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 6.3
 4K
Memento Mori (1999)
Genre: Horror, Romance, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The film revolves around the relationship between two high school students, Yoo Shi-Eun and Min Hyo-Shin. As the two girls become romantically involved, their taboo friendship causes them to be marginalized by the other students. Unable to cope with ...
Style: queer horror, dark, thought provoking, psychological thriller, dark drama ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, telepathy, gays and lesbians, youth, extreme, lesbian relationship, nightmare, evil child, haunting, parasite, entertainment ...
Time: 90s
Place: asia, korea, south korea
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 8.0
 50K
My Sassy Girl (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Based on a series of true stories posted by Ho-sik Kim on the Internet describing his relationship with his girlfriend. These were later transformed into a best-selling book and the movie follows the book closely. It describes the meeting of ...
Style: romantic, feel good, heartbreaking, melancholic, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: love, destiny, love story, unlikely couple, opposites attract, young love, teenage life, disorder, nothing goes right, couple relations, comedy of errors, boyfriend ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: south korea, east asia, asia, seoul, korea
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Memories of Murder (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 131 min.
Story: 1986 Gyunggi Province. The body of a young woman is found brutally raped and murdered. Two months later, a series of rapes and murders commences under similar circumstances. And in a country that had never known such crimes, the dark whispers about ...
Style: realistic, neo noir, psychological, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: serial killer, police, rape, police investigation, murderer, murder, twists and turns, investigation, murder mystery, police detective, murder investigation, true crime ...
Time: year 2003, 80s, y2k, year 1986, 20th century ...
Place: south korea, east asia, asia, korea
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Wishing Stairs (2003)
Genre: Horror, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A staircase leading to the dormitory of a remote boarding school usually has 28 stairs, but every so often there appears to be 29. When someone steps on the mysterious extra stair, the horror begins.
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, dark drama, suspense
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, curse, supernatural, paranormal, friendship, curses spells and rituals, obsession, boarding school, extreme, rivalry, forbidden love, asian girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, korea
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Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: This South Korean film takes place on an isolated lake, where an old monk lives in a small floating temple. The monk has a young boy living with him, learning to become a monk. We watch as seasons and years pass by.
Style: philosophical, atmospheric, melancholic, meditative, spiritual ...
Plot: buddhism, life & death, coming of age, isolation, meditation, existentialism, buddhist monk, monk, buddhist, beautiful scenery, nature, life changing experience ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, east asia, tibet, asia
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The President's Last Bang (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min.
Story: On October 26, 1979, President Park Chung-hee, who had ruled South Korea since 1961, was assassinated by his director of intelligence. The film depicts the events of that night…
Style: dark comedy, realistic, serious, captivating, black comedy ...
Plot: politics, assassination, president, undercover, dark humor, political conspiracy, political intrigue, political corruption, assassination attempt, state affairs, terrorism, revolution ...
Time: 70s
Place: south korea, seoul
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A Bittersweet Life (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by a cold, calculative crime boss, Kang who assigns Sun-Woo to a simple errand while he is away on a business trip; to shadow his young mistress, Heesoo, for fear that she may be cheating on ...
Style: suspense, bleak, psychological, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: hitman, gunfight, asian gangster, organized crime, revenge, vengeance, mafia, betrayal, gangster, fall in love, brutality, character study ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: south korea, east asia, asia, korea
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 7.1
 132K
The Host (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Gang-du is a dim-witted man working at his father's tiny snack bar near the Han River. One day, Gang-du's one and only daughter Hyun-seo comes back from school irritated. She is angry at her uncle, Nam-il, who visited her school as her ...
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, dark, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, giant monster, beast, environment, dark humor, creature feature, creature, family in danger, deadly creature, kaiju, daughter, danger ...
Time: year 2002, year 2006, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: south korea, east asia, korea, asia, seoul
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 6.2
 2K
Voice (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min.
Story: While training after hours in her high-school, the aspirant singer Park Young-Eon is mysteriously killed and her body vanishes. Her ghost is invisible and trapped in the school, but her best friend Kang Sun-min, who broadcast in the lunchtime in ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, brutal, queer horror ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: ghost, friendship, haunted by the past, youth, investigation, danger, supernatural, hearing voices, elevator, macabre, parasite, darkness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia
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I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Young-goon, mentally deranged and frequently electro-charging herself with a transistor radio, has been admitted into a mental institution. Firmly believing herself to be a cyborg, she refuses to consume like a human being. Il-soon is another ...
