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- When a leprous winery owner in 1930s China dies a few days after his arranged marriage, his young widow is forced to run the winery to make a living while contending with bandits, her drunkard lover, and the invading Japanese army.
- The convoluted continuation of the adventures of the time-traveling, now-human Monkey King, who attempts to fulfill his divine destiny.
- In rural China, the young bride of a tyrannical owner of a silk-dyeing business finds temporary solace in the arms of her husband's nephew, but problems arise when she becomes pregnant.
- A Monkey King is reincarnated in the un human form as Joker, a highwayman oblivious to his original identity and the fact that 500 years earlier, he and his master, the Longevity Monk, were punished and made to stay human.
- 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.
- A Tibetan man struggles to provide for his family.
- A Chinese emissary is sent to the Gobi desert to execute a renegade soldier. When a caravan transporting a Buddhist monk and a valuable treasure is threatened by thieves, however, the two warriors might unite to protect the travelers.
- A married village worker teams up with an old girlfriend to try to dig a well for his water-starved village. The well collapses and they are trapped. Their enforced confinement leads to them exploring their feelings for each other and those around them.
- Engineer Zhao Shuxin has been promoted and clones a robot in his image to attend his meetings, resulting in comic situations.
- A love story between an alien and a monk.
- Wang Shuangli is Deputy Director of the local Cultural Centre, and hopes to be appointed Director. However Old Ma is brought in from the country and installed as Director. This starts a long train of events with Wang's cronies using the bureaucracy to try to oust the new director. At home, Wang has problems because his father wants Wang to have a son to carry on the family name. However, because of the one-child policy, Wang cannot have any more children unless his young daughter is certified infirm.
- 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.
- A young woman is increasingly out of control with her determination to nail the man who raped her teenage sister.
- Tao Lan and Yu Xiaoqin are teenage stepsisters. They go to the same high school, sleep in the same bedroom, but couldn't be more different. The first is wild, a bit of a vagabond, while the other is diligent and studies hard. One day Yu Xiaoqin steals money from her father and puts the blame on Tao Lin, who accidentally kills her sister while attempting to prove her innocence, and is put in jail. 17 years later, a woman by now, she is allowed out and is escorted by a guard to find her home long demolished. The two go to the new address of the ageing parents, and the guard becomes an eyewitness to the difficult reunion and the girl's remorse, the anxiety and fear of the mother and the stepfather's silent struggle to rise above his pain and find forgiveness.
- 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.
- Epic drama about China's first emperor (221 BC) who struggles to make his childhood best friend, now China's greatest composer, succumb to his will and compose a grand anthem to his exploits.
- In a transitioning 1980s China, an ambitious young man struggles with life choices represented by two women; one from his traditional, poverty-stricken peasant background, and another who offers a more affluent, modern urban life.
- An actor becomes increasingly introverted and psychotic and his entire family attempts to intervene.
- Aircraft hijacking with Chinese special forces rescue. Gong Li as a heroic stewardess.
- A teenage lad arrives at Double Flag Town to claim his betrothed bride, when he encounters a group of outlaws and kills one of them. A vendetta is expected.
- Magic Braid filmed the novel by Feng Tszitsaya (1942). The film tells about a rustic merchant soy bad Second owning family style battle scythe, which, due to circumstances became embroiled in a conflict with the underworld Tianjin.
- A young man tries to run a restaurant well but face a lot of troubles.
- A satirical comedy about a country bumpkin who goes to the big city, and ends up teaching the cynical city folk a few lessons about basic human decency. The hero leaves home for the first time to go to Shanghai, to collect his lottery prize - a brand new apartment. However, when he arrives, he is told by the developers that his apartment block will take a year and a half to complete. He decides to find a job in Shanghai and wait for his apartment to materialise...
- Caltech professor Qian Xuesen endures five years of McCarthy-era investigations before returning to China to become the father of the country's space program.
- Six vignettes on love as experienced in contemporary China.
- A female medical student came to a mysterious villa. The owner of the villa was a scientist who was conducting experiments on human body grafting. The female student thought that the scientist was helping the murdered female dancer to regain her life, but as she lived in the villa, she discovered the secret of the scientist...
- In 1920s China, the wealthy heiress of a fireworks business falls in love with an impoverished painter, but her late father's will prohibits their union.
- A young woman who has lost her first love begins a relationship with his best friend, and the two of them attempt to create a baggage-free future.
- A couple from chemical plant die after the birth of their son. A nurse takes the baby home and then her father's pets die one after another because of the toxic baby.
