Prison Setting Korean Dramas & Movies

Late Autumn (2011)

Late Autumn

Rank #6214

Anna is on her way to Seattle to attend her mother’s funeral on a special weekend release from prison where she is serving time for manslaughter for terminate her Harmful...

Breath (2007)

Breath

Rank #6519

A loner housewife, Yeon, deals with her depression and anger by beginning a passionate affair with a convicted man on death row. After discovering her husband’s infidelity, Yeon visits the...

Sweet Enemy (2017)

Sweet Enemy

Rank #7647

Oh Dal Nim is falsely accused of tragic end. She decides to take revenge on those responsible for her misery....

Prison Playbook Special (2017)

Prison Playbook Special

Rank #37140

tvN Drama Prison Playbook took a break for a week so they could return after new year with higher perfection, according to tvN’s representative. Instead of an actual episode they...

A Resistance (2019)

A Resistance

Rank #39353

At 17 years old, Yoo Kwan Soon participates in the Korean independence movement when the country is under the rule of Japan. Yoo Kwan Soon is arrested and sent to...

Man of Will (2017)

Man of Will

Rank #40398

Young Kim Chang Soo is placed behind bars, charged with tragic ending a Japanese person who took part in Empress Myeongseong’s Planned demise. In prison, Kim Chang-Soo sees how Koreans...

National Security (2012)

National Security

Rank #42107

Kim Geun Tae is an ex-advisor to the Democratic United Party. When he was younger, he was a leader for the democracy movement during Korea’s autocratic rule. In September of...

A Diamond in the Rough (2019)

A Diamond in the Rough

Rank #43764

A man promises his mother to come back a greater person. Until now, he’s been a condemned criminal with false hopes and dreams. Only after his life tanked did he...

Unbowed (2012)

Unbowed

Rank #43995

Professor Kim Kyung Ho insists that a math question for the 1995 university entrance exam is wrong. Later, Kyung Ho is not re-hired at his university. He then starts a...

Half (2016)

Half

Rank #44219

Working at a transgender bar, Mina Ah is a trans woman. When her colleague is assaulted by a male customer, she steps in to help, only to accidentally terminate the...

My Father (2007)

My Father

Rank #45408

The film, which is based on a true story, is about an adopted son who is searching for his biological parents in South Korea. During his search he meets his...

Jail Breakers

Jail Breakers

Rank #46420

Mo Suk is put in jail for stealing. Since he repeatedly tries to escape, his sentence is made longer. Mo Suk’s cell-mate, Jae Pil has been sentenced to a prison...

Ground Zero (2021)

Ground Zero

Rank #48625

A short action movie depicting the ‘1983 Hosan Prison Riot,’ an important event in the ‘PUBG Universe’. (Source: Naver)...

The Prisoner (2020)

The Prisoner

Rank #49760

Se Do, once a competent detective, is falsely accused of tragic ending his wife Tae Hee and is sentenced to life imprisonment. In the prison Se Do is staying, the...

The Scarlet Letter (2010)

The Scarlet Letter

Rank #50937

Four people paying the consequences for a love that went wrong. One woman endures poverty and a guilty conscience while the other woman plots revenge after her career takes off....

Address Unknown (2001)

Address Unknown

Rank #51106

Based on real life stories from the director’s life, and those known to him. It is set in the Korean countryside around a U.S. army base, and particularly involves the...

The Executioner

The Executioner

Rank #51156

“The Executioner” imagines what would happen if the death penalty were resumed. Unfortunately, the process involves more than just greasing up the rusty execution equipment. On the final day, executioners...

Let’s Live Kindly (2018)

Let’s Live Kindly

Rank #52745

A program that shows the actual process of punishment after committing a crime. It isn’t just a prison experience program, but Korea’s first reality show where the judicial power is...

My Friend & His Wife

My Friend & His Wife

Rank #58087

Two young men, Ye Joon and Jae Moon, have been close friends since doing military service together. Ye Joon has lately worked his way up to becoming a successful financier,...

Asurado (2021)

Asurado

Rank #58743

The third prison of death, where only vicious criminals who do not have a sense of law or common sense are being kept. A new era of power opens when...

King of Prison (2020)

King of Prison

Rank #58938

The king of the prison who rule the wild and despicable! “I’m sick of losing without fighting!” Man Hee, imprisoned for being caught up in an accidental, violent case, will...

1919 Yoo Kwan Soon (2019)

1919 Yoo Kwan Soon

Rank #99999

A film that explores the lives of female independence activists who fought against the Japanese Occupation in the North and South of Korea including heroines like the titular Yoo Kwan...

Yu Gwan Sun (1959)

Yoo Kwan Soon

Rank #99999

This film is about of the life of the young patriotic martyr Yoo Kwan Soon, who fought for the liberation of her country during the Independence Movement in 1919. As...

A Pearl Tower (1960)

A Pearl Tower

Rank #99999

Bong Yong, who was robbed of his lover through poverty and slander, had to serve 20 years in prison for being a criminal. He is taught of a secret place...