48m
Jul 04, 2013 | IMDB 6
97 min Watch NowDrama
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 cross the river. Real stories of those people who attempt to cross the river are told.
MOVIE COMMENTS
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Crossing
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Beautiful Days
Poongsan
Until We Meet
Sunshine
Fighter
Eun-seo
Escape
Hana Korea
Over the Border
The Net
The Namesake
Crazy Love
Apostle
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Crossing
IMDB 7.1 | Jun , 2008
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IMDB 6 | Oct , 2023
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 guide in Korea. She gets used to her new surroundings and gains good results at work. However, she is forced to face challenges and changes as she loses touch with her brother In-hyuk, and the number of Chinese tourists decreases due to political tension between Korean and China.Stateless Things
IMDB 5.3 | Mar , 2012
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 boy of a married businessman stifling in a swanky apartment.From the New World
IMDB 5 | Dec , 2023
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. Through him, Myung-sun begins to learn about the doctrines of resurrection as they settle at a small town in South Korea.Dance Town
IMDB 6.2 | Mar , 2011
A North Korean refugee, Jung-Nim, is trying to find a new life in South Korea, with people suspecting that she is a spy.The Journals of Musan
IMDB 6.7 | Oct , 2010
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IMDB 6.3 | Aug , 2010
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IMDB 6.8 | Nov , 2018
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 soon discovers that she is working as a hostess in a bar…Poongsan
IMDB 6.2 | Jun , 2011
Poongsan has the unenviable - and death-defying - job of delivering messages across the North and South Korean border to separated families. When South Korean government agents ask him to smuggle in In-ok, the lover of a high-ranking North Korean defector, into the South, the damsel and rescuer fall in love instead.Until We Meet
IMDB 0 | Feb , 1999
Sunshine
IMDB 5.5 | Nov , 2015
Sul-ji, exiled from North Korea 2 years ago, is cheerful lady who is working at flower shop. Using her experience that drew propaganda paintings in North Korea, she draws wall-painting for part-timer. Desperate Broadcast producer Shin-woong, discovers her and trying to make hit documentary about her, but she hesitates minding her families still in North. Eventually she decides to go in under the condition that she hides her identity.Fighter
IMDB 6.5 | Mar , 2021
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IMDB 0 | May , 2019
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IMDB 7.3 | Jul , 2024
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IMDB 0 | Sep , 2025
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IMDB 6 | May , 2006
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IMDB 7.4 | Oct , 2016
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IMDB 0 | Dec , 2017
Crazy Love
IMDB 5 | Jul , 2019
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IMDB 4 | Feb , 2014
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 persecuting government. When the missionary from China, their only support route, is cut off, things begin to get very tense. Chulho, who had been arrested along with his wife, returns. After losing his wife in the interrogations, Chulho had been released and unseen for 2 years before coming back to his home, claiming that he had been commanded by God to lead the believers across the border and into South Korea. The brothers wonder if Chulho is trustworthy, and whether it is the right thing to do to leave their homeland.