Style: surreal, touching, psychological, emotional, sweet ...
Plot: love story, surrealism, mental institution, psychology, escape from reality, cyborgs, mental illness, androids and robots, love, relationships, mental disorder, misfit ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: south korea
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The Good the Bad the Weird (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Western
Country: South Korea
Duration: 139 min.
Story: The story of three Korean outlaws in 1930s Manchuria and their dealings with the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits. The Good (a Bounty hunter), the Bad (a hitman), and the Weird (a thief) battle the army and the bandits in a race to use ...
Style: stylized, entertaining, bloody, captivating, epic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: treasure hunt, desert, cowboy, map, robbery, rivalry, escapades, uninhibited rivalry, treasure map, cruelty, occupation, modern west ...
Time: 1930s, year 2008, 20th century
Place: china, asia, south korea
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 6.9
 2K
No Regret (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Sumin is an orphan trying to balance work in a factory with study at an art college and an evening job. One night, a rich young businessman makes an advance on him during one of his driving jobs. They meet again the next day: it is during a round of ...
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, sincere, romantic ...
Plot: gay, gay love, boys love, gay teenager, gay asian, lgbt, male prostitute, twists and turns, social differences, forbidden love, love and romance, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, seoul, asia
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 7.8
 72K
The Chaser (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by the same ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, bloody, suspenseful, detective ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, police investigation, investigation, race against time, revenge, anti hero, police detective, murder, brutality, missing person, violent ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, y2k, 21st century
Place: south korea, east asia, seoul, korea, asia
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 7.8
 13K
Poetry (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea, France
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Grandmother Mi Ja works part-time as a caretaker, and struggles to raise a teen grandson by herself. Despite her tough situation, she speaks softly, dresses fashionably, and approaches the world with child-like curiosity. Enrolling in a poetry ...
Style: touching, sincere, emotional, realistic, lyrical ...
Plot: loneliness, bullying, self discovery, teenage rape, suicide, existentialism, teenager, introspection, society, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, grandparent and grandchild ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place: korea, japan, south korea, asia
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 5.6
 811
A Blood Pledge (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Strange rumors start to spread at the catholic girls’ high school after Unjoo committed suicide one night. Unjoo’s younger sister Jung-un who attends the same school gets suspicious about Unjoo’s death. After persistent investigation, Jung-un ...
Style: suspense, serious, scary, suspenseful
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, supernatural, high school student, investigation, suicide, parasite, teenager, macabre, student, friendship, manipulation, best friend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, korea
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Blood Glacier (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 98 min.
Story: At a climate research station in the Alps, the scientists are stunned as the nearby melting glacier is leaking a red liquid. It quickly turns to be very special juice — with unexpected genetic effects on the local wildlife.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, slasher ...
Plot: mutant animal, dangerous animal, scientist, creature feature, survival, danger, isolation, supernatural, dog, creature, winter, snow ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alps, austria, germany, europe
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 7.6
 63
The Chaser (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story: Although he was poor, detective Baek Hong Suk made an honest living. However, his poor yet happy family is shattered when his 15-year-old daughter dies. When people tarnish the name of his daughter, who means everything to him, Hong Suk vows to ...
Style: realistic, suspense, tense, disturbing
Plot: murder mystery, murder investigation, murder, investigator, vengeance, death, mysterious man, interrogation, family relations, partners against crime, society, clue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea
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Right Now, Wrong Then (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Quite by accident, a film director arrives in town a day early. With time to kill before his lecture, he stops by a restored palace and meets a fledgling artist. She’s never seen any of his films, but knows he’s famous. They talk, they go to her ...
Style: semi autobiographical, disturbing, captivating, psychological, romantic ...
Plot: cafe, movie business, repeated scene, marriage proposal, adulterer, male female relationship, couples, love and romance, love affair, love interest, love story, couple relations ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s
Place: south korea
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Color Out of Space (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Malaysia, Portugal
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land ...
Style: suspense, lovecraft, suspenseful, surreal, tense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: mutation, farm, cosmic horror, husband wife relationship, alien invasion, farmhouse, meteorite, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, infected, self mutilation, mind control ...
Time: future
Place: new england, arizona, massachusetts
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 7.4
 81K
The Wailing (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story: A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.
Style: art house, atmospheric, disturbing, psychological, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, investigation, zombie, curse, murder, police, shaman, small town, ghost, daughter, suspicion, possession ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: south korea
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 7.2
 12K
The Outlaws (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Ma Seok-do works as a detective squad chief. His team struggles to bust a criminal ring who originally came from Yanbian, China and led by Jang Chen.
