korean american movies

Past Lives (2023)
7.802 / 10

Drama, Romance

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...

Umma (2022)
5.4 / 10

Horror, Mystery, Drama

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...

Minari (2021)
7.4 / 10

Drama

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...

Eden (2012)
6.593 / 10

Thriller, Drama, Crime

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...

Ms. Purple (2019)
6.2 / 10

Drama

Kasie, stuck in LA’s Koreatown, works as a karaoke hostess getting paid for her companionship by drunken men. When her dad’s hospice nurse quits...

Columbus (2017)
7.1 / 10

Drama

When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana - a small...

Blue Bayou (2021)
7.5 / 10

Drama

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...

LA 92 (2017)
7.8 / 10

Documentary, History

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...

The Sun Is Also a Star (2019)
7 / 10

Romance, Drama

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...

Spa Night (2016)
5.9 / 10

Drama

A young Korean-American man works to reconcile his obligations to his struggling immigrant family with his burgeoning sexual desires in the...

Gook (2017)
6.5 / 10

Drama

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...

Aka Dan (2014)
0 / 10

Documentary

YouTube musician and Korean American adoptee Dan Matthews travels to South Korea to perform and reunite with his biological family, including a long...

White Rabbit (2018)
5.7 / 10

Comedy, Drama

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

Smoking Tigers (2023)
0 / 10

Drama

Set in early-2000s SoCal, Smoking Tigers follows a Korean American girl as she navigates derision and growing tensions while balancing the duality...

Given Away (2019)
0 / 10

Documentary

What does it mean to adopted and brought up far away from your country of birth? In “Given Away,” this week’s moving new Op-Doc by directors...

Free Chol Soo Lee (2022)
7.4 / 10

Documentary, Crime

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...

My Father (2007)
6.3 / 10

Drama

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

Songs of Love from Hawaii (2024)
0 / 10

Documentary

Eagle and the Albatross (2020)
2 / 10

Comedy, Drama

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...

Western Avenue (1993)
0 / 10

Drama