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1. Train to Busan (2016)
Director: Yeon Sang-ho
On the train from Seoul to Busan, people battle for survival as a zombie epidemic spreads throughout South Korea. They are boarding the KTX, a quick train that will take them from Seoul to Busan, driven by Sok-woo, a father with little time for his daughter, Soo-ahn. But while they travel, the zombie apocalypse breaks out, turning most people on Earth into flesh-eating zombies. The passengers battle for their families and live against the undead — and each other — as the KTX hurtles toward Busan.
2. Forgotten (2017)
Director: Jang Hang-jun
Jin-Seok searches for the facts behind his brother’s disappearance when the man who kidnapped him appears to have changed and does not recall the previous 19 days. The family of 21-year-old Jin-seok, his parents, and older brother Yoo-seok relocate to a new home. Jin-seok thinks something is wrong in their new house. He sees Yoo-Seok being taken hostage and hauled into a car one stormy night. Yoo Seok unexpectedly returns home after being gone for nineteen days but has no memory of his disappearance. On the other hand, Jin Seok begins to notice specific changes in his older brother.
3. The Wailing (2016)
Director: Na Hong-jin
Policeman Jong-Goo in South Korea’s little community of Goksung looks into strange deaths that may be linked to an unexplained illness. His companion transmits rumors that the disease is the result of an evil spirit inhabiting the body of a Japanese stranger who resides in a remote home in the highlands. Jong-Goo decides to visit the stranger with his companion and a young priest who speaks Japanese. They discover a goat head shrine, images of the dead infected people on the walls, and an attacking guard dog that prevents them from leaving until the stranger shows up. In the stranger’s home, Jong-Goo discovers one of his beloved daughter Hyo-jin’s shoes, and she soon falls ill. In the meantime, a mystery woman informs Jong-Goo that the stranger is to blame as his mother-in-law invites the shaman Il-Kwang to save her granddaughter.
4. Unlocked (2023)
Director: Kim Tae-joon
Lee Na-Mi is marketing for a youthful business. She is a typical office worker who puts in a lot of effort daily. She also has a part-time job at Cafe Mizi, her father’s restaurant. One day, Lee Na-Mi drops her phone on the bus and someone finds it. Oh, Jun-Yeong instructs Na-mi to pick up her phone at a repair shop when she calls using a friend’s phone, using fake voice software so his voice won’t be recognized. She does this to give him access to her password, and he installs spyware on her phone while pretending to fix her cracked phone screen.
5. Parasite (2019)
Director: Bong Joon-ho
The unmotivated patriarch Ki-taek and his equally unambitious family—his supportive wife Chung-sook; his cynical 20-something daughter Ki-jung; and his college-age son Ki-woo—occupy themselves by working for pennies in their filthy basement-level apartment. They are unemployed, penniless, and most importantly, hopeless. Then, by pure chance, a successful commercial venture will open the door for a cunningly cunning ploy as Ki-woo musters the confidence to pretend to be an English tutor for the wealthy Park family’s adolescent daughter. The groundwork appears to be in place for an ongoing winner-take-all class conflict.
6. Psychokinesis (2018)
Director: Yeon Sang-ho
A bank security guard who obtains telekinetic superpowers after consuming spring water from a mountain must use them as a superhero to protect his estranged daughter from a bad construction business. One day after drinking water from a mountain spring that had been damaged by a meteor, Seok-heon, a bank security guard, develops superpowers. He then uses his freshly acquired ability, the power of psychokinesis, to defend his estranged daughter Roo-mi and her neighborhood from a construction business run by the mafia, and in the process turns into a superhero.
7. Midnight (2021)
Director: Kwon Oh-seung
A dangerous encounter between a psychotic executioner and a deaf woman Kyeong-mi, a young woman with hearing loss, lives with her mother. She stomps out of an unpleasant dinner with the customer one day while working at the client call focus and drives home after picking up her mother. The murderer Do-sik then notices Kyeong-mi’s mother waiting for her daughter as she exits her car, but he adjusts his plan of attack as another young woman, So-Jung, walks by while on the phone. Kyeong-mi finds So-Jung when Do-sik betrays him in the back alley, and So-Jung ends up being Do-sik’s new victim.
