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The Best Korean Movies About Revenge
If you like movies like Oldboy, here are the best Korean revenge movies, ranked by fans everywhere. From action thrillers to mystery dramas, this list of famous South Korean films dealing with vengeance, payback, and justice includes old classics, art house favorites, and recent box office hits. Several popular revenge films, like A Bittersweet Life and Hwayi: The Monster Boy, are available for streaming on Amazon Prime.
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- Burning is a 2018 South Korean mystery drama film directed by Lee Chang-dong, based on the short story "Barn Burning" by Haruki Murakami. A part-time worker hoping to spend more time with a childhood ...more
- Dae-Su is an obnoxious drunk bailed from the police station yet again by a friend. However, he's abducted from the street and wakes up in a cell, where he remains for the next 15 years, drugged ...more
- Tragedy follows a young Korean widow (Jeon Do-yeon) after she and her son move to another town to make a fresh start.
- Lady Vengeance is a 2005 South Korean psychological thriller film directed by Park Chan-wook, and the third installment in the Vengeance Trilogy. After being wrongfully imprisoned for thirteen years ...more
- On a dark road, taxi driver Kyung-chul (Choi Min-sik) comes across a scared female motorist stranded in a broken-down vehicle. He pulls over -- but not to help her. When the woman's head is ...more
- The Chaser is a 2008 South Korean action thriller film directed by Na Hong-jin. A disgraced ex-policeman who runs a small ring of escorts finds himself in a cat-and-mouse game with a serial killer.
- Mother is a 2009 South Korean drama mystery film directed by Bong Joon-ho. When her disabled son is charged with murdering a girl, his mother desperately searches for the truth.
- The Man from Nowhere is a 2010 South Korean action thriller film directed by Lee Jeong-beom. When a young girl (Kim Sae-ron) is kidnapped, a mysterious man (Won Bin) embarks on a bloody rampage to ...more
- The Yellow Sea is a 2011 crime action film directed by Na Hong-jin. A taxi driver goes on the run after an attempt to carry out a hit on a professor goes terribly awry.
- Bedevilled is a 2010 South Korean horror thriller film directed by Jang Cheol-soo. Selfish clerk Hae-won agrees to visit an old friend, Bok-nam, on a remote island, where she discovers that Bok-nam ...more
- A Bittersweet Life is a 2005 South Korean action film directed by Kim Jee-woon. When a high-ranking enforcer refuses to execute a hit ordered by his boss, he becomes the number one target.
- Deaf-mute Ryu (Shin Ha-kyun) has just been fired from his job in a Seoul, South Korea, factory, and the timing couldn't be worse. His sister (Im Ji-eun) is suffering from kidney trouble, and she ...more
- A Company Man is a 2012 South Korean action thriller film, starring So Ji-sub, Lee Mi-yeon, Kwak Do-won and Kim Dong-jun. It is about a hitman who find himself targeted by his ex-employers after he ...more
- 14Pieta is a 2012 South Korean crime drama film directed by Kim Ki-duk. A loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost ...more
- The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil is a 2019 South Korean action thriller film directed by Lee Won-tae. A gangster and a cop team up to chase a serial killer, each for their own reasons.
- The story of a man targeted by gangsters and a woman who has given up on life.
- The King of Pigs is a 2011 South Korean animated drama film directed by Yeon Sang-ho. Haunted by their troubled childhoods, Jung Jong-suk and Hwang Kyung-min reunite one evening and recall their ...more
- Hwayi: A Monster Boy is a 2013 South Korean crime action thriller film directed by Jang Joon-hwan. Kidnapped as a child and raised by a group of elite criminals to be the perfect assassin, Hwayi is ...more
- When detective Oh Seong-ho arrives at a bloody murder scene, he zeroes in on the one clue left behind, a playing card featuring the popular South Korean character Princess Aurora. As Princess Aurora ...more
- Lee Byeong-gu (Shin Ha-kyun) is convinced that there are aliens from Andromeda among us, plotting to destroy Earth. He believes that Kang Man-shik (Baek Yun-shik), the head of a chemical production ...more
- 21Broken is a 2014 South Korean revenge thriller film about a father who becomes a fugitive as he hunts down the two men responsible for his daughter's rape and murder. It is adapted from Keigo ...more
- Coin Locker Girl is a 2015 South Korean crime thriller film directed by Han Jun-hee. Raised by a female mob boss in Korea's Chinatown, an orphaned girl faces a dilemma when she befriends the son of a ...more
- Man on High Heels is a noir, action film directed by Jang Jin.
- No Tears for the Dead is a 2014 South Korean action thriller film directed by Lee Jeong-beom. A veteran assassin accidentally kills a little girl, then falls in love with his next target -- the ...more
- 25Pluto is a 2012 South Korean drama mystery film directed by Shin Su-won. When Joon is accused for the murder of the top student at his prestigious school, he holds students accusing him of the crime ...more
