South Korean Movies
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1. The King and the Clown (2005)
PG-13 | 119 min | Drama, History
Two clowns living in Korea's Chosun Dynasty get arrested for staging a play that satirizes the king. They are dragged to the palace and threatened with execution but are given a chance to save their lives if they can make the king laugh.
Director: Lee Joon-ik | Stars: Kam Woo-seong, Jung Jin-young, Kang Seong-yeon, Lee Joon-gi
Votes: 5,986
2. A Moment to Remember (2004)
PG-13 | 117 min | Drama, Romance
A young couple's enduring love is tested when 27-year-old Su-jin is diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer's disease.
Directors: Park Kyung-Jin, John H. Lee, Kim Tae-Won | Stars: Jung Woo-sung, Son Ye-jin, Jong-hak Baek, Lee Seon-jin
Votes: 25,574
3. Silenced (2011)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama
Based on real events, this film depicts the story of a school for the hearing-impaired where young deaf students were sexually assaulted by the faculty members over a long period of time.
Director: Hwang Dong-hyuk | Stars: Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi, Kim Hyeon-soo, Kim Jee-young
Votes: 21,686
4. Park Sa-bang (1960)
138 min | Drama
A furnace repairman lives only for his children's happiness. But while his daughter is grateful and obedient, his son is constantly getting into trouble
Director: Kang Dae-jin | Stars: Seung-ho Kim, Jeong-sun Hwang, Jin Kyu Kim, Mi-lyeong Jo
Votes: 41
5. Under the Sky of Seoul (1961)
115 min | Drama, Romance
An oriental doctor Kim, Hak-gyu (Kim, Seung-ho) is a cantankerous man who is the longest-term householder in a small village in Seoul. He often causes domestic trouble by being nasty to his... See full summary »
Director: Hyeong-pyo Lee | Stars: Hie-gab Kim, Jeong-sun Hwang, Seung-ho Kim, Kum-Bong Do
Votes: 51
6. The Taebaek Mountains (1994)
168 min | Drama
Based on the great river story, (Taebaegsanmaek) The Taebaek Mountains chronicles the lasting generational conflict between proprietors and peasants in South Korea.
Director: Im Kwon-taek | Stars: Dong-joon Choi, Pang Eun-jin, Lee Ho-jae, Shin Hyeon-jun
Votes: 232
7. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003)
R | 103 min | Drama, Romance
A boy is raised by a Buddhist monk in an isolated floating temple where the years pass like the seasons.
Director: Kim Ki-duk | Stars: Kim Ki-duk, Oh Yeong-su, Jong-ho Kim, Kim Young-min
Votes: 86,833 | Gross: $2.38M
8. Welcome to Dongmakgol (2005)
Not Rated | 133 min | Comedy, Drama, War
Soldiers from both sides of the Korean divide live among villagers who know nothing of the war.
Director: Kwang-Hyun Park | Stars: Jeong Jae-yeong, Shin Ha-kyun, Kang Hye-jeong, Ha-ryong Lim
Votes: 7,537
9. Castaway on the Moon (2009)
PG-13 | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A failed suicide attempt leads a heartbroken man to live a life in the wilderness.
Director: Lee Hae-jun | Stars: Jeong Jae-yeong, Jung Ryeo-won, Yeong-seo Park, Yang Mi-kyeong
Votes: 19,719
10. The Good the Bad the Weird (2008)
R | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The story of two outlaws and a bounty hunter in 1940s Manchuria and their rivalry to possess a treasure map while being pursued by the Japanese army and Chinese bandits.
Director: Jee-woon Kim | Stars: Song Kang-ho, Lee Byung-hun, Jung Woo-sung, Yun Je-mun
Votes: 37,937 | Gross: $0.13M
11. Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)
R | 140 min | Action, Drama, War
When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest missions if it will help shield the younger from battle.
Director: Kang Je-kyu | Stars: Jang Dong-Gun, Won Bin, Eun-ju Lee, Kong Hyeong-jin
Votes: 41,077 | Gross: $1.11M
12. Secret Sunshine (2007)
Not Rated | 142 min | Drama
A woman moves to the town where her dead husband was born. As she tries to fit in, another tragic event overturns her life.
