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Top 100 South Korean Films

As of May 2, 2026. Curated by Rahat Ahmed, extracted from here. This list ranks South Korean narrative feature films by average member rating.

Changes from the latest update:

In:
· 3670 (#72)
· The Time of Fever (#89)
· Pavane (#90)
· Good News (#96)
· My Sassy Girl (#100)

Out:
· A Brand New Life (#95)
· 12.12: The Day (#96)
· Yourself and Yours (#97)
· Moving On (#99)
· Next Sohee (#100)

Eligibility rules:
• There is a 500 minimum ratings threshold.
• Films must have South Korea listed as one of their countries of production.
• Films must be feature-length (more than 40 minutes long) with a festival premiere, theatrical distribution or professional streaming release.
• This list excludes: documentaries of any kind, self-released web videos, DTV films, recap or recut films, theatre or stage shows, TV series or TV movies, specials or episodes.

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  • Parasite

    1

  • Memories of Murder

    2

  • The Handmaiden

    3

  • Oldboy

    4

  • Poetry

    5

  • Joint Security Area

    6

  • Hope

    7

  • A Taxi Driver

    8

  • Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring

    9

  • Mother

    10

  • Silenced

    11

  • Sunny

    12

  • 3-Iron

    13

  • Secret Sunshine

    14

  • Oasis

    15

  • No Other Choice

    16

  • Soulmate

    17

  • House of Hummingbird

    18

  • Castaway on the Moon

    19

  • Lady Vengeance

    20

  • Miracle in Cell No. 7

    21

  • Little Forest

    22

  • The Dream Songs

    23

  • Swing Kids

    24

  • 20th Century Girl

    25

  • Burning

    26

  • I Saw the Devil

    27

  • Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

    28

  • The Chaser

    29

  • Microhabitat

    30

  • The World of Us

    31

  • Peppermint Candy

    32

  • Decision to Leave

    33

  • The World of Love

    34

  • Train to Busan

    35

  • The Wailing

    36

  • Love in the Big City

    37

  • Bleak Night

    38

  • Moonlit Winter

    39

  • Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?

    40

  • A Bittersweet Life

    41

  • A Moment to Remember

    42

  • 1987: When the Day Comes

    43

  • Lost in Starlight

    44

  • On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate

    45

  • Christmas in August

    46

  • Breathless

    47

  • Right Now, Wrong Then

    48

  • The Man from Nowhere

    49

  • Even If This Love Disappears Tonight

    50

  • The Book of Fish

    51

  • Kim Ji-young: Born 1982

    52

  • The Day He Arrives

    53

  • Hear Me: Our Summer

    54

  • New World

    55

  • Han Gong-ju

    56

  • The Way Home

    57

  • Night and Day

    58

  • Café Noir

    59

  • Be With You

    60

  • One Fine Spring Day

    61

  • Tazza: The High Rollers

    62

  • Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War

    63

  • Mandala

    64

  • The Novelist's Film

    65

  • A Midsummer's Fantasia

    66

  • Aimless Bullet

    67

  • Midnight Runners

    68

  • Il Mare

    69

  • Ode to My Father

    70

  • Broker

    71

  • 3670

    72

  • The Last Witness

    73

  • The Attorney

    74

  • I Can Speak

    75

  • Thirst

    76

  • By the Stream

    77

  • Save the Green Planet!

    78

  • The Spy Gone North

    79

  • Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet

    80

  • Forgotten

    81

  • My Dear Enemy

    82

  • My Beautiful Days

    83

  • Timeless Bottomless Bad Movie

    84

  • Take Care of My Cat

    85

  • On the Beach at Night Alone

    86

  • The Host

    87

  • The Classic

    88

  • The Time of Fever

    89

  • Pavane

    90

  • Tune in for Love

    91

  • A Day Off

    92

  • The Housemaid

    93

  • The King and the Clown

    94

  • Sopyonje

    95

  • Good News

    96

  • Miracle: Letters to the President

    97

  • Oki's Movie

    98

  • Failan

    99

  • My Sassy Girl

    100