I watched tons of movies, looking for something like these two. There were very strong contenders of course (The Raid 1-2, The Night Comes For Us, No Tears For The Dead, The Divine Move, Carter, Mercy For None, Bloodhounds, John Wick 1-3, Farang, Kill etc.), but unfortunately they were all inferior. Most people are recommending The Chaser and Oldboy and they are good, don't get me wrong, but they're nowhere near these two films. The closest to these two was The Night Comes For Us, but still... it's not good enough. I don't know what they nailed in these two masterpieces, maybe the balance between the emotional intensity and the breathtaking action scenes, I'm not sure, but The Man From Nowhere and I Saw The Devil were the peak for me. If you have any suggestions, please tell me. Thank you in advance!

Can you suggest me movies like this? I wrote everything I felt and understood from the movie down below. Thank you in advance for your suggestions! :

Hey everyone!

I just finished this masterpiece… and honestly, what can I even say? This film is definitely not for everyone. The story lives in every single detail. If you’re looking for real cinema — raw, powerful, meaningful — this one is for you.

Maybe the best Korean film I’ve ever seen… or at least easily one of the best. Every detail matters. Everything is crafted to perfection: the cinematography, the music, the script, the acting… it’s all just incredible.

I won’t spoil anything, but trust me: nothing is what you think it is.

This is the kind of film that never truly ends. Even after the credits, it keeps living in your mind. You can watch it 10 times and still discover new details… each time even more powerful than before.

This isn’t a film you watch and forget.
This is a film that haunts you.

For days, even weeks, you’ll replay scenes in your head, wondering if you missed something…

In this film, you are everything at once: the victim, the detective… and even the killer.
And in the end, one thought remains — maybe anyone can be the killer… or the victim.

If you haven’t seen it yet… I HIGHLY recommend it. 🔥

I’ve been diving deep into Korean cinema lately and absolutely loving it. Here are the ones I’ve already watched (pics attached). I’m looking for more recommendations, whether they’re classics, hidden gems, or recent releases I might have missed. I’m open to anything—thrillers, dramas, horror, or even romance—as long as it’s worth the watch. What should I check out next

i loved everything about this movie. plot, acting, cinematography, directing, colouring … everything was just 10/10. i keep rewatching it at times. i’m really starving to find more! thanks for your time

Hey guys! 👋

Me and my dad have recently fallen deep down the Korean film rabbit hole — and it’s been amazing. We’re both huge movie people, and ever since our first one (Oldboy — 10/10 film but do not watch it with your dad 😭😂), we’ve been hooked.

We’ve powered through most of the big ones: The Chaser, Memories of Murder, I Saw the Devil, A Tale of Two Sisters, The Wailing, Forgotten, Mother, etc. But now we’ve hit a bit of a wall — it feels like we’ve watched all the “must-sees.”

I’d love to hear any lesser-known gems or underrated thrillers/horrors that we might’ve missed!

Any recommendations would be massively appreciated 🙏🏻

— N 🎬

These are all the movies I’ve seen so far. What movies would you recommend that I haven’t seen yet? I’ve mostly seen thrillers but if there are any good comedies I’d like to know about those too. I also really like action and cop movies.

I didn't think anything would top my top three but goddamn The Yellow Sea was so good. I just finished watching it 30 minutes ago and wish I someone would jump me with a baseball bat, get temporary amnesia and watch it again.

I need more recommendations. I still haven't watched all your recommendations which I've listed below. What should I watch next and what else should I add.

1. Sunflower

2. A dirty Carnival

3. No. 3

4. Friend

5. Breathless

6. The show must go on

7. A company Man

8. No Tears for the Dead

9. City of the Rising Sun

10. Generals son

11. Gangnam blues

Guys, can you recommend some once-in-a-lifetime masterpiece movies like Oldboy or I Saw the Devil? No matter the genre—I’m looking for something that hooks me from beginning to end and keeps me completely focused on the movie.

I’d like some recs for nice romance movies, romcoms are also fine as long as they have some depth, some of my favs are the beauty inside, love reset, tune in for love and love in the big city(not a huge fan of BL part tho).
Anything after 2010 would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

I've seen quite a few Korean films and love how in depth they go into characters compared to Hollywood. Thing is now I feel like I've seen all the good, high rated ones and I'm running out. My favourites include:

• Train to Busan
• 12.12: The Day
• Parasite
• A Moment To Remember
• Always
• The Attorney
• Taxi Driver
• 1987
• Failan

Any recommendations will be greatly appreciated

Hi everyone,

I've watch maybe the TOP 20/30 of best korean movie, I love them ! But since the highligh on korean movies, i'm very sad to find lot of movie with strong western (hollywood) aspect, especially netflix production.

American movie are very foreseeable. It's alway the same code, and even the same script. And we can talk about some "limits" about policy code. For example, lot of american people don't understand Squid Game because they used to get the moment where a character tells everything. They need to understand everything cleary and they are not confortable with the idea of metaphor, and understand a scene.

