Korean Movies & K-Dramas Released in September 2025

Documentary · Korean

A documentary about the making of CORTIS' debut album.

Romance · Drama · Korean

Despite the close bonds among fellow defectors, Cheol-jun—a young North Korean defector—felt isolated while hiding his gay identity. Finally, he takes his first step into South Korea's vibrant gay community and forms close ties after meeting Yeong-jun at a casual gathering. Yet, a trivial misunderstanding shatters these fragile bonds.

Drama · Korean

Chang-woo, a senior at a vocational high school, wants to be recognized by his mother as a good son. He starts field training at a subcontractor for a large company, hoping to solve the problems of getting into college or finding decent employment. While learning about work and human relations from his senior workers, Chang-woo finds himself siding with the non-contract staff, and fails to get into college, secure a job, or deal with the problem of his military service. However, Chang-woo eventually finds a job that he likes and develops a sense of pride in his work. He moves out of his mother’s home in search of a new life.

Thriller · Comedy · History · Korean

When hijackers seize a Japanese flight and demand to fly to Pyongyang, a mysterious mastermind hatches a zany scheme to reroute the plane to Seoul.

Drama · Thriller · Korean

The story of a serial killer, Yeong-hoon, who murdered 11 people, offering a special interview with Seon-joo, a veteran reporter who is desperate for a scoop.

Horror · Thriller · Korean

Beyond the invisible boundary, reality twists into nightmare. A seed of doubt takes root—growing into unstoppable fear. In the shadows, someone is watching. Curiosity becomes your greatest danger… and your darkest transformation. Enter the Forbidden Zone—a place no one should ever cross.

Romance · Drama · Korean

A veteran sprinter who is getting one last opportunity to re-kindle the love of his life, and a happy-go-lucky high schooler who pulls out all the stops to win over the love of Ji-eun.

Drama · Korean

A high school teacher quietly living with her female partner faces disruption when her son returns from abroad with his fiancée. When the fiancée’s parents arrive unexpectedly, both families are forced to share the same house, revealing hidden tensions and clashing expectations. As days pass, the teacher’s secret illness and her same-sex relationship come to light, challenging assumptions, exposing long-held secrets, and prompting moments of confrontation, reflection, and reluctant understanding. The story examines the fragile balance between personal truth and family duty, exploring love, identity, and acceptance within the intimate pressures of home life.

Horror · Korean

Single mother Sung-hee moves into a new apartment and installs a homecam to protect her sick daughter, Ji-woo. She also hires a babysitter. While closing a suicide case at her insurance job, Sung-hee hears an eerie, ritualistic chant in the recorded footage. Soon after, she begins to witness a mysterious woman and Ji-woo's strange behavior on the homecam. As she digs deeper into the case, an unseen force begins to close in on her. Su-rim, a shaman living downstairs, suggests performing an exorcism ritual.

Drama · Comedy · Korean

Suffering from the loss of their eldest son, Yeon-jung's family starts to fall apart when they lie to each other about their personal motives in life. After betrayal and disappointments are exposed, they rediscover their love for one another while trying to fulfill a promise they made to their deceased son.

Documentary · History · Korean

How did South Korea, after liberation in 1945 defend liberal democracy against leftist and communist forces? The door to that secret is now revealed.

Mystery · Thriller · Korean

One day while overseeing a documentary crew filming his blind father at work, Im Dong-hwan gets a phone call that his missing mother’s remains have been found after forty years. Determined to find the truth of her disappearance, Dong-hwan embarks on a twisted odyssey through his family’s traumatic past, uncovering dark secrets along the way.

Family · Drama · Korean

Documentary · Korean

Lettuce seeds from an elderly neighbor take root in a city planter, growing across generations. This sight evokes memories: the neighbor's yard, her cat, the sound of her footsteps, and her hands, which, like a village craftsperson, cared for all surrounding life. A physical pain that began back then brings a new awareness of the body's inner entanglements and the invisible ripples left by the world’s countless grandmothers.

Horror · Thriller · Korean

An old man attempting to harm the village's mystical guardian tree. An office worker, obsessed with beauty, tampering with her neighbor's packages. A mother making deals with ghosts to secure her daughter's place in medical school. A senior police officer insisting on handling a case alone, despite his junior's objections. A college student seeking fame on social media through horror content. These seemingly unrelated incidents are eerily linked by their intertwined relationships and a shared undercurrent of wrong choices driven by desire. At the heart of it all lies a sinister dark market. Once its true nature is revealed, there’s no turning back.

Drama · Romance · Thriller · Korean

Sci-Fi · Adventure · Drama · Korean

When a raging flood traps a researcher and her young son, a call to a crucial mission puts their escape — and the future of humanity — on the line.

Drama · Sci-Fi · Korean

Crime · Thriller · Korean

Seo-rim, drowning in debt, plans to kill a homeless girl, Sum-e, for identity theft. However, Sum-e unexpectedly kills Seo-rim's boyfriend and disappears. Now a suspect and facing blackmail, Seo-rim must confront her past and a shocking truth.

