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- DirectorMin-ho ChoStarsJae-ho BaekLee Cheon-heeSeo-wu ChoiEight young people try to survive a deadly game show for the million-dollar prize.
- DirectorHyun-Sung MoonStarsHa Ji-WonBae DoonaHan Yeri"As One" is the cinematic retelling of the first ever post-war Unified Korea sports team, hastily formed to participate in the 41st World Table Tennis Championships in 1991. Following the North Korean mid-air bombing of Korean Air Flight 858 in 1987, a Summit was held between North and South Korea to defuse the extreme tension on the peninsula. The summit ended with the agreement to form a unified Korean sports team; and table tennis, being highly visible and world-class in both countries, was chosen as the symbolic unifier. Summarily, the first-ever unified North-South team under the simple aegis "KOREA" was formed to compete in the 1991 World Table Tennis Championships in Chiba, Japan. "As One" recounts these dramatic events where especially two world-class players who had only ever met across the table as die-hard opponents must suddenly become a true partners and teammates in time for the biggest stage of the World Championships. Putting aside their individual ambitions, these women have to summon every ounce of grit and grace to defeat a dominating Chinese team that is vying for its 9th consecutive World Championship title.
- DirectorHo ChoiStarsLee Jung-jaeShin Ha-kyunLee Sung-minA game planner turns the entire city into a board game, through technology, with the citizens as the pawns.
- DirectorJeong-ho LeeStarsJeong Jae-yeongLee Sung-minSeo Jun-yeongA man becomes a fugitive from the police after he kills one of the men who raped and murdered his daughter.
- DirectorJae-geun YoonStarsYunjin KimPark Hae-ilJeong Da-hyeOne middle aged women is admitted to the hospital in a coma. Yeon-hee, who has been searching for a heart to transplant to her daughter, who has critical heart disease, is begging middle aged women's gangster son, Whee-do, by giving him a fortune. But when the reasons for Whee-do's mom are revealed one by one, Yeon-hee, who became desperate, is teaming up with dangerous people...
- DirectorSe-Yeong LeeMan-bae JeonStarsKim Seung-wooSon Byung-hoHa-ryong LimA corrupt detective infiltrates a gang and tries to save his daughter. One day he finds out the heart his daughter would receive as a transplant is from a magician he falsely accused.
- DirectorPark Hee-konStarsCho Seung-wooYang Dong-geunChoi Jeong-wonThe Lotte Giants' Choi Dong-won and the Haitai Tigers' Seon Dong-ryeol are rival pitchers in 1980s baseball. The film reenacts the legendary match of May 16, 1987, which baseball fans today still recall as "the perfect match," when Choi and Sun compete as pitchers for the last time.
- DirectorSu-won ShinStarsLee Da-witSung JunJo Sung-haPluto is a story of the extremes elite high school seniors are prepared to go to guarantee entry into prestigious universities, and asks what could possibly turn an innocent boy into a monster. June, a transfer student into an elite school, is driven to despair by the year's first examination results. One day he discovers that a mysterious clique of fellow students are sharing secret notebooks, which contain important exam information. In order to get his hands on the notebooks he begs the members of the secret circle to include him. They task him with a series of missions to earn them, turning June into a monster in the process.
- DirectorKwang-shik KimStarsKo Chang-seokShin Chi-youngKim Eui-sungA promising young actress takes her own life after a scandal erupts over her relationship with a married politician. Woo-gun, the actress' long-time devoted manager who dedicated everything to building her career, initiates vengeful investigation to expose the sources of the malicious rumor. With help from a reporter friend, Woo-gun breaks into rag trade, and as he delves deeper into the case he is shocked to find a nasty conspiracy tangling politics, business, and the entertainment industry together in a nefarious web of lies.
- DirectorKang Hyeong-cheolStarsChoi Seung-hyunShin Se-KyungKim Yoon-seokGo-ni's nephew, Ham Dae-gil, enters the gambling underworld only to be used as a scapegoat in a deal gone wrong. Now he's planning his revenge by entering one big fatal game.
