North Korea Movies

The action takes place against the backdrop of the Korean War. An anti-American film about the tragic fate of the Korean priest Choi Hak-shin, whose...

All is not well in the medieval Kingdom of Koryo (918-1392), a distant precursor of today's Korea, ruled over by a corrupt dynasty in the north....

The 2002 FIFA World Cup was the 17th staging of the FIFA World Cup which took place from 31 May to 30 June 2002 in South Korea and Japan. It was the...

The film was produced by the Korean April 25 Film Studio and is a sequel to 2022’s One Day and One Night about an attempt to kill North Korean...

This is a film based on the revolutionary drama "An Jung Gun shoots Ito Hirobumi", an immortal classic created by president Kim Il Sung during his...

A cautionary tale about the importance of not neglecting specifics in conversation. Due to confusion, a respected person received the wrong...

About peasants who did not immediately understand the joy of collective labor. Not only does the film promote collective farming, but it also has an...

A romantic comedy socialist reality about a soldier who finds his love while on vacation

Zhang Peili's series of video installations reconstructs footage excerpted from older North Korean films, including gestures of argument, smiles, and...

Depicts the tragedy of division through twin sisters who come to live separated in the North and South right after liberation. Kŭmhŭi grows...

A teacher visits her old students who became soldiers and finds out one of them was wounded to save other soldiers while working on the construction...

Official propaganda about the mass games. Especially weird is the massive “screen” in the back, composed of 15,000 or more individuals...

Even before the war, a young man named Man-cheol had left his mother and brother behind to study in Seoul. His teacher, Lee, sends him to North Korea...

Zhang Peili's video installation series reconstructs footage excerpted from older North Korean films, including gestures of argument, smiles, and...

Rampant exaggerations, bureaucracy and formalism amongst officials at a farm in Paekhak village disappear after a new party secretary takes charge,...

The hero of this film toiled was a lighthouse keeper before Korea's liberation in World War II. He suffered many indignities and mistreatment by the...