MyMovies: China
by suchenwi | created - 11 Aug 2011 | updated - 11 Aug 2011 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Hero (2002)
PG-13 | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A defense officer, Nameless, was summoned by the King of Qin regarding his success of terminating three warriors.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung, Ziyi Zhang
Votes: 187,689 | Gross: $53.71M
2. Yinhe shuangxing (1931)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Romance
A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the Shanghai movie scene, with parallels to the true-life story of popular actress Ruan Lingyu. A simple girl is plucked from the countryside by a ... See full summary »
Director: Dongshan Shi | Stars: Zhanfei Gao, Yan Jin, Jiqun Liu, Law-Lin Tsz
Votes: 61
3. Yi jian mei (1931)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
Bai Le De and Hu Lin Tung are military cadets. After graduating, Hu Lin Tung is appointed captain of Guangdong headquarters and goes away. Later, Bae Le De is appointed to a post at the ... See full summary »
Director: Wancang Bu | Stars: Lingyu Ruan, Cho-cho Lam, Cilong Wang, Yan Jin
Votes: 75
4. Shen nu (1934)
TV-PG | 85 min | Drama
Street walker by night, devoted mother by day, a woman fights to get her young son an education amid criminal and social injustice in China.
Director: Yonggang Wu | Stars: Lingyu Ruan, Tian Jian, Zhizhi Zhang, Keng Li
Votes: 2,475
5. Tianming (1933)
116 min | Drama
Fishing village girl Ling Ling sets off to look for her cousin in Shanghai. She soon finds out that Shanghai is a city full of vice: she is raped, sold into prostitution, and later becomes ... See full summary »
Director: Yu Sun | Stars: Zhanfei Gao, Langen Han, Li-li Li, Jiqun Liu
Votes: 176
6. The Big Road (1935)
Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy, Musical, Drama
Six young men from the city take jobs on a road crew, building a highway of strategic importance to the Chinese Army. The story relates the men's interactions with each other, the local ... See full summary »
Director: Yu Sun | Stars: Yan Jin, Yanyan Chen, Li-li Li, Peng Luo
Votes: 325
8. Lang tao sha (1936)
68 min | Crime
Returning home from a long voyage overseas, a man finds his wife and child living with another man. Fuelled by anger, he murders the other man and is forced to flee justice, until he faces death on a deserted island.
Director: Yonggang Wu | Stars: Yan Jin, Zhizhi Zhang
Votes: 60
9. Xinjiu Shanghai (1936)
90 min | Drama
The daily life of ordinary people of a Shanghai apartment building: an unemployed person, a singer without an audience, a driver, a teacher, but also the owner of the building and his prodigal son.
Director: Bugao Cheng | Stars: Xiuwen Shu, Xianzhai Wang, Naishuang Huang, Qiuhen Zhu
Votes: 81
10. Street Angel (1937)
91 min | Comedy, Drama
In old Shanghai, two sisters, a prostitute and a singer, tried to escape from the local scoundrels with the help of a trumpet player and a newspaper seller.
Director: Muzhi Yuan | Stars: Dan Zhao, Heling Wei, Xuan Zhou, Jiting Wang
Votes: 945
11. Shi zi jie tou (1937)
Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Four students in Shanghai have recently finished university. All are unemployed. Xu contemplates suicide but his friend Zhao talks him out of it. Zhao lives in a shabby room with just a ... See full summary »
Director: Xiling Shen | Stars: Dan Zhao, Yang Bai, Ban Lü, Yin Ying
Votes: 182
12. Qing nian jin xing qu (1937)
105 min | Drama
Youth decide to get involved with the anti-Japanese struggle, also dealing with war profiteers.
Director: Dongshan Shi | Stars: Ping Hu, Eryi Gu, Ying Xiao, Weiyi Wang
13. Ya sui qian (1937)
91 min | Comedy
The New Year's Gift is the story of some lucky money gifted to a girl. It then leaves her and passes from hand to hand.
Director: Shichuan Zhang | Stars: Qiuxia Gong, Rongrong Hu, Chia-Nung Kung, Minghui Li
Votes: 16
14. The Young Mistress Fan (1939)
Drama
Lord Windermere appears to all - including to his young wife Margaret - as the perfect husband. But their happy marriage is placed at risk when Lord Windermere starts spending his ... See full summary »
Director: Pingqian Li | Stars: Hong Bai, Qiong Liu, Lumin Lu, Xi Mei
Votes: 10
15. The Empress Wu Tse-Tien (1939)
95 min | Biography
Film about the Empress Wu Tse-Tien (624-705 AD), who became the Emperor's concubine in 665, ruthlessly removed all her female rivals, including the Empress, and ruled as Empress of all Chiinea for fifteen years after the Emperor's death.
