Movies Like Coin Locker Girl

If you liked Coin Locker Girl (2015), a drama and thriller movie directed by Han Jun-hee, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
The Chaser (2008)
★ 7.8/10Also thriller
Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp, who's in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished…
2
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and thriller
A deaf man and his girlfriend resort to desperate measures in order to fund a kidney transplant for his sister. Things go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a cycle of violence and revenge.
3
Breathless (2009)
★ 7.1/10Also drama
Sang-hoon is a lowlife gangster, a debt collector exercising thuggish ways to collect his money. The recipient of nothing but anger since his childhood, he expresses himself through violence. When he finally encounters…
4
The Outlaws (2017)
★ 7.6/10Also thriller
In Chinatown, law and order is turned upside down when a trio of feral Chinese gangsters arrive, start terrorizing civilians, and usurping territory. The beleaguered local gangsters team up with the police, lead by the…
5
The Yellow Sea (2010)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and thriller
A Korean man in China takes an assassination job in South Korea to make money and find his missing wife. But when the job is botched, he is forced to go on the run from the police and the gangsters who paid him.
6
The Roundup: No Way Out (2023)
★ 7.2/10Also thriller
Detective Ma Seok-do changes his affiliation from the Geumcheon Police Station to the Metropolitan Investigation Team, in order to eradicate Japanese gangsters who enter Korea to commit heinous crimes.
7
Nameless Gangster (2012)
★ 6.8/10Also thriller
Ik-hyeon, a corrupt officer, joins forces with another crook, Hyung-bae, to continue his illegal activities before he loses his job. Eventually, he decides to escape and pin the blame on his partner.
8
Eden (2013)
★ 6.5/10Also thriller and drama
After a night out with friends, Hyun Jae accepts a late night ride home from a young fire fighter. What begins as a night of promise quickly turns into a nightmare when she is abducted and imprisoned outside Las Vegas…
9
The Roundup (2022)
★ 7.3/10Also thriller
The 'Beast Cop' Ma Seok-do heads to a foreign country to extradite a suspect, but soon after his arrival, he discovers additional murder cases and hears about a vicious killer who has been committing crimes against…
10
Night Always Comes (2025)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and thriller
Facing eviction in a city her family can no longer afford, a woman plunges into a desperate and increasingly dangerous all-night search to raise $25,000.
11
Memories of Murder (2003)
★ 8.1/10Also drama and thriller
A sadistic serial rapist and murderer of young women terrorizes a small province in 1980s South Korea. To prevent further crimes, three increasingly desperate detectives with conflicting methods race against time to…
12
Gangnam Blues (2015)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller
Jong-dae and Yong-ki make a living by picking up paper and empty bottles. Both then join different gangster clan and becomes involved in a struggle of political interests over development in Gangnam, Seoul.
13
Year of the Dragon (1985)
★ 6.8/10Also thriller
In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthless. While pursuing an unauthorized…
14
Silmido (2003)
★ 7.1/10Also drama
On 31 January 1968, 31 North Korean commandos infiltrated South Korea in a failed mission to assassinate President Park Chung-hee. In revenge, the South Korean military assembled a team of 31 criminals on the island of…
15
Sea Fog (2014)
★ 6.8/10Also thriller and drama
A fishing-boat crew takes on a dangerous commission to smuggle a group of illegal immigrants from China to Korea.
16
The Drug King (2018)
★ 6.3/10Also drama
Busan, South Korea, 1970s. Lee Doo-sam is a small-time smuggler. After helping a drug gang to smuggle meth, he falls into the dark crime world. Quick-witted and full of ambition, he eventually takes over the drug…
17
The Replacement Killers (1998)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller
Hired assassin John Lee is asked by Chinatown crime boss Terence Wei to murder the young son of policeman Stan Zedkov. Lee has the boy in his sights, but his conscience gets the better of him, and he spares the child's…
18
Pieta (2012)
★ 7/10Also drama
A loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.
19
Asura: The City of Madness (2016)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller
A shady cop finds himself in over his head when he gets caught between Internal Affairs and the city’s corrupt mayor.
20
Don't Buy the Seller (2023)
★ 6.8/10Also thriller
Soo-hyun, who has recently moved into a new house, buys a used washing machine through a second-hand app but finds out it doesn’t work. Annoyed by the seller’s irresponsibility, she leaves a comment calling the seller…