Prison Setting Korean Dramas & Movies

Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2013)

Miracle in Cell No. 7

Rank #10

Miracle in Cell No. 7 is a 2013 South Korean drama film directed by Lee Hwan-kyung. The movie follows the story of a mentally challenged man named Yong-gu, who is...

Prison Playbook (2017)

Prison Playbook

Rank #37

Kim Je Hyuk, a famous baseball player, is arrested after using excessive force while chasing a man trying to intimately assault his sister. Shockingly to him and the rest of...

Way Back Home (2013)

Way Back Home

Rank #666

Jung Yeon is a caring wife and mother and a sensitive woman who finds herself plunged into a legal ordeal thousands of miles from home. After years of planning, she...

Shark: The Beginning (2021)

Shark 1: The Beginning

Rank #844

Cha Woo Sol, a victim of school harsh who was imprisoned in a boys’ prison due to an unexpected incident, meets mixed martial arts champion Jung Do Hyun and breaks...

Young Lady

2037

Rank #851

“The brightest encounter found in the darkest place.” 19-year-old Yoon Young lives alone with her mother and prepares for the civil service exam while working part-time. She wants to go...

Maundy Thursday (2006)

Maundy Thursday

Rank #871

Yu Jung has now attempted to commit Self-harm three times. Her disdain for her mother and indifference to the rest of the world isolates her from any chance for happiness....

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...

Insider

Rank #1633

Tells the story of a judicial trainee named Kim Yo Han. After going undercover for an investigation, Kim Yo Han experiences a crisis and ends up struggling to try to...

A Violent Prosecutor

A Violent Prosecutor

Rank #1842

Prosecutor Jae Wook, specialized in violent crimes, detests the criminals and doesn’t give a damn about their human rights. One day, while interrogating Jin Seok, a suspect looking insincere, Jae...

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...

Cross (2018)

Cross

Rank #2318

Kang In-Kyu’s father was brutally tragic ended 13 years ago. To take revenge on those who are responsible for his father’s death, he becomes a doctor. Kang In-Kyu volunteers at...

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...

One Way Trip

One Way Trip

Rank #3022

Yong Bi, Sang Woo, Ji Gong, and Doo Man are four 20-year-old friends. They take one last trip together to Pohang, before Sang Woo leaves to enlist in the military....

Yellow Boots (2012)

Yellow Boots

Rank #3030

Sweet Yun Hwa becomes the unwitting stepsister of Yu Ra. Though Yun Hwa would love nothing more to be sisters with Yu Ra, the latter will have nothing of it,...

Miss Ma

Miss Ma, Nemesis

Rank #3053

Ms. Ma was falsely accused of terminate her daughter. After she escapes from prison, she tries to clear her name and reveal the truth about her daughter’s death. (Source: MyDramaList)...

The Prison

The Prison

Rank #3173

A detective’s younger brother dies from a crime. To figure out what happened to him, the detective goes to prison as an inmate. In the prison, he approaches an inmate...

Crossing

Crossing

Rank #3264

Yong Soo lives in a small coal-mine village in North Korea with his wife and young son. Although living in extreme poverty, the family is happy just to be with...

A Man's Story (2009)

A Man’s Story

Rank #3336

In the blink of an eye, Kim Shin (Park Yong Ha) loses everything dear to him. His father’s company goes bankrupt, his brother commits self-harm, his girlfriend (Park Si Yeon)...

Legendary Witch

Legendary Witch

Rank #3489

Soo In, Bok Nyeo, Pung Geum, and Mi Oh, are four female prisoners at a correctional facility who have been victims of a miscarriage of justice in different cases, which...

Padam Padam (2011)

Padam Padam

Rank #3564

Born to a poor family, Kang Chil spends 16 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of a crime. Before his release, he terminates a prison guard by accident and...

Crime Puzzle (2021)

Crime Puzzle

Rank #4367

Yoo Hee is a young, budding criminal profiler whose father is suddenly tragic ended in a series of unexpected terminates. After the deaths, Han Seung Min, a popular and high-profile...

Enemies In-Law (2015)

Enemies In-Law

Rank #5024

Park Yeong Hee is a former national fencing athlete and currently a detective in the narcotics department. She also comes from a family of cops, from her soon-to-retire father to...

Drama Special Season 5: That Kind of Love (2014)

Drama Special Season 5: That Kind of Love

Rank #5384

That Love tells the story of an ill-fated love between a convict serving a life sentence for tragic end, and a public servant who is regularly damaging actiond by her...

Moss

Moss

Rank #5890

Ryu Hae Guk enters a reclusive country village to attend his father’s funeral. During his stay, he investigates the death of his father and uncovers what appears to be a...