When it comes to Korean movies, they are full of drama, romance, thriller, action, and most importantly they are comforting. Nothing beats a good movie with a catchy soundtrack /OST's (original soundtrack). Watching movies with your family is fun, a great way to spend time together, and choosing a good movie plays a big role. You can't just choose any movie. To avoid explicit content, choosing a movie with a good message or a thriller movie, or everyone's favorite comedy ones always works! Here are our top ten choices of movies for you to watch with your family anytime you want –
1. Train To Busan
A 2016 Korean thriller-horror genre movie starring Gong Yoo as Seo Seok Woo is a workaholic and a divorced father of a young daughter named Su An. Wanting to celebrate her birthday with her mom in Busan, both take a train from Seoul to Busan. An outrage of a zombie apocalypse starts at the station and the survival of passengers on the train is shown. A lost father-daughter relation gets re-created. A must-watch movie and highly recommended.
2. The Miracle In Cell No. 7
This is a 2013 movie based on a real-life incident. Yong gu is a single father who is a mentally challenged person and has a six-year-old daughter named Ye Sung and they share an unconditional bond. Yong gu is accused of a crime he didn't commit and is sent to prison. He shares a unique bond with his five inmates and they help him meet his daughter in the cell. A very heart-warming movie that will melt your heart.
3. The Way Home
A 2002 super hit movie, starring Kim Eun-boon a grandmother living in a rural village of South Korea and her young grandchild from an urban city. To get back on her feet, the mother leaves her son to her 78-year-old mother to talk care of him. She doesn't speak much and the issue of compatibility between the urban grandchild and his grandmother is shown. He throws all sorts of tantrums but eventually, the unconditional love of his halmoni makes him warm towards her. A great movie to watch on festive days.
4. Wonderful Nightmare
A 2015 Rom-Com starring Uhm Jung Hwa as a lawyer. She gets in an accident and dies. When she wakes up in heaven she gets to know that it was an error and another person of the same name was supposed to die. To hide the mistake, she has to live the life of another woman for one month and that’s when her life changes and she faces some challenges she never did such as dealing with her teenage daughter, six-year-old son, and a simple husband.
5. Midnight Runners
A 2016 hit starring our favorite Park Seo Joon and Kang Ha Neul, the ultimate duo in an action-comedy film. Both are trainees at Korean National Police Academy, where one midnight on the way back to the academy, they witness a crime and as a police instinct they decide to find out the criminals with their amateur training and they find out and link-ups will surprise you!
6. Scandal Makers
The Story is about a teen idol who is now in his thirties working as an RJ. A young mother sends him letters regularly and told him she is meeting her father which turns out to be the RJ himself. In shock and hard to accept, the DNA test reveals the truth. With the rising fame of the RJ, he worries that the paternity test scandal will get revealed. The RJ’s father also gets to know that he became a grandfather and later they all share a sweet bond and live as a complete family finally.
7. Hello Ghost
A comedy movie with a very heart-touching end is a perfect movie to watch with the family. Plots set as a man tries to kill himself multiple times but couldn't. After a recent attempt something happened and he could see ghosts now. The ghosts won't leave him unless he fulfills their wishes and he agrees to do so. In this process, he falls for a nurse who saves him in the hospital. The end is full of surprise and emotions.
8. Parasite
A 2019 Oscar award-winning movie is a must-watch. A dark thriller comedy story depicts the difference in the lives of the poor family the Kim's and the rich family the Park's and their day-to-day life problems. The Kim's trying to get themselves employed by the Park's by fake names and background. This leads to a huge mess with consequences giving a whole lesson behind it.
9. A Beauty Inside
A 2015 movie is a remake of an American movie with the same title. The story starts when a man wakes up on his eighteenth birthday to find out he is in some different person's body. Shocked and trying to explain this to his mother and best friend they somehow understand. He wakes up in different person's bodies every single day like a woman, old man, a kid, or even a foreigner. One day he falls for a woman named Yi Soo but the problems he faces and overcoming them are satisfactory.
10. Skeletons In The Closet
The shim’s family is a dysfunctional one who has nothing in common. A father who is a teacher having no respect, a mother who is frustrated with her children, and a husband who doesn't listen to her. A suicidal but cowardly son who believes his father is someone else and a daughter who believes that people should not live together if they have no common ground and wishes her family to be the one next door. A spinster aunt trying to become successful with her comic books. How will they survive as a family?