Drama · Korean

Acclaimed director Simon Stone and his stellar Korean cast bring striking originality to Chekhov’s classic, relocating The Cherry Orchard of old Russia to modern-day Korea. Doyoung Song, a chaebol heiress, returns from abroad to a free and defiant Seoul. Above all, her family business is in peril, threatening the future of her mansion. As the Songs grapple with their status and heritage in a rapidly changing world, quiet tensions unfold within their glass-walled home, and the family collapses into a poignant, beautiful mess.

Drama · Korean

High school student Yun-ji harbors a secret romance with her homeroom teacher, which results in a pregnancy. When the teacher abruptly disappears, Yun-ji decides to end the pregnancy. To buy illegal abortion pils, she leaves school early. Meanwhile, Kyung-sun discovers that her savings have vanished and sets out to track her down.

Documentary · Korean

Documentary filmmaker Kim Myung-yoon, a former member of the Dokdo Police Security Detachment, relocates with his wife and son, Noah, to Kumi, a remote village in Japan’s Oki Islands. A UNESCO Global Geopark, the Oki Islands boast majestic natural beauty, but also serve as a politically charged symbol, with Japan asserting territorial claims over Dokdo, calling it, “Takeshima.” As Kim builds relationships with local residents and engages with their perspectives, he explores the histories, ecologies, and memories surrounding Dokdo and the Oki Islands.

Documentary · Korean

The film opens with the words of Taebaek's last miners: "I had to earn a living." These are the first words, spoken over the shot of a cage descending endlessly into a mine—the place that the miners of the soon-to-be-closed Jangseong Mining Station call hell. They began working out of poverty, needing to make a living somehow. Though they planned to quit after three days, they ended up staying for over 30 years, and in all that time, they saw nothing good.

Romance · Drama · Korean

A native Korean man, born to Korean parents as a Black individual, and a lesbian woman still holding onto memories of her ex-lover embark on a journey together.

Comedy · Fantasy · Korean

Songi is a very, very peculiar woman. Pressured by her mother, she attends blind dates daily and drifts into sexual fantasies about men she feels no attraction to.

Horror · Thriller · Korean

After injuring her arm at work, Miju fights for industrial accident compensation. Yet she also endures sleepless nights, haunted by screams from her neighbors that only she can hear due to her hypersensitive hearing.

Drama · Fantasy · Korean

Living in a group home, 17-year-old Park Seon dreams of becoming an actor. But she must leave and face life alone at 18. Caught between her reality and dream, Seon hears of a ‘wish-granting underpass.’

Drama · Korean

After losing his wife in a fatal accident, Young-moon becomes obsessed with the man responsible for her death. Desperate to find someone to blame, he hires a private detective named Hee-mi to uncover the truth. But as he draws closer to the answers he seeks, the truth he has long avoided leads him into an even deeper maze.

Documentary · Korean

What does it mean to care for a being that has nothing to do with you? How can we explain spending one’s youth in a rural mountain valley, enduring hardship to care for wild animals that, unlike pets, will never grow close to humans?

Drama · Mystery · Korean

Ji-soo, a literature enthusiast who believes a mysterious being once visited him as a child and gifted him with talent in writing, finds school life boring. But everything changes when Hyeon-joo, a bold, soccer-loving girl, transfers to his school. Her boyish charm and passion to soccer instantly captivates him. From that day on, Ji-soo is plagued by unsettling, yet vivid dreams that blur the line between reality and something far more mysterious.

Drama · Romance · Korean

"I just got dumped. Will you have breakfast with me?" At a breakfast club, heartbroken Sa-gang and Ji-hoon stumble upon mysterious "breakup souvenirs." Each item holds a secret pain, reflecting their own. Will they find the souvenir's owner?

Comedy · Crime · Thriller · Korean

After being laid off and humiliated by a ruthless job market, a veteran paper mill manager descends into violence in a desperate bid to reclaim his dignity.

Drama · Korean

Hong-i, who suffers from debt, brings her mother Seo-hee, who is in a nursing home, to pay off her debt.

Documentary · Music · Korean

CHA EUN-WOO CONCERT: MEMORIES in cinemas — A Journey of Emotion and Romance We don’t know what genre your life was before this moment—but after today, it becomes a Romantic Fantasy. And in that story, the leads are CHA EUN-WOO… and you. Experience a journey through love, heartbreak, and lingering memories. With deeply emotional acting and heartfelt performances, CHA EUN-WOO amplifies every feeling, while music seamlessly flows through each moment, enhancing the cinematic immersion. Moments when you dreamed, loved, and hurt, within a breathtaking fantasy world—where CHA EUN-WOO delivers the final chapter of your story, written just for you.

Action · Crime · Thriller · Korean

The secret society of contract killers falls into chaos, unleashing a new breed of assassins. With old rules in ruins, who dares claim the shadows?

Drama · Korean

A director blames the failed shoot on personal feelings toward their actor. The actor auditions for a role in a shamanic tale about a goblin that's entered a woman’s body. The story is told twice, solely from one person’s point of view, but differently.