8. I Saw the Devil (2010)
Director: Kim Jee-woon
A deadly sociopath and serial killer, Jang Kyung-Chul. His victims have included young women and even toddlers in his diabolical serial killings, which have been carried out in ways that are beyond comprehension. He has been sought after by the police for a while, but they have failed to apprehend him. Joo-yeon, the daughter of a retired police chief, eventually falls victim to him and is discovered dead in a horrifying state. Top secret agent Soo-hyun, her fiancé, resolves to find the perpetrator on his own. He commits himself that he will use every means at his disposal to exact bloody vengeance on the murderer, even if it means turning into a monster himself to catch this heartless and horrific killer.
9. The Villainess (2017)
Director: Jeong Byeong-gil
This chic, quick action-thriller has a bloody vengeance plot at its core, adding a welcome rush of adrenaline to the traditional femme fatale tale. Assassin Sook-hee is recruited as a sleeper agent with the promise of freedom after 10 years of service – and she jumps at the chance for regular life. She was trained from childhood into a cruel killing machine by a criminal organization. However, her hard work is soon undone by secrets from her background, and no one can stop her as she goes on a raging spree of retaliation.
10. The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (2019)
Director: Won-Tae Lee
To find a serial killer, a cop, and a crime leader work together. When a man gets out of his car to take pictures of the damage to file an auto insurance claim, a stranger hits him, killing him. Honest police officer Jung Tae-suk examines the crime scene and believes it was committed by a serial killer, but his superior does not share his suspicions.
11. Be With You (2018)
Director: Lee Jang-hoon
After passing away and leaving her husband and little son behind, a woman comes back to life without any memories during the rainy season. When the rainy season ends, the three are reunited and are once more content. Before she died away, Soo-ah made the impossible promise to her husband Woo-jin that she would return at the start of the rainy season the following year. She somehow maintains her word and emerges in front of her husband and son, but she is completely forgetful. Unfortunately, the joy of their reunion is fleeting because Soo-ah must depart from her family after the rainy season.
12. Pandora (2016)
Director: Park Jung-woo
A nuclear power plant explosion brought on by an earthquake results in a catastrophe that only the workers there can stop from getting worse. In a small Korean town, Jae-Hyeok resides with his mother, sister-in-law, and nephew Min-Jae. While working at the nearby nuclear power plant, he is dating Yeon-Joo. Pyung-Sub is employed at the same nuclear power facility in the meantime. He is concerned about the situation there, but no one in the administration pays him any attention. Jae-Hyeok’s hometown is struck by an earthquake, which results in explosions at the nuclear power station. The issue swiftly gets out of hand and causes terror throughout the whole country. Jae-Hyeok and his coworkers head back to the nuclear power plant to avert another nuclear catastrophe.
13. The Call (2020)
Director: Lee Chung-hyeon
Kim Seo-yeon, 28, loses her phone in 2019 while traveling to see her ailing, estranged mother in a distant area. When she gets to her dilapidated childhood house, she discovers a decades-old cordless phone and uses it to answer calls from a terrified woman who claims her mother is torturing her. Seo-yeon discovers after inspecting the home that Oh Young-sook, the caller, is indeed residing in the same home from 1999. Through the phone, the two can exchange information about their lives and interact across time. Seo-yeon lost her father in a fire that she holds her mother, Eun-ae, responsible for, while Young-sook is orphaned and lives with her adoptive mother, a shaman.
14. The Handmaiden (2016)
Director: Park Chan-wook
Japan’s dominance over Korea in the 1930s. The fragile Japanese heiress Lady Hideko is a depressed bird in a gold cage since she is destined to marry her dictatorial uncle. But Count Fujiwara, a cunning man with a perfect scheme to claim the lady’s wealth, has already noticed the defenseless aristocrat. The shady lord then appoints a cunning young thief to serve as the new housekeeper. The count can then use this opportunity to convince the dejected dame to wed him instead and carry out a more evil scheme. They can’t compete with the raven-haired woman’s unmatched beauty, though.
