Balkan Line vs Joint Security Area
Joint Security Area has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 7.5/10 for Balkan Line). Joint Security Area is the shorter watch at 1h 48m compared with 2h 10m. Joint Security Area is the older of the two (2000 against 2019). Both are action, drama, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Balkan Line
Joint Security Area| Balkan Line | Joint Security Area | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.5/10 | ★ 7.8/10 |
| Year | 2019 | 2000 |
| Length | 2h 10m | 1h 48m |
| Genres | Action, Drama, War | Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War |
| Country | – | South Korea |
| Director | Andrey Volgin | Park Chan-wook |
| Main cast | Emir Kusturica, Anton Pampushnyy, Gosha Kutsenko, Miloš Biković, Milena Radulović | Lee Byung-hun, Shin Ha-kyun, Song Kang-ho, Ki Joo-bong, Lee Dae-yeon |
Synopsis
Balkan Line
After the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the Yugoslav army pulls out of Kosovo region, leaving Serbian people at the mercy of the Albanian UCK. A small band of soldiers must take over the Slatina airport, and hold it until the Russian peacekeepers arrive.
Joint Security Area
Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The sergeant is the shooter, but the lead investigator, a Swiss-Korean woman, receives differing accounts from the two sides.
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