Best movies on Prime Video (République de Corée) : our Top 20

2019 · Bong Joon-ho

All unemployed, Ki-taek’s family becomes obsessed with the affluent, glamorous Park household as their best chance at survival — until an unexpected incident draws them into a perilous entanglement.

With Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam, Lee Jung-eun and Jang Hye-jin

2023 · Celine Song

Nora and Hae Sung, childhood friends who have been apart for decades, unexpectedly reunite in New York for a single weekend that changes everything. As they revisit shared memories and unspoken longings, they grapple with fate, love, and the choices that have shaped the lives they now lead.

With Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro, Moon Seung-a, Yim Seung-min, Jojo T. Gibbs and Emily Cass McDonnell

2023 · Celine Song

Having lived separate lives for decades, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung come together in New York for a single, transformative weekend in which they grapple with fate, longing, and the pivotal choices that have shaped who they are.

With Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro, Moon Seung-ah, Yim Seung-min, Jojo T. Gibbs and Emily Cass McDonnell

2023 · Jason Yu

Expecting a child, a woman becomes increasingly unnerved by her husband’s nightly behavior. What begins as occasional murmurs and restless sleep soon descends into grotesque, alarming episodes that defy explanation. After a sleep clinic offers no answers, the couple grows desperate and turns to a shaman, hoping ancient rites can stop the terrifying transformations before it’s too late.

With Jung Yu-mi, Lee Sun-kyun, Kim Kuk-hee, Lee Kyung-jin, Yoon Kyung-ho, Kim Keum-soon and Lee Dong-chan

2010 · Lee Seung-moo

A powerful crime boss summons representatives from every New York gang, proposing they put aside neighborhood feuds and seize control of the city together. When a rival strikes him down during the summit, a small Coney Island outfit called the Warriors is falsely accused of the murder. Hunted by both the police and hostile crews, the Warriors must race through the boroughs to survive and clear their name.

With Jang Dong-gun, Kate Bosworth, Geoffrey Rush, Danny Huston, Ti Lung, Tony Cox and Analin Rudd

2006 · Bong Joon-ho

Three women, separated by time and place, each yearn for fuller, more meaningful lives. Their hopes and fears echo across different eras, their paths gradually weaving together until they meet in a sudden, transcendent moment of mutual recognition.

With Song Kang-ho, Byun Hee-bong, Park Hae-il, Bae Doona, Ko A-sung, Oh Dal-su and Lee Jae-eung

2022 · Park Chan-wook

A man is found lifeless below a remote mountain in South Korea—suicide or something more sinister? Detective Hae-joon, assigned to the case, soon turns his attention to the deceased’s wife, Seo-rae. As he untangles alibis and half-truths, he becomes entangled in a dangerous weave of lies, longing and hidden motives.

With Tang Wei, Park Hae-il, Lee Jung-hyun, Park Yong-woo, Go Kyung-pyo, Kim Shin-young and Yoo Seung-mok

2009 · JK Youn

On the final morning of his life, Ivan Bulkin is confronted at his door by Death itself — not with fury, but with a paper to sign, a formal confirmation that he departs satisfied with his years. Rather than accept the decree, Bulkin decides to outmaneuver the grim visitor, launching a series of cunning ploys, bargains and deceptions in a frantic attempt to cheat fate and buy himself more time.

With Sol Kyung-gu, Ha Ji-won, Park Joong-hoon, Uhm Jung-hwa, Lee Min-ki, Kang Ye-won and Kim In-kwon

2025 · Yorgos Lanthimos

Two conspiracy-obsessed young men abduct the powerful CEO of a global corporation, convinced she’s an extraterrestrial bent on annihilating Earth.

With Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, Alicia Silverstone, J. Carmen Galindez Barrera and Marc T. Lewis

2024 · Kim Seong-je

In a dream-haunted, surrealist city, a reclusive scientist abducts children to siphon their vivid nocturnal visions, convinced that harvesting those dreams will slow his march toward old age. As the community's youngest minds begin to fade, a desperate few race to unravel his macabre experiment and reclaim the stolen imaginations before he achieves a cold, unnatural longevity.

With Song Joong-ki, Lee Hee-jun, Kwon Hae-hyo, Cho Hyun-chul, Park Ji-hwan, Kim Jong-soo and Juana del Río

2011 · Ron Fricke

Captured on 70mm over nearly five years and filmed across twenty-five countries on five continents, Samsara presents a visual odyssey through consecrated sites, regions marked by catastrophe, vast industrial landscapes, and the planet’s most awe-inspiring natural scenes.

