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The Glory

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A high school student dreams of becoming an architect. However, she had to drop out of school after suffering from brutal school violence. Years later, the perpetrator gets married and...

Miss Granny (2014)

Miss Granny

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Oh Mal Soon is a 74-year-old widow that realizes she is becoming a burden on her family. As she is roaming the streets, she comes across a photo studio and...

Young Lady

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“The brightest encounter found in the darkest place.” 19-year-old Yoon Young lives alone with her mother and prepares for the civil service exam while working part-time. She wants to go...

The Tower (2012)

The Tower

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It’s Christmas-eve. In an ultra-luxurious, 108-story, residential high-rise, Tower Sky, the annual White Christmas gala is underway, dazzling the elite tenants and their VIP guests. When unthinkable disaster strikes–and out...

Unusual Delivery (2022)

Special Delivery

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“Special Cargo” is a crime action film about the unexpected events that unfold when Eun Ha, a driver with a 100% success rate at delivering anything worth money, puts a...

Decibel

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The story unfolds when a explosion that responds to sound is discovered at the center of the city. This terror attack occurs following an incident that happened one year ago...

Scandal Makers (2008)

Scandal Makers

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Mid 30’s Nam Hyeon Su is a popular radio D.J. and entertainer, who was even more popular in his younger days as a teen idol. One day, his apartment doorbell...

Be My Dream Family (2021)

Be My Dream Family

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An obstinate father in his 70s and a sweet mother in her 60s fall in love. However, their families come from very different cultural backgrounds, so they clash when their...

Broker

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A baby box is a small space, where parents can leave behind their babies anonymously. Sang Hyun finds new parents for a baby left in a baby box and makes...

Last

Last

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Fund manager Jang Tae Ho is a cocky but sterminated stock manipulator, who is used to getting things done his way. But when he fails at a scheme worth 35...

Punch (2011)

Punch

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Wan Deuk is a high school boy who lives with his hunchback father and has the unfortunate luck of having his high school homeroom teacher as his neighbor. Despite his...

When You Love Yourself (2018)

When You Love Yourself

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Can I be happy if I meet someone’s standards? How to love myself as I am?...

Cart (2014)

Cart

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Sun Hee is a mother of two children. She works at a large discount retail store as a cashier. Hye Mi is a single mother and a co-worker of Sun...

Shadow Detective

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Kim Taek Rok is a veteran detective at the Geumo Police Station waiting for his retirement. One day, he starts receiving phone calls from someone who claims to be an...

High Heel (2014)

High Heel

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Ji Wook is a cold-blooded detective who would brutally assault and stop at nothing to catch criminals. However, despite looking masculine, Ji Wook struggles with a secret desire to be...

Microhabitat (2018)

Microhabitat

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Mi So lives from day to day by housekeeping. Cigarettes and whiskey are the two things that get her through the day. When the government doubles the price of cigarettes,...

Kingmaker: The Fox of the Election (2021)

Kingmaker

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Seo Chang Dae, an ambitious political strategist, is impressed by the political platform of Kim Woon Beom and decides to join his campaign for president. In order to put up...

Green Mothers’ Club

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The ‘Green Mothers Club’ captures the friendship, motherhood, and growth of five mothers who met in the elementary community, each with a complex that they could not overcome. It is...

Bedevilled

Bedevilled

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Hye Won is a stern single independent woman who works in a bank in Seoul. She is very self-centered and doesn’t care to help other people. However, due to problems...

A Distant Place (2020)

A Distant Place

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Jin Woo, who resides on a sheep ranch in Hwacheon, Gangwon-do, lives a quiet life with his daughter Seol. Ranch owner Joong Man and his daughter Moon Kyeong treat them...

The Sound of a Flower

The Sound of a Flower

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In 1867, Shin Jae Hyo leads the Dongrijungsa which teaches pansori (traditional Korean musical storytelling). A young girl, Chae Sun, who wants to perform pansori, appears in front of him....

SF8: White Crow (2020)

SF8: White Crow

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Juno, a star game broadcaster with 0.8 million subscribers is entangled in a controversy when a former classmate claims Juno falsely made up her own past. Having lost all her...

Derailed (2016)

Derailed

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Jin Il and Ga Yeong are teenage runaways who live like a family with other runaway children. Sometimes they do some delivery work, sometimes they steal things to make their...

Asura: The City of Madness

Asura: The City of Madness

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Detective Han Do Kyung, who for years has been secretly doing dirty work for the corrupt mayor Park Sung Bae, is now pressured by a ruthless prosecutor Kim Cha In...