17+ Best Korean Thriller & Survival Movies to watch (2025)

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Are you looking for the best Korean thriller and survival movies? Umm!!! Or just scrolling aimlessly around Google for longer than we’d like to admit? Well, you guys are in the right place. I also watched other latest Korean Dramas, and trust me, guys, you won’t regret it if you are a true fan of the Korean series. List of the Best Korean Thriller and survival movies on our site: Alive, Tunnel, Flu, Train to Busan, Peninsula, Basement, Time to Hunt, Watching, Tidal Wave, Love 911, Midnight, Rampant, and others.

At the top, there are the best Korean survival movies, a plot description, and trailers for dramas that have already been released. I recommend you guys to watch these Korean survival and thriller movies if you love K-dramas. I’m sure you won’t regret it.

Top 17 Best Survival Korean Movies

1. ALIVE (2016) – Survival Korean Movies

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While a grisly virus ravages a Korean city, Joon-woo tries to stay safe by locking himself inside his apartment. Just as he loses hope, he discovers another survivor. #Alive” is one of those zombie best Korean survival movies that simply look at the apocalypse as a test about choosing hope—sometimes they struggle with it.

Genre: Zombie Horror, Thriller, Action, Drama

IMDb Rating: 6.3/10

2. BASEMENT (2020)

Basement is one of the best Korean survival movies. Pan-Gyo, which is Korean Silicon Valley, was attacked by a Nuclear bomb. The family member who owns a venture business decided to hide in a basement in their house for 2 weeks, following the direction from the Korean Government. The family started to struggle to survive in the basement day by day.

Genre: Sci-fi, Drama

IMDb Rating: 4.1/10

Link: https://dramacool.sk/the-basement-2021-episode-1.html

3. TIME TO HUNT (2020)

Time To Hunt is one of the best Korean survival movies. While planning a heist to escape a dystopian world, a group of young people attracts the attention of a vicious killer.

Available on Netflix

Genre: Action, Sci-fi, Thriller, Crime, Drama

IMDb Rating: 6.3/10

4. FLU (2013)- Survival Movies Korean

Flu is one of the best survival Korean movies you won’t regret watching. Two friends embark on a dangerous journey to seek the cure for a lethal airborne virus that has caused chaos in a South Korean city. This one is a pretty good disease/disaster film. It’s got an interesting combo of drama, horror, rom-com, and buddy movie. I like that the heroes end up being a couple of Emergency Response Team guys (like urban search & rescue/EMTs), a smart and sassy little girl, and a barefoot young migrant worker. Okay, there’s also the little girl’s mom, one of the main research M.D.s leading the battle against the flu. Strong characters and all-around good acting.

Genre: Action, Sci-fi, Thriller, Virus

IMDb Rating: 6.6/10

5. Train to Bhusan (2016)

Train To Busan is one of the trending survival Korean movies, which is highly recommended. Seok-woo and his daughter are on a train to Busan on the latter’s birthday to see his wife. However, the journey turns into a nightmare when they are trapped amidst a zombie outbreak in South Korea.

HELL, THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST SURVIVAL MOVIES KOREAN EVER MADE PERIOD. Incredible cinematography, an all-star cast that appeals to so many generations (18+) with phenomenal acting performances, a great script, and just a jugular of emotion this is something you can watch and there is something for most people need a cry BAM, need some scares BAM, need suspense HELLA BAM and so much more.

Genre: Action, Horror, Zombie, Thriller

IMDb Rating: 7.6/10

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!!!

6. Tidal Wave (2009)

Geologist Kim Hwi visits the Haeundae beach amidst millions of tourists as he is convinced of an impending tsunami. His worst fears may come true after being denied by the disaster prevention agency.

Genre: Action, Thriller

IMDb Rating: 5.5/10

7. Love 911 (2012)

Love 911: Directed by Gi-hoon Jeong. With Ma Dong-seok, Han Hyo-joo, Jyu-ni Hyun, … It feels like they tried to squash a K drama into a 2-hour movie. A doctor tries to woo a grieving, widowed firefighter in her attempt to get him to testify on her behalf in a medical malpractice case.

Genre: Romance, Comedy

IMDb Rating: 6.9/10

8. Peninsula (2020)

Jung Seok, a former soldier, along with his teammates, sets out on a mission to battle hordes of post-apocalyptic zombies in the Korean peninsula wastelands.

