Jeon Do-yeon
Also Known As: Do-yeon Jeon, 전도연, Jeon Do-yun, Jun Do-yun, Jun Do-yeon, Do Yeon Chun, チョン・ドヨン, 全度妍, 全道嬿, جئون دو-یئون
Biography: Jeon Do-yeon (born February 11, 1973) is a highly-acclaimed South Korean actress who has won many awards including best actress at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. She is most famous for her extraordinary portrayal of a broken woman who has lost everything in Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Seoul, South Korea
Birthday: February 11, 1973
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Gender: Female
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Secret Sunshine
Overview: Shin-ae moves to her recently late husband’s hometown. Despite her efforts to settle in this unfamiliar and too-normal place, she finds that she can’t fit in. After a sudden tragedy, Shin-ae turns to Christianity to relieve her pain, but when even this is not permitted, she wages a war against God.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-05-23
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Hostage: Missing Celebrity
Overview: A box office star has to prove his action credentials in the real world when he's kidnapped and held for ransom.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-08-18
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Revolver
Overview: Su-young, a police detective who went to prison for someone else, is surprised when a mysterious woman named Yoon-sun arrives to collect her on her day of release. As she discovers that the promised compensation for her time behind bars has vanished, Su-young embarks on a mission to reclaim what rightfully belongs to her.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-08-07
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Happy End
Overview: When a wife becomes the breadwinner of her family after her husband loses his job, adultery becomes part of her life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1999-12-11
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The Housemaid
Overview: Eun-yi is hired as a maid in a mansion owned by a wealthy businessman. He quickly starts seducing his employee who seemingly has little choice but to comply with his sexual advances. Soon the women of the family plot against Eun-yi who must fight an equally devious battle to protect herself.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-05-13
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My Dear Enemy
Overview: Hee-soo is desperate for money and finds her ex-boyfriend who owes her money. He goes around to various ex-girlfriends to get cash and she trails along to make sure he does not cheat her.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-09-25
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No Blood No Tears
Overview: Gyung-sun is a washed-up cab driver who has been trying to go straight after years in trouble with the law after being a big-time safecracker. Soo-jin wants to be a famous singer, but lives the life of a trophy girlfriend to her vicious gangster boyfriend. An unlikely situation cause these two different women to meet where they plan a daring solution to both their problems that will escalate and threaten the wrath of many powerful and corrupt people around them.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-02-28
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The Harmonium in My Memory
Overview: Hong-yun is a high school girl in little mountain village when she falls head-over-heels for a handsome new school teacher, Mr. Kang. What with taking care of her youngest baby brother for her widowed mother and the impossible age difference, it is a roller-coaster ride for her as she tries to become someone special for Mr. Kang while he seems interested in the other new teacher at the school, Miss Yang.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1999-03-27
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You Are My Sunshine
Overview: An old bachelor Seok-joong, who has no experience in dating, falls in love at first sight with a prostitute named Eun-ha. At first Eun-ha shows no interest in Seok-joong, but gradually she begins to be flattered by his devotion and eventually falls in love with him. They marry. However, one day, Eun-ha finds out that she is infected with HIV and decides to leave Seok-joong.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-09-23
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Heartbeat
Overview: Caught up in anxiety, eight-year-old Chul in school tells his teacher that he is going to the bathroom but runs straight home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-04-30
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My Mother the Mermaid
Overview: Na-young works at a post office and is sick and tired of being around her shamefully unyielding mother and her pushover father who's excessively nice. The only thing that she can look forward to is her trip abroad in a few days. But one day, her father leaves home without any notice. Her mother doesn't care what happens to him and doesn't care to look for him. Na-young has no choice but to give up her dream trip abroad and to search for her father instead. Once she arrives at her parents' hometown, Na-young is shocked to meet someone she'd never expect, even in her dreams.
