English Subtitled Films
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The Flower Girl
Year: 1972
Type: Drama
Length: 2:01:13
Summary: Young woman Kkotpun inspires her village folk to rise against the Japanese after the death of her mother and younger sister.
Prizes won:
- Special Prize (18th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
A Traffic Controller on Crossroads
Year: 1986
Type: Romantic Drama
Length: 58:59
Summary: Traffic policewomen learn to handle private life and work in a neighborhood where all seem to know each other.
A Family Bright with Songs
Year: Unknown
Type: Light Film
Length: 1:15:57
Summary: Whether they are talented or not, this family inspire their fellow workers with their songs at production sites.
An Unattached Unit
Year: 1993
Type: War film, action film
Length: 1:20:23
Summary: Wounded officers and soldiers on leave defend their position against a surprise attack by enemy forces.
They Met on the Taedong River (Parts 1 and 2)
Year: 1993
Type: Romantic drama, light film
Length:
Part 1: 56:55
Part 2: 48:38
Total 1:45:33
Summary: The story of two families becoming one unfurls in the picturesque new Pyongyang.
A Flower in Snow
Year: 1998
Type: Drama
Length: 1:27:11
The Name Given by the Era
Year: 2009
Type: Romantic drama
Length: 1:23:10
The Wheels of Happiness
Year: 2010
Type: Light film
Length: 1:10:04
Wish
Year: 2011
Type: Unknown
Length: 1:39:24
Prizes won:
- Special Screening Award (13th Pyongyang International Film Festival)
Urban Girl Comes to get Married
Year: 1993
Type: Romantic Comedy
Length: 1:13:41
Summary: Worker girls from Pyongyang arrive to marry farm worker boys in this student comedy film.
Prizes won:
- Public Organization Prize (9th Damascus Film Festival)
Let's Go to Mount Kumgang
Year: 1986
Type: Drama
Length: 1:12:24
Two Families in Haeun-Dong
Year: 1996
Type: Drama
Length: 1:29:09
A Forest is Swaying
Year: 1982
Type: Drama
Length: 1:18:10
Summary: Against all odds, a veteran re-builds a forest destroyed during the Korean War.
Oh Youth!
Year: 1994
Type: Romantic comedy
Length: 1:27:59
Summary: A mother clashes with her husband and sportswomen daughters when choosing her son's wife-to-be.
Order Number 027
Year: 1986
Type: War film, martial arts film
Length: 1:14:33
Summary: A special operations team is sent into South Korea to attack the enemy rear and retrieve an undercover spy.
Song of Retrospection
Year: 1986
Type: Drama
Length: 1:13:02
Summary: A foreign composer searches for his love when returning 30 years after the Korean War.
From 5 P.M. to 5 A.M.
Year: 1990
Type: War film
Length: 1:15:55
*The film features American defector James Joseph Dresnok
When Picking Apples
Year: 1971
Type: Light film
Length: 1:42:07
Myself in the Distant Future
Year: 1997
Type: Unknown
Length: 1:42:37
Summary: Virtue is not inherited: a lazy son of a hero architect proves himself when he is sent to the countryside to assist in agriculture work.
Our Fragrance
Year: 2003
Type: Comedy
Length: 1:21:47
Wolmi Island
Year: 1982
Type: War film
Length: 1:32:37
Centre Forward
Year: 1978
Type: Football-themed film
Length: 1:07:17
An Jung Gun Shoots Ito Hirobumi (Parts 1 and 2)
Year: 1979
Type: Historical film
Length:
Part 1: 1:11:14
Part 2: 1:10:29
Total: 2:21:43
The Kites Flying in the Sky
Year: 2008
Type: Drama
Length: 1:33:34
Prizes won:
- Special Screening Award (11th Pyongyang International Film Festival)
The Tale of 15 Children
Year: 1985
Type: Drama
Length: 2:17:30
True to Their Oaths
Year: Unknown
Type: Historical
Length: 1:32:13
The Tale of On Dal
Year: Unknown
Type: Historical
Length: 1:22:09
Girls in my Hometown
Year: 1990
Type: Dedicated film
Length: 2:03:48
From Spring to Summer
Year: 1988
Type: War film
Length: 1:20:42
Traces of Life (Part 1 and 2) - Low Quality
Year: 1990
Type: Hero Cinema
Length:
Part 1: 1:05:19
Part 2: 56:59
Total: 2:02:18
Summary: A widow works tirelessly to avoid relying on the country.
