Bong’s brilliantly cracked first feature, charting the hilariously warped chain of events that follow in the wake of a dog’s death, displays the audacious blending of genres and tones that would soon put him at the forefront of Korean cinema.

Based on the true story of South Korea’s first serial killer, Bong Joon Ho’s masterful, gonzo comic take on the police procedural eschews crime thriller conventions in favor of a haunting, richly human exploration of failure and existential futility.

A young girl’s family does everything in its power to rescue her from the clutches of a giant amphibious mutant—rendered as alternately chaotic, lethal, and clumsy—that has emerged from the Han River in Bong’s masterful monster movie.

Convinced that her son has been wrongly accused of a young girl’s murder, a widow throws herself body and soul into proving his innocence in this heart-rending, thrilling, uncomfortably funny, and thoroughly unpredictable whodunit.

In the midst of a second Ice Age, reluctant hero Curtis (Chris Evans) leads a rebellious charge in a class-stratified supertrain that will continuously circle the globe until the planet is again habitable.

Deftly blending humor, action, and tearful drama, Bong tells the story of a young girl who leaves her idyllic home in the mountains of South Korea to rescue her dearest friend: a massive, genetically engineered, but sweet-souled animal.

This program combines a selection of shorts Bong made from 1994 to 2008, including work produced as a student of the Korean Academy of Film Arts as well as films he made for the 2004 Jeonju Cinema Project and the cinematic triptych Tokyo!

With this unnerving work of slow-burn horror, Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa took the now-familiar premise of the serial killer movie and spun it into a reflection on obsession and self control.

In John Boorman’s infamous back-country thriller, starring Jon Voight and a breakout Burt Reynolds, four city boys make the foolhardy decision to canoe down a treacherous Georgia river before it’s dammed and turned into a lake.

After being assaulted by a burglar, housewife Sadako finds herself deeply conflicted in Shohei Imamura’s psychologically arresting and sensuously shot portrait of fear and desire.

This bizzare murder mystery from one of Korean cinema’s unquestionable masters, Kim Ki-young (The Housemaid), is a fascinating interrogation of Korean identity in the 1970s and a hypnotic take on the missing-person story.

A depressed middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity—at a dangerous price. Starring Rock Hudson, Seconds is a sci-fi nightmare about the primordial concerns of eternal youth and a bleak reappraisal of the American Dream.

In John Carpenter’s chilling (and sometimes hilarious) remake of the 1951 classic, the staff of an Antarctic research outpost battles a shape-shifting alien lifeform in an atmosphere of escalating paranoia.

In Henri-Georges Clouzot’s adaptation of the Georges Arnaud novel, four desperate men take on a seemingly doomed mission when they agree to transport trucks full of highly explosive nitroglycerin through a treacherous South American mountain route.