This movies follow a poor family who schemes to become employed by a wealthy family and invade into the household by acting as unrelated and highly qualified individuals. It was premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and was the first South Korean to win Palme d’Or.
2. Train To Busan
There was a zombie apocalypse that began when Seok Woo and his daughter got on a train to travel from Seoul to Busan by a fast train. The planet was overrun by zombies throughout their voyage, compelling the passengers to battle for their lives and protect their families from the zombies.
3. The Beauty Inside
A guy wakes up in a different person’s body every single day and transform into someone else. Whoever he transform into is regardless of their age, gender, or ethnicity. However, he is still himself in the soul but he looks different when other people looks at him.
4. My Love Don’t Cross That River
This is more a documentary where a long-time married elderly couple who always hold hands and where couple “hanbok” wherever there go. They enjoy every single day together throughout the four seasons. One day, the husband starts coughing and get weaker day by day. The wife then prepares for a farewell.
5. The Age of Shadows
This movie depicts Korean resistance fighter attempting to smuggle bombs into Seoul under Japanese rule in the 1920s. The story full illustrates and shows how friends and fellow countrymen find themselves on opposing side during times of political persecution, as well as the enormous personal difficulties that can result.
6. The Handmaiden
This movie is about a young woman who is engaged as a handmaiden to Lady Hideko, a Japanese heiress. Without Hideko knowing, the new aide con artist collaborates with forces from the outside to have committed to an asylum as well as lose all her of her fortune.
7. The Wailing
The Wailing is an award winning horror film and had may viewers who loved the show. The story was set in a tiny village where a weird ailment has begun spreading among locals after the appearance of a mysterious stranger who is assumed to be an evil ghost. It is definitely suitable for a scary movie night.
8. Burning
This story is about a guy who desires to be a writer but is current working part-time for a distribution company as a delivery man. One day, he ran into his childhood friend while doing his delivering job. They happen to form a bond but everything becomes confusing when she came back from a trip along Steven Yeun’s well-to-do- Ben.
9. The Witch
A female high school student was trained to become a murder weapon and medical experiments are used on living bodies in the process. This student then happens to suffer through an identity crisis and gets involved in a crime. There is a Part 2 for this movie as well where a girl becomes a lone survivor of the secret laboratory.
10. Space Sweepers
This is a Sci-fi movie which shares about a ragtag group of space junk collectors and the reprogrammed military robot Bubs Scavenge space trash to make a living. In this story, there is then a growing sense of divided society where the poor is forced to survive by sabotaging systems.