6.5 Documentary Biography Thriller 98 minutes 7 and older Similar titles...
Tags...
Directors: Robert Cannan Ross Adam Actors:
Paul Courtenay Hyu Yuna Shin Choi Eun-hee Michael Yi Shin Jeong-kyun Shin Myung-yim Choi Kyung-ok

The Lovers and the Despot 2016

98 minutes

'They 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.

Available in New Zealand on:

Sorry, no channels in New Zealand are currently streaming this content

Watch now:

Stream

Sorry, no channels in New Zealand are currently streaming this content

Titles similar to The Lovers and the Despot

Assassins

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2021 IMDB Rating: 7.5

True crime meets global spy thriller in this gripping account of the assassination of Kim Jong-nam, the half brother of the North Korean leader. The film follows the trial of the two female assassins,...

Find out more, including where to stream or buy >

Camp 14: Total Control Zone

Film Age rating: 11 Year: 2012 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Shin Dong-Huyk was born on November 19, 1983 as a political prisoner in a North Korean re-education camp. He was a child of two prisoners who had been married by order of the wardens. He spent his ent...

Find out more, including where to stream or buy >

North Korea: Life Inside the Secret State

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 7.1

North Koreans are breaking down the barriers of the gulag state. Following covert filmmakers, this doc shows real life under the new leader Kim Jong Un, highlighting the contrasting ox-drawn farms to...

Find out more, including where to stream or buy >

Dennis Rodman's Big Bang in PyongYang

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2015 IMDB Rating: 6.3

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...

Find out more, including where to stream or buy >

North Korea: Inside The Mind of a Dictator

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2021 IMDB Rating: 6.9

A journey through Kim Jong Un’s past and present to understand the man and the myth who holds North Korea’s uncertain future in his hands.

Find out more, including where to stream or buy >

Jeronimo

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2019 IMDB Rating: 8.4

Born to Korean immigrant parents freed from indentured servitude in early twentieth century Mexico, Jerónimo Lim Kim joins the Cuban Revolution with his law school classmate Fidel Castro and becomes a...

Find out more, including where to stream or buy >

The Defector: Escape from North Korea

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2012 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Dragon smuggles North Korean defectors across borders for a living, and his latest undercover trip with Sook-Ja and Yong-hee takes an unexpected turn when they are left stranded in China. This is just...

Find out more, including where to stream or buy >

Notes on Blindness

Film Age rating: 2 Year: 2016 IMDB Rating: 7

After losing sight in 1983, John Hull began keeping an audio diary, a unique testimony of loss, rebirth and renewal, excavating the interior world of blindness. Following on from the Emmy Award-winnin...

Find out more, including where to stream or buy >

David Lynch: The Art Life

Film Age rating: 11 Year: 2017 IMDB Rating: 7.2

An intimate journey through the formative years of David Lynch's life. From his idyllic upbringing in small town America to the dark streets of Philadelphia, we follow Lynch as he traces the events th...

Find out more, including where to stream or buy >

Songs From the North

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 2015 IMDB Rating: 6.1

Interweaving footage from the director’s three visits to North Korea with songs, spectacle, popular cinema and archival footage, Songs from the North takes a different look at this enigmatic country t...

Find out more, including where to stream or buy >

More titles similar to The Lovers and the Despot

Categories

Genre

Our suggestions

The Lovers and the Despot 2016

Watch now:

Titles similar to The Lovers and the Despot

Assassins

Camp 14: Total Control Zone

North Korea: Life Inside the Secret State

Dennis Rodman's Big Bang in PyongYang

North Korea: Inside The Mind of a Dictator

Jeronimo

The Defector: Escape from North Korea

Notes on Blindness

David Lynch: The Art Life

Songs From the North

Tags: