1 Chinese Collection
by Ucronia | created - 27 Jan 2014 | updated - 2 months ago | PublicA collection of Films I have seen by Chinese Directors or about Chinese Culture. It is a selection of titles from Mailand China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore which deal mainly with the daily life issues, historic episodes, and epic stories, covering mainly the Han Chinese, but also some of the chinese minorities, such as Tibetan,
Inner Mongolians, Yao, Hani, Mosuo, etc
Missing from this list is .
1- The fall of Womenland- by Xiaodan He
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tEuJPha0d0
2- The Limi Girl- by Rioyi Zhan
http://movie.douban.com/subject/24872203/
For similar lists, check
-A Southeast Asian Collection
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls059449517/
-A Korean Collection
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls059098002/
-A Japanese Collection
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls059724075/
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1. Wolf Totem (2015)
PG-13 | 121 min | Adventure, Drama
During China's Cultural Revolution, a young urban student is sent to live with Mongolian herders, where he adopts a wolf cub.
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Shaofeng Feng, Shawn Dou, Ankhnyam Ragchaa, Zhusheng Yin
Votes: 6,228 | Gross: $0.21M
2. The Lover (1992)
R | 115 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
In 1929 French Indochina, a French teenage girl embarks on a reckless and forbidden romance with a wealthy, older Chinese man, each knowing that knowledge of their affair will bring drastic consequences to each other.
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Jane March, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Jeanne Moreau, Frédérique Meininger
Votes: 23,495 | Gross: $4.90M
3. The Last Emperor (1987)
PG-13 | 163 min | Biography, Drama, History
Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning dramatisation of the life story of China's last emperor, Pu Yi.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ruocheng Ying
Votes: 111,494 | Gross: $43.98M
4. Red Corner (1997)
R | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An American attorney on business in China is wrongfully arrested and put on trial for murder, with a female defense lawyer from the country the only key to proving his innocence.
Director: Jon Avnet | Stars: Richard Gere, Bai Ling, Bradley Whitford, Byron Mann
Votes: 18,304 | Gross: $22.42M
5. Chinese Take-Away (2011)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Drama
A well-ordered hardware store owner in Buenos Aires will see his life turn upside down when he helps a stranded Chinese man who doesn't speak a word of Spanish find his uncle in the bustling city. But can this coexistence bear fruit?
Director: Sebastián Borensztein | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Ignacio Huang, Carolina Hsu, Muriel Santa Ana
Votes: 19,530
6. Dumplings (2004)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Horror
Aunt Mei's famous homemade dumplings provide amazing age-defying qualities popular with middle-aged women. But her latest customer - a fading actress - is determined to find out what the secret ingredient is.
Director: Fruit Chan | Stars: Bai Ling, Miriam Chin-Wah Yeung, Sum-Yeung Wong, Wai-Ling Chan
Votes: 10,292
7. Dearest (2014)
128 min | Drama
A story centered around a divorced couple living in a southern Chinese city Shenzhen and dealing with the disappearance of their missing son.
Director: Peter Ho-Sun Chan | Stars: Wei Zhao, Huang Bo, Dawei Tong, Lei Hao
Votes: 2,617
8. The Warlords (2007)
R | 126 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
China, 1860s: Having his army slaughtered, General Qingyun joins 2 bandit leaders in raids on rebels and in blood oath. They form a Qing loyal army with eyes on rebel held Suzhou and Nanjing.
Directors: Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Wai-Man Yip | Stars: Jet Li, Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Jinglei Xu
Votes: 27,815 | Gross: $0.13M
9. The Monkey King: Havoc in Heaven's Palace (2014)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Family
A monkey born from heavenly stone acquires supernatural powers and must battle the armies of both gods and demons to find his place in the heavens.
Director: Soi Cheang | Stars: Donnie Yen, Chow Yun-Fat, Aaron Kwok, Yitian Hai
Votes: 5,369 | Gross: $0.71M
10. Ilo Ilo (2013)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama
In 90s Singapore, the friendship between Filipino nursemaid Teresa and her young charge Jiale makes waves in a family, while the Asian recession hits the region.
Director: Anthony Chen | Stars: Yann Yann Yeo, Tian Wen Chen, Angeli Bayani, Jia Ler Koh
Votes: 4,996 | Gross: $0.05M
11. Autumn in New York (2000)
PG-13 | 103 min | Drama, Romance
Romantic drama about an aging playboy who falls for a sweet, but terminally ill, young woman.
Director: Joan Chen | Stars: Richard Gere, Winona Ryder, Anthony LaPaglia, Elaine Stritch
Votes: 28,293 | Gross: $37.75M
12. Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (1998)
R | 99 min | Drama
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year ... See full summary »
Director: Joan Chen | Stars: Xiaolu Li, Lopsang, Zheng Qian, Jie Gao
Votes: 3,675 | Gross: $1.00M
13. Monk Comes Down the Mountain (2015)
Not Rated | 123 min | Action
A monk leaves his monastery and ventures out into the real world for the first time in his life, and ends up in an adventure with a kung-fu master who is guarding a special artifact.
Director: Kaige Chen | Stars: Baoqiang Wang, Xuejian Li, Wei Fan, Chi-Ling Lin
Votes: 2,236
14. The Emperor and the Assassin (1998)
R | 162 min | Drama, History, Romance
In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king's cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty faltering.
Director: Kaige Chen | Stars: Gong Li, Fengyi Zhang, Zhou Sun, Xiaohe Lü
Votes: 6,469 | Gross: $1.33M
15. Farewell My Concubine (1993)
R | 171 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.
Director: Kaige Chen | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Gong Li, You Ge
Votes: 33,125 | Gross: $5.22M
16. King of the Children (II) (1988)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama
This film is adapted from the novel of Ah Cheng. During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), a young man is assigned to teach in village school.
Director: Kaige Chen | Stars: Yuan Xie, Xuewen Yang, Shaohua Chen, Caimei Zhang
Votes: 656
17. Yellow Earth (1984)
TV-PG | 89 min | Drama, History, Music
A communist soldier travels to Shanbei to collect folk songs for propaganda while visiting a poor family.
Director: Kaige Chen | Stars: Xueqi Wang, Bai Xue, Quiang Liu, Tuo Tan
Votes: 2,570
18. The Message (2009)
118 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Following a series of assassination attempts on officials of the Japanese-controlled puppet government in 1942 Nanjingn (Nanking), the Japanese spy chief gathers a group of suspects in a ... See full summary »
Directors: Kuo-Fu Chen, Qunshu Gao | Stars: Xun Zhou, Bingbing Li, Hanyu Zhang, Xiaoming Huang
Votes: 4,218
19. A Tale of Three Cities (2015)
130 min | Drama, Romance
A Hong Kong war romantic film set in World War II based on the real-life story of Jackie Chan's parents, Charles and Lee-Lee Chan.
Director: Mabel Cheung | Stars: Ching Wan Lau, Tang Wei, Hailu Qin, Boran Jing
Votes: 302
20. Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
PG-13 | 120 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
This contemporary romantic comedy based on a global bestseller follows native New Yorker Rachel Chu to Singapore to meet her boyfriend's family.
Director: Jon M. Chu | Stars: Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh, Gemma Chan
Votes: 190,003 | Gross: $174.53M
21. M. Butterfly (1993)
R | 101 min | Drama, Romance
In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling - but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Jeremy Irons, John Lone, Barbara Sukowa, Ian Richardson
Votes: 10,953 | Gross: $1.50M
22. The Painted Veil (2006)
PG-13 | 125 min | Drama, Romance
Dr Walter gets married to the beautiful Kitty but soon finds out that she is cheating on him. Battling his way through problems, he heads to China to fight a dreaded disease spread in a small village.