Genres: Romance Fantasy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-06-30
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The Contact
Overview: The male radio presenter Dong-hyun and the female TV home shopping phone operator Soo-hyun are both lonely. While Dong-hyun is focused on getting back to his ex-girl-friend Young-hae who has sent him a special LP, Soo-hyun is crazy for her friend's boy-friend. Via Internet and music Soo-hyun and Dong-hyun get together in a special way.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1997-09-13
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Way Back Home
Overview: Jeong-yoon and Jong-bae own a car body repair shop together that gets in financial trouble. To help cover the losses and take care of her family, Jeong-yoon decides to smuggle thirty kilograms of cocaine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-12-11
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Untold Scandal
Overview: In late 1700s Korea, Lady Cho challenges the playboy Lord Jo-won into seducing and sleeping with her husband's coming young, virgin concubine. Lady Cho agrees to sleep with him if he succeeds.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2003-10-02
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Countdown
Overview: A cold-blooded debt collector who never fails to get what he wants meets the beautiful yet mysterious ex-impostor whose every word is nothing but a lie. She has the key to save his life but he discovers that she only puts him into a deeper trouble. Time is running out and he needs to get it done while his heart still beats.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-09-29
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Lee Chang-dong: The Art of Irony
Overview: A portrait of the South Korean screenwriter, director and producer Lee Chang-Dong through his work, this documentary provides a thematic analysis of his films, most of which have been selected for and received awards at the Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-04-29
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A Promise
Overview: When she met him at the first time, he was a wounded person. However, she saw him through his clear eyes hidden in the bandage. She, Chae Hi-Ju, is a doctor and he, Kong Sang-Du, is a boss of a bandit. The pair seemed not to love each other in terms of their position, but they were closed to each other giving up their own world. However, he was not a common man...
Genres: Romance Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1998-11-14
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I Wish I Had a Wife
Overview: A lonely Korean banker drags himself through the mundanity of his job and his vacuous social life in the hope that he will eventually find that special someone.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2001-01-13
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The Shameless
Overview: A homicide detective tries to flush out a mob enforcer by befriending the suspect's beautiful girlfriend, but soon develops romantic feelings for her.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-05-15
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Memories of the Sword
Overview: While in medieval Korea, a young girl sets out to revenge the betrayal and the death of her mother. But therefore she must face one of the most powerful men and warriors of the Goryeo Dynasty.
Genres: Drama History Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-08-13
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A Man and a Woman
Overview: Two strangers have dropped their kids off at a pickup area for a children's camp in Helsinki, Finland. A spark of mutual interest is ignited between the man and woman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-02-25
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Good News
Overview: Set in the 1970s, a group of people gathered to land a hijacked airplane at all costs devise a suspicious plan.
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Original Language: ko
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The Nest
Overview: A boy adopted by a married couple who lives with her cute daughter comes. The boy's unpleasant behavior continues, and the woman who wants a happy family gradually falls into a nightmare.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-11-19
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Birthday
Overview: Returning from eight years abroad at work and in prison, Jeong-il struggles to reconnect with his wife and their young daughter, Ye-sol, whom he barely knows.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-04-03
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Beasts Clawing at Straws
Overview: A struggling restaurant owner, caring for his sick mom, finds a bag of cash in a sauna locker, while a customs officer gets into trouble when his girlfriend runs off with money he borrowed from a loan shark.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-02-19
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Ashfall
Overview: A group of unlikely heroes from across the Korean peninsula try to save the day after a volcano erupts on the mythical and majestic Baekdu Mountain.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-12-19
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Emergency Declaration
Overview: While investigating a terroristic threat that goes viral online, Korean authorities discover that a suspect has recently boarded an international flight bound for the United States. When a healthy passenger on the same flight suddenly dies a gruesome death of unknown cause, panic erupts both in-flight and on the ground. With steadily decreasing fuel and international refusals to offer aid, the captain and crew will be forced to take unprecedented emergency measures in an attempt to save the lives of their passengers.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-08-03
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What You Cherish Can Never Be Forgotten
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Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1998-06-05
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Kill Boksoon
Overview: At work, she's a renowned assassin. At home, she's a single mom to a teenage daughter. Killing? That's easy. It's parenting that's the hard part.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-02-17
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Mantis
Overview: Mantis, an ace assassin and a former colleague of Gil Boksoon, returns to a collapsed-order hired killer industry after his vacation. Upon reentering this anarchic world, Mantis encounters Jae-yi, his fellow trainee and rival, and Dok-go, a retired legendary killer, and realizes they are all vying for the top spot among the killers. A spin-off film of Kill Boksoon (2023).
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ko
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