Based On True Story Korean Dramas & Movies

The President's Last Bang (2005)

The President’s Last Bang

Rank #53116

October, 1979, Seoul… A private dinner party for the President and his three closest confidants — his Chief Bodyguard, his Chief Secretary, and the Director of the Korean CIA …...

The Fifth Republic

The Fifth Republic

Rank #53887

This drama is about the takeover of the Korean government in 1979 by Chun Doo Hwan....

Missing (2009)

Missing

Rank #55071

Hyun Jung’s sister is missing and she fears for the worst. Via her sister’s cellphone, Hyun Jung learns that her sister stayed in a countryside village. She goes to the...

A Successful Geek (2020)

A Successful Geek

Rank #56837

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Malice

Malice

Rank #58091

One day, Ga In, who has been suffering from Ripley syndrome, meets high school friend Eun Jung after 7 years hiatus. She feels jealous of her friend who seems to...

Nightscape (2017)

Nightscape

Rank #58564

The motive is the horrific serial terminate incident that actually happened! Serial terminate incident is the motive for Nightscape which depicts the burglary and terminate using a taxi in Korea...

While You Are Tempted Season 4

Rank #99999

Mystery, urban horror stories, conspiracy theories are absurd at first, but… It has a fatal charm that if you follow the hypothesis and grounds one by one, you will fall...

Kidnapped

Kidnapped

Rank #99999

A film that tells the story of the people who tried to solve a situation that arose when a diplomat was abducted in Beirut, Lebanon in 1986. (Source: HanCinema)...

While You Are Tempted Season 2

Rank #99999

A dangerous dinner that transcends suspicion and enticement. One day, friends gathered at the house of movie planner Yoon Jong Shin are always thirsty for new stories. Like natural storytellers,...

Mayumi

Mayumi

Rank #99999

Two North Korean agents, carrying Japanese passports bearing the names “Shinichi” and “Mayumi”, plan to explode a Seoul-bound plane in mid-air. They are diverted to another plane after they have...

1919 Yoo Kwan Soon (2019)

1919 Yoo Kwan Soon

Rank #99999

A film that explores the lives of female independence activists who fought against the Japanese Occupation in the North and South of Korea including heroines like the titular Yoo Kwan...

While You Are Tempted Season 3

Rank #99999

A dangerous dinner that transcends suspicion and enticement. One day, friends gathered at the house of movie planner Yoon Jong Shin are always thirsty for new stories. Like natural storytellers,...

Rebound

Rank #99999

A true story about a basketball team in a high school in Busan. (Source: HanCinema)...

While You Are Tempted Season 1

Rank #99999

A dangerous dinner that transcends suspicion and enticement. One day, friends gathered at the house of movie planner Yoon Jong-shin are always thirsty for new stories. Like natural storytellers, they...

Nameless Stars (1959)

Nameless Stars

Rank #99999

This film tells the stories of students fighting for liberation from Japanese rule, especially focusing on the Gwangju student democratisation. Sang Hoon, the son of the independent governor, works as...

Come Back

Come Back, Frog Boys

Rank #99999

One day, five children who went to catch a frog in Waryong Mountain disappeared at once, and their parents questioned the traces of their children, but they did not find...

Boys

The Boys

Rank #99999

In 1999, a robber breaks into a supermarket in small town, terminate an elderly woman and running away. The police identify three boys as the culprits and quickly close the...

Borderliners (2021)

Borderliners

Rank #99999

A true story-based period story about a young man Jeong Yool Seong, who showed talent for music from a young age against the backdrop of Japanese colonial era, leaving his...

To Kill Alice (2019)

To Kill Alice

Rank #99999

Korean-American Shin Eun Mi gets the chance to travel to North Korea and writes about her impressions and the shock she experiences there. The travelogue gets published and gets a...

Yu Gwan Sun (1959)

Yoo Kwan Soon

Rank #99999

This film is about of the life of the young patriotic martyr Yoo Kwan Soon, who fought for the liberation of her country during the Independence Movement in 1919. As...

Light It Up at 2 AM (2022)

Light It Up at 2 AM

Rank #99999

The film begins with a girl’s narration of a story about the fire that broke out at an institute for girls and a girl named Yu Rim. Yu Rim was...

Klaus 47

Klaus 47

Rank #99999

“Klaus 47” is based on a true story of a weapons lobbyist who shook up the French political world...

Oh

Oh, Heaven!

Rank #99999

~~ Adapted from the autobiography “Memoirs Written in Silence” by Lady Hyegyeong of the Hong Clan....