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Film · 10 connectionsBased on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.
Directed byHwang Dong-hyuk
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2011 · 136 min · Comedy · Drama
Seven girls become good friends in high school, then events pull them apart for 25 years. When one of the friends lies dying in a hospital, she wishes to see each of them one last time.
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2008 · 113 min · Comedy · Drama
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2007 · 118 min · Drama · History
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2006 · 105 min · Drama · Romance
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2013 · 89 min · Drama
A wife, overwhelmed with hatred for her husband, inflicts an unspeakable wound on their son, as the family heads towards horrific destruction.
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2008 · 133 min · Drama
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2017 · 120 min · Action · Crime · Mystery
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2014 · 111 min · Drama · Romance · Thriller
A university professor gradually succumbing to blindness is entranced by an obsessive love, in this modern-day adaptation of a classic Korean fairy tale.
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2019 · 119 min · Drama
Kim Ji-young, an ordinary woman in her 30s, suddenly shows signs of being inhabited by other women from her life, past and present.
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2011 · 79 min · Drama
A film director who no longer makes films arrives in Seoul to meet a close friend. When the friend doesn't show up, he wanders the city aimlessly for three days, grabbing drinks and meeting women, with each day playing out like a version of the last.
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