Director: John Curran | Stars: Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Catherine An
Votes: 95,925 | Gross: $8.06M
23. Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014)
Not Rated | 110 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
An ex cop and his ex partner decide to follow up on investigation of a series of murders that ended their careers and shamed them, when identical murders begin again.
Director: Yi'nan Diao | Stars: Fan Liao, Gwei Lun-Mei, Xuebing Wang, Jingchun Wang
Votes: 9,571
24. 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: 3,353
25. I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016)
Not Rated | 128 min | Comedy, Drama
After being swindled by her ex-husband, a woman takes on the Chinese legal system.
Director: Xiaogang Feng | Stars: Bingbing Fan, Wei Fan, Xiaogang Feng, Tao Guo
Votes: 2,483 | Gross: $0.44M
26. Ah Ying (1983)
110 min | Drama
When romance starts to cool, Ah Ying applies for a job in a film centre. Instead of paying her for her work, the centre lets her attend its classes for free. She is later drawn into a ... See full summary »
Director: Allen Fong | Stars: Kwok-Lam Cha, Chi-Hung Chang, Ming-Cheung Chin, Pui Hui
Votes: 166
27. The Good Earth (1937)
Passed | 138 min | Drama, Romance
Although married Chinese farmers Wang and O-Lan initially experience success, their lives are complicated by declining fortunes and lean times, as well as the arrival of the beautiful young Lotus.
Directors: Sidney Franklin, Victor Fleming, Gustav Machatý, Sam Wood | Stars: Paul Muni, Luise Rainer, Walter Connolly, Tilly Losch
Votes: 5,411
28. The Pillow Book (1995)
Not Rated | 126 min | Drama
A woman with a body-writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.
Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Vivian Wu, Ewan McGregor, Yoshi Oida, Ken Ogata
Votes: 13,646 | Gross: $2.29M
29. Kong que (2005)
136 min | Drama
China in the late 1970s and early 1980s: the life of an ordinary working family as seen through its three siblings.
Director: Changwei Gu | Stars: Jing An, Li Feng, Changwei Gu, Meiying Huang
Votes: 1,125
30. Butter Lamp (2013)
Not Rated | 15 min | Short, Family
A young itinerant photographer and his assistant photograph Tibetan nomads in front of various backgrounds.
Director: Wei Hu | Stars: Genden Phuntsok, Soepha, Sonam Gonpo, Wangmo Tso
Votes: 779
31. Gimme Kudos (2005)
95 min | Comedy
Old-fashioned, middle-aged Yang Hongqi claims that on a rainy night he saved a university coed from the threat of sexual violence on the outer limits of Nanjing city. He soon begs Gu Guoge,... See full summary »
Director: Jianxin Huang | Stars: Zhiwen Wang, Wei Fan, Hao Chen, Pu Miao
Votes: 197
32. The Wooden Man's Bride (1994)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, Romance
Emerging from the Chinese film renaissance of the 1990s (Raise the Red Lantern, Farewell My Concubine) this haunting folk tale set in rural China in the 1920s tells the story of a young ... See full summary »
Director: Jianxin Huang | Stars: Shih Chang, Lan Wang, Yumei Wang, Mingjun Kao
Votes: 241 | Gross: $0.06M
33. The Black Cannon Incident (1985)
Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy
Engineer Zhao Shuxin likes playing chess a lot. Once during his business trip, he loses a black cannon chessman which leads to unexpected consequences for him.
Director: Jianxin Huang | Stars: Zifeng Liu, Ming Gao, Gerhard Olschewski, Hui Ge
Votes: 504
34. The Golden Era (2014)
177 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The life story of Xiao Hong, one of China's most famous essayists and novelists, who reflected the progressive thinking not frequently seen during the 1930s.
Director: Ann Hui | Stars: Tang Wei, Shaofeng Feng, Zhiwen Wang, Yawen Zhu
Votes: 1,252 | Gross: $0.10M
35. A Simple Life (2011)
Not Rated | 118 min | Drama
After suffering a stroke, an altruistic maid announces that she wants to quit her job and move into an old people's home.
