20+ Best Korean movies on Netflix (December 2024)

Dec 25, 2024 | FlixCatalog Staff

There is no limit to the number of movies and TV shows you can find online on OTT platforms. Deciding on what to watch can be a painful experience sometimes. Looking for the best movie to watch on Netflix? We are here to help. Here is a list of the Top 41 movie to watch on netflix this December.

Fun Fact: The average IMDB rating of all the movies in this list is 6.47 .

Looking for some of the best Korean movie you can watch online in US? Fret not, we are here to help you. Here is a list of all the Korean movie you can watch on some of your favourite OTT platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hotstar. Amazon Prime Video has the most content in this language amongst all streaming platforms.

Based on real events, this film depicts the story of a school for the hearing-impaired where young deaf students were sexually assaulted by the faculty members over a long period of time.

8/10125 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Adventure,Animation,Comedy
Hey Arnold: The Jungle Movie (2017)

Picking up where Hey Arnold! (1996) left off, this tells the story of what happened to Arnold's parents.

7.5/1081 min

Available in 7 platform(s).

Action,Crime,Drama
Collateral (2004)

A cab driver finds himself the hostage of an engaging contract killer as he makes his rounds from hit to hit during one night in Los Angeles.

7.5/10120 min

Available in 14 platform(s).

Action,Adventure,Animation
Invader ZIM: Enter the Florpus (2019)

ZIM discovers his almighty leaders never had any intention of coming to Earth and he loses confidence in himself for the first time in his life, which is the big break his human nemesis, Dib has been waiting for.

7.4/1071 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Mystery,Thriller
Forgotten (2017)

When his abducted brother returns seemingly a different man with no memory of the past 19 days, Jin-seok chases after the truth behind the kidnapping.

7.4/10108 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Action,Adventure,Drama
Okja (2017)

A young girl risks everything to prevent a powerful, multinational company from kidnapping her best friend - a fascinating beast named Okja.

7.3/10120 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Comedy,Fantasy,Music
Miss Granny (2014)

A 74-year-old widow realizes she is becoming a burden on her family. She mysteriously regains her physical appearance from the age of 20.

7.2/10124 min

Available in 6 platform(s).

Crime,Horror,Mystery
The Call (2020)

Two people live in different times. Seo-Yeon lives in the present and Young-Sook lives in the past. One phone call connects the two, and their lives are changed irrevocably.

7.1/10112 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

In 1994 during the IMF crisis, two people meet while exchanging stories on a radio program. They fall in love, but can't quite seem to get the timing right.

7.1/10122 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Action,Drama,Thriller
Steel Rain (2017)

A coup in North Korea forces an agent to defect to South with unconscious "Number One". While operatives from North hunt for both of them, the agent has to work with South Koreans to stop the nuclear war.

7.1/10139 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Action,Drama,History
The Battleship Island (2017)

During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island ("Hashima Island") to mine for coal, attempt to a dramatic escape.

7.1/10132 min

Available in 5 platform(s).

Action,Comedy,Crime
Veteran (2015)

A honest cop seeks justice for a common man against all odds. A rich boy seeks revenge on the cop.

7/10123 min

Available in 5 platform(s).

Comedy,Drama,Music
Seoul Searching (2015)

In 1986, a group of foreign born Korean teenagers attend a summer camp in South Korea.

7/10105 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Follows a president's barber, his wife, and their only son through four decades of tumultuous Korean history.

6.9/10116 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Action,Drama,History
The Fortress (2017)

In 1636, King Injo hides in the mountains to avoid being part of the Qing dynasty.

6.8/10140 min

Available in 5 platform(s).

Action,Crime,Drama
Night in Paradise (2020)

Tae-gu tries to clean up his life for his sick sister and nephew. Then one day, his sister and nephew are killed in an accident by someone who aimed for Tae-gu. Tae-gu decides to take revenge in shock.

6.7/10131 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Documentary,Drama,History
The Surrounding Game (2018)

Go is the oldest game still played in its original form. In east Asia, it is hailed as one of mankind's greatest cultural achievements and considered both ancient art and national sport. At...

6.6/1097 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Crime,Drama,Mystery
The Chase (2017)

Sim Deok-soo is a grumpy landlord running a run-down apartment complex. Suddenly his tenants begin disappearing under suspicious circumstances. A retired ex-detective shows up, claiming a serial murderer from 30 years back has returned.

6.6/10110 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

Action,Drama,Thriller
Pandora (2016)

The explosion of a nuclear power plant caused by an earthquake leads to a disaster which no one other than its workers can stop from spreading further.

