What is the best Bong Joon-ho movie of all time?

From creature horror to social satire, he blends genres in ways no one else dares. Cast your vote for his defining masterpiece.

1

Parasite

A darkly comic thriller about class inequality that became the first non-English film to win the Best Picture Oscar.

2

Memories of Murder

A chilling procedural based on South Korea's first serial killer case, building dread with extraordinary restraint.

3

The Host

A monster movie that doubles as a scathing critique of government incompetence, with a creature unlike anything seen before.

4

Snowpiercer

A relentless class-war allegory set aboard a perpetually circling train carrying the last survivors of a frozen Earth.

5

Okja

A Netflix creature feature about a girl trying to save her giant pig friend from a corporate food empire.

6

Mother

An obsessive mother will do anything to protect her mentally disabled son when he is accused of murder.

7

Barking Dogs Never Bite

His debut feature — a darkly comic tale of a frustrated professor who starts stealing dogs from his apartment building.

8

Mickey 17

A sci-fi dark comedy about an expendable astronaut who keeps dying and being reprinted on a dangerous colonization mission.