With Ni Made Megahadi Pratiwi, Puti Sri Candra Dewi, Putu Dinda Pratika, Marcos Luna, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Olivier De Sagazan and Ladyboys of Cascade Bar

2008 ·

In 208 A.D., as the Han Dynasty teeters on the brink, the calculating Prime Minister Cao convinces the capricious emperor that only a sweeping campaign against the western state of Xu and the southern principality of Eastern Wu can reunify the realm. Armies mobilize on an unprecedented scale, and, with survival at stake, bitter rivals Xu and Eastern Wu set aside their enmity to form a tenuous and unlikely alliance against Cao’s drive for domination.

With Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Feng Yi, Chang Chen, Zhao Wei, Hu Jun and Shidô Nakamura

2013 ·

After a catastrophic geoengineering attempt devastates the planet, the handful of human survivors live aboard a self-sustaining train that endlessly circumnavigates the globe — a closed society where brutal social stratification determines every passenger's fate.

With Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, John Hurt, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer and Ed Harris

2003 · Kim Jee-woon

After being discharged from a psychiatric facility, two sisters return to the family home only to find a cold, hostile distance from their stepmother and a series of increasingly uncanny disturbances. Whispered memories, shifting shadows and inexplicable events begin to surface, unearthing long-hidden betrayals and family lies. As reality unravels, the sisters must confront whether the horrors closing in are the product of a fractured mind—or something far more sinister.

With Lim Soo-jung, Moon Geun-young, Yum Jung-ah, Kim Kap-soo, Park Mi-hyeon, Lee Seung-bi and Woo Ki-hong

2024 · Heo Myeong-haeng

When no-nonsense cop Ma Seok-do goes after a sprawling illegal online gambling network run by former STS agent Baek and tech virtuoso CEO Chang, he surprises everyone by forging an unlikely partnership with Jang — together they dive into the criminal underworld, determined to expose the operation and bring its masterminds to justice.

With Ma Dong-seok, Kim Moo-yul, Park Ji-hwan, Lee Dong-hwi, Lee Ju-bin, Lee Beom-soo and Kim Min-jae

2023 · Lee Sang-yong

After transferring from Geumcheon Police Station to the Metropolitan Investigation Team, Detective Ma Seok-do vows to root out Japanese crime syndicates that cross into Korea to carry out brutal, lawless acts. He launches a relentless campaign to bring them down before their violence engulfs the city.

With Ma Dong-seok, Lee Jun-hyuk, Munetaka Aoki, Lee Beom-soo, Kim Min-jae, Lee Ji-hoon and Kim Do-gun

2022 · Lee Sang-yong

When Ma Seok-do, nicknamed the "Beast Cop," crosses into a foreign country to extradite a suspect, he quickly uncovers a trail of additional homicides and hears whispers of a savage killer who has been preying on tourists for years. Thrust into unfamiliar streets and forced to navigate local dangers and jurisdictional hurdles, he must track down this elusive predator before more innocent travelers become victims.

With Ma Dong-seok, Son Suk-ku, Choi Gwi-hwa, Park Ji-hwan, Heo Dong-won, Ha Jun and Jeong Jae-kwang

2016 · Gary Ross

In 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight, serving as a Confederate battlefield medic but morally opposed to slavery, prefers caring for the wounded over fighting. After his nephew falls in battle, he returns home to Jones County to protect his family, only to be branded a deserter and hunted. Forced into the bayous, he finds shelter with a community of escaped enslaved people, and—joining forces with them and other dissenting local farmers—he leads a ragged insurgency that upends the existing order and alters the course of their region’s history.

With Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mahershala Ali, Keri Russell, Jacob Lofland, Sean Bridgers and Brad Carter

2021 · Ryoo Seung-wan

When Mogadishu erupts into civil war, diplomats and embassy staff from the rival North and South Korean missions find themselves stranded and must put aside decades of hostility to organize a hazardous, joint escape from the collapsing city.

With Kim Yun-seok, Zo In-sung, Huh Joon-ho, Kim So-jin, Jeong Man-sik, Koo Kyo-hwan and Park Myung-shin

2013 · Ryoo Seung-wan

A clandestine arms deal collapses, forcing North Korean operative Pyo Jong-seong into a deadly manhunt as he’s pursued not only by South Korean agents but also by the shadowy figures within his own regime.

With Ha Jung-woo, Han Suk-kyu, Ryoo Seung-bum, Gianna Jun, Lee Kyung-young, John Keogh and Numan Acar