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Plot Summary:
A three-tiered story centered on a trio of French tourists visiting the same seaside resort.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: contemplative, semi serious, clever, humorous, realistic, anthology, eros, offbeat, student film
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Night and Day (2008)
Plot Summary:
Kim Seong-nam travels to Paris to escape an arrest, leaving his wife behind in Korea. After he arrives, he meets an ex-girlfriend and is introduced to a small community of Korean artists.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, touching, captivating
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On the Beach at Night Alone (2017)
Plot Summary:
An actress wanders around a seaside town, pondering her relationship with a married man.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea, Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: melancholic, sincere, captivating, disturbing, atmospheric, realistic, art house, existential, poetic, semi autobiographical
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Claire's Camera (2017)
Plot Summary:
On a business trip to the Cannes Film Festival, Manhee is accused of being dishonest, and fired. A teacher named Claire goes around taking photos with a Polaroid camera. She gets to know Manhee and sympathizes with her. Claire is like a person who can see Manhee’s possible future or past selves, through the mysterious power of the beach tunnel. Through taking photos, Claire has acquired the ability to look slowly at things, and to transform objects. Now, Claire goes with Manhee to the café where she was fired. We look forward to seeing Claire’s power at work.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea, France
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, realistic, art house
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The Power of Kangwon Province (1998)
Plot Summary:
Recently separated lovers (Baek Jong-hak, Oh Yun-hong) have a series of close encounters at a popular mountain retreat.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 997
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, experimental, sexual, crying, sexy
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On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (2002)
Plot Summary:
Actor Gyung-soo (Kim Sang-kyung) is passed over for a part and decides to leave Seoul and visit a friend. His friend tells him the legend of the "Turning Gate," which foreshadows future events. During his visit, Gyung-soo meets Myung-sook (Ye Ji-won), a girl who quickly falls for him. After a night of passion, he boards the train back for Seoul and meets a married woman who claims to know him. Gyung-soo thinks he may be in love with her, but perhaps he's chosen the wrong woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious, poetic, sexual, sexy
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Tale of Cinema (2005)
Plot Summary:
In Seoul, the paths of two men and one woman intersect and move apart from one another, centering around their love for cinema. A suicidal student meets a young woman who decides to follow him in his fatal gesture. Coming out of a cinema, Tongsu, an unsuccessful filmmaker, spots a beautiful young woman, and recognizes her : she is the main actress in the film he has just seen. The life of this wavering and distressed young man strangely echoes the one of the young man from the beginning.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, South Korea
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, stylized, independent film, gloomy
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The Naked Kitchen (2009)
Plot Summary:
Today is Mo-rae and Sang-in’s one-year wedding anniversary. After a busy morning preparing for the celebration, Mo-rae goes to an art gallery to find a gift for Sang-in. At the gallery, she meets a complete stranger and the two unexpectedly have sex. Mo-rae returns home feeling anxious and guilty about the incident and cannot help but confess it to Sang-in. That night, a visitor arrives at their house; Du-rae, who came from Paris to help Sang-in with his new business. To Mo-rae’s shock, he is the man from the gallery. He temporarily lives with the couple in their house and a risky love triangle begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, semi serious, realistic, romantic comedy
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Hill of Freedom (2014)
Plot Summary:
A Japanese man arrives in Korea to find his old lover. While he stays at a guest house, he encounters various people.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, realistic, non-linear, cerebral
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Hotel by the River (2018)
Plot Summary:
An old poet staying for free in a riverside hotel summons his two estranged sons. This is because he feels, for no apparent reason, like he is going to die. After being betrayed by the man she was living with, a young woman gets a room at the hotel. Seeking support, she summons a friend. The poet spends a day with his sons and tries to wrap up the loose ends in his life. But it's not so easy to do that in one day. But then he sees the young woman and her friend, after a sudden, unbelievably heavy snowfall.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, poetic
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The Day He Arrives (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sang-Joon is a professor in the film department at a provincial university. He goes to Seoul to meet his senior, Young-Ho, who works as a film critic. Sang-Joon stays in a northern village in Seoul for 3 days.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: serious, sentimental, touching, realistic, black and white, poetic, crying
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Ha Ha Ha (2010)
Plot Summary:
Over drinks, two friends agree to swap fond memories of their recent trips to the same seaside town. As the stories unfold in flashback, we realize their accounts take place at the same time—and with the same people—in this potent swirl of chance encounters, nostalgia, heartbreak and grace from Korea’s highly regarded auteur.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: emotional, light, humorous, captivating, sex comedy, touching, serious, realistic
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Oki’s Movie (2010)
Plot Summary:
A love story between a middle aged professor, a young female student who prepares a movie and a student/filmmaker who drinks too much.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: captivating, humorous, semi serious, psychological, sentimental, anthology, touching, realistic
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The Uncertainty Principle (2002)
Plot Summary:
Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: realistic, contemplative, cynical, serious, talky, stylized, clever, offbeat, humorous
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Two (2002)
Plot Summary:
Isabelle Huppert stars as a pair of twin sisters in Werner Schroeter's gorgeously composed and utterly berserk opus stuffed to overflowing with sailors, drag queens, suicides, cemeteries, doppelgängers, fickle foxes and operatic arias.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Portugal
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, non-linear, serious, controversial, offbeat, contemplative
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Loveholic (2009)
Plot Summary:
Film examines the matters of labor and love. After losing her job, a single professional woman moves into her friend's flat -- where she develops an attraction to her friend's husband. Meanwhile, the friend finds herself falling for one of her husband's colleagues.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, captivating
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Smoking/No Smoking (1993)
Plot Summary:
