Your Pick for Best Film
What is your ONE Best Film?
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heartaem Feb 15, 2020
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![Parasite]()
Kim Gi Woo is a young man who lives with his unemployed, poor family of four in a semi-basement. One day, his friend Min Hyuk tells him that he is leaving to ...more -
![Train to Busan]()
Seok Woo, his estranged daughter Soo An, and other passengers become trapped on a KTX train (high-speed train) heading from Seoul to Busan during a disastrous virus outbreak in South Korea. (Source: ...more -
![Our Times]()
Lin Zhen Xin is an ordinary office worker who gets ridiculed by her subordinates. Dejected, she listens to a cassette recording of an old Andy Lau song. This brings her back to ...more -
![Always]()
Having closed himself away from the world, former boxer Chul Min starts a new job as a parking lot attendant. One night, a visually impaired young woman, Jung Hwa, walks into his ...more -
![Miracle in Cell No. 7]()
Lee Yong Gu is a mentally impaired father, who lives in a run-down house along with his daughter of the same age, Ye Seung. One day, he gets into a physical altercation ...more -
![Forgotten]()
After moving into a new house, the eldest son of the family, Yoo Seok, is abducted right in front of his younger brother, Jin Seok. After 19 days, Yoo Seok suddenly comes ...more -
![The Man from Nowhere]()
Cha Tae Shik leads a quiet life running a pawnshop. His only friend is a little girl, So Mi, who lives next door. So Mi's mother, Hyo Jeong, is a heroin addict. ...more -
![The Handmaiden]()
During 1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, Sook Hee is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with ...more -
![Midnight Runners]()
When two police academy cadets witness a kidnapping on their way home from the club, they’ll have to use all their—very recent—training to take down a powerful underground trafficking ring. (Source: AsianCrush) -
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A young drifter enters strangers' houses - and lives - while owners are away. He spends a night or a day squatting at their home and repaying their unwitting hospitality by doing ...more -
![Method]()
A veteran actor and an idol are starring together in a play called 'Unchain'. In the play, their characters become involved in a relationship and as they rehearse, the distance between reality ...more -
![Old Boy]()
Oh Dae Soo was imprisoned in a cell which resembled a hotel room for 15 years without knowing his captor's motives. When he is finally released, Dae Soo finds himself still trapped ...more -
![My P.S. Partner]()
After learning that his ex-girlfriend has a fabulous new boyfriend, Hyun Seung spends his nights wracked with insomnia and jealousy. Then one night, a phone call from a sexy stranger breathes new ...more -
![Secretly Greatly]()
A group of spies called the 5446 Corps were trained by North Korean elite special forces since their youth, ostensibly towards the lofty goal of unifying Korea. They are ambitiously dispatched to ...more -
![Along With the Gods: The Two Worlds]()
After a heroic death, Kim Ja Hong navigates the afterlife with the help of three guardians Kang Rim, Hae Won Maek, and Deok Choon. All deceased must meet the gods of hell ...more -
![A Werewolf Boy]()
Summoned by an unexpected phone call, an elderly woman visits a cottage she used to live in as a child. She begins to recall her memories of a boy she knew 50 ...more -
![A Moment to Remember]()
27-year-old fashion designer Soo Jin goes into a convenience store to buy a Coke but accidentally leaves it on the counter. Remembering the Coke, Soo Jin walks back to the store and ...more -
![Better Days]()
The film revolves around a girl who is being bullied at school and her relationship with a tough street kid, with whom she is implicated in the murder of a teenage girl. ...more -
![Burning]()
Jong Su, a part-time worker, bumps into Hae Mi while delivering, who used to live in the same neighborhood. Hae Mi asks him to look after her cat while she's on a ...more -
![Shoplifters]()
Somewhere in Tokyo, Osamu Shibata and his wife Nobuyo live in poverty. While Osamu receives occasional employment and Nobuyo has a low-paying job, the family relies in large part on the grandmother's ...more -
