The best Kim Tae-woo’s thriller movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Kim Tae-woo’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Kim Tae-woo.
Joint Security Area
7.7/10
After a shooting incident at the North/South Korean border/DMZ leaves 2 North Korean soldiers dead, a neutral Swiss/Swedish team investigates, what actually happened.
Silence
The film takes place when an accident occurs on a foggy bridge and, as a result, an unknown beast is unleashed.
The Coast Guard
6.4/10
An overzealous soldier mentally deteriorates after killing an innocent man he thought was a spy.
Quick
5.7/10
A biker is forced to deliver a ticking time bomb by a mysterious caller who has put an explosive helmet on his ex-girlfriend.
Horror Stories
5.7/10
A teenager is abducted and forced to tell the scariest tales she knows, leading to this anthology of four stories: a brother and sister are under siege while home alone; a killer escapes police custody mid-flight; step-sisters take plastic surgery to nightmarishly macabre extremes; a paramedic and mother standoff over her infected young daughter.
The Tooth and the Nail
6.3/10
In 1947, a magician, Seok-jin plans the most elaborate trick to find out hidden conspiracy in his fiance's death.
Hypnotized
5.8/10
Ji-su who has a borderline personality disorder feels a strange emptiness and tries to commit suicide. At the hospital she meets a psychiatrist, Suk- won. Suk-won feels compassion for her but fails to give her any help. 1 year later, Suk-won accidentally meets Ji-su and finds out that she still needs help. This time, they start to meet not in a doctor/patient relationship but as friends. In this new relationship with Suk-won, Ji-su slowly starts to cure the deep wound from her past. However, Suk-won is too much into Ji-su and now, he can't live without her. His obsession for Ji-su becomes so extreme that when Ji-su decides to leave him, his love drives him to a dangerous edge.
Return
6.4/10
A young boy experiences anesthesia awareness while undergoing surgery. Unable to respond because of a muscle relaxant administered to him, the boy is severely traumatized. The result is his killing of a young girl soon after the operation. The boy is admitted to a mental institution, and with the help of a team of psychiatrists, his memories are blocked and he is able to lead a normal life. Twenty years later a series of events unlocks his memories and once again transforms him into a murderer. As the killings continue, the secrets from twenty years earlier are slowly revealed.
Decades Apart
For the work Decades Apart commissioned by the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain for the exhibition Highlights, PARKing CHANce has conceived an original immersive 3D sound and image installation. Based on the set of Joint Security Area (JSA) (2000), a movie by Park Chan-wook, new images were filmed for the work and sound treated in a very surprising way to give the visitor a total experience.
No Doubt
6.6/10
A young girl goes missing just as a convicted sex offender moves into town. The girl's father, the inhabitants of the towns and even law enforcement believe he is responsible for the disappearance.
God's Gift - 14 Days
7.9/10
Kim Soo Hyun experiences the unfathomable when her daughter is kidnapped and murdered. Discovering a miraculous ability to go back in time exactly two weeks before the event, Soo Hyun races against the clock to unravel the plot and save her daughter. But when a private investigator sheds new light on the crime, Soo Hyun uncovers a secret far more treacherous than she could have ever imagined.
