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: Lee Byeong-gu (Shin Ha-kyun) is convinced that there are aliens from Andromeda among us, plotting to destroy Earth. He believes that Kang Man-shik (Baek Yun-shik), the head of a chemical production company, is their leader, and he kidnaps him. Holing up in his secret lair, Byeong-gu interrogates and tortures the supposed alien, hoping that he will confess to his crimes against humanity and call off the planned destruction of the planet before it is too late.
Plot Keywords: executive, girlfriend, police officer, inspector, dark, gory, frenetic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A woman searching for her missing son takes in a girl she finds near Mt. Jang.
Plot Keywords: child, parent, ghost, thrilling, suspenseful, striking, rousing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A group of young South Korean professionals must make decisions about their relationships and futures. Na-nan (Jang Jin-young), who is nearing 30, starts dating Su-heon (Kim Joo-hyuk), while her best friend, Dong-mi (Uhm Jung-hwa), lives a carefree single life. Things start to get complicated, however, when Su-heon's job transfers him to the United States, and Na-nan must decide whether to also move there. Meanwhile, Dong-mi's relationship with her shy platonic roommate takes a romantic turn.
Plot Keywords: young woman, boyfriend, best friend, roommate, girlfriend, amusing, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1986, in the province of Gyunggi, in South Korea, a second young and beautiful woman is found dead, raped and tied and gagged with her underwear. Detective Park Doo-Man and Detective Cho Yong-koo, two brutal and stupid local detectives without any technique, investigate the murder using brutality and torturing the suspects, without any practical result. The Detective Seo Tae-Yoon from Seoul comes to the country to help the investigations and is convinced that a serial-killer is killing the women. When a third woman is found dead in the same "modus-operandi", the detectives find leads of the assassin.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: rapist, serial killer, police detective, mentally challenged, suspect, dark, solemn ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young drifter enters strangers' houses - and lives - while owners are away. He spends a night or a day squatting in, repaying their unwitting hospitality by doing laundry or small repairs. His life changes when he runs into a beautiful woman in an affluent mansion who is ready to escape her unhappy, abusive marriage.
Plot Keywords: abused wife, husband, drifter, cop, loner, dreamy, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After being enrolled in a new high school, Kwan must confront bullies.
Plot Keywords: spirit, bruce lee, fan, emotional, high school, south korea, new school ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do-joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbors. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do-joon is charged with the killing. Now, it's his mother's call whether to prove him innocent or to leave him imprisoned.
Plot Keywords: mother, widow, son, suspect, police detective, defense attorney, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the DMZ separating North and South Korea, two North Korean soldiers have been killed, supposedly by one South Korean soldier. But the 11 bullets found in the bodies, together with the 5 remaining rounds in the assassin's magazine, amount to 16 cartridges for a gun that should normally hold 15. The investigating Swiss/Swedish team from the neutral countries overseeing the DMZ suspects that another, unknown party was involved - all of which points to some sort of cover up. The truth is much simpler and much more tragic.
Plot Keywords: soldier, sergeant, north korean, investigator, major, brutal, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sok-woo, a father with not much time for his daughter, Soo-ahn, are boarding the KTX, a fast train that shall bring them from Seoul to Busan. But during their journey, the apocalypse begins, and most of the earth's population become flesh craving zombies. While the KTX is shooting towards Busan, the passenger's fight for their families and lives against the zombies - and each other.
Plot Keywords: workaholic, daughter, ex-wife, train passenger, zombie, brutal, shocking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: For 10 idyllic years, young Mija (An Seo Hyun) has been caretaker and constant companion to Okja-a massive animal and an even bigger friend-at her home in the mountains of South Korea. But that changes when a family-owned multinational conglomerate Mirando Corporation takes Okja for themselves and transports her to New York, where image obsessed and self-promoting CEO Lucy Mirando (Tilda Swinton) has big plans for Mija's dearest friend. With no particular plan but single-minded in intent, Mija sets out on a rescue mission, but her already daunting journey quickly becomes more complicated when she crosses paths with disparate groups of capitalists, demonstrators and consumers, each battling to control the fate of Okja...while all Mija wants to do is bring her friend home. Deftly blending genres, humor, poignancy and drama, Bong Joon Ho (Snowpiercer, The Host) begins with the gentlest of premises-the bond between man and animal-and ultimately creates a distinct and layered vision of the world that addresses the animal inside us all. Okja is a Plan B Entertainment, Lewis Pictures and Kate Street Picture Company production in association with Netflix.—Netflix
Plot Keywords: young girl, pig, creature, ceo, friend, activist, campy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the 60s in Korea, the piano teacher Mr. Kim works in a factory giving music classes to the workers. When he receives a love letter from the student Miss Kwak, he delivers the letter to the supervisor and the worker is suspended for three days. Mr. Kim is a family man, married with two children, the girl Ae-Soon and the boy Chang-Soon, and he has just built and moved to a bigger house of his own. His wife Mrs. Kim also works too much at a sewing machine and they need a housemaid to help her in the housework. Mr. Kim asks Kwak's best friend, Miss Kyung Hee Cho, who is his private student of piano, to help him to find a housemaid. Miss Cho invites an unstable and unbalanced young woman to work for Mr. and Mrs. Kim and she introduces the housemaid to the family. Mr. Kim hires the youth and brings her to the household. But soon she behaves in a strange way, snooping Mr. Kim's private classes until the night that she seduces Mr. Kim and they have intercourse. The housemaid gets pregnant and uses her condition to press Mr. Kim. When she provokes a miscarriage, she blackmails Mr. Kim leading to the family's destruction.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: composer, wife, maid, son, student, femme fatale, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1993, former military officer Suk-young Park is recruited as a spy by South Korea's National Intelligence Service, and given the code name "Black Venus". He is then sent to infiltrate a group of high-ranking North Korean officials based in Beijing, with the ultimate goal of acquiring information on the North's nuclear program. After becoming close to Myong-un Ri, a key power broker, Black Venus succeeds beyond his wildest dreams of gaining the trust of North Korea's leadership. But political machinations on both sides of the border threaten to derail his accomplishments.—CJ Entertainment
Plot Keywords: spy, broker, government official, wife, businessman, thrilling, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Quite by accident, a film director arrives in town a day early. With time to kill before his lecture the next day, he stops by a restored, old palace and meets a fledgling artist. She's never seen any of his films, but knows he's famous. They talk. And together, they go to her workshop to look at her paintings, have Sushi and Soju. More conversation follows, and drinks, and then an awkward get-together with friends where all sorts of secrets are revealed. All the while, they may or may not be falling for each other. Then, quite unexpectedly, we begin again, but now things appear somewhat different.
Plot Keywords: filmmaker, young man, artist, young woman, poet, love interest, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two sisters who, after spending time in a mental institution, return to the home of their father and cruel stepmother. Once there, in addition to dealing with their stepmother's obsessive and unbalanced ways, an interfering ghost also affects their recovery.
Plot Keywords: teen girl, sister, father, stepmother, creepy, dark, south korea ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sang-hyun, a priest working for a hospital, selflessly volunteers for a secret vaccine development project intended to eradicate a deadly virus. However, the virus eventually takes over the priest. He nearly dies, but makes a miraculous recovery by an accidental transfusion of vampire blood. He realizes his sole reason for living: the pleasures of the flesh.
Plot Keywords: priest, vampire, wife, childhood friend, doctor, suspenseful, melodramatic ...
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