![The Throne]()
In the year 1762, when King Yeong Jo of the Joseon dynasty's been ruling for 35 years already, Crown prince Sa Do is accused of plotting treason by his biological mother lady ...more -
![Bad Genius]()
Lynn, a genius high school student who makes money by cheating tests, receives a new task that leads her to set foot on Sydney, Australia. In order to complete the millions-Baht task, ...more -
![Death Note]()
A Shinigami (Death God) drops a notebook in the human world where a young genius picks it up. The notebook displays the message: "The human whose name is written in this note ...more -
![Silenced]()
Gang In Ho is the newly appointed art teacher at Gwangju Inhwa School, a school for deaf children. He is excited to teach his new students, yet the children are aloof and ...more -
![Farewell My Concubine]()
In 1924, Beijing, the youthful Dou Zi and Shi Tou were brought together under the thumb of the strict master of a small acting troupe. It quickly becomes apparent that these are ...more -
![Memories of Murder]()
In 1986, in the province of Gyunggi, in South Korea, a second young and beautiful woman is found dead, raped and tied and gagged with her underwear. Detective Park Doo Man and ...more -
![Crazy Little Thing Called Love]()
Nam is an ordinary, unattractive 14-year-old girl secretly in love with a popular boy in school named Shone. Wanting to catch his attention, she tries various ways to get close to him. ...more -
![Seondal: The Man Who Sells the River]()
A movie from the ancient novel of satire and humor about Kim Seon Dal who sold off the River Daedong. Kim Seon Dal is a genius swindler, possessing an alluring appearance and ...more -
![I Can Speak]()
Ok Boon, aka the Goblin Granny, is a feisty, elderly woman who combs through the town for any sign of trouble. Over a span of 20 years, she has filed 8000 complaints ...more -
![Northern Limit Line]()
In June 2002, while South Korea is caught in a sporting frenzy as the national soccer team plays against Turkey for third place in the 2002 FIFA World Cup, the North Korean ...more -
![Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]()
Set in the Qing Dynasty during the 43rd year (1779) of the reign of the Qianlong Emperor, martial arts master Li Mu Bai is about to retire and enter a life of ...more -
![Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring]()
The film is divided into five segments (the five seasons of the title), each segment depicting a different stage in the life of a Buddhist monk (each segment is roughly ten to ...more -
![Sunny]()
Na Mi fondly recalls her childhood pal Chun Hwa, who befriended her as the ostracized, new girl in school, welcoming her into a clique nicknamed “Sunny.” Together, they survive tumultuous ’80s Seoul ...more -
![Swing Kids]()
Set during the Korean War, North Korean and Chinese prisoners of war are sent to a camp on Geoje Island in South Korea. The POW camp itself is under intense strife between ...more -
![Two Lights: Relumino]()
A sweet, mellow romance about a woman with a visual impairment and the man who grows to love her after they meet in a photography club. (Source: Letterboxd] -
![Hero]()
In ancient China during the Warring States Period, a nameless prefect of a small jurisdiction arrives at the Qin state's capital city to meet the king of Qin. The king has just ...more -
![The Beauty Inside]()
What would you do if you woke up with a new face every day? Woo Jin, a man who designs furniture for a living, is used to this. An elderly man, a ...more -
![The Long Way Home]()
Set during the Korean War and 3 days before a truce takes place. Nam Bok is a South Korean soldier who was a simple farmer before his conscription into the military. He ...more -
![Sympathy for Lady Vengeance]()
After thirteen and half years in prison for kidnapping and murdering the boy Park Won Mo, Lee Geum Ja is released and tries to fix her life. She finds a job in ...more -
![Miss Baek]()
Small but tough Baek Sang Ah, known as Miss Baek, comes across a young girl, Ji Eun, a victim of domestic violence by her game-junkie father and his girlfriend. A lifetime of ...more -
![Still Walking]()
Still Walking is a family drama about grown children visiting their elderly parents, which unfolds over one summer day. The aging parents have lived in the family home for decades. Their son ...more -
