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Plot Summary:
A poor North Korean fisherman finds himself an accidental defector, and is groomed to be a spy by an ambitious South Korean military officer.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: exciting, thought provoking, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Red Family (2013)
Plot Summary:
A growing friendship with their neighbors softens the resolve of a group of North Korean spies who are posing as an ordinary South Korean family.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Over the Border (2006)
Plot Summary:
After learning that his grandfather is alive and living in Seoul, a North Korean musician must leave his fiancee behind and accompany his family to South Korea.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Natarang (2010)
Plot Summary:
Guna is a village labourer in the hinterlands of Maharashtra. Holding a passion for the 'tamasha' theatre shows, he decides to start his own troupe. Instead of the prestigious role of the king he always dreamed of, he ends up having to play a 'nachya', an effeminate, homosexual man. He goes ahead with the decision, which forever changes him and his family, as he ends up torn between his artistic passion and his societal prestige.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Taebaek Mountains (1994)
Plot Summary:
The film originates from the great river story Taebaegsanmaek consisting of 10 volumes and is written by Cho Jeongrae. The story tries to describe and reveal a few generations-lasting conflicts between the haves (proprietors) and have-nots (peasants), which develop into right wings and left wings respectively. While revealing why and how the conflicts come about, the story depicts every corner of real life -- romantic, shamanic, and Confucian aspects of the contemporaries.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 168 min
Plot tags:
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Beautiful Days (2018)
Plot Summary:
At the request of his dying father, Zhenchen, a Chinese student, goes to Seoul in search of his mother, whom he has not seen for fourteen years. He soon discovers that she is working as a hostess in a bar….
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Dark Night (2016)
Plot Summary:
Dark Night enigmatically unfolds over the course of a lazy summer day, as it traces the events leading up to a mass shooting in a suburban multiplex. Abandoning the narrative confines of the true crime genre, the story is told through fragmented moments from the lives of several characters, whose fates are tragically intertwined. As the sky grows darker, the placid surface of daily life becomes disturbed by a lurking and inevitable horror.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, creepy
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The Spy Gone North (2018)
Plot Summary:
In 1993, former military officer Suk-young Park is recruited as a spy by South Korea's National Intelligence Service, and given the code name "Black Venus". He is then sent to infiltrate a group of high-ranking North Korean officials based in Beijing, with the ultimate goal of acquiring information on the North's nuclear program. After becoming close to Myong-un Ri, a key power broker, Black Venus succeeds beyond his wildest dreams of gaining the trust of North Korea's leadership. But political machinations on both sides of the border threaten to derail his accomplishments.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, intellectual, captivating, social, period piece
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Ordinary People (2016)
Plot Summary:
ORDINARY PEOPLE is a family portrait of Jane, 16, and her boyfriend, Aries, who live on their own in the chaotic streets of Manila. Surviving as pickpockets, the lives of the young couple change when they suddenly become teenage parents. But not even a month into parenthood, their child is stolen from them. In order to retrieve the child, the young couple is forced to take desperate measures.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 936
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tragic ending, tagalog, crying, tragic
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A Copy of My Mind (2015)
Plot Summary:
A female cheap salon worker and a pirated DVDs subtitle maker fall in love during the turbulent presidential election in Indonesia.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 975
Genere: Drama
Country: Indonesia, South Korea
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dark comedy, tragic
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The Coast Guard (2002)
Plot Summary:
An overzealous soldier mentally deteriorates after killing an innocent man he thought was a spy.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, realistic, serious, suspenseful, touching, sad, masterpiece, mad
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Secretly Greatly (2013)
Plot Summary:
As a North Korean sleeper cell agent, Ryu-han infiltrates the South and assumes the role of a village idiot in a rural town. He observes the townsfolk and waits patiently for his mission. One day, after 2 years of playing the role of the village idiot, fellow elite spies Hae-rang, posed as a rock star and Hae-jin, posed as an ordinary student, are dispatched to the same town as Ryu-han. He helps the other two spies settle in and teach them how to adjust in the South. There is a sudden drastic political power shift in the North and all three spies receive an urgent and ultimate mission.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, captivating, dorama, realistic
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Gabi (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set towards the end of the 19th century, when coffee was first introduced to Korea, Russian sharpshooter Illichi and Joseon's first barista Danya are manipulated by Japanese officer Sadako into an elaborate plan to assassinate King Gojong.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Rough Play (2013)
Plot Summary:
Young is a nameless actor who dreams of becoming a big movie star. Then one day, he makes his breakthrough with a film and becomes a star overnight.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 461
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Poongsan (2011)
Plot Summary:
Poongsan has the unenviable - and death-defying - job of delivering messages across the North and South Korean border to separated families. When South Korean government agents ask him to smuggle in In-ok, the lover of a high-ranking North Korean defector, into the South, the damsel and rescuer fall in love instead.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 889
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, tense, romantic, touching, serious
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The Isle (2000)
Plot Summary:
Mute Hee-Jin is working as a clerk in a fishing resort in the Korean wilderness; selling baits, food and occasionally her body to the fishing tourists. One day she falls in love to Hyun-Shik, who is on the run for the police and rescues him with a fish hook, when he tries to commit suicide.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, enigmatic, sexy, bleak, harsh, controversial, cult classic, atmospheric, sexual, erotic
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Address Unknown (2001)
Plot Summary:
Romances end in blood and the frail hopes of individuals are torn apart in a vile karmic continuity of colonialism, civil war and occupation. After surviving Japanese colonization, Korea became the first war zone of the Cold War. The legacy of war remains today in this divided country. Three forlorn teenagers, Chank-guk, Jihum and Eunok are figures in the landscape of this story, which highlights the global implications of a very Korean reality. None of them is able to escape the withering pull of tragedy. All desperate pleas for love and redemption are returned stamped in red with "Address Unknown".
