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Name: Parasite
Director: Bong Joon Ho
Genre: comedy, drama, thriller
Released: 2019
Duration: 2 h 13 min
Rating: 8.5

Parasite has an iRankMovies score of 91.1/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Parasite (2019)

기생충

Act like you own the place.

Release:2019

Runtime:2h 13m

Country:South Korea

Director:Bong Joon Ho

Language:Korean

Genre

ComedyDramaThriller

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Keywords

Dark ComedyCon ArtistSocial CommentaryWorking ClassInfiltrationPsychological ThrillerClass Differencesfamily

iRank91

Parasite rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8.5/10· 1.1M votes

Rotten Tomatoes99%

Metacritic97%

TMDb8.494/10· 21K votes

With 99% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8.5/10 on IMDb and 97/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Parasite

All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.

Cast of Parasite

Song Kang-ho
as Kim Ki-taek
Lee Sun-kyun
as Park Dong-ik
Cho Yeo-jeong
as Yeon-kyo
Choi Woo-shik
as Ki-woo
Park So-dam
as Ki-jung
Lee Jung-eun
as Moon-gwang
Jang Hye-jin
as Chung-sook
Park Myung-hoon
as Geun-se
Jung Zi-so
as Da-hye
Jung Hyeon-jun
as Da-song
Park Keun-rok
as Driver Yoon
Jung Yi-seo
as Pizza Manager

Parasite facts

Original title: 기생충
Budget: $11.4M
Box office: $257.6M

Our take on Parasite

Bong Joon-ho's Palme d'Or and Oscar winner starts as a sly con — a poor family infiltrating a wealthy household — before trapdoors open into something darker and more savage. It's class warfare staged as black comedy, thriller and tragedy at once, pivoting on a dime. If its tonal whiplash and razor-sharp social bite grabbed you, look for genre-blurring thrillers and pitch-black satires that turn inequality into suspense, where you never quite know what kind of film you're watching.

Ranked by the iRankMovies editorial teamUpdated August 2026Methodology Data sources

Audience opinions

What the audience liked

•Razor-sharp social satire cuts across class boundaries with precise theatrical impact
•Tonal shifts from comedy to thriller maintain surprising freshness throughout arc
•Meticulous mise-en-scene uses production design to reinforce thematic class commentary

What the audience disliked

•Tonal whiplash between comedy and violence may jar some viewers emotionally
•Bleak worldview offers little redemption or hope for struggling characters portrayed