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Beyond Mainstream: Hidden Gems & Masterpieces
Beyond the blockbusters and trending pages lie incredible stories that completely flew under the radar.
True masterpieces often left in the shadows. This is a crowd-sourced battlefield to find the greatest hidden Dramas and Shows of all time. We need your taste!
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Si-hyeon Sep 24, 2026
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![He's Expecting]()
Set in a world where the men are the ones who get pregnant. Kentaro Hiyama works at an advertising agency while his romantic partner Aki Seto is a freelance writer and editor. ...more -
![Less Than Evil]()
It is a crime drama about the psychological games between a detective with a strong sense of justice but tormented by the crimes he solves, and a genius woman who is insensitive ...more -
![Yummy Yummy Yummy]()
The story follows the Shen family, who accidentally arrive in Yong'an City and encounter Lin Yan, a royal official. This chance meeting leads them on an extraordinary journey filled with culinary delights, ...more -
![9 End 2 Outs]()
Hong Nan Hee is an ordinary worker at a publishing firm. She's a girl who always falls in and out of love ever since she was young. Nan Hee has a best ...more -
![Jang Ok Jung]()
It tells the story of Jang Hui Bin, one of the most famous royal concubines in the Joseon Dynasty, who was behind the deposition of King Suk Jong’s wife, Queen In Hyeon. ...more -
![Kairos]()
Ae Ri, a struggling part-timer supporting her ailing mother, faces turmoil when her mother foregoes a long-awaited heart transplant and mysteriously disappears. Amid the chaos, Ae Ri receives a call from Seo ...more -
![Land of Broken Hearts]()
Huang Zhen Kai suspects that he is living in a movie. He can't change anything and can only follow the script day after day, becoming a prisoner of life. After moving into ...more -
![Legend of the Magnate]()
In the late Qing Dynasty, a passionate young man named Gu Ping Yuan came from a family of small merchants. He wanted to study and pursue an official career to shine, but ...more -
![A Birth]()
The film deals in depth with the patience and courage of Kim Dae Gun, a young man who had to create his own hope, his willingness to throw his body, and his ...more -
![Learning to Love]()
This is a love story about Ogawa Manami, a 35-year-old high school teacher who grew up in a strict family, and Kaoru, a 23-year-old host who is not good at reading and ...more -
![Romance of a Twin Flower]()
Ji Man is a young woman from Haifang. She is cheerful and has a keen head for business. She is traveling to Beijing to pursue her dreams when she is involved in ...more -
![Mad Doctor]()
It tells a story of a female surgeon who has lost her motivation to exercise surgery for patients. She decides to work in a small hospital in the countryside, running away from ...more -
![Si Jin]()
Jiang Si, reborn after being killed by her lover Yu Jin, is determined to change her fate. She breaks off her engagement, outsmarts her cruel aunt, opens a perfumery, and investigates mysterious ...more -
![Mentalese Express]()
Two reserved strangers form an unspoken mutual crush as they share their daily elevator rides to work, but misunderstanding ensues as they dare not talk to each other. (Source: JH3 Films YouTube) -
![Flower, I Am!]()
A tough female police officer who suffers from depression falls in love with a young multimillionaire whom she initially believed was a parking attendant. Instead of counting her lucky stars, she is ...more -
![My SO Has Got Depression]()
Mikio is a married man and works hard for the company where he is employed. Then one day Mikio is diagnosed with depression. Mikio's wife is Haruko. They have been married for ...more -
![Animals]()
Shikamori Umi is an overwhelmed office worker. Her boss always pushes Umi to the limits saying that she is essential to the company, and makes her not able to get enough sleep ...more -
![Offline Love]()
Young singles spend ten days in a foreign country, relying on fate alone to fall in love. Without any digital devices, will they be able to find the one? (Source: Netflix) -
![Nobuta wo Produce]()
Shuji Kiritani, a popular but reserved student, finds himself able to be his true self around eccentric classmate Akira Kusano. When a new girl, Nobuko Kotani, joins the class and faces severe ...more -
