South Korea - watchlist (2020)

A quiet pawnshop keeper with a violent past takes on a drug-and-organ trafficking ring in hope of saving the child who is his only friend.

A disgraced ex-policeman who runs a small ring of prostitutes finds himself in a race against time when one of his women goes missing.

When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest missions if it will help shield the younger from battle.

Four childhood friends go their separate ways, two go off to college while the others become rival gangsters.

This is the story of a 7-year-old boy, Sang-woo, born and raised in the big city, and his mute grandmother, who has spent her whole life in a small rural village.

Byeong-gu believes that the world is on the verge of an alien invasion, and sets out to save the world.

In 1999, a voice actor moves from Il Mare, a seaside house, and leaves a Christmas card in its mailbox. An architecture student receives it in 1997, and a friendship separated by two years begins.

After being institutionalized in a mental hospital, Su-mi reunites with her sister, Su-yeon, and they return to live at their country home. But strange events plague the house, leading to surprising revelations and a shocking conclusion.

Things go wrong for a high ranking mobster when he doesn't follow his boss's orders.

A recently laid off factory worker kidnaps his former boss' friend's daughter, hoping to use the ransom money to pay for his sister's kidney transplant.

While a zombie virus breaks out in South Korea, passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan.

Following a man's suicide, time traverses back to reveal six chapters of his life on why he committed suicide.

Returning home and finding his town drastically changed, a former soldier falls in with gangsters.

An irresponsible and childish ex-con befriends a girl with cerebral palsy and develops a progressively stronger bond with her.

A woman moves to the town where her dead husband was born. As she tries to fit in, another tragic event overturns her life.

A North Korean fisherman breaks his boat engine by accident and drifts down to South Korea. After enduring brutal investigations in the South, he eventually gets sent back to North Korea.

On a fishing boat at sea, a 60-year old man has been raising a girl since she was a baby. It is agreed that they will get married on her 17th birthday, and she is 16 now. They live a quiet and secluded life, renting the boat to day fishermen and practicing strange divination rites. Their life changes when a teenage student comes aboard...

To save her relationship, a woman puts herself through extensive plastic surgery.

A sixty-something woman, faced with the discovery of a heinous family crime and in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, finds strength and purpose when she enrolls in a poetry class.

Actor Kyung Soo leaves Seoul to visit an old classmate. The reunion with his friend does not amount to much, but the trip does lead to some romantic encounters. He gets involved with two women, first a young college student whom he leaves without a moment's thought and then a woman whom he deems his fated partner. As Kyung Soo becomes increasingly invested in this second relationship, he begins to notice certain coincidences and similarities that recall past pairings, blurring his conception of exactly which woman, which relationship, he is so desperately holding on to.

A movie director entices his young friend to come to the beach on the pretext of writing a script. He then starts an affair with the friend's girlfriend.

Through a failed medical experiment, a priest is stricken with vampirism and is forced to abandon his ascetic ways.

An Asian cross-cultural trilogy of horror films from accomplished indie directors.

A failed suicide attempt leads a heartbroken man to live a life in the wilderness.

An idle part-time college lecturer is annoyed by the yapping sound of a nearby dog. He decides to take drastic action.