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Past Lives(2023)

1h 46min | Drama, Romance / Love
4.0/5 (with 288 votes)

Nora and Hae Sung, two childhood friends, are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.

Directed by Celine Song - With Greta Lee, Yoo Teo, John Magaro, Choi Won-young, Jonica T. Gibbs

Umma(2022)

1h 23min | Horror
2.7/5 (with 105 votes)

Amanda and her daughter live a quiet life on an American farm, but when the remains of her estranged mother arrive from Korea, Amanda becomes haunted by the fear of turning into her own mother.

With Sandra Oh, Fivel Stewart, Dermot Mulroney, Odeya Rush, MeeWha Alana Lee, Tom Yi, ...

Minari(2021)

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| 1h 55min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 675 votes)

A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.

Eden(2012)

1h 38min | Thriller, Drama, Crime
3.4/5 (with 91 votes)

The true story of Chong Kim—abducted into the sex trade as a young teen—and the complicated moral choices she had to make in order to survive as her situation grew more desperate.

Blue Bayou(2021)

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| 1h 59min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 102 votes)

As a Korean-American man raised in the Louisiana bayou works hard to make a life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past as he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.

The Sun Is Also a Star(2019)

1h 40min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.5/5 (with 271 votes)

Two young New Yorkers begin to fall in love over the course of a single day, as a series of potentially life-altering meetings loom over their heads - hers concerning her family’s deportation to Jamaica, and his concerning an education at Dartmouth.

LA 92(2017)

1h 54min | Documentary, History
3.9/5 (with 48 votes)

Twenty-five years after the verdict in the Rodney King trial sparked several days of protests, violence and looting in Los Angeles, LA 92 immerses viewers in that tumultuous period through stunning and rarely seen archival footage.

Spa Night(2017)

1h 36min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 8 votes)

A young Korean-American man works to reconcile his obligations to his struggling immigrant family with his burgeoning sexual desires in the underground world of gay hookups at Korean spas in Los Angeles.

Directed by Andrew Ahn - With Joe Seo

Gook(2017)

1h 34min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 22 votes)

Eli and Daniel, two Korean American brothers who own a struggling women's shoe store, have an unlikely friendship with 11-year-old Kamilla. On the first day of the 1992 L.A. riots, the trio must defend their store—and contemplate the meaning of family, their personal dreams and the future.

Directed by Justin Chon

Eagle and the Albatross(2020)

1h 36min | Comedy, Drama
1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

When an orphaned half Korean girl finds herself in small town America with her only living relative, she seeks out a mentor to help with the only things she loves - golf. The best player in town, the widowed optometrist, takes her under his wing, sending them on a journey to face their fear of losing loved ones and their game. The only problem is, he has three months to live.

My Father(2007)

1h 47min | Drama, Kids & Family
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

A U.S. soldier comes to Korea and tracks down his biological father in jail.

White Rabbit(2018)

1h 11min | Comedy, Drama
2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

A dramatic comedy following a Korean American performance artist who struggles to be authentically heard and seen through her multiple identities in modern Los Angeles.

Directed by Daryl Wein
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Free Chol Soo Lee(2022)

1h 23min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 4 votes)

On June 3, 1973, a man was murdered in a busy intersection of San Francisco’s Chinatown as part of an ongoing gang war. Chol Soo Lee, a 20-year-old Korean immigrant who had previous run-ins with the law, was arrested and convicted based on flimsy evidence and the eyewitness accounts of white tourists who couldn’t distinguish between Asian features. Sentenced to life in prison, Chol Soo Lee would spend years fighting to survive behind bars before journalist K.W. Lee took an interest in his case. The intrepid reporter’s investigation would galvanize a first-of-its-kind pan-Asian American grassroots movement to fight for Chol Soo Lee’s freedom, ultimately inspiring a new generation of social justice activists.

West 32nd(2007)

1h 26min | Thriller, Crime
2.9/5 (with 4 votes)

When John Kim, an ambitious young lawyer, takes on a pro bono case to exonerate a fourteen-year-old boy from a first degree murder charge, he finds a world he never knew existed in the underbelly of Manhattan - the Korean underworld.

Coming Home Again(2023)

1h 26min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A Korean-American man cares for his ailing mother and tries to master her traditional Korean dishes.

Directed by Wayne Wang

Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992(2017)

2h 24min | Documentary, History
3.9/5 (with 10 votes)

An in-depth look at the culture of Los Angeles in the ten years leading up to the 1992 uprising that erupted after the verdict of police officers cleared of beating Rodney King.

Directed by John Ridley

In Between Days(2007)

1h 23min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 6 votes)

A Korean immigrant falls in love with her best friend while navigating her way through the challenges of living in a new country.

Directed by So Yong Kim - With Gina Kim, Mike Park

Smoking Tigers(2023)

1h 25min | Drama

Set in early-2000s SoCal,Smoking Tigersfollows a Korean American girl as she navigates derision and growing tensions while balancing the duality of her low-income family and wealthy, elite high school environment.

Neh(2021)

14min | Comedy

On a date, a young Korean-American attempts to hide an embarrassing secret.

The House of Suh(2010)

1h 30min | Crime, Documentary
3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

The House of Suh” tells the story of Andrew and his sister Catherine, and how the values, conflicts, and dysfunctions of their Korean immigrant family led to the murder of Robert O’Dubaine. Eloquently narrated by Andrew, the documentary highlights issues of assimilation and the struggle between freedom and responsibility, raising questions about guilt, innocence, and the illusive gray area in-between.

A.k.a. Nikki S. Lee(2006)

The jet set life of artist Nikki S. Lee.

The Bird Who Could Fly(2017)

19min | Drama

Arthur, a young Korean-American, tries to manage one brother, sentenced to spend his life in jail; his other brother, a drug addict; and pressure from their Korean-born mother.

Liquor Store Dreams(2022)

1h 22min | Documentary

So Yun Um’s debut feature is a moving portrait of two Korean American children of liquor store owners reconciling their dreams with those of their immigrant parents, against the backdrop of struggles for racial equity in Los Angeles.

Aka Dan(2014)

1h 36min | Documentary

YouTube musician and Korean American adoptee Dan Matthews travels to South Korea to perform and reunite with his biological family, including a long lost twin he never knew he had.

Fiction and Other Realities(2020)

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Fiction & Other Realities tells the story of Bobby, a Korean-American singer-songwriter who tries to find himself in a country his parents originally immigrated from. Featuring the music of singer-songwriter Big Phony, this music centered film takes us on a search for love and self-identity.

Chosen(2022)

1h 29min | Documentary

In November 2020, the Senate and House of Representative elections took place along with the Presidential election in the United States. Five Korean Americans of vastly diverse backgrounds with competing political views ran for the House election. David Kim is the only underdog with limited resources vying to be the first Korean American representative from Koreatown in Los Angeles.

Inganmi(2023)

15min | Drama

Time moves slow, fast. A Korean-American woman who chose to follow her dreams now finds herself an undecorated writer at age 32, living a life far from what she had pictured.