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, rough, serious, philosophical, offbeat, disturbing, controversial, art house, emotional
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One Man's War (1991)
Plot Summary:
Anthony Hopkins plays an English medical doctor living with his family in Paraguay and treating the poor people from the surroundings, who has his life turned upside down when his son was mysteriously murdered in what could have been an attack to him since he's opposed to the military dictatorship of the country. The doctor and his family will take lots of risk while trying to prove that the government was involved in the murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Mexico
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: political drama
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Steel Rain (2017)
Plot Summary:
A former agent from the North Korean intelligence and a senior member of the South Korean security services conduct a secret mission to prevent the breakout of a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: suspense, political thriller, psychological, tense, captivating, political, scenic, perverse
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Human, Space, Time and Human (2018)
Plot Summary:
A group of very different people set sail on an old warship. The passengers include a senator with his son, a newly-wed couple, a mysterious old man, a group of sex workers and a gang of violent criminals. At first the aggressive behaviour of the thugs and their leader is directed at the first class passengers, but then more and more indiscriminately against the rest of those on board. Rape is followed by murder and it’s not long before the first of numerous and increasingly brutal mutinies takes place.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Breath (2007)
Plot Summary:
A love story involving a convicted prisoner who "slowly falls for a woman who decorates his prison cell".
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: contemplative, atmospheric, realistic, psychological, captivating, art house, mesmerizing, serious, stylized
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Crocodile (1996)
Plot Summary:
Crocodile is a 1996 South Korean film. It was the directorial debut of Ki-duk Kim and stars Cho Jae-hyun as "Crocodile".The film tells the story of a man living at the edge of the Han River in Seoul, who saves a woman trying to commit suicide. He then proceeds to rape and abuse her until an odd relationship develops between them.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: depressing, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, avant garde
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Clash (2009)
Plot Summary:
"Engwkentro" follows two teenage brothers attempting to escape an unnamed city controlled by an iron-fisted mayor. They must first break away from the cycle of crime, while trying to run from rival gang leaders and the state's murderous vigilantes.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, disturbing, bleak, realistic
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J.S.A.: Joint Security Area (2000)
Plot Summary:
In the DMZ separating North and South Korea, two North Korean soldiers have been killed, supposedly by one South Korean soldier. But the 11 bullets found in the bodies, together with the 5 remaining bullets in the assassin's magazine clip, amount to 16 bullets for a gun that should normally hold 15 bullets. The investigating Swiss/Swedish team from the neutral countries overseeing the DMZ suspects that another, unknown party was involved - all of which points to some sort of cover up. The truth is much simpler and much more tragic.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, political, tricky, thought provoking, suspenseful, bleak, touching, realistic, suspense
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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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Commitment (2013)
Plot Summary:
The son of a North Korean spy decides to follow in his father's footsteps to protect his little sister. After his father’s botched espionage mission, North Korean Myung-hoon and his young sister Hye-in are sent to a labor prison camp. In order to save his sister’s life, Myung-hoon volunteers to become a spy and infiltrates the South as a teenage defector. While attending high school in the South, he meets another girl named Hye-in, and rescues her when she comes under attack. South Korean Intelligence soon discover Myung-hoon’s activities and begin tracking him, all the while his own government sends a vicious assassin to eliminate him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, captivating, tense, sad, scenic, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Steel Rain 2 (2020)
Plot Summary:
A futuristic film about a crisis near the brink of war after three leaders are kidnapped by a North Korean nuclear submarine in a coup d’état during a summit between the two Koreas and the United States.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, political thriller
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One on One (2014)
Plot Summary:
On May 9th, a female high school student was brutally murdered. There are 7 suspects and 7 shadows that terrorize them. Who are they and which one of them is you?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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High Society (2018)
Plot Summary:
The story of the journey of married couple up the social latter. The husband is professor at Seoul National University who is running for the National Assembly, and his wife is a painter.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing, erotic, sexy, awful
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Samaritan Girl (2004)
Plot Summary:
Yeo-jin and Jae-yeong are two teenage girls who are trying to earn money for a trip to Europe. To reach this end, Jae-yeong is prostituting herself while Yeo-jin acts as her pimp, setting her up with the clients and staying on guard for the police. Things take a turn for the worse when Yeo-jin gets distracted from her duty and the police raid the motel where Jae-yeong is meeting with a client. To avoid getting caught, Jae-yeong jumps out of a window, fatally injuring herself.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, realistic, erotic, psychological, sincere, romantic, depressing, spiritual
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Bless You, Prison (2002)
Plot Summary:
Based on Nicole Valery-Grossu's European best seller autobiographic novel "Bless you, prison", the film is a true story, with real events and characters. A young intellectual woman, Nicole is arrested. There follow three months of exhausting interrogation and isolation. Alone in a cell, she undergoes a spiritual experience similar to that of the great mystics.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 543
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: uplifting, thought provoking, disturbing, captivating, bleak, serious, realistic