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Go Alone Like Musso's Horn
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Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1995-10-07
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Acacia
Overview: A Korean horror film about an adopted young boy with a strange link to an old, dead acacia tree. As the boy settles in to his new home, the tree comes to life. When the family who adopted him becomes pregnant, he is to go back to the orphanage, and horror ensues.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2003-10-17
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Green Fish
Overview: Returning home and finding his town drastically changed, a former soldier falls in with gangsters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1997-02-07
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Mother and Daughters
Overview: Nam-hee (Shim Hye-Jin) is going about selling fruit from her truck, when she nearly runs over a young gentleman, Joon (Lee Sang-Woo). Joon finds his way to Nam-hee's house, where he meets her mother Gan-nan (Kim Su-Mi), and her 20-year-old daughter Na-rae (Da-hee Lee). Through a series of circumstances, Joon comes to live with the three women, and with the introduction of a handsome man in their house, the three use their own skills to vie for his attention and compete for his affection.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-06-12
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White Badge
Overview: A Vietnam war veteran writes a series of articles about his war experiences for a local newspaper. As he does so, another veteran, drawn by the articles, begins randomly appearing in his life.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1992-07-04
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Black Republic
Overview: A social drama about a young student activist who hides from the authorities by working in a small mining town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1990-11-10
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Maria and the Inn
Overview: Two men, brothers, and two women, mother and daughter, learn of life and love at an inn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1997-09-17
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Over the Border
Overview: After learning that his grandfather is alive and living in Seoul, a North Korean musician must leave his fiancee behind and accompany his family to South Korea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-05-04
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Welcome
Overview: One day, Hye-sook is tricked by her mother into visiting her hometown. When she finds out that her mother is fine and tries to leave for Seoul, she hears about the passing of Taek-gyu's father. After the funeral, Hye-sook plans to return to the city. Gi-ju, a struggling writer, tries to drown himself at Andong lake but Taek-gyu saves him. Hye-sook used to draw for Gi-ju's writings when they were young. The two were each other's first love and through the reunion, they are about to rekindle their old romance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-08-21
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The Fifth Man
Overview: Chang, an international killer, is inflamed by dark tissue, so he clears his past and lives a peaceful life as a dentist. To such Chang, the criminal organization Triyard wants to borrow his power to find drugs that have evaporated in Korea. However, in resolute refusal of the car, he kidnaps his lover, Wing, and offers a condition of exchange for drugs.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1991-11-23
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Daughter
Overview: A mother is seriously obsessed with her daughter. The mother forces her daughter to live a ascetic life and keeps a close watch to ensure she doesn’t stray. Years later, now fully grown up, the daughter learns that her mother is stricken with cancer and visits the hospital. The mother, however, has not changed at all, even while awaiting her imminent death. The daughter visits her former piano teacher, who consoled her when she was young. Since she was not on good terms with her own father, the teacher understands the daughter’s position and tries to support her former student. This teacher now lives alone at her old house after all these years. When the teacher tells the daughter that she took care of her father with Alzheimer’s until he died, the daughter begins to wonder if she, now pregnant, will ever be able to be free from the painful memories involving her mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-11-06
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Out to the World
Overview: A satirical allegory of contemporary South Korean politics, the film follows the exploits of two convicts who accidentally escape while being transferred to another prison. Before they can turn themselves back into custody, they meet a female outlaw. She persuades the pair of prisoners to rob a bank in Seoul. When their robbery turns into an embarrassing fiasco, the two decide to flee to the North Korean border.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1994-05-26
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Marriage Story
Overview: This film is a social comedy which depicts women's endeavor to get the right to live free from men's violence in a male dominated society. This Film begins with a newly married couple. They wed against the wishes of family and friends, who thought they weren't a good match. As their marriage progresses, the young couple realize that marriage is not what you see in movies or read in books. They find that love, sex and marriage are very different from what they had dreamed. They also understand why people disagreed with the marriage from the beginning.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1992-07-04
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Marriage Story 2
Overview: Sun-ju and Jin-woo plan a romantic second honeymoon to celebrate their anniversary. Sun-ju accidently comes into possession of a doll filled with smuggled microfilm. She becomes the target of foreign agents who follow the couple throughout their tour of Australia.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1994-10-08
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To the Starry Island
Overview: Moon Chae-Ku and his friend Kim Chul try to bring the body of Moon's father back to his native Kwisong Island for burial. Their ferry is intercepted by resentful islanders who will not let the boat dock, because of the father's political activities in the 1950's, informing on Communist sympathizers. Kim Chul, through flashbacks, recalls people and events from his island childhood.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1993-12-24
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Bedroom And Courtroom
Overview: Lee Kyung-Ja's husband is constantly away from home, working hard for Il San, a major conglomerate. When he is fired, she becomes angry and sues the company, requesting alimony for her poor love life. After discovering the vicious nature of well-known lawyer Myung Sung-Ki (and after realizing that he represents Il San), seh decides instead to hire his wife, Lee Ki-Ja. In court, Lee Kyung-Ja's husband betrays her, revealing intimate details of their sex life. Humiliated, she decides to drop the case, until her lawyer reveals that she has similar problems in her own marriage. The two women open their hearts to each other and go back to face the court anew. As the lawsuit progresses, the dispute between accuser and the accused runs deeper. At last, they await the judge's decision...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1998-08-01
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The Adventures of Mrs. Park
Overview: Park Bong-Gon is having problems at home with her husband and his temper. She decides to leave and pursue her childhood dream of becoming a singer and begins seeing it through at a club called the Arabian Night. Her husband, upset with her disappearance, enlists a man who specializes in finding runaway housewives...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1996-09-21
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Foxy Festival
Overview: A bright sexy comedy about a wholesome town and four mysterious couples and their sneaky lives. It is the new work of director Lee Hae-yeong, who secured a spot as a new director with the work "Like a Virgin".
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-11-18
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The Gingko Bed
Overview: Soohyun is an artist who teaches at a college. His girlfriend Sunyoung is a surgeon. A strange and mesmerizing reincarn ated love story begins when Soohyun buys and old gingko bed at a market. In his earlier life Soohyun was a musician for the royal family one thousand years ago. He and Princess Midan Were deep ly in love. However, General Hwang, who was also in love with the princess, kills Soohyun. And Midan's spirit hides insi de the gingko bed. Midan appears in front of Soohyun after one thousand years but the spirit of General Hwang, still in love with Midan, does not allow them to meet. Soohyun's present girlfriend, Sunyoung, decides to prove the existence of the spirits by risking her own life. Midan makes her last choice in order to save Sunyoung from General Hwang.
Genres: Fantasy Action Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1996-02-17
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Deep Scratch
Overview: An old friendship turns to rivalry, hatred and murder as one artist tries to imitate and then usurp the work of another and eventually trying to steal her husband, home, and life.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1995-01-28
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Paradise Lost
Overview: A couple fall deeply in love. Unfortunately, they are both already married to other people. The resulting affair leads to the man losing his job. Both divorce their spouses, but while travelling together, they decide that the only way for them to be perfectly happy is for them to commit double suicide.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1998-09-12
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Man with Flowers
Overview: A production company hires an enforcer nicknamed Tyson to retrieve a runaway screenwriter who failed to complete a commissioned scenario on time. Meanwhile the writer, Yeong-su, is heading for Pusan with Jeong-min, a waitress who has offered to help him and let him stay with her until his troubles blow over
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Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1997-11-08
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The Girl for Love and The One for Marriage
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1993-09-30
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