(Bong Joon Ho, 2003, South Korea, 131 minutes)

In his first collaboration with actor Song Kang-ho, who went on to work with him again on The Host (2006), Snowpiercer (2013), and, most famously, Parasite (2019), Bong Joon Ho’s Memories of Murder tackles the true story of a serial killer who terrorized a small South Korean province in the early 1980s. Song plays a local officer trying to solve the crimes who is made to team up with a Seoul-based detective (Kim Sang-kyung, a sometimes Hong Sangsoo star), with the two of them scrambling to decipher clues and catch the culprit before it’s too late.

In Korean with English subtitles.