Nam Myung-ryeol
Also Known As: 남명렬, Nam Myeong-ryeol, Nam Myung-ryul, Nam Myeong-ryul, 南明烈
Biography: Nam Myung-ryeol (남명렬) is a South Korean actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Daejeon, South Korea
Adult: No
Birthday: May 14, 1959
Age: 66 years old
Gender: Male
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Dance From Afar
Overview: 2016 KBS Drama Special. One day, theater director Shin Pa-rang suddenly kills himself. He did not even leave a last will. Playwright Choi Hyun reacts calmly to his death, but she can't understand his death.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-11-20
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The Point Men
Overview: A group of Korean tourists is taken hostage by an extremist Taliban group in Afghanistan. The Korean government dispatches Jae-ho, known as one of Korea's most skilled diplomats, in order to handle the situation. Once he arrives, he asks for the Afghan government's cooperation and uses every means possible to free the hostages. However, his efforts go in vain. Due to his failure, he's forced to work with Dae-sik, a special agent who is an expert on the Middle East. As they begin making their move to get to the Taliban, the first hostage death occurs. With nowhere else to turn, the two become unlikely allies in a race against time to save the rest of the hostages.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-01-18
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2Percent
Overview: Director Kang Moon-jeong suffered for a long time as an assistant director. After a series of failures, he was told that he was terminally ill. The moment he was about to give up his dream, something dream-like happened. That's right, the main actor was cast! And it's a national actor that everyone knows! While preparing for the movie diligently in such busy but dreamy days, he hears the news of D-1, the start of filming, a bolt from the blue. The main character of the movie disappeared?! It can't end like this! Isn't life interesting because there are many variables? Just like a movie!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-04-27
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A Year-End Medley
Overview: A romantic comedy of a young man and woman that is told in the background of hotel 'Emross'. It has stories of people who met each other at Hotel Emross during the New Year holidays. Each one has his own memory to relate and create relationships or just going nostalgic.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-12-29
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Still Picture
Overview: Dreams and hopes we had when we were young. Are they just dreams frozen like still pictures? Hyeonsu has been a part-time lecturer for 10 years. He used to dream of becoming a photojournalist but now his only dream is to become a full-time professor. But he has no financial ability to look good to other professors. He’s been married for 10 years and his wife is his only family. Eunsu appears in front of him after 20 years. She’s the one who taught him to take photos and also his first love. He’s shaken by her but finds out that she’s also applying for the full-time professor position he’s longing to get…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-08-19
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Lament
Overview: Kwang Su (Shin Hyun Jun) has struggled his whole life to shake off the stigma of a shameful family history. He lives in a state of perpetual despair. By contrast, Jong Man (Lee Byung Hun) works as a bartender and spends his days dreaming of becoming an international movie star and his nights filming himself and contacting top Hollywood production companies in the hope that one day he will get his lucky break. Then there is the shy girl Se Hee who works in a music store. When Kwang Su stumbles into the music store, blind drunk, but still able to bash out a tune on a piano, Se Hee falls instantly in love. When Kwang Su stumbles into the bar where Jong Man works, he finds himself arrested for his brother's murder. But fortunately he manages to escape from the police, bumps into Jong Man who instantly lets him stay in his apartment.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1997-02-22
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Emergency Declaration
Overview: While investigating a terroristic threat that goes viral online, Korean authorities discover that a suspect has recently boarded an international flight bound for the United States. When a healthy passenger on the same flight suddenly dies a gruesome death of unknown cause, panic erupts both in-flight and on the ground. With steadily decreasing fuel and international refusals to offer aid, the captain and crew will be forced to take unprecedented emergency measures in an attempt to save the lives of their passengers.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-08-03
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Heart Blackened
Overview: A father goes all out to clear his daughter from any wrong doing in the murder of his fiancée. When all evidence points to her, he takes matters into to his own hands to save his daughter and outwit the judiciary system.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-11-02
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Emergency Declaration
Overview: While investigating a terroristic threat that goes viral online, Korean authorities discover that a suspect has recently boarded an international flight bound for the United States. When a healthy passenger on the same flight suddenly dies a gruesome death of unknown cause, panic erupts both in-flight and on the ground. With steadily decreasing fuel and international refusals to offer aid, the captain and crew will be forced to take unprecedented emergency measures in an attempt to save the lives of their passengers.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-08-03
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Noryang: Deadly Sea
Overview: The Imjin War reaches its seventh year in December of 1598. Admiral Yi Sun-shin learns that the Wa invaders in Joseon are preparing for a swift withdrawal following the deathbed orders of their leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Determined to destroy the enemy once and for all, Admiral Yi leads an allied fleet of Joseon and Ming ships to mount a blockade and annihilate the Wa army. However, once Ming commander Chen Lin is bribed into lifting the blockade, Wa lord Shimazu Yoshihiro and his Satsuma army sail to the Wa army's rescue at Noryang Strait.
