)
🍅95% ⌛2h 25m 🎬Drama, Psychology
What it’s about: A young woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress. She is actually a pickpocket hired by a fraudster posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the heiress.
The Man from Nowhere (2010)
🍅100% ⌛1h 59min 🎬Thriller, Crime
What it’s about: A lonely former special agent is friends with Somi, a little girl next door. When she gets kidnapped by a gang, he is out to save her.
The Quiet Family (1998)
🍅80% ⌛1h 38min 🎬Comedy, Crime
What it’s about: A family buys a lodge in a remote hiking area, where the customers always end up dying. The family hides the bodies to avoid bad publicity. But, when the bodies start to pile up, they must find other ways to solve the problem.
A Bittersweet Life (2005)
🍅100% ⌛2h 0min 🎬Comedy, Crime
What it’s about: A cold, calculative crime boss assigns Kim Sun-woo to shadow his young mistress, while he is away. If Sun-woo finds her in an affair, the orders are to kill them both.
South Korean Movies On Hulu
A Taxi Driver (2017)
🍅96% ⌛2h 18min 🎬Adventure, Political
What it’s about: Man-seob is a taxi driver trying to make ends meet. For a huge amount of money, he takes a foreigner for a drive down to Gwangju city. But, what he didn’t know was that he’s a German journalist with a hidden agenda.
The Good, The Bad, The Weird (2008)
🍅82% ⌛2h 10min 🎬Adventure, Comedy, Western
What it’s about: Three Korean outlaws are on the run from the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits. Their mission is to use a treasure map to uncover the riches of legend.
The Chaser (2008)
🍅82% ⌛2h 5min 🎬Thriller, Crime
What it’s about: Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp. When many of his girls goes missing without paying their debts, he tries to track them down. Eventually, he realizes that all lead to a mysterious client.
