Noir Korean Dramas & Movies

Old Boy (2003)

Old Boy

Rank #857

Oh Dae Soo was imprisoned in a cell which resembles in a hotel room for 15 years without knowing his captor’s motives. When he is finally released, Dae Soo finds...

The Merciless (2017)

The Merciless

Rank #1081

Jae Ho is the prisoner who makes rules and wields the most power among the inmates. Outside of prison, he was the #2 guy in a criminal gang, but he...

I Saw The Devil

I Saw the Devil

Rank #1271

Kyung Chul is a dangerous psychopath who terminates for pleasure. He has committed infernal serial tragic ends in diabolic ways that one cannot even imagine and his victims range from...

Time Between Dog and Wolf (2007)

Time Between Dog and Wolf

Rank #1360

After his mother is brutally tragic ended in front of him by the Thai criminal syndicate Cheongbang, Lee Soo Hyun is adopted into NIS agent Kang Jung Ho’s family. Together...

Night in Paradise (2021)

Night in Paradise

Rank #2016

Hiding out on Jeju Island following a brutal tragedy, a wronged mobster with a target on his back connects with a woman who has demons of her own. (Source: Netflix)...

Sympathy For Lady Vengeance (2005)

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance

Rank #2213

After thirteen and half years in prison for unauthorized takingping and tragic ending the boy Park Won Mo, Lee Geum Ja is released and tries to fix her life. She...

Extreme Debut: Wild Idol (2021)

Extreme Debut: Wild Idol

Rank #2404

In this unique new survival program format, 45 male trainees will enter an extreme outdoor bootcamp, where they must survive rigorous physical training and reach the “top of the food...

Hope or Dope 2

Rank #2429

Having been used as a substance mule by her parents for ages, eighteen-year-old Kyung Da Jung might have been stuck in her old life forever, had not a series of...

Coin Locker Girl

Coin Locker Girl

Rank #3142

Western Seoul train station, 1996. A baby is thrown into a coin locker. She is picked up by a beggar, who names her Il Yeong. When she turns 10, she...

High Heel (2014)

High Heel

Rank #3198

Ji Wook is a cold-blooded detective who would brutally assault and stop at nothing to catch criminals. However, despite looking masculine, Ji Wook struggles with a secret desire to be...

Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance (2002)

Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance

Rank #3764

In Seoul, Ryu, a deaf worker, has a sister who needs a kidney transplant. He tries to donate his own kidney to his sister, but his blood type is not...

Beasts Clawing at Straws (2020)

Beasts Clawing at Straws

Rank #3862

Different desires of these lowlifes slowly gather around the money bag. The destinies of hard-luck lowlifes slowly converge and come crashing down: Jung Man barely gets by working at a...

Rough Cut

Rough Cut

Rank #3949

Gang Pae has risen to the #2 rank in his mafia organization by using unflinching harsh. Even though he has made his name by his violent nature, Gang Pae has...

V.I.P. (2017)

V.I.P.

Rank #4047

Inspector Chae Yi Do is appointed to investigate a brutal serial tragic end case and immediately identifies a rich North Korean defector named Kim Gwang Il as the prime suspect....

Nameless Gangster: Rules of Time (2012)

Nameless Gangster: Rules of Time

Rank #4300

In 1982, Busan, South Korea’s second city, Ik Hyun is a corrupt customs officer on the verge of getting fired. When he comes upon a mother lode of heroin, he...

Jo Pil Ho: The Dawning Rage (2019)

Jo Pil Ho: The Dawning Rage

Rank #4631

On the run from a dogged internal affairs agent, a corrupt cop reluctantly teams up with a defiant teen to unravel a conspiracy before it is too late. (Source:[email protected])...

Show Me the Ghost (2021)

Show Me the Ghost

Rank #4968

Best friends ‘Hodu’ and ‘Yeji’ are job seekers whose dreams and hopes have been ruined. One day, ‘Hodu’ luckily gets a decent cheap fully loaded rent house. ‘Yeji’, who has...

Asura: The City of Madness

Asura: The City of Madness

Rank #5548

Detective Han Do Kyung, who for years has been secretly doing dirty work for the corrupt mayor Park Sung Bae, is now pressured by a ruthless prosecutor Kim Cha In...

Friend 2 (2013)

Friend 2

Rank #6275

The movie picks up 17 years after the first one as Joon Seok is discharged from prison to find his gang has been taken over by a treacherous new leader....

The Age of Blood

The Age of Blood

Rank #6323

Based in the Joseon times during the era of Seong Jong and Jong Jong, this is the story of veteran Deception Gun Gwan and a rookie soldier putting all the...

Gangnam 1970 (2015)

Gangnam 1970

Rank #7003

In the 1970s during the height of political Dishonest actions, Gangnam, the southern part of Seoul, finds itself being transformed into a developed area. Childhood friends Jong Dae and Yong...

The Devil's Deal (2021)

The Devil’s Deal

Rank #34054

The more power he desires, the darker his world becomes. Hae Woong, an assembly member candidate, is taken out of the running because he became a thorn in the side...

Bloodhounds

Rank #34400

A noir action drama about three men who became entangled in debt but attempt to escape it in any way they can. (Source: Naver) ~~ Adapted from the webtoon “Bloodhounds”...

The Roundup: No Way Out (2023)

The Roundup: No Way Out

Rank #34653

It tells the story of Detective Ma Seok Do and a gang in Geumcheon-seo, who are trying to clean up drug crimes in Incheon. (Source: Korean = Naver || Translation...