Genres: War Action History Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-12-20
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Commission
Overview: Dan-kyung, a mediocre art academy instructor, dreams of becoming a successful comic artist like her talented sister, Ju-kyung. However, opportunities never seem to come her way.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2025-04-16
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Girls' Night Out
Overview: Three best friends meet and boldly talk about sex together. Their characters are as different as their lifestyles. One works at a hotel, one at a design firm and the other is a graduate student. The conversations alter their lives as they begin to have different sexual relationships than before.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1998-10-03
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Quo Vadis
Overview: The church is the body of Christ. In Greece, the church embodied a philosophy. Then in Rome, it became an institution. Spreading throughout Europe, it became one with the culture there. Traveling to the US, the church became a business. And when it arrived in Korea, it became a conglomerate. The top five largest churches in the world are located in Korea. However, Christ has long been absent in the nation. So then, what is the church? Who is Jesus Christ? What kind of world do Christians want? If the church is indeed the body of Christ, then we must ask the questions point-blank. Where do we stand in all this? And where exactly are we headed? Korean churches—“Quo Vadis?” Korean society—“Quo Vadis?”
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-12-10
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Shiri
Overview: North Korea's 8th Special Forces hijack a shipment of CTX, a potent new liquid explosive, and threatens South Korea as part of a plot to re-unify the two countries. Ryu and Lee, special agents of O.P., South Korea's secret intelligence service, attempt to track down the terrorists and find the CTX. Meanwhile Hee, the 8th's ultra-bad female sniper, resurfaces to wreak havoc and haunt Ryu.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1999-02-13
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Sound of the Divine Bell
Overview: Susanna is about to become a nun in three days, and she finds herself sharing a room with an older nun, Teresa. This situation leaves her feeling confused and uncertain about whether she can successfully go through with the profession rite.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-07-06
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Love And...
Overview: People have varying perceptions and definitions of love and movies. One must overcome differing opinions and disregard insignificant factors in order to achieve the end product in each aspect. However, it is these trivial features that matter in the end and leave their imprint on our souls. Whether it is for love or for movies, we must continue to question and attend to the subtle inscriptions upon our emotions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-10-22
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Antique
Overview: Jin-hyeok opens a cake shop in an old antique shop, hiring Seon-woo, Korea's best pastry chef, who fell in love with him in high school. Also there, are Su-young, crushing on Seon-woo, ex-boxer Ki-beom, and Seon-woo's French ex-boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-11-13
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The Accidental Detective 2: In Action
Overview: A comic book storekeeper, Dae-man, and the legendary homicide detective, Tae-su, who met on previous case quit their jobs to open a private detective agency.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-06-13
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Forgotten
Overview: Seoul, South Korea, 1997. When the young but extremely anxious student Jin-seok, his parents and his successful older brother Yoo-seok move to a new home, mysterious and frightening events begin to happen around them, unexplained events that threaten to ruin their seemingly happy lives. Unable to understand what is happening, Jin-seok wonders if he is losing his mind.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-11-29
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Sex Volunteer
Overview: An organization that offers sex to disabled people is discovered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-05-04
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Black Money
Overview: A prosecutor is falsely accused of sexual assault in a suicide note from a woman that he is convinced was actually murdered. As he investigates her death to clear his name, he realizes that the truth lies in a huge financial scandal.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-11-13
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Sorry and Thank You
Overview: An impossibly cute and thoroughly touching omnibus of 4 short fillms about how humans can elevate their own relationships through bonding with animals - featuring some of the cutest puppies and kittens ever on the silver screen!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-05-26
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Silenced
Overview: Based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-09-22
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All About My Wife
Overview: A man asks a womanizer to seduce his wife in order to catalyze a divorce.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-05-17
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Manxin
Overview: An AI fortunetelling service called Manxin boasts a surprisingly high level of accuracy. In a world where most people deify and have blind faith in Manxin, Seonho and Garam, who have their own pain and secrets, search for its developer. Contrary to their expectations, they discover the true nature of Manxin. Manxin questions life and the essence of humankind through people who are, ironically, obsessed with the black arts rather than science, and others, who refuse the given path, anxiously seek the truth in a time of advanced AI, which accurately predicts the future to a large extent. Although we don’t know where our time is leading, isn’t it possible for human beings to live out their given time in blissful ignorance?
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-07-10
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The Whistleblower
Overview: Lee Jang-hwan receives widespread acclaim and media attention after successfully cloning human embryo stem cells. A TV news program PD, Yoon Min-cheol, receives a phone call from an anonymous source who says he has worked with Dr. Lee on the stem cell project. The source blows the whistle on Lee's work, revealing how Lee fabricated research results and engaged in unethical practices.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-10-02
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Hard Hit
Overview: On his way to work, a bank manager receives an anonymous call claiming there's a bomb under his car seat, and if anyone exits the car, it will explode unless he can pay a ransom.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-06-23
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Keomisyeon
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2025-04-16
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The Old Woman with the Knife
Overview: Aging assassin Hornclaw has seen it all, but she never expected to mentor a reckless rookie like Bullfight. As their unlikely bond deepens, cracks form in the underworld they navigate together. When Hornclaw discovers someone wants her dead, she's thrust into a deadly game of deception. With enemies closing in and trust in short supply, survival means staying sharp—both blade and mind.
Genres: Action Mystery Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2025-04-30
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