Have Fun in Pyongyang (2019)

(7.2) based on 4 votes
Is it possible to have fun in Pyongyang? Can one be joyful in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea? If so, who can? Everyone? Doing what? Why does Kim Jong-un bet on amusement parks, skis trails, and tourism? This film allows to go beyond mass parades and recurring missile crisis, to meet the people of North Korean “Hermit Kingdom”. The authors have been there dozen times, like amateur anthropologists, filming during eight years parties and harvests, factories and singing contests, Pyongyang and the countryside – and interviewing North Korean people.
Release Date
Oct 10, 2019
Runtime
01h 13m
Actors
N/D
Genre
Available in streaming on

Is it possible to have fun in Pyongyang? Can one be joyful in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea? If so, who can? Everyone? Doing what? Why does Kim Jong-un bet on amusement parks, skis trails, and tourism? This film allows to go beyond mass parades and recurring missile crisis, to meet the people of North Korean “Hermit Kingdom”. The authors have been there dozen times, like amateur anthropologists, filming during eight years parties and harvests, factories and singing contests, Pyongyang and the countryside – and interviewing North Korean people.

Movies like Have Fun in Pyongyang

Fight Back to School 2

Star Chow, an officer in the elite police unit, resigns when he is made a scapegoat for a botched investigation. He goes undercover at a school to complete the case and realizes a bumbling detective is also undercover as a student.
Search similar movies
6.7
Fight+Back+to+School+2
Fight Back to School 2

1992

Search similar movies
Lake Placid 2

Man-eating crocodiles return to the lake as two males and one aggressive female crocodile, which is protecting her nest, wreak havoc on the locals.
Search similar movies
4.9
Lake+Placid+2
Lake Placid 2

2007

Search similar movies
Soap and Water

A school janitor pretends to be a priest in order to give private lessons to a young top model.
Search similar movies
6.7
Soap+and+Water
Soap and Water

1983

Search similar movies
Bride Hard

Sam is a secret agent whose toughest mission to date is pleasing her bride-to-be best friend at a lavish destination wedding. When a team of mercenaries crashes the party and takes the guests hostage, Sam is thrown into a fight unlike any before — one where she can’t risk blowing her cover or ruining the big day. As she takes on the bad guys in a high-stakes battle disguised as a fairy-tale affair, she realizes the real threat might be closer than she thinks.
Search similar movies
5.6
Bride+Hard
Bride Hard

2025

Search similar movies
Rampage: President Down

Bill Williamson is back, alive and well and doing a recon mission around D.C. This time he wants to cause a major population disruption within the USA which result in devastating consequences reverberating throughout the world. His new mission this time to bring down The President of the United States and his Secret Service detail. Bill brings with him all the freak-in havoc and acidity of the previous 2 movies.
Search similar movies
5.2
Rampage%3A+President+Down
Rampage: President Down

2016

Search similar movies
We Are What We Are

After the death of a patriarch, a family must try to continue on with a disturbing, ritualistic tradition.
Search similar movies
6.0
We+Are+What+We+Are
We Are What We Are

2010

Search similar movies
Treasure Hunters: On the Tracks of Khufu

An eccentric archaeologist goes on an unexpected journey to find King Khufu's lost treasure with his daughter and grandson.
Search similar movies
6.3
Treasure+Hunters%3A+On+the+Tracks+of+Khufu
Treasure Hunters: On the Tracks of Khufu

2025

Search similar movies
Gurren Lagann the Movie: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars

Seven years after the defeat of the spiral king, Simon and the Dai-Gurren brigade must set out to the vastness of space to defeat a new threat and save the universe.
Search similar movies
7.9
Gurren+Lagann+the+Movie%3A+The+Lights+in+the+Sky+Are+Stars
Gurren Lagann the Movie: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars

2009

Search similar movies
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril

Ogami Itto is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin and battles Retsudo, head of the Yagyu clan, and his son Gunbei.
Search similar movies
7.3
Lone+Wolf+and+Cub%3A+Baby+Cart+in+Peril
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril

1972

Search similar movies
You've Got Murder

Istanbul Police Department homicide detectives encounter a murder nothing like they’ve seen before.Commissioners Emin, Salih, Asuman and deputy Alaattin begin investigating.But strange murders keep happening. They don’t have any evidence or any clues. Day by day, tempers flare and the police chiefs grow annoyed.As the murders keep piling up, the public’s interest rises. The pressure on Emin and his colleagues get intense. At last, the chief of police assigns “crime expert” Dizdar Koşu, who has recently come back from the US, to the team.Overwhelmed with panic, pressure and disdain, Emin and his friends try to solve the strangest series of murders with the most unusual methods.This fast race against time immediately turns into a tragicomedy.
Search similar movies
6.2
You%27ve+Got+Murder
You've Got Murder

2019

Search similar movies
The Long Day Closes

Bud is a lonely and quiet boy whose moments of solace occur when he sits in rapture at the local cinema, watching towering and iconic figures on the movie screen. The movies give Bud the strength to get through another day as he deals with his oppressive school environment and his burgeoning homosexuality.
Search similar movies
7.3
The+Long+Day+Closes
The Long Day Closes

1992

Search similar movies
The Human Voice

A woman watches time pass beside the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him.
Search similar movies
6.8
The+Human+Voice
The Human Voice

2020

Search similar movies
Before Sunset

Nine years later, Jesse travels across Europe giving readings from a book he wrote about the night he spent in Vienna with Celine. After his reading in Paris, Celine finds him, and they spend part of the day together before Jesse has to again leave for a flight. They are both in relationships now, and Jesse has a son, but as their strong feelings for each other start to return, both confess a longing for more.
Search similar movies
7.8
Before+Sunset
Before Sunset

2004

Search similar movies
Voice of Silence

Two guys who are working for cartels as cleaners get a request to monitor an 11-year-old kidnapped girl, but the situation gets worse when their supervisor gets killed.
Search similar movies
7.5
Voice+of+Silence
Voice of Silence

2020

Search similar movies
The Way to the Heart

Ava, an award-winning chef at a big-city restaurant, has lost her spark. Her boss sends her out to find herself to save her menu and her job. She returns home and finds little to inspire her, but when she reunites with her childhood friend Logan, Ava has to get her head out of the clouds and her foot out of her mouth to rediscover her passion for food.
Search similar movies
9.9
The+Way+to+the+Heart
The Way to the Heart

2024

Search similar movies
The Tasters

The film follows in the wake of young Rosa who flees bomb-stricken Berlin in the autumn of 1943 and heads to a small, isolated village near the eastern border. This is where her in-laws live and where her husband, who’s deployed on the front, has advised she take shelter until the war ends and he returns. Rosa soon discovers that this seemingly sleepy village conceals a secret: in the forest bordering the hamlet is Hitler’s headquarters, the Wolf’s Lair.
Search similar movies
6.7
The+Tasters
The Tasters

2025

Search similar movies
Port of Shadows

Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as acts of both revenge and kindness render him front-page news.
Search similar movies
7.4
Port+of+Shadows
Port of Shadows

1938

Search similar movies
Sketch

When a young girl’s sketchbook falls into a strange pond, her drawings come to life—chaotic, real, and on the loose. As the town descends into chaos, her family must reunite and stop the monsters they never meant to unleash.
Search similar movies
7.2
Sketch
The Piano Accident

Social media sensation Magalie, known for posting shocking content, suffers a serious accident while filming one of her videos. She retreats to the mountains, accompanied by her assistant. Her peace is disrupted when a journalist begins blackmailing her.
Search similar movies
6.3
The+Piano+Accident
The Piano Accident

2025

Search similar movies
Wedding Trough

Alone on a farm, a man spends his days tending to his animals, with a particular love for his sow. After an illicit encounter between the two creatures, the pig gives birth. However, tragedy strikes when the man tries to force the newborn piglets to love him as he loves them.
Search similar movies
5.4
Wedding+Trough
Wedding Trough

1975

Search similar movies
Marty

Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly resigned himself to bachelorhood. Marty meets Clara, an unattractive school teacher, realising their emotional connection, he promises to call but family and friends try to convince him not to.
Search similar movies
7.4
Marty
The Ornithologist

Stranded along a sublime river fjord in northern Portugal, an ornithologist is subjected to a series of brutal and erotic Stations-of-the-Cross-style tests.
Search similar movies
6.1
The+Ornithologist
The Ornithologist

2016

Search similar movies
Fall for Me

Lilli is suspicious of her sister's new fiance, but when an attractive stranger enters her life, she's suddenly distracted by the thralls of desire.
Search similar movies
6.3
Fall+for+Me
Fall for Me

2025

Search similar movies
G-Zombie

Sara is a research student who wants to make an immunity booster to save humanity. Her experiment however turns people into zombies and in comes Dhruva to save the day.
Search similar movies
5.6
G-Zombie
Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight

After being punished for retreat from combat, Ranger David Martel is given command of the Liandra, a haunted 20-year old Minbari fighting ship. He's escorting ambassadors to a secret archaeological site, the oldest city on record and a clue to a dangerous ancient race.
Search similar movies
5.9
Babylon+5%3A+The+Legend+of+the+Rangers+-+To+Live+and+Die+in+Starlight
Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight

2002

Search similar movies
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain

The world is a perplexing, peaceful mystery to Amélie until a miraculous encounter with chocolate ignites her wild sense of curiosity. As she develops a deep attachment to her family's housekeeper, Nishio-san, Amélie discovers the wonders of nature as well as the emotional truths hidden beneath the surface of her family's idyllic life as foreigners in post-war Japan.
Search similar movies
7.9
Little+Am%C3%A9lie+or+the+Character+of+Rain
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain

2025

Search similar movies
1992

In 1992, Mercer is desperately trying to rebuild his life and his relationship with his son amidst the turbulent Los Angeles uprising following the Rodney King verdict. Across town, another father and son put their own strained relationship to the test as they plot a dangerous heist to steal catalytic converters, which contain valuable platinum from the factory where Mercer works. As tensions rise and chaos erupts, both families reach their boiling points when their worlds collide.
Search similar movies
6.9
1992
C(r)ook

A killer for the Russian Mafia in Vienna wants to retire and write a book about his passion - cooking. The mafia godfather suspects treason.
Search similar movies
7.1
C%28r%29ook
Mikey and Nicky

Nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob boss wants him killed. Desperate and terrified, he calls Mikey, his friend since childhood and a fellow gangster. So begins a long night…
Search similar movies
6.9
Mikey+and+Nicky
Mikey and Nicky

1976

Search similar movies
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge

When Kriemhild, thirsty for revenge, marries to Etzel, king of the Huns, she invites King Gunther and his court to visit them, intending to finally take the life of the man responsible of her disgrace.
Search similar movies
7.5
Die+Nibelungen%3A+Kriemhild%27s+Revenge
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge

1924

Search similar movies
August Underground's Penance

Has someone ever handed you a movie, not telling you one thing about it, only telling you to watch it. What if that tape was the personal home video of two sociopaths on a killing spree? This is their home movie, for their eyes-only. This is August Underground's Penance. The third and final film in the AU franchise directed by Fred Vogel and starring Cristie "Crusty" Whiles. Penance shows the dark decline of the two nameless killers from the previous films as they continue to videotape their madness on their path to destruction.
Search similar movies
4.1
August+Underground%27s+Penance
August Underground's Penance

2007

Search similar movies
Rembetiko

The story of a group of Rembetes, singers and musicians of the Greek equivalent to the blues, in the early decades of the 20th century, seen through the eyes of a young female singer.
Search similar movies
7.2
Rembetiko
Scooby-Doo! Mecha Mutt Menace

Mecha Mutt, a revolutionary remote-controlled lunar rover resembling a large canine, goes rogue at Houston's Annual Science Expo. Scooby-Doo! Mecha Mutt Menace is the fourth in a series of direct-to-video short films.
Search similar movies
8.4
Scooby-Doo%21+Mecha+Mutt+Menace
Scooby-Doo! Mecha Mutt Menace

2013

Search similar movies
The Stepford Wives

Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
Search similar movies
6.7
The+Stepford+Wives
The Stepford Wives

1975

Search similar movies
Hard Rain

An armored car driver tries to elude a gang of thieves while a flood ravages the countryside.
Search similar movies
5.9
Hard+Rain
Baby's Meal

A father, a mother and a baby are sitting at a table, on a patio outside. Dad is feeding Baby her lunch, while Mum is serving tea.
Search similar movies
5.5
Baby%27s+Meal
Baby's Meal

1970

Search similar movies
The Pass

The night before their debut game, two professional soccer players share a kiss. In a sporting world where image is everything, this surprising ‘pass’ sets the men up for a contrasting decade of fame and failure, full of secrets and denial.
Search similar movies
6.4
The+Pass
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: One More Time with Feeling

Andrew Dominik's One More Time With Feeling is a remarkable black and white documentary which chronicles the creation of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' album Skeleton Tree. Originally a performance based concept, the film evolved into something much more significant as Dominik delved into the tragic backdrop of the writing and recording of the album. The result is stark, fragile and raw, and a true testament to an artist trying to find his way through the darkness. It documents the writing, recording and performing of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ sixteenth studio album, Skeleton Tree.
Search similar movies
7.9
Nick+Cave+%26+The+Bad+Seeds%3A+One+More+Time+with+Feeling
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: One More Time with Feeling

2016

Search similar movies
A State of Mind

Two young North Korean gymnasts prepare for an unprecedented competition in this documentary that offers a rare look into the communist society and the daily lives of North Korean families. For more than eight months, film crews follow 13-year-old Pak Hyon Sun and 11-year-old Kim Song Yun and their families as the girls train for the Mass Games, a spectacular nationalist celebration.
Search similar movies
7.7
A+State+of+Mind
A State of Mind