- 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 woman forces to grieve the death of a man she was destined to marry. Combining astonishing visuals with intriguing plot turns, this moving drama is not to be missed. When the spirited Young Mistress (Wang Lan) is kidnapped on the way to her arranged wedding, the groom is killed in an explosion in an attempt to rescue her. The peasant charged with her care, Kui (Chang Shih) manages to free her but the groom's bitter mother forces the Young Mistress to honor her agreement by marrying a wooden statue of her son, and staying chaste. Director Jianxin Huang's fascinating exploration of forbidden love and rigid social hierarchy reveals a culture in turmoil, where tradition is taken to cruel extremes and young lovers may not survive.
- The film describes the frustrated experience and love of Pan Laowu, who drains off waste water. It reflects the suffering brought about by the ultra-left route.
- The friendship between a thief turned Chinese opera performer and an incorruptible police officer.
- The police have to recapture an escaped killer who is traveling on a train to Beijing.
- Journalist Gou, laid-off worker Miss Cheng, self-employed Wang and moneybag Cha are classmates of a driving school and coached by veteran Hou. As time goes on, all these five persons get familiar with each other's personalities and personal lives. This period of driving school life is full of twists and turns, but all difficulties are overcome when all trainees pass the examinations successfully at the end of the term. All five persons learn the rules of driving along with the rules of living during the driving school days.
- Set in 1920s, warlords in north China fight each other to gain more territories. Sun Dian-Ying is one of these warlord. He robs the imperial graves of Qing Dynasty.
- In medieval China, soldiers are dispatched by the emperor to collect male children who will be molded into warriors. The mother of one kidnapped child follows the soldiers' procession to care for her son, earning their respect and admiration in the process.
- A disenfranchised warrior turned blacksmith becomes reluctantly entangled in a cut throat and sinister plot involving a mishmash of thieves, trained assassins, secret spies, a deadly seductress and a gambling boss.
- Tracing the life of a left-wing film projectionist and his family over 40 years of Hong Kong history.
- The story of two brothers who are faced with great upheavals when they set up in business after years of communal farming.
- In 1940, the desert areas of northwest China suffered from a famine year, and the people of all ethnic groups prayed for rain and no results. In desperation, a foreign priest came, and the rain fell, many people became God believers. It is possible to continue in the wild, and people are leaving their homes, and the pastor has left. A shepherd boy has witnessed all this. 40 years later, the young man is a white-haired horse county magistrate (Wang Gang). He has a lot of difficulties in building water conservancy. At this time, news of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization preparing to help the poor areas came. Six years later, United Nations official Berman came to inspect. He found that the county magistrate had a breach of contract and the county magistrate was dismissed. Ma County magistrate died on the way back to the village. Bellman has mixed feelings.
- Xie Yuting tears home apart looking for marriage certificate in order to get the Model Couple prize. She quarrels and forces her husband to look for certificate together. Their daughter Xiaowen pools money from schoolmates to make a fake certificate but makes more trouble because she misses the revision of true certificate. Xiaowen runs away from home to avoid the escalated fighting of her parents.
- The Avenger, a brooding swordsman armed with a blade marked "Slayer of 1000 Armies" claims he's waiting for a long-missing friend, at an outpost in Northwest China's Sun Valley. The Avenger suffers an intense fear of blood, from being the only survivor of his clan's massacre. The sight of blood propels him into a killing fury. Winter is setting in, so the local horse trader Black Bull, and most of the valley's men, prepare to drive a herd to market, leaving behind Black Bull's girlfriend, a feisty innkeeper.
- Undecided about his future, Yun Fei, an unknown young poet, goes to visit an old university friend in the suburbs of Beijing to seek his advice. He discovers that his friend has gone into business, and is successfully breeding black chickens. Discouraged, and on the point of giving up writing, Yun Fei meets a young girl who can't see colours, who encourages him to persevere. But even this new relationship is not enough to inspire him to write. It's at this point that he buys a pirate record whose magical powers bring him the success he's longed for. Sudden fame does not seem to solve everything, however. This first film, a deliberately allegorical visual fantasy, focuses on the 30-something generation in China, who have to adapt to a materialistic society very different from the political utopia of their childhood.
- Qin Shihuang conquered six powerful warring states and, in 221 BC, declared himself emperor of all China. During his reign, he introduced sweeping reforms, built a vast network of roads and connected the Great Wall of China which to this day stretches over 2400 kilometers. The film includes the first documentary footage of Qin's life-sized terracotta army, constructed almost 2,200 years ago for his tomb. The imperial system he created has endured for thousands of years, proving to be the world's most durable political structure. From the inner sanctum of Emperor Qin's royal palace to fierce battles with feudal kings, this lavish historical drama re-creates the glory and the terror of the Qin Dynasty.
- A magistrate investigates 2 apparently unrelated crimes.