![Our Little Sister]()
Three Koda sisters, 29-year-old Sachi, 22-year-old Yoshino, and 19-year-old Chika, live at their grandmother's home in Kamakura, Japan. When the Koda sisters were young, their parents divorced, and they were abandoned. Not ...more -
![The Royal Tailor]()
Depicts the love lives, jealousies and desires of those that work within the Sanguiwon during the Joseon Dynasty period. The Sanguiwon are responsible for the attire worn by royalty. Dol Seok is ...more -
![Door to Door]()
Based on a true story about about a man who was told for many years that he was not employable, but threw all of his effort into working as a door-to-door salesman. ...more -
![Suddenly Seventeen]()
28-year old Liang Xia and 34 year-old Mao Liang have been together for 10 years, and living together for 5 years. Liang Xia assumes that Mao is going to propose after 10 ...more -
![Juror 8]()
It follows the case of a son brutally murdering his mother, with all factors seeming to point to a guilty ruling. However, the trial did not go as smoothly as expected. The ...more -
![Exit]()
Yong Nam was one of the best rock climbers in college but hasn’t had much luck elsewhere after graduation. He has failed to get a job for many years and has to ...more -
![If Cats Disappeared From the World]()
A 30-year-old postman learns that he doesn't have much time left to live due to a terminal illness. He is plagued by a constant headache, visits a doctor and is told that ...more -
![Anger]()
Three tales about enigmatic strangers entering into the lives of trusting citizens play out in three different Japanese cities, hinting at a connection to a grisly home invasion homicide in the Tokyo ...more -
![Anarchist from Colony]()
Set in Korea under Japanese rule period. In 1923, an odd rumor spreads that around 6,000 Koreans are massacred after the Great Kanto Earthquake. In order to conceal this event, the Japanese ...more -
![A Bride for Rip Van Winkle]()
Dispatched teaching staff member Nanami meets Tetsuya through SNS and decides to marry him. She doesn't have many relatives and turns to an agency called "Nandemoya", run by Amuro. She asks the ...more -
![Seven Samurai]()
A veteran samurai, who has fallen on hard times, answers a village's request for protection from bandits. He gathers 6 other samurai to help him, and they teach the townspeople how to ...more -
![Shaolin Soccer]()
A young Shaolin follower reunites with his discouraged brothers to form a soccer team using their martial art skills to their advantage. ...more -
![Last Life in the Universe]()
A suicidal, obsessively compulsive Japanese librarian is forced to lie low in Thailand with a pot-smoking woman coping with the recent loss of her sister. -
![1 Litre of Tears]()
One day, on her way to school, middle school student Aya suddenly falls to the ground. The doctor diagnoses her with spinocerebellar degeneration, a rare and incurable neurological disease. Entering high school, ...more -
![Memories of Matsuko]()
Sho, a young teenager that lives by himself in Tokyo, receives a surprise visit from his father. His father is carrying a white box, then he explains to his son, contains the ...more -
![High Heel]()
Ji Uk is a ruthless, unrelenting detective who routinely employs brutal methods to catch criminals. Crooks are enamored by the detective’s unequaled masculinity, while fellow cops are proud to count someone so ...more -
![Departures]()
Kobayashi Daigo is a cellist, but when his orchestra is dissolved he returns to his hometown in Yamagata prefecture with Mika, his web designer wife. He finds a classified ad for a ...more -
![Believer]()
Detective Won Ho is trying to catch Teacher Lee, boss of the biggest drug ring in South Korea. He starts to work with a member of Teacher Lee's drug ring, Rak, to ...more -
![Real]()
Koichi and Atsumi have been friends since their childhood days and they eventually became lovers. About one year ago, Atsumi attempted to commit suicide and fell into a coma afterwards. Koichi, desperate ...more -
![House of Flying Daggers]()
859 AD. The once-great Tang Dynasty is now declining. Numerous rebel groups have formed, the largest of which is the House of Flying Daggers, based in Feng Tian county. They steal from ...more
