Drama
Follows 29-year-old immigrant sex worker Debra, and her self-aware 10-year-old daughter Mona, as they embark on a journey of emancipation. Debra attempts to escape cycles of abuse and poverty while learning to become a more nurturing mother and discovering her own self-worth.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Past Lives
The Quiet Migration
JANE
Bedford Park
Emptiness
In Between Days
The Sun Is Also a Star
Halmeoni
Ms. Purple
Okja
Spa Night
4: Clean Island
Blue Bayou
Columbus
Winter in Sokcho
Soulmate
Mind Memory
HOME
Riceboy Sleeps
Minari
SIMILAR MOVIES
Past Lives
IMDB 7.7 | Jun , 2023
After decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.The Quiet Migration
IMDB 4.5 | Apr , 2023
Carl is expected someday to take over his parents’ agribusiness in a rural backwater in Denmark. But, as an adopted child, he also longs to learn more about his South Korean heritage. A film about otherness and finding your own place in life.JANE
IMDB 0 | Feb , 2026
Jae-in ("JANE"), a counselor for an anti-suicide hotline, is smitten with Jon-young, a man she befriended on Facebook. But there are parallels between him and a clinically depressed man who calls her hotline.Bedford Park
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2026
Two souls collide: a Korean American woman struggling with family expectations and her own aspirations, and an ex-wrestler haunted by his past. Their paths unexpectedly cross, leading to a transformative journey.Emptiness
IMDB 6.8 | Jan , 2020
LEI and WONG clandestinely arrive to Ecuador, on their way to the port city of Guayaquil. From here LEI plans to continue her journey to New York, but CHANG, a bipolar mobster will decide her fate. WONG unwillingly gets entangled in the web of corruption that operates the encroachment of Chinese immigrants. His only objective is to bring his twelve-year-old son from China.In Between Days
IMDB 6 | Jun , 2007
A Korean immigrant falls in love with her best friend while navigating her way through the challenges of living in a new country.The Sun Is Also a Star
IMDB 7 | May , 2019
Two young New Yorkers begin to fall in love over the course of a single day, as a series of potentially life-altering meetings loom over their heads - hers concerning her family’s deportation to Jamaica, and his concerning an education at Dartmouth.Halmeoni
IMDB 0 | May , 2023
A Korean Granddaughter faces guilt and shame as she reunites with her Halmeoni (Grandma) after immigrating away at a young age, having forgotten her mother tongue.Ms. Purple
IMDB 6.2 | Sep , 2019
Kasie, stuck in LA’s Koreatown, works as a karaoke hostess getting paid for her companionship by drunken men. When her dad’s hospice nurse quits she reconnects with her estranged brother, Carey, forcing them to enter a period of intense self-reflection as their single father who raised them nears death.Okja
IMDB 7.3 | Jun , 2017
A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.Spa Night
IMDB 5.6 | Aug , 2016
A young Korean-American man works to reconcile his obligations to his struggling immigrant family with his burgeoning sexual desires in the underground world of gay hookups at Korean spas in Los Angeles.4: Clean Island
IMDB 7 | Sep , 2023
Nezzy arrives at the airport dreaming of moving to ‘Clean Island’, the cleanest place in the world. She will undergo a strange immigration process at the immigration hall, where she begins to tell the story of ‘4’ and a special pig to the examiner who tells her that she can only pass if she confesses her sins.Blue Bayou
IMDB 7.5 | Sep , 2021
As a Korean-American man raised in the Louisiana bayou works hard to make a life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past as he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.Columbus
IMDB 7.1 | Aug , 2017
When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana - a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many significant modernist buildings. Jin strikes up a friendship with Casey, a young architecture enthusiast who works at the local library.Winter in Sokcho
IMDB 6.7 | Jan , 2025
In the snowy seaside town of Sokcho, 25-year-old Soo-Ha works at a guesthouse. She drifts between her mother’s fish stall and her boyfriend until a French artist’s arrival stirs questions about her identity. As winter deepens, Soo-Ha and the artist form an unspoken connection through food and art.Soulmate
IMDB 7.9 | Mar , 2023
When Mi-so and Ha-eun first meet in childhood, their lives become instantly intertwined, forming a bond surrounded by happiness and naivety. But as adulthood arrives, alone and together, they are forced to deal with sadness, anger, grief, growth, and most of all, love.Mind Memory
IMDB 5 | Feb , 2017
Microlove is a sci-fi romance movie about an outgoing wealthy young Thai man, Pat, who works at a Korean software company. He privately develops a software and catches the interest of the president’s daughter, Min Ji and they create a beautiful love story.HOME
IMDB 10 | Jul , 2024
A dramatic short film exploring grief, resilience, and the fragile meaning of home.Riceboy Sleeps
IMDB 7.1 | Mar , 2023
In the 1990s, an immigrant single mother raises her teenage son in the Canadian suburbs, determined to provide a better life for him than the one she left behind in South Korea.Minari
IMDB 7.3 | Feb , 2021
A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.