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Korean Film Archive - Top 100 Films (2014)

In January 2014, the Korean Film Archive provided a list of the 100 Greatest Korean Films. The top 10 are ranked (actually 12 films, since there are a couple ties), then rest are listed chronologically.

A large portion of the list prior to 2000 is available to watch on YouTube (Links in notes)

Updated YouTube links Jun 2019. There are now 64/100 titles free to watch with English subtitles courtesy of the Korean Film Archive.

The list on the Korean Film Archive's website
The Korean Film Archive YouTube Channel also features a range of films that are not on this list.

1. The Housemaid (1960)
1. Aimless Bullet (1961)
1. The March of Fools (1975)
4. Madame Freedom (1956)
5.…

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  • The Housemaid

    1

  • Aimless Bullet

    2

  • The March of Fools

    3

  • Madame Freedom

    4

  • The Coachman

    5

  • Heavenly Homecoming to Stars

    6

  • Good Windy Days

    7

  • Memories of Murder

    8

  • Mother and a Guest

    9

  • Yeong-ja's Heydays

    10

  • Declaration of Fools

    11

  • Sopyonje

    12

  • Crossroads of Youth

    13

  • Sweet Dream

    14

  • Angels on the Street

    15

  • Spring of Korean Peninsula

    16

  • Hurrah! For Freedom

    17

  • A Hometown in Heart

    18

  • The Hand of Destiny

    19

  • Piagol

    20

  • The Wedding Day

    21

  • The Money

    22

  • The Flower in Hell

    23

  • Romance Papa

    24

  • Mr. Park

    25

  • Seong Chun-hyang

    26

  • A Petty Middle Manager

    27

  • Under the Sky in Seoul

    28

  • Goryeojang

    29

  • Marine Battleground

    30

  • The Daughters of Kim's Pharmacy

    31

  • Kinship

    32

  • The Barefooted Young

    33

  • Black Hair

    34

  • The Seaside Village

    35

  • The DMZ

    36

  • Green Rain

    37

  • Flame in Valley

    38

  • Homebound

    39

  • Mist

    40

  • Love Me Once Again

    41

  • The General's Mustache

    42

  • A Day Off

    43

  • Woman of Fire

    44

  • The Pollen of Flowers

    45

  • The Road to Sampo

    46

  • Winter Woman

    47

  • Ieoh Island

    48

  • Rainy Days

    49

  • The Last Witness

    50

  • The Hut

    51

  • Jagko

    52

  • Mandala

    53

  • A Dwarf Launches a Little Ball

    54

  • People in the Slum

    55

  • The Cruel Story of a Woman Who Spins and Spins the Wheel

    56

  • Whale Hunting

    57

  • Deep Blue Night

    58

  • Gilsodom

    59

  • Ticket

    60

  • The Surrogate Womb

    61

  • The Man with Three Coffins

    62

  • Chilsu and Mansu

    63

  • Gagman

    64

  • Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?

    65

  • A Short Love Affair

    66

  • The Night Before the Strike

    67

  • North Korean Partisan in South Korea

    68

  • Black Republic

    69

  • My Love, My Bride

    70

  • The Road to the Racetrack

    71

  • Marriage Story

    72

  • White Badge

    73

  • Our Twisted Hero

    74

  • The Murmuring

    75

  • A Single Spark

    76

  • A Petal

    77

  • The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well

    78

  • No. 3

    79

  • Christmas in August

    80

  • The Power of Kangwon Province

    81

  • Shiri

    82

  • Nowhere to Hide

    83

  • Peppermint Candy

    84

  • Chunhyang

    85

  • Die Bad

    86

  • Joint Security Area

    87

  • Sorum

    88

  • Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

    89

  • Save the Green Planet!

    90

  • A Good Lawyer's Wife

    91

  • Oldboy

    92

  • Repatriation

    93

  • 3-Iron

    94

  • Family Ties

    95

  • The Host

    96

  • Secret Sunshine

    97

  • Mother

    98

  • Poetry

    99

  • Pieta

    100