Director: Peilin Fang | Stars: Hong Bai, Lanjun Gu, Langen Han, Naishuang Huang
Votes: 30
16. Jia (1941)
172 min | Drama, War
Directors: Wancang Bu, Pingqian Li, Xinfu Xu, Xiao-zhong Yang | Stars: Nancy Wan-Seung Chan, Juanjuan Chen, Yanyan Chen, Jingling Hong
Votes: 13
17. Princess Iron Fan (1941)
Not Rated | 73 min | Animation, Fantasy
Three travelers needing to pass through a fiery mountain seek the magical fan of a princess, but she does not wish to part with it.
Directors: Wan Laiming, Guchan Wan | Stars: Guanxiang Liu, Chen Zhengfa, Zhou Jirang, Shi Fengai
Votes: 321
18. Yu jia nu (1943)
106 min | Drama
Love story of a fisherman's daughter and an art student who is the son of the accountant of a fishing despot.
Director: Wancang Bu | Stars: Xuan Zhou, Yelu Gu, Yuru Zheng, Langen Han
Votes: 13
19. Hong lou meng (1945)
125 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Wancang Bu | Stars: Meiyun Yuan, Xuan Zhou, Hong Bai, Danfeng Wang
Votes: 37
20. Rickshaw Boy (1982)
123 min | Drama
Xiangzi heads to the big city to enjoy the freedom of being a rickshaw boy. In Beijing, a better life eludes the boy from the countryside, and his dream turns into a desperate nightmare. He is humiliated and struggles to feed himself.
Director: Zifeng Ling | Stars: Siqin Gaowa, Zongxiang Guan, Bide Yan, Xin Yin
Votes: 226
21. Tunnel Warfare (1965)
102 min | War
Chinese excavated a lot of tunnels in middle Hebei flatlands and fight invaders in these tunnels in the anti-Japanese war.
Director: Xudong Ren | Stars: Lung-Kuang Chu, Guodong Han, Jiang Liu, Xiujie Liu
Votes: 376
23. Bu liao qing (1947)
93 min
Director: Hu Sang | Stars: Yanyan Chen, Qiong Liu, Shan Lu, Ming Ye
Votes: 27
24. Yao yuan de ai (1948)
Director: Liting Chen | Stars: Jian Kang, Yi Qin, Ying Wu, Yan Zhang
Votes: 7
25. Spring in a Small Town (1948)
98 min | Drama, Romance
A lonely housewife finds her monotonous life altered when her childhood sweetheart returns to town.
Director: Mu Fei | Stars: Chaoming Cui, Wei Li, Yu Shi, Wei Wei
Votes: 3,356
26. Wanjia denghuo (1948)
Not Rated | 124 min | Drama
This tale of familial warfare and sacrifice takes place in hard-pressed Shanghai at the end of the 1940s. Hu Zhiqing can barely support his wife and children, and his situation is worsened ... See full summary »
Director: Fu Shen | Stars: Ma Lan, Yunzhu Shangguan, Qiaqia Shi, Yinyan Wu
Votes: 153
27. Remorse at Death (1948)
60 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
In this filmed version of a Peking opera, a famed male performer plays a woman who is captured during a foreign invasion and forced to marry another prisoner.
Director: Mu Fei | Stars: Lanfang Mei, Miao-Xiang Jiang, Qing-shan Li, Fuqing Wang
Votes: 19
28. Sorrows of the Forbidden City (1948)
120 min | Drama, History
Set in the Qing Dynasty, years of emperor Guangxu. Guangxu feels involuntarily like a puppet because of dowager Cixi's reigning behind the curtain. He wants to support a political reform.
Director: Shilin Zhu | Stars: Xuan Zhou, Shi Shu, Rhoqing Tang, Fong Pau
Votes: 63
29. Crows and Sparrows (1949)
113 min | Drama
A story of a corrupt party official who attempts to sell an apartment building he has appropriated from the original owner and the struggles of the tenants to prevent themselves being thrown onto the street.
Director: Junli Zheng | Stars: Dan Zhao, Yinyan Wu, Daolin Sun, Yunzhu Shangguan
Votes: 320
30. Zhong Hua nu er (1949)
92 min | Drama, War
Women play a heroic role in the Volunteer Army fighting the Japanese in the puppet state of Manchukuo.
