Released: 2018 Directed by: Lee Chang-dong Also ranks #2 on The Best Korean Movies Of The 2010s Also ranks #2 on The Best Foreign Films Of The 2010s Decade Also ranks #2 on The 25 Best Movies And Shows Like 'Beef', Ranked By Fans 11 Forgotten Kang Ha-neul, Kim Mu-yeol...
Released: 2006 Directed by: Park Ki-hyung 27 Gangnam Blues Lee Min-ho, Kim Rae-won, Jung Jin-young 54 votes Set against the backdrop of a turbulent 1970s Korea, Gangnam Blues unfurls an intricate tapestry of political corruption and personal betrayals. Lee Min-ho's electrifying perfo...
Hilarious and heartwarming, this movie starring Ma Dong Seok, also known as Don Lee, follows the road to redemption of a former arm-wrestling champion turned club bouncer. The comedy makes viewers fall in love with this unexpected hero as he travels to Korea to find his biological mother who...
Lee Chang-dong's latest is a moody thriller that shares some thematic links withParasite, based on a short story by Haruki Murakami. Yoo Ah-In is Jongsu, a lonely young man who unexpectedly reconnects with old school friend Haemi (Jeon Jong-seo) who he barely remembers. They strike up ...
This intense thriller byLee Chang-dongcenters on a boy named Jong-soo (Yoo Ah-in) who accidentally runs into Hae-mi (JeonJong-seo), a girl who once lived in his neighborhood. She asks him to watch her cat while she's out of town and, upon her return, introduces Jong-soo to Ben ...
everett collection burning isn’t as exquisite, yet it hit me harder . cowritten and directed by south korea’s great chang-dong lee, this dazzling, slow burn of a psychological thriller focuses on a poor, frustrated wannabe writer (ah-in yoo) who is drawn to a manic pixie dream girl ...
Lee Chang-dong, South Korea 11. Film Socialisme Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland 12. Le Havre Aki Kaurismäki, Finland/France 13. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu Andrei Ujica, Romania 14. Le quattro volte Michelangelo Frammartino, Italy/Germany/Switzerland ...
who may, in fact, be a serial killer. on its surface, this is a hypnotically slow-building thriller with a real mystery at its core, but what makes burning so memorable is lee’s piercing depiction of class envy and thwarted desire in contemporary korea. it’s a voluptuously enveloping ...
In the 2021 Korean dramaMouse, top star Lee Seung-gi plays a carefree rookie police officer named Jung Ba-reum. However, Jung’s idyllic life takes a drastic twist when he becomes wrapped up in a string of shocking serial killings across Korea. As Jung dives deeper into the killings, the...
Released: 2002 Directed by: Lee Chang-dong 26 The Classified File Kim Yoon-seok, Yoo Hae-jin, Jang Young-nam 21 votes This riveting crime drama is based on the true story of a private detective and a veteran cop working together to solve a high-profile kidnapping case ...