Director: Ann Hui | Stars: Andy Lau, Deannie Ip, Hailu Qin, Fuli Wang
Votes: 6,304 | Gross: $0.19M
36. Boat People (1982)
R | 109 min | Drama
A Japanese photojournalist revisits Vietnam after the Liberation and learns harsh truths about its regime and its "New Economic Zones".
Director: Ann Hui | Stars: George Lam, Cora Miao, Season Ma, Andy Lau
Votes: 1,680
37. Mountains May Depart (2015)
Not Rated | 126 min | Drama, Romance
The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Tao Zhao, Yi Zhang, Liang Jingdong, Zijian Dong
Votes: 6,387 | Gross: $0.08M
38. A Touch of Sin (2013)
Not Rated | 130 min | Crime, Drama
Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Wu Jiang, Baoqiang Wang, Tao Zhao, Lanshan Luo
Votes: 12,887 | Gross: $0.09M
39. Still Life (2006)
Unrated | 111 min | Drama
A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A man and woman visit the town to locate their estranged spouses, and become witness to the societal changes.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Tao Zhao, Zhou Lan, Sanming Han, Lizhen Ma
Votes: 7,301 | Gross: $0.07M
40. Tokyo Newcomer (2012)
100 min | Drama
The experiences of a young Chinese go champion living in Japan.
Director: Qinmin Jiang | Stars: Chieko Baishô, Janine Chun-Ning Chang, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Tôru Kazama
Votes: 88
41. Lan Yu (2001)
R | 86 min | Drama, Romance
A young, gay student has a relationship with an older, successful businessman. The handsome playboy-businessman must choose between his comfortable, yet closeted straight life, or an honest, yet subversive life with the student.
Director: Stanley Kwan | Stars: Ye Liu, Jun Hu, He Du, Bin Li
Votes: 3,022 | Gross: $0.12M
42. Center Stage (1991)
126 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Biopic of 1930s Chinese actress Lingyu Ruan.
Director: Stanley Kwan | Stars: Maggie Cheung, Han Chin, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Carina Lau
Votes: 2,722
43. Women (1985)
92 min | Drama
Unfortunate Bao-er decides to divorce her husband Derek after she discovers he is having an affair. Seeking solace with her group of friends, who call themselves the 'Happy Spinsters Club',... See full summary »
Director: Stanley Kwan | Stars: Cora Miao, Chow Yun-Fat, Cherie Chung, Ngan Lee
Votes: 149
44. Sex.Violence.FamilyValues. (2013)
Not Rated | 46 min | Comedy, Drama
A kindergarten principal finds a series of morbid cartoons drawn by a docile pupil. A porn actor struggles to rise to the occasion while filming his first porno. A middle-aged nightclub ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Kwek | Stars: Adrian Pang, Vadi Pvss, Pam Oei, Lez Ann Chong
Votes: 95
45. Be with Me (2005)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Romance
"Be with Me" consists of three stories of love vs. solitude : 1) An aging, lonesome shopkeeper doesn't believe in life anymore, ever since his wife died. But he is saved from desperation by... See full summary »
Director: Eric Khoo | Stars: Theresa Poh Lin Chan, Chiew Sung Ching, Lawrence Yong, Leong Kooi Eng
Votes: 1,761
46. Bends (2013)
96 min | Drama
Anna (Carina Lau), a wealthy Hong Kong housewife, suddenly finds herself deep in financial trouble as her only source of income, her husband, disappears. Her driver, Fai (Chen Kun), who ... See full summary »
Director: Flora Lau | Stars: Carina Lau, Kun Chen, Stephanie Che, Lawrence Cheng
Votes: 282
47. Life of Pi (2012)
PG | 127 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain, Tabu
Votes: 666,747 | Gross: $124.99M
48. Lust, Caution (2007)
NC-17 | 157 min | Drama, History, Romance
During World War II era, a young woman, Wang Jiazhi, gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with a powerful political figure, Mr. Yee.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Tang Wei, Joan Chen, Leehom Wang
Votes: 45,506 | Gross: $4.60M
49. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
R | 134 min | Drama, Romance
