Watch movies directed by Kim Ki-duk

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.

NR

5.7

2013 Drama 120 min Play

7.1

Pietà

A loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.

NR

7.1

2012 Drama 104 min Play

6.5

Dream

In the aftermath of a car crash, a man discovers his dreams are tied to a stranger's sleepwalking.

NR

6.5

2008 Drama 95 min Play

6.7

Breath

A condemned prisoner slowly falls in love with the married female artist who decorates his prison cell. Jin is a convicted killer awaiting execution on Death Row; Yeon is a lonely artist locked in a loveless marriage.

NR

6.7

2007 Crime 84 min Play

7

Time

To save her relationship, a woman puts herself through extensive plastic surgery.

NR

7

2006 Drama 97 min Play

6.9

The Bow

On a fishing boat at sea, a 60-year old man has been raising a girl since she was a child. It is agreed that they will get married on her 17th birthday. They live a quiet and secluded life, renting the boat to day fishermen and practicing strange divination rites. Their life changes when a teenage student comes aboard.

NR

6.9

2005 Drama 90 min Play

7

Samaritan Girl

Yeo-jin and Jae-yeong are two teenage girls who are trying to earn money for a trip to Europe. To reach this end, Jae-yeong is prostituting herself while Yeo-jin acts as her pimp, setting her up with the clients and staying on guard for the police. Things take a turn for the worse when Yeo-jin gets distracted from her duty and the police raid the motel where Jae-yeong is meeting with a client. To avoid getting caught, Jae-yeong jumps out of a window, fatally injuring herself.

NR

7

2004 Drama 95 min Play

7.8

3-Iron

A young man, whose only possession is a motorcycle, spends his time riding around the city looking for empty apartments. After finding one, he hangs out for a while, fixing himself something to eat, washing laundry or making small repairs in return. He always tries to leave before the owners get back but in one ostensibly empty mansion he meets the abused wife of a rich man and she escapes with him...

NR

7.8

2004 Crime 88 min Play

7.8

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring

An isolated lake, where an old monk lives in a small floating temple. The monk has a young boy living with him, learning to become a monk. We watch as seasons and years pass by.

NR

7.8

2003 Drama 103 min Play

6.7

The Coast Guard

An overzealous soldier mentally deteriorates after killing an innocent man he thought was a spy.

NR

6.7

2002 Drama 96 min Play

6.7

Bad Guy

A criminal who runs a brothel becomes obsessed with a beautiful college student. When she rejects him he sets her up by introducing her to a loan shark and when she can't pay, she is forced into working in the brothel. But when she gets the chance to escape she realizes she cannot return to her former life.

NR

6.7

2001 Drama 100 min Play

5.3

Real Fiction

A repressed artists receives ritual abuse from those who pass him as he paints portraits in the park. Gradually becoming more frustrated, anger builds up within the artist, leading him to embark upon a quest to gain revenge on all those who have humiliated him.

NR

5.3

2000 Thriller 82 min Play

7

The Isle

Mute Hee-Jin is working as a clerk in a fishing resort in the Korean wilderness; selling baits, food and occasionally her body to the fishing tourists. One day she falls in love with Hyun-Shik, who is on the run from the police, and rescues him with a fish hook when he tries to commit suicide.

NR

7

2000 Drama 90 min Play

6.4

Birdcage Inn

With a red-light district in Seoul being demolished, the residents there find they have to relocate. Jin-a opts to leave Seoul and heads to the eastern city of Pohang. There she takes up residence in a boarding house run by a small family. Besides the parents, there is a daughter attending university and a son in high school. At first Jin-a is very happy there, however she continues to sell her body driving her into confrontation with the repressed daughter, Hye-mi. Things go from bad to ...

NR

6.4

1998 Drama 100 min Play

6

Wild Animals

Two Korean ex-pats in Paris are recruited by a French mobster. The duo find themselves at war with their mobster recruiters and each other.

NR

6

1997 Comedy 105 min Play

4.3

Yongary, Monster from the Deep

Earthquakes in central Korea turn out to be the work of Yongary, a prehistoric gasoline-eating reptile that soon goes on a rampage through Seoul.

PG

4.3

1967 Horror 79 min Play