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A poor boarder inherits 30 million dollars from an American soldier whose life he saved during the Korean War. The stingy landlady instantly turns into a completely different person, women swarm around him, and charities ask him for donations. Gangsters come forward and try to kill him...

After Jiwoo, who lives with his grandmother, suddenly disappears, police investigation begins, and statements follow from children who claim they were harmed by Jiwoo's problematic behavior. Then Gaeul, Jiwoo's only friend, makes a statement that Jiwoo is actually an alien who, unable to adapt to Earth, is returning to his own planet. Is Jiwoo really an alien from outer space who wants to return to his planet?

Se-hyun, who had a car accident three months ago, is preparing for the World Climbing Competition. She suffers from nightmares due to her unrecoverable condition and pressure on competition. Then one night, a phone call is made to Sehyun's cell phone, which was broken at the time of the accident.

One day, her family gathers for an offering and they worry that she's the only one without a boyfriend. Her brother-in-law, Ho-seok, sets her up on a blind date with his colleague, Min-soo, who has always been nice to him. The more she talks to Min-soo, the more Seo-ri realizes she is interested in her brother-in-law, Ho-seok. She then tries to meet up with him frequently.

Sang-gyu is a baseball player suffering from a batting slump. His unlucky streak ends when he meets a girl who is dying of anemia.

The poor farmers of Muju in Cheonbuk Province cannot get enough water to irrigate their rice. They attempt many times to build a canal to the Geum River, but fail each time. After the military coup of 1962 however, the government gives its full support and helps the villagers succeed

A college student trudges to the home of a student she tutors. When she arrives, the home is empty and the family tells her over the phone that they’re on vacation. Filmed in real time, the film lets us experience everything just as she does. And something horrible awaits.

It is about life of Princess Deokon who is the last princess of the Joseon Dynasty in 1837.

A high school student named Eungyo Han is recording her life in 2004.

Yeji confesses to having indigestion.

1. Just married couple Mun-Su and Yeon-Yeon happened to meet a bandit when they are walking in a mountain. Mun-Su runs away alone and Yoen-Yeon bits her tongue to death in danger of rape. Meanwhile the bridegroom finds a deserted house where he stays that night. Yeon-Yeon's resented spirit changes into a girl and tempts him to go to dead world together. 2. A rich nobleman Mr. Kim is eager to have a baby when he meets Kong-Nyeo. Soon she becomes his concubine and is pregnant. Mr. Kim's wife is madly jealous of Kong-Nyeo and locks her in a separate house. As soon as Kong-Nyeo gives birth to a baby, Mrs. Kim kills Kong-Nyeo and pretends the baby is hers. Resented and sad spirit of Kong-Nyeo drives Mr. Kim's house in fear.

Bong-sam abandons his sick wife Sun-im and young son Gwi-dong for a rich widow named Yeon-wol. Sun-im dies and Gwi-dong is raised by Yeon-wol, who severely abuses young Gwi-dong. Sun-im's soul, which cannot leave this world, stays to protect her son. She asks Yeon-wol to be a good mother to Gwi-dong but Yeon-wol takes no heed, and her abuse continues. Sun-im kills Yeon-wol and asks a wandering monk to take in her son, then leaves for the other world.

In a small army unit, far from the outside world, there is a young soldier hiding a secret he doesn't want to share. Every time he stands guard during the night watch, he sees smoke rising from the forest. However, for some reason, it seems no one else can see the smoke.

In a world where people start to stop one by one, Eunae wanders from one place to another with her dog, Mongi. While walking through a stopped street, she faces her childhood. Upon her arrival at ruins, she meets a man who had been waiting for her, without having stopped.

A prisoner on death row feels suicidal in his cell. However, he finds a glimmer of hope from his daughter's letter and the lawyer's suggestion that they make use of a breach in the law.

This music documentary follows the path of Yoon Do-hyun Band on its daring adventure of a tour of Europe. During the month-long tour of Europe, sharing a bus with an unknown British rock band, the band members are faced with the challenge of performing for 2 hours in front of an audience of 20. Such experience brings them back to where everything started. What they were faced with was not a new audience but perhaps their own forgotten selves.

Soo-hyuk works for a dating agency and changes partners several times a day. He's tired and skeptical of clients who want violent sex, but when he enters a strange house today, the man is strangely sweet.

At the eastern end of Seoul, in a huge apartment complex, it has long been a paradise for cats and people to run around and give love and joy together. However, there are people who are worried about cats who are not leaving the place which will be demolished soon, ahead of reconstruction. "I want to ask. Do you want to keep living here?" For the happy farewell of cats and people, a beautiful struggle begins!

A talk-show host, usually known for spreading positive energy and inspiration, suddenly decides to vent and let out some bitter remarks as a wake-up call to his audience.

Records and memories, seeing and showing. The place where the director was born and grew up, and two cities in Germany were captured in super 8mm film cameras. The work contains the process of finding one's own records, going through the city, recording memories, and returning to Korea to discover new memories.

Two widows, one American and one Korean, frequent the same park in Philadelphia. Using only sign language, and as the seasons pass, they tenaciously attempt to form a bond.

Sultan of the Disco was proclaimed "the first lip sync dance group in Hongdae." Now, they have since become one of the most well-known bands in the Hongdae music scene. The director decided to make a documentary about the band when they were officially invited to the Glastonbury Festival in England in 2014. The director originally expected to record some scenes as he followed the process of the band making their second studio album. However, you never know what the future will bring.

One day, Pastor Hongdo finds her daughter's pregnancy tester in a trash can.