Genre: Action, Horror

IMDb Rating: 5.5/10

9. Tunnel (2016)

While driving home for his daughter’s birthday, a man gets trapped in a collapsed tunnel and struggles to survive with just two bottles of water, a birthday cake, and a cell phone.

Genre: Thriller, Action

IMDb Rating: 6.8/10

Link: https://dramacool.sk/drama-detail/tunnel

10. Midnight (2021)

Life-threatening hide-and-seek between a psychopathic killer and a deaf woman. Kyeong Mi, a girl with hearing impairment, lives with her mother. Working at the customer call center, one day she storms out of an unpleasant dinner with the client and drives home after she picks up her mother. Meanwhile, the murderer Do Shik spots Kyeong Mi’s mother waiting for her daughter who went to park her car, but changes his target when another girl, So Jung, passes him by talking on the phone. So Jung gets stabbed by Do Shik in the back alley and is found by Kyeong Mi, who ends up becoming Do Shik’s new prey.

I watched this around midnight and I was so stressed and thrilled at the same time. Kudos to all the cast.

Genre: Psychological Thriller, Crime, Thriller

IMDb Rating: 6.5/10

11. Rampant (2018)

Lee Chung is a Prince of Joseon, but he has been taken hostage by the Qing Dynasty. He enjoys boozing, womanizing, and gambling. He is also an excellent swordsman. His older brother Lee Young will succeed to the throne and bring Lee Chung to Joseon. He returns after more than 10 years. Soon, Lee Chung faces monsters that run rampant in the night.

Genre: Horror, Action, Survival, Drama

IMDb Rating: 6.3/10

Link: https://dramacool.sk/rampant-2018-episode-1.html

12. P1H: THE BEGINNING OF A NEW WORLD

The story revolves around six boys from the stars Alkaid and Alcor, arriving on Earth to save the planet from the spread of a strange virus. The fictional virus is known to instill wrath and violence in human beings, which the boys will seek to prevent.

Genre: Action, Sci-fi, Drama

IMDb Rating: 4.8/10

Link: https://dramacool.sk/dra…/p1h-the-beginning-of-a-new-world

13. WATCHING (2019)

Watching is a 2019 Korean horror-thriller Best Korean survival Movies about a career woman who is kidnapped by a deranged security operative and held captive. I recommend it. Bruh, that twist at the end was triggering and insane.

Genre: Horror, Suspense, Thriller

IMDb Rating: 5.8/10

14. THE EXIT (2019)

When an unknown toxic gas strikes Seoul in an unprecedented act of terror, Yong-Nam has just met Eui-Ju from college by chance at his mother’s birthday banquet. The city falls under a sudden noxious gas attack, and together, they must escape the panic-stricken city.

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Action

IMDb Rating: 7/10

15. FALLEN (2018)

A best-selling writer is threatened when her private life is leaked and she is stigmatized. Soon after, she is kidnapped while at a bar and wakes up inside an oil drum covered in blood. To survive, the writer must confront her enemies and use her imagination to save herself.

Genre: Mystery, Sci-fi, Thriller

IMDb Rating: 4.0/10

Link: https://dramacool.sk/fallen-2020-episode-1.html

16. SINKHOLE (2021)

“Sinkhole” is about what happens when a newly built villa falls into a sinkhole with its residents trapped inside. The residents’ families and emergency services attempt to save them. The main character, Park Dong Won, is a man who finally buys his home after 11 years, only to have it fall into a sinkhole within a minute. Along with Dong-Won, there’s also Kim Seung Hyun, who ends up getting stuck in the sinkhole with him, who is his supervisor at work.

With them is also the Chungwoon Villa resident, Jung Man Soo, who works multiple part-time jobs to raise his son as a single dad.

Genre: Comedy, Thriller, Survival, KDrama

IMDb Rating: 6.3/10

Link: https://dramacool.sk/drama-detail/sinkhole

17. TAKE POINT (2018)

A movie based on the Private Military Company (PMC) during the peak times of the relations between North and South Korea.

Link: https://dramacool.sk/take-point-episode-1.html

Genre: Thriller, Action, Survival

IMDb Rating: 5.4/10

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