15. Love and Leashes (2022)
Director: Hyeon-jin Park
A PR agency’s newest employee is Ji-Hoo. Everyone in the office admires him for his good looks, intelligence, and charity, including an aloof but stunning woman named Ji-Woo who secretly has a crush on him. Even Mr. Hwang, the grumpy department manager, refers to him as “Mr. Perfect.” However, first impressions can be deceiving, and via a somewhat implausible error in judgment, Ji-Hoo unintentionally reveals his actual nature to JI-Woo. He confesses to her out of embarrassment that he is a psychotic mess with severe self-esteem issues, and that his deepest ambition is to be bossed around and verbally degraded by the lady of his dreams.
16. Thirst (2009)
Director: Park Chan-wook
A priest is forced to give up his ascetic ways after contracting vampirism as a result of a botched medical experiment. Sang-hyun, a priest employed by a hospital, selflessly donates his time to a covert operation to create a vaccine to combat a fatal illness. However, the priest finally becomes infected by the virus. He almost passes away, but thanks to an unintentional infusion of vampire blood, he miraculously survives. He understands that the pleasures of the flesh are all he has to live for.
17. 20th Century Girl (2022)
Director: Bang Woo-ri
A sweet teenager starts closely monitoring a popular classmate as a favor for her besotted best friend. follows a high school student’s initial relationships and friendships. Bo-Ra is a high school student who is 17 years old. She excels at taekwondo and exudes positivity and brightness. She participates in her school’s broadcasting club as well. In the same broadcasting club as Woon-Ho. Yeon-Du, who attends the same school as Bo-Ra, is their closest buddy. Yeon-Du is smitten with Hyun-Jin. She asks Bo-Ra to learn everything there is to know about Hyun-Jin and travels to the United States for heart surgery. After that, Bo-Ra starts to pay special attention to Hyun-Jin and she starts to fall in love with him.
18. Space Sweepers (2021)
Director: Jo Sung-hee
Earth has almost become uninhabitable in 2092. Only a select few are allowed to ascend and become UTS citizens, leaving the majority of mankind on Earth to breathe in contaminated air and struggle to feed their families as the UTS Corporation constructs a new orbiting home for humanity that replicates the natural processes on Earth. The company is attempting to make Mars a new Earth by cultivating genetically modified plants there and making the planet a hospitable environment for humans under the direction of UTS founder and CEO James Sullivan.
19. Peninsula (2020)
Director: Yeon Sang-ho
Four long years have passed since the tragic events of Train to Busan (2016), and South Korea is now completely overrun by a vicious zombie pandemic. Now, on the remains of the destroyed city of Incheon, the remorseful former Marine Captain, Jung-Seok, sets out on a suicide mission with three other equally irrational fortune hunters to find a truck carrying suitcases stuffed with $20 million in cash. Numerous hungry living dead are on the hunt for human flesh in the never-ending urban wasteland of trash and death, and as if that weren’t bad enough, lethal mercenaries from the evil Sergeant Hwang’s Unit 631 prowl the shadowy metropolis.
20. Bad Guy (2001)
Director: Kim Ki-duk
A brazen young man in Seoul’s bustling downtown spots a young college student sitting on a seat. After giving her a long look, he sits next to her. She stands up and moves to another bench after giving him a repulsive look. He sat there gazing. When her lover shows up, she gestures toward the outsider, and he shrugs before putting an arm around her and leaving. The stranger, who is also getting ready to leave, stops, turns, walks over to them, grabs her face firmly in his hands, and gives her a passionate kiss. After the boyfriend fails to separate them, soldiers beat the stranger. She demands an explanation. He keeps quiet. She spits on him and slaps him. They go away. He decides to ruin her the following day.
21. A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
Director: Kim Jee-woon
Su-mi, a teenage girl, is receiving treatment at a mental facility for shock and psychosis. With her father and her younger sister Su-yeon, whom she is protective of, she is freed and goes back to her family’s remote estate in the countryside. With their stepmother Eun-joo, who is continuously on medication, the sisters had a chilly reunion. Due to their sexless marriage, Eun-joo and her husband also have a hard connection.