- DirectorKu Hye-SunStarsCho Seung-wooRyu Deok-hwanNam Sang-miSang-hyun and Dong-hyun were born as conjoined twins with two heads sharing one body. For 30 years, the two have lived in a remote house with their father, who tells them not to go outside the property While Sang-hyun is obedient, Dong-hyun is always questioning something and extremely selfish. Dong-hyun secretly reads and practices writing in the hope of becoming a novelist. One day their father learns of out a fact Dong-hyun's dream, he implores Seung-ah, a cheerful and friendly illustrator wannabe, whom he met by some fortuity, to assist Dong-hyun to publish a book.
- DirectorDeok NohStarsLee Min-kiKim Min-heeKim Ja-yeongAbout a series of relationship between two normal couple in Korea. Break up, get back together, break up again and so on.
- DirectorPang Eun-jinStarsJeon Do-yeonGo SooClaudette LalíJeong Yoon is a caring wife and mother and a sensitive woman who finds herself plunged into a legal ordeal thousands of miles from home. After years of planning, she and her husband Jong Bae open an auto body repair shop, only to see everything they've worked for stripped away when a loan Jong Bae had guaranteed defaults. Facing financial despondency, the couple gets into a vicious fight about money, sending Jeong Yeon away, leaving only a cryptic note saying she'll be back in a few days. When she turns up looking nervous at Orly Airport in Paris with over 30 kilograms of cocaine in her luggage, it is the beginning of a globe-spanning nightmare that began with an old friend and a tempting proposition.
- DirectorJin-muk KimStarsJi Hyun-wooOh Man-seokLee Na-raAn MP's son-in-law and mayoral candidate takes a trip with his girlfriend to a vacation home and meets a mysterious neighborhood boy and his friends.
- DirectorLee HanStarsCha Tae-hyunSon Ye-jinLee Eun-juA college student befriends two cute girls his age. He loses contact with them. He tries to find them years later.
- DirectorHun JangStarsSong Kang-hoThomas KretschmannYoo Hae-jinA widowed father and taxi driver who drives a German reporter from Seoul to Gwangju to cover the 1980 uprising, soon finds himself regretting his decision after being caught in the violence around him.
- DirectorKim Sung-suStarsJung Woo-sungKo So-youngChang Jung LimThis movie follows the story of three friends in Korea, all three of whom drop out of school. The main character is Min, a tough guy whose widowed mother is a drunk. The story traces his journey from high school to the underworld as one of his friends introduces him to life in the mob. Complicating Min's life further is his romance with Romi, a girl from an upper-class family with dreams of going to a prestigious college.
- DirectorBora KimStarsPark Ji-huKim Sae-byeokJeong In-giSeoul 1994, in the year the Seongsu Bridge collapsed, 14-year-old Eunhee wanders the city searching for love.
- DirectorYong SooStarsSol Kyung-guCho Jin-woongPark Bo-kyungTwo people in rather difficult situation than likely duo make things work out for the best
- DirectorSang-hoon LeeStarsLee Mun-shikKim Jee-youngYeo Woon-gyeAlways looking to strike it rich, NA Chung-soo finally gets his chance. All he needs to do is find Kot-nim, the first love of a mysterious millionaire. He merrily treks down to Dongbek Island - the millionaire's hometown - but he and fellow traveler Gi-young, find themselves shipwrecked after a storm, waking up on a remote island. It's Mapado, the very island Chung-soo has terrible memories of.
- DirectorKim Jee-woonStarsLee Byung-hunSong Kang-hoGong YooKorean resistance fighters smuggle explosives to destroy facilities controlled by Japanese forces in this period action thriller.
- DirectorRyoo Seung-wanStarsHwang Jung-minSo Ji-seobSong Joong-kiDuring the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island ("Hashima Island") to mine for coal, attempt to a dramatic escape.
- DirectorMin-ho WooStarsLee Byung-hunLee Sung-minKwak Do-wonIn the 1970s, Korea is under the absolute control of President Park, who controls the KCIA, the organization with the edge over any branch of government.
- DirectorHwang Dong-hyukStarsLee Byung-hunKim Yoon-seokPark Hae-ilIn 1636, King Injo hides in the mountains to avoid being part of the Qing dynasty.
- DirectorLee Won-taeStarsMa Dong-seokJeon Bae-sooKim Mu-yeolA crime boss teams up with a cop to track down a serial killer.