The Book of Fish

Mar 31, 2021

2h 6m

★ 7.7

Born as noble, one dreams to be humble. Born as humble, the other dreams to be noble.

Overview

When the scholar Jeong Yak-jeon is exiled to Heuksando Island during the Catholic Persecution of 1801, he decides to write a fish-based encyclopaedia.

Genres

History

Drama

Production Companies

Plus M Entertainment

Cineworld

The Book of Fish Trailers

Cast

Jeong Yak-jeon

Sul Kyung-gu

Chang-dae

Byun Yo-han

Mrs. Gageo

Lee Jung-eun

Bok-rye

Min Do-hee

Poong-heon

Cha Soon-bae

Lee Gang-hoe

Kang Ki-young

Jeong Yak-yong

Ryu Seung-ryong

Byeol Jang

Jo Woo-jin

Mr. Jang

Kim Eui-sung

King Jeong-jo

Jung Jin-young

Naju Mayor

Dong Bang-woo

Chang-dae's Mother

Pang Eun-jin

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7.3

A Man About the House

Oct 3, 1947

Handsome Italian laborer Kieron Moore works as caretaker of the Neopolitan villa inherited by plain-Jane Englishwomen Margaret Johnston and Dulcie Gray. Johnston is swept off her feet by the raffishly charming Moore, and before long they are wed.

7.7

Vivre Sa Vie

Sep 20, 1962

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

7.2

Shoot the Piano Player

Nov 25, 1960

Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie's brothers, Richard and Chico, surface and ask for Charlie's help while on the run from gangsters they have scammed, he aids their escape. Soon Charlie and Lena, a waitress at the same bar, face trouble when the gangsters arrive, looking for his brothers.

7.1

The Secret

Nov 1, 2000

Marie, who works as a successful door-to-door encyclopedia salesperson, has been married to her husband Francois for 12 years and has a two-year-old son. Though she is relatively content with her life, she feels something is wanting. Enter 50-year old African-American Bill. Initially she is annoyed by his insouciance, but she finds that she is irresistibly attracted to him. Soon the two are in the midst of sordid illicit affair. She knows little about her new lover, and he seems uninterested in learning about her, but the long sessions of lovemaking are something else entirely. Feeling out of control, Marie is increasingly repelled by her own actions. Psychologically, she struggles to reconcile her torrid encounters with Bill and mundane domestic chores such as bathing her son. Moreover, she finds herself incapable of hiding her adulterous behavior, rather she comes home with scratches and hickeys all over her body, to the devastation Francois.

10.0

Collin

Dec 6, 1981

No overview available.

0.0

Fun Band

Aug 10, 1970

On a fishing trip, Adel takes his three friends, and while fishing they find a heavy bag. The three rush to pick it up, and find a shipment of drugs inside. Three gang members watch the situation from a distance, and when the friends reach the bag, the gang members intervene to seize the bag. At this point, police officer Lotfy appears and tries to arrest them.

6.3

Homme Fatale

Jul 10, 2019

When Huh Saek decides to become a male gisaeng, he captivates countless women with his looks and talents but doubts the existence of true love — until he meets a girl with progressive ideas.

7.2

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dec 24, 1931

Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug, it is already too late.

6.5

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Aug 12, 1941

Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.

7.5

Frankenstein

Nov 21, 1931

Henry Frankenstein pieces together body parts in the hope of bringing a human-like creature to life. The mad scientist’s dreams are shattered by his monstrous creation awakening with rage to a world that hates and fears him.

7.6

Roma

Nov 21, 2018

In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.

5.4

Unnatural

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In the 1800s, a stormy love relationship develops quickly between a young medical student and a woman believing herself to be the daughter of his scientist uncle, the student having never heard of her before their chance encounter and both unaware that she is the result of the scientist's illegal experiments with artificial insemination..

7.5

Glory

Dec 15, 1989

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.

0.0

Adrift at Sea

Dec 3, 1983

The Story of the three Japanese castaways Otokichi, Kyukichi and Iwakichi. After their ship the Hojunmaru was damaged, they drifted to America and landed on the US-Westcoast in 1834. They had the wish to return to Japan, a long journey was awaiting them.

6.6

Dialogues of the Exiles

Apr 23, 1975

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7.3

Ivan the Terrible, Part I

Nov 11, 1944

Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. Sergei Eisenstein's final film, this is the first part of a three-part biopic of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia, which was never completed due to the producer's dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's attempts to use forbidden experimental filming techniques and excessive cost overruns. The second part was completed but not released for a decade after Eisenstein's death and a change of heart in the USSR government toward his work; the third part was only in its earliest stage of filming when shooting was stopped altogether.