Korean Movies & K-Dramas Released in July 2026

Romance · Thriller · Korean

After the sudden death of her husband, Ha-yeon is left in shock and quietly tries to return to everyday life. But an unexpected threatening phone call makes her feel that she is being watched. In a state of anxiety and isolation, Ha-yeon gradually finds comfort in Hyun-woo, the neighbor who lives upstairs. As details surrounding her husband's death begin to surface, she is drawn into an increasingly complex web of secrets and suspicion.

Horror · Fantasy · Korean

After three years of coma, Su-an wakes up to find the ghost of her dead sister asking for help but cannot understand what exactly she requires. Their mother, Geum-ok, believed to have lost her firstborn child to suicide, searches for the truth behind the death as a centuries-old family curse slowly reveals itself. As the two collide in a quest to discover the past and present reality, they come across Jae-in, an exact look-alike of the deceased sister.

Drama · Fantasy · Korean

A pitcher who can't throw strikes and his unlikely manager form a heartfelt bond.

Drama · Mystery · Thriller · Korean

After setting fire to his own house, Ju-young’s father vanished without a trace. When she receives news that fragments of his bones have been discovered, Ju-young returns to her hometown village — and to see her Deaf younger brother, Se-hyung. The village and the mountains are unnaturally quiet. So quiet, it feels as though something beneath them is beginning to boil. Drawn deeper into that silence, Ju-young must slowly dig up what has long been buried there. Within that unknowable silence, something is seething.

Thriller · Mystery · Korean

One question. Seven worlds. In an unidentified space, among participants suspicious of one another, a woman wearing the number tag "4235" steps into an interview chamber. Waiting for her are an unsettling interviewer and a mysterious black spherical device. With the question, "What are you most afraid of?", she is thrown into worlds of deep oceans, collapsing airplanes, ruined cities, frozen wastelands, and hell-like realms, where she confronts buried memories, guilt, and the darkest corners of human nature. As participants begin disappearing one by one, she realizes that the interview is not a simple test, but a massive experiment designed to examine the boundaries of human nature and existence itself.

Comedy · Horror · Korean

On a night when thunder and lightning strike, the deceased grandfather returns home as a zombie. Eighteen-year-old granddaughter Seohyun leads her family to launch an operation to kill the grandfather who became a zombie.

Drama · Korean

Chung-jae, a repairman, cannot stop turning "a round golden doorknob" in a client's bedroom. He visits a consulting room to find its cause. Da-gam, an actor, visits his friend Doo-joon to borrow "a funeral suit" when someone dies. "So who died this time?" Doo-joon asks over a beer. "An actress I worked with." Two men, each in an empty seat, begin to tell their story — about object and object.

Drama · Romance · Fantasy · Korean

One day, a wife suffering from depression turned into a zombie. However, instead of despairing, the husband begins developing strange yet lovely survival recipes to get through each day with his wife. Set against the backdrop of a quiet and mysterious rural village, the husband attempts extraordinary dishes to satisfy his wife's appetite and discovers a crucial hint in his late grandmother's old recipes.

Drama · Romance · Korean

In the troubled night of Seoul on the verge of apocalypse, Niko, a penniless scriptwriter, works a part-time job as a companion for people who have lost their keys. When she can no longer satisfy her longing for true love in this once melancholic, sensual, and bustling city, she disappears. Her boyfriend Jeremy and their new friend Ji-eun start looking for the missing Niko and become entangled in a love triangle. At last, Niko finds a new, reckless, and ultimate way to express her feelings.

Drama · Horror · Fantasy · Korean

One day, Seol-i’s father, Captain Park, captures a mermaid.

Drama · Korean

Drama · Korean

Drama · Korean

Facility No. 6, a juvenile protective detention center, stands on the verge of closure. A documentary crew steps inside to record what little remains, and from the moment the cameras turn on, they find themselves before long-buried wounds and truths no one has wanted to face. In the worn faces of teachers who have spent themselves caring for these children, and beneath the indifference of a society that has long since turned its head away from the other side of the wall, the crew quietly bears witness to how children with nowhere left to go have arrived at this place.

Comedy · Drama · Korean

For three years, Nam-cheol and his girlfriend, Joo-hee, have lived together. A rent hike pushes them to search for a new place—only to find worse options. Joo-hee is advised to apply for the newlywed housing program with Nam-cheol. Meanwhile, Nam-cheol's mother—trapped with a conservative husband—urges Nam-cheol to apply for the youth rental housing lottery so she can move into the unit herself, effectively "graduating from her marriage." Nam-cheol must choose just one of the two programs: "graduating from marriage" or marriage. Will they find happiness in the end?

Sci-Fi · Drama · Fantasy · Korean

After air pollution wipes out all life on Earth, bioengineer Dae-seung lives in a bunker with Sina, whom he subjects to brutal experiments to create a human who can survive outside. One day, a survivor named Taeo appears, claiming that somewhere beyond the bunker, a village of survivors still exists.

Romance · Korean

Comedy · Korean

Drama · Korean

In today’s harsh world, where it’s hard to live even if you want to work, Jae-soon, who struggles to get through each day without any preparation for the future, has a dream. It is to share three warm meals a day with her daughter in a safe and stable home. To prepare a coming-of-age gift for her daughter, Su-min, she sells pieces of her own body.

Crime · Thriller · Korean

Jong-shin, a devoted husband living an ordinary life, is devastated when his wife is murdered by the enigmatic Moo-young. After serving a mere five-year sentence, Moo-young appears at Jong-shin’s church, claiming to have found God’s forgiveness. Consumed by grief and rage, Jong-shin plots his revenge—but as he closes in, a buried truth from the past threatens to change everything.

Comedy · Drama · Romance · Korean

An unknown actor from Korea, having lost everything after appearing in pornography, hides away as an online sex worker under the alias "Smile Charles." The painful gap between his inner emotions and his forced expressions breeds an unbearable awkwardness that severs him completely from the world. One day, Mari—a con artist who swindled 2 billion—pierces through the cracks of his isolated life. The uneasy companionship between the slick scammer and the awkward sex worker weaves through Bangkok's humid nights and Ayutthaya's silent ruins, leading Charles to confront the forgotten dreams and phantoms of his past.

Mystery · Korean

Comedy · Drama · Korean

Actor Lee Yong fails even his thousandth audition. Just as he is about to give up on everything, a flyer catches his eye: "7 Days Until Submission Deadline for the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival." He seeks out Chang-kyung, a former film director living in seclusion after a devastating failure, and proposes a reckless plan — to make a film in just seven days. With no budget, no crew, and no future, wounded souls begin gathering one by one. Soon, the bizarre filming of a period fantasy begins: a woodcutter turned into a bloodthirsty monster and a fairy transformed into a ghost bride.

Horror · Thriller · Drama · Korean

A tenacious mother Eun-jin forces her family to move into a rundown apartment, hoping for a luxurious rebuild. However, she loses her sanity as her plan fails and becomes harmful to those who she vowed to protect.

Horror · Korean

Jang Min-gi has spent his life hiding a secret: he can see the dead. When his estranged father — the last in a line of Kokdu, ritual guardians who escort souls to the afterlife — dies under mysterious circumstances, Min-gi inherits both a worn puppet kit and a burden he never wanted. Drawn into a thirty-year-old betrayal surrounding a burned funeral bier, he must confront an imprisoned soul demanding vengeance.

Comedy · Fantasy · Korean

Fantasy · Sci-Fi · Thriller · Korean

In a post-war, ecologically devastated Korea, mutated outcasts known as Omegas are exploited as cheap labor. Su-jin, a young government worker, begins to question the state's ideology as she pursues Mia, an Omega living in hiding.

Drama · Korean

A young North Korean refugee fights to rebuild her life in fast-paced, hyper-modern South Korea, forcing her to confront the price of freedom and the past she left behind.

Documentary · Drama · Korean

As the spotlight fades and ornate costumes are put away, Sekja, an elder in the Korean adult entertainment scene, reflects on her life. We are made privy to her thoughts on love, connection and being honest narrators of our own story.

Animation · Family · Fantasy · Korean

Drama · Crime · Korean

When a massive terror threat paralyzes downtown Seoul, former forensic scientist Jang Jae-wook arrives trailing a mysterious suitcase—containing a dead body instead of explosives. The dark shadow of a decade-old military incident comes to light, revealing a massive web of corruption spun by a deeply entrenched cartel of power. As the dead begin to speak, the buried truth is finally dragged into the light.

Music · Korean

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Sci-Fi · Mystery · Action · Korean

In the remote South Korean village of Hope Harbor, police chief Bum-seok and officer Sung-ae are called to investigate a mysterious creature wreaking havoc on the community. But all is not as it seems, and perceptions can be misleading. What begins as ignorance plants the seed of disaster, escalating through human conflict into a tragedy of cosmic proportions.

Drama · Comedy · Korean

Gu Hana is a blunt blue-haired woman taking a liberal film art class. No one gives her sincere feedback on her screenplay, which is full of anger toward men. But only one person, Song Cheol, an aspiring director who wishes to make a feature film, approaches her and says, “Hey, isn’t this screenplay hatred of men?” He believes a sponsored enterprise didn’t select his screenplay because it didn’t receive the ‘extra points from woman’s film.’ He ridiculously suggests that Hana team up with him…!

Documentary · Music · Korean

A documentary about EVAN’s debut.

Horror · Fantasy · Drama · Korean

Attempting to wash her late older sister’s Hawaiian shirt, locks SUN, 23, in a space between memory and nightmare. Haunted by a tropical monster in a surreal dreamscape, Sun is forced to confront the one thing she has avoided since her sister’s death: herself.

Thriller · Horror · Korean

Kim Min-ha has always dreamed of the bright lights, but now she’s an almost 30-year-old wannabe K-pop idol and people only care about her uncanny resemblance to Park Hye-mi, the superstar she believes is living the life that by all rights should be hers.

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A Motionless Movie imagines the perspective of Korean women reading the domestic/women’s pages of newspapers carrying Hollywood news in the 1920s and ’30s, and loosely traces Clara Bow’s trajectory across these pages. Her constant presence under descriptors such as “the quintessential Modern Girl” or “the typical flapper,” followed by her sudden disappearance after marriage and childbirth, prompts reflection not only on her movement within film but also on what it means to be free in front of the camera and in the gaze of the press.

Drama · Korean

With 200 days left before college entrance exams, In-hye, who cares for the school's animal pen, spends her time lecturing a duck instead of studying. Seo-hee, punished for carrying a knife, joins her, and they discover an abandoned meadow where they lose the duck, Hee-seon. Meanwhile, teacher Kim Ah-tae forms a college interview prep group for four neglected students. On interview day, In-hye and Seo-hee ditch school to find Hee-seon, camping in the meadow and gradually learning to survive in the wild.