Movies like The Generals
If The Generals's mix of 1970s, period drama and political thriller stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what The Generals's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Spy Gone North
2018 · Directed by Yoon Jong-bin · 138 min7.3
Why you'll like itAlso directed by Yoon Jong-bin · With Ju Ji-hoon · Also a Korean drama
South Korea, 1993. An agent of the National Intelligence Service is sent to Beijing to infiltrate a group of North Korean officials with the ultimate goal of obtaining information about their nuclear program.
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Assassination
2015 · Directed by Choi Dong-hoon · 140 min7.3
Why you'll like itWith Ha Jung-woo · Also a Korean drama
In Japanese-occupied Korea, three freedom fighters are assigned a mission to assassinate a genocidal military leader and his top collaborator.
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Memories of Murder
2003 · Directed by Bong Joon Ho · 131 min8.1
Why you'll like itAlso a Korean drama
A sadistic serial rapist and murderer of young women terrorizes a small province in 1980s South Korea. To prevent further crimes, three increasingly desperate detectives with conflicting methods race against time to…
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My Way
2011 · Directed by Kang Je-kyu · 137 min7.9
Why you'll like itAlso a Korean drama
During the invasion of Normandy the photograph of a slim Korean man in German uniform was found. It transpired that the man had served as a soldier in the Japanese, Russian and German armies.
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The Attorney
2013 · Directed by Yang Woo-seok · 127 min7.8
Why you'll like itAlso a Korean drama
Song Woo-seok is a lawyer with no clients. When his friend's son is falsely accused of a crime and tortured, he takes up the case and the course of his life changes for good.
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Pandora
2016 · Directed by Park Jung-woo · 136 min7.5
Why you'll like itAlso a Korean drama
When an earthquake hits a Korean village housing a run-down nuclear power plant, a man risks his life to save the country from imminent disaster.
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Blow
2001 · Directed by Ted Demme · 124 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: 1970s
The story of how George Jung, together with the Medellín Cartel led by Pablo Escobar, established the billion-dollar cocaine empire in the United States in the 1970s.
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Hunt
2022 · Directed by Lee Jung-jae · 131 min6.7
Why you'll like itAlso a Korean drama
After a high-ranking North Korean official requests asylum, KCIA Foreign Unit chief Park Pyong-ho and Domestic Unit chief Kim Jung-do are tasked with uncovering a North Korean spy, known as Donglim, who is deeply…