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Kim Ki-teak's family are all unemployed and living in a squalid basement. When his son gets a tutoring job at the lavish home of the Park family, the Kim family's luck changes. One by one they gradually infiltrate the wealthy Park's home, attempting to take over their affluent lifestyle.
2) Secret zoo
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Korean
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Dissatisfied with his temp position at a well-known law firm, attorney Tae-su takes an unexpected assignment to help revitalize a failing zoo. Seeing this as a chance to prove himself and move up in the firm, Tae-su discovers instead that the zoo has no real animals. What's worse, he only has three months to turn around a seemingly lost cause into a golden opportunity. Enlisting the help of the zoo's bewildered staff, he comes up with an unorthodox...
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Korean
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Young-goon, a young woman who believes herself to be a cyborg, is institutionalized after a gruesome and nearly fatal attempt to recharge her batteries. Among the characters she meets in the mental hospital is Il-soon, a kleptomaniac who steals not only small items, but entire character traits from the other patients. Young-goon enlists Il-soon's aid to help her discover and complete her purpose as a cyborg, while he finds himself coming to care about...
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Korean
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Driven crazy by the incessant yapping of a noisy dog in a nearby apartment, a part-time college lecturer with an expectant wife eventually snaps and takes matters into his own hands, but soon his actions begin to snowball as the apartment building owner becomes increasingly determined to resolve the mounting complaints of missing pets.
An unemployed and unmotivated grad student, looking for a job as a professor, is driven to distraction by a yapping...
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Korean
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Quite by accident, a film director arrives in town a day early. With time to kill before his lecture the next day, he stops by a restored, old palace and meets a fledgling artist. She's never seen any of his films, but knows he's famous. They talk; they go to her workshop to look at her paintings; they have sushi and soju. More conversation and drinks follow, before an awkward get-together with friends where all sorts of secrets are revealed. And...
7) Pamgwa nat
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Korean
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A married man in his early 40s, Seong-nam is an award-winning painter who, after getting busted for smoking pot with an American exchange student in Seoul, impulsively flees to Paris. Crashing in a dingy hotel run by a fellow Korean and unable to speak a lick of French, he finds himself wandering aimlessly around Paris, trapped in both his art and life. After a chance encounter with an old flame, he eventually stumbles into the emotional lives of...
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Korean
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Incoming police chief Lee Seung-woo initiates an ambitious plan to send a message to the criminals and win the confidence of the townspeople. Every member of his force will participate in a bank robbery simulation, unscripted training involving bank personnel and customers, plus a lone cop playing the role of the crook. What is meant to be a simple role-playing exercise quickly spirals into a nationally televised event.
11) Jail breakers
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Korean
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While looking forward to the Independence Day Amnesty, Jae-pil, a well-behaved prisoner heard from Kyŏng-sun, his girl friend, that she would marry other guy. Even worse, he found that he is excluded from the amnesty this year. On the other hand, mu-sŏk, who was put into jail because he stole small bread for his dead hunger, tried to break out of jail several times. While doing it, he finally succeeded in making a route through the wall to escape...
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Korean
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Since surviving a high school car accident, Yu-ri has seen the ghosts of dead schoolmates and her one-time best friend Joo-hee. Joo-hee is a ghost, following her everywhere and scaring the people around her, leaving her totally isolated. Jo-gu, a street magician, meets Yu-ri, during one of his performances, and she winds up the inspiration for his "Horror magic show". Yu-ri begins working as an extra on the show but the darkness inside her, something...
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Korean
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Cha Chi Soo (Jeong Il-woo) is an arrogant high school student who happens to be the son of the biggest food conglomerate in Korea. Yang Eun Bi (Lee Cheong-ah) is a college student preparing for her civil service exam with the dream of being a high school teacher. She accidentally encounters Chi Soo, and both of them end up working at a ramen shop where only "flower boys" work.
14) Veteran
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Korean
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After an international auto theft sting, dimwitted detective Do-chul is treated at a night club where he meets Tae-oh, the tyrannical heir to an untouchable mega-corporation, whose rude behavior rubs Do-chul the wrong way. One day, a truck driver that helped Do-chul with a case gets beaten and humiliated by Tae-oh in front of his nine-year-old son in a protest to get his overdue wages. The son finds Do-chul's business card and calls for help due to...
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Korean
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A struggling poet in his late '30s has spent all his life in a small town, living off his hard-working wife. One day, the poet meets a teenage boy working at a donut shop and helplessly develops feelings he has never felt before, leading to both dramatic and comedic consequences.
16) Zombie for sale
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Korean
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When the illegal human experiments of Korea's biggest pharmaceutical company go wrong, one of their undead test subjects escapes and ends up in a shabby gas station owned by the Park family - a band of misfits spanning three generations who hustle passers-by to make ends meet.
17) Champion
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Korean
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Mark is a disgraced arm wrestler who was adopted by an American family when he was a boy. To attend a tournament, he comes back to his native country for the first time in 30 years. Embraced by a new family, he sets out to become a champion.
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Korean
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When filmmaker Young-soo introduces his wealthy gallery owner friend Jae-hoon to another friend, the female television writer Soo-Jung, the table is set for one of the complicated triangular relationships that fascinate Hong, a preference which at times has garnered him comparisons to ¡ric Rohmer. Documenting the resulting emotional tug-of-war with his usual light touch and acuity, Hong's third film launched Lee Eun-Ju as a star in South Korea and...
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Korean
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In 1980s South Korea, Joong-Pil, a high school bully and gang leader, falls for the beautiful and innocent, but feisty, Min-hee, a student at a nearby girls' school. Suddenly, his customary habits of smoking, cursing, and bullying conflict with his goal of winning Min-hee's heart, but if he softens his ways, he may lose his position at the top of the heap to Sung-Mahn, a rival tough guy.
20) Penny pinchers
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Korean
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Ji-woong is a freewheeler. When his family cuts him off, salvation arrives in the form of Hong-sil, a mysterious girl with an unusual proposal. She is a modern-day Scrooge who has dedicated her life to accumulating cash. In exchange for Ji-woong's assistance, she takes him on as her roommate and apprentice, and an unusual penny-pinching partnership is forged.