North Korean Defector Movies

  • 2016
    One Summer Night

    One Summer Night

    One Summer Night

    5.92016HD

    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...

    One Summer Night
  • 2018
    Beautiful Days

    Beautiful Days

    Beautiful Days

    6.62018HD

    At the request of his dying father, Zhenchen, a Chinese student, goes to Seoul in search of his mother, whom he has not seen for fourteen years. He...

    Beautiful Days
  • 2008
    Crossing

    Crossing

    Crossing

    7.12008HD

    Yong-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...

    Crossing
  • 2013
    48m

    48m

    48m

    62013HD

    Ap-lok river flows between North Korea and China. A point along the river runs about 48 meters. There, North Koreans risk their lives by trying to...

    48m
  • 2019
    Eun-seo

    Eun-seo

    Eun-seo

    02019HD

    North Korean Refugee Eunseo has been living in South Korea for 20 years. Now she is almost South Korean. No one knows she came from North Korea. Then...

    Eun-seo
  • 2013
    Propaganda

    Propaganda

    Propaganda

    82013HD

    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...

    Propaganda
  • 2018
    North Korea: All the Dictator's Men

    North Korea: All the Dictator's Men

    North Korea: All the Dictator's Men

    7.12018HD

    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...

    North Korea: All the Dictator's Men
  • 2020
    Dreamer

    Dreamer

    Dreamer

    52020HD

    The North Korean defector, who has just settled in the South, is confused by his brother who was separated from the defection process. Ji-hyeok, a...

    Dreamer
  • 2014
    Apostle

    Apostle

    Apostle

    42014HD

    In a small North Korean village near the border of China, there are believers who get together in an underground church, away from the eyes of the...

    Apostle
  • 2021
    Shadow Flowers

    Shadow Flowers

    Shadow Flowers

    02021HD

    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...

    Shadow Flowers
  • 2012
    Stateless Things

    Stateless Things

    Stateless Things

    5.32012HD

    Stateless Things crosscuts between the lives of two young men, one an illegal immigrant from North Korea stuck in dead-end jobs, the other the kept...

    Stateless Things
  • 2021
    Fighter

    Fighter

    Fighter

    6.52021HD

    After a few months of social adjustment training, the North Korean refugee Jina moves to a small studio in Seoul and starts her new life. To bring...

    Fighter
  • 2023
    A Tour Guide

    A Tour Guide

    A Tour Guide

    5.82023HD

    Making use of her Chinese that she had picked up while living in China, Han-young obtains her tour guide-interpreter's license and starts working as...

    A Tour Guide
  • 1999
    Until We Meet

    Until We Meet

    Until We Meet

    101999HD

    Until We Meet
  • 2019
    Ryeohaeng

    Ryeohaeng

    Ryeohaeng

    02019HD

    A group of women climbs a summer mountain situated in South Korea. They are refugees who have settled into South Korean society after fleeing from...

    Ryeohaeng
  • 2025
    Hi, Hello

    Hi, Hello

    Hi, Hello

    02025HD

    Hi, Hello
  • 2023
    From the New World

    From the New World

    From the New World

    52023HD

    After losing her son while defecting from North Korea, Myung-sun meets a fellow defector, Sin-tek, who is the leader of the Church of the Fire....

    From the New World
  • 2017
    Mrs. B., a North Korean Woman

    Mrs. B., a North Korean Woman

    Mrs. B., a North Korean Woman

    6.12017HD

    Portrait of Mrs. B., a tough charismatic North Korean woman who smuggles between North Korea, China and South Korea. With the money she gets, she...

    Mrs. B., a North Korean Woman
  • 2022
    The Mine

    The Mine

    The Mine

    02022HD

    A boy steps on a landmine during a border crossing with his mother. When his mother disappears to find help, the boy follows a group of mysterious...

    The Mine
  • 2017
    The Namesake

    The Namesake

    The Namesake

    02017HD

    The Namesake