Style: suspense, tense, brutal, crime drama, intense ...
Plot: organized crime, police, tough law enforcer, street gang, cruelty, strong violent content, brutality, crime boss, police investigation, tough cop, peril, extortion ...
Time: 2000s
Place: south korea, seoul
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 6.2
 49K
The Perfection (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Music, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When troubled musical prodigy Charlotte seeks out Elizabeth, the new star pupil of her former school, the encounter sends both musicians down a sinister path with shocking consequences.
Style: suspense, psychological, disturbing, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Plot: lesbian, psychopath, revenge, amputee, vengeance, musician, female musician, cello, child abuse, classical music, interracial lesbian sex, cellist ...
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House of Hummingbird (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Whatever she does, Eunhee feels like an outsider. Then her new Chinese teacher turns out to be so utterly different from everybody else. A compassionate and meticulously told narrative of a seemingly regular summer that leaves nothing unchanged.
Style: touching, sincere, captivating, psychological, melancholic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, teacher student relationship, female protagonist, teenager, relationships, middle school, personal growth, high school, teenage girl, family relations, adolescence, family problems ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: seoul, south korea, korea, asia
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 7.0
 13K
Extreme Job (2019)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A drug squad attempts to take down a criminal organization and they must go undercover to do so, so they begin working at a chicken restaurant, that becomes famous for its delicious chicken. Due to the unexpected popularity, the detectives find ...
Style: funny, buddy comedy, humorous, absurd, detective ...
Audience: teens
Plot: undercover cop, police, ambush, asian, partner, law enforcement, buddies, drug dealing, teamwork, friendship, police investigation, arrest ...
Place: south korea, east asia
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The Beach House (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A romantic getaway for two troubled college sweethearts turns into a struggle for survival when unexpected guests - and the surrounding environment - exhibit signs of a mysterious infection.
Style: disturbing, suspense, atmospheric, scary, lovecraft ...
Audience: teens
Plot: illness, beach, survival, beach house, supernatural, ocean, swimming, strange behavior, cosmic horror, body horror, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 5.1
 12K
In the Earth (2021)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: As a deadly virus ravages the world, Dr. Martin Lowery embarks on a mission to reach test site ATU327A, a research hub deep in the Arboreal Forest. The arduous journey, guided by park scout Alma, is set back by a nighttime attack that leaves the two ...
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, scary, disturbing ...
Plot: virus, survival horror, mushroom, forest, woods, wilderness, alchemy, murder, scientist, scout, plague, insanity ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
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The Passenger (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain, Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Four people traveling in a van run over a lone woman while she is walking in the dark down a country road. After loading her into the vehicle to take her to the nearest hospital, they notice that she is behaving rather strangely. The occupants of ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot: wounded, travel, problem, death, wound, monster, mother daughter relationship, parasite, alien, decapitation, trip, road trip ...
Place: spain
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 6.4
 317K
Alien³ (1992)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfortunately, although Newt and Hicks do not survive the crash, a more unwelcome visitor does. The ...
Style: bleak, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense, bad ending ...
Audience: kids
Plot: alien, evil alien, outer space, prison, deadly creature, space travel, survival, human versus alien, cryogenics, monster, creature, alien invasion ...
Time: future, 90s, 22nd century
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 5.8
 13K
The Rig (2023)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 51 min.
TV show
Story: When the crew of the Kishorn Bravo oil rig, stationed off the Scottish coast, is due to return to the mainland, a mysterious and all-enveloping fog rolls through and they find themselves cut off from all communication with the outside world. As the ...
Style: independent film, captivating, psychological, mystical, tense
Plot: oil, oil rig, supernatural, supernatural power, sea, fog, workplace, workplace situations, puzzle, paranormal, problem, threat ...
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 6.7
 2K
Satan's Brew (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story: This fast-paced black comedy by wunderkind director Rainer Werner Fassbinder follows the frantic efforts of a starving and confused writer, Walter Kranz to beg, borrow or steal enough money to survive on, and at the same time make some sense of his ...
Style: cynical, semi serious, humorous, art house, dark comedy ...
Plot: prostitute, investigation, lifestyle, rise to the top, writer's life, journalism, obsession, destructive relationship, dark humor, prodigy, gender, media satire ...
Time: 19th century
Place: munich germany, southern germany
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