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Before "Zodiac", there was Bong Joon-ho's "Memories of Murder". The 4 Oscar winning director of "Parasites" captures the true story of Korea's first serial killer murders, as two detectives follow the murderer's trail. One of the top Korean movies of all time.

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In 1986, two unsuspecting detectives take on the case of a double murder in a South Korean province. But when the killer strikes several times again, detectives realize they're on the hunt for the country's first recorded serial killer. Based only on their instinct and skills, the two detectives attempt to solve the puzzle by combining the evidence at their disposal, in a thriller based on true events. Oscar winner Bong Joon-Ho's first collaboration with the star of "Parasites", Song Kang-ho.

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Best Director | San Sebastián International Film Festival | 2003
Best New Director | San Sebastián International Film Festival | 2003

Memories of Murder

Another brilliant example of Bong Joon Ho's fascinatingly unclassified cinema, which masterly combines the genres of crime thriller, film noir, family drama and social satire to compose one of the most unconventional stories of maternal love ever screened.

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One day a young girl is found dead in an abandoned building and a 27-year-old man is accused of her murder. An inefficient lawyer and an apathetic police force that closes his case too quickly inspire his mother to act on her own—to act as Mother in its purest form. Summoning all her maternal instincts and trusting no one, she sets out to find a killer and prove her son’s innocence.

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Official Selection - Un Certain Regard | Cannes Film Festival | 2009

Mother

What happens in a country holding elections for the first time in its history? Elderly llamas, gun-toting monks and Himalayan villages become entangled in unpredictable mischief during Bhutan's transition from monarchy to democracy in 2006, in this madcap political satire.

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An American travels into Bhutan in search of a valuable antique rifle and crosses paths with a young monk who wanders through the serene mountains, instructed by his teacher to make things right again.

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Official Selection | Telluride Film Festival | 2023
Official Selection | Toronto Film Festival | 2023

The Monk and the Gun

A mobster on an agonizing escape-run leaves a trail of blood all over modern-day China. An impressive neon noir thriller from the award-winning director of “Black Coal, Thin Ice”, that immerses us in a colorful darkness full of twists and riveting action scenes shot with intense precision.

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When Zhou Zenong, the leader of a small local mafia, accidentally kills a police officer, he becomes an outlaw overnight. He is thus forced to escape from both the police and the dangerous gangsters who hunt him for the reward. He hides in China's densely populated (and deeply divided) province of Wuhan, where he becomes entangled with a beautiful, enigmatic woman, who has mysterious intentions.

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Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2019
Official Selection | San Sebastian International Film Festival | 2019

The Wild Goose Lake

The film that introduced Diao Yi'nan (Black Coal, Thin Ice) as one of the most compelling young Chinese directors, is an atmospheric and dark story of a doomed love in the faceless and chaotic modern-day China.

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In a prison for criminals condemned to death, a lonely and widowed correctional officer often travels with the night train to a neighboring town to meet men through a dating service. After many unsuccessful attempts, she will feel attracted to a mysterious man, without knowing that he is hiding a secret.

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Official Selection - Un Certain Regard | Cannes Film Festival | 2007

Night Train

The director of "Have a Nice Day" returns with another animated hit, which travels back to his student days in the Fine Arts, nostalgic for the mumblecore aesthetics of the 90's, while remaining incredibly fresh, without ever lapsing into the sin of sterile retrospection.

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In the 1990s, a group of students on the campus of the Chinese Southern Academy of Arts are pursuing their studies and preparing to face the world. China is opening up to the West and the students’ lives are a tangle of love stories and friendships, artistic research, ideals and ambitions brought about by new influences. Caught between tradition and modernity, they have to decide who they want to become.

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Official Selection - International Competition | Berlin Film Festival | 2023
Official Selection - International Competition | Annecy Film Festival | 2023

Art College 1994

With an elegance and humour previously seen in Woody Allen's films, South Korean Hong Sang-soo shows his unique ability to say everything about modern human relationships in 90 minutes, through a series of humorous indoor coincidences.

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A quartet of characters become embroiled in romantic adventures when the wife of a small publishing house owner discovers a letter addressed to another woman.

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Official Selection - International Competition | Cannes Film Festival | 2017
Official Selection - International Competition | San Sebastian Film Festival | 2017

The Day After

Award-winning (including a Palme d'Or) Chinese filmmaker Qiu Yang makes his feature debut with a revealing and ambitious psychological drama that incorporates elements of film noir and thriller in its exploration of female identity.

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A 45-year-old housewife in an existential crisis unintentionally injures an elderly woman. This seemingly insignificant event will become the catalyst that will cause her life to spiral out of control and lead to her collapse.

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Special Jury Award - Encounters | Berlin Film Festival | 2024
Best Cinematography | Tribeca Film Festival | 2024
Best Actress (Yu Aier) | Tribeca Film Festival | 2024

Some Rain Must Fall

A rainy poem of martial arts and color shades in the hands of the unsurpassed Wong Kar-wai. Starring his regular partner, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, in delightful kung fu battles with Zhang Ziyi.

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Ip Man, the great Kung Fu Master, was born in 1893 in Foshan, China. His early education began at age 7 and, while still young, he fought the best warriors, defeating them all. His life was tragically transformed when, during the Japanese invasion and subsequent civil war, he was forced to go to exile, leaving his beloved family behind. In Hong Kong, Ip Man began a successful career as a martial arts teacher, with Bruce Lee as his most famous student.

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Nominated for Best Achievement in Cinematography | Oscars | 2014
Nominated for Best Achievement in Costume Design | Oscars | 2014

The Grandmaster

In his electrifying directorial debut, Wong Kar-Wai fuses the grit of Hong Kong crime thrillers with the romanticism that would later become his signature. Starring Andy Lau and Maggie Cheung, in the first of their iconic collaborations with the director.

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In the ruthless, neon-lit underworld of Hong Kong’s gangster scene, a small-time crook is torn between a blossoming romance with his beautiful, ailing cousin and his loyalty to a dangerous partner in crime, whose reckless attempts to make a name for himself unleash a wave of violence.

As Tears Go By

The South Korean film that inspired Yorgos Lanthimos to make Bugonia is a paranoid black comedy that masterfully blends different cinematic genres, centers on conspiracy theories and class struggle, and culminates in a modern tragedy driven by a sense of justice and the instinct for revenge.

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Byung-Gu is convinced that all of Earth’s misfortunes are the work of aliens. He believes that unless he can find the prince from Andromeda before the total lunar eclipse, the planet will face total destruction. So he kidnaps the most likely suspect: the president and CEO of Yoojae Chemical Company. Can one man save the Earth before it’s too late?

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Best Director | Moscow International Film Festival | 2003

Save the Green Planet!

Inspired by Tarkovsky, up-and-comer Bi Gan dives into the world of the subconscious with an astounding dream-quest, through a 50-minute single shot that took the Cannes Film Festival by storm. With the star of “Lust, Caution”, Tang Wei.

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Luo Hongwu returns to Kaili, his hometown, after having been away for a long time. Almost immediately after he returns, he starts looking for the woman he loved and hasn’t managed to forget through all this time.

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Official Selection - Un Certain Regard | Cannes Film Festival | 2018
Official Selection | San Sebastián International Film Festival | 2018

Long Day's Journey into Night

The eclectic Korean director Chang-dong Lee takes an older short story by Haruki Murakami and creates a slow-moving masterpiece that almost magically drifts between drama and thriller, reaching an unforgettable climax. Awarded the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes.

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Jong-su just lost his job. He will accidentally meet Hae-mi, a girl who once lived in his neighborhood. She will ask him to look after her cat while she’s away on a trip. On her return, she introduces Jong-su to a mysterious young man named Ben, whom she met while she was away.

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FIPRESCI Prize | Cannes Film Festival | 2018
Vulcain Prize for the Technical Artist | Cannes Film Festival | 2018

Burning

A mysterious pop romance, an unexpected emotional twist on "Vertigo", a story about doppelgangers, love affairs and doubts. It participated in the 71st Cannes Film Festival and surprisingly became a cult cinephile discovery thereafter.

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Asako is a young woman who falls madly in love with the perpetually and aimlessly wandering Baku. One day he disappears from her life as unexpectedly as he had appeared. Two years later, while working in Tokyo, Asako sees Baku again, or so she thinks. A young businessman, Ryohei, looks exactly like her old love. The two begin to build a happy life together, until Asako's past comes to the surface again.

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Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2018
Official Selection | San Sebastian International Film Festival | 2018

Asako I & II

One of the most talented representatives of the new generation of Chinese directors, Shujun Wei, impresses with his third feature film, a sophisticated crime drama that intertwines film noir with existential exploration, in the best tradition of the Asian school of the genre.

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A young police officer takes on the investigation of a series of murders that have shocked public opinion in China. Under pressure from his superiors, he reaches the long-awaited arrest. However, could the real culprit still be at large?

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Official Selection - Un Certain Regard | Cannes Film Festival | 2023

Only the River Flows

On the backdrop of Tokyo's 2011 earthquake, this hallucinatory animated film, based on short stories by Haruki Murakami, features talking frogs and vanished cats, unfolding as an audiovisual tsunami that mirrors the efforts of a handful of lost souls trying to reinvent themselves.

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Tokyo, just days after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Kyoko suddenly leaves her husband after he spends five straight days glued to the television, watching footage from the disaster. Helpless, he takes a week off work and heads north to deliver a box to two young women. Meanwhile, his colleague Katagiri returns home one night to find a two-meter-tall frog asking for his help to save Tokyo.

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Jury Distinction | Annecy Film Festival | 2022

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

The film that re-established Chan-wook Park's popularity on a scale similar to that of "Oldboy". An erotic thriller during the era of Japanese-occupied Korea that magnetizes the audience due to its amazing visual work that turns it into a true celebration of the senses.

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In 1930s Korea, during the Japanese occupation, a young girl (Sook-Hee) is hired as a maid to a Japanese heiress (Lady Hideko) who lives a lonely life on a large estate in the countryside, with her domineering uncle (Kouzuki). But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket who has been hired by a fraudster to seduce the heiress, steal her property and have her locked up in a madhouse. Things seem to go according to plan, until Sook-Hee and Hideko "discover" an unexpected connection between them.

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Vulcain Prize | Cannes Film Festival | 2016
Best Non-English Language Film | BAFTA Awards | 2018

The Handmaiden

Takashi Miike’s landmark film is a nightmarish revenge fable that inspired some of the most notorious torture-horror franchises worldwide (Saw, Hostel), and remains unforgettable for its shocking finale. A gem of Asian extremity, it is counted among Quentin Tarantino’s favorite films.

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A 42-year-old widower, ready to rebuild his life, organizes a fake audition to find the woman he longs for. When he meets Yamazaki - a mysterious and strikingly beautiful 24-year-old - desire soon turns into obsession, and the story descends into a chilling psychological nightmare.

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FIPRESCI Award | Rotterdam International Film Festival | 2000

Audition

Before "In the Mood for Love" and "2046", Wong Kar-Wai’s second feature brings his signature themes of time, desire, and distance to the forefront in an intoxicating blend of noir and romance. It also marks the director’s first collaboration with the incomparable cinematographer Christopher Doyle.

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In 1960s Hong Kong, a group of unruly young adults come together and drift apart in a slow-burning dance of suppressed desire. A disillusioned playboy who seduces and abandons women without remorse is searching for his biological mother. One woman is desperately in love with him. A police officer finds himself caught in the middle of their troubled relationship. What follows is a chain of events driven by obsession, self-discovery, and shocking violence.

