Best South Korean family movies

Princes who have been turned into Dwarfs seek the red shoes of a lady in order to break the spell, although it will not be easy.

Charles Dickens tells his young son Walter the greatest story ever told, and what begins as a bedtime tale becomes a life-changing journey. Through vivid imagination, the boy walks alongside Jesus, witnessing His miracles, facing His trials, and understanding His ultimate sacrifice.

This is the story of a 7-year-old boy, Sang-woo, born and raised in the big city, and his mute grandmother, who has spent her whole life in a small rural village.

A man's failed suicide attempt enables him to see ghosts, who later keep following him everywhere. It is now up to him to fulfill their wishes to make them go away.

A debt collector who looks intimidating, but actually has a warm heart, ends up becoming the guardian of a child, who has been left behind as collateral by her illegal immigrant mother.

A rebellious high school student sees his life take a strange turn when he goes to the grocery store and someone leaves a baby in his shopping cart, along with a note claiming he's the father.

A 70-year-old woman transforms into her 24-year-old self after she's photographed at a studio, changing her life and those of the people around her forever.

After losing her family to fox hunters, five-tailed Yobi lives in the forest with some shipwrecked aliens, far away from the humans. When one of her alien friends gets captured by a villager, Yobi has no choice but to adventure into the human world to rescue him. At the village, Yobi meets many humans, including Geum Yee who studies at a school for maladjusted children. Interested in Geum Yee, Yobi joins the students and revels in the fun of human life, but both a fox hunter and a mysterious shadow man are on her trail.

Based on a bestselling preteen novel of the same title that has sold more than 1 million copies in Korea, “Leafie, A Hen into the Wild” is about a laying hen named Leafie who is destined to live the “same old” repetitive life confined on the chicken farm. Her fate changes when she escapes from the chicken farm and hatches a duck egg. With the duckling (who believes Leafie to be his mother), sets off on a journey into the wild with her new son to find her freedom.

Cho-won is an autistic but happy young man who loves to draw zebras and run. His mother wants him to feel normal by accomplishing a feat that no one thought his son could achieve. With the help of a coach in exile, she trains him to become a marathon runner.

Il-ho, a satellite girl, wants to learn about human emotions, and crash lands on Earth. She transforms into a human girl and tries to help Kyung-chun after he is transformed into a milk cow.

Abandoned by his owners, a feisty and playful dog joins a pack of strays and embarks on a journey filled with fun and life lessons in their pursuit to find a new and loving home.

Chul-soo is a man with an intellectual disability. One day, Chul-soo finds out that a young girl, Saet-byul, who is in hospital is his daughter. And soon, Saet-byul sneaks out of the hospital and travels by herself to a faraway city for her friend's birthday. As Chul-soo accompanies Saet-byul's journey, friendship develops between the two.

Come share a toast in the Front Man's lair — but tread carefully, for you’re playing with fire.

Daughter Ji-suk is now already a mother herself, but she'll always be a child in the eyes of her proud mom. The two decide to go on their first ever trip together. Over three days and two nights, their journey reveals the love and regrets, emotions and conflicts, that form a mother-daughter relationship.

Ji-so, a young girl who doesn't have a house because of her bankrupted dad. In order to get money to buy a house she plan to steals wealthy people's dogs to earn reward money when she returns them.

A 13 year old girl who lives with her widowed mother in a town in Korea. Somewhat withdrawn and living in dreams, her main dream is that her real mother is a famous pop singer. Soo-ah falls in with a delinquent schoolgirl, and after a tense argument with her mother, blurts out that she is not her real mother. She runs away on a train to Seoul to see her "real mother" at a concert and be with her.

Min-soo is about to get married when his fiancée suddenly admits that she is allergic to dogs. Now the guy's best friend, the golden retriever Rooney, needs a new family. With the help of his cousin and social media, Min-soo starts looking for a new home for Rooney.

Follow PinkFong and Baby Shark’s space journey as they visit mysterious planets to help find the special star for PinkFong!

This silly short-film sequel to "Larva Island" and "The Larva Island Movie" follows farting friends Red and Yellow's bumbling misadventures in the city.

Princess Romi of the Emotions Kingdom goes on a magical journey to save the Teenieping creature that she believes is her soulmate.

It's a freezing winter morning and Christmas is just around the corner. Pororo the penguin and his beloved friends return from the woods where they have cut a Christmas tree, ready to celebrate the festivity. They’ve just finished decorating the tree, when they receive a shocking message directly from Santa Claus! Santa caught a bad cold, and he can’t bring his special Xmas glaze to the Candy Castle, where under the oversight of King Cream Puff the cookies for children all over the world are made. A Christmas without cookies will be quite sad! Pororo and his friends decide to protect the Christmas spirit, and they leave for Santa Claus village to pick up the Christmas glaze and carry it to the Candy Castle. But along the way, they met their old acquaintance: the wicked Witch of Winter who aims to steal the precious glaze and use it for her nasty schemes. Will our heroes be able to carry out their important missions and save Christmas?

Baseball player Jung-gu and movie star Nam-mi are a celebrity couple who are blissfully happy in their careers and marriage. One day, a girl named Dong-ju shows up and the couple's lives are instantly destroyed. Seven years later, as Dong-ju gets involved in the death of a middle-school girl, Jung-gu and Nam-mi decide to fight a battle they have no chance of winning.

Three young children are fascinated by space. One night they saw a flying object crashing into the forest. Ruru, the king of the children of the kingdom of the space is on board. Ruru invites the three musketeers in his realm of space. During this journey, a terrible battle began in space to destroy the enemy in the middle of a meteor shower.

Yeo-min is a matured and thoughtful 9 year old boy who lives in a small mountain village. Even at his young age, he has too many things to take care of. First, he has to protect his friends from the neighborhood bully Black Bird and keep peace in his neighborhood. Second, he must share his lunch with his best friend Ki-jong who lives alone with his sister. And, third, he has to sell ice cream bars after school to save enough money to buy a pair of sunglasses for his mother who injured her eye while working at a factory.

A temporary teacher Yu-jin is ordered by the principal to guide problematic students in extracurricular club activities. His intention is to prevent them from committing accidents at the outside after school. Indeed, can their musical come out to the world?

A pickpocket Jeong-eun comes back home after being in prison for 2 years. Her family consists of her father, Joo-suk, who lost one of his eyesight and 8-year-old brother. Joo-suk loves his daughter but he is very reluctant to show it. Joo-suk is worried about Jeong-eun being close with the local gangster - Chang-won and makes a deal with him that ends in tragedy?

Star baseball player and national hero Sang-nam finds his career in jeopardy when he gets involved in a drunken brawl. His promoter, Charles, advises him to volunteer his time somewhere sympathetic to improve his public image. The place: a school for the deaf. The service: coaching its baseball team.

A girl from a troubled family befriends two younger girls and begins to feel a sense of normalcy as they go adventuring at the seaside.

In-young, a high school student who is alone due to her parents' sudden death, is forced out because of her overdue rent and stays hidden in the Korean Dance Art Troupe where she belongs. In-young, who is still living bravely and brightly despite the sad situation, is caught by the director of the art troupe who is known for being rough, and the director who could not put In-young in the art troupe eventually begins to live with her.

Middle aged housewife Kim In-Hee's mother-in-law has Alzheimer's disease, her physician husband is always tired and indifferent to her needs and her children has become wayward. For her family, Kim In-Hee has devoted her life as a daughter-in-law, wife and mother. Kim In-Hee then learns that she has terminal cancer and is dying. The mother accepts her fate and sets up the most beautiful goodbye to her family.

A unemployed father, due to his laziness, is supported by his wife. Their daughter decides to put their lazy dad up for rent on a secondhand site.

When loveable Labrador Maeumee has a set of puppies, Dong-Wook's grades start to suffer. Because of this, Dong-Wook's mother decides to get rid of Maeumee and the puppies. The dogs then stay at a relative's video shop until the animals can be placed into an animal training center. Meanwhile, two unscrupulous jewel thieves come into the video store and spots the little puppies. Hyeok-Pil decides to steal the littlest puppy to use as a runner to transport diamonds. Maeumee spots the two men taking away her young puppy and goes after the thieves! Can Maeumee save her puppy? Will Dong-Wook ever get to see Maeumee and the puppies again?

A love for a cousin, deeply engraved in childhood. Twelve years later, a stopped heart begins to beat again.

Young Jinoo finds himself in a world where the toys are real living beings. However, not everything is peaceful here either. A dark force threatens the world of toys! Will Jinoo, together with Princess Sherbert, be able to face the powerful opponent?

After being "created" by a dog, Doggy Poo meets various living and inanimate things. No one wants to be his friend, and Doggy Poo becomes sad as he tries to find his purpose.

A mother and father who are very open and frank with their children about sex find their relationship in turmoil when an old love enters the picture.

Three old friends who used to be part of a rock band reunite at the fourth member's funeral. They decide to band back together with the deceased's estranged son serving as the new fourth member.

The Omnibus movie is composed of 4 episodes about human beings and cats. #1 episode is woman's love and parting story, being told by cat’s perspective. #2 episode is father's story who is realized the meaning of family through the cat. #3 episode is a fantastic challenge of ballet girl who wants to live with a cat. #4 episode is about a grandfather trying to pay the debt to cat instead of his dead wife.

I will call you! So you better answer your phone! In the year 2020, a homestay is being conducted for male and female teenagers in preparation for a union between North Korea and South Korea. North Korean girl Ha-jin goes to South Korean boy Woo-yeong's house to homestay. Woo-yeong starts to bully Ha-jin who has taken his room, but alas! First love has found its way to these children. Woo-yeong runs away to Seoul with Ha-jin to help her meet her father.

The poor class president participates in the Burger Song Challenge to buy burgers for her friends.

A woman sorts belongings of her deceased mother. Uncanny phenomena occur in her house, and she recalls memories of her mother.

Housewife Eun-ha is busy every day: In addition to taking care of her husband who doesn’t help out at all and her willful daughter and son, she has to care for her nagging mother-in-law, who is nearly bedridden.

An unidentified airship crashed in a peaceful little Porong Porong forest. Pororo and his friends find a little dinosaur 'Alo', which sleeps in an egg-shaped airship that crashed in the forest. When they opened the lid of the airship, the little dinosaur ‘Alo’ awakened. But he can not remember anything other than his own name. Eddy repairs the airship that Alo rides on, and as soon as he powers on, the airships that start working swallow Crong and Alo and disappear from the sky. Can Pororo and his friends save their friends and dinosaurs and go back to home?

A mother with a vampire son tries to get him fresh blood everyday. One day, there’s no blood to be found...

Bong-yong Kim is one of a modest Korean dad who struggles to survive from the work place without any time to get along with his family. He has to work over than he had to, since the boss treat him like his servant – drink late every night, drive the boss to his home. His wife, Hwayeon, blames him for his indifference to family, and twins in puberty, Woo-joo and Dal-nim, also in trouble with their father. The late child ‘Byeol-nim’ is his only one who acts charm and shows cuteness to him.. MY LAST LOVE, when every family member starts to share with caring each other at last…

What does the greatest actress, an elegant daughter-in-law of a rich family and a bride-to-be have in common? Their hard core party life in the past. While being threatened of being exposed, they get an order to seduce some men... These men are just a regular photographer, a handsome guy and a humorous guy on the outside but they all have a secret hobby of their own. The three men and three women run into each other and leave on the perfect vacation to paradise. However, everything was just a plot...

Sam is a shy boy who is afraid of almost everything until he meets a polar bear named Bernard who takes him on an epic adventure across the world to help him lose his fears.

In 1969, a 10-year old boy's life takes a major turn when he discovers the father he never met is alive. Selling candy bars left and right to save up for a trip to see his dad, the boy embarks on a journey that could change his life forever.

13 year-old girl Hyunjuli participates in a children’s Korean traditional play rehearsal in Changdeokgung Palace and accidentally falls into another world – the Moonlit Palace. The Moonlit Palace is a fantasy world of mysterious spirits and gods, where a dragon or talking mushrooms are nothing out of ordinary. Meeting new friends, Mr. Squirrel and the warrior Won, Hyunjuli explores this strange yet wonderful world to find a way back home. However, due to the trick of the Blossom Lady, who tries to rule this Moonlit World, Hyunjuli and friends fall into trouble. Will Hyunjuli be able to help her new friends to save their world and return home safely?

An amazing adventure of Dooly, a baby dinosaur and his friends looking for Doolys mom! Can Dooly find his mom?

Jeong-do became a Seoul University Law student with the support and sacrifice of his mother. However, ever since his mother passed away, he hasn't able to pass the bar exam for 10 years, as his rich girlfriend Jin-kyeong waits for him. To make matters worse, his father is fighting with lung cancer and he has medical bills to take care of. Then appears Kyeong-hee, a girl Jeong-do almost became siblings with due to his dad's affair with another woman...

"Treasure Map" is a pre-debut variety show of the K-pop boy group TREASURE. In this show, the members complete various challenges for fun and to strengthen their bonds with each other. Some episodes also focus on their daily lives with vlogs and such.

In the children’s ward, there are children whose last opportunity is organ transplantation. Even when they say that dying is only a wish, they build affectionate friendships without losing their smiles. Fathers of these two children fight desperately to save them, and they face only one last choice…

An aspiring singer Sun-deok is visited by her mother, whom she hasn’t spoken to in years. The abrupt encounter leads to the news of her younger sister Yuri, who had vanished with their savings. The mother-daughter team is now hunting for the missing girl and their money, poking around in Itaewon, the international hub of Seoul. Little do they know that soon they will be faced with Yuri’s unlikely secrets.

Jeongbong and Seong-hye run a guesthouse on Jeju Island. On one late summer day, Seong-hye’s ex-boyfriend and Jeongbong’s former female colleague visit the guesthouse, and the complicated romances of four individuals starts to unfold.

The Korean Academy of Film Arts has produced an animation for 3 consecutive years through a collaborative project. Considering the severe reality of Korean animation in that it lacks an industrial infrastructure, "The House" demonstrates the possibilities of Korean animation and the efficiency of collective production. While comparing apartments in the downtown core to the shabby environment of a marginalized district, "The House" portrays the collapse of the spirits dwelling at the house. As such the adventure of Ga-young and the spirits in the house becomes a criticism of modern society: enlightenment via animation. Although this animation may not have the most delicate or original style, the 5 animators that worked on this film unleashed their imaginations, ultimately showcasing the power of a collective process and a pleasure of the collective imagination.

When the police refuse to investigate their daughter’s alleged suicide, two computer-illiterate parents decide to design a protest banner. Based on the infamous Miryang case in South Korea which shocked the nation in 2004 and continues to fuel public outrage even today.

One day, three siblings receive a postcard from their mother who left them a long time ago. But all it says is "I miss you." Three siblings are disconcerted by the sudden contact, but eventually, they go on a trip to meet their mother.

In this anime fantasy, Kanglim is a 5th grade Ghost Messenger on a supernatural mission. When he finds himself trapped in a Soul Phone, Kanglim, who has the power to see mystical spirits, must successfully capture one of them to free himself from the trap.

The Elephant On The Bike is a coming-of-age drama about a man whose childhood has been overcast in painful memories due to his disability. It's a candid story about one man's internal struggles as he makes the transition from adolescence to adulthood, carrying the psychological wound caused by his physical deformity, plus the impact of his disability on his family. Despite the constant social and family conflicts that dampen his already disheartened soul, a glimmer of hope arises as he discovers the ultimate joy of life - loving someone and being loved. In his feature-length debut, Kwon conveys the message that not all physically challenged protagonists end up miraculously overcoming their hardships. A poignant tearjerker minus the superficial themes, The Elephant On The Bike offers realism throughout its heartwarming tale.

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