Discoveries from South Korea World Cinema

A timid husband discovers the shady hidden past of his supposedly perfect wife.

A famous movie director arrives in a small town to finish his movie script. He sits in front of his computer in his motel, but can't think of anything to write. The director orders coffee to his room and then complains to the delivery girl of his writer's block.

A popular high school student, who is the top student of her class, mysteriously dies. Six of her friends who graduated from the same elementary school attempt to track down the reasons for her death. While the six friends try to find the truth behind her death, they struggle with teenage hardships and academic pressures.

A comic artist and an unemployed sex columnist are trying to work together in order to win a lucrative comic-book competition.

Hwa-ja has been raising three daughters alone in Busan after her husband passed away. One day, the second daughter Hye-young comes back to Busan after having continuous setbacks in Seoul. While spending time with her mom, she accidently sees a letter written in Japanese, which triggers her curiosity. She starts to ask Hwa-ja about her past life and gets to know new stories of her mother that she had never heard of.

After his parents are murdered, Bin is taken into the care of relatives. He begins to act strangely, the new occupants of his house experience horrific nightmares, and a mystery unfolds as a terrible secret is revealed.

A gorgeous movie star invites four men to a party to choose her lover. However, they start being killed and the situation gets out of control. This comic thriller is a remake of French movie “Serial Lover”.

A new wife is frustrated when her husband's job calls him away and she turns her attentions to her new step-son to help her deal with her new problem.

As a B grade erotic theater group is about to close down, affected by the economic recession, they decide to perform a proper theater play for their last show as they have always been dreaming of. Their choice of play is the classic theater play, 'Hamlet'. However, once the theater play has started running, their performance goes to an unexpected direction due to the mistakes and adlib they never thought were going to happen on the stage. Will their curtain call occur happily as they hoped in the beginning?

When an American woman begins a dangerous relationship with an attractive immigrant worker, in order to save her marriage, she finds her true self.

Woo-gon, a passionate manager who lost everything due to stock advertisements and a specialist gets together to find out the truth behind the rumors that have shaken up the country. From precious information to distribution, this crime chasing movie surrounds the invisible truth.

Min, a Korean boy, moves to Japan with his father who is a potter. One day at a local shrine, he meets Nanae, a beautiful Japanese girl with stunning eyes who is aspiring to be a painter. Min falls in love at first sight and finds out that Nanae attends the school to which he has just transferred. Their friendship develops fast despite their cultural and language difference. When Min's grandmother falls ill, Min returns to Korea and Nanae is nowhere to be found. Had his true feelings for Nanae not been apparent to her? Why has Nanae disappeared without a word?

A master and his student visit a mountain to practice pansori (a musical storytelling performed by a singer and a drummer) after a music competition which outcome has left the trainee disappointed.

A former jockey who became blind after losing his wife in an accident gets a second chance with the help of his daughter and an injured horse.

After a car accident leaves one man dead and another in a coma, it's believed that the dead man was at fault. Guilt-ridden, his wife, Hee-ju, struggles to move forward. She ends up learning that the victim had previously tried to kill himself. Suspecting the accident may have been on purpose, she begins an investigation.

A gangster's quest for revenge is sidetracked by an encounter with his target's mother in this deeply-felt hybrid of a crime thriller and a family drama.

Follows the life of a young woman who has become reserved and indifferent to the world as a result of her chronic illness deformed hand and quietly portrays the unconventional, yet endearing relationship between mother and daughter as well as the development of Min-ah as she is befriended by the high spirited and carefree photographer Young-jae who moves into their apartment complex.

Seventeen-year-old adolescence Woo Min is on his own and lives with Soo Jeong who used to be his parents' caregiver. Woo Min secretly grows fond of Soo Jeong who can't speak but finds out she's sick and feels the urge to protect her... However, as a poor minor, there's nothing he can do let alone pay her medical bills. One hot season, Woo Min sets off for a cruel world to save her.

Beginning with the suicide of a film director, this work represents the Korean New Wave Cinema movement that focused on criticizing the Korean society in the 1980s through satire and humor. The journey taken by the characters, who lead low lives at the margins of the society, award them with a sense of liberation, however brief.

One day, two beautiful part-timers suddenly appeared in the billiard room. Jennifer with her bright personality and Emma who protects and protects her by her side. In fact, their true identities were princesses of the Joseon Dynasty, but they were cursed and time slipped back to the present! But now, in just three days, you have to meet a man who will cry for you during the remaining two chances and perform hapgung to return to the era you used to live in. Otherwise, it will eventually perish here.

Seeking a break from their everyday lives, three friends head to the beach looking for a good time, but wind up chased by the police and a gang instead.

After two years of casual sex, a pair of emotionally repressed lovers abruptly part ways. But as they start new lives, memories of the past remain.

The gangster Pil-je appears on 1st Avenue in the redevelopment area and decides to do something brutal, but gradually becomes closer to the villagers and becomes confused. Pil-je begins to feel the feeling of love for boxer Myung-ran.