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Best Picture | Hong Kong Film Awards | 1991
Best Director | Hong Kong Film Awards | 1991
Best Actor (Leslie Cheung) | Hong Kong Film Awards | 1991

Days of Being Wild

Bong Joon-ho's impressively contrived debut reveals how the road to "Parasites" was by no means coincidental. A delightful black comedy that turns an ordinary nuisance (the barking of a dog) into a masterfully agonizing urban nightmare.

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The film spans seven adventurous days in an apartment building. A college lecturer with plenty of time on his hands gets annoyed at the sound of a dog barking and tries to find out where it’s coming from. Coincidentally, he discovers a dog in front of his neighbor’s door. He instinctively thinks that it was the culprit, kidnaps the dog and locks it in the basement.

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FIPRESCI Prize | Hong Kong International Film Festival | 2001

Barking Dogs Never Bite

The cinematic triumph of Cinobo-favourite Bong Joon-ho. A stylistic apotheosis filled with suspense and a piercing social commentary that defies genre. Rightful winner of the Palm d’ Or and the Best Picture Oscar that made Academy history.

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The Kims are a loving family, but they are all unemployed and their future seems gloom. The son of the family finds a job as a private tutor and can finally hope for a steady income. Carrying the whole family’s expectations, he goes to interview at the Park household – owners of an international tech company – where he will meet the lady of the house. After that first meeting, a cascade of unfortunate events begins.

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Best Film | Oscars | 2020
Best Director | Oscars | 2020
Best Original Screenplay | Oscars | 2020
Best International Feature Film | Oscars | 2020
Palme d'Or | Cannes Film Festival | 2019

Parasite

Liu Jian, a painter who took his art a little further, now introduces himself as a pioneer of independent Chinese animation and delivers an extraordinary postmodern noir that, behind its basic plot, reveals a set of inventive symbolisms about his country’s image.

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A suitcase full of money in a southern Chinese city will complicate the lives of strangers with different goals and motives and start a merry-go-round of unexpected events, drawing them into a bloody conflict.

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Official Selection | Berlin International Film Festival | 2017

Have a Nice Day

The legendary horror film from South Korea that made every train journey feel different. A family in crisis and the outbreak of the Zombie Apocalypse, all while on the move. Terror, suspense, blood, emotion, and even a commentary on class, in one of the most famous horror movies of the past decade.

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An unidentified virus sweeps through South Korea, evolves into a pandemic and turns the country’s residents into the living dead. The Government is forced to put the country in a state of emergency but not even declaring martial law is enough. The only unaffected passengers of a bullet train to Busan (a city that has stopped the spread of the virus) have to fight to the death to survive. In the 453 kms of this bloody ride, they will do everything to stay alive.

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Official Selection | Melbourne International Film Festival | 2016
Official Selection | Macao International Film Festival | 2016

Train to Busan

Inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear and a 16th-century Japanese myth, Ran is Kurosawa's last major cinematic epic, for which he received his only nomination for the Best Director Oscar. It is considered one of the greatest films of all time.

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At the age of seventy, after years of consolidating his empire, the Grand Lord decides to abdicate and divide his realm among his three sons. Taro, the eldest, will rule. Jiro, his second son, and Saburo will take over the command of the Second and Third Castles, but given their obedience and support to their older brother. Saburo breaks his promise of obedience and is exiled.

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Best Costume Design | Oscars | 1986
Nomination for Best Director | Oscars | 1986
Best Foreign Language Film | BAFTA | 1987
OCIC Award for Best Director | San Sebastian Film Festival | 1985

An impulsive, introspective journey into our roots and the need to explore them, one that leads to many different lives in search of a missing link. Golden Athena at Athens International Film Festival and a stunning performance by Park Ji-Min, despite her being a newcomer.

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A 25-year-old woman returns for the first time to South Korea where she was born before being given up for adoption and raised in France, having made it her goal to persistently search for her biological parents.

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Official Selection - Un Certain Regard | Cannes Film Festival | 2022
Golden Athena | Athens International Film Festival | 2022