Ji-yeon and Do-jin are exhausted from years of IVF treatment. They don't remember what life was like before. She continues to experience the pain of separation from a child she has never met. Do-jin is worried about her health and wants her to quit, but she can't. "Why can't I be a mother?" She won't give up.

The scattered families gather and visit their mother.

During the Japanese colonial period, 22 Korean female workers were forced to work in a spinning mill in Osaka across the sea to support their families. Despite facing discrimination and violence, their testimonies and life-affirming songs of victory have endured.

'Ocean Like Me' is a healing food romance between Han Ba Da, a young entrepreneur who dreams of starting an udon restaurant with a beach in the background but finds serving customers difficult. Ba Da then meets Tommy, a failed musician who returns to his hometown after wandering and has a new dream. Together, both of them step towards their dreams.

Yong-Jae, 33 year-old amateur wrestler, will have a match for the national team today, which could be his last chance in his life.

After the premature death of her son, Jung-sook learns to read and write by transcribing her late son's anthology, Passing Over the Hill. In search of her son's remnants, Jung-sook visits his university in Seoul and encounters the people who remember him. She wants to find her son's hill.

A poor aspiring filmmaker juggles between intermittent assistant director-work and distributing flyers on the street. He marries a Thai woman who moves in with him without a decent wedding. She struggles to adjust to life in Korea, learning Korean while searching for work. Unfortunately things are not so easy, and her husband’s dream of becoming a filmmaker just seems like a mirage. The man breaks his wife’s heart when he brings her recycled clothes from a female filmmaker friend or accepts a TV network friend’s request to shoot him for a program introducing the daily life of an assistant director who has no hope of breaking into the business. His wife is ashamed that their life is considered miserable and that their poor state will be broadcast on national TV, nevertheless the man takes no account of her feelings. She cannot take it anymore and declares she is returning to Thailand.

The Korean Academy of Film Arts has produced an animation for 3 consecutive years through a collaborative project. Considering the severe reality of Korean animation in that it lacks an industrial infrastructure, "The House" demonstrates the possibilities of Korean animation and the efficiency of collective production. While comparing apartments in the downtown core to the shabby environment of a marginalized district, "The House" portrays the collapse of the spirits dwelling at the house. As such the adventure of Ga-young and the spirits in the house becomes a criticism of modern society: enlightenment via animation. Although this animation may not have the most delicate or original style, the 5 animators that worked on this film unleashed their imaginations, ultimately showcasing the power of a collective process and a pleasure of the collective imagination.

The people of Murendo Island make their living by fishing. Once, strangers from the city came to this island and tried to deceive the islanders, taking away their right to free fishing.

Names of Revolution recalls the memories of those who participated in the struggle to rewrite the history of the “Busan-Masan Democratic Protests,” which has been under-represented in modern Korean history. As the then college students, seamstresses, mold technicians, combat police, workers, bus drivers, advertising planners, and photojournalists pour out their memories from over 40 years ago before the camera, vivid words come to life.

Major corporations and the financial industry are thought to be the case of growth in exports and also the dangers of the IMF. The realities of the '97 Asian Financial Crisis and the IMF bailout are looked into in detail. While the government-led economic growth was being replaced by a neo-liberalistic one represented by a ‘global standard,’ there was an expert bureaucratic body. Meanwhile, Korea’s first general trading company was turned into the 4th largest major corporation by Kim Woochoong, who criticized the government and pushed for greater focus on international exports. With the old order of Korean economics facing the new, the summer of ’99 tells the story of the ticking time bomb of Daewoo.

In the second part of the dilogy about the brave fighter for justice, Hong Gil-dong, it is shown how he cracks down on a gang of criminals led by the Black Hood.

The documentary starts with a diva of a tragic family history related to a history of migration. The rare archival footage reanimates her history reverberating with the current world crisis. Sound of Nomad: Koryo Arirang is a testimonial – a witness to injustice and tragedy, but it is also a declaration of survival – a survival that is not static but transformative – not brittle but fluid. The trains that displace, the deserts that separate form one harsh horizon – a historical limit – but within that limit, against it and across it are people, are a culture, not escaping but flourishing unofficially, with the affective majesty of a melody, a rhythm, an Arirang

A Korean girl in the past visits in the future Korea. She is a Korean independence activist for protest against Japanese colonial rule on Mar 1st, 1919.

A grandmother tries to learn to play the drums. She finally found a young man who was willing to teach her to play the drums and the young man was a former drummer for a death-metal band.

Tae Hyun, an orphan who grew up in South Korea after his father was killed in North Korea, forms a close bond with Yoon Sik. Tae Hyun falls in love with Yoon Sik's sister, Seong Sil, but they break up for his future. Yoon Sa Jang mentors Tae Hyun in business, and Tae Hyun eventually falls for Yoon Sa Jang's daughter, Ok Kyung. Seong Sil later reunites Tae Hyun with his long-lost mother at his wedding.

Yeo-bin and Hae-Kwang, a broken-up couple, head to a place to meet with a new family for their cat. But where they arrived is a remote reservoir. There, they couldn’t find the adopter, but instead, a locked fridge.

A documentary that deeply focuses and visits the trauma of Korea's modern history for 70 years through the life of a father whose family was indifferent.

Portrait of Mrs. B., a tough charismatic North Korean woman who smuggles between North Korea, China and South Korea. With the money she gets, she plans to reunite with her two North Korean sons after years of separation.

A female zoology student saves a man whose life was so miserable as to choose to die and puts him on her test bed to make him a monster. She makes the monster take his father's revenge one by one. She is crushed to death under a huge building tore down by the monster.

The perpetrator must be upset than me, my family, But when you forgive the perpetrator is a family.

South Korean horror movie from 1972.