Ennis and Jack are two shepherds who develop a sexual and emotional relationship. Their relationship becomes complicated when both of them get married to their respective girlfriends.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams, Randy Quaid
Votes: 382,140 | Gross: $83.04M
50. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
PG-13 | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A young Chinese warrior steals a sword from a famed swordsman and then escapes into a world of romantic adventure with a mysterious man in the frontier of the nation.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang, Chang Chen
Votes: 281,588 | Gross: $128.08M
51. The Ice Storm (1997)
R | 112 min | Drama
In suburban New Canaan, Connecticut, 1973, middle-class families experimenting with casual sex and substance abuse find their lives beyond their control.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Henry Czerny
Votes: 59,955 | Gross: $7.84M
52. Sense and Sensibility (1995)
PG | 136 min | Drama, Romance
Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the title opposites.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, James Fleet, Tom Wilkinson
Votes: 125,693 | Gross: $43.18M
53. Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
Not Rated | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A senior chef lives with his three grown daughters; the middle one finds her future plans affected by unexpected events and the life changes of the other household members.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Sihung Lung, Kuei-Mei Yang, Wang Yu-wen, Chien-Lien Wu
Votes: 23,191 | Gross: $7.29M
54. Dragon Blade (2015)
R | 127 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
When corrupt Roman leader Tiberius arrives with a giant army to claim the Silk Road, Huo An teams up his army with an elite Legion of defected Roman soldiers led by General Lucius to protect his country and his new friends.
Director: Daniel Lee | Stars: Jackie Chan, John Cusack, Adrien Brody, Choi Siwon
Votes: 21,265 | Gross: $0.07M
55. The Wedding Banquet (1993)
R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
To satisfy his nagging parents, a gay landlord and a female tenant agree to a marriage of convenience, but his parents arrive to visit and things get out of hand.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Winston Chao, May Chin, Ah-Lei Gua, Sihung Lung
Votes: 17,136 | Gross: $6.93M
56. Lost in Beijing (2007)
112 min | Drama
A look at modern-day life in China's capital centered on a ménage-a-quatre involving a young woman, her boss, her husband and her boss's wife.
Director: Yu Li | Stars: Bingbing Fan, Dawei Tong, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Elaine Jin
Votes: 2,397 | Gross: $0.01M
57. Us and Them (2018)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, Romance
During the hectic chunyun period, two strangers traveling home meet on the train.
Director: Rene Liu | Stars: Boran Jing, Dongyu Zhou, Zhuangzhuang Tian, Zheming Qu
Votes: 5,317
58. Ma bei shang de fa ting (2006)
101 min | Drama
The film follows three characters on a tour of the remote Yunman province of China where they travel with a horse to deal with legal disputes in mountain villages.
Director: Jie Liu | Stars: Baotian Li, Yaning Yang, Yulai Lü, Tingliang Li
Votes: 251
59. Blind Massage (2014)
114 min | Drama
A drama centered around the employees of a Nanjing massage parlor who share a common trait: they are all blind.
Director: Ye Lou | Stars: Xiaodong Guo, Hao Qin, Lei Zhang, Ting Mei
Votes: 1,593
60. Mystery (2012)
Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Drama
Lu Jie is having coffee with her desperate friend Sang Qi, who believes her husband is cheating on her. At the same time at a hotel across the road from the coffee shop, Lu Jie sees her ... See full summary »
Director: Ye Lou | Stars: Lei Hao, Hao Qin, Xi Qi, Feng Zu
Votes: 1,335
61. Summer Palace (2006)
Unrated | 158 min | Drama, Romance
Yu Hong leaves her home village and starts university in Beijing, where she develops a consuming and compulsive relationship with another student. The student riots from 1989 then ensue and take a toll on their lives.