22. The Host (2006)
Director: Bong Joon-ho
The Han River in Seoul is invaded by a monster that starts attacking people. A victim’s caring family makes every effort to free her from its hold. Under the direct command of a haughty U.S. Army coroner, a military base in Yongson, South Korea, pours poisonous chemicals into the drain that leads to the Han River. A mutated squid monster emerges from the water six years later and begins to assault people by the river’s edge.
23. Oldboy (2003)
Director: Park Chan-wook
Oh Dae-Su, a loud drinker who was kidnapped on a rainy night in 1988, awakens in an odd hotel room with no windows. Oh, Dae-Su is kept under lock and key for an unidentified cause, and his invisible captors only provide him with a color television to watch while feeding and routinely drugged him to prevent suicide. And then, puzzled Oh Dae-Su is freed after spending a torturous fifteen years in captivity. Oh, Dae-Su is now encouraged by his merciless kidnappers to find those responsible for the enigmatical kidnapping and exact his savage, long-awaited retribution on the tormentor. But who would deprive Oh Dae-Su of a quick and painless demise if they hated him so much?
24. High Society (2018)
Director: Hyuk Byun
The public views Jang, an economics professor at the National University of Seoul who is well-liked and regarded by his students, as a hero after he intervenes to save a man on fire and during a TV debate. As a result of their success, he decides to enter politics, take part in parliamentary elections, and direct the establishment of a social bank. His wife Oh Soo-yeon, the deputy director of the Gallery of Contemporary Art, makes every effort to replace her female boss in the meanwhile. She has an affair with well-known photographer Shin Ji-ho as a result of pleading with him to collaborate with them on an exhibition.
25. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring (2003)
Director: Kim Ki-duk
In a remote floating temple where the years move like the seasons, a Buddhist monk raises a little kid. A Buddhist teacher carefully educates a little kid to develop wisdom and compassion through experience and unending practice in the middle of the Korean forest. Once the student recognizes his sexual lust, he initially appears to have given up on contemplative life and pursues his first love, but he soon finds it difficult to adapt to modern society, ends up in jail for a crime of passion, and then returns to the teacher in search of spiritual atonement and karma reconciliation at a high cost to physical catharsis.
26. The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure (2022)
Director: Jeong-hoon Kim
Pirates and robbers brave the choppy seas during the Joseon era in an effort to uncover the lost royal riches before their competitors do. The story of the movie follows the exploits of a group of pirates as they scour the sea for lost royal jewels. A group of pirates set off in search of undiscovered treasure after being seduced by the promise of success and wealth. However, when the elements turn against them and the distinction between fact and folklore blurs, they quickly come to the conclusion that certain quests are better left unfinished.
27. On Your Wedding Day (2018)
Director: Lee Sukgeun
A man gets a wedding invitation from his high school sweetheart, his first love. He remembers all the struggles he had to go through to meet her over the years, starting in his adolescence, and how their relationship had its ups and downs. Finally, he attends her wedding and expresses his gratitude to her for being his shining star as well as for his assistance when she was in need. He then leaves the celebration of her wedding.
28. The Housemaid (2010)
Director: Im Sang-soo
A middle-aged divorcee named Eun-yi is employed as a housemaid for a wealthy household. However, the master of the house Hoon quickly exploits his social standing by sliding into her bed linens. Hoon starts to visit more frequently, and an elderly housekeeper named Byung-sik tells Hae-ra’s mother, Mi-hee, about the affair. Mi-hee then devises a plan to give Hae-ra authority over her husband. Eun-yi soon experiences a miraculous pregnancy and decides to keep the child. When the family learns of this, Mi-hee forces her to have an abortion despite Eun-yi’s pleas for her to be allowed to keep the child and leave the house. Hoon criticizes Mi-hee for aborting his child, even if the child was produced illegitimately, which causes her plan to fail.
29. Alive (2020)
Director: Il Cho
People in Seoul’s streets suddenly became exceedingly violent and cannibalistic, assaulting bystanders and acting like zombies. A young man watching this alone in his parent’s apartment on the fourth floor. There are no longer any foodstuffs in the flat. When he carelessly opens the door, the neighbor barges in. Despite being afflicted, he is eventually ejected. He learns through TV that the infection is spreading across the country. The phone and internet stop working as the days go by, followed by the water running out. He notices a cute girl in the flat next to him after all hope has been lost.
