According to the reviews of Letterboxd, Netflix movies have become the best Korean films on the streaming service.
To determine which movies have ranked higher when the same score is achieved (as there a few movies with a 3.3 rating), here are the best Korean movies on Netflix according to the users of Letterboxd:
5) Night in Paradise (2021)
Letterboxd Rating: 3.4
Bloody and dramatic, Night in Paradise is one of the best South Korean gangster films on Netflix. An assassin named Tae-goo is offered a chance to switch sides with his rival Bukseong gang, headed by Chairman Doh.
Tae-goo rejects the offer which results in the murder of his sister and niece.
In revenge, Tae-goo brutally kills Chairman Doh and his men and flees to Jeju Island where he meets Jae-yeon, a terminally ill woman.
Though, the henchman of the Bukseong gang, Executive Ma is mercilessly hunting Tae-goo to take revenge.
4) The Call (2020)
Letterboxd Rating: 3.6
A remake of the 2011 British and Puerto Rican film The Caller, the Korean adaptation was a welcome addition to the Netflix library during the height of the global pandemic. As the only horror title on this list, The Call is definitely worth adding to your watch list.
Connected by phone in the same home but 20 years apart, a serial killer puts another woman’s past and life on the line to change her own fate.
3) Tune in for Love (2019)
Letterboxd Rating: 3.7
In 1994, on the first day that Yoo Yeul went on air as the new DJ of the popular radio show Music Album, a college girl Mi-su meets Hyun-woo who happens to drop by the bakery she works at. Like the music streaming from the radio, their frequencies slowly come in sync; even when they’re apart, the show brings them together through ebbs and flows of events arising from both pure coincidence and inevitability, until the bitter reality sets in and drives them apart.
2) Forgotten (2017)
Some of the most underrated content on Netflix are thrillers from South Korea. Seoul, South Korea, 1997, when the young but extremely anxious student Jin-seok, his parents, and his successful older brother Yoo-seok move to a new home, mysterious and frightening events begin to happen around them, unexplained events that threaten to ruin their seemingly happy lives. Unable to understand what is happening, Jin-seok wonders if he is losing his mind.
1) 20th Century Girl (2022)
Letterboxd Rating: 4.0
Ranked 8th in the best Netflix Movies according to Letterboxd reviews, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to see 20th Century Girl topping the list of best Korean movies. It also continues to prove that some of the most popular content from South Korea is rooted in 90s nostalgia.
Yeon-du asks her best friend Bora to collect all the information she can about Baek Hyun-jin while she is away in the U.S. for heart surgery. Bora decides to get close to Baek’s best friend, Pung Woon-ho first. However, Bora’s clumsy plan unfolds in an unexpected direction. In 1999, a year before the new century, Bora, who turns seventeen, falls into the fever of first love.
