North Korea Movies

An Emissary of No Return retells the story of a real historical event in 1907 known as the Hague Secret Emissary Affair. Korea had been colonized by...

A screen adaptation of Han Sorya's novel 'Jackals', which tells the story of a Korean boy killed by American missionaries.

Shortly before the start of the Korean War, the two Koreas fought small-scale battles on the 38th parallel. This film is a reconstruction of one of...

A North Korean coal miner struggles to realize her dream of becoming a circus acrobat.

Enemy Brigadier Seung Jin secretly intimidates Song-nie and the other village women, hoping that they will quit their job at the co-op.

The Lysynmanovites planned to kill Lee Min Se, a prominent scientist living in North Korea, in order to take possession of his discovery. To this...

About the heroic struggle of the Chinese people against the Japanese invaders in the 1930s. In the center of the film is the image of a young Korean...

A Pyongyang family with five overachieving athletic daughters get involved in their studious son’s romantic life.

Sung-Min delivers food supplies to the Kaesong Industrial Complex. The Kaesong Industrial Complex is a joint inter-Korean economic project north of...

A film adaptation of a revolutionary play created in the 1930s by a group of partisans led by Kim Il-sung. Subject: the struggle of Korean peasants...

Based on the fable told by the anti-Japanese heroine Kim Jong Suk, two young commanders Pa U and Mu Soe from Naru and Sujong villages receive news...

Based on an old Korean legend about the tender and beautiful love of the poor girl Chun Hyang and the son of the formidable and cruel ruler Mong...

This is a Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics co-production. This film is set during World War II,...

In the 1950s a female war veteran and army nurse, Ra Myong Hui, expose the plot of the anti-party, counter-revolutionary factionalists despite...

Having been arrested by the American forces, a Korean engineer tries to save a North-Korean engine from the possession of the enemy by pretending he...

The Kites Flying in the Sky is a 2008 North Korean film. Directed by Phyo Kwang and Kim Hyon-chol, the film is based on the true story of a former...

"A Forest is Swaying" is the story of a former soldier (Pak Sŏng-ryong) who struggles to plant a pine forest and raise and orphaned child in an...

During the Korean War, Chinese volunteers and the Korean People's Army supported each other and fought together. They shed blood in the name of...

The story revolves around a post office chief and his wife, Gilsun. The plot unfolds as the chief blindly follows his wife’s words, leading to...