List of the best Park Chan-wook movies: Oldboy(2003), The Handmaiden(2016), Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance(2002), Lady Vengeance(2005), Thirst(2009), Stoker(2013), Three ... Extremes(2005) ... ...
Mystery & Thriller
South Korea
2003
118 Minutes
Director
Min-sik Choi Ji-tae Yu Gang Hye Jeong Dae-han Ji Dal-su Oh Byeong-ok Kim Seung-shin Lee Jin-seo Yoon
drunk kidnapper friend police officer prisoner suspenseful thrilling shocking new york city cell jail restaurant secret kidnapping imprisonment money chases loneliness mystery pursuit
After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in five days.
Drama, Mystery & Thriller, Romance
South Korea
2016
144 Minutes
Director
Kim Min-hee Kim Tae-ri Ha Jung-woo Cho Jin-Woong Kim Hae-sook Moon So-ri Jeong Ha-dam Eun-hyung Jo
korean woman pickpocket japanese woman lesbian heiress intense emotional melodramatic profound brooding korea house lesbianism trust fraud money japanese occupation love forbidden love pursuit
A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her.
Drama
South Korea
2002
129 Minutes
Director
Song Kang-ho Bae Doo-na Han Bo-bae Kim Se-dong Lee Dae-yeon Shin Ha-kyun Lim Ji-Eun
deaf mute sister tycoon daughter girlfriend dark gritty gory seoul, south korea factory lake terminal illness kidnapping organ transplant accidental death revenge pursuit quest 2000s
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.
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy, Drama
South Korea
2005
114 Minutes
Director
Lee Yeong-ae Min-sik Choi Nam Il-woo Kim Byeong-ok Kim Bu-seon Mi-ran Ra
murderer thief daughter teacher police officer criminal striking emotional gutsy prison bakery cell house korea wrongful conviction murder retribution justice revenge discovery
After being wrongfully imprisoned for thirteen years and having her child taken away from her, a woman seeks revenge through increasingly brutal means.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
South Korea|USA
2009
133 Minutes
Director
Song Kang-ho Kim Ok-vin Shin Ha-kyun Kim Hae-sook Dal-su Oh Mercedes Cabral
priest vampire wife childhood friend doctor suspenseful melodramatic sultry hospital south korea roof bedroom church medical experiments vampires supernatural faith friendship morality metamorphosis
Through a failed medical experiment, a priest is stricken with vampirism and is forced to abandon his ascetic ways.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
UK|USA
2013
98 Minutes
Director
Mia Wasikowska Matthew Goode Nicole Kidman Jacki Weaver Dermot Mulroney Alden Ehrenreich Phyllis Somerville Ralph Brown Harmony Korine Lucas Till
young woman uncle father mother housekeeper aunt dark creepy emotional small town household family dysfunction untimely death suspicion unusual relationship temptation mystery 2010s
After India's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, whom she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.
Horror
2005
125 Minutes
Byung-hun Lee Park Chan-wook Hye-jeong Kang Jung-ah Yum Mitsuru Akaboshi Bai Ling Kyoko Hasegawa Pauline Lau Tony Leung Won-hie Lim
Stories revolve around a witch doctor, a filmmaker (Byung-hun Lee) and a resentful extra, and a novelist and her twin sister.