The Best Lim Cheol-soo Movies, Ranked
10 credits from 2018 to 2025, ranked by the Movie Echo Score — a blend of critic reviews, audience ratings and lasting impact. Don’t Buy the Seller (2023) comes out on top with a score of 78. The biggest box office hit is Hostage: Missing Celebrity (2021) with $13.2M worldwide. Below: the best films by genre and by decade, the most awarded and the newest releases.
The Best Lim Cheol-soo Movie in Every Genre
The best-rated film in each genre Lim Cheol-soo has worked in, the genres with the most films first. Action leads with 2 films, and Jo Pil-ho: The Dawning Rage (2019) is the pick of them.
The Latest Lim Cheol-soo Movies
The most recent films Lim Cheol-soo is credited on, newest first — starting with Our Unwritten Seoul (2025). Open any of them for the cast, ratings, box office and where to watch.
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Our Unwritten Seoul 2025 · Lee Choong-gu -
A Virtuous Business 2024 · Park Jong-seon -
Don’t Buy the Seller 2023 · Chief Im -
Today’s Webtoon 2022 · Na Kang-nam -
Hostage: Missing Celebrity 2021 · Bang-ga -
Vincenzo 2021 · An Gi-seok -
Three Sisters 2020 · Student -
By Quantum Physics: A Nightlife Venture 2019 · Kim Sang-soo -
Jo Pil-ho: The Dawning Rage 2019 · Gips -
Mr. Sunshine 2018 · Jeon Seung-jae
The Best Lim Cheol-soo Movies: Questions & Answers
The best-rated, highest-grossing, most awarded and newest Lim Cheol-soo films, answered from the rankings on this page.
What is the best Lim Cheol-soo movie?
Don’t Buy the Seller (2023) is the best-rated Lim Cheol-soo film, with a Movie Echo Score of 78, ahead of Jo Pil-ho: The Dawning Rage (2019) (62). The Movie Echo Score blends critic reviews, audience ratings and how well a film has lasted.
Don’t Buy the Seller: cast, ratings & box office What is the highest-grossing Lim Cheol-soo movie?
Hostage: Missing Celebrity (2021) made the most at the box office, with $13.2M worldwide, followed by By Quantum Physics: A Nightlife Venture (2019) with $3.82M. Together, Lim Cheol-soo's films with box office figures have made $19M.
What is the best Lim Cheol-soo action movie?
Jo Pil-ho: The Dawning Rage (2019) is the best-rated of Lim Cheol-soo's action films, with a score of 62. In other genres: Don’t Buy the Seller (mystery) and By Quantum Physics: A Nightlife Venture (crime).
What is the newest Lim Cheol-soo movie?
The newest film on Lim Cheol-soo's filmography is Our Unwritten Seoul (2025), with Lim Cheol-soo as Lee Choong-gu.
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