"Smoking" and "No Smoking" are two segments of the film which are based on closely connected plays. The original plays covered eight separate stories, which have been pared down to three each for these movies. At a certain point in the story of each segment, the five female characters (all played by Sabine Azema) and the four male characters (all played by Pierre Arditi) have their lives skillfully recapped in terms of "what might have happened" if they had made or failed to make certain choices. For example, "No Smoking" focuses chiefly on the relationship between the mild-mannered Miles Coombes and his infinitely more aggressive and ambitious wife, Rowena.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 298 min
Plot tags: clever, anthology, postmodern, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (2000)
Plot Summary:
Wealthy Jae-hoon meets attractive writer Soo-jung through their mutual friend, filmmaker Young-soo. While Jae-hoon tries to pursue a romance with Soo-jung, things get complicated when it becomes apparent that Young-soo also has feelings for the young woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, romantic comedy, clever, black and white
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Dance Town (2010)
Plot Summary:
A North Korean refugee, Jung-Nim, is trying to find a new life in South Korea, with people suspecting that she is a spy.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, touching, sincere, thought provoking, bleak, contemplative, gloomy
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Woman on the Beach (2006)
Plot Summary:
Stymied by writer's block while crafting his latest script, director Kim Jung-rae persuades his friend Won Chang-wook to drive him to a beach resort—where he promptly becomes involved with Chang-wook's girlfriend. Abandoning her and taking up with another woman, Jung-rae winds up creating enough drama to inspire his writing.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, touching, emotional, semi serious, serious, gloomy, sexual, sexy
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Our Sunhi (2013)
Plot Summary:
Sunhi from the Department of Film stops by the school one day to get a letter of recommendation from Professor Choi to leave to the US. She expects him to write her a nice one since he took favor to her. She runs into two men from the past she's never met in a long time; Moon-soo, a recently turned movie director and senior director Jae-hak.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, sincere, romantic, sentimental, witty, talky, semi serious
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April Snow (2005)
Plot Summary:
A man and a woman meet in the hospital after their respective partners are involved in a car accident and learn that they've been having an affair.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, sexy, romantic, romantic comedy, contemplative, gloomy
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Like You Know It All (2009)
Plot Summary:
Delightfully comic exploration of the emotional and social geography of an art-house film director.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 836
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, realistic, uplifting, emotional, semi serious, offbeat, humorous
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Wedding Dress (2010)
Plot Summary:
Overly obsessive compulsive and too premature, Sora is easily distanced by her friends. Growing up without a father is something she would like to be fussy about with her mom, but Sora is still the one and only daughter of and the biggest support to Go-woon. Once she finds out about her mom’s dying condition, this mature 9-year-old learns to overcome her difficulty in sharing food with others and asks her classmates to be her friends to make sure her mom feels at ease.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 799
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: semi serious, sad, psychological, sentimental, captivating, contemplative, humorous, realistic
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Woman Is the Future of Man (2004)
Plot Summary:
As the first snow falls in Seoul, two old friends reunite; one is a successful college professor, and the other, a struggling filmmaker recently returned from the United States. After their reminiscences, they finally decide to go in search of the young woman each had romanced years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea, France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, touching, emotional, romantic comedy, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Seaside (2002)
Plot Summary:
Seaside takes place in a small coastal town on the Bay of Somme. The year-round inhabitants find ways to make their lives work; Paul, a lifeguard in the summer, works at the grocery all winter. His mother, Rose (Ogier) likes to play the slots just about anytime; his girlfriend Marie works in the local factory - the town's biggest business - but watching the summertime vacationers each year just makes her increasingly curious about what else might be out there. From these and several other stories, aided by close, revealing observations, we see a community perched between transition and stasis.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, realistic, semi serious, humorous, contemplative, gloomy
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The Sacred Family (2005)
Plot Summary:
It's Easter in the beach house of a Chilean well-to-do and nowadays family. A self-centered and successful father, a disoriented mother and a son overshadowed by his successful father. The three of them, wait for the arrival of the son's first official girlfriend; a disturbing and rebellious young lady who will invade the house with her powerful sexual load and other "gifts", breaking loose an emotional cataclysm with no stepping back.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Common Ground (2002)
Plot Summary:
In Buenos Aires, a few days before traveling to Spain with his beloved wife Liliana Rovira to visit their son Pedro, the leftist Literature professor Fernando Robles is compulsory retired in the University, and he concludes that it is impossible to live with his pension. The crisis in Argentina does not allow Fernando to get a new job, and his wife decides to sell her family's apartment and move to a small farm near Villa Dolores to reduce their expenses. Fernando comes up with the idea to grow lavender and sell the oil to the perfume industry.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, clever, touching, realistic, contemplative, semi serious
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Nobody's Daughter Haewon (2013)
Plot Summary:
Haewon, a college student, wants to end her secret affair with her professor, Seongjun. Feeling depressed after bidding farewell to her mother who is set to immigrate to Canada the next day, Haewon seeks out Seongjun again after a long time. That day, they run into her classmates at a restaurant and their relationship gets revealed. Haewon gets more agitated and Seongjun makes an extreme suggestion to run away together… Haewon dreams often. Her dreams will be compared to her waking life, but none can be denied as being a part of her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, atmospheric, touching, serious, psychological, sexy, sincere, thought provoking, contemplative, gloomy
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Silenced (2011)
Plot Summary:
Based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: disturbing, emotional, serious, bleak, realistic, dark, intense, depressing, sad, noir
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The Secret Lives of Dentists (2002)
Plot Summary:
An introspective dentist's suspicions about his wife's infidelity stresses his mental well being and family life to the breaking point.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, emotional, talky, sincere, thought provoking, touching, semi serious, humorous, independent film, realistic