1. The Host (괴물)
A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han River after toxic waste was dumped in it, prompting her family into a frantic search for her.
It has an average vote of 6.985 on TMDB.
2. Tokyo! (TOKYO!)
Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. After his arrest, he stands trial and lashes out at a hostile courtroom. A man who has resigned himself to a life of solitude reconsiders after meeting a charming pizza delivery woman. And finally, a happy young couple find themselves undergoing a series of frightening metamorphoses.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
3. 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 8.064 on TMDB.
4. Joint Security Area (공동경비구역 JSA)
Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The sergeant is the shooter, but the lead investigator, a Swiss-Korean woman, receives differing accounts from the two sides.
It has an average vote of 7.84 on TMDB.
5. Doubt
In 1964, a Catholic school nun questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student, suspecting him of abuse.
It has an average vote of 7.194 on TMDB.
6. Snowpiercer (Snowpiercer)
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
It has an average vote of 6.904 on TMDB.
7. Loft (Loft)
Five close friends, all of them married, share a loft to meet their mistresses. One day they find the body of a young woman in the loft. Since there are only five keys to the loft, the five men begin to suspect each other of murder.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
8. My Sassy Girl (엽기적인 그녀)
A dweeby, mild-mannered man comes to the aid of a drunk young woman on a subway platform. Little does he know how much trouble he’s in for.
It has an average vote of 7.528 on TMDB.
9. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant)
Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene . Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be a model. Petra falls in love with Karin and invites her to move in.
It has an average vote of 7.318 on TMDB.
10. Land of the Sons (La terra dei figli)
Civilisation is coming to an end. The death of his only relative gives a feral boy the pretext to journey beyond the confines of his home environment; only by doing this will he be able to decipher his father's journal, the most valuable artefact in his legacy. This singular contribution to the post-apocalyptic sci-fi genre tells of a humanity in crisis, while at the same time conveying the adventurous spirit of adolescence.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
11. The Chronicles of Evil (악의 연대기)
A detective accidentally kills a man and disposes of the body to protect his career. The next day he sees that someone has hanged the corpse from a crane for all to see. He takes charge of the murder investigation to protect himself and find out who did it.
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
12. Husbands
A common friend's sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave the country together. But mindless enthusiasm for regained freedom will be short-lived.
It has an average vote of 6.758 on TMDB.
13. Fulltime Killer (全職殺手)
Professional assassin O has resided in an isolated world of killing and loneliness. But his life begins to change once he meets the innocent Chin; hired to clean O's apartment. However, soon the flamboyent and reckless Tok enters Chin's life with a mission to unveil O's identity and usurp his place as the number one sharp-shooting assassin in the game.
It has an average vote of 6.796 on TMDB.
14. Kids in Love
Drifting through his gap year with its internships and travel plans, Jack has always suspected there was more to life than this. A chance encounter with the beautiful and ethereal Evelyn swerves his life radically off course.
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
15. October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (Октябрь)
Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet Montage' style, it re-enacts in celebratory terms several key scenes from the revolution.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
16. KOTOKO (KOTOKO)
Suffering from double vision, a single mother tries to take care of her baby in the grip of terrifying hallucinations. Experiencing a nervous breakdown, she is deemed unfit to take care of her child and has it taken away from her. The only respite the mother has from her visions is when she sings. An award-winning novelist overhears her singing whilst riding the bus and the pair subsequently develop a volatile relationship.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
17. Attack the Gas Station! (주유소 습격사건)
A quartet of disaffected Korean youths have robbed a Seoul gas station. After taking the gas station over, their wacky antics ensue; forcing the manager to sing, kidnapping customers that complain about the service, and staging fist-fights between street gang members and gas station employees; all of these reflect their own gripes against society.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
18. Time
Fox Rich, indomitable matriarch and modern-day abolitionist, strives to keep her family together while fighting for the release of her incarcerated husband. An intimate, epic, and unconventional love story, filmed over two decades.
It has an average vote of 6.899 on TMDB.
19. Level Up
Gamers enter virtual reality video game contest for money only to realize things are not the way they seem.
It has an average vote of 4.9 on TMDB.
20. Teambuilding (Teambuilding)
A frothy comedy about life in the corporation, about the challenges of building a career and those of consolidating and motivating a team. The film, a satire of corporate life, reveals the events of a team building in which the robotic corporativism unleash themselves and unleash themselves by showing their human side.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.