Kundo: Age of the Rampant (2014), The Handmaiden (2016), Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003), I Saw the Devil (2010), New World (2013), Lady Vengeance (2005), Assassins (2020), The Wailing (2016) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Korea movies.
Storyline: During an evacuation in the waning days of the Korean War, three American soldiers retrieve an enemy airman and take him prisoner aboard the civilian ship returning them to their lines. When an order comes down from their superiors to kill the prisoner, the sergeant in charge, Briscoe, orders his men, Dennison and Hackett, to carry out the execution. But first one and then the other refuse to follow the order. A tense stand-off ensues between the seemingly heartless sergeant and his conscience-stricken men.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: sergeant, private, prisoner of war, enemy, soldier, gripping, passionate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An NYPD cop is 'killed' in an accident. The death is faked, and he is inducted into the organization CURE, dedicated to preserving the constitution by working outside of it. Remo is to become the enforcement wing (assassin) of CURE, and learns an ancient Korean martial art from Chiun, the Master of Sinanju. Based on the popular pulp series "The Destroyer," by Richard Sapir and Warren Murphy.
Plot Keywords: assassin, mentor, villain, police officer, beautiful woman, amusing, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: U.S. entertainer Eddie Sparks wants to bring some fun to the soldiers during World War II and contacts singer/dancer Dixie Leonard for help. They become the perfect team and tour from North Africa to the Pacific to perform for "the boys." They continue their work after the war, but when Eddie fires author Silver for getting involved in McCarthy's campaign, Dixie also turns away from him.—Volker Boehm
Plot Keywords: performer, entertainer, writer, soldier, husband, uncle, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During the Korean War, the lieutenant in charge of a Marine rifle platoon is killed in battle. Before he dies, he places the platoon's sergeant, who's black, in charge. The sergeant figures on having trouble with two men in his platoon: a private who has much more combat experience than he does, and a racist Southerner who doesn't like blacks in the first place and has no intention of taking orders from one.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: marine, sergeant, lieutenant, private, soldier, emotional, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During the Korean War Sergeant Paul Ryker is accused of defecting to Communist China and then returning to his unit as a spy. He's court-martialed and sentenced to death but his attorney believes in Ryker's innocence and pleads for a new trial.—nufs68
Plot Keywords: war hero, army officer, sergeant, captain, wife, prosecutor, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story of Jangsari Landing Operation, 772 student soldiers - whose average age was 17 and who received just 2 weeks of boot camp training - were tossed into Korean War effort in order to pave the way for Incheon Landing Operation, which turned the tide of war.—AnonymusB
Plot Keywords: soldier, war correspondent, army commander, army recruit, bleak, engaging, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During the Korean War Lt. Sam Pryor volunteers his platoon to escort Greek troops to perform a reconnaissance mission behind Communist lines. Due to his Greek heritage Pryor is initially proud to accompany the Greek contingent but his feelings change to scorn and mistrust when what he believes is cowardice shown by the Greek soldiers and their leaders results in the near annihiliation of his own platoon. An uneasy alliance is maintained between the US and Greek troops as the enemy's true objective is learned.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>
Plot Keywords: lieutenant, soldier, corporal, army officer, patriotic, tense, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In New Orleans, prizefighter Socks Barbarrosa suddenly runs out of the ring before his title bout, and swears he'll never fight again. He gives no reason for his strange actions. His girl friend Angela sticks by him, but her father, a blind man known as "The Judge" brands him a coward and refuses to let his daughter marry him. Socks joins the army, goes to Korea, and comes back a war hero. Everybody loves him again, except for the Judge. A secret in Sock's past is revealed as the explanation for his quitting the ring, and is also the key to his redemption in the eyes of the Judge.—John Oswalt <jao@jao.com>
Plot Keywords: boxer, girlfriend, father, war hero, dancer, blind person, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Group Commander Dan Collier, on an aircraft carrier in Korean waters during the Korean War, starts to think back to the rough days of the air-war against Japan during World War II, when he was in the same squadron. In flashbacks, he recalls the arrival of the squadron, led by Executive Officer Joe Rodgers, and the campaigns in which the squadron participated and its desperate fight for survival prior to the climax of the war.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: skipper, naval officer, commander, gutsy, engaging, gripping, patriotic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: U.S Air Force Sgt. Chuck Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. He first met him in Korea, where his emergency arrival for repairs while enroute for what Chuck thought was the colonels "hot date" in Tokyo, caused the death of several of his crewmen. Now several years later when Chuck, while still in the Air Force, is now weighing continued enlistment or retirement, the base's new C.O. is none other than Col. Herlihy. Compounding his dislike is a budding romance with Chuck's daughter, Lois.—Bill Walch
Plot Keywords: mechanic, pilot, daughter, sergeant, colonel, father, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Pirates and bandits hunt a gray whale after it swallows a royal stamp.
Plot Keywords: seal, king, soldiers, thrilling, korea, pirates, treasure ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Peninsula takes place four years after the zombie outbreak in Train to Busan. The Korean peninsula is devastated and Jung Seok, a former soldier who has managed to escape overseas, is given a mission to go back and unexpectedly meets survivors.
Plot Keywords: zombie, soldier, militia member, sister, nephew, brother-in-law, family ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Murders in Seoul, Korea and in America pair two cops from each of the countries together to solve the crimes. The investigation leads to a gang war between the Mafia and the Yakuza, but one that may not be of either of their making. A shadowy assassin is killing the leaders and an Italian assassin may have his own agenda.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Plot Keywords: detective, mobster, partner, gang member, assassin, gritty, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: As Inchon citizens run for cover in the pouring rain, a mysterious man walks up Forty Steps and stabs another man to death. He disappears with a briefcase full of cash while his accomplices finish off the dead man's subordinate. The initial police investigation reveals an underground drug world at war. A detective addicted to his job and works by instinct leads the investigation.
Plot Keywords: murderer, detective, villain, cop, dark, suspenseful, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Julietta (Virna Lisi), an Italian nurse in the Korean War, is juggling the affections of American Air Force pilots, Tom (Tony Curtis) and Tank (George C. Scott). As they both attempt to woo Julietta, Tom and Tank try to outdo each other through a series of increasingly extreme pranks. Julietta finally agrees to marry Tom when he tells her that Tank's airplane has been shot down. Years later, Tom must continue to lie and deceive when Tank shows up to try and put the record straight.
Plot Keywords: airman, husband, wife, nurse, colonel, boss, madcap ...
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