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Browse 45 movies from Korean Film
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.
Feb 1986
The country is occupied by the Japanese imperialists. Koppun is selling flowers at the market to get some money to buy medicine for her sick mother. Her brother is imprisoned, her father dead and her sister blind.
Aug 1972
In the 1950s a female war veteran and army nurse, Ra Myong Hui, expose the plot of the anti-party, counter-revolutionary factionalists despite threats to her life. The film is based on a real story that happened in 1950s in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Apr 2022
A Pyongyang family with five overachieving athletic daughters get involved in their studious son’s romantic life.
Jan 1995
A tender hearted young noble man, Mong Ryong, falls in love with the famous Chun Hyang, the most beautiful girl of a Korean village, who is also a pure hearted artist but unfortunately from a humble family. This forbidden love yields a secret marriage which is doomed when Mong Ryong departs for Seoul to pass state exams and his absence lasts three years, during which no news is heard of him. Meanwhile, the arrival of an infamous new sheriff puts Chun Hyang in great peril when she refuses to break her marriage and obey the desires of the sheriff.
Jun 1980
In-Son is a young benchwarmer with aspirations of breaking into the first team, which is littered with established stars. The opening game of the season hands him his opportunity, but his lack of experience coupled with the expectation of the crowd leave him with little success on the pitch. The side loses, forcing the manager and the team back to the drawing board.
Jan 1978
About the last days of the government of Syngman Rhee, about the struggle against his regime of Seoul students.
Dec 1960
How schoolboy Yoon Ho and his friend Seung Mo are looking for the grave of his brother who died during the struggle of the Korean people for their independence. The film tells about the guys' adventures during these searches.
Jul 1958
A movie about children who lost their parents as a result of the Korean War.
Jan 1960
Based on the story of the same name by Han Sorya, which tells one of the pages of the life of South Korean youth - her struggle against external interference and for the unification of the peoples of South and North Korea.
Jun 1958
One morning, the wife hands her husband an umbrella as he goes to work and tells him to go to the hospital, but he only responds rudely. The wife buys an orchid in bloom on the street and goes to the hospital alone. The pregnancy she wanted does not occur. That afternoon, it rains. The wife and husband meet by chance at the entrance to the subway station.
May 2000
Based on a revolutionary play supposedly written by the Eternal President of the Democratic People's Republic, Kim Il-sung, and rumored to have been co-directed by Kim Jong-il. This revolutionary work is also popular among the Chinese, especially those who lived through the Cultural Revolution, and have fond memories of revolutionary antics.
Jan 1969
This is the story of Ji Jun, the widow of a sailor who swims out to an American warship with a mine in his hands and destroys it Kamikaze fashion during the Korean War. The sailor is a true believer in the revolution, while his wife cares more about what goes on in the household. In a change of heart, she decides to return to his farming village and work with the other beneficiaries of land reform to produce food for the revolution.
Jan 1989
A woman has just been newly christened in her job as a Pyongyang traffic supervisor. On her first assignment, she encounters a man who is using his work truck for personal use, along with driving unsafely. She detains him before eventually finding out that he was delivering the washing machine to her house. She attempts to hide in another room, but the man sees her. She immediately feels guilty for her actions.
May 1986
Nov 1959
The film tells a funny story about how two old men, wanting to meet their son-in-law and daughter-in-law, travel from the village to Pyongyang and find themselves in a funny and confusing situation.
Apr 1958
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 Nyoung.
Mar 1959
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 early revolutionary activities. The "USA five-point treaty" was fabricated, the country becomes a colony of the Japanese imperialists. An Jung Gun, a patriotic man of will who has been on the move with boundless love for the country and hatred for the Japanese aggressors thinks that assassination of ringleaders of aggression and traitors would lead to the liberation of the country. He shoots Ito Hirobumi, the chieftain of Korean invasion, at Haerbin railway station. However, his longing for the country's independence can't be realized and the country falls in to a colony of the Japanese imperialists day after day. Longing for the leader of the nation, he heads to the execution site.
Jan 1979
Jan 1957
The landlord kidnaps the child because of the family's debt. When a new life begins after being released, the kidnapped Sunhi regains her real name and mother after 30 years thanks to the assistance of the new government.
Jan 1963