Prizes won:
- Gold Torch Prize for Actress (2nd Pyongyang International Film Festival)
- Special Jury Award (2nd Pyongyang International Film Festival)
Comrade Kim Goes Flying
Year: 2012
Type: Romantic Comedy
Length: 1:17:28
Summary: Comrade Kim accomplishes her wish of joining the national circus even though she is a lowly coal miner.
Belgian-British-Korean coproduction
The Other Side of the Mountain
Year: 2012
Type: War film
Length: 1:46:57
Prizes won:
- Special Screening Award (14th Pyongyang International Film Festival)
A Promise made in Pyongyang
Year: 2012
Type: Drama
Length: 1:31:39
Summary: Searching for the true soul of Korean dance, a Chinese-Korean dancer visits Pyongyang and learns of the Korean nation's spirit through the Arirang mass games.
Prizes won:
- Special Award of Festival Organizing Committee (13th Pyongyang International Film Festival)
Short Film "Wind Bell"
Year: Unknown
Type: Drama
Length: 16:11
My Home Village
Year: 1949
Type: Unknown
Length: 1:30:49
Poet Jo Ki Chon
Year: Unknown
Type: Unknown
Length: 1:33:13
Hong Kil Dong
Year: 1986
Type: Martial arts
Length: 1:44:32
The Story of a Blooming Flower (VOK version)
Year: 1992
Type: Drama
Length: 1:30:57
Summary: Japanese botanist Shimozawa Masahide creates the flower Kimjongilia after learning of Kim Jong Il's leadership style.
The Story of a Blooming Flower (Hardcoded version)
Year: 1992
Type: Drama
Length: 1:31:26
On the Railway
Year: 1966
Type: War film
Length: 1:30:52
Korea Runs // Run and Run
Year: Unknown
Type: Drama
Length: 1:18:09
Our Grandfather
Year: Unknown
Type: Drama
Length: 53:49
Kwangju Appeals
Year: Unknown
Type: Historical film
Length: 1:17:00
Short film "Saving Box"
Year: Unknown
Type: Light film
Length: 13:55
My Family's Problem
Year: 1980
Type: Comedy
Length: 1:45:01
Boasting Too Much
Year: 1978
Type: Comedy
Length: 54:49
Notes of a Woman War Correspondent
Year: 1980
Type: War film
Length: 1:16:42
A Broad Bellflower
Year: 1987
Type: Drama
Length: 1:23:24
Summary: The broad bellflower blooms hidden in the deep mountains, and lives there without anyone knowing of her exploits.
A Family Basketball Team
Year: 1998
Type: Comedy
Length: 1:14:08
A Schoolgirl's Diary
Year: 2006
Type: Drama
Length: 1:30:26
Ask Yourself
Year: 1988
Type: Drama
Length: 1:37:09
On the Green Carpet
Year: 2001
Type: Romance
Length: 1:19:10
Summary: Love flourishes on the green carpet of the 2000 mass games as two former classmates work together on the children's chapter.
The Big-game Hunter
Year: 2011
Type: Drama
Length: 1:23:44
The Favourite Young Man
Year: 1989
Type: Drama
Length: 1:00:51
Summary: "Who would want to marry a plumber?" say many potential mothers-in-law. But when they see him for who he truly is, they realise that he is in fact the favourite young man.
The Story of Our Home
Year: 2016
Type: Drama
Length: 1:40:28
Summary: A teenage girl gives up many things to raise five orphans by herself.
Case Closed
Year: 2011
Type: Crime film, drama
Length: 1:11:14
Summary: A young woman is seen as scum by her peers because of a past conviction, but all becomes clear when it is revealed that she was an undercover detective.
Lighthouse
Year: 1983
Type: Drama
Length: 1:19:02
Summary: Shamed and abused for many years, this lighthouse keeper sees his life improve from a slave to a respected worker after the liberation of Korea.
Musician Jong Ryul Song (Parts 1 & 2)
Year: Unknown
Type: Historical drama
Length:
Part 1: 1:06:02
Part 2: 1:01:16
Total: 2:07:18
Summary: Leaving China after many years, Jong Ryul Song finally returns to his motherland, newly liberated. There, he forms the first military choir and composes the song of the People's Army.
