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- DirectorYimou ZhangStarsJet LiTony Leung Chiu-waiMaggie CheungA defense officer, Nameless, was summoned by the King of Qin regarding his success of terminating three warriors.
- DirectorDongshan ShiStarsZhanfei GaoYan JinJiqun LiuA 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 famous actor, who romances her and makes her a star, with unhappy results. The film's score is lost, but the engagement of Zi Luolan, an opera star (credited as Violet Wong), to play the lead opposite Jin Yan (Raymond King) was a sensation.
- DirectorWancang BuStarsLingyu RuanCho-cho LamCilong WangBai 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 same place. Hu Lin Tung falls in love with Luo Hua, daughter of the local commander.
- DirectorYonggang WuStarsLingyu RuanTian JianZhizhi ZhangStreet walker by night, devoted mother by day, a woman fights to get her young son an education amid criminal and social injustice in China.
- DirectorYu SunStarsZhanfei GaoLangen HanLi-li LiFishing 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 a socialite who uses her earnings to help others. She still waits at the pier in the hope that she sees her sailor lover return from the sea one day. By then, the revolution is starting to gain momentum.
- DirectorYu SunStarsYan JinYanyan ChenLi-li LiSix 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 community, and two friendly and flirtatious young local girls who become part of their circle. Meanwhile, their hard work is countered by a traitorous foreman bribed by Japanese agents to sabotage the road.
- DirectorWancang BuStarsYanyan ChenYan JinCho-Cho Lai
- DirectorYonggang WuStarsYan JinZhizhi ZhangReturning 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.
- DirectorBugao ChengStarsXiuwen ShuXianzhai WangNaishuang HuangThe 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.
- DirectorMuzhi YuanStarsDan ZhaoHeling WeiXuan ZhouIn 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.
- DirectorXiling ShenStarsDan ZhaoYang BaiBan LüFour 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 flimsy wall of planks separating him from the room behind. Miss Yang, in town to take a factory job, moves in behind. Her nails into the wall knock Zhao's photos down. The unseen neighbours start playing tit for tat... Zhao gets a job as proofreader at a newspaper. He sees that pretty girl on the tram to work every day. He doesn't know her, but it's Miss Yang... Zhao is assigned to cover labour conditions for the paper. He is sent to a factory, the one where Miss Yang works...
- DirectorDongshan ShiStarsPing HuEryi GuYing XiaoYouth decide to get involved with the anti-Japanese struggle, also dealing with war profiteers.
- DirectorShichuan ZhangStarsQiuxia GongRongrong HuChia-Nung KungThe 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.
- DirectorPingqian LiStarsHong BaiQiong LiuLumin LuLord 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 afternoons with an adventuress who is working her way through London's high society, Mrs. Erlynne. Worse, Windermere gives her big sums of money. To crown it all he asks his wife to invite the detestable woman to her own birthday party. Upset and outraged, the puritan Lady Windermere decides to leave her husband and goes to Lord Robert Darlington, who has been courting her for some time. Unfortunately she leaves her fan - the one Robert offered her for her birthday - in Robert's house.
- DirectorPeilin FangStarsHong BaiLanjun GuLangen HanFilm 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.
- DirectorWan LaimingGuchan WanStarsGuanxiang LiuChen ZhengfaZhou JirangThree travelers needing to pass through a fiery mountain seek the magical fan of a princess, but she does not wish to part with it.
- DirectorWancang BuStarsXuan ZhouYelu GuYuru ZhengLove story of a fisherman's daughter and an art student who is the son of the accountant of a fishing despot.
- DirectorWancang BuStarsMeiyun YuanXuan ZhouHong Bai
- DirectorZifeng LingStarsSiqin GaowaZongxiang GuanBide YanXiangzi 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.
- DirectorXudong RenStarsLung-Kuang ChuGuodong HanJiang LiuChinese excavated a lot of tunnels in middle Hebei flatlands and fight invaders in these tunnels in the anti-Japanese war.
- DirectorWeibang Ma-Xu
- DirectorHu SangStarsYanyan ChenQiong LiuShan Lu
- DirectorLiting ChenStarsJian KangYi QinYing Wu
- DirectorMu FeiStarsChaoming CuiWei LiYu ShiA lonely housewife finds her monotonous life altered when her childhood sweetheart returns to town.
- DirectorFu ShenStarsMa LanYunzhu ShangguanQiaqia ShiThis 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 by the unexpected arrival of his mother, brother and sister-in-law. When he is fired by his unscrupulous boss, the whole family becomes embroiled in one emotional/economic struggle after another.
- DirectorMu FeiStarsLanfang MeiMiao-Xiang JiangQing-shan LiIn 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.
- DirectorShilin ZhuStarsXuan ZhouShi ShuRhoqing TangSet 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.
- DirectorJunli ZhengStarsDan ZhaoYinyan WuDaolin SunA 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.
- DirectorZifeng LingQiang ZhaiStarsShen YueLi BoBuhua QinWomen play a heroic role in the Volunteer Army fighting the Japanese in the puppet state of Manchukuo.
- DirectorHui ShiStarsYuanyuan CaiShi ShuAn-an CaiThe 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.
- DirectorGong YanStarsKeran ChenYuntai GuoSuying Huang2 students become members of the Young Pioneers.
- DirectorJizhou YanStarsZhiyuan LiDeming TangJiao YangNew recruit in the border patrol learns how exciting his assignment can be when he discovers suspicious footprints.
- DirectorShan LinMeng ShaStarsBaocheng GaoLinge XuLiang ZhangThe 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 Sino-American negotiation at Banmen Dian. Zhang Zhong Fa, a company commander of the Chinese Voluntary Army, led his troops to guard Shanggangling Mount. In an extremely difficult situation, they guarded their position for 24 days. The American were forced to resume the negotiation and sign the the armistice.
- DirectorCan HuangStarsZhenjiang AnRuyu HeJie LiSet in early 1950s, a city in north China. A scout carries out an undercover operation to destroy the spy network.
- DirectorHui ShiStarsHui ShiHeling WeiYang ShenFifty 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.
- DirectorKuang-Chi TuStarsChun YenYu HuangTao Hung
- DirectorYin ChengXiaodan TangStarsZhe FengRuifang ZhangGe ChenIn 1947 the Chinese Red Army sets a trap for the Nationalