No Other Choice (2025) ***

Clearly inspired by "Parasite" (2019), a weird South Korean social satire about a man desperately looking for a job and trying to eliminate his competition.

Squid Game: Season 2 (2024) ***

The second season of the famous Netflix series from South Korea. Quite impressive overall, but the last episode is disappointing, and the ending is way too abrupt. 

Past Lives (2023) ****

Wonderful, very understated and de-dramatized film about human relationships. 

Concrete Utopia (2023) ***

Decision To Leave (2022) ***

Very complex South Korean drama about a cop falling in love with a suspect.

Squid Game: Season 1 (2021) ****

The Man Standing Next (2020) ***

Excellent, very tense drama about the assassination of a South Korean dictator in 1979.

Opera (2020) ***

Parasite (2019) *****

A masterpiece of South Korean cinema.

In the Absence (2019) ***

Oscar-nominated short documentary about a ferry disaster in South Korea.

Burning (2018) ***

 

Jeom (2018) ***

The Villainess (2017) ***

Superb opening scene, and several other exciting action scenes (including a swordfight on racing motocycles in a tunnel) in this South Korean version of "Nikita" (1990).

The Handmaiden (2015) ****

Purpose Of Reunion (2015) ***

Scarlet Innocence (2014) ***

Moebius (2013) ***

Traffickers (2012) ***

Gangnam Style (2012) ****

A cultural phenomenon.

Secrets Objects (2011) ****