The Best Films From South Korea

The story concerns a man who finally buys a home after saving up for 11 years, only for it to almost immediately collapse into a sinkhole.

Sinkhole (2021)

An evil spirit that changes faces infiltrates one family placing one brother in danger while the other tries to save him.

Metamorphosis (2019)

The movie director Ba Ram, who happened to meet Mool Kyul at a travel destination, somehow keeps hovering around her because he can't help but care. Just like that, the people who have been busy chasing precious dreams begin to share their wounds and pain with each other and open their hearts... The moment one gives up on dreams, will everything be lost? Can these two young people who couldn't have any courage, create a brilliant melody of hope again?

I Will, Song (2021)

Everglow begins with the cute struggle of Kyung-hoon (Ji Hyun-woo), who visited Jeju to make a documentary about Jin-ok (Ko Doo-sim), a female diver. Kyunghoon’s work becomes a sincere mission for the souls buried in the deep sea and mountains.

Everglow (2021)

An aircraft forced to declare an emergency when an unprecedented terror incident occurs in-flight.

Emergency Declaration (2021)

스틸 라이프 (2000)

An investigative reporter seeks to expose the whereabouts of a slush fund belonging to the former president of South Korea, Lee Myung-bak.

The Reservoir Game (2017)

A mix of social classes and characters mingle at the Eoksutang, a popular public sauna, every afternoon. Wan-ki, a wannabe movie director, a monk with VD, nude photographer searching for the perfect body, a Russian model and a peeping Tom are among the clients.

3pm Paradise (1997)

What Are You Looking At? (2015)

Gun-woo is an intern in the surgery department who pursues a moment of pleasure as an escape from the weight of reality. He expresses his life's discontent by playing a saxophone at 'A Very Small World' and indulging in physical play. It is a place for the misfits of society, anarchists, Vietnam veterans, bums, artists and performers. Hasegawa Sayuri, a reporter for a TV company in Japan comes to Korea to do a story called '47 Years of Bitterness of Bomb Victims. She visits Gun-woo's teacher, Professor Song, to investigate victims of Hiroshima atomic bomb in Korea. There, she and Gun-woo run into each other.

Jazz Bar Hiroshima (1992)

2500 years ago, there were 2 mysterious beings that tormented humans. These beings were locked up in 2 caskets by a formidable power, and in order for them to assume their form, they must infiltrate 7 vulnerable human hosts. Centuries later, Monk Ha-jung, the protector of one of the caskets, realizes that one of the beings has reawaken and orders his fellow monk Chung-seok to seek Jin-soo, who was born to stop these beings. Knowing fully well what this being is capable of, Jin-soo begins the hunt to find the being with Chung-seok in order to stop it once and for all.

The 8th Night (2021)

They’re losers, but nice ones. Every day they sit at Yeri’s bar, smitten by the young Chinese-Korean woman. Yeri doesn’t have a preference. To her, they are equally sweet: Jongbin, a milk-drinking epileptic, Ikjune, a former petty criminal, and the introverted Jungbum, who fled from North Korea.

A Quiet Dream (2016)