Emergency Declaration (
2022) | IMDb:
6.8
While investigating a terroristic threat that goes viral online, Korean authorities discover that a suspect has recently boarded an international flight bound for the United States. When a healthy passenger on the same flight suddenly dies a gruesome death of unknown cause, panic erupts both in-flight and on the ground. With steadily decreasing fuel and international refusals to offer aid, the captain and crew will be forced to take unprecedented emergency measures in an attempt to save the lives of their passengers.
Parasite (
2019) | IMDb:
8.5
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
A Taxi Driver (
2017) | IMDb:
7.9
May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a foreigner who will pay big money for a drive down to Gwangju city. Not knowing that he’s a German journalist with a hidden agenda, Man-seob takes the job.
Starring:
Song Kang-ho
,
Thomas Kretschmann
,
Yoo Hae-jin
,
Ryu Jun-yeol
,
Park Hyeok-kwon
,
Ko Chang-seok
The Age of Shadows (
2016) | IMDb:
7.1
Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and Japanese agents trying to stop them.
Snowpiercer (
2013) | IMDb:
7.1
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer; a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
Thirst (
2009) | IMDb:
7.1
A respected priest volunteers for an experimental procedure that may lead to a cure for a deadly virus. He gets infected and dies, but a blood transfusion of unknown origin brings him back to life. Now, he’s torn between faith and bloodlust, and has a newfound desire for the wife of a childhood friend.
Starring:
Song Kang-ho
,
Kim Ok-vin
,
Kim Hae-sook
,
Shin Ha-kyun
,
Song Young-chang
,
Mercedes Cabral
The Good, the Bad, the Weird (
2008) | IMDb:
7.2
The story of three Korean outlaws in 1930s Manchuria and their dealings with the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits. The Good (a bounty hunter), the Bad (a hitman), and the Weird (a thief) battle the army and the bandits in a race to use a treasure map to uncover the riches of legend.
Starring:
Song Kang-ho
,
Lee Byung-hun
,
Jung Woo-sung
,
Yoon Je-moon
,
Song Young-chang
,
Lee Chung-ah
Secret Sunshine (
2007) | IMDb:
7.5
Shin-ae moves to her recently late husband’s hometown. Despite her efforts to settle in this unfamiliar and too-normal place, she finds that she can’t fit in. After a sudden tragedy, Shin-ae turns to Christianity to relieve her pain, but when even this is not permitted, she wages a war against God.
Starring:
Jeon Do-yeon
,
Song Kang-ho
,
Jo Young-jin
,
Seon Jeong-yeop
,
Kim Young-jae
,
Park Myung-shin
The Host (
2006) | IMDb:
7.1
A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han River after toxic waste was dumped in it, prompting her family into a frantic search for her.
Memories of Murder (
2003) | IMDb:
8.1
During the late 1980s, two detectives in a South Korean province attempt to solve the nation's first series of rape-and-murder cases.
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (
2002) | IMDb:
7.5
A deaf man and his girlfriend resort to desperate measures in order to fund a kidney transplant for his sister. Things go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a cycle of violence and revenge.
Joint Security Area (
2000) | IMDb:
7.7
Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The sergeant is the shooter, but the lead investigator, a Swiss-Korean woman, receives differing accounts from the two sides.
Starring:
Lee Young-ae
,
Lee Byung-hun
,
Song Kang-ho
,
Kim Tae-woo
,
Shin Ha-kyun
,
Christoph Hofrichter
Shiri (
1999) | IMDb:
6.5
North Korea's 8th Special Forces hijack a shipment of CTX, a potent new liquid explosive, and threatens South Korea as part of a plot to re-unify the two countries. Ryu and Lee, special agents of O.P., South Korea's secret intelligence service, attempt to track down the terrorists and find the CTX. Meanwhile Hee, the 8th's ultra-bad female sniper, resurfaces to wreak havoc and haunt Ryu.