Directors: Zifeng Ling, Qiang Zhai | Stars: Shen Yue, Li Bo, Buhua Qin, Sufei Zhou
Votes: 17
32. The Letter with Feathers (1954)
70 min | War
The adventure of Hai Wa, a twelve-year-old boy. He sent a secret letter about Japanese military information to the Eighth Route Army during the anti-Japanese war.
Director: Hui Shi | Stars: Yuanyuan Cai, Shi Shu, An-an Cai, Duo Cao
Votes: 74
33. Flowers of Our Motherland (1955)
75 min | Drama, Family
2 students become members of the Young Pioneers.
Director: Gong Yan | Stars: Keran Chen, Yuntai Guo, Suying Huang, Xixiang Li
Votes: 26
34. Jiao yin (1955)
Thriller
New recruit in the border patrol learns how exciting his assignment can be when he discovers suspicious footprints.
Director: Jizhou Yan | Stars: Zhiyuan Li, Deming Tang, Jiao Yang, Qi Zhou
35. Battle on Shangganling Mountain (1956)
Not Rated | 124 min | War, Drama
The story takes place during the Korean War (1951-1953). In the fall of 1952, the American troops launched a large-scale attack by the border between South Korea and North Korea during the ... See full summary »
Directors: Shan Lin, Meng Sha | Stars: Baocheng Gao, Linge Xu, Liang Zhang, Yuru Li
Votes: 168
36. New Year Sacrifice (1956)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
The tragedy of a Chinese peasant woman who loses her two husbands and a young son. She is thereafter ostracized by her fellow country folks for being a jinx.
Director: Hu Sang | Stars: Ran An, Yang Bai, An-an Cai, Xiaotong Che
Votes: 175
37. Track the Tiger to Its Lair (1956)
87 min | Thriller
Set in early 1950s, a city in north China. A scout carries out an undercover operation to destroy the spy network.
Director: Can Huang | Stars: Zhenjiang An, Ruyu He, Jie Li, Jingbo Li
Votes: 8
38. Life of a Beijing Policeman (1950)
120 min | Drama, History
Fifty years of modern Chinese history (1900-1950), including wars, revolutions and corrupt politics, as seen through the life and times of a simple Beijing policeman and his family.
Director: Hui Shi | Stars: Hui Shi, Heling Wei, Yang Shen, Wei Li
Votes: 204
39. Modern Woman (1945)
68 min | Drama
Director: Kuang-Chi Tu | Stars: Chun Yen, Yu Huang, Tao Hung, Di Liang
41. Nan zheng bei zhan (1952)
122 min | War
In 1947 the Chinese Red Army sets a trap for the Nationalist forces in Jiangsu province.
Directors: Yin Cheng, Xiaodan Tang | Stars: Zhe Feng, Ruifang Zhang, Ge Chen, Huada Tang
Votes: 67
42. Ingeniously Taking Mount Hua (1953)
120 min | War
The Nationalist army is dug in on Mount Hua and the People's Liberation Army finds a way to attack.
Director: Wei Guo | Stars: Yuntai Guo, Ran An, Zhijian Chen, Sai Cheung
Votes: 26
43. Liang Shanbo yu Zhu Yingtai (1954)
106 min | Fantasy, Musical, Romance
From a famous Chinese opera, the story of The Butterfly Lovers: the attempt at romance by a young couple is thwarted by conflicts with family.
Directors: Sha Huang, Hu Sang, Tian-Lin Wang | Stars: Ruijuan Fan, Yanfang Jin, Ruiying Lu, Xiaoyun Wei
Votes: 26
44. The Story of South Island (1955)
97 min | War
Soldiers stay in Hainan Island and fight Japanese invaders in harsh conditions.
Director: Chen Bai | Stars: Ke Chen, Nan Deng, Qi Feng, Xiaohan Hu
Votes: 13
46. A Tale of Laughter and Tears (1957)
Director: Sun-Fung Lee | Stars: Ying Cheung, Yim-Hing Law, Ching Lee, Yee Mui
47. Tao hua qi xue ji (1931)
TV-PG | 100 min | Drama, Romance
The daughter of a peasant family that works on a landowner's property is in love with the owner's son but the parents force them to separate.She lands up having a child out of wedlock.
Director: Wancang Bu | Stars: Lingyu Ruan, Yan Jin, Lili Zhou, Guilin Wang
Votes: 188
48. Nan guo zhi chun (1932)
98 min | Drama, Romance
To please his dying father, Hong Yu, a college student, is forced to abandon his girlfriend, Little Hong, and marry his cousin, with disastrous results.
