Films in the Korean language
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JOINT SECURITY AREA (2000)
Certification15 Our Rating
On the constantly volatile border between North and South Korea, a wounded soldier struggles back across no man's land and into the arms of his southern colleagues; two dead North Korean infantrymen a testament to his injury. Lauded as a hero it gradually becomes clear all is not as it seems and the soldier in question may have had far darker motives than his superiors are prepared to believe. Joint Security Area is an intriguing drama thriller, though it pales in comparison to the director's la find out more...
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LADY VENGEANCE (2005)
Certification18 Our Rating
Intense and inventive, the final part of Park Chan-Wook's loosely-linked trilogy on the subject of revenge follows the progress of beautiful, impassive Lee Geum-ja (Lee Young-Ae) after she's released from prison having served 13 years for the kidnap and murder of a young boy. The target of Lee's meticulous, ruthless, not to say bizarre retribution is kindergarden teacher Mr Baek (Choi Min-Sik), a man whose ordered world is about to take a hideous turn for the worse. Once again Chan-Wook has crea find out more...
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MEMENTO MORI (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
When Min-Ah discovers secret shared diary written by two students at the all-girls' school, she finds it a compelling read. She becomes obsessed with the page-turning accounts of a secret romance between the two girls, but when one of the students is found dead, a new terror seeps through the school. Was it suicide or something more sinister? And what is the true meaning of the words written in the diary, "memento mori" (remember the dead)? find out more...
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MEMORIES OF MURDER (2003)
Certification15 Our Rating
Once again the Koreans show us how to make a top-notch thriller. In the mid-eighties and early nineties a series of brutal sex murders took place in Korea's Gyeonggi Province. Two local cops and a special detective from Seoul are charged with hunting down the killer, but with few clues and even fewer witnesses all they have to show for their hard work is mounting frustration and rancour. Set against the political backdrop of a government more concerned with suppression than investigation, Memori find out more...
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MINARI (2021)
Certification12 Our Rating

Yearning to own a small patch of land and be more than a chicken sexer, the ambitious paterfamilias, Jacob Yi, relocates his Korean-American family: sceptical wife, Monica, and their children, David and Anne, from California to 1980s rural Arkansas, to start afresh and capture the elusive American Dream. However, new beginnings are always challenging, and to find out what is best for the family, let alone start a 50-acre farm to grow and sell Korean fruits and vegetables, is easier said than find out more...

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MISSING (2010)
Certification18 Our Rating
When Film Director, Hong, takes young starlet, Hyun-ah, to the countryside to discuss a new role, they stop at a farm that is renowned for its home-made chicken soup. But the owner of the farm, Pan-gon, is pretty much a hamper short of a full picnic. Unfortunately for all concerned Pan-gon takes a psychotic dislike to Hyun-ah’s beauty and her haughty attitude and so begins a shocking act of deranged brutality. Missing is a disturbing and visceral kidnap flick. find out more...
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MOEBIUS (2013)
Certification18 Our Rating

A gobsmackingly original, and contentscious, portrayal of a monsterously dysfunctional family. A teenager is caught between his adulterous father and psychotic mother, but an extreme act of revenge forces two of them to deal with a bloody aftermath. Playing like a warped Greek tragedy this is a pitch-black study of lust and guilt from the Cannes-award winning director of Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter...and Spring.