2005

Search similar movies
My Brothers and Sisters in the North

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a country with a very strong social cohesion and the unprecedented admiration of the people for their leader, which is absolutely unique and incomprehensible especially from a Western point of view. The native Korean director Sung-Hyung Cho tries to understand this by accompanying several Koreans from different backgrounds in their daily lives. The film shows the country and its people in a way, as it is rarely done in Western media, non-judgmental and respectful towards the people.
Search similar movies
7.3
My+Brothers+and+Sisters+in+the+North
My Brothers and Sisters in the North

2016

Search similar movies
I Am Sun Mu

Operating under a pseudonym which means 'no boundaries' - North Korean defector Sun Mu creates political pop art based on his life, homeland, and hope for a future united Korea. His hidden identity is nearly compromised when a massive historical exhibit in Beijing is shuttered by Chinese and North Korean authorities.
Search similar movies
6.6
I+Am+Sun+Mu
I Am Sun Mu

2015

Search similar movies
Cinema in the Land of Comrade Kim

The love of Kim Jong Il, the former dictator of North Korea, for cinema and his adventures, including the kidnapping of a director.
Search similar movies
10.0
Cinema+in+the+Land+of+Comrade+Kim
Cinema in the Land of Comrade Kim

2024

Search similar movies
The Lovers and the Despot

Hong Kong, 1978. South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee is kidnapped by North Korean operatives following orders from dictator Kim Jong-il.
Search similar movies
6.9
The+Lovers+and+the+Despot
The Lovers and the Despot

2016

Search similar movies
Under the Sun

Over the course of one year, this film follows the life of an ordinary Pyongyang family whose daughter was chosen to take part in Day of the Shining Star (Kim Jong-il's birthday) celebration. While North Korean government wanted a propaganda film, the director kept on filming between the scripted scenes. The ritualized explosions of color and joy contrast sharply with pale everyday reality, which is not particularly terrible, but rather quite surreal.
Search similar movies
7.2
Under+the+Sun
Under the Sun

2015

Search similar movies
North Korea: All the Dictator's Men

North Korea has nuclear weapons. How did it manage to get them quietly? Donald Trump is under the impression that as US president he could convince Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, to disarm his nuclear weapons and make peace with South Korea. But how was it possible that one of the poorest countries in the world could acquire the knowledge to produce nuclear-tipped rockets?
Search similar movies
7.1
North+Korea%3A+All+the+Dictator%27s+Men
North Korea: All the Dictator's Men

2018

Search similar movies
Sona, the Other Myself

Documentary focuses on Sona, the daughter of the director’s brother who moved to North Korea from Japan in the early 1970s. Through Sona, the film shows the generation that migrated from Japan to North Korea and their offspring who were born and raised in North Korea.
Search similar movies
7.0
Sona%2C+the+Other+Myself
Sona, the Other Myself

2010

Search similar movies
North Korea's Secret Slaves: Dollar Heroes

Shrouded in secrecy and notoriously cash-strapped the North Korean regime has resorted to running one of the world's largest slaving operations - exploiting the profits to fulfil their own agenda. These bonded labourers can be found in Russia, China and dozens of other countries around the world including EU member states. Featuring undercover footage and powerful testimonials, we reveal the scale and brutality of the operation and ask what, if anything, is being done to stop it.
Search similar movies
North+Korea%27s+Secret+Slaves%3A+Dollar+Heroes
North Korea's Secret Slaves: Dollar Heroes

2018

Search similar movies
North Korea: A Day in the Life

If the cityscapes and patriotic anthems of this film seem a far cry from the bleak landscape of Seoul Train, that's no accident. Dutch filmmaker Pieter Fleury, with the full permission and cooperation of the North Korean government, created this propaganda film that gives us a glimpse of a day in the life of one of the world's most enigmatic societies. A Day in the Life, largely dictated by the North Korean film bureau, follows a typical North Korean family through their daily duties, largely dedicated to the pride in the North Korean nation of comrades and the glory of General Kim Jong Il. The film is meant to extol the success of modern North Korea. But does it? With straight footage and a total absence of narration, viewers may interpret Fleury's film in a slightly different manner than intended
Search similar movies
6.5
North+Korea%3A+A+Day+in+the+Life
North Korea: A Day in the Life

2004

Search similar movies
Inside North Korea

Join National Geographic's Lisa Ling as she captures a rare look inside North Korea - something few Americans have ever been able to do. Posing as an undercover medical coordinator and closely guarded throughout her trip, Lisa moves inside the most isolated nation in the world, encountering a society completely dominated by government and dictatorship. Glimpse life inside North Korea as you've never seen before with personal accounts and powerful footage. Witness first-hand efforts by humanitarians and the challenges they face from the rogue regime.
Search similar movies
7.1
Inside+North+Korea
Inside North Korea