Nation and Destiny Part 1 - Choe Hyon Dok Chapter 1
Year: 1992
Type: Historical drama
Length: 1:39:59
Nation and Destiny Part 2 - Choe Hyon Dok Chapter 2
Year: 1992
Type: Historical drama
Length: 1:50:00
Nation and Destiny Part 3 - Choe Hyon Dok Chapter 3
Year: 1992
Type: Historical drama
Length: 1:34:20
Nation and Destiny Part 4 - Choe Hyon Dok Chapter 4
Year: 1992
Type: Historical drama
Length: 1:14:08
Nation and Destiny Part 5 - Yun Sang Min Chapter 1
Year: 1992
Type: Historical drama
Length: 1:38:53
Nation and Destiny Part 6 - Yun Sang Min Chapter 2
Year: 1992
Type: Historical drama
Length: 1:08:55
Nation and Destiny Part 7 - Yun Sang Min Chapter 3
Year: 1992
Type: Historical drama
Length: 1:04:08
Nation and Destiny Part 8 - Yun Sang Min Chapter 4
Year: 1992
Type: Historical drama
Length: 1:26:50
Nation and Destiny Part 9 - Cha Hong Gi Chapter 1
Year: 1992
Type: Historical drama
Length: 1:27:35
Nation and Destiny Part 10 - Cha Hong Gi Chapter 2
Year: 1992
Type: Historical drama
Length: 1:16:18
Nation and Destiny Part 11 - Hong Yong Ja Chapter 1
Year: 1992
Type: Historical drama
Length: 1:22:45
Summary: Hong Yong Ja's character is explored as she thinks of a way to assassinate Cha Hong Gi.
Nation and Destiny Part 12 - Hong Yong Ja Chapter 2
Year: 1992
Type: Historical drama
Length: 1:00:37
Summary: Hong Yong Ja gets a reality check when Pak Chung Hee kills Kim Hyong Uk after she smuggled him from Paris to Seoul.
Nation and Destiny Part 13 - Hong Yong Ja Chapter 3
Year: 1992
Type: Historical drama
Length: 1:02:26
Summary: Coming to a close, Hong Yong Ja's story takes a radical turn as she re-thinks who to trust.
Autobiography of the Youth
Year: 2001
Type: Hero Cinema
Length: 1:27:19
Summary: Volunteering himself because of a girl, the main character becomes a young hero when searching for coal seams in the northern mountains.
Do People Know You?
Year: Unknown
Type: Drama
Length: 1:47:31
Summary: The way of good work as a public official is not always well known, and a successful manager learns this when she is promoted to vice-chairwoman.
My Father
Year: 1992
Type: Drama
Length: 1:32:42
Summary: Un Jong and her brother are orphaned at a young age, and they are raised into great sportspersons under the care of a sometimes clumsy party secretary.
Forever in Our Memory
Year: 1999
Type: Drama
Length: 1:37:24
Summary: Colonel Ri Chol Sok and his company are sent to the countryside to assist farmers, and there bonds of affection and friendship form amidst the hardships.
Aviator Kil Yong Jo
Year: Unknown
Type: Military drama
Length: 1:24:53
Summary: Talented pilot Kil Yong Jo is faced with a difficult choice when his fighter jet forces him to choose between loosing his life and crashing in the city below him.
Mother's Happiness
Year: Unknown
Type: Drama
Length: 1:21:52
Summary: A mother of five is proud to have sent four of her children to the army, but her youngest son is having trouble adapting to martial life.
Our Teacher
Year: 1989
Type: Unknown
Length: 46:29
The First Year After the Wedding
Year: Unknown
Type: Unknown
Length: 1:08:46
The Voice Calling Me
Year: Unknown
Type: Hero cinema
Length: 1:18:35
Summary: A former soldier works in land reclamation and learns to overcome the troublesome past of his long-gone father.
On This Blessed Land
Year: Unknown
Type: Light film, comedy
Length: 1:23:35
One Day and One Night
Year: 2022
Type: Drama, true story
Length: 1:34:47
The Long Awaited Girl
Year: 2002
Type: Drama
Length: 1:24:34
Two Soldiers
Year: 1995
Type: Military, true story
Length: 1:26:49
Pyongyang Nalpharam
Year: 2006
Type: Historical, socialist reality
Length: 1:43:01
First University
Year: 1996
Type: Historical
Length: 1:31:13