— korean movie picks
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Hear Me: Our Summer
Cho Sun-ho · 2024
A job seeking dreamer Yong-jun works part-time at his parents' lunch box house. Yeo-reum lives only to support for hearing-impaired swimmer sister. One day, Yong-jun meets Yeo-reum while delivering lunch boxes and falls in love at the first sight. Yeo-reum slowly opens her heart to warm-hearted Yong-jun.
Midnight Runners
Jason Kim · 2017
Two apathetic police academy recruits who become best buddies through the tough training together witness a woman being abducted right before their very eyes. As they were taught in the academy, they quickly report the incident to the police, but the police are in no hurry to jump on the case. So the duo decide to take the matter into their own hands and rescue the woman.
Love Untangled
Namkoong Sun · 2025
A lovestruck teen plans to win the school heartthrob by going from curly to straight hair — until a new transfer student changes everything.
Brave Citizen
Park Jin-pyo · 2023
An expelled boxing champion, who now is a high-school teacher, witnesses intolerable violence and throws her first punch to build justice against it, while putting on a mask.
Ballerina
이충현 · 2023
Grieving the loss of a best friend she couldn't protect, an ex-bodyguard sets out to fulfill her dear friend's last wish: sweet revenge.
Parasite
Bong Joon-ho · 2019
Tanto Gi Taek (Song Kang-ho) como su familia están sin trabajo. Cuando su hijo mayor, Gi Woo (Choi Woo-sik), empieza a dar clases particulares en casa de Park (Lee Seon-gyun), las dos familias, que tienen mucho en común pese a pertenecer a dos mundos totalmente distintos, comienzan una interrelación de resultados imprevisibles.
Love and Leashes
Park Hyun-jin · 2022
Love never hurt so good for two co-workers who enter a contractual relationship as partners in consensual play, pleasure and pain.
The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil
Lee Won-tae · 2019
After barely surviving a brutal attack by a sadistic serial killer, crime boss Jang Dong-su is left humiliated. Determined to catch the killer known as K, he forms an uneasy alliance with Jung Tae-seok, a relentless and incorruptible detective who often disrupts his illegal business. However, while Jang Dong-su wants K dead, Jung Tae-suk is determined to bring him to justice. With a deal in place—whoever finds K first will decide his fate—the hunt begins, blurring the lines between crime and law.
Miracle in Cell No. 7
Lee Hwan-kyung · 2013
A story about a mentally ill man wrongfully imprisoned for murder and his relationship with his 6 year old daughter.
The Handmaiden
Park Chan-wook · 2016
1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sookee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle Kouzuki. But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to elope with him, rob her of her fortune, and lock her up in a madhouse. The plan seems to proceed according to plan until Sookee and Hideko discover some unexpected emotions.
The Thieves
Choi Dong-hoon · 2012
A gang of South Korean thieves team up with a Hong Kong crew to steal a diamond necklace from a heavily-guarded casino safe in Macau. As the cops close in, old betrayals — and misunderstandings — resurface.
The Beauty Inside
Im Meari · 2018
The love story between a top actress and an airline director who each suffers an unusual phenomenon. He suffers from prosopagnosia, while every month she transforms into someone else for a week.
Start-Up
Choi Jung-yol · 2019
Two boys are becoming real adults during a turbulent time as they experience a world that doesn't go their way.
The Beauty Inside
백 · 2015
Woo-jin se despierta cada día dentro de un cuerpo distinto, con diferente edad, sexo o nacionalidad. Algunas veces es un hombre, otras una mujer; un anciano o un joven, incluso a veces un extranjero. Dentro es la misma persona, pero por fuera siempre es alguien nuevo, lo que es algo difícil de llevar. Lo único constante en su vida es la chica a la que ama, Yi-soo, que sabe lo que le ocurre y le quiere de todas formas.
Midnight
Kwon Oh-seung · 2021
A serial killer ruthlessly hunts down a deaf woman through the streets of South Korea after she witnesses his brutal crime.
Train to Busan
연상호 · 2016
When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.
Love Reset
Nam Dae-joong · 2023
A married couple who received a divorce settlement lose their memories in an accident. With amnesia, they fall in love again, so their families try to restore their memories to finalize the divorce.
200 Pounds Beauty
Kim Yong-hwa · 2006
Based on a Japanese manga, Kanna-San, Daiseikou Desu, this story revolves around Kang Han-na, an overweight phone sex employee and secret vocalist for Ammy, a famous Korean pop singer who actually lip syncs as she cannot sing. After getting humilitated publicly by an ungrateful Ammy, Han-na undergoes an extreme makeover to become a pop sensation herself.
20th Century Girl
Bang Woo-ri · 2022
In 1999, a teen girl keeps close tabs on a boy in school on behalf of her deeply smitten best friend – then she gets swept up in a love story of her own.
The First Ride
Nam Dae-joong · 2025
Four lifelong friends—Tae-jeong, Do-jin, Yeon-min, and Geum-bok—dreamed of an epic trip abroad, but life got in the way. Years later, older but not necessarily wiser, they finally embark on their long-overdue journey. Planned as a carefree getaway, however, the trip derails into a whirlwind of unexpected chaos, hilariously absurd detours, and buried emotions resurfacing. As they stumble through misadventures, their first ride together turns into a spectacular journey—one for the ages.
Extreme Job
Lee Byeong-heon · 2019
A drug squad attempts to take down a criminal organization and they must go undercover to do so, so they begin working at a chicken restaurant, that becomes famous for its delicious chicken. Due to the unexpected popularity, the detectives find themselves in a situation they never expected.