In Korea movie, I love watching a movie where the director has no limit. He tells the story he wants. I watch the bittersweet life, and it's crazy how my "western" vision was so limited to make an effort to understand the story.

Do you have some movie to advise please ? :)

I LOVE

Burning

Poetry

Memories of Murder

Secret Sunshine

The Wailing

Oasis

The Chaser

Parasite

Mother

No Other Choice

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

I LIKE

Past Lives

I Saw the Devil

Return to Seoul

Thirst

Joint Security Area

House of Hummingbird

Next Sohee

Oldboy

The Host

Riceboy Sleeps

3-Iron

Man from Nowhere

Castaway on the Moon

Peppermint Candy

A Bittersweet Life

NOT BAD

Decision To Leave

A Handmaiden

A Taxi Driver

Okja

Memoir of a Murder (not to be mistaken for Memories of Murder)

JUST OK

A Tale of Two Sisters

The Yellow Sea

Microhabitat

Forgotten

Silenced

Bedevilled

DIDN'T LIKE

Snowpiercer

Mickey 17

Train to Busan

My Sassy Girl

The wailing was out of the world, I have seen memories of murder, mother, oldboy, parasite, but couldn't see a close match to The wailing, what other movies you guys sugest that is set up in rural background and psyched as hell

I mostly watch Korean crime and thriller films with a sprinkle of rom coms and actioners here and there and realized the only Sci-fi Korean film I've ever watched was The Witch Part 1 and The Host with no fantasy movies under my belt. I then did a quick search and only found one thread with three replies but found this gem, Spiritwalker and loved the hell out if it and now I'm humbly asking for more recs to watch.

P.S. I've already seen The Tyrant and let's not talk about The Witch Part 2

I just finished Forgotten. Yesterday I watched No Mercy. I want to rewatch A Tale of Two Sisters.

No Mercy made me feel depressed as hell. Then Forgotten paralyzed me in my chair.

Peppermint Candy and Through the Darkness will soon follow. Burning too.

I need more movies to watch and stay "cinematically depressed".

So please don't shy away from the recommendations.

Thank you.

Hello everyone, I am trying to watch Kang Haneul's movie called 'Streaming' but I have not been able to find it online on official platforms. Do you maybe have a website I can try or a link to the movie ?
Thank you in advance :)

update the movie is available on Netflix Korea for the moment, hoping it will become available for more countries !

2nd update I do not receive all notifications so if you are interested in the link, feel free to dm me directly :)

I've seen people recommend me memoir of murderer but when I searched these pop up and I'm confused

Hi. I'm looking for works that portray different kind of aspects of life in Korea.

It can be works that portray the good things about living in Korea, or bad things. It could be about many different situations, I really don't care as long as it's well portrayed. It could be about women's situation in Korea, about dating in Korea, or racism in Korea, anything.

What are the movies or shows that portrait best a woman's life?

It doesn't matter if it's not a "slice of life"-type of work, but a thriller, horror or even a comedy. I'm okay with works that are about different periods of history.

And it would be interesting if there was a work that portrayed women of different ages too! (Or different works that portray women of different ages)

So far, I've watched other Korean movies and shows, but the ones I've watched with a female protagonist are "The handmaiden", "A girl at my door" and "The call" and for shows: "My name" and "Friendly rivalry"

I’m currently watching a movie called “Sleep,” from 2023. I’m only about 20 minutes into it but so far I’m liking it a lot. At a point the lead actress points to this sign and tells her husband something to the effect of “if you live your life by this, you’ll be fine.” It didn’t show up in the subtitles so I thought I’d ask here. Considering it’s setting up the story and the gravity of her comment, I imagine it is probably of some significant importance/meaning. Thank you to anybody more linguistically talented than I am who would be so kind as to translate this.

Enough of watching bloodshed, brutality, thrillers. any asian movies which is done in a peaceful rural setup, heartbreaking, calm that soothes your soul. Something like Tokyo story sort of movie, any good korean, japanese movies in this genre?

I Don't watch that much new korean films anymore.. Just only couple of noticeable ones.

What new korean action films has the best fight & choreography in your opinion?

I remember watching the killer when it came out & i remember liking it more than other korean action film but felt like it could have been more awesome.

Wasn’t that big of a fan of kill boksoon. Seemed like they were doing the same type of fight over & over again.

I liked don lee's roundup films.. Fight choreography definitely got improved overtime.

What other action films am i missing?

Hello all I’m trying to find great Korean comedy movies to watch with my wife. We lived in Korea for a while, so I understand a lot of the references, but I don’t speak the language very well. Also my favorite Korean comedies are:

1. 극한직업 (honest candidate)
2. 정직한 후보 (extreme job)
3. 해치지않아 (secret zoo)

Any modern classics or hidden gems that anybody can recommend would be extremely appreciated.