Shota, a machinist who dedicated his life to his work, prepares for his final business trip to Korea before retiring. Meanwhile, Daesung heads to Japan to win back his ex-girlfriend. The two men happen to meet at a ramen shop on the first day of their journeys. When Shota's resignation letter and Daesung's love letter are swapped, an unexpected story begins.

A gangster and a corrupt police officer travel to the tiny remote island of Mapado to hunt down a young woman who has run off with a winning lottery ticket. Upon arriving, they discover that no one lives there except for five old women who have not once seen a man for 20 years. Both men soon experience a nightmare of hard labor and harassment.

An easy-going corrupt detective is partnered up with a younger, more idealistic detective. The two try to influence each other to become more like themselves but must cooperate when faced with a strange case.

An eighth grade student kills himself but not before writing the names of the students who victimized him. Their parents are called into the school and a battle goes on regarding the will.

Two young men, Ye-joon and Jae-moon, have been close friends since doing military service together. Ye-joon has lately worked his way up to becoming a successful financier, while the unambitious Jae-moon has opted for a much less conspicuous route. He now works as a cook and is enjoying family life with his wife Ji-sook and their new-born son. Ji-sook tolerates her husband’s attachment to his friend, but everything changes after the tragic death of the child, caused by Ye-joon. Ji-sook was in Paris when the tragedy occurred and isn’t aware of the circumstances; she even starts an affair with Ye-joon when her husband is imprisoned after taking the blame for his son’s death. Relationships which were originally crystal-clear begin to grow distinctly cloudy.

Wannabe actor Joon-cheol is living with his girlfriend who wants to get married. He tries to convince her to get married after he's made his debut but she breaks up with him in the end and kicks him out. Joon-cheol has nowhere to go but a friend of his has to go on a business trip and asks him to take care of his pet cat. However, what's waiting for him is not a cat but a girl with aphasia. Joon-cheol quarrels with his friend about calling the cops and comes out of the house. He goes back to his girlfriend but she doesn't accept him so he starts living with the cat girl.

In June 1950, soon after the start of the Korean War, a troop of North Korean soldiers enter a small South Korean village. Captain Jeong-woong proclaims that they came to liberate the villagers but their true agenda is to ferret out the reactionaries. The villagers and Seol-hee, who is separated from her fiance on her wedding day, offer them heartfelt hospitality and cooperation to avoid falling out of the army's favor. Eventually friendships starts to build up between the soldiers and the villagers.

A high school teacher quietly living with her female partner faces disruption when her son returns from abroad with his fiancée. When the fiancée’s parents arrive unexpectedly, both families are forced to share the same house, revealing hidden tensions and clashing expectations. As days pass, the teacher’s secret illness and her same-sex relationship come to light, challenging assumptions, exposing long-held secrets, and prompting moments of confrontation, reflection, and reluctant understanding. The story examines the fragile balance between personal truth and family duty, exploring love, identity, and acceptance within the intimate pressures of home life.

Hae-won is a wife who is pathologically obsessed with her husband. When her husband, In-seong, goes to work or is out of her sight, she constantly calls him and monitors his every move. One day, Hae-won invited her best friend, Song-joo, to their house to hang out, but she began to suspect that the relationship between Song-ju and In-seong was strange, and ends up threatening her best friend's life when she comes to clear up her misunderstanding.

Seong-hee and Hyeon-hee are sisters. However, these sisters have many secrets. One secret is that the older sister, Hyeon-hee, is having an inappropriate affair with her sister's husband. Seong-hee knows about her sister and her husband, and is having an affair with her sister's boyfriend. Another secret of theirs surfaces...

An up-and-coming lawyer wakes up next to a beautiful woman with mafia connections, but neither remembers how they got there. That's a problem.

A couple is set in their monotonous life until the husband has a homosexual affair with a young male prostitute. Suspicious of her husband, the wife seeks the truth and eventually ends up in bed with the same young man. Their desire has a new meaning.

Two brothers were separated in childhood at an orphanage, only to find each other as adults 30 years later. But right after their reunion, their birth mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, suddenly disappears. So Sang-yeon and Ha-yeon team up together and go on a road trip to search for her.

Joon-gi who sends her wife and children to study abroad lives alone. But one day, he was surprised to find someone who came into his house, Mi-na. As it turns out, he got into a real estate fraud... Situation had been tight and it made her stay at home for a while. Meanwhile, her stepdaughter, Yoo-kyeong, who lives in a different house also comes home. She promises not to tell her mom that her stepfather is living with a younger woman. However, when she accidentally found her stepfather and Mi-na having sex, she feels a strange excitement...

During the Japanese occupation, a Korean modern boy, who wants to fit in with the Japanese, falls in love with a Korean freedom fighter.

Joo-man starts an affair with the younger Jin-nyeo and drives out his wife, Soon-jeong. Soon-jeong, who was kicked out to an empty house, meets a robber, Do-sik. At first, she was bullied by Do-sik, but she turned it around and began abusing him instead. Do-sik suddenly falls in love with Soon-jeong, and the two eventually plot to kidnap Joo-man and Jin-nyeo.