Director: Chusheng Cai | Stars: Zhanfei Gao, Yanyan Chen, Jiqun Liu, Shaoying Chen
Votes: 22
49. Chun can (1933)
100 min | Drama
This early classic of Golden Age Shanghai cinema echoes Visconti's classic La Terra Trema in its beautifully rendered story of a humble silk-farming family struggling to be free of debt to exploitative middlemen.
Director: Bugao Cheng | Stars: Ying Xiao, Yuexian Yan, Chia-Nung Kung, Qianping Gao
Votes: 92
50. Zhifen shichang (1933)
80 min | Drama
Director: Shichuan Zhang | Stars: Butterfly Wu, Chia-Nung Kung, Yuexian Yan, Xianzhai Wang
Votes: 16
51. Queen of Sports (1934)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama, Sport
Young sprinter Lin Ying enrolls in a sports college in Shanghai. As she becomes a sports celebrity, she starts to mangle with the upper class and has gradually forgotten the true essence of sports.
Director: Yu Sun | Stars: Li-li Li, Yi Zhang, Xu Yin, Lu Bai
Votes: 89
52. New Women (1935)
106 min | Drama
Overnight, the sexy Wei Ming will become a successful novelist. But, desperate to get the money that she needs to cure her little daughter (and harassed by a rich, unscrupulous rake), she ... See full summary »
Director: Chusheng Cai | Stars: Lingyu Ruan, Naidong Wang, Junli Zheng, Moqiu Wang
Votes: 267
53. Yu guang qu (1934)
56 min | Drama
About the trials and tribulations of the family of a poor fisherman.
Director: Chusheng Cai | Stars: Renmei Wang, Langen Han, Peng Luo, Congmei Yuan
Votes: 143
54. Children of Troubled Times (1935)
89 min | Drama, Musical
The young poet Xin Baihe flees Shanghai with his friend, Liang. Liang soon joins the resistance against the Japanese invaders, but Xin chooses to pursue a relationship with a glamorous and ... See full summary »
Director: Xingzhi Xu | Stars: Renmei Wang, Muzhi Yuan, Ying Tan, Menghe Gu
Votes: 49
55. Guo feng (1935)
94 min | Drama
Directors: Ming-Yau Lo, Shilin Zhu | Stars: Lingyu Ruan, Cho-cho Lam, Li-li Li, Junli Zheng
Votes: 68
56. Cimu qu (1937)
110 min
A message of hope. A Sudanese Survivor's Story
Director: Shilin Zhu | Star: Keng Li
57. Song at Midnight (1935)
Not Rated | 124 min | Horror, Romance
China's first horror film, this is loosely based on The Phantom of the Opera. A disfigured musical genius roams a traditional Chinese opera house, punishing those who offend him.
Director: Weibang Ma-Xu | Stars: Menghe Gu, Ping Hu, Shan Jin, Chao Shi
Votes: 945
58. Orphan Island Paradise (1939)
100 min | Drama
Set during the Orphan Island period of Shanghai, the film follows a group of revolutionary patriots-cum-assassins who finally earn the support of the suffering public.
Director: Chusheng Cai | Stars: Li-li Li, Li Qing, Ming Jiang, Ma Lan
Votes: 20
59. Qiu Haitang (1943)
202 min | Drama, Romance
During the Republic of China (1912-1949), a Beijing Opera actor named Wu Yuqin specializes in performing in female roles. Though this tradition has always had a dubious history, Yuqin is ... See full synopsis »
Director: Weibang Ma-Xu | Stars: Yukun Lu, Li Hua Li, Chih-Ching Yang, Naidong Wang
60. Mu yu zi (1947)
Director: Pingqian Li | Stars: Tianliu Jiang, Bih-Yun Lu, Shan Lu, Chun Yen
Votes: 9
61. Along the Sungari River (1947)
Not Rated | 130 min | Drama
Unfortunate events beset a poor Chinese girl as she escapes from invading Japanese forces, narrowly avoids being raped, and seeks solace in a neighboring village.
Director: Shan Jin | Stars: Ruifang Zhang, Renlu Wang, Ke Pu, Diao Zhou
Votes: 70
62. Taitai Wansui (1947)
112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After setting up a new company with his father-in-law's money, a man neglects his supportive wife for a seductive gold digger.
