Alice DVD Library

The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008)

7.3/10

Director: Kim Jee-Woon

Starring: Kang-ho Song, Byung-hun Lee, Woo-sung Jung

Korean director Ji-woon Kim nods to the spaghetti western with this treasure hunt flick set in the wilds of 1930s Manchuria. A hitman (the Bad) is hir... Read more

Musa: The Warrior (2001)

6.2/10

Director: Sung-su Kim

Starring: Woo-sung Jung, Zhang Ziyi, Sung-kee Ahn, Jin-mo Ju, Yong-woo Park

It is 1375 and tribal clans are at war. When the Korean peace envoys are betrayed, they escape and stumble across a Ming Princess (Zhang Ziyi) and the... Read more

Train to Busan (2016)

7.5/10

Director: Yeon Sang-ho

Starring: Jung Yu-mi, Gong Yoo

When a mysterious virus breaks out across the country, the infected turn into the murderous undead. A few terrified travellers find themselves trapped... Read more

The City of Violence (2006)

6.7/10

Director: Seung-wan Ryoo

Starring: Doo-hong Jung, Seung-wan Ryoo, Beom-su Lee

A Seoul cop learns that an old friend, and ex-gangster, has been murdered and returns to his hometown for the funeral, only to find that something eve... Read more

Nowhere to Hide (1999)

6.6/10

Director: Myung-Se Lee

Starring: Ji-Woo Choi, Dong-kun Jang, Joong-Hoon Park, Sung-kee Ahn

In a port city where violence abounds, a drug boss is viciously stabbed to death by the drug lord Chang Sungmin. Detective Woo is the cunning police d... Read more

The Host (2006)

7/10

Director: Joon-ho Bong

Starring: Kang-ho Song, Hie-bong Byeon, Ah-sung Ko, Hae-il Park, Bae Doo-na

AKA 'Gweomul'. 'Godzilla' meets 'Alien' in this monster movie with everything, from Korean director Joon-ho Bong. Following a careless toxic waste le... Read more

Overheard (2009)

7.1/10

Director: Alan Mak Siu Fai, Felix Chong

Starring: Lau Ching Wan, Louis Koo, Daniel Wu, Michael Wong, Waise Lee Chi-Hung, Jingchu Z...

Being a cop can be a demoralising business, working long hours in a high stress environment, putting pressure on your personal relationships, all for... Read more

Brotherhood of War (2004)

8.1/10

Director: Je-Gyu Kang

Starring: Dong-kun Jang, Bin Won, Eun-joo Lee

Korea's leading filmmaker, Kang Je-gyu, wrote and directed this epic-scale drama focussed on two brothers forced into the war that tore their nation a... Read more

The King and the Clown (2005)

7.5/10

Director: Jun-ik Lee

Starring: Woo-seong Kam, Jin-young Jeong, Seong-Yeon Kang, Jun-gi Lee, Hang-Seon Jang, Hae...

South Korea's highest-grossing film of all time (until it was surpassed by 2006's 'The Host') is this period drama-comedy about a group of wandering m... Read more

Dangerous Liaisons (2012)

5.9/10

Director: Hur Jin-ho

Starring: Lisa Lu, Zhang Ziyi, Cecilia Cheung, Dong-gun Jang, Shawn Dou

1930s Shanghai: the glamorous, tumultuous "Paris of the East" whose salons, streets and bedrooms frame this Chinese adaptation of the French novel "Le... Read more

Shadowless Sword (2005)

6.5/10

Director: Young-jun Kim

Starring: Hyeon-jun Shin, So-yi Yoon, Seo-jin Lee, Ki-yong Lee, Ji-Woo Choi

A sword-slinging Korean martial arts epic set in the year 925 A.D., Prince Balhae has been assassinated and the kingdom is under attack and in turmoil... Read more

Untold Scandal (2003)