1987: When the Day Comes (2017)

South Korea's military government tried to bury the death of student activist Park Jong-chul under police interrogation, planning to cremate him before an autopsy and calling it a heart attack, until a post-mortem found he had been asphyxiated. The exposure fed the June 1987 democracy uprising. Jang Joon-hwan's film hands the story like a baton between officials, a doctor, journalists and students, so it plays as a thriller about a whole society refusing to look away. Park's own death takes a back seat to the people who exposed it, and the finale goes for rousing emotion over restraint.