Director: Lee Chang-dong | Stars: Jeon Do-yeon, Song Kang-ho, Lee Dong-yong, Lee Hee-joon
Votes: 9,574
13. Children... (2011)
Not Rated | 132 min | Mystery, Thriller
The film is based on a true case from the early 1990s that is known among Koreans as the "disappearance of the frog children." In 1991, five elementary school students told their parents ... See full summary »
Director: Kyu-maan Lee | Stars: Park Yong-woo, Ryu Seung-ryong, Sung Dong-il, Sung Ji-ru
Votes: 2,956
14. A Drifting Story (1960)
124 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Director: Yeong-sun Kwon | Stars: Jin Kyu Kim, Jeong-suk Moon, Mu-ryong Choi, Aeng-ran Eom
Votes: 33
15. A Hometown in Heart (1949)
77 min | Drama
Do-seong is a child monk who lives at a small mountain temple with the head monk, learning the teachings of Buddha. He becomes attached to a young widow who comes to pray at the temple, and... See full summary »
Director: Yong-Gyu Yoon | Stars: Ki-jong Byeon, Heon-yong Oh, Seung-min Nam, Min Yu
Votes: 181
16. Mother (2009)
R | 129 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A mother desperately searches for the killer who framed her son for a girl's horrific murder.
Director: Bong Joon Ho | Stars: Kim Hye-ja, Won Bin, Jin Goo, Yun Je-mun
Votes: 71,667 | Gross: $0.55M
17. Memories of Murder (2003)
Not Rated | 132 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In a small Korean province in 1986, two detectives struggle with the case of multiple young women being found raped and murdered by an unknown culprit.
Director: Bong Joon Ho | Stars: Song Kang-ho, Kim Sang-kyung, Kim Roe-ha, Song Jae-ho
Votes: 216,571 | Gross: $0.01M
18. The Front Line (2011)
Not Rated | 133 min | Action, Drama, History
A drama centered on the Korean War's final battle that will determine the border between north and south.
Director: Hun Jang | Stars: Shin Ha-kyun, Go Soo, Ryu Seung-su, Ko Chang-seok
Votes: 7,106 | Gross: $0.01M
19. The Man from Nowhere (2010)
R | 119 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A quiet pawnshop keeper with a violent past takes on a drug-and-organ trafficking ring in hope of saving the child who is his only friend.
Director: Lee Jeong-beom | Stars: Won Bin, Kim Sae-ron, Kim Tae-hoon, Kim Hee-won
Votes: 74,871 | Gross: $0.01M
20. Oldboy (2003)
R | 120 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must track down his captor in five days.
Director: Park Chan-wook | Stars: Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae, Kang Hye-jeong, Kim Byeong-Ok
Votes: 636,138 | Gross: $0.71M
21. Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time (2012)
Not Rated | 134 min | Action, Crime, Drama
On the verge of being fired, a corrupt customs official finds a haul of drugs and teams up with a vicious gangster to become the most powerful crime partnership in Busan.
Director: Yoon Jong-bin | Stars: Choi Min-sik, Ha Jung-woo, Cho Jin-woong, Ma Dong-seok
Votes: 7,305
22. Silmido (2003)
Not Rated | 135 min | Action, Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Kang Woo-suk | Stars: Ahn Sung-ki, Sol Kyung-gu, Huh Joon-ho, Jeong Jae-yeong
Votes: 4,730
23. Heartbeat (2010)
Not Rated | 114 min | Drama
One middle aged women is admitted to the hospital in a coma. Yeon-hee, who has been searching for a heart to transplant to her daughter, who has critical heart disease, is begging middle ... See full summary »
Director: Jae-geun Yoon | Stars: Yunjin Kim, Park Hae-il, Da-hye Jeong, Ha-Yeong Park
Votes: 254
24. Driving with My Wife's Lover (2006)
R | 92 min | Drama
After realizing that his wife has been cheating on him, mild-mannered stamp maker Tae-han leaves his small seaside town of Naksan determined to track down his wife's lover, a taxicab driver from Seoul named Joong-sik.
