Vote for the greatest film by Park Chan-wook — the South Korean visionary behind the Vengeance Trilogy and some of the most stunning and provocative cinema of the 21st century.
1OldboyPark's 2003 Cannes Grand Prix-winning masterpiece following a man's fifteen-year imprisonment and obsessive search for answers, featuring one of cinema's most shocking revelations.1000pts
2The HandmaidenPark's 2016 erotic thriller set in Japanese-occupied Korea, a film of labyrinthine twists, sumptuous imagery, and a deeply humane core beneath its elaborate deceptions.907pts
3ThirstPark's 2009 vampire-priest horror that won the Jury Prize at Cannes, blending religious guilt, sensuality, and transgression in an entirely original take on the genre.659pts
4I'm a Cyborg, But That's OKPark's 2006 offbeat romantic comedy set in a psychiatric hospital, starring Lim Soo-jung and Rain, which won the Alfred Bauer Prize at the Berlin Film Festival.647pts
5TrioPark's 1997 second feature, a darkly comic crime road movie about three misfits on the run, another commercial failure before his breakthrough three years later.571pts
6Joint Security AreaPark's 2000 breakthrough, a mystery about a deadly shooting between North and South Korean soldiers at Panmunjom that became Korea's highest-grossing film at the time.571pts
7No Other ChoicePark's 2025 black-comedy thriller adapted from Donald Westlake's novel The Ax, starring Lee Byung-hun as a laid-off paper-company manager who plots to eliminate his job rivals.571pts
8The Moon Is... the Sun's DreamPark's 1992 debut feature, a gangster melodrama that flopped at the box office and left him working as a film critic for years before his next film.381pts
9Decision to LeavePark's 2022 romantic-noir love story starring Tang Wei and Park Hae-il, winner of Best Director at Cannes for its melancholy investigation of desire, obsession, and loss.381pts
10Lady VengeanceThe 2005 Vengeance Trilogy finale following a woman's elaborate prison-planned revenge, combining gothic beauty with moral complexity and stunning visual style.260pts
11StokerPark's 2013 English-language debut starring Nicole Kidman and Mia Wasikowska, a Gothic psychological thriller of breathtaking visual precision and Hitchcockian menace.260pts
12Sympathy for Mr. VengeanceThe haunting 2002 first chapter of Park's Vengeance Trilogy, a tragedy of colliding grievances where a deaf-mute's desperate act spirals into unstoppable catastrophe.260pts
