Korean Screen 100 Greatest Korean Films Ever

A list of the 100 greatest Korean films from Korean Screen:

158 international film critics from 28 countries and every continent in the world except Antarctica told us their greatest Korean films ever so we could form our list.

This list is ranked and is shown in descending order.

Rank Title Year Rating
1 Burning 2018
2 Parasite 2019
3 Memories of Murder aka Salinui chueok 2003
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4 Oldboy 2003
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5 The Handmaiden 2016
6 Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring aka Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom 2003
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7 Housemaid, The aka Hanyo 1960
8 Poetry 2010
9 Peppermint Candy 1999
10 The Stray Bullet 1961
11 Mother aka Madeo 2009
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12 The Wailing 2016
13 Train to Busan 2016
14 Oasis 2002
15 Right Now, Wrong Then 2015
16 A Tale of Two Sisters 2003
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17 JSA: Joint Security Area aka Gongdong gyeongbi guyeok JSA 2000
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18 Host, The aka Gwoemul 2006
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19 Snowpiercer 2013
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20 Sopyonje 1993
21 House of Hummingbird 2018
22 I Saw the Devil 2010
23 Sympathy For Lady Vengeance aka Chinjeolhan geumjassi 2005
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24 3-Iron aka Bin-jip 2004
25 Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance aka Boksuneun naui geot 2002
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26 Take Care of My Cat 2001
27 A Bittersweet Life aka Dalkomhan insaeng 2005
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28 Secret Sunshine 2007
29 Man from Nowhere, The aka Ajeossi 2010
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30 Good, the Bad, the Weird, The aka Joheunnom nabbeunnom isanghannom 2008
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31 Hyuil 1968
32 Castaway on the Moon 2009
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33 The March of Fools 1975
34 Thirst aka Bakjwi 2009
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35 Mandala 1981
36 Save the Green Planet! aka Jigureul jikyeora! 2003
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37 The Widow 1955
38 Taegukgi hwinalrimyeo aka Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War 2004
39 The Man with Three Coffins 1987
40 A Girl at My Door 2014
41 Pieta 2012
42 New World 2013
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43 The Villainess 2017
44 Okja 2017
45 Little Forest 2018
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46 Cafe Noir 2009
47 Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? 1989
48 Madame Freedom 1956
49 A Single Spark 1995
50 Christmas in August 1998
51 Chilsu and Mansu 1988
52 Han Gong-ju 2013
53 Night and Day 2008
54 A Petal 1996
55 On the Beach at Night Alone 2017
56 The General's Mustache 1968
57 The Day He Arrives 2011
58 My Sassy Girl aka Yeopgijeogin geunyeo 2001
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59 Hahaha 2010
60 Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors 2000
61 Treeless Mountain 2008
62 The Isle 2000
63 I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK aka 싸이보그지만 괜찮아 2006
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64 Insect Woman 1972
65 Microhabitat 2017
66 The Surrogate Woman 1987
67 The Coachman 1961
68 Attack the Gas Station! aka Juyuso seubgyuksageun 1999
69 The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well 1996
70 The Woman Who Ran 2020
71 Dwae-ji-ui wang 2011
72 A Taxi Driver 2017
73 A Hometown in Heart 1949
74 Paju 2009
75 One Fine Spring Day 2001
76 Moonlit Winter 2019
77 Sseo-ni 2011
78 Ja-yu-eui eon-deok 2014
79 Painted Fire 2002
80 301, 302 1995
81 Il Mare 2000
82 Timeless Bottomless Bad Movie 1997
83 A Moment to Remember 2004
84 Woman of Fire 1971
85 Nobody's Daughter Haewon 2013
86 Pursuit of Death 1980
87 Io Island 1977
88 The Age of Success 1988
89 A Dirty Carnival 2006
90 Village in the Mist 1983
91 Chunhyang 2000
92 Mist 1967
93 My Mother and Her Guest 1961
94 Daytime Drinking 2008
95 Hotel by the River 2018
96 Suddenly in the Dark 1981
97 Seashore Village 1965
98 Golae sanyang 1984
99 Night Voyage 1977
100 Like You Know It All 2009