30. A Taxi Driver (2017)
Director: Jang Hoon
Kim Man-Seob, a cab driver in Seoul, South Korea, tries to support himself and his daughter while working to make ends meet. He requires cash to cover his rent. Kim Man-Seob overhears a foreigner promising to pay a large sum of money to be taken to Gwangju in a restaurant. Kim Man-Seob’s rent would be covered by the drive. In a hurry, he leaves the eatery to fetch the foreigner. Soon, Peter and Kim Man-Seob depart Seoul for Gwangju. They are unaware of what is occurring there or the innumerable lives that are currently being lost.
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31. Burning (2018)
Director: Lee Chang-dong
A girl who used to live in the same neighborhood as Jong-su asks him to watch over her cat while she travels to Africa when they cross paths. When she gets home, she presents Ben, a mysterious man she met there who reveals his hidden interest. When deliveryman Jongsu stumbles into Haemi, a girl who formerly lived in his neighborhood, he is outperforming his duties. She asks if he wouldn’t mind taking care of her cat while she travels to Africa. She presents an enigmatic young man named Ben to Jongsu upon her return who she met while traveling. Ben reveals his strangest passion to Jongsu one day.
32. Sweet & Sour (2021)
Director: Lee Gae-byok
A couple experiences the highs and lows of trying to maintain a long-distance relationship while dealing with opportunities and problems found in real-world situations. Bo Young is a woman that Jang Hyuk meets in a new setting. He wants to have both work and love with his lover Da Eun. It is a novel romantic comedy that centers on the complex connections between three people who are going through various emotions.
33. Okja (2017)
Director: Bong Joon-ho
Mi-Ja, a young girl, resides in the mountain. Okja, a large animal with a timid and reflective personality, is her best companion. Okja disappears one day. Mi-Ja has trouble locating Okja. Young Mija has been Okja’s carer and constant companion at her home in the South Korean mountains for ten blissful years. Okja is a large animal and an even greater buddy. However, that all changes when Okja is taken by family-owned, international company Mirando Corporation and sent to New York, where a CEO with huge plans for Mija’s best friend has an image-obsessed and self-promotional CEO. Mija embarks on a rescue operation with no specific plan in mind but with a single-minded goal.
34. The Beauty Inside (2015)
Director: Baik
Every morning, Woo-jin wakes up in a different body, regardless of his or her age, gender, or nationality. He may occasionally be a lady, a man, a child, an adult, or even an alien. On the inside, he remains the same, yet on the outer, he constantly changes. He finds it difficult to adjust to seeing a different face every morning in the mirror. The only consistency in his life is Yi-soo, the girl he loves, who is aware of his secret yet still cares for him. Every time he changes, Woo-jin has to figure out a way to get back together with Yi-soo.
35. Silenced (2011)
Director: Hwang Dong-hyuk
Gang In-ho is hired to teach in a hearing-impaired school in Gwangju while trying to get money for his daughter’s operation. But what he finds there is an unpleasant truth: the kids’ teachers are abusing them physically and sexually. In-ho joins forces with human rights activist Seo Yu-jin after he decides to defend the rights of children and bring attention to the crimes occurring at the school. But he and Yu-jin quickly conclude that the school’s headmaster and instructors, as well as the local police, district attorneys, and churches, are attempting to hide the truth.
36. Tune in for Love (2019)
Director: Jung Ji-woo
The love story of the diligent Mi Soo and the upbeat Hyun Woo, who happen to meet by coincidence. Despite the young couple’s paths frequently intersecting, it never seems as though the timing is in their favor. College student Mi Soo meets Hyun Woo, who just so happens to stop by the bakery she works at, on the first day Yoo Yeol began hosting the popular radio show “Music Album” in 1994. Even while they are away, the program brings them together through ebbs and flows of events resulting from both pure coincidence and inevitability, until the cruel truth drives them apart. They slowly come into rhythm with one another, similar to the music flowing from the radio.