Young couple Mingu and Eugene. Because of her poor night job, Eugene has a romance for the object. One day, Min-gu meets his younger brother, Young-jun, at a local cafe, and invites Young-jun to the house. When Eugene asks the secret to Youngjun's wife who looks younger than her age, Miyeon says she is loved every night for her husband's big things. After that day, Eugene couldn't sleep with the thought of Yeong-jun's objective, Eventually, he blatantly seduces him...​

Gang-cheol is a legendary street fighter in Busan who cleaned up his act to care for his sick mother. Knowing he's desperate for money for his mother's operation, Sang-gon proposes that Gang-cheol works for him.

A female producer loses her fiancée in a hit and run accident and stands in the line of conflict.

Sung-Bum is a hot-tempered detective who relies on his intuition to crack cases. He rarely comes across a case that he cannot solve. The body of a police officer is then discovered in a burned out car near an abandoned building. Drugs are also found near the dead officer. To catch the killer the police department sets up a special investigation unit for the case. Sung-Bum takes part in the investigation. Ho-Ryong is a young, confident man who works as a criminal profiler. He trained with the F.B.I. in the United States. Ho-Ryong is also assigned to the special investigation unit. Ho-Ryong relies on evidence rather than instinct. Detective Sung-Bum takes an immediate dislike for Ho-Ryong.

In 1980, a giant robot crash-land in the one-of-a-kind village ‘Punch Bowl’ located in the demilitarized zone near the 38th parallel! A remarkable blockbuster robot movie unfolds, depicting the life-or-death struggle of the health clinic doctor ‘Dojin,’ who is determined to protect the people of Punch Bowl from the ruthless attacks of the combined forces of South Korea and the United States, with the extraordinary giant robot ‘Cheol-i.’

Four strangers discover a bag full of money which belongs to a corrupt politician. Instead of using the money for themselves, they decide to join forces to take down corrupt conglomerates.

A young man finds out that he is living a completely identical life to another man who lived decades ago. And when his wife is murdered the same way as the previous man's, he decides to dig into the older case to find clues about who was the murderer this time.

Mi-ra, a woman with violent and boyish personality. Jeong-seok, a timid man who finds Mi-ra's violence attractive. Jeong-seok is a visual but his every action and his slouched shoulders make him look really timid. Do opposites really attract? The two people were drawn to each other's different charms. Whenever they're having an intercourse, Mi-ra led everything, and she makes aggressive demands like scribbling on her body or swearing on her. However, the timid man's standard has not changed, and Mi-ra says goodbye to Jeong-seok. He happened to meet Tae-hee by chance. Tae-hee is a hardcore master! She is an instructor who runs a private tutoring center with Seong-ho. Jeong-seok learns the essence of being hardcore from them and begins to straighten his slouched shoulders.

Jang-soo and Seong-yeon have been married for about 10 years, but they have an unspeakable secret; Jang-soo's brother, Jae-cheol. Jae-cheol used to go out with Seong-yeon before she met Jang-soo. And although Jang-soo couldn't help but marry Seong-yeon knowing her past, he himself had a young girlfriend named Eun-hye... Jae-cheol was getting along fine with Eun-hye when one day she breaks up with him. The love story between two brothers in "Big Breasted Sister-In-Law" will soon come out.

Joon-goo is an innocent man in his 30s. He quit his job and runs a small BBQ place with his young and sexy wife, Mi-ri. Then one day, Mi-ri's sister, Na-ri, comes to their house. Na-ri is in her mid-20s. Joon-goo feels attracted to Na-ri who is calm and considerate, unlike minx Mi-ri. The two end up crossing the line after a small happening...

On the day that underground rapper Hak-soo fails his 7th audition, he receives a call from his hometown that his father is in the hospital. But he finds out that it was his father's plot to bring him to Byeon-san. To top it all, he is suspected as a phishing scam criminal and locked up in this small, boring suburb.

A washed-up bowling legend and his woman are drowning in debt. They decide to recruit an autistic genius to win money playing the game.

All men who want to have sex with their single mother-in-law or with their ideal type, gather up! A new world will be opened where you can enjoy the sex you want with the person you want. A world where you can fully enjoy things you have never done with your lover. However, there is only a slight difference in cost.

A special love story between two people on a wall. A man who stalks and a woman who enjoys stalking! The woman can't stand it and leaves a secret note at the man's door. So they have a hot night, and they decide to live together. The newlyweds who moved to the next door a few days later. The man and the woman next door who heard the moan of a newlywed couple who had sex while turning the rice cake I have a special offer for newlyweds…​

After a breakup, a young woman goes to a mountain resort on vacation and falls for a married policeman. Unbeknownst to her, her ex is also vacationing there.

A Korean company analyst rear-ends an American man's car then discovers he's her new boss. Unlucky at love, she begins to take romance lessons from him in order to seduce him.

A member of Coast Guard Platoon 23, Private Kang monitors a high-infiltration stretch of beach lined with barbed-wire fencing. Driven by the belief that killing a spy is the highest honor, he waits for a chance to prove his worth.