Director: Ye Lou | Stars: Lei Hao, Xiaodong Guo, Xueyun Bai, Lin Cui
Votes: 4,314 | Gross: $0.06M
62. Suzhou River (2000)
83 min | Drama, Romance
After getting out of prison, small-time crook Mardar stumbles upon a woman who looks exactly like his long-lost lover.
Director: Ye Lou | Stars: Xun Zhou, Hongsheng Jia, Zhongkai Hua, Anlian Yao
Votes: 6,422 | Gross: $0.10M
63. Mountain Patrol (2004)
PG-13 | 90 min | Action, Drama
A moving true story about volunteers protecting antelope against poachers in the severe mountains of Tibet.
Director: Chuan Lu | Stars: Duobujie, Lei Zhang, Dao Qi, Xueying Zhao
Votes: 5,432 | Gross: $0.14M
64. Mulan: Rise of a Warrior (2009)
Not Rated | 114 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
The epic story of the Chinese girl-warrior, Mulan, who fights to defend her father.
Directors: Jingle Ma, Wei Dong | Stars: Wei Zhao, Kun Chen, Rongguang Yu, Jiao Xu
Votes: 6,873
65. The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)
PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A discovery made by a kung fu obsessed American teen sends him on an adventure to ancient China, where he joins up with a band of martial arts warriors in order to free the imprisoned Monkey King.
Director: Rob Minkoff | Stars: Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Michael Angarano, Juana Collignon
Votes: 109,528 | Gross: $52.08M
66. The Nightingale (2013)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Family
The story of an elderly man and his granddaughter who walk together through China with a bird in a cage.
Director: Philippe Muyl | Stars: Baotian Li, Xiaoran Li, Hao Qin, Xinyi Yang
Votes: 678
67. The Story of Lotus (2003)
93 min | Drama
The pretty girl Lotus, who lives in the Wuyi mountains in the south of China, lost her husband just after their marriage. This causes several difficulties for the newly-widowed Lotus; the ... See full summary »
Director: Jian Qi | Stars: Xiaoxiao Bian, Yong Cui, Xinmin Li, Peng Lin
Votes: 8
68. Angels Wear White (2017)
TV-14 | 107 min | Drama
In a small seaside town, two schoolgirls are sexually assaulted by a middle-aged man in a motel. Mia, a teenager who was working on reception that night, is the only witness. For fear of losing her job, she chooses to keep silence.
Director: Vivian Qu | Stars: Vicky Chen, Meijun Zhou, Ke Shi, Le Geng
Votes: 2,490
69. 55 Days at Peking (1963)
Unrated | 154 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
During the 1900 Boxer Rebellion, U.S. marine, Maj. Matt Lewis, along with British consul, Sir Arthur Robertson, develop a plan to keep the rebels at bay until an international military relief force can arrive.
Directors: Nicholas Ray, Guy Green, Andrew Marton | Stars: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven, Flora Robson
Votes: 7,419
70. The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)
Approved | 158 min | Biography, Drama, War
A tenacious British woman becomes a missionary and runs an inn for travelling merchants in China during the Japanese invasion and the tumultuous years leading up to the Second World War.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Robert Donat, Curd Jürgens, Michael David
Votes: 5,420
71. The Children of Huang Shi (2008)
R | 125 min | Drama, War
About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh
Votes: 9,985 | Gross: $1.03M
72. Springtime in a Small Town (2002)
PG | 116 min | Drama, Romance
The eight-year marriage of Liyan and Yuwen has left them both unfulfilled and distant. A visitor arrives from Shanghai, a doctor who's an old school friend of Liyan's and, unbeknownst to her husband, Yuwen's childhood sweetheart.
Director: Zhuangzhuang Tian | Stars: Jingfan Hu, Jun Wu, Bai Qing Xin, Xiaokeng Ye
Votes: 1,366 | Gross: $0.04M
73. The Blue Kite (1993)
140 min | Drama, History
The lives of a Beijing family throughout the 1950s and 1960s, as they experience the impact of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution.
