1. The Chaser (추격자)
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 client whom one of his girls is meeting with right now.
It has an average vote of 7.756 on TMDB.
2. A Bittersweet Life (달콤한 인생)
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, Hee-soo, for fear that she may be cheating on him with a younger man with the mandate that he must kill them both if he discovers their affair.
It has an average vote of 7.479 on TMDB.
3. Kidnapped (Secuestrados)
Three hooded Eastern-European criminals burst into a home in a Madrid gated community, holding the family hostage in its own home, and forcing the father to empty his credit cards. But the family fights back - brutally.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
4. Oldboy (올드보이)
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors.
It has an average vote of 8.259 on TMDB.
5. Memories of Murder (살인의 추억)
During the late 1980s, two detectives in a South Korean province attempt to solve the nation's first series of rape-and-murder cases.
It has an average vote of 8.063 on TMDB.
6. A Serious Man
It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.
It has an average vote of 6.75 on TMDB.
7. Hwayi: A Monster Boy (화이: 괴물을 삼킨 아이)
After being kidnapped as a small child and raised by the five men who abducted him, a teenage boy is now forced to join their life in crime.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
8. New World (신세계)
An undercover cop has his loyalties tested when the boss of the corporate gang he's spent years infiltrating dies.
It has an average vote of 7.453 on TMDB.
9. The Handmaiden (아가씨)
In 1930s Korea, a swindler and a young woman pose as a Japanese count and a handmaiden to seduce a Japanese heiress and steal her fortune.
It has an average vote of 8.227 on TMDB.
10. The Wailing (곡성)
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.
It has an average vote of 7.334 on TMDB.
11. Yi Yi (一一)
Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank and his business partners make bad decisions.
It has an average vote of 7.873 on TMDB.
12. Lake Mungo
After 16-year-old Alice Palmer drowns in a local dam, her family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of psychic and parapsychologist, who discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. At Lake Mungo, Alice's secret past emerges.
It has an average vote of 6.189 on TMDB.
13. The Beyond (...E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà)
A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural "accidents", she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
14. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (복수는 나의 것)
A deaf man and his girlfriend resort to desperate measures in order to fund a kidney transplant for his sister. Things go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a cycle of violence and revenge.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
15. The Man from Nowhere (아저씨)
An ex-special agent is involved in a convoluted drug ring drama. He has to save a drug smuggler's innocent daughter from being the victim of her parents' fight.
It has an average vote of 7.693 on TMDB.
16. The Good, the Bad, the Weird (좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈)
The story of three Korean outlaws in 1930s Manchuria and their dealings with the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits. The Good , the Bad , and the Weird battle the army and the bandits in a race to use a treasure map to uncover the riches of legend.
It has an average vote of 7.177 on TMDB.
17. Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in)
Set in 1982 in the suburb of Blackeberg, Stockholm, twelve-year-old Oskar is a lonely outsider, bullied at school by his classmates; at home, Oskar dreams of revenge against a trio of bullies. He befriends his twelve-year-old, next-door neighbor Eli, who only appears at night in the snow-covered playground outside their building.
It has an average vote of 7.537 on TMDB.
18. Train to Busan (부산행)
When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.
It has an average vote of 7.753 on TMDB.
19. The Villainess (악녀)
A young girl is raised as a killer in the Yanbian province of China. She hides her identity and travels to South Korea where she hopes to lead a quiet life but becomes involved with two mysterious men.
It has an average vote of 6.866 on TMDB.
20. Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (태극기 휘날리며)
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.
It has an average vote of 7.998 on TMDB.
