This is what I've seen. = Definitely worth watching. = Avoid.  No face = mildly entertaining.

1984

무릎과 무릎사이  /  Knee To Knee

1985

어우동  /  Eoudong

1993

서편제  /  Sopyonje

1996

돼지가 우물에 빠진 날  /  The Day A Pig Fell Into The Well  (May 4th)

1997

초록물고기  /  Green Fish  (Feb. 7th)
모텔 선인장  /  Motel Cactus (Oct. 25th)

1998

8月의크리스마스  /  Christmas in August  (Jan. 24th)
강원도의 힘  /  The Power of Kangwon Province  (April 4th)
조용한 가족  /  The Quiet Family  (April 25th)
여고 괴담  /  Whispering Corridors  (May 30th)
파란대문  /  Birdcage Inn  (Oct. 31st)

1999

쉬리  /  Shiri  (Feb. 13th)
주유소습격사건  /  Attack The Gas Station  (Oct. 12th)
텔 미 썸딩  /  Tell Me Something  (Nov. 13th)

2000

박하사탕  /  Peppermint Candy  (Jan. 1st)
섬  /  The Isle  (April 22nd)
오! 수정  /  Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors  (May 27th)
가위  /  Nightmare (a.k.a. The Horror Game Movie)  (July 29th)
찍히면 죽는다  /  Record (a.k.a. Dead If Recorded)  (Aug. 26th)
공동경비구역 JSA  /  Joint Security Area  (Sept. 9th)

2001

친구  /  Friend  (Mar. 31st)
파이란  /  Failan  (April 28th)
휴머니스트  /  Humanist  (May 12th)
수취인 불명  /  Address Unknown  (May 26th)
썸머타임  /  Summer Time  (May 26th)
신라의 달밤  /  Kick The Moon  (June 23rd)
엽기적인 그녀  /  My Sassy Girl  (July 27th)
킬러들의 수다  /  Guns And Talks  (Oct. 12th)
나비  /  The Butterfly   (Oct. 13th)
이것이 법이다  /  Out of Justice  (Dec. 21st)

2002

나쁜 남자  /  Bad Guy  (Jan. 11th)
피도 눈물도 없이  /  No Blood No Tears  (Mar. 1st)
북수는 나의 것  /  Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance  (Mar. 29th)
오아시스  /  Oasis  (Aug. 15th)
몽정기  /  Wet Dreams (Nov. 6th)
광복절특사  /  Jail Breakers  (Nov. 21st)
해안선  /  The Coast Guard  (Nov. 22nd)
색즉시공  /  Sex Is Zero  (Dec. 12th)

2003

지구를 지켜라!  /  Save The Green Planet!  (April 4th)
살인의 추억  /  Memories of Murder  (April 25th)
장화, 홍련  /  A Tale Of Two Sisters  (June 13th)
내츄럴 시티  /  Natural City  (Sept. 26th)
선택  /  The Road Taken  (Oct. 24th)
휘대한 유산  /  The Greatest Expectation  (Oct. 24th)
올드보이  /  Oldboy  (Nov. 21st)
실미도  /  Silmido  (Dec. 31st)

2004

말죽거리 잔혹사  /  Spirit Of Jeet Kune Do: Once Upon A Time In High School  (Jan. 16th)
사마리아  /  Samaria  (March 5th)
쓰리, 몬스터  /  Three... Extremes  (Aug. 20th)
거미숲  /  Spider Forest  (Sept. 3rd)
빈집  /  3-Iron  (Oct. 15th)
S 다이어리  /  S Diary  (Oct. 22nd)

2005

잠복근무  /  She's On Duty  (Mar. 17th)
달콤한 인생  /  A Bittersweet Life  (April 1st)
활  /  The Bow  (May 12th)
劇場前  /  A Tale Of Cinema  (May 26th)
연애의 목적  /  Rules of Dating  (June 10th)
친절한 금자 씨  /  Sympathy For Lady Vengeance (July 29th)
웰컴 투 동막골  /  Welcome To Dongmakgol  (Aug. 4th)
첼로  /  Cello  (Aug. 18th)

I agree on every one of those, especially Oldboy, man how I love that movie.  Haven't actually seen Sympathy For Lady Vengeance yet, but if it's anything like Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance and Oldboy (the other two movies in Chan-wook Park's revenge trilogy) then it gets two thumbs waaaaay up!

