A sci-fi plot can involve robots, technology, time travel, aliens, or other things. Whatever the setting and cast of characters, sci-fi fiction are always intricate, full of rich detail, etc. Fantasy Science fiction frequently explores innovative and intriguing ideas. And when the plot is a drama or movie plot, the story has to cooperate with other genre elements like drama, romance, action, thrill, etc.
1. W
Oh Yeon Joo is a surgeon whose father mysteriously disappears one day. Yeon Joo is investigating her father's absence when she is kidnapped by a strange man and transported to an alternative universe. The story also centers on Kang Cheol, a talented young shooter. How will the mystery behind the tragedy that happened to their families be solved? More to add to the sci-fi genre, it is a romance, comedy, action, and thriller exploring drama.
2. Dark Hole (2021)
Dark Hole is a 2021 drama. When the murderer of Lee Hwa-Sun's spouse calls her, Hwa-Sun, the widow and the detective of the regional investigation unit of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency leaves for Muji City. There she discovers the darkness spreading within the city, where people become monsters after inhaling a mysterious dark smoke. To save the town and arrest her husband's killer, Hwa Sun teams up with ex-investigator and native Mujishi resident Yoo Tae Han.
3. Signal (2016)
A Criminal profiler Park Hae-young from 2015, with a walkie-talkie, can communicate, transcending time to a detective, Lee Jae-Han, in 1989. Park Hae-young and Lee Jae-Han join hands to investigate a string of interconnected murders that occurred over a three-decade period. Along with helping Jae-Han in other cases, Hae-young resolves other cold cases that had been unsolved for years. But the consequences are yet to be faced by them to change the results of the past.
4. Tunnel
In 1986, at present, Park Gwang-ho, a successful detective, is looking for a dangerous serial killer. While chasing the criminal, he enters a tunnel, and everything changes as he time-travels 30 years into the future to the year 2016. In this future timeline, Gwang meets and teams up with investigator Sun-Jae and criminal psychologist Professor Jae-Yi. The three individuals struggle to solve the unsolved crimes and arrest the culprit from 30 years earlier as the serial killer continues to use his modus operandi/ his methods and principles from murders.
5. Alice (2020)
Alice is a perfect romance and sci-fi mix drama to watch. Rather than reading the story, watching the drama will make you understand the storyline and love it. It is a time-travel story coming and going, back and forth. In 2050, humans can enter another period and a parallel universe with the help of Alice, an organization. But the predictions of the Book of Prophecy cause the investigation about the end of time travel to start. The storyline heads, especially between a detective and a professor who looks just like his mother.
6. Are You Human Too? (2018)
When a well-known brain scientist, an expert in artificial intelligence, and a mother get forced to give up her kid, she builds an android robot that is exactly like her son to deal with the loss and to ease the public's perceptions of her son. When the human kid, Nam Shin, is in a coma after a brutal incident, one of the robots now prepares to take the position of Nam Shin as the heir of their family business until things go messy.
7. I Can Hear Your Voice
After becoming a lawyer/ public defender, Jang Hye-sung meets Park Soo-ha, a senior from her high school with the magical ability to understand others' thoughts by gazing into their eyes. After witnessing the murder of his father ten years earlier, Soo-ha developed the ability to read minds. Together with other members, they investigate his father's murder to discover the truth and other complex cases along the way.
8. My Love From The Star
Do Min-Joon, an alien who arrived on Earth 400 years ago during the Joseon Dynasty, is at the moment of being able to travel back to his home planet within three months. But after meeting a well-known famous actress, Cheon Song-Yi, he decides against doing so but leaves, knowing he can die if he stays. But the story of romance continues ahead, blossoming the sci-fi aspect.
9. I'm Not A Robot
Despite his fame and affluence, Kim Min Gyu prefers to live alone since he is allergic to people, which restricts a young man's ability to engage with others, developing rashes on his body and affecting his breathing. After that, he meets and falls in love with a young businesswoman, Ji-ah. Ji-ah is imitating a robot for her ex-boyfriend, a brilliant professor of robots. Due to their interactions, Min Kyu gradually learns to open up, love, and trust others.
10. My Amazing Boyfriend
Janice plays Tian Jingzhi, a normal human being, and Kim Tae- Hwan as Xue Ling Qiao, a mutant. Xue Ling Qiao is awakened in an accident by Tian. Unfortunately, they now live together in Tian’s house, and fortunately, they fall for each other following romantic feelings. But things about the long-lost past are revealed later, and tables get turned in their way. As it may seem unrealistic, it involves some sci-fi elements.
