Starring Ahn Sung-ki, Park Joong-hoon, Jang Dong-gun and Choi Ji-woo
Directed by Lee Myung-se
112 minutes, 1999

A Korean action classic, Lee Myung-se's noir crime drama took the box office by storm in 1999, smashing the Hollywood giants while still garnering critical raves with its creative blend of action-packed scenes and quasi-experimental artistry. If Nowhere to Hide looks familiar to Western audiences, it's for a good reason: the Wachowski brothers borrowed the film’s brutal, pounding-rain fight scene—between the ruthless drug lord Chang played by Ahn and the detective pursuing him—for the climax of The Matrix.