Save the Green Planet! (2003), The Mimic (2017), Singles (2003), Memories of Murder (2003), 3-Iron (2004), Once Upon a Time in High School (2004), Mother (2009), Joint Security Area (2000) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best South Korea movies.
Storyline: After the statute of limitation expires on the murders he has committed, Lee Du-seok publishes an autobiography describing all his murders in great detail. Detective Choi, who investigated Lee's murders 15 years ago starts the chase once again and Han Ji-soo, who lost her daughter to Lee, pledges vengeance. Meanwhile, another killer appears, casting doubt to whether Lee is the real serial killer. The key here is how well the story juggles the truth and how solid the description of the characters' tangled relationships is.—Hancinema
Plot Keywords: serial killer, detective, victim, dark, tense, south korea, confession ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Grim story of one of the major battles of the Korean War. While negotiators are at work in Panmunjom trying to bring the conflict to a negotiated end, Lt. Joe Clemons is ordered to launch an attack and retake Pork Cop Hill. It's tough on the soldiers who know that the negotiations are under way and no one wants to die when they think it will all soon be over. The hill is of no particular strategic military value but all part of showing resolve during the negotiations. Under the impression that the battle has been won, battalion headquarters orders some of the men withdrawn when in fact they are in dire need of reinforcements and supplies. As the Chinese prepare to counterattack and broadcast propaganda over loudspeakers, the men prepare for what may be their last battle.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: lieutenant, soldier, general, enemy, bleak, raw, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on a true story of 1968 Korean Republic Army plan to assassinate North Korean president Kim Il-Sung. 31 criminals and death row inmates are recruited into secret training on the island of Silmi; for two years they are subjected to maximum mental and physical abuse before the mission is cancelled and the unit terminated.—kwedgwood@hotmail.com
Plot Keywords: gang leader, trainer, military officer, convict, government official, brutal, rousing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jo Tae-Oh is a young man who was grown spoiled in a wealthy family. He keeps on committing pretty much every crime that one can think of. He tries to buy his way out of everything which almost always works but Detective Seo Do-Cheol won't let that happen this time.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: investigator, detective, criminal, millionaire, young man, heir, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: What is the nature of childhood resilience? Sisters Jin and Bin, ages 6 and 3, live with their mother. Jin likes school and does well. One day, their mother leaves the girls with their father's sister, a woman they do not know. The mother seeks a reconciliation with their father. She leaves them a plastic piggy bank, promising to return when the bank is full. The girls scrub and clean for their aunt, a tippler who's often cranky and complaining. She gives them a few coins for their work. They earn more money catching, grilling, and selling grasshoppers. They miss their mother. The bank fills. They watch for her from a mound of dirt. Will she return? Will stoic faces give way to a smile?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: young girl, sister, mother, aunt, grandmother, somber, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A family decides to buy a lodge in a remote hiking area. Their first customer commits suicide and the distraught family buries his body to avoid the bad publicity. But their luck gets worse, the bodies start piling up, and the family becomes frantic to rectify the situation.—Paul Benmussa
Plot Keywords: mother, father, son, daughter, guest, uncle, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Documentary on director Kim Ki-Duk looking back at his film career.
Plot Keywords: filmmaker, director, engaging, south korea, crisis, accident, depression ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A look into the sex trade of children.
Plot Keywords: sex offender, pimp, prostitute, parent, shocking, disturbing, united states ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A horse with amazing courage and a big heart.
Plot Keywords: horse, lawyer, father, engaging, south korea, life, gold ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: About desires and lives of four characters in diverse circumstances. A poor novelist, a cheating wife, a mysophobic husband and a ticket girl.
Plot Keywords: novelist, girlfriend, salesman, prostitute, offbeat, gritty, uneasy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sang-do (Ryoo Seung-bum) has ambitions of becoming a major player in the drug racket. Working as a two-bit crystal meth dealer, he pays the bills and supports his semi-retired drug-dealer uncle by acting as an informant for corrupt cop Ho (Hwang Jung-min). The two form an uneasy alliance when they try to take down a local drug lord protected by government officials, but problems in their personal lives continue to intrude at inopportune moments, jeopardizing their chances for success.
Plot Keywords: cop, partner, drug dealer, informant, young girl, dark, frenetic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A housewife (Lee Eun-Woo) becomes enraged with jealousy over her husband's (Cho Jae-Hyun) affair. Meanwhile, their son (Seo Young-Joo) sits in the periphery, observing their violent confrontations. One evening, the housewife takes a kitchen knife into their bedroom to exact revenge on the father. The father though is able to repel her attack and throws her out of the bedroom. The mother then goes into the son's room.—anonymous
Plot Keywords: unfaithful husband, son, boy, dark, disheartening, south korea, desire ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A three-tiered story centered on a trio of French tourists visiting the same seaside resort.
Plot Keywords: townspeople, guide, screenwriter, couple, tourist, lifeguard, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Dean Hess, who entered the ministry to atone for bombing a German orphanage, decides he's a failure at preaching. Rejoined to train pilots early in the Korean War, he finds Korean orphans raiding the airbase garbage. With a pretty Korean teacher, he sets up an orphanage for them and others. But he finds that to protect his charges, he has to kill.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: reverend, wife, volunteer, friend, military officer, orphan, powerful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 1967: the height of the Cold War. The CIA suspects there is a Russian mole inside of NASA, sabotaging the Apollo program. They send two young agents on a mission to go undercover, posing as documentary filmmakers to capture NASA's race to the moon. The real mission - use their access and technology to hunt down the leak. But what they discover is far more shocking than soviet spies - Their government may be hiding a secret about Apollo that could define the decade, and the White House will stop at nothing to silence anyone who learns it.
Plot Keywords: american soldier, squadron leader, north korean, spy, general, brooding, disturbing ...
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