2006

Search similar movies
Korea, A Hundred Years of War

A contemporary history of Korea(s) from a unique point of view that embraces the inner history of both South and North Korea in a single narrative.
Search similar movies
5.5
Korea%2C+A+Hundred+Years+of+War
Korea, A Hundred Years of War

2020

Search similar movies
Kimjongilia

The first film to fully expose the humanitarian crisis of North Korea, this stylish, deeply moving documentary is centered around astonishing interviews with survivors of North Korea's vast and largely hidden prison camps, and interspersed with archival footage of North Korean propoganda films and original art performances.
Search similar movies
6.2
Kimjongilia
Kimjongilia

2009

Search similar movies
Kim Jong-un: The Unauthorized Biography

A journey through several countries to find those who really know Kim Jong-un, North Korea's leader, in an attempt to profile a contradictory dictator who seems to rule his nation with both disturbing benevolence and cold cruelty while being worshipped as a living god by his subjects in exalted displays of ridiculous fanaticism.
Search similar movies
7.5
Kim+Jong-un%3A+The+Unauthorized+Biography
Kim Jong-un: The Unauthorized Biography

2015

Search similar movies
Korea: The Never-Ending War

Shedding new light on a geopolitical hot spot, the film — written and produced by John Maggio and narrated by Korean-American actor John Cho — confronts the myth of the “Forgotten War,” documenting the post-1953 conflict and global consequences.
Search similar movies
7.8
Korea%3A+The+Never-Ending+War
Korea: The Never-Ending War

2019

Search similar movies
War of Art

What happens when a group of international artists travel to North Korea to create art like the regime have never seen before? While the world is on the verge of nuclear war, a group of Western contemporary artists are invited into the eye of the storm. The aim is to collaborate with North Korean artists in a creative exchange project displaying new and challenging art in a country where abstract art is forbidden.
Search similar movies
4.0
War+of+Art
War of Art

2019

Search similar movies
I Am From Chosun

After 15 years of knowing Chosun people in Japan I met on Mt. Geumgang in 2002, I face the history of colonization and division that I had not known before. They’ve been to North Korea many times, but never to South Korea. They tell us why they want to live as Chosun people despite the discrimination in Japanese society. 
Search similar movies
7.3
I+Am+From+Chosun
I Am From Chosun

2021

Search similar movies
Bureau 39: Kim's Cash Machine

How is it possible that North Korea, one of the poorest countries on earth finances a nuclear weapons program large enough to challenge the USA? The answer: Bureau 39, a legendary organization nestled deep inside the government apparatus. Its aim is to procure foreign exchange by any means possible to provide Kim Jong-un’s regime with money.
Search similar movies
7.8
Bureau+39%3A+Kim%27s+Cash+Machine
Bureau 39: Kim's Cash Machine

2020

Search similar movies
Dictator: One Crazy Job

They’ve become the human face of inhuman barbarity. Leaders like Hitler, Idi Amin Dada, Stalin, Kim Jong Il, Saddam Hussein, Nicolae Ceausescu, Bokassa, Muammar Kadhafi, Khomeini, Mussolini and Franco governed their countries completely cut off from reality. These paranoid leaders were driven to abuse their power by the pathology of power itself. Dictators are driven by a relentless, thought-out determination to impose themselves as infallible, all-knowing and all-powerful beings. But they are also men ruled by their caprices, uncontrollable impulses, and reckless fits of frenzy, which paradoxically render them as human as anyone else. The abuses they committed were clearly atrocious, yet some of them were as outlandish as the characters portrayed in the film The Dictator. They sunk to depths worthy of Kafka: so incredibly absurd, they are outrageously funny.
Search similar movies
6.5
Dictator%3A+One+Crazy+Job
Dictator: One Crazy Job

2013

Search similar movies
Dear Pyongyang

Dear Pyongyang is a documentary film by Zainichi Korean director Yang Yong-hi (Korean: 양영희, Hanja: 梁英姬) about her own family. It was shot in Osaka Japan (Yang's hometown) and Pyongyang, North Korea, In the 1970s, Yang's father, an ardent communist and leader of the pro-North movement in Japan, sent his three sons from Japan to North Korea under a repatriation campaign sponsored by ethnic activist organisation and de facto North Korean embassy Chongryon; as the only daughter, Yang herself remained in Japan. However, as the economic situation in the North deteriorated, the brothers became increasingly dependent for survival on the care packages sent by their parents. The film shows Yang's visits to her brothers in Pyongyang, as well as conversations with her father about his ideological faith and his regrets over breaking up his family.
Search similar movies
6.7
Dear+Pyongyang
Dear Pyongyang

2006

Search similar movies
The Mole: Undercover in North Korea

A real-life undercover thriller about two ordinary men who embark on an outrageously dangerous ten-year mission to penetrate the world's most secretive and brutal dictatorship: North Korea.
Search similar movies
7.0
The+Mole%3A+Undercover+in+North+Korea
The Mole: Undercover in North Korea