37. 3-Iron (2004)
Director: Kim Ki-duk
A wandering young man breaks into vacant residences and temporarily resides as the residents are on vacation. Tae-suk, a lonely drifter, spends his nights in several abandoned vacation homes. Tae-suk, however, is not your typical squatter since the polite young guy always makes care to express his gratitude to his absent — and unaware — hosts by performing little domestic chores or making easy renovations before moving on. One day, Tae-suk misinterprets a silent house as being unoccupied and discovers a battered housewife who desperately needs his help.
38. Little Forest (2018)
Director: Yim Soon-rye
A young woman who has grown weary of metropolitan life goes back to her rural homeland. After failing an exam, a young woman returns from the city to her rural Korean hamlet. When she returns, her mother has already left the house with someone, leaving her with little choice but to remain by herself in the home. She is accompanied by two pals to help her feel comfortable. She utilizes the “Little Forest” garden that her mother has. She subsequently discovers her mother’s culinary technique, and she begins residing there year-round while harvesting the Little Forest.
39. Kill Boksoon (2023)
Director: Byun Sung-hyun
It is challenging for a single mother who is a well-known hired killer to maintain a balance between her personal and professional lives. Kill Bok Soon, a single mother is among the most lethal assassins in the world because of her perfect record of contract killing executions. Bok Soon works for M.K Ent, which is managed by Cha Min Kyo, the person who educated her. Although they respect one another, Kill Bok Soon is aware that anything might be taken from her at a moment’s notice. Loyalties are put to the test when Bok Soon is embroiled in a kill-or-be-killed situation right before Kill Bok Soon was scheduled to extend her contract.
40. Broker (2022)
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
A young mother comes into a scam that sells foundlings for adoption when she thinks twice about leaving her child behind. By kidnapping infants left in the church’s baby box and placing them up for adoption, Sang-Hyun and Dong-soo make considerable money. Mother So-young learns about the two guys and their unlawful activity when she decides to reconsider leaving her infant behind. She decides to assist in locating suitable parents for her child after being overcome with sentiments of mother love and sadness. Detectives Su-jin and Lee are pursuing them in the meantime.
41. Peppermint Candy (1999)
Director: Lee Chang-dong
After a man commits suicide, time travels back to disclose six chapters of his life that explain why he did it. Young Ho is a middle-aged man who is depressed. He becomes more hostile during the meeting with his old friends before rushing to the railway to take his life. We follow the train backward, watching the six chapters of his life that lead up to his suicide while he sobs in sorrow.
42. Decision to Leave (2022)
Director: Park Chan-wook
Hae-Jun, a detective who struggles with sleep, lives in Ipo with his wife Jung-An, a nuclear power plant employee, and only sees her once a week. In one of their cases, Hae-Jun and his partner Soo-Wan investigate the death of Ki Do Soo, a retired immigration worker, who was discovered at the base of a mountain he frequently climbed. They speak with his considerably younger wife, Seo-Rae, a Chinese immigrant who looks after elderly people. They suspect her because she doesn’t show enough grief, has a cut on her hand, and bruises all over her body, and has a tattoo of Ki’s initials that matches the way he marked his other items.
43. Extreme Job (2019)
Director: Lee Byeong-heon
A deliciously unexpected turn is made in a police undercover operation. To track down an organized crime ring, a group of narcotics investigators poses as customers at a fried chicken restaurant. But things take a surprising turn when the detectives’ chicken recipe makes the dilapidated restaurant become the town’s hottest restaurant all of a sudden.
44. Right Now, Wrong Then (2015)
Director: Hong Sang-soo
A movie director shows up there a day early. Before his lecture the following day, he visits a recently restored historic palace where he runs into a budding artist. She is aware of his fame even though she hasn’t seen any of his flicks. They converse. Together, they visit her studio to view her artwork and enjoy sushi and soju. The conversation continues, beers are consumed, and finally, there is an awkward gathering with friends where various secrets are shared. They might or might not be falling in love throughout this time. Unexpectedly, we then start over, but this time, things seem a little different.
