7 titles, most popular first
In Seoul in 1950, Lee Jin-tae shines shoes to pay for his younger brother Jin-seok's schooling and dreams of a better future for the family. When North Korea invades, both brothers are forced into the South Korean army, and Jin-tae throws himself into dangerous missions, hoping a medal will win Jin-seok a ticket home.
During the reign of King Yeonsan in the late 15th century, street clowns and tightrope walkers Jangsaeng and Gong-gil flee to Seoul and start a new troupe. When their bold skit poking fun at the king gets them arrested, they are given one chance to escape execution: they must make the tyrant himself laugh.
Crown Prince Sado, heir to King Yeongjo, sets out on a plot to kill his own father. The film moves back and forth between the crisis that follows and the long story of how father and son reached this point, from a king fixated on his young son's lessons to a boy who would rather paint and socialize.
In the Goryeo dynasty, the King and his queen, a princess from the Yuan court, have no children, and pressure mounts from the Yuan emperor and his own advisers to produce an heir. The King turns to Hong-rim, commander of his royal guard and his lover, and gives him an unusual, uncomfortable order: to father a child with the Queen.
During Japan's occupation of Korea in World War II, more than 400 Koreans are forced into brutal labor on Hashima Island. Pushed to their limits by the harsh conditions, they gamble everything on a bold plan to break out.
After President Park Chung-hee is assassinated in October 1979, martial law is declared and Major General Chun Doo-gwang is put in charge of the investigation. As he quietly gathers power, the principled Major General Lee Tae-shin is reluctantly appointed to command the capital's defense, setting the two men on a collision course.
Cheon Yeong is a slave with extraordinary fighting skill who longs to escape his unjust bondage, and Jong-ryeo is the master he once served. In a time of chaos under King Seonjo, the two meet again on opposite sides, one as the king's trusted military officer and the other as a volunteer soldier.