Director: Kim Tai-sik | Stars: Kwang-jung Park, Jeong Bo-seok, Jo Eun-ji, Sung-mi Kim
Votes: 300
25. Bleak Night (2010)
PG-13 | 116 min | Drama
Three best friends, Ki-tae, Dong-yoon, and Hee-june; they thought their friendship would last forever. A few tiny cracks of distrust start to develop among these best friends. Ki-tae and ... See full summary »
Director: Yoon Sunghyun | Stars: Lee Jehoon, Park Jeong-min, Seo Jun-yeong, Shin Woon-seob
Votes: 1,310
26. Marathon (2005)
117 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
An autistic boy discovers he has a talent for running and with the help of the mother participates in a major marathon.
Director: Yoon-Chul Jung | Stars: Cho Seung-woo, Kim Mi-sook, Lee Ki-young, Baek Sung-hyun
Votes: 2,499
27. Peppermint Candy (1999)
Not Rated | 129 min | Drama
Following a man's suicide, time traverses back to reveal six chapters of his life on why he committed suicide.
Director: Lee Chang-dong | Stars: Sol Kyung-gu, Kim Yeo-jin, Moon So-ri, Se-beom Park
Votes: 10,841
28. Over the Rainbow (2002)
109 min | Drama, Romance
Jin-soo works at a local weather channel as an anchorman. His life is pretty simple until the day he got into a car accident. Fortunately he didn't get any serious physical injuries but ... See full summary »
Director: Jin-woo Ahn | Stars: Lee Jung-jae, Jin-young Jang, Kong Hyeong-jin, Jang-soo Bae
Votes: 429
29. The Client (2011)
Not Rated | 123 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Elite attorney Kang Seong-Hee goes up against a top prosecutor over a case involving a man accused of killing his wife.
Director: Young-Sung Sohn | Stars: Ha Jung-woo, Park Hee-soon, Jang Hyuk, Sung Dong-il
Votes: 1,978
30. Il Mare (2000)
105 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
In 1999, a voice actor moves from Il Mare, a seaside house, and leaves a Christmas card in its (magical) mailbox. An architecture student receives it in 1997, and a friendship separated by 2 years begins.
Director: Hyun-seung Lee | Stars: Lee Jung-jae, Jun Ji-hyun, Mu-saeng Kim, Jo Seung-yeon
Votes: 9,462
31. Seashore Village (1965)
91 min | Drama
At an ocean side village, many fishing boats never return from the high sea, and many of the women in the village assume they are widows when their husbands never return. One of them, Seongku, begins an affair with a coal worker.
Director: Kim Soo-yong | Stars: Yeong-gyun Shin, Eun-a Ko, Jeong-sun Hwang, Nak-hun Lee
Votes: 116
32. A Bittersweet Life (2005)
Not Rated | 119 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Things go wrong for a high ranking mobster when he doesn't follow his boss's orders.
Directors: Jung Doo Hong, Jee-woon Kim | Stars: Lee Byung-hun, Shin Min-a, Kim Yeong-cheol, Hwang Jung-min
Votes: 42,929
33. Dooman River (2010)
90 min | Drama
Chang-ho, 12, becomes friend with a North-Korean immigrant about the same age who just crossed the Dooman river, border between North-Korea and China. His mute sister and his wise ... See full summary »
Director: Lu Zhang | Stars: Jian Cui, Lan Yin, Jin-Long Lin, Xuansheng Jin
Votes: 245
34. The Muse (I) (2012)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror, Music, Thriller
A one-hit-wonder musician battles writers block and a strange inspirational force at a secluded lake house.
Director: Rufus Chaffee | Stars: Isaac Simons, Marguerite Gioia Insolia, Mike Pfaff, Christine Altan
Votes: 91
35. Winter Butterfly (2011)
90 min | Drama
Head of the household, 11 year-old Jin-ho lives with his sick mother who gathers and sells fire wood. The one thing Jin-ho is most scared about is his mother dying and being left alone in ... See full summary »
Director: Gyoo-min Kim | Stars: Seung-won Jeong, So-Yeon Park
Votes: 149
36. Lover's Concerto (2002)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, Romance
A college student befriends two cute girls his age. He loses contact with them. He tries to find them years later.
Director: Lee Han | Stars: Cha Tae-hyun, Son Ye-jin, Eun-ju Lee, Park Yong-woo
Votes: 2,135
37. Blind (2011)
Not Rated | 111 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Su-a loses her sight and kid brother in a car accident. No more police academy. 3 years later she takes a taxi which hits a woman. Su-a gets out. After reporting it, a cop works with her learning that her 4 other senses "see".
Director: Sang-hoon Ahn | Stars: Kim Ha-neul, Yoo Seung-ho, Jo Hie-bong, Yang Yeong-jo
Votes: 3,203
38. Nanjeongiga soaolrin jakeun kong (1981)
100 min | Drama
A dwarf and his poor, but loving, family who are forced out of their house by a real estate agent.
Director: Won-se Lee | Stars: Yeong-ja Jeon, Ahn Sung-ki, Chu-ryeon Kim, Geum Bo-ra
Votes: 65
39. The Bow (2005)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance
On a fishing boat at sea, a 60-year old man has been raising a girl since she was a baby. It is agreed that they will get married on her 17th birthday, and she is 16 now. They live a quiet and secluded life, renting the boat to day fishermen and practicing strange divination rites. Their life changes when a teenage student comes aboard...
Director: Kim Ki-duk | Stars: Han Yeo-reum, Ji-Seok Seo, Jeon Gook-hwan, Seong-hwan Jeon
Votes: 11,800
40. The Yellow Sea (2010)
R | 136 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When the attempt to kill a professor goes wrong, a series of violent events are triggered which force a taxi driver to run for his life.
Director: Na Hong-jin | Stars: Lee Yoo-mi, Ha Jung-woo, Lee Hee-joon, Kim Yoon-seok
Votes: 22,961
41. Pieta (2012)
Not Rated | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.
Director: Kim Ki-duk | Stars: Jo Min-soo, Lee Jung-Jin, Woo Ki-hong, Eunjin Kang
Votes: 15,771 | Gross: $0.02M
42. No Regret (2006)
R | 113 min | Drama, Romance
Sumin is an orphan trying to balance work in a factory with study at an art college and an evening job. One night, a rich young businessman makes an advance on him during one of his driving jobs.
Director: Hee-il Leesong | Stars: Kim Nam-gil, Lee Young-hoon, Hyeon-cheol Jo, Kim Dong-wook
Votes: 2,127 | Gross: $0.01M
43. The Black Republic (1990)
100 min | Drama
In the winter of 1980s coal mining town, Ki-young runs away from the police due to his student protest and hides into the town. Then, Ki-young meets an unhappy waitress Young-sook who falls for him, and two people decide to leave together.
Director: Park Kwang-su | Stars: Shim Hye-jin, Park Joong-hoon, Jin-hui Kim, Min-oe Kim
Votes: 140
44. Poetry (2010)
TV-PG | 139 min | Drama
A sixty-something woman, faced with the discovery of a heinous family crime and in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, finds strength and purpose when she enrolls in a poetry class.
Director: Lee Chang-dong | Stars: Yun Jeong-hie, Lee Da-wit, Kim Hee-ra, Ahn Nae-sang
Votes: 13,543 | Gross: $0.36M
45. Tae-poong (2005)
R | 124 min | Action
A modern-day pirate plans a massive attack on North and South Korea.
Director: Kyung-taek Kwak | Stars: Jang Dong-Gun, Lee Jung-jae, Lee Mi-yeon, David Lee McInnis
Votes: 1,391 | Gross: $0.14M
46. Chilsu and Mansu (1988)
109 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A painter quits his job and looks to an old acquaintance for work and a place to stay.
Director: Park Kwang-su | Stars: Bae Jong-ok, Park Joong-hoon, Kang Shin-il, Ahn Sung-ki
Votes: 252
47. Woman of Fire (1971)
G | 98 min | Crime, Drama
The lives of a composer and his wife, who live on a chicken farm, are thrown into turmoil when a femme fatale joins their household.
Director: Kim Ki-young | Stars: Won Namkung, Gye-hyeon Jeon, Youn Yuh-jung, Mu-ryong Choi
Votes: 231
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