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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

Memories of Murder (Blu-ray) (2003)

8.1/10
Director: Joon-ho Bong
Starring: Kang-ho Song, Sang-kyung Kim, Roe-ha Kim, Jae-ho Song, Hie-bong Byeon, Seo-hie K...

Based on the true story of Korea's first recorded serial killer, and set during the politically charged '80s this film fairly crackles with tension.... Read more

Master of the Flying Guillotine (1976)

7.6/10
Director: Jimmy Wang Yu
Starring: Jimmy Wang Yu, Kang Kam, Kun Yee Lung, Kar Wing Lau, Lung Wei Wang

A vengeful martial artist who has developed a deadly flying guillotine act is out to settle a score with the One-Armed Boxer. But as he's also blind,... Read more

Memories of Murder (2003)

8.1/10
Director: Joon-ho Bong
Starring: Kang-ho Song, Sang-kyung Kim, Roe-ha Kim, Jae-ho Song, Hie-bong Byeon, Seo-hie K...

Based on the true story of Korea's first recorded serial killer, and set during the politically charged '80s this film fairly crackles with tension.... Read more

Parasite (2019)

8.6/10
Director: Bong Joon Ho
Starring: Kang-ho Song

All unemployed, Ki-taek and his family take peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks, as they ingratiate themselves into their lives and g... Read more

Parasite (Blu-ray) (2019)

8.6/10
Director: Bong Joon Ho
Starring: Kang-ho Song

All unemployed, Ki-taek and his family take peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks, as they ingratiate themselves into their lives and g... Read more

Vive L'Amour (1994)

7.5/10
Director: Tsai Ming-Liang
Starring: Lee Kang-Sheng, Kuei-Mei Yang, Chao-jung Chen

Three city folk unknowingly share a city apartment in Taipei. May is the real estate agent using it for romantic liaisons while it's on the market, A... Read more

Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)

7.8/10
Director: Ang Lee
Starring: Sihung Lung, Kuei-Mei Yang, Yu-Wen Wang

Acclaimed comedy-drama from Ang Lee ("The Wedding Banquet") about Chu, a widowed master chef facing such problems as losing his sense of taste, his th... 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

The Free World (2016)

6.1/10
Starring: Elisabeth Moss, Octavia Spencer, Boyd Holbrook, Sung Kang

A recently released former convict becomes involved with a married woman with an abusive husband. Read more

Secret Sunshine (2007)

7.5/10
Director: Lee Chang-Dong
Starring: Do-yeon Jeon, Kang-ho Song

A master of intensely emotional human dramas, director Lee Chang-dong is a luminary of contemporary Korean cinema, and his place on the international... Read more

Oasis (2002)

8/10
Director: Chang-dong Lee
Starring: Nae-sang Ahn, So-ri Moon, Kyung-gu Sol, Seung-wan Ryoo

Hailed as a seminal film of the Korean New Wave, acclaimed director Lee Chang-dong's "Oasis" is the story of the struggle of two social misfits to fin... Read more

Tell Me Something (1999)

6.6/10
Director: Yoon-Hyun Chang
Starring: Eun-ha Shim, Suk-kyu Han, Hang-Seon Jang, Jung-ah Yum

After accepting cash from an underworld figure to pay his dying mother's medical bills, Seoul detective Cho sees a chance at redemption when he takes... Read more

Spider Forest (2004)

6.6/10
Director: Song Il-gon
Starring: Woo-seong Kam, Jung Suh, Kyeong-heon Kang, Hyeong-seong Jang, Byung-ho Son

TV journalist Kang Min wakes up in a reputedly haunted forest and finds a gruesome murder scene nearby. He gives chase to the perpetrator but loses hi... Read more

Snowpiercer (2013)

7/10
Director: Joon-ho Bong
Starring: Ed Harris, Ewen Bremner, John Hurt, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Chris Evans, Kang...

Adapted from a French graphic novel, the film is set in a dystopian near-future in which the entire Earth has succumbed to a new ice age and the last... Read more

Thirst (2009)

7.2/10
Director: Chan-wook Park
Starring: Hae-sook Kim, Ok-vin Kim, Young-chang Song, Kang-ho Song

Top Korean star Kang-ho Song plays a devout, kind priest whose life (after-life?) is forever changed by a transfusion of vampire blood that unleashes... Read more

The 5 Deadly Venoms (1978)

Director: Chang Cheh
Starring: Lung Wei Wang, Philip Kwok

One of the loopiest kung-fu movies ever made, a garish masterpiece of martial arts kitsch by the hard-boiled master of the genre, Chang Cheh. The five... Read more

The Age of Shadows (2016)

7.2/10
Director: Kim Jee-Woon
Starring: Gong Yoo, Kang-ho Song, Byung-hun Lee

Korea in the late 1920s is under Japanese occupation. Lee Jung-chool (Song Kang-ho, Snowpiercer), a Korean-born police captain in the Japanese police... Read more

Broker (2022)

7.2/10
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Starring: Kang-ho Song, Doona Bae, Ji-Eun Lim

When a young mother reconsiders abandoning her baby, she discovers a scheme selling foundlings for adoption. Read more

Wushu - The Young Generation (2008)

Director: Antony Szeto
Starring: Sammo Hung, Fengchao Liu, Wenjie Wang, Xiaofei Wang, Yongchen Liu, Yachao Wang

Starring legendary martial arts actor Sammo Hung, and produced by his buddy Jackie Chan, this film was shot in an actual martial arts school in Mainla... Read more

Bullet to the Head (2012)

5.7/10
Director: Walter Hill
Starring: Christian Slater, Sylvester Stallone, Sung Kang, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jason...

After a seemingly routine job ends in an ambush, his partner's death, and his own narrow escape, a New Orleans hit man (Sylvester Stallone) goes on a... Read more

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)

6/10
Director: Justin Lin
Starring: Lucas Black, Lil Bow Wow, Nathalie Kelley, Brian Tee, Sung Kang, Sonny Chiba

The third instalment in the 'Fast and Furious' series is a super-charged look at the underground world of Tokyo's drift-racers. Young Sean (Lucas Bla... Read more

The Master (1980)

7/10
Director: Lu Chin-ku
Starring: Chen Kuan-tai, Lung Wei Wang

Aka "3 Evil Masters". Three gangsters make a surprise attack on Chin Tien-yun (Chen Kuan-tai), a renowned and skilled martial artist of strange charac... Read more

A Battle of Wits (2006)

Director: Jacob Cheung Chi-Leung
Starring: Andy Lau, Sung-kee Ahn, Wang Zhiwen, Siu-hou Chin

Based on a popular 11-volume manga series entitled 'Bokko' and set during the Warring States Period in China in 370 B.C. when the country was split be... Read more

Better Luck Tomorrow (2002)

7.1/10
Director: Justin Lin
Starring: Parry Shen, Jason Tobin, Sung Kang, Roger Fan, John Cho, Karin Anna Cheung

To his classmates and teachers, high-schooler Ben Manibag (Parry Shen) appears to be the "model" student: a perfectionist and overachiever, destined f... Read more

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (Blu-ray) (2006)

6/10
Director: Justin Lin
Starring: Lucas Black, Lil Bow Wow, Nathalie Kelley, Brian Tee, Sung Kang, Sonny Chiba

The third instalment in the 'Fast and Furious' series is a super-charged look at the underground world of Tokyo's drift-racers. Young Sean (Lucas Bla... Read more

The One-Armed Swordsman (1967)

7.4/10
Director: Chang Cheh
Starring: Jimmy Wang Yu, Chiao Chiao, Huang Tsung-shun

One of the classics of martial arts cinema, this is often referred to as the first real martial arts film, focusing as it does on techniques and style... Read more

Cat and Mouse (2003)

5.3/10
Director: Gordon Chan
Starring: Andy Lau, Cecilia Cheung, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong

Zhan Zhao is a deputy to the wise Judge Bao. When Zhan heads back home for a vacation, he uncovers a plot to assassinate Bao so that a rebel group can... 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

Silmido (2003)

7.2/10
Director: Kang Woo-Suk
Starring: Sung-kee Ahn, Kyung-gu Sol, Jun-ho Heo, Jae-yeong Joeng, Seong-jin Kang

In 1968, a group of North Korean commandos crossed the border in a failed attempt to assassinate South-Korean president Park Chung-hee. Outraged, Sou... Read more

The Tower (2012)

6.5/10
Director: Ji-hoon KIm
Starring: Kyung-gu Sol, Sang-kyung Kim, Ye-jin Son

A freak helicopter accident over a Seoul high-rise apartment complex turns the skyscrapers into a towering inferno. Now the buildings' manager and loc... Read more

The Quiet Family (1998)

7.1/10
Director: Kim Jee-Woon
Starring: Kang-ho Song, Min-sik Choi, Park In-hwan, Na Mun-heui

A South Korean black comedy horror about a family who take over the running of Mt Lodge, a hotel in the suburbs. However punters aren't lining up and... Read more

The Taste of Money (2012)

5.8/10
Director: Im Sang-soo
Starring: Kang-woo Kim, Baek Yun-shik, Yoon Yeo-Jung, Kim Hyo-jin

An ambitious young executive (Kim Kang-woo) thought he had it made when he landed an entry-level job with the corporation owned and run by one of Seou... Read more

Invincible Shaolin (1978)

7.1/10
Director: Chang Cheh
Starring: Lung Wei Wang, Kuo Chui, Wei Pei, Lo Meng

A non-stop action Kung Fu classic of betrayal and violent retribution, this film delivers outrageous Shaw Brothers' martial arts mayhem at it's best.... Read more

Tube (2003)

5.6/10
Director: Baek Woon-hak
Starring: Kim Seok-hun, Bae Doo-na, Park Sang-min

One man must put his life on the line to stop a speeding subway. A fearsome race begins at 200 km per hour for two hours of white-knuckle Korean actio... Read more

The Ghost ( aka Dead Friends ) (2004)

7.1/10
Director: Tae-gyun Kim
Starring: Ha-Nuel Kim, Nam Sang-mi, Bin , Yi Shin

Ji-won (Kim Ha-Neul) is a bright young student with a promising future, but her past is a blank beyond a mysterious incident from some time ago. Hard... Read more

The Flight of the Red Balloon (2007)

Director: Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Simon Iteanu, Hippolyte Girardot, Song Fang, Louise Margolin

Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien makes his first French-language feature with this homage to, and expansion of, the beloved 1956 short, 'The Red Bal... Read more

Fast & Furious X (2023)

7.5/10
Director: Louis Leterrier
Starring: Vin Diesel, Tyrese Gibson, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Charlize Theron...

Dom Toretto and his family are targeted by the vengeful son of drug kingpin Hernan Reyes. Read more

Sympathy For Mr Vengeance (2002)

7.7/10
Director: Chan-wook Park
Starring: Kang-ho Song, Ha-kyun Shin, Bae Doo-na, Ji-Eun Lim, Bo-bae Han

The first part of Chan-wook Park's revenge trilogy, precursor to the incredible 'Old Boy', centres around a young deaf man, Ryu and his dying sister.... Read more

Fast & Furious 9 (Blu-ray) (2021)

7.7/10
Director: Justin Lin
Starring: Vin Diesel, Tyrese Gibson, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Charlize Theron...

Dom and the crew must take on an international terrorist who turns out to be Dom and Mia's estranged brother. Read more

Beyond Hypothermia (1996)

6.8/10
Director: Patrick Leung
Starring: Wu Chien-Lien, Lau Ching Wan, Shirley Wong, Sang Woo Han

Jacqueline Wu plays a (literally) cold-blooded nameless assassin. She knows only two people, the Cambodian woman who gives her assignments and Long S... Read more

The Postman Fights Back (1981)

Director: Ronny Yu
Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Cherrie Chung, Mui Sang Fan, Ka-Yan Leung

Four heroes in the early days of the Chinese Republic embark on a secret mission for the Nationalist Guard. They have just seven days to reach the in... Read more

Attack the Gas Station (1999)

7.1/10
Director: Sang-Jin Kim
Starring: Sung-jae Lee, Oh-seong Yu, Seong-jin Kang, Ji-tae Yu, Yeong-gyu Park, Jun Jeong,...

An imaginative and stylish Korean comedy, satirising the prolific Asian crime genre and South Korea's social turmoil. Four bored youths decide to rob... Read more

Fast & Furious 9 (2021)

7.7/10
Director: Justin Lin
Starring: Vin Diesel, Tyrese Gibson, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Charlize Theron...

Dom and the crew must take on an international terrorist who turns out to be Dom and Mia's estranged brother. Read more

Police Assassins (1985)

Director: Corey Yuen Kwai
Starring: Michelle Yeoh, Cynthia Rothrock, Tsui Hark, John Sham, Hoi Mang, Sammo Hung

Michelle Yeoh, in her second feature film, teams up with martial arts icon Cynthia Rothrock making her debut in this oestragen-fuelled buddy flick. T... Read more

A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop (2009)

5.7/10
Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Sun Honglei, Zhao Benshan, Dahong Ni, Xiao Shen-Yang, Yan Ni

It looks like a perfect plan: the affair will come to a cruel but satisfying end when a Chinese noodle shop owner plots to execute his unfaithful wife... Read more

The Emperor and the Assassin (1999)

7.3/10
Director: Chen Kaige
Starring: Gong Li, Zhang Fengyi, Li Xuejian, Sun Zhou, Lu Xiaohe, Wang Zhiwen

This lavishly produced, epic historical drama is set in the third century B.C. and tells the multi-faceted story of the man who became the first Emper... Read more

Fast and Furious 6 (Blu-ray) (2013)

Director: Justin Lin
Starring: Jordana Brewster, Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Dwayne Johnson, T...

Since Dom (Vin Diesel) and Brian's (Paul Walker) Rio heist toppled a kingpin's empire and left their crew with $100 million, our heroes have scattered... Read more

White Dragon (2018)

6/10
Starring: John Simm, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Katie Leung, Anthony Hayes, Emilia Fox, Tim M...

Jonah Mulray is a professor whose world comes crashing down when his wife is killed in a car crash in Hong Kong. Though his wife lived and worked ther... Read more

The Assassin (1967)

6.7/10
Director: Chang Cheh
Starring: Jimmy Wang Yu, Chiao Chiao, Tien Feng, Li Hsiang-chun, Huang Tsung-shun

In this character-driven, kung-fu classic from the world famous Shaw Brothers Studios, Jimmy Wang Yu stars as Nieh Chen, a champion sword-fighter forc... Read more

Fast and Furious 6 (2013)

Director: Justin Lin
Starring: Jordana Brewster, Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Dwayne Johnson, T...

Since Dom (Vin Diesel) and Brian's (Paul Walker) Rio heist toppled a kingpin's empire and left their crew with $100 million, our heroes have scattered... Read more

My Young Auntie (1981)

7/10
Director: Liu Chia-Liang
Starring: Liu Chia-Liang, Kara Hui, Hsiao Hou, Lung Wei Wang, Chia Hui Gordon Liu

A triumph of kung fu comedy with a female lead who knows how to kick butt, this Shaw Brothers classic sees Kara Hui marrying the dying patriarch of a... Read more

The Story of Ricky (1993)

7.1/10
Director: Nam Nai Choi
Starring: Fan Siu-Wong, Fan Hoi Sang, Ho Kar Kui, Yukari Oshima, Tetsuro Tanpa, Gloria Yip

Aka 'Riki-Oh'. This over-the-top number has won a cult following for its deliberately outlandish martial arts violence, in which Riki displays the rem... Read more

3 Extremes (2004)

6.3/10
Director: Takashi Miike, Chan-wook Park, Fruit Chan
Starring: Kyoko Hasegawa, Atsuro Watabe, Byung-hun Lee, Won-hee Lim, Hye-jeong Kang, Jung-...

Three of Asia's hottest directors join forces for this horror triple. Hong Kong's Fruit Chan, Korea's Park Chan-wook and Japan's Takashi Miike each co... Read more