Shramana Kar
Korean movies have this incredible ability to impress viewers with powerful stories, exploring life's complexities and leaving a lasting impact through thought-provoking narratives. Here's a collection:
IMDb: 8.5/10 This Oscar-winning film is about the poor Kim family, who infiltrate the wealthy Park household, exploiting their wealth and generosity, until they get established in a dependencies-filled relationship.
IMDb: 7.4/10 Jin-Seok's brother returns after a nineteen-day abduction, but with no memories and a changed demeanour, sending Jin-Seok on a relentless pursuit of the truth behind the baffling kidnapping.
IMDb: 7.6/10 A father and daughter's celebratory train ride to Busan turns into an unimaginable horrifying fight for survival as a zombie outbreak spreads across South Korea, trapping them on the doomed train.
IMDb: 7.1/10 A serial killer's call links two women that changes their fate by forcing one of them to confront her past and fight for her life, as the other tries to alter her own destiny.
IMDb: 7.4/10 A mysterious stranger's arrival in a rural village triggers an epidemic, prompting a desperate police officer to race against time to uncover the truth and save his ailing daughter from the strange illness.
IMDb: 7.8/10 After his pregnant fiancée is brutally murdered, agent Soo-Hyun vows revenge, tracking down the killer and making him take a GPS-tracked pill, setting the stage for a relentless pursuit.
IMDb: 7.4/10 This Oscar-winning film is about a man named Jacob Yi and his dream of cultivating Korean crops in Arkansas soil turns into a tiring struggle, as he battles cultural differences, and personal demons by putting his family at risk.
IMDb: 6.7/10 North Korean defector Loh Kiwan faces a new battle in Belgium, fighting for refugee status, and finds an unlikely kinship with a woman who has lost her will to live. Together they navigate the darkness.