In recent years, Netflix has bet a lot on South Korean content in order to give variety to what is shared on its platform and not be pigeonholed in Hollywood cinema.
This innovation has been well accepted and responded to by its subscribers, who seem to like the style and the peculiar way in which the Korean industry tells its stories, since it is characterized by a more realistic and spontaneous approach than the classic cinema. Hollywoodense we are accustomed to.
If you have free time or want to have a good time at home and organize a movie marathon outside of what you are used to, prepare the popcorn, here we leave you a list with an attractive selection of the best South Korean films that you can find and watch on Netflix.
1. The phone (2020)
Also Known As the callthis tape is a thriller Korean that tells the story of two women who, with a difference of approximately 20 years, begin to have communication through a telephone, which will change their lives irrevocably, since they will have to face a serial killer.
2. parasites (2019)
This film with a touch of intrigue, drama and comedy tells the story of the Kim family, tired of living in one of the most marginalized neighborhoods of the city and looking for a better future, one of the sons has the opportunity of being the English teacher of a girl from a wealthy family, but after not having a document that supports her knowledge, her sister with a talent for design offers to create a fake title for her.
3. A 20th century girl (2022)
This romance movie whose story is set in the year 1999 shows the story of a teenager who, in her mission to help her best friend to find out more information about a boy with whom she is completely in love, ends up involved in a self-love story that ends up change the plans that both she and her friend had at first.
4. the 8th night (2021)
This horror film shows the fight of a monk against an ancient spirit that possesses humans and unleashes hell on Earth. A battle that lasts approximately eight days, with an ax and prayers, the monk tries to stop the evil being from wreaking havoc.
5. hunting time (2020)
This movie mixes a bit of drama and crime to show a futuristic scenario in which the residents of South Korea are forced to face a strong financial crisis that causes their economy to collapse, so a group of young people devises a plan to leave the country and achieve a better future. However, they did not contemplate that along the way they would steal the attention of a brutal assassin who begins to chase them.
6.#Alive (2020)
This story narrates an everyday day in the life of the character played by actor Yoo Ah-i, who is trapped in his apartment after a zombie virus begins to attack the city.
Disconnected and desperate to find a way out after several days in confinement, he seeks at all costs to contact his parents to see if they are okay, so he has to leave home and face a wave of zombies.
7. The Drug King (2018)
Based on a true story, The Drug King follows the story of a jeweler who, in search of a better future, turns to the criminal side and ends up in jail. However, after being released from prison, changing his name and getting a fake medical license, with the support of connections in the world of crime and the South Korean government, he begins to develop a powerful drug network.
8. Forgotten (2017)
Another movie of the genre thriller Korean that tells the story of Jin-seok, a boy in search of the truth behind his brother’s kidnapping, because after being deprived of his freedom, he completely changed his behavior without being able to remember what he experienced in the last 19 days who was away from home.
9. Station zombie (2016)
With Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi and Don Lee as the leads, this film also known as Train to Busan and which shows the start of an unexpected zombie epidemic follows the story of a father who is forced to save his daughter from being infected with the virus while they are boarding a train bound for a vacation.
10. The silence (2011)
This film tells the life of an art teacher who is new to an academy for children with hearing problems. However, despite his enthusiasm for transmitting his knowledge to his new students, the little ones do not seem to like him, so they behave distant and seem to run away from him, since, apparently, the teacher has a dark past.