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The Handmaiden

The Handmaiden

🧠 Brief Summary The Handmaiden is a South Korean psychological erotic thriller from 2016, directed by Park Chan-wook and adapted from Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith. Set in 1930s Korea during Japanese occupation, it follows Sook-hee (Kim Tae-ri), a pickpocket who works for a conman, Count Fujiwara (Ha Jung-woo). He intends to use Sook-hee to marry off […]

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High Society

High Society

🧠 Brief Summary Byun Hyuk directed the 2018 South Korean film ā€˜High Society’ and it is an erotic drama. The movie emphasizes ambition, desire, and moral decay in Seoul’s underbelly elite circles. It features Jang Tae-joon (Park Hae-il), an economics professor and aspiring National Assembly member. His spouse, Oh Soo-yeon (Su Ae) is the deputy

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Empire of Lust

Empire of Lust

🧠 Brief Summary Empire of Lust (Korean title: ģˆœģˆ˜ģ˜ ģ‹œėŒ€, Sunsu-ui Sidae) is a 2015 South Korean historical erotic thriller directed by Ahn Sang-hoon. The film is set in the early Joseon dynasty. It follows the story of a brilliant general, Kim Min-jae, who is played by Shin Ha-kyun. He has to protect the new

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The Taste of Money

The Taste of Money

🧠 Short Synopsis Im Sang-soo directed The Taste of Money, an erotic South Korean melodrama released in 2012. Young-jak (Kim Kang-woo) is the private secretary of Madam Baek Geum-ok (Youn Yuh-jung), the wife of a powerful conglomerate chairman, Yoon (Baek Yoon-sik). Young-jak, through his work, comes into contact with Geum-ok who desperately tries to dominate

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Serve the People

Serve the People

🧠 Brief Summary ā€œServe the Peopleā€ is a 2022 South Korean erotic romance drama film directed by Jang Cheol-soo. It is based on Yan Lianke’s controversial Chinese novel bearing the same title. The movie features a fictional socialist country and revolves around a model soldier, Mu Gwang (Yeon Woo-jin), who is assigned to work as

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Case 39

Case 39

🧠 Summary In 2009, Case 39 was released, a supernatural horror thriller directed by Christian Alvart. It revolves Emily Jenkins, a social worker played by RenĆ©e Zellweger, who lives in Oregon. Emily’s Lillith Sullivan case centers on a ten-year-old girl who, reportedly, has been abused by her parents. She attempts to save Lillith from maternal

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Parthenope

Parthenope

🧠 Brief Summary In 2024’s Parthenope, Sorrentino portrays a napolitan woman who, in 1950, comes to life like a legendary siren who later captures everyone’s attention as a dazzling and astute undergraduate in anthropology. A chapter of her youth features a tragic love triangle involving her gentle brother Raimondo, childhood friend Sandrino, and heartwrenching climax on

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Lucy

Lucy

🧠 Brief Summary Lucy’s story starts in Taipei, where an American college student, Lucy, portrayed by Scarlett Johansson, is tricked into delivering a briefcase to a Korean gangster. She is captured and utilized as a mule for drugs, but during this process, a new form of synthetic drug (CPH4) is released into her body, enabling

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