47 Films & TV Shows Set In North Korea (DPRK)
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Steel Rain 2: Summit
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea The 2020sA War Begins With The Summit For Peace — A futuristic film about a crisis near the brink of war after three leaders are kidnapped by a North Korean nuclear submarine in a coup d’état during a summit between the two Koreas and the United States.
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Kingdom: Season 2
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea The 17th CenturyThe outbreak leaves no one safe. But the infected are not the only monsters in Prince Chang's way as he fights to protect the kingdom.
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The Battle: Roar to Victory
Jilin Province 🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1920sIn 1920, when Korea is under Japanese rule the Korean Independence Army’s Hae-chul and his subordinates are carrying out the operation to deliver funds to the Korean Provisional Government in Shanghai. During the operation Hae-chul is reunited with Jang-ha, a young squad commander, whose mission is to defend Samdunja. They unite and trap the Japanese soldiers in Samdunja, soundly defeating them. Now they’re chased by Japanese troops and Hae-chul finds out that Jang-ha’s mission isn’t over yet. A crucial yet dangerous task is still assigned to him.
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Ashfall
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea The 2010sOnly one chance to save the nation. — A group of unlikely heroes from across the Korean peninsula try to save the day after a volcano erupts on the mythical and majestic Baekdu Mountain.
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Kingdom: Season 1
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea The 17th CenturyWhile strange rumors about their ill king grip a kingdom, the crown prince becomes their only hope against a mysterious plague overtaking the land.
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The Spy Gone North
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) The 1990sIn the lasting days of the Cold War — South Korea, 1993. An agent of the National Intelligence Service is sent to Beijing with the assignment of infiltrating a group of North Korean officials with the ultimate goal of obtaining information about the North Korean nuclear program.
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Take Point
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea The 2020sStateless. Honorless. War for Money. — On the day of the U.S. presidential election in 2024, a team of elite mercenaries embark on a secret CIA mission to abduct North Korea's politician in an underground bunker below the Korean Demilitarized Zone. However, they get caught in the crossfire which causes tensions to escalate to the brink of World War III.
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Confidential Assignment
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South KoreaJoint Mission, Hidden Intentions — When a crime organization from North Korea crosses borders and enters South Korean soil, a South Korean detective must cooperate with a North Korean detective to investigate their whereabouts.
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Steel Rain
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK)The Coup Arose In The North — 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.
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The Fortress
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea The 17th CenturyThe fate of the nation is in their hands — Ancient Korea, 17th century. The powerful Khan of the Jurchen tribe of Manchuria, who fights the Ming dinasty to gain China, becomes the first ruler of the Qing dinasty and demands from King In-jo of Joseon to bow before him; but he refuses, being loyal to the Mings. On December 14th, 1636, the Qing horde invades Joseon, so King In-jo and his court shelter in the mountain fortress of Namhan and prepare to defend the kingdom.
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Into the Inferno
🇮🇸 Iceland 🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇮🇩 Indonesia 🇪🇹 EthiopiaWhat we worship can destroy us — With stunning views of eruptions and lava flows, Werner Herzog captures the raw power of volcanoes and their ties to indigenous spiritual practices.
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Under the Sun
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) The 2010sOver 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.
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The Lovers and the Despot
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) The 1970s The 1980sThey were kidnapped by their biggest fan — Hong Kong, 1978. South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee is kidnapped by North Korean operatives following orders from dictator Kim Jong-il. Her ex-husband, film director Shin Sang-ok, undertakes her search, but soon after he is kidnapped as well. In 1983, after living through years of tribulations, Kim Jong-il puts them in charge of the North Korean film industry in the hope of gaining international recognition.
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Operation Chromite
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea Tokyo Prefecture The 1950sThe Odds Were 5000 to 1 … One was all They Needed. — A squad of soldiers fight in the Korean War's crucial Battle of Incheon.
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Northern Limit Line
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) The 2000sWhat I can do for my country I am willing to do — In this true story from 2002, South Korean patrol boats engaged in a deadly battle with North Korean patrol boats who crossed the maritime border known the Northern Limit Line and attacked.
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The Interview
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) Virginia 🇨🇳 China 🇰🇷 South Korea The 2010sThe Film Hackers Tried To Get Banned — 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.
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G.I. Joe: Retaliation
District of Columbia South Carolina Virginia England 🇩🇪 Germany 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇨🇳 China 🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) Tokyo PrefectureFramed for crimes against the country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated by Presidential order. This forces the G.I. Joes into not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence.
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Olympus Has Fallen
District of Columbia Maryland 🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) The 2010sWhen our flag falls our nation will rise. — When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As the national security team scrambles to respond, they are forced to rely on Banning's inside knowledge to help retake the White House, save the President and avert an even bigger disaster.
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Comrade Kim Goes Flying
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK)A young female coal miner struggles to realize her dream of becoming a circus acrobat in this winning, life-affirming fable that is the first Western-financed fiction feature ever made in North Korea. (TIFF)
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Poongsan
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK)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.
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3 Musketeers
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK)All for one... and guns for all! — Alexandra D'Artagnan, junior member of NSA uncovers a conspiracy that the goal is to assassinate the American president. Alexandra has secured the support of three famous and notorious international spies in order to stop the assassination.
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Salt
New York District of Columbia 🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea The 2010sWho is Salt? — As a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt swore an oath to duty, honor and country. Her loyalty will be tested when a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy. Salt goes on the run, using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative to elude capture. Salt's 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?"
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The Red Chapel
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK)Two Danish comics, one of them a spastic and both born in Korea, join the director on a trip to North Korea, where they have been allowed access under the pretext of wanting to perform a vaudeville act.
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Crossing
🇨🇳 China 🇲🇳 Mongolia 🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea The 2000sYong-soo is an ex-soccer player who lives in a small coal-mine village in North Korea with his wife and young son, Joon. Although living in extreme poverty like many other families in North Korea, the family is happy just to be with each other. Then one day, Yong-soo's pregnant wife becomes critically ill. Let alone medicine, Yong-soo can't even find food for her in North Korea. So he decides to secretly cross the border to China hoping to find the medicine for his wife.
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Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) The 2000sThe fate of the world hangs in the balance in this explosive action-thriller. — Navy SEALS, headed by Lt. Bobby James, are dispatched to North Korea on a covert mission, all in an effort to take out a missile site...
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