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Silmido (2003)
7.2/10
Director: Kang Woo-Suk
Starring: Sung-kee Ahn, Kyung-gu Sol, Jun-ho Heo, Jae-yeong Joeng, Seong-jin Kang
In 1968, a group of North Korean commandos crossed the border in a failed attempt to assassinate South-Korean president Park Chung-hee. Outraged, Sou... Read more
Attack the Gas Station (1999)
7.1/10
Director: Sang-Jin Kim
Starring: Sung-jae Lee, Oh-seong Yu, Seong-jin Kang, Ji-tae Yu, Yeong-gyu Park, Jun Jeong,...
An imaginative and stylish Korean comedy, satirising the prolific Asian crime genre and South Korea's social turmoil. Four bored youths decide to rob... Read more
Princess Aurora (2005)
6.6/10
Director: Eun-jin Bang
Starring: Jeong-hwa Eom, Seong-kun Moon, Oh-jung Kwon
A bizarre crime spree appears to leave a trail of random dead, with the only thing to connect them a sticker left on the body of the cartoon character... Read more
The King and the Clown (2005)
7.5/10
Director: Jun-ik Lee
Starring: Woo-seong Kam, Jin-young Jeong, Seong-Yeon Kang, Jun-gi Lee, Hang-Seon Jang, Hae...
South Korea's highest-grossing film of all time (until it was surpassed by 2006's 'The Host') is this period drama-comedy about a group of wandering m... Read more
A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
7.2/10
Director: Kim Jee-Woon
Starring: Su-jeong Lim, Geun-yeong Mun, Jung-ah Yum, Kap-su Kim
The Asian pop culture crossover continues with this eerie South Korean horror, with more than a shiver of recognition from the modern Japanese classic... Read more
Bichunmoo (2000)
Director: Young-jun Kim
Starring: Hyeon-jun Shin, Hee-seon Kim, Jin-young Jeong, Dong-jik Jang
The most expensive film ever made in Korea, "Bichunmoo" is a sweeping epic set in 14th century China where the warrior Jin-ha and concubine Sullie hav... Read more
The Chaser (2008)
7.9/10
Director: Hong-jin Na
Starring: Yun-seok Kim, Jung-woo Ha, Yeong-hie Seo, In-gi Jung, Hyo-ju Park
Jung-ho is a former cop turned pimp. He is a foul-tempered, hard-talking man driven by the pursuit of easy money. So when some of his girls start goin... Read more
Pieta (2012)
7.2/10
Director: Kim Ki-duk
Starring: Jeong-jin Lee, Min-soo Jo
In this intensely haunting story, a loan shark lives an isolated and lonely existence, using brutality to threaten and collect paybacks from desperate... Read more
New World (2013)
7.6/10
Director: Hoon-jung Park
Starring: Min-sik Choi, Jung-Jae Lee, Jeong-min Hwang
The head of the Goldmoon crime syndicate is dead, leaving his top two lieutenants. Seizing the opportunity, the police launch an operation called New... Read more
The Harmonium In My Memory (1998)
7.4/10
Director: Lee Young-jae
Starring: Do-yeon Jeon, Byung-hun Lee
A charming and touching drama telling the simple and moving story of 17-year-old Yun (Do-yeon Jeon), who develops a crush on her new teacher. What mak... Read more
Spider Forest (2004)
6.6/10
Director: Song Il-gon
Starring: Woo-seong Kam, Jung Suh, Kyeong-heon Kang, Hyeong-seong Jang, Byung-ho Son
TV journalist Kang Min wakes up in a reputedly haunted forest and finds a gruesome murder scene nearby. He gives chase to the perpetrator but loses hi... Read more
Seoul Raiders (2005)
5.6/10
Director: Jingle Ma
Starring: Tony Leung (Chiu Wai), Shu Qi, Richie Ren, Jeong-jin Lee, Meme Tian
Wisecracking private eye Lam (Tony Leung) jets off to Seoul on the trail of a thief who has stolen a valuable counterfeiting money plate. A raucous s... Read more
A Bittersweet Life (2005)
7.6/10
Director: Kim Jee-Woon
Starring: Min-a Shin, Byung-hun Lee, Yeong-Cheol Kim
For the past seven years super-smooth Sun-woo (Byung-hun Lee) has served his gangster boss with unflinching loyalty. He is such a trusty that his bos... Read more
3 Extremes (2004)
6.3/10
Director: Takashi Miike, Chan-wook Park, Fruit Chan
Starring: Kyoko Hasegawa, Atsuro Watabe, Byung-hun Lee, Won-hee Lim, Hye-jeong Kang, Jung-...
Three of Asia's hottest directors join forces for this horror triple. Hong Kong's Fruit Chan, Korea's Park Chan-wook and Japan's Takashi Miike each co... Read more
Nowhere to Hide (1999)
6.6/10
Director: Myung-Se Lee
Starring: Ji-Woo Choi, Dong-kun Jang, Joong-Hoon Park, Sung-kee Ahn
In a port city where violence abounds, a drug boss is viciously stabbed to death by the drug lord Chang Sungmin. Detective Woo is the cunning police d... Read more
Untold Scandal (2003)
7.1/10
Director: Je-yong Lee
Starring: Mi-suk Lee, Do-yeon Jeon, Yong-jun Bae, Hyeon-jae Jo, So-yeon Lee
An excellent Korean adaptation of the French novel, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, set amidst the aristocracy of the 18th century Chosun Dynasty. Lady Cho... Read more