6.6/10136 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Action,Thriller
The Berlin File (2013)

Jong-seong, a North Korean ghost agent, interrupts an illegal arms sale in Berlin. A notorious North Korean agent tests the loyalties of everyone involved as Jong-Seong prepares to make the ultimate sacrifice.

6.6/10121 min

Available in 4 platform(s).

Action,Crime,Drama
The Unjust (2010)

When the most probable serial killer suspect dies and the case looks like it's reached a dead end, police brass decide to create a killer - and anyone will do.

6.6/10119 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Action,Comedy
Arahan (2004)

As a dorky cop falls in with five Tao masters who admire his c'hi, an ancient foe comes looking for them all.

6.6/10114 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Secret Service agent Mike Banning finds himself trapped inside the White House in the wake of a terrorist attack and works with national security to rescue the President from his kidnappers.

6.5/10119 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

Action,Crime,Drama
Time to Hunt (2020)

In the near future, a financial crisis will hit Korea and slums arise. From those areas, a group of young people commit crime to survive.

6.3/10134 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

A corrupt cop enlists a teenage girl's help to expose a corporate scandal and eventually becomes her unlikely protector.

6.3/10127 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Crime,Drama,Thriller
26 Years (2012)

26 years ago, state troops were ordered to open fire on civilians in the city of Gwangju who were demonstrating as apart of a democratic movement. Thousands of civilians were killed. Now, a...

6.3/10135 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Crime,Horror,Mystery
Svaha: The Sixth Finger (2019)

Pastor Park works to expose suspicious religious groups. He's hired to look into the cult group Deer Mount. Meanwhile, Police Captain Hwang investigates a murder case and the main suspect is a member of the Deer Mount cult.

6.2/10122 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Action,Crime,Drama
The Drug King (2018)

Set in Busan, South Korea during the 1970s, Lee Doo-sam builds an empire as a drug smuggler in the Busan underworld, while public prosecutor Kim In-goo attempts to take down Lee Doo-sam.

6.2/10139 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Comedy,Fantasy
The Bros (2017)

Two brothers, Lee Suk-Bong and Lee Joo-Bong, meet again for their father's funeral. But instead of reuniting the family, both of them deal with their individual problems. On the way to their hometown they hit a mysterious woman with a car.

6.1/10102 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Sci-Fi,Thriller
Lucid Dream (2017)

Dae-ho, an investigative journalist, seeks to track down the whereabouts of his son who was abducted three years ago. With the help of a detective and a psychiatrist friend, he will retrace...

6.1/10101 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Investigation about government-involved insider trading in South Korea.

6/10100 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Action,Adventure,Sci-Fi
The Wandering Earth (2019)

As the sun is dying out, people all around the world build giant planet thrusters to move Earth out of its orbit and sail Earth to a new star system. Yet the 2500-year journey comes with unexpected dangers, and in order to save humanity, a group of young people in this age of a wandering Earth fight hard for the survival of humankind.

5.9/10125 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Action,Comedy,Fantasy
Yeom-lyeok (2018)

After drinking water from a mountain spring, a bank security guard gains telekinetic superpowers, which he must use to save his estranged daughter from an evil construction company, as a superhero.

5.9/10101 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Set in the distant future where both North and South Koreas agree to establish a joint government, which has been in preparation for a duration of 7 years, the plot focuses on political ...

5.9/10139 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Action,Crime,Thriller
Revenger (2018)

A former police investigator decides to go to a prison island to revenge the brutal killings of his family.

5.7/10101 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

A deputy curator of a chaebol-funded art gallery and her husband, a politically ambitious economics professor, will do anything to join the über-elite.

5.5/10120 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Crime,Mystery
Tik Tok (2016)

Guo Zhida and his twins brother scheme an bomb explosion near the gym to take away money from gambling group. Korean police officer and psychologist Yang cooperates to prevent this conspiracy.

5.5/10103 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Action,Crime,Drama
Helios (2015)

A portable nuclear device, DC8, has been stolen from South Korea by a ruthless criminal (Chang Chen) and his accomplice (Janice Man). As the weapon will change hands in Hong Kong, Lee (Nick...

5.5/10118 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Action,Adventure,Animation
Mini Force: The Beginning (2016)

5.1/10\N min

Available in 3 platform(s).

Tayo the Little Bus is the best kids animation where kids learn about vehicles and friendship. Tayo, the blue kid bus, drives around the town and meets various other vehicles and learn ...

5/1047 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

Action,Comedy,Drama
Beauty and the Bestie (2015)

For an important case, a policeman needs the help of his former best friend to impersonate the daughter of a foreign dignitary in a beauty pageant.

4.6/10119 min

Available in 2 platform(s).