![Long Vacation]()
Sena is a college music graduate who dreams of becoming a professional musician and a world-class pianist. Unfortunately, he has not been able to find any breakthrough opportunities and has to settle ...more -
![Parallel World]()
A beautiful melon seller, Ye Liu Xi, and a shadow puppet performer, Chang Dong, join forces to venture deep into the desert. One seeks to unravel the mystery of her origins, while ...more -
![Remember]()
A man in his 80s lost everything, because of someone during the Japanese occupation of Korea era. The old man decides to take revenge on the person who caused his pain. A ...more -
![See Hear Love: Mienakute mo Kikoenakute mo Aishiteru]()
123. See Hear Love: Mienakute mo Kikoenakute mo Aishiteru
Japanese Movie - 202377 points by 1 votersIt depicts the sad but warm love story between a manga artist who is suffering from a disease that makes him lose his sight and a woman who is hearing impaired. (Source: ...more -
![Shijukara]()
Watanuki Shinobu has been a manga artist for the past 20 years. Despite being married and having a son, Shinobu lives her life unsatisfactorily. When Shinobu was about to give up her ...more -
![Special Delivery]()
It's about the unexpected events that unfold when Eun Ha, a driver with a 100% success rate at delivering anything worth money, puts a child in her car. (Source: HanCinema) -
![Warm on a Cold Night]()
Su Jiu Er is a young, talented, and personable female constable with a keen investigatory mind. She hails from the Qian Kingdom, meaning she is in possession of a rabbit-like spirit – ...more -
![Les Belles]()
Luo Ling Yu, a fallen noblewoman, travels to Jianye with her sister to seek refuge. On the way, she rescues a destitute man, Lu Yun, but later forces him to jump overboard ...more -
![The Matchmakers]()
Sim Jung Woo is an intelligent and handsome young man. He was the youngest to place first in the state examination, but he was picked to become the princess' husband. During their ...more -
![The Legend of Zhuohua]()
Mu Zhuo Hua, an illegitimate woman, defies traditional roles by escaping her wedding and seeking a position as a female official. Along her journey, she meets Liu Yan, a battle-hardened general determined ...more -
![Gaus Electronics]()
Stress is no stranger to the members of Marketing Team 3 of the home appliance department at the Gaus Electronics HQ. The firm is a busy, multinational company, but this is a ...more -
![The Mutations]()
The story is set during the late Ming Dynasty when a mysterious epidemic breaks out. It follows the thrilling journey of Chu Sijing, a member of the secret service, as he navigates ...more -
![The Old Woman with the Knife]()
Hornclaw is a legendary assassin in her sixties who specialises in eliminating the scum of the earth. Her mundane but bloody life takes an unexpected turn when she meets Bullfight, a promising ...more -
![The Ordinary Jackpot]()
Things rarely change, but everything began to change. Eun Tae, who has been working as an ordinary employee, is burnt out from everything that happens to him. Everything from work to relationships ...more -
![The Other Half of Me and You]()
An underground laboratory accident has caused a distortion in time and space, thus transporting the brainwaves of pilot Gao Zi Rui into a parallel world where everything defies the logic that he ...more -
![Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In]()
In the 1980s, troubled youth Chan Lok Kwun accidentally enters the Walled City, discovers the order amidst its chaos, and learns important life lessons along the way. In the Walled City, he ...more -
![Yume de Mita Ano Ko no Tame ni]()
13 years ago, Nakajou Senri's parents were brutally murdered and his older twin brother Kazuto was taken away by a man with a ‘fire’ scar on his arm. Since then, Senri has ...more -
![A Writer's Odyssey]()
Desperate to find his missing daughter, a father agrees to help a mysterious woman assassinate a novelist. At the same time, the young hero in the book’s alternate universe has also put ...more -
![Cliff Walkers]()
Set in the puppet state of Manchukuo in the 1930s, the film follows four Communist party special agents who return to China after receiving training in the Soviet Union. Together, they embark ...more
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