Director: Zhuangzhuang Tian | Stars: Tian Yi, Wenyao Zhang, Xiaoman Chen, Liping Lü
Votes: 3,258 | Gross: $0.36M
74. The Horse Thief (1986)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama
A Tibetan man struggles to provide for his family.
Directors: Zhuangzhuang Tian, Peicheng Pan | Stars: Rigzin Tseshang, Jiji Dan, Daiba, Drashi
Votes: 1,551
75. Tuya's Marriage (2006)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Romance
Set in Inner Mongolia, a physical setback causes a young woman to choose a suitor who can take care of her, as well as her disabled husband.
Director: Quan'an Wang | Stars: Nan Yu, Ba'toer, Sen'ge, Bao'lier
Votes: 2,447 | Gross: $0.09M
76. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (2011)
PG-13 | 120 min | Drama, History
A story set in nineteenth-century China and focusing on the life-long friendship between two girls who develop their own secret code as a way to contend with the rigid social norms imposed on women.
Director: Wayne Wang | Stars: Bingbing Li, Jun Ji-hyun, Vivian Wu, Russell Wong
Votes: 4,013 | Gross: $1.35M
77. Anywhere But Here (1999)
PG-13 | 114 min | Comedy, Drama
A mother and daughter search for success in Beverly Hills.
Director: Wayne Wang | Stars: Susan Sarandon, Natalie Portman, Hart Bochner, Eileen Ryan
Votes: 18,666 | Gross: $18.65M
78. Chinese Box (1997)
R | 99 min | Drama, Romance
The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of China.
Director: Wayne Wang | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Gong Li, Maggie Cheung, Michael Hui
Votes: 3,595 | Gross: $2.20M
79. Smoke (1995)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama
A Brooklyn smoke shop is the center of neighborhood activity, and the stories of its customers.
Director: Wayne Wang | Stars: Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Giancarlo Esposito, José Zúñiga
Votes: 38,087 | Gross: $8.35M
80. What's in the Darkness (2015)
100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In the summer of 1991, a rape case broke the peace of a small town. The fathers of two girls in the local middle school were the policemen in charge of the case. Nevertheless, they had very... See full summary »
Director: Yichun Wang | Stars: Xiaotong Su, Xiao Guo, Qiwei Lu, Dan Liu
Votes: 291
81. My Blueberry Nights (2007)
PG-13 | 95 min | Drama, Romance
A young lonely woman takes a soul-searching journey across America to resolve her questions about love while encountering a series of off-beat characters along the way.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Norah Jones, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Chad R. Davis
Votes: 56,549 | Gross: $0.87M
82. 2046 (2004)
R | 129 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Several women enter a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years, after the author has lost the woman he considers his one true love.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Ziyi Zhang, Faye Wong, Gong Li
Votes: 61,761 | Gross: $1.44M
83. In the Mood for Love (2000)
PG | 98 min | Drama, Romance
Two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung, Siu Ping-Lam, Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung
Votes: 166,798 | Gross: $2.73M
84. Ashes of Time (1994)
R | 100 min | Action, Drama
A broken-hearted hit man moves to the desert where he finds skilled swordsmen to carry out his contract killings.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung, Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai
Votes: 16,960 | Gross: $0.17M
85. Days of Being Wild (1990)
Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A man tries to find out who his real mother is after the woman who raised him tells him the truth.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau, Carina Lau
Votes: 25,478 | Gross: $0.14M
86. The Crossing (I) (2014)
129 min | Drama, History, Romance
In the midst of the Chinese Revolution during the late 1940s, couples flee to the island of Taiwan.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Ziyi Zhang, Song Hye-kyo, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Masami Nagasawa
Votes: 2,093
87. Paycheck (2003)
PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
What seemed like a breezy idea that would net an engineer millions of dollars ends up leaving him on the run for his life and trying to piece together why he's being chased.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart, Uma Thurman, Michael C. Hall
Votes: 113,261 | Gross: $53.79M
88. Face/Off (1997)
R | 138 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
To foil a terrorist plot, FBI agent Sean Archer assumes the identity of the criminal Castor Troy who murdered his son through facial transplant surgery, but the crook wakes up prematurely and vows revenge.
