Based On True Story Korean Dramas & Movies

The Gangster

The Gangster, the Cop and the Devil

Rank #1222

Jang Dong Soo is a gang boss in Cheonan. He becomes the target of a serial criminal, Kang Kyung Ho, but ultimately survives the attack. He is the only person...

Miss Baek (2018)

Miss Baek

Rank #1227

Small but tough Baek Sang Ah, known as Miss Baek, comes across a young girl, Ji Eun, a victim of domestic harsh by her game-junkie father and his girlfriend. A...

Malmoe: The Secret Mission (2019)

Malmoe: The Secret Mission

Rank #1234

Set in the 1940’s when Korea was under Japanese occupation. Korean people were banned from speaking their own language during that time. Pan Soo has been imprisoned several times and...

Cyber Hell: Exposing an Internet Horror (2022)

Cyber Hell: Exposing an Internet Horror

Rank #1376

Anonymous and exploitative, a network of online chat rooms ran rampant with intimate crimes. The hunt to take down its operators required guts and tenacity. (Source: Netflix)...

The Roundup

The Roundup

Rank #1381

After passing the tunnel, the roundup comes! Four years after the operation to wipe out Garibong-dong, monstrous detective Ma Seok Do and Geumcheonseo’s strong team will directly carry out a...

The Outlaws (2017)

The Outlaws

Rank #1546

The story follows a turf war that grows between a local gang that runs Garibong-dong in Guro District, Seoul, and the Heuksapa gang from Yanbian, China; the police are called...

The Battle of Jangsari (2019)

The Battle of Jangsari

Rank #1569

A guerrilla army unit led by Captain Lee Myung Joon and 772 student soldiers, including Choi Sung Pil, are on the ship Moonsanho and their destination is Jangsari. Their mission...

Run Off

Take Off 2

Rank #1576

What does it take to form a women’s Olympic national ice hockey team? A few middle-aged women, a middle school student, and maybe even a North Korean defector? Kang Dae...

The Himalayas (2015)

The Himalayas

Rank #1658

Based on true events, renowned mountaineer Uhm Hong Gil set out on a mission to Everest to retrieve his late junior climber’s body and faces the greatest challenge of his...

The Chaser

The Chaser

Rank #1746

Ex-cop turned paid companionJung 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...

The Raincoat Killer: Chasing a Predator in Korea (2021)

The Raincoat Killer: Chasing a Predator in Korea

Rank #1813

In the early 2000s, Yoo Young Chul hammered his victims to death and cast fear across Seoul. This docuseries recounts the hunt for a prolific terminateer. (Source: Netflix) ~~ A...

The Spy Gone North (2018)

The Spy Gone North

Rank #1958

In 1993 Korea, the only country where the Cold War continues, tensions surrounding the development of nuclear weapons escalate. Park Seok Young, an army major in the South Korea military...

Glove

Glove

Rank #1990

Kim Sang Nam, a hot-tempered former professional baseball player, is sent to the countryside to coach a team of hearing-impaired players in order to avoid media coverage of his recent...

Anarchist from Colony (2017)

Anarchist from Colony

Rank #2014

Set in Korea under Japanese rule period. In 1923, an odd rumor spreads that around 6,000 Koreans are massacred after the Great Kanto Earthquake. In order to conceal this event,...

Hello

Hello, Brother

Rank #2107

The film is based on a true story.Based on true story, “Little Brother” marks the debut feature of Korean director Lim Tae Yong and is another in the ever popular...

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May 18

Rank #2248

Having lost his parents at a young age, Min Woo takes care of his younger brother Jin Woo much like a father would. He harbours a secret crush on Shin...

Innocence (2020)

Innocence

Rank #2335

Tells the story of a lawyer named Jung In trying to prove her mother’s innocence and uncover the secrets of a small village with the help of the local mayor....

Dong Ju: The Portrait of a Poet

Dong Ju: The Portrait of a Poet

Rank #2418

Based on the life and work of Korea’s renowned poet, Yun Dong Ju. Dong Ju, while studying literature in Japan, was charged and detained for having participated in the Korean...

Hansan (2021)

Hansan: Rising Dragon

Rank #2532

‘Hansan’ is a film of the Battle of Hansando, the Battle of the Korean Navy, which largely defeated Japanese naval forces off the coast of Hansando on July 8, 1592....

Take Off

Take Off 1

Rank #2737

“Take Off” is centered around the joy and sorrow of the first Korean national ski jump team. In 1997, the county of Muju in South Korea bids to host the...

Default (2018)

Default

Rank #2884

Shi Hyun, the monetary policy manager at the Bank of Korea, predicts a massive national financial crisis and reports it to the Director. The Director doesn’t schedule an emergency summit...

Cart (2014)

Cart

Rank #3038

Sun Hee is a mother of two children. She works at a large discount retail store as a cashier. Hye Mi is a single mother and a co-worker of Sun...

Children... (2011)

Children…

Rank #3063

On March 26, 1991, the local elections are being held. Since it is a school day off, the five boys set off to the nearby mountain and never return. Their...

Awl

Awl

Rank #3103

Soo In has a timid personality and is easily frightened, but he stands up for justice and does not cower in fear when he feels that he has been wronged....