Escape

Jul 3, 2024

1h 36m

★ 7.3

Fear a meaningless life, not death itself.

Overview

After completing his required decade of military service and being honored as a hero, a North Korean sergeant makes a sudden shocking attempt to defect to the South, risking life and limb for the chance to finally determine his own destiny.

Genres

Action

Drama

Thriller

Production Companies

The LAMP

Plus M Entertainment

Escape Trailers

Cast

Lim Kyu-nam

Lee Je-hoon

Lee Hyun-sang

Koo Kyo-hwan

Kim Dong-hyuk

Hong Xa-bin

Major Cha

Seo Hyun-woo

Lieutenant Hong

Lee Sung-wook

Captain Ryu

Yoo Tae-joo

Second Lieutenant Park

Jung Jun-won

Dong-hyuk's Mother

Jang Young-nam

Min Sun-woo

Song Kang

Nomad Leader

Esom

Girl with Rifle

Lee Ho-jung

Sang-gu's Sister

Shin Hyun-ji

Missing and death cases take place in succession along the Korean Demilitarized Zone. South Korea forms a unit led by Captain Jo Jin-Ho and First Lieutenant Shin Yoo-Hwa as assistant leader. They are given only 24 hours to find out the truth behind the incidents. Team members find evidence, but they feel like something isn't right.

7.4

The Net

Oct 6, 2016

A poor North Korean fisherman finds himself an accidental defector, and is groomed to be a spy by an ambitious South Korean military officer.

7.0

Secretly, Greatly

Jun 5, 2013

Three elite North Korean sleeper agents live under cover for so long that they believe their cover stories are their real identities. They are shocked when they are ordered to kill one another or face death at the hands of an elite hit team.

8.3

A Melody to Remember

Jan 21, 2016

Second Lieutenant Han Sang-yeol leads his platoon during the Korean War in the early 1950s. He carries emotional scars and pain within. So when he meets some children from a choir, who have lost everything in the war, Sang-yeol is deeply moved and tries to protect to them.

6.9

Take Point

Dec 26, 2018

On the day of the U.S. presidential election in 2024, a team of elite mercenaries embark on a secret CIA mission to abduct North Korea's politician in an underground bunker below the Korean Demilitarized Zone. However, they get caught in the crossfire which causes tensions to escalate to the brink of World War III.

6.9

The Unforgiven

Nov 18, 2005

Some time after completing his mandatory military service, a man receives a distressed call from one of his subordinates, who's also an old classmate.

5.0

Crazy Love

Jul 24, 2019

Jung-ho, the former South Korean undercover hid in North for 20 years. When he finally flees back to South, his dead wife starts to appear and haunts his memory. Tracing back his faint memory he looks for his old colleagues who are supposed to return to South but they’re all missing or dead. 20 years ago Jung-ho got a mission to help North Korean officer and his family to exile to South. However the operation failed and this made him have an irrevocable decision. The secret past that Jung-ho never wants to reveal is about to come out 20 years later in the South.

5.9

Operation Chromite

Jul 27, 2016

A squad of soldiers fight in the Korean War's crucial Battle of Incheon.

0.0

Break Away

Sep 2, 2010

It intermittently captures a delicate moment of emotional breakdown. Absconding soldiers with an unfair story to tell, and a woman helping them, all come to a point at the end of the film.

7.8

Dances with Wolves

Mar 30, 1990

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.

5.2

Exit Speed

Aug 26, 2008

On Christmas Eve, ten strangers board a bus traveling across Texas and are forced off the road by a motorcycle gang. The passengers then take refuge in an abandoned scrap yard. When their defense against the gang weakens and their numbers dwindle they must do the unthinkable go on the offense.

6.8

Obsessed

May 14, 2014

A secret, passionate affair happens in the summer of 1969 between Colonel Jin Pyeong, trapped in a loveless marriage with Soo Jin, and Jong Ga Heun, the Chinese-Korean wife of Captain Kyung Woo Jin.

8.0

Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War

Feb 5, 2004

When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest missions if it will help shield the younger from battle.

5.4

Virus

Jan 14, 1999

When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be destroyed.

6.5

Shiri

Feb 13, 1999

North Korea's 8th Special Forces hijack a shipment of CTX, a potent new liquid explosive, and threatens South Korea as part of a plot to re-unify the two countries. Ryu and Lee, special agents of O.P., South Korea's secret intelligence service, attempt to track down the terrorists and find the CTX. Meanwhile Hee, the 8th's ultra-bad female sniper, resurfaces to wreak havoc and haunt Ryu.

2.5

The DMZ

Apr 21, 2018

The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is a most dangerous zone in the world, which was established on July 27, 1953 when the Armistice Agreement was signed during the Korean War. And now in the DMZ... the struggle for survival of the female police who started to step on the landmine while chasing the jailbreaker. She only has Bluetooth, a revolver, and courage!

8.0

In Our Prime

Mar 18, 2022

Ji-woo, an outcast at a prestigious private school, meets Hak-sung, the school janitor who is actually a mathematical genius who defected from North Korea.

3.9

Yellowneck

May 22, 1955

A disgraced Confederate Colonel who has deserted his command flees to the Everglades where he encounters a disparate group of four other Southern deserters. Together they struggle to find their way out of the swamp and resolve their own personal demons under the eyes of hostile Seminoles as they battle to survive the elements and each other.

6.9

Confidential Assignment

Jan 18, 2017

When a crime organization from North Korea crosses borders and enters South Korean soil, a South Korean detective must cooperate with a North Korean detective to investigate their whereabouts.

0.0

Ryang-kang-do: Merry Christmas, North!

Nov 17, 2011

When a boy from North Korea finds a unique Christmas gift sent up from South Korea, he suddenly becomes the most popular child in his small town. But how long will it take for his new toy to attract the wrong kind of attention?