2020

Search similar movies
Shadow Flowers

Ryun-hee Kim, a North Korean housewife, was forced to come to South Korea and became its citizen against her will. As her seven years of struggle to go back to her family in North Korea continues, the political absurdity hinders her journey back to her loved ones. The life of her family in the North goes on in emptiness, and she fears that she might become someone, like a shadow, who exists only in the fading memory of her family.​
Search similar movies
Shadow+Flowers
Shadow Flowers

2021

Search similar movies
Propaganda

An anti-western propaganda film about the influences of American visual and consumption culture on the rest of the world, as told from a North Korean perspective.
Search similar movies
8.1
Propaganda
Propaganda

2013

Search similar movies
Assassins

True crime meets global spy thriller in this gripping account of the assassination of Kim Jong-nam, the half brother of the North Korean leader. The film follows the trial of the two female assassins, probing the question: were the women trained killers or innocent pawns of North Korea?
Search similar movies
6.8
Assassins
The Trap of Kim

The escalation of tensions between Pyongyang and Washington continues, plunging the world into fear of a nuclear war. Update on the geopolitical issues of this conflict.
Search similar movies
7.7
The+Trap+of+Kim
The Trap of Kim

2018

Search similar movies
Camp 14: Total Control Zone

Shin Dong-Huyk was born on November 19, 1983 as a political prisoner in a North Korean re-education camp. He was a child of two prisoners who had been married by order of the wardens. He spent his entire childhood and youth in Camp 14, in fact a death camp. He was forced to labor since he was six years old and suffered from hunger, beatings and torture, always at the mercy of the wardens. He knew nothing about the world outside the barbed-wire fences. At the age of 23, with the help of an older prisoner, he managed to escape. For months he traveled through North Korea and China and finally to South Korea, where he encountered a world completely strange to him.
Search similar movies
6.7
Camp+14%3A+Total+Control+Zone
Camp 14: Total Control Zone

2012

Search similar movies
Dennis Rodman's Big Bang in PyongYang

Dennis Rodman is on a mission. After forging an unlikely friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, he wants to improve relations between North Korea and the US by staging a historic basketball game between the two countries. But the North Korean team isn't the only opposition he'll face... Condemned by the NBA and The Whitehouse, and hounded every step of the way by the press, can Dennis keep it together and make the game happen? Or will it go up in a mushroom cloud of smoke? For the first time, discover the true story of what happened when Dennis Rodman took a team of former-NBA players to North Korea and staged the most controversial game of basketball the world has never seen.
Search similar movies
6.5
Dennis+Rodman%27s+Big+Bang+in+PyongYang
Dennis Rodman's Big Bang in PyongYang

2015

Search similar movies
North Korea: Inside The Mind of a Dictator

A journey through Kim Jong Un’s past and present to understand the man and the myth who holds North Korea’s uncertain future in his hands.
Search similar movies
6.1
North+Korea%3A+Inside+The+Mind+of+a+Dictator
North Korea: Inside The Mind of a Dictator

2021

Search similar movies
Aim High In Creation!

A revolutionary film about the cinematic genius of North Korea's late Dear Leader Kim Jung-IL, with a groundbreaking experiment at its heart - a propaganda film, made according to the rules of his 1987 manifesto. Through the shared love of cinema, AIM HIGH IN CREATION! forges an astonishing new bond between the hidden filmmakers of North Korea and their Free World collaborators. Revealing an unexpected truth about the most isolated nation on earth: filmmakers, no matter where they live, are family.
Search similar movies
5.9
Aim+High+In+Creation%21
Aim High In Creation!

2013

Search similar movies
The Propaganda Game

North Korea. The last communist country in the world. Unknown, hermetic and fascinating. Formerly known as “The Hermit Kingdom” for its attempts to remain isolated, North Korea is one of the largest sources of instability as regards world peace. It also has the most militarized border in the world, and the flow of impartial information, both going in and out, is practically non-existent. As the recent Sony-leaks has shown, it is the perfect setting for a propaganda war.
Search similar movies
7.0
The+Propaganda+Game
The Propaganda Game

2015

Search similar movies
The Red Princess

Who is Kim Yo-jong? In a context of maximum tensions between North Korea and the United States, Pierre Haski paints an unprecedented portrait of the little sister of Kim Jong-un, whose influence in Pyongyang is growing stronger day by day.
Search similar movies
7.0
The+Red+Princess
The Red Princess

2022

Search similar movies
North Korea; Off-Piste

Having been granted special permission to film inside one of the most secretive countries in the world, Britain's fastest snowboarder sets off to experience first hand this country we know so little about.
Search similar movies
6.5
North+Korea%3B+Off-Piste
North Korea; Off-Piste

2017

Search similar movies
DPRK: The Land Of Whispers

"Land of Whispers" invites you to visit arguably the most unique and isolated travel destination in the world - not to criticize, but to observe and listen. Aside from usual highlights such as Pyongyang or Arirang, this unique one-man documentary brings you to areas such as Chongjin or Wonson, still virtually unknown to even google or wikipedia. There, I attempt to pierce through the ever-present 'national mythology' and as much as possible, I try to connect with people - such as the waitress mesmerized by tablet computers, or a tour guide cautiously fascinated by modern pop culture.
Search similar movies
6.5
DPRK%3A+The+Land+Of+Whispers
DPRK: The Land Of Whispers

2013

Search similar movies
Kim Il Sung's Children

From 1950 to 1953, one hundred thousand children were orphaned by the Korean War. With no resources to mend the wounds, the two sides, North and South, took different paths to find homes and families for the war orphans. While the children of South Korea were sent to Europe and the United States through ‘International Adoption’, the children of North Korea were distributed across Eastern Europe through a method called ‘Commissioned Education’. As a result, more than five thousand children from the North had to spend nearly a decade living in foreign lands across Eastern Europe. This story is a record of their lives, which used to be kept hidden from the rest of the world. There is a key to understanding how North Korea's closed political structure began and how the ‘Juche ideology’ was formed in this documentary movie. Understanding North Korea in the 1950s is an important way to understand North Korea at present.
Search similar movies
Kim+Il+Sung%27s+Children
Kim Il Sung's Children

2020

Search similar movies
A Postcard from Pyongyang

"A Postcard from Pyongyang" is a journey into a deeply enigmatic and completely isolated country that keeps the world in suspense: North Korea. Friends Gregor Möller, Philip Kist and Anne Lewald visit in 2013 and 2017 and do what is strictly forbidden and for which they might have ended up in a forced labor camp: even though accompanied by state watchers, they secretly film their travels, accompanied by state watchdogs. We get an extraordinary insight into one of the most closed societies in the world and experience the 'beautiful new world' as the state propaganda machinery displays it.
Search similar movies
5.5
A+Postcard+from+Pyongyang
A Postcard from Pyongyang

2019

Search similar movies
Worlds largest rocket builder

It’s October 10 2020 and Kim Jong-un presents the largest mobile rocket on Earth. Jippe Liefbroer, Interaction Design student, sees the rocket and thinks: it can be bigger. For his graduation project he built 'Kimmi's worst nightmare', a 31 meter long rocket. That is 1 meter longer than Kim Jung-un's.
Search similar movies
8.3
Worlds+largest+rocket+builder
Worlds largest rocket builder

2022

Search similar movies
Bright Future

In the summer of 1989, the 13th edition of the World Festival of Youth and Students was held in Pyongyang. Thousands of socialist youth from 177 countries celebrated their belief in a better society and international solidarity.
Search similar movies
Bright+Future
Bright Future

2024

Search similar movies
Ned, Tassot, Yossot

About five years after her film, Hana, dul, sed ... (2009), filmmaker Brigitte Weich returns to North Korea to ask four women on the national football team how their lives have evolved. In a friendly and congenial cooperation between the filmmaker and her protagonists, a work arises that not only tells about the concrete life of a professional athlete in North Korea, but also poses the question of the images that we all make of ourselves to give meaning to our lives and the world.
Search similar movies
5.0
Ned%2C+Tassot%2C+Yossot
Ned, Tassot, Yossot

2023

Search similar movies
Stealth

Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control ... before it initiates the next world war.
Search similar movies
5.5
Stealth
The Interview

Dave Skylark and his producer Aaron Rapaport run the celebrity tabloid show "Skylark Tonight". When they land an interview with a surprise fan, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, they are recruited by the CIA to turn their trip to Pyongyang into an assassination mission.
Search similar movies
6.2
The+Interview
The Interview

2014

Search similar movies
Pulgasari

In feudal Korea, a group of starving villagers grow weary of the orders handed down to them by their controlling king and set out to use a deadly monster under their control to push his armies back.
Search similar movies
5.5
Pulgasari
Red Family

A growing friendship with their neighbors softens the resolve of a group of North Korean spies who are posing as an ordinary South Korean family.
Search similar movies
6.1
Red+Family
Red Family

2013

Search similar movies
Salt

As a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt swore an oath to duty, honor and country. Her loyalty will be tested when a Russian defector accuses her of being a Russian sleeper spy. She goes on the run, using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative to elude capture, protect her husband, and stay one step ahead of her colleagues at the CIA. Her efforts to prove her innocence only serve to cast doubt on her motives, as the hunt to uncover the truth behind her identity continues and the question remains: "Who is Salt?"
Search similar movies
6.4
Salt
The Net

A poor North Korean fisherman finds himself an accidental defector, and is groomed to be a spy by an ambitious South Korean military officer.
Search similar movies
7.4
The+Net
Believe It or Not

Over many years of division, North and South Korea have become like a hall of mirrors where it is difficult to tell the real from the false. Inspired by real people who have traveled between North and South amid this division, this film depicts a relationship between the two that is so deeply skewed that it is impossible to tell what anyone is working to achieve.
Search similar movies
Believe+It+or+Not
Believe It or Not

2018

Search similar movies
GO

Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him.
Search similar movies
7.4
GO
Die Another Day

James Bond is sent to investigate the connection between a North Korean terrorist and a diamond mogul, who is funding the development of an international space weapon.
Search similar movies
6.0
Die+Another+Day
Die Another Day

2002

Search similar movies
As One

A unified team representing the two Koreas competed at the 1991 Chiba International Table Tennis Championships. It was the first such sport team since the division of the Korean peninsula. The unified team won the group competition event, beating the front runner, China.
Search similar movies
7.7
As+One
One Summer Night

Caught in forbidden love, Yong Joon defects from North Korea, leaving Jae Sung behind. Years later, a reunion forces him to choose between past and present.
Search similar movies
6.8
One+Summer+Night
One Summer Night

2016

Search similar movies
The Front Line

In 1951 ceasefire is declared, but two remaining armies fought their final battle on the front line Towards the end of the Korean War, a South Korean battalion is fiercely battling over a hill on the front line border against the North in order to capture a strategic point that would determine the new border between two nations. The ownership of this small patch of land would swap multiple times each day. Kang is dispatched to the front line in order to investigate the tacit case that’s been happening there.
Search similar movies
7.2
The+Front+Line
The Front Line

2011

Search similar movies
Poongsan

Poongsan has the unenviable - and death-defying - job of delivering messages across the North and South Korean border to separated families. When South Korean government agents ask him to smuggle in In-ok, the lover of a high-ranking North Korean defector, into the South, the damsel and rescuer fall in love instead.
Search similar movies
6.2
Poongsan
The Square

Isak Borg is the first secretary of Swedish Embassy in Pyongyang. Even though he's a diplomat, he is secretly dating Bok-joo, a local traffic officer. One day, after a shady man was seen at their secret meeting spot, Bok-joo goes missing. With his departure date approaching, Borg searches for Bok-joo and begins to get suspicious of his interpreter, Lee Myeong-jun.
Search similar movies
6.0
The+Square
The Square

2025

Search similar movies
A Self-Righteous Man

As the tragic war of fratricide is drawing to a close, a special agent nicknamed Dokbul, Kang Cheol-gu, is given an intelligence mission to identify and confirm the enemy's unusual movements. While on a mission, Cheol-gu infiltrates the enemy's camp alone and accidentally witnesses a bloody scene of massacre of civilians. He saves the only survivor, Hwang No-in, and is hinted that the enemy's plot is very dangerous. Cheol-gu approaches Mi-young, a People's Army nurse, to extract information, but is exposed to the enemy and escapes a crisis after a fierce battle. In the end, thanks to Cheol-gu's persistence, Mi-young realizes the illusion of the liberation struggle they are calling for, and transforms into Cheol-gu's collaborator to stop their horrific plot, germ warfare, and carries out the mission. However, the result of this tragic war is only futility. A war of illusions where more is lost than gained, and in the end, even the nickname Dokbul sheds hot tears.
Search similar movies
A+Self-Righteous+Man
A Self-Righteous Man

1988

Search similar movies
Steel Rain

Amid a coup, a North Korean agent escapes south with the country's injured leader in an attempt to keep him alive and prevent a Korean war.
Search similar movies
7.1
Steel+Rain
Steel Rain

2017

Search similar movies
My Name Is Loh Kiwan

After defecting from North Korea, Loh Kiwan struggles to obtain refugee status in Belgium, where he encounters a dejected woman who has lost all hope.
Search similar movies
7.3
My+Name+Is+Loh+Kiwan
My Name Is Loh Kiwan

2024

Search similar movies
The Transfer Student

On the morning of her first day at a new school, a girl practices different ways to greet her teacher in order to make a good impression. A bundle of nerves, she heads off to school, and, contrary to her expectations, is met with indifference by the teacher.
Search similar movies
The+Transfer+Student
The Transfer Student

2015

Search similar movies
Battlefield Heroes

This story unfolds 8 years after 'Battle of Hwangsanbeol', which destroyed Baekjae, when Silla-Tang Dynasty union attacks Goguryeo.
Search similar movies
5.5
Battlefield+Heroes
Battlefield Heroes

2011

Search similar movies