Kang-ho Song
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Korean
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Description
A zeitgeist-defining sensation that distilled a global reckoning over class inequality into a tour de force of pop-cinema subversion, this is Bong Joon Ho₂s genre-scrambling black-comic thriller. Two families in Seoul, one barely scraping by in a dank semi-basement in a low-lying neighborhood, the other living in luxury in a modern architectural marvel overlooking the city, find themselves on a collision course that will lay bare the dark contradictions...
2) Snowpiercer
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car by car up to the front of the train, where the oppressive...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Korean
Formats
Description
Kim Ki-teak's family are all unemployed and living in a squalid basement. When his son gets a tutoring job at the lavish home of the Park family, the Kim family's luck changes. One by one they gradually infiltrate the wealthy Park's home, attempting to take over their affluent lifestyle.
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
Korean
Formats
Description
It's 1930's Manchuria, and greed is in the air. A manic outlaw, a nasty holy man, and a determined bounty hunter are all in hot pursuit of a treasure map. Throw in Chinese gangsters, the Japanese army, and other rival factions also in pursuit of the invaluable map, and it all comes down to a big showdown in the desert.
5) Thirst
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Korean
Description
Sang-hyun is a priest working for a hospital. He selflessly volunteers for a secret vaccine development project intended to eradicate a deadly virus. However, the virus eventually takes over the priest. He nearly dies, but makes a miraculous recovery after receiving an accidental transfusion of vampire blood. He quickly realizes his sole reason for living involves taking the pleasures of the flesh. He struggles to control his insatiable thirst for...
Publisher
Palm Pictures
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
When two North Korean soldiers are killed, supposedly by one South Korean soldier, it threatens to ignite a full-scale conflict. An impartial Swiss intelligence team is sent to investigate and they quickly find flaws in the official version of events.
8) Broker
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Korean
Description
Two brokers who sell orphaned infants, circumvent the bureaucracy of legal adoption. After an infant's mother surprises the duo by returning to ensure her child finds a good home, the three embark on a journey to find the right couple.
9) The host
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In Seoul, an American army doctor forces his assistant to dump bottle after bottle of formaldehyde into the drain. The drain runs into the Han River, the major river running through the middle of Seoul. His only reason is that the bottles are covered with a layer of dust. Six years later, a food cart operator, Gang-du falls asleep every time his dad, Hie-bong, is away from the stand for more than a few minutes. Soon, his daughter, Hyun-Seo returns...
Publisher
CJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Korean
Description
Set in the late 1920s, the story follows a cat-and-mouse game between a group of resistance fighters who want to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and the Japanese agents trying to stop them. A talented Korean-born Japanese police officer, who was previously in the independence movement himself, is torn between his duty as an officer and his instinct to support the greater cause.
Series
Publisher
Tartan Video USA
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
Korean
Description
Unable to afford proper care for his dying sister, Ryu turns to the black market to sell his own organs, only to end up cheated of his life savings. He is urged to kidnap the daughter of a wealthy industrialist, but the con turns into a quest for revenge.
Series
Criterion collection volume 576
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Korean
Description
A master of intensely emotional human dramas, director Lee Chang-dong is a leading light of contemporary Korean cinema, and his place on the international stage was cemented by his stirring and unpredictable work examining grief and deliverance. An effortless mix of light and uncompromising darkness, Secret Sunshine is the story of a widowed piano teacher who moves with her young son from Seoul to her late husband's provincial hometown for a fresh...
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Korean
Description
A police detective receives a threatening tip about a terrorist attack against a passenger plane but discovers the suspect has already boarded the flight. When a man on board suddenly dies from an infectious virus, fear and chaos spread quickly amongst passengers and crew. As the pilot declares an emergency, can the detective stop this biological weapon from killing everyone onboard in time to safely land or is this flight ultimately doomed to crash?...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Korean
Description
Based on the true story of a string of serial killings that rocked a rural community in the 1980s, a local officer reluctantly joins forces with a seasoned Seoul detective to investigate the crimes, leading each man on a wrenching, yearslong odyssey of failure and frustration that will drive him to the existential edge.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Korean
Description
Based on the true story of a string of serial killings that rocked a rural community in the 1980s, a local officer reluctantly joins forces with a seasoned Seoul detective to investigate the crimes, leading each man on a wrenching, yearslong odyssey of failure and frustration that will drive him to the existential edge.
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Korean
Description
Based on a true story set in 1980, a down-on-his-luck taxi driver from Seoul is hired by a foreign journalist who wants to go to the town of Gwangju for the day. They arrive to find a city under siege by the military government, with the citizens, led by a determined group of college students, rising up to demand freedom. What began as an easy fare becomes a life-or-death struggle in the midst of the Gwangju Uprising, a critical event in modern South...
17) The attorney
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Korean
Description
Song Woo-seok has no clients, connections, nor college degree, but his eye for business and appetite for money make him the most successful lawyer in town. But at the peak of his success, a local teenager is falsely accused of a crime, then beaten and tortured while waiting in jail. Shocked by these conditions, Song takes the case no one else will, and changes the course of his life.
Publisher
Arrow Video
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When two North Korean soldiers are killed, supposedly by one South Korean soldier, it threatens to ignite a full-scale conflict. An impartial Swiss intelligence team is sent to investigate and they quickly find flaws in the official version of events.
20) The face reader
Publisher
Showbox/Mediaplex and Jupiter Film
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Korean
Description
Set during the seizure of the throne by Sejo of Joseon in the year 1455, the movie follows the life of Nae-Kyung. Nae-Kyung, the son of a ruined noble family, goes all around Joseon and studies physiognomy. He is able to assess the personality, mental state and habits of a person by looking at someone's face. Because of his abilities, he gets involved in a power struggle between Prince Sooyang and Kim Jong-Seo.