Mother

Mother

2009 · 129 min · KO · R · 7.7 (1,686 votes)
Dir. Bong Joon Ho · Starring Kim Hye-ja, Won Bin, Jin Goo, Yoon Je-moon, Jeon Mi-seon, Song Sae-byuk · Music Lee Byung-woo

She'll stop at nothing.

CrimeDramaMystery

A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's mission to prove him innocent.

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This film delivers a suffocating, melancholic dread, slowly unraveling a human mystery with relentless tension. It's a deeply unsettling journey into desperate maternal love and the dark underbelly of a quiet town, leaving you with a profound sense of unease and moral ambiguity.

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