45. Lady Vengeance (2005)
Director: Park Chan-wook
After spending 13 years in prison for kidnapping and killing a small boy, Lee Geum-Ja is now free. She will be met by a small gathering that includes a preacher. The pastor presents her with the customary tofu as a representation of her transformed life, but Lee Geum-Ja dismisses it and leaves. She can leave the facades aside and get to work now that she has her freedom. Lee Geum-Ja is seeking retribution from Mr. Paek since he falsely accused her and destroyed her life. Visiting past inmates she formed a connection with in jail, Lee Geum-Ja starts her mission by enlisting their assistance. She is hired by a bakery as well. Additionally, Geum-Ja and Jenny, her adopted daughter, are reunited.
46. Time to Hunt (2020)
Director: Yoon Sung-Hyun
Korea will have a financial catastrophe soon, and slums will spread. With his family-like companions Jang Ho, Ki Hoon, and Sang-Soo, Jun Seok, who was recently released from prison, prepares a risky operation for a new life from those locations in a bleak city. The hopes for the future are short-lived, though, as an unknown pursuer soon appears and starts pursuing them to take their life.
47. The Man from Nowhere (2010)
Director: Lee Jeong-beom
One neighboring youngster named So-mi serves as CHA Tae-shik’s sole point of contact with the outside world. Tae-shik is an ex-special agent. Without telling Tae-shik, her mother Hyo-Jeong smuggles drugs from a drug trafficking organization and gives them to him. After learning about her smuggling, the traffickers kidnap Hyo-Jeong and So-mi. The gang offers to free them in exchange for Tae-shik making a delivery, but in reality, the plan is to kill a rival drug ring boss. Tae-Shik realizes that So-mi’s life may be in jeopardy after Hyo-jeon’s dismembered body is found. The possibility that So-mi may already be dead infuriates Tae-shik, who then gets ready for a fight and risks his own life.
48. Seoul Vibe (2022)
Director: Moon Hyeon Seong
On the day of the 1988 Seoul Olympics opening ceremony, the drivers of the Sanggye-dong Supreme Team became entangled in the slush money probe of a prominent figure. The drivers of the Sanggye Supreme Team become involved in a VIP slush money inquiry in 1988. The Sanggye Supreme Team participates in a car chase in the city on the day of the Seoul Summer Olympics opening ceremony. Under the turmoil of everything going on in the city, illegal money is moved around. To pursue the money, drivers are hired.
49. Mother (2009)
Director: Bong Joon-ho
Hye-ja, a mother who was once widowed, shares a home with her only child, Do-jun. Even though Do-jun is 28 years old, he has a far lower mental ability than someone his age, which may account for many of his odd personality traits. One late night, Do-jun stumbles out of a bar and wanders home. He follows a schoolgirl down an alley on the way home before being chased away by a large rock hurled in his direction. Do-jun always snoozes on the floor close to his mother when he gets home.
50. Hope (2013)
Director: Lee Joon-ik
Little So-Won travels to her nearby school on a rainy morning from her home. Her mother owns a little neighborhood stationery business below their house, while her father works at a nearby factory. So-Won was scheduled to walk to school with her companion, but he abandoned her in favor of his male friends’ group. So-Won is late getting to school. A heartbreaking phone call from the police is received by So-Won’s father Dong-Hoon hours later. So-Won is currently being treated in a hospital following a severe sexual assault.
51. Always (2011)
Director: Song Il-gon
A love story centered on blind telemarketer Jung-hwa and former boxer Chul-min. Ex-boxer Chul-min and telemarketer Jung-hwa are the main characters of this love story. She is still lively despite gradually losing her vision whereas he has shut his heart off to the outside world. When their pasts are revealed through their blossoming romance, their fates become intertwined.
52. The Battleship Island (2017)
Director: Ryoo Seung-wan
Koreans forced to work as coal miners on Battleship Island during the Japanese colonial era make a daring escape. 400 Koreans are forced into hard labor in a large coal mine on the small island of Hashima off the coast of Japan as World War II draws to a close. Tensions are high between the Koreans from all walks of life who were coerced or duped into going there and the Japanese soldiers who uphold order with appalling brutality and cruelty. The Koreans then devise a daring escape plan as the island’s sinister secrets are revealed.
