Best award winning movies with style over substance from North Korea
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with style over substance from North Korea! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with style over substance from North Korea, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Under the Sun (2015)
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.
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- 2015-10-30 | Documentary
Cast
- Lee Zin-Mi, Yu-Yong
Rating
- 7.279
2 Order No. 027 (1986)
A group of elite soldiers is sent across the border to South Korea to destroy a military base.
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- 1986-01-01 | War / Action
Cast
- Sung Chol Cha, Yong Chol Choe
Rating
- 5.6
3 Dennis Rodman's Big Bang in PyongYang (2015)
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.
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- 2015-01-25 | Documentary
Cast
- Dennis Rodman, Kim Jong-un
Rating
- 6.5
4 Pulgasari (1985)
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.
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- 1985-12-01 | Horror / Drama
Cast
- Chang Son Hui, Ham Gi Sop
Rating
- 5.542
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5 Hong Kil-dong (1986)
This movie tells the story of Hong Kil Dong, a legendary 15th century Korean Robin Hood figure.
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- 1986-06-15 | Action / Adventure
Cast
- Yong-ho Ri, Gwon Ri
Rating
- 7.0
6 Pyongyang Nalpharam (2006)
"Taek" and "Kyon", children of the two Masters who founded the school of martial arts "Taek-kyon", must keep the school manual away from the hands of the Japanese occupiers (early 20th century) and entrust it to Priest "Jiham" according to the will of their fathers. The two lovers, who have not seen each other since childhood due to the travel of "Taek" to Seol, meet in the cave where the manual is hidden and plan to defend the manual until the last drop of blood. The students of the school, known as the "Pyongyang Nalpharam"(pronounced Nal-Pa-Rem)shall help them in this path, but the Japanese also want to seize the manual very badly; as they want to destroy it so that their school of "Judo" remains unrivaled in Asia.
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- 2006-01-01 |
Cast
- Hye-gyeong Kim, Ryeong-hun Ri
Rating
- 5.8