The Best Films From South Korea Released in 2019

Films from South Korea Released In 2019

A security guard tries to kidnap woman in a building they both work in.

Watching (2019)

Seong Jae works at a major firm, but always works late due to the workload. Once, he falls asleep while working overtime and reaches the Sleep Bank, where he takes a sleep loan from the branch manager. Seong Jae returns to the sleep bank after continuous nights of overtime and extends his sleep loan. Seong Jae manages to reach his target achievement thanks to the sleep loan, but the interest has built up, and the time when he has to pay it all back has come.

The Bank of Seoul (2019)

The Grand Canal project was one of the key pledges of the former President Lee. He first said that he was carrying out a project to save the four rivers but it was a lie. He eventually proceeded the project which was a hotbed of all kinds of irregularities. After ten years, now the river is dying. Some people collaborated to the past regime, and some resisted it. On whom will we stand?

Rivercide: The Secret Six (2019)

Dong-jin works at the immigration office, detecting illegal immigrants and entrants. He rarely meets his father, who has Alzheimer's disease, and it's awkward for him to meet his brother, Dong-seok, and his family. Nam-il, a colleague, uses his position to commit corruption and the youngest, Eun-seong, is too compassionate. One day, Dong-jin meets an ethnic Korean call girl named Yeon-hwa and starts to like her. She gets a call from a broker that he's withholding her niece, Soon-bok, who escaped from the North. Looking at Yeon-hwa and Soon-bok's sadness and innocent lives, Dong-jin's life begins to change. His father dies and Yeon-hwa kills herself. Dong-jin tries his best to save Soon-bok. He risks everything for her, but his efforts become worthless when Nam-il frames him for his irregularities and Eun-seong betrays him to protect their own family. Dong-jin loses everything and is left only with his search for Soon-bok.

The Threshold of Death (2019)

Detective Oh Goo Tak and Park WoongCheol and the rest of the Crime Investigation Unit attempt to rid the city of criminals.

The Bad Guys: Reign of Chaos (2019)

Someone brutally murders Young-hoon’s wife. A hair sample was found on his wife’s body and the detectives use it to trace it back to his friend Joon-sung and locks him up. Seemingly becoming a murder’s wife overnight, Da-yeon asks Young-hoon to testify on his behalf but when he doesn’t show up for the trial, she goes to visit him at his house.

The Culprit (2019)

Soon-ho, a lawyer from a large law firm, decides to become a snob and defend a case that has a big promotion opportunity for him to become a partner lawyer. He intentionally approaches an autistic girl, Ji-woo, to exonerate his client.

Innocent Witness (2019)

A collection of four stories. [2 nights 3 days] tells a story of Ji-Eun going through and understanding the hardships of falling in love and breaking up. [May 14] Min-Jung, a mother, just wishes and wants one day for herself. [Refund] is a story of Soo-Jin struggling everyday in attempts to achieve her vision of perfect life. [Hand-Written Poster] is a story of Hye-Ri and Min-Young, both who got stuck in a situation that both could not comprehend. How was your day today?

Today, Together (2019)

By an encounter with a wiry female lawyer So-hyun at the redevelopment protest site, a cold mobster JANG Se-chool decides to be ‘a good person’ as she advised. One day accidentally he saves people from a bus crash, becomes a hero of the city at a bound and it even leads him to run for the National Assembly. But his luckiest chance to be ‘a real good person’ is yet to come until the rival candidate Choi conspires with Se-chool’s enemy clan boss Gwang-chul.

Long Live the King (2019)

Terrible memories take up the space in a place where all should be happy!

The House (2019)