Director: Hu Sang | Stars: Tianliu Jiang, Fa Zhang, Zhen Lin, Fei Han
Votes: 173
63. The Spring River Flows East (1947)
192 min | Drama, War
1930's China. The village of a poor family is taken over by the occupying Japanese army. One son, Zhongliang, leaves his wife and young son to join a medic group for the Chinese Army. The ... See full summary »
Directors: Chusheng Cai, Junli Zheng | Stars: Yang Bai, Jin Tao, Yinyan Wu, Yunzhu Shangguan
Votes: 369
64. Guan bu zhu de chun guang (1948)
99 min
Directors: Weiyi Wang, Tao Xu | Stars: Renmei Wang, Dan Zhao, Ji Fung, Lianlu Bi
65. Li ren xing (1949)
102 min | Drama
Three women in Japanese-occupied Shanghai, 1941. They "breathe the same air", but are in different walks of life: Jinzhu is a factory worker. She gets raped by Japanese soldiers in the very... See full summary »
Director: Liting Chen | Stars: Yunzhu Shangguan, Zongying Huang, Li Sha, Ma Lan
Votes: 25
67. The Bridge (1949)
90 min | Drama
Factory workers in 1947 repair a bridge over Song Hua River so that Communist forces can use it.
Director: Bin Wang | Stars: Qiang Chen, Defu Du, Jie Fu, Hao Jiang
Votes: 17
68. The Winter of Three Hairs (1949)
Not Rated | 74 min | Comedy, Drama
On the adventures of homeless orphan Three Hairs, a street urchin fighting for survival in the 1940s.
Directors: Gong Yan, Ming Zhao | Stars: Mo Cheng, Longji Wang, Long Gongboan, Ma Fei
Votes: 190
69. Hope to the World (1949)
115 min | Drama
Director: Fu Shen | Stars: Ma Lan, Yunzhu Shangguan, Yinyan Wu, Lide Zhang
70. Liu hao men (1952)
97 min | Drama
Workers must struggle for their pay from the corrupt supervisor of the freight yard in a city in Northeast China. The supervisor is trying to make extra money from the shipping of goods to Taiwan by the Nationalists prior to liberation.
Director: Ban Lü | Stars: Zhenqing Guo, Zhiping Li, Tian Xie, Xiaogong Li
Votes: 9
71. Qing chun zhi ge (1959)
170 min | Drama
People's dignity and life are measlier than paper in China's dark years in the first half of 20th century. Smart student Lin learns knowledge from a college professor and a communist man, then runs on to an extraordinary revolutionary way.
Directors: Huaiai Chen, Wei Cui | Stars: Fang Xie, Tai Kang, Zengyin Cao, Shun Feng
Votes: 47
72. Murder in 405 (1980)
102 min | Thriller
A murder investigation in Donghai City leads to a larger conspiracy.
Director: Yaoting Shen | Stars: Xinghuo Zhong, Min Xu, Xiang Yan, Jiufeng Shi
Votes: 159
73. A Q zheng zhuan (1981)
125 min | Drama
The True Story of Ah Q is set during the 1911 revolution. Ah Q is a lowly peasant who wants to rise above his class, or at least get out of his grinding poverty.
Director: Fan Cen | Stars: Shunkai Yan, Wei Li, Yikang Jin, Suya Wang
Votes: 236
74. The Xi'an Incident (1981)
Drama, History, War
Director: Yin Cheng | Stars: Ange Jin, Jing Xin, Tiecheng Wang, Feihu Sun
Votes: 40
75. Taoli jie (1934)
102 min | Drama
The story of various college graduates and their attempts to improve China, often in the face of corruption.
Director: Yunwei Ying | Stars: Muzhi Yuan, Bo'er Chen, Huaiqiu Tang, He Bai
Votes: 65
77. Fu shi (1950)
Drama
Director: Zuolin Huang | Stars: Zhi Cheng, Chaoming Cui, Ni Dan, Xia Hong
Votes: 12
78. Wild Rose (1932)
70 min | Drama, Romance
A feisty country girl Xiao Feng nicknamed Wild Rose has moved to the city with her artist friend Jiang after her father's disappearance. They move to Shanghai and discover that it is a city that only caters for the privileged few.
Director: Yu Sun | Stars: Langen Han, Yan Jin, Renmei Wang, Juanjuan Ye
Votes: 114
79. Xin si wang you xi (1975)
R | 84 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
When a young man gets caught up in a money scam and refuses to return the cash, his girlfriend is kidnapped and held hostage in the Tower of Death, where he must fight various martial artists on 7 different levels to win her back.
Director: Bing Lin | Stars: Bruce Li, Chiang Li, Robert Kerver, Ronald Brown
Votes: 273
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