-Mike

I've got My Sassy Girl lined up to watch tomorrow. Heard good things about it from a few sources so I'm quite looking forward to it. I'm a fan of Chan-wook Park's stuff too (who isn't). Lady Vengeance lived up to my expectations after Mr Vengeance and Oldboy.

Lady Vengeance is actually my favorite in the revenge trilogy. Things get fairly..severe.

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I just saw Tale of Two Sisters a few weeks ago. I liked it. Koreans ROCKIN' boy, haha. =P
Nice list, I will be sure to check some of them out.

I assume these are all various genres?  I've only seen A Tale of Two Sisters, but it was excellent.  Any other South Korean movies that are similar or highly recommended?

cheers,

-avatar!

They are mostly drama and arthouse. An example of "arthouse" is City of God. My favorite Korean films are not related to Tale of Two Sisters (but that was good). They make a lot of horror movies, but they usually aren't that good. They do an even worse job with science fiction (Natural City was pitiful). But the Koreans rule in making extremely realistic and truthful movies, especially the director Kim Ki Duk:

  http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/ … i-duk.html

  Here are some more sites to browse:

  http://www.mediacircus.net/koreanmovies.html

  http://www.kfccinema.com/reviews/other/korea.html

  http://www.beyondhollywood.com/skreviews.htm

  http://koreanfilm.org/

  My favorite directors are

  Hong Sang Su - http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0393254/

  Kim Ki Duk - http://us.imdb.com/name/nm1104118/

  Lee Chang Dong - http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0496969/

  POST EDIT:

  I forgot about "Save the Green Planet". So, yes, Koreans can make good science fiction. (Also, one could argue that "My Sassy Girl" was science fiction. That movie was something else entirely.)

I've seen 2 Korean movies so far; old boy and another one of the same director. old boy was sick, but the other movie was not so good. I can't remember the name, but it was that movie about those criminals teaming up and kidnapping a family in an apartment.

Anyway, Korean cinema is interesting, but it doesn't appeal to me that much. I prefer Indian movies (no contest I know).

I haven't seen many Korean films and all of them have been mentioned here already except for 'R-Point' which I would highly recommend. A creepy ghost story set in the Vietnam war. I didn't even know that there were South Koreans in the Vietnam war so I learned something new there. Anyway, it's a creepy film so if you like that sort of thing check it out.

Due to its popularity, I too have seen Tale of Two Sisters during what I would call an "asian horror film" marathon at my college. At said marathon, I saw:

The Eye
The Eye 2
Ringu
One Missed Call
Audition
A Tale of Two Sisters

Among those, Audition and Tale of Two Sisters were my favorite. I'd like to see more Korean films.

Ramza

I thought the Eye/Eye 2 were awesome movies, too. How is One Missed Call?

Holy cow man, Ramza, Audition was freaky. For some reason I was freaked out by that movie more than any other, and it was entertaining all the while.

Based on the above, you might want to check out the Korean movie 거미 숲, a.k.a Spider Forest. (Btw, the Korean title amuses me - it comes out like "gummy soup".)

  Also, since you liked Audition, you'll probably like Gozu and Ichi the Killer.

One Missed Call is pretty good. It starts out feeling like a Ring copy but quickly develops into quite a creepy little film based around the idea of death. It has one of the cheatiest plot points later in the movie and never quite feels like an 'excellent' movie but is certainly worth a watch. It's one of the sanest Miike films I've seen as he seems to have kept quite reserved through the entire thing.

there is a tv drama for one missed call you can download as well... entertaining, but it borderlines on cheesey.. the fan subs are really bad engrish...    it stars a lot of the same people from other j-tv dramas...