INDUSTRY ROUTE · SOUTH KOREA
Korean cinema
The global surge that turned a national industry into an export.
30 titles from this industry are in the hand-verified BRYME catalogue, years 2003 to 2026, each entry carrying an official trailer checked against YouTube’s oEmbed record. This is a shelf, not an encyclopedia: what is listed here is what the desk has actually verified.
Directors appearing more than once: Bong Joon-ho, Na Hong-jin, Park Chan-wook.
The shelf
Every title, newest first
- Hope
Na Hong-jin's Korean creature film: a village police post and a group of hunters go after something in the woods near Hope Harbor. - Colony
Yeon Sang-ho’s sci-fi with Jun Ji-hyun, Koo Kyo-hwan and Ji Chang-wook. A future colony under pressure. - Mickey 17
Bong Joon-ho's return after Parasite. Mickey Barnes is an 'expendable' — he dies and is reprinted — until Mickey 18 shows up. - All of Us Are Dead
A high school becomes ground zero for a zombie outbreak and students fight to survive. - Decision to Leave
A detective becomes drawn to a woman connected to a death he is investigating. - Extraordinary Attorney Woo
A brilliant young lawyer on the autism spectrum takes on Korea's most difficult cases. - The Glory
A woman who was brutally bullied in school spends years planning a meticulous revenge. - Squid Game
456 players. 45.6 billion won. Six children's games. One winner. Everyone else dies. - My Name
A woman joins a drug cartel and the police to avenge her father's murder. - Vincenzo
A Korean-Italian mafia consigliere returns to Seoul and takes on a corrupt conglomerate. - Itaewon Class
An ex-con opens a bar in Itaewon and builds a business empire to take down a food giant. - Sweet Home
Residents of an apartment building fight to survive when their neighbors turn into monsters. - Parasite
A poor family infiltrates a rich one — one job, one lie, one house at a time. Then the basement door opens. - Crash Landing on You
A South Korean heiress crash-lands in North Korea and falls for the soldier who hides her. - Extreme Job
A struggling narcotics team opens a fried-chicken restaurant as cover for surveillance and unexpectedly finds success. - Kingdom
In Joseon-era Korea, a crown prince battles a mysterious plague that raises the dead. - Burning
A young man becomes unsettled by a wealthy acquaintance and a woman he cares about. The mystery unfolds through suspicion and ambiguity. - A Taxi Driver
A Seoul taxi driver agrees to take a foreign journalist on a journey that changes his understanding of events in Gwangju. - Train to Busan
A father and daughter board a train to Busan. By the time it arrives, they will have fought through a nation of the dead. - The Handmaiden
A young woman joins an heiress’s household as part of a con, but shifting loyalties transform the plan. - The Wailing
A rural police officer investigates a violent illness spreading through his village. - I Saw the Devil
A secret agent pursues the man responsible for a personal loss, turning the search for justice into a dangerous cycle of revenge. - Poetry
An older woman begins a poetry class while confronting a painful truth in her family. The film is a quiet drama about attention and responsibility. - The Housemaid
A domestic worker enters a wealthy household where desire, class and power create a dangerous imbalance. - The Man from Nowhere
A withdrawn pawnshop owner is forced back into violence when a child he cares about is taken by criminals. - The Chaser
A former detective searches for a missing woman after noticing a pattern among the people connected to his work. - The Host
A family tries to rescue a young girl after a creature emerges from the Han River. The film mixes monster horror with family drama. - A Bittersweet Life
A loyal enforcer disobeys a powerful boss and finds himself pursued by the organisation he once served. - Memories of Murder
Detectives investigate a series of murders in a rural town while evidence and methods repeatedly fail them. - Oldboy
A man is released after years of unexplained imprisonment and begins a desperate search for the reason he was taken.