Memories of Murder

A cult thriller that influenced countless later films and TV shows about serial killers, murders, and investigations. Bong Joon-ho exposes the despair usually hidden beneath gripping crime plots and brings it to the surface.

1986, rural South Korea. The police are investigating a series of brutal murders of women. The clues don’t add up, detectives lose control, and witnesses contradict themselves. One of the most precise and haunting films about how the inability to understand evil can drive people mad.