Movies Like The Propaganda Game (2015)

The Propaganda Game is a 2015 documentary film from Álvaro Longoria with a MovieMagicScore of 7.0/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Propaganda and Crossing the Line.

Documentary

Propaganda

2013

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 perspective.

8.1

MagicScore

Crossing the Line

2006

In 1962, a U.S. soldier sent to guard the peace in South Korea deserted his unit, walked across the most heavily fortified area on earth and defected to the Cold War enemy, the communist state of North Korea. He became a star of the North Korean propaganda machine, but then disappeared from the face of the earth. Now, after 45 years, the story of James Dresnok, the last American defector in North Korea, is being told for the first time. Crossing the Line follows Dresnok as he recalls his childhood, desertion, and life in the DPRK.

7.2

MagicScore

Dennis Rodman's Big Bang in PyongYang

2015

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 game between the two countries. But the North Korean team isn't the only opposition he'll face... Condemned by the NBA and The Whitehouse, and hounded every step of the way by the press, can Dennis keep it together and make the game happen? Or will it go up in a mushroom cloud of smoke? For the first time, discover the true story of what happened when Dennis Rodman took a team of former-NBA players to North Korea and staged the most controversial game of basketball the world has never seen.

6.4

MagicScore

Good News

2025

When hijackers seize a Japanese flight and demand to fly to Pyongyang, a mysterious mastermind hatches a zany scheme to reroute the plane to Seoul.

7.1

MagicScore

The Lovers and the Despot

2016

Hong Kong, 1978. South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee is kidnapped by North Korean operatives following orders from dictator Kim Jong-il.

6.9

MagicScore

As One

2012

A unified team representing the two Koreas competed at the 1991 Chiba International Table Tennis Championships. It was the first such sport team since the division of the Korean peninsula. The unified team won the group competition event, beating the front runner, China.

7.7

MagicScore

Humint

2026

A South Korean agent hunts a drug ring in Russia and goes head-to-head with a North Korean operative — pulling both into peril and tangled secrets.

7.4

MagicScore

The Net

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.

7.3

MagicScore

My Name Is Loh Kiwan

2024

After defecting from North Korea, Loh Kiwan struggles to obtain refugee status in Belgium, where he encounters a dejected woman who has lost all hope.

7.3

MagicScore

#10

Poongsan

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.

6.2

MagicScore

#11

Battlefield Heroes

2011

This story unfolds 8 years after 'Battle of Hwangsanbeol', which destroyed Baekjae, when Silla-Tang Dynasty union attacks Goguryeo.

5.5

MagicScore

#12

A State of Mind

2005

Two young North Korean gymnasts prepare for an unprecedented competition in this documentary that offers a rare look into the communist society and the daily lives of North Korean families. For more than eight months, film crews follow 13-year-old Pak Hyon Sun and 11-year-old Kim Song Yun and their families as the girls train for the Mass Games, a spectacular nationalist celebration.

7.7

MagicScore

#13

Beyond Utopia

2023

A courageous pastor uses his underground network to rescue and aid North Korean families as they risk their lives to embrace freedom.

7.6

MagicScore

#14

Under the Sun

2015

Over the course of one year, this film follows the life of an ordinary Pyongyang family whose daughter was chosen to take part in Day of the Shining Star (Kim Jong-il's birthday) celebration. While North Korean government wanted a propaganda film, the director kept on filming between the scripted scenes. The ritualized explosions of color and joy contrast sharply with pale everyday reality, which is not particularly terrible, but rather quite surreal.

7.2

MagicScore

#15

The Mole: Undercover in North Korea

2020

A real-life undercover thriller about two ordinary men who embark on an outrageously dangerous ten-year mission to penetrate the world's most secretive and brutal dictatorship: North Korea.

7.1

MagicScore

#16

Assassins

2021

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, probing the question: were the women trained killers or innocent pawns of North Korea?

6.8

MagicScore

#17

Camp 14: Total Control Zone

2012

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 entire childhood and youth in Camp 14, in fact a death camp. He was forced to labor since he was six years old and suffered from hunger, beatings and torture, always at the mercy of the wardens. He knew nothing about the world outside the barbed-wire fences. At the age of 23, with the help of an older prisoner, he managed to escape. For months he traveled through North Korea and China and finally to South Korea, where he encountered a world completely strange to him.

6.7

MagicScore

#18

General Idi Amin Dada

1974

Filmmaker Barbet Schroeder shows the Ugandan dictator meeting his Cabinet, reviewing his troops, explaining his ideology.

7.0

MagicScore

#19

Kimjongilia

2009

The first film to fully expose the humanitarian crisis of North Korea, this stylish, deeply moving documentary is centered around astonishing interviews with survivors of North Korea's vast and largely hidden prison camps, and interspersed with archival footage of North Korean propoganda films and original art performances.

6.2

MagicScore

#20

The Great Dictator

1940

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

8.3

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The Propaganda Game?

The top films similar to The Propaganda Game by MovieMagicScore are Propaganda (8.1), Crossing the Line (7.2), Dennis Rodman's Big Bang in PyongYang (6.4). Each shares documentary themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The Propaganda Game worth watching?

The Propaganda Game holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.0/10 from 145 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is The Propaganda Game?

The Propaganda Game (2015) is a documentary film directed by Álvaro Longoria, starring Kim Jong-un, Kim Jong-il, Kim Il-sung.

Where can I find more recommendations like The Propaganda Game?

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About movies like The Propaganda Game

This ranked list pairs The Propaganda Game (2015), a documentary film from Álvaro Longoria, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Kim Jong-un take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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