Grass (2018), Oasis (2002), Save the Green Planet! (2003), Parasite (2019), Oldboy (2003), Kundo: Age of the Rampant (2014), Take Care of My Cat (2001), The Handmaiden (2016) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Korean Cinema movies.
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: drama, romance, art film, korean cinema, black and white, dialogue-driven, intellectual ...
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: horror, thriller, vampire, korean cinema, religion, desire, romance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young woman who believes she's a cyborg hears voices and harms herself while at work making radios. She's hospitalized in a mental institution where she eats nothing and talks to inanimate objects. She's Young-goon, granddaughter of a woman who thought she was a mouse (and whose dentures Young-goon wears) and a mother who's a butcher without much social grace. Young-goon comes to the attention of Il-sun, a ping-pong playing patient at the institution who makes it his goal to get her to eat. Will he succeed? Which way does sanity lie?
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, romance, comedy, psychological, fantasy, korean cinema, unconventional love ...
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: black comedy, korean cinema, crime, family, murder, mystery, absurdist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Documentary on director Kim Ki-Duk looking back at his film career.
Plot Keywords: documentary, korean cinema, independent film, autobiographical, experimental film, psychological exploration, loneliness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Everyone wants a piece of a celebrity. Pierre is a political reporter, assigned to write a fluff piece on Katya, a blond who acts in slasher movies and a Fox show about single girls in the city. The interview, at a restaurant, goes badly: she's late, he's unprepared and rude. After leaving, he bangs his head in a fender bender and she takes him to her loft to clean the wound. Lubricated by alcohol and competitive natures, the interview resumes. She takes phone calls from her fiancé, Pierre reads her diary on her computer. They discuss wounds, he expresses concern, father-daughter feelings arise. Out come camcorders to tape their darkest secrets. Is friendship or more in the offing?
Plot Keywords: thriller, horror, mystery, crime, psychological, dark, violence ...
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: independent film, korean cinema, drama, black comedy, social critique, urban life, human relationships ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Now in his fifties, Vagn leads a solitary life and plays football with a group of similarly aged men, some even older. After being left behind at a petrol station by his teammates on their way to a match in Sweden, he encounters a young habitual offender and together they set off in hot pursuit of Vagn's buddies. A Nordic road movie taking in a whole series of comic, serious and, above all, well-written scenarios.—Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Plot Keywords: revenge, violence, mystery, crime, thriller, psychological, imprisonment ...
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: sci-fi, thriller, mystery, psychological, surreal, art film, experimental ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set in 19th century Imperial Russia, the story revolves around a retired army veteran who makes a good living by settling duels for aristocrats, a common practice of the era. Shot in IMAX. Cast Petr Fedorov, Vladimir Mashkov, Martin Wuttke, Julia Khlynina, Yuri Kolokolnikov Director Alexey Mizgirev
Plot Keywords: action, historical, martial arts, costume drama, revenge, swordplay, duel ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An American has to guard da Vinci's "Madonna and Child" when it is being shown in Britain. When it arrives he suspects it is not the real painting.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: animation, crime, drama, mystery, film noir, psychological thriller, korean cinema ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Do-il (Kim Jin-geun) and his wife, Mi-sook (Shim Hye-jin), desperately want to have a child, but have had no luck in conceiving. So they decide to adopt a six-year-old boy, Jin-seong (Mun Woo-bin), and bring him into their home. The young orphan is strangely quiet, paints eerie pictures and spends most of his time beneath the family's acacia tree. When Mi-sook unexpectedly becomes pregnant, their quiet family home is disturbed by a spate of bizarre supernatural phenomena.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, mystery, psychological, family, supernatural, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Paul Dean has created a deadly parasite that is now attached to his stomach. He and his female companion, Patricia Welles, must find a way to destroy it while also trying to avoid Ricus, his rednecks, and an evil government agent named Merchant.—Josh Pasnak <chainsaw@intouch.bc.ca>
Plot Keywords: class conflict, social inequality, poverty, wealth gap, family dynamics, struggle for survival, deception ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A jewel thief (Burt Reynolds) humors a chic kleptomaniac (Lesley-Anne Down) planted by a Scotland Yard inspector (David Niven) to lure him into a trap.
Plot Keywords: action, crime, drama, gangster, violence, revenge, prison ...
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