Director: John Woo | Stars: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, Alessandro Nivola
Votes: 400,828 | Gross: $112.23M
89. Pk.com.cn (2008)
94 min | Drama
The young and timid surgeon Li has lost contact with his best friend Ji after his study. He hopes to see the charismatic Ji at a reunion organized by his girlfriend. Ji however doesn't show... See full summary »
Director: Jiang Xiao | Stars: Chen Bo-lin, Jaycee Chan, Kar-Ying Law, Mengmeng Niu
Votes: 35
90. Electric Shadows (2004)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
For no apparent reason, a mute young woman assaults a youth who delivers water on his bicycle, injuring him and ruining his bike. Surprisingly, she asks him to feed her fish while she is in... See full summary »
Director: Jiang Xiao | Stars: Yu Xia, Haibin Li, Yijing Zhang, Zhongyang Qi
Votes: 1,071 | Gross: $0.01M
91. The Opium War (1997)
153 min | Drama, History, War
Historical Drama starting in 1839 in Guangzhou where British merchants dealing with opium are to be executed because the opium is destroying the Empire. After the burning of 20,000 boxes of... See full summary »
Director: Jin Xie | Stars: Guoan Bao, Liankun Lin, Sihung Lung, Debra Beaumont
Votes: 599
92. Mountain Cry (2015)
107 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Set in a remote village, the story begins with the sudden death of a husband and father whose family is new to the village's tight-knit traditional community. In the aftermath of that ... See full summary »
Director: Larry Yang | Stars: Yueting Lang, Ziyi Wang, Jin Guo, Taishen Cheng
Votes: 434
94. Heaven in the Dark (2016)
99 min | Drama
After sharing a passionate kiss with Pastor To, Michelle files sexual harassment charges against him. The scandal and the proceedings take their toll on both of them in different ways.
Director: Kim-Wai Yuen | Stars: Jacky Cheung, Karena Kar-Yan Lam, Edmond So, Michelle Wai
Votes: 254
95. Red River (2009)
100 min | Drama
A haunting, tragic love story about the aftermath of the American War in Vietnam, and the long-term effect it had on ordinary people's lives. Set in a border town between China and Vietnam,... See full summary »
Director: Jiarui Zhang | Stars: Jingchu Zhang, Nick Cheung, Loletta Lee, Danny Lee
Votes: 197
96. Ruoma de shi qi sui (2002)
88 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Jiarui Zhang | Stars: Shu Linyuan, Li Min, Zhigang Yang
Votes: 109
97. Shower (1999)
PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
A young wealthy businessman's icy attitude toward his working-class background is about to thaw as he is forced to reconnect with his elderly father and mentally challenged younger brother, who together run a public bathhouse.
Director: Yang Zhang | Stars: Jiayi Du, Zheng Fang, Bing He, Wu Jiang
Votes: 4,222 | Gross: $1.15M
98. Shadow (2018)
Not Rated | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
In a Chinese royal court, an army commander secretly trains a "shadow" to retake a city against the wishes of the king.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Chao Deng, Li Sun, Ryan Zheng, Qianyuan Wang
Votes: 18,213 | Gross: $0.52M
99. Lady of the Dynasty (2015)
122 min | Drama, History, Romance
The tragic story of a Tang Dynasty imperial consort who was the favorite of the Emperor Xuanzong.
Directors: Shiqing Cheng, Yimou Zhang | Stars: Bingbing Fan, Leon Lai, Chun Wu, Gang Wu
Votes: 737
100. Coming Home (2014)
PG-13 | 109 min | Drama, Romance
Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer recognizes him.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Gong Li, Daoming Chen, Huiwen Zhang, Tao Guo
Votes: 6,687 | Gross: $0.38M
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