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MOTHER (2009)
Certification15 Our Rating
When mentally handicapped Do-Joon is accused of murdering a teenage girl his ageing, herbalist and acupuncturist, single mother goes on a one-woman mission to protect her off-spring and prove his innocence by finding the real murderer.
As in 'Memories of Murder' Bong juggles and mixes genres in a way that western convention precludes and he does so with great success. This 'independent' movie anarchically and successfully combines murder mystery, melodrama, tragedy, social satire, psycho find out more...
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NATURAL CITY (2003)
Certification15 Our Rating
A sub-Bladerunner actioner, beautifully shot and technically crafted with some quality fight scenes, but too many longeurs, an unfocused plot and rather shallow characters. Having said which, a number of sci-fi buffs have really enjoyed this story of functionalised humans struggling to get in touch with their emotions in the bleak future world that Ridley Scott created in aforementioned movie. An obvious labour of love. find out more...
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NOWHERE TO HIDE (2001)
Certification15 Our Rating
Sungmin is a master of disguise, a mysterious assassin at work for the drug lords of Inchon, Korea. Every attempt to ensnare the killer has failed but detective Woo is determined to bring Sungmin to justice. Nowhere To Hide is a relentless action thriller, dark, atmospheric and stylized. find out more...
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OLD BOY (2004)
Certification18 Our Rating
A young married man with a baby girl is inexplicably relieved of his freedom one drunken night. Just as inexplicably released fifteen years later he is given some money and a mobile. His family now gone his only contact is the nameless, faceless voice on the other end of the phone that sets him the task of discovering the reason for his incarceration. Taken in by a young woman, love blossoms almost immediately for the two, but as he draws closer to the truth her life becomes increasingly threate find out more...
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PARASITE (2019)
Certification15 Our Rating

Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.

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PENINSULA (2020)
Certification15 Our Rating

Peninsula takes place four years after the zombie outbreak in Train to Busan. The Korean peninsula is devastated and Jung Seok, a former soldier who has managed to escape overseas, is given a mission to go back and unexpectedly meets survivors.

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PHONE (2004)
Certification15 Our Rating
After blowing the lid off of a local sex scandal, young reporter Ji-won is tormented by a series of disturbing phone calls, she changes her number but things just seem to get worse, and after answering one of these calls her best friend's infant daughter Young-Joo becomes aggressive towards her mother and all too familiar with her father. To try and unravel the cause of Young-Joo's behaviour and the nuisance calls Ji-Won delves into the dark history of the phone number and finds a mystery that f find out more...
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POETRY (2010)
Certification12 Our Rating

Mija lives in a small city by the Han River with her teenage grandson. When she discovers her grandson's part in the gang-rape and suicide of a Catholic school girl, Mija takes up poetry classes to explore her inner world while her outer world quietly implodes. Poetry is a raw, unsentimental but also hauntingly beautiful film with an intensely moving performan find out more...

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PUBLIC ENEMY (2002)
Certification18 Our Rating
After a chance meeting ruthless maverick insubordinate cop Chul-joong harasses quick tempered smooth successful fund manager Cho Gyoo-hwan accusing him of murdering his parents and a harmless salaryman. The pair engage in a power struggle leaving trails of blood intermingled with many moments of very dark humour. Well above the average for its genre. find out more...
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R-POINT (2004)
Certification15 Our Rating
The Vietman war is setting for this tight horror thriller about a team of soldiers who are sent on a search and rescue mission after a radio transmission is received from a unit sent in 6 months previously and presumed missing. The mission becomes far more complex when the soldiers find themselves under threat from an unseen and deadly enemy. Though with the odd tacky moment, and some moments of banal behaviour, this movie is full of little suprises and very creepy, with a very taut sense of psc find out more...
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SAMARITAN GIRL (2004)
Certification18 Our Rating
Two Korean school girls raise money, ostentatiously for a trip to Europe, by one pimping for the other. However it appears that the one doing the humping rather enjoys her sex, while her best mate is patently jealous of anybody threatening their closer than normal friendship. After the rather ludicrous death of the humper the pimp attempts to reverse the tide of events by sleeping with all her friend's punters and giving them their money back! The film now takes a darker turn as her cop father b find out more...
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SAVE THE GREEN PLANET (2003)
Certification18 Our Rating
Lee Byeong-Gu is your common-all-garden sensitive blue-collar sci-fi fan who believes that alien beings have infiltrated human society masquerading as ordinary citizens. Convinced that his old boss is a high ranking xenomorph Lee kidnaps him and attempts to discover, by any means necessary, the invaders' nefarious plans. This is genre-bending insanity Korean style and, if you can follow the anarchistic narrative, you're a better man than me, but who cares when you've got more violent, crazy fun find out more...
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SEOUL STATION (2016)
Certification15 Our Rating

Several groups of people try to survive a zombie pandemic that unleashes itself in downtown Seoul. 

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