53. Yaksha: Ruthless Operations (2022)
Director: Na Hyeon
Kang-in, the director of the National Intelligence Service’s abroad department, guides his Black Team with the best operatives in carrying out covert missions as the center of Asia becomes a silent battlefield of spies. Kang-in has a reputation for ruthlessly using any means necessary to achieve his goals, garnering him the moniker “Yaksha,” which means a human-devouring spirit. Ji-hoon shows up as a prosecutor one day to look into Black Team, and even with their naivety, he learns that their true goal is a case that has the potential to rock the entire continent. Soon enough, Kang-in will need to delve deeper into the issue by using all of his sources, including Ji-hoon.
54. My Sassy Girl (2001)
Director: Kwak Jae-yong
At a Seoul metro station, a young man pulls a cute drunk woman back from the edge of the tracks. After that, she frequently gets him into trouble, beginning on the train. based on several real-life accounts that Ho-sik Kim shared online about his relationship with his girlfriend. These later became best-selling books, and the film largely adheres to the book. The encounter between Kyun-woo and the unnamed female is described. The other passengers incorrectly believe the girl to be Kyun-woo’s girlfriend, which shames him for helping the girl. After he assists her, Kyun-woo grows a strong sense of responsibility for her that makes it possible for him to put up with the girl’s maltreatment.
55. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)
Director: Park Chan-wook
Ryu, a deaf employee in Seoul, has a sibling who needs a kidney transplant. Although he tries to give his sister a kidney, their blood types are incompatible. When Ryu is let go from Ilshin Electronics, he encounters illicit organ traders. The criminals suggest that he give them his kidney in exchange for ten million won to get a kidney that will work for his sister. Ryu agrees to the transaction but lacks the funds to pay for the operation. He is persuaded to abduct Yossun, the daughter of Park, the owner of Ilshin Electronics and his former employer, by his anarchist revolutionary girlfriend Cha Young-mi. However, a tragedy occurs, inspiring retaliation and a string of violent crimes.
56. On the Beach at Night Alone (2017)
Director: Hong Sang-soo
An actress considers her romance with a married man as she strolls through a beach town. Actress Younghee decides to take a break following an encounter with a married guy. She journeys to Hamburg, a remote city. She contemplates whether her lover will follow her and whether he misses her as much as she misses him during a talk with a friend. She makes an effort to explain this clandestine relationship with the director during her lengthy strolls through chilly parks and along riverbanks.
57. The Berlin File (2013)
Director: Ryoo Seung-wan
In Berlin, a phantom North Korean agent named Jong-Seong stops an unauthorized transaction of weapons. As Jong-Seong gets ready to make the ultimate sacrifice, a notorious North Korean agent challenges everyone’s allegiance. A financial espionage plot involves the betrayal and escape of a North Korean agent in Berlin. He tries to avoid being purged as his wife, a translator at the North Korean embassy in Berlin, is persistently pursued by North and South Korean spies.
58. Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2013)
Director: Lee Hwan-kyung
A tale of a mentally ill father’s devotion to his adoringly gorgeous daughter. Yong-Goo is imprisoned for murder after being falsely convicted of murder and rape. While in prison, he becomes friends with the hardened criminals in his cell, who in turn enable him to visit his daughter by smuggling her into the facility.
59. The Drug King (2018)
Director: Woo Min-ho
A drug smuggler named Lee Doo-sam built his empire in real life during the 1970s in Busan’s criminal underworld. Lee initially hails from Hwanghae Province and was a member of the Chilsung faction in Busan. He began smuggling diamonds and other things in the early 1970s, later expanding it to include pharmaceuticals for internal distribution and exporting it to Japan as well, building up enormous amounts of riches in the process.
60. Miss Granny (2014)
Director: Hwang Dong-hyuk
74-year-old widow Oh Mal-soon resides with her son and his family. She is foul-mouthed, obstinate, domineering, and shameless, and she struggles to get along with her depressive daughter-in-law Ae-ja. However, she is extremely proud of her son Hyun-Chul, whom she raised on her own against all odds and who went on to become a university professor of gerontology. Ae-ja is taken to the hospital one day after passing out unexpectedly. She is severely advised by her doctors to live separately from Mal-soon. Dismayed Mal-soon walks the streets and discovers a mystery photo studio that purports to capture one’s youth on the day her son informs her that she will be placed in a nursing facility.
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