Mother (Madeo) (Korea 2009)

Directed by: Joon-ho Bong
Genre: Crime,Drama,Mystery,Thriller
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Tagline: She'll stop at nothing.
Plot Outline: A mother desperately searches for the killer that framed her son for their horrific murder.
User Rating: 8.1/10 (2,153 votes)
Runtime: 128 min
Awards: 9 wins & 6 nominations
Cast (first 10): Hye-ja Kim, Bin Won, Ku Jin, Yoon Jae-Moon, Mi-sun Jun, Young-Suck Lee, Sae-Beauk Song, Mun-hee Na, Woo-hee Chun, Byoung-Soon Kim

Widowed for a long time, a mother lives alone with her only son. He is 28 years old, a shy and quiet young man.

One day there is a terrible murder, and the woman’s hopeless, helpless son becomes the prime suspect. There is no real evidence against him, but the police groundlessly suspect him almost instantly. The trouble is that there is no way he can prove his innocence.

Eager to close the case, the police are happy with their cursory investigation and they arrest the boy. His defense attorney turns out to be incompetent and unreliable and a conviction seems inevitable. So, faced with no other choice, his mother gets involved, determined to prove her son’s innocence.