Best South Korean short movies

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch short films from South Korea, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Bloodless 2017

    The film traces the last living moments of a real-life sex worker who was brutally murdered by a US soldier at the Dongducheon Camptown in South Korea in 1992.

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  • Poster for Movements

    Movements 2019

    In the space of 10 minutes, the African baobab tree grows 0.008 mm, the fastest dog in the world, the Greyhound, can run 12 km, and the Earth travels 18,000 km around the Sun. "Movements" is a 10-minute film which I drew at a rate of 2 seconds of animation per day. We are all walking, seeing, working, running, and stopping together.

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  • Poster for Hosanna

    Hosanna 2015

    Hosanna is an ancient cry of jubilation and entreaty, which according to the New Testament, was used by the crowds greeting Jesus when he rode into Jerusalem on a donkey. In a remote village in Korea lives a boy with the power to heal. He can resurrect the dead. And that is exactly what he does. Curing people of death, he gives them back life. However, the new life doesn’t cure them, on the contrary. Rejecting the chance proffered by rebirth, the fighting, killing and murder continue. They punish, spit upon and antagonise the boy. Refusing to be deterred, he goes his own way. The boy and the villagers move about in rigorously framed shots, practically devoid of emotion. There is no cry of jubilation.

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  • Poster for The Viewpoint

    The Viewpoint 2016

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  • Poster for A Function

    A Function 2011

    In a class room, a girl is sitting on the desk, solving a math quiz. If she cannot solve it in time, a horrible thing is likely to happen.

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  • Poster for Thicker Than Water

    Thicker Than Water 2015

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

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  • Poster for Parallel Novel

    Parallel Novel 2016

    A writer tries to force his character into suicide, but the character fights back.

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  • Poster for Manimals

    Manimals 2017

    A woman remembers her former boyfriends as animals.

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  • Poster for Floating Deep Down Summer

    Floating Deep Down Summer 2020

    Photographer Hyeri receives a wedding invitation from her old friend/ex lover. Hyeri is not sure whether she will go or not. Curator Juhyun is very comfortable about her sexuality and confident. Hyeri, who is not honest to herself, falls for Juhyun slowly.

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  • Poster for Noodle Fish

    Noodle Fish 2012

    Unique animation using plain noodles bought at the store. Based on the name 'noodlefish,' this movie delivers the story of a small, naive noodlefish trying to get out of the water by making fish with noodles.

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  • Poster for My new boyfriend

    My new boyfriend 2004

    11 days since the breakup with her loving boyfriend. A woman is in tears, suffering from misery. Her life turned into a mess after the shocking breakup. She finally made up her mind to let him go after finding a haggard woman in the mirror. From the Internet, she finds advice on how to mend a broken heart. She decides to calmly follow the suggested methods such as “Have a haircut,” “Bask in the sun,” “Erase the traces of your love.” Then she stumbles upon a matchbox packed with memories of Young-jae. She follows the traces of the matchbox to a cafe in Baek-ma station and tries erasing the remnants of her love.

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  • Poster for ROMEO

    ROMEO 2019

    "I can't reach you, So-jung.“ The movie starts with a desire to see what we all of us want to see. Love too ...

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  • 38-39°C 2012

    This film is about the relationship and connection between a son and his father. A man with a big birthmark on his back enters an old public bathhouse. When he takes a bath, he falls into a dream. He confronts his father who has the same birthmark in the dream, and he starts to scrub away his father's birthmark.

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  • Poster for Memorial Photographing

    Memorial Photographing 1997

    A woman, who barely escaped from the Collapse of Sung-soo Bridge 3 years ago, remembers her high school friends who died in the tragic accident.

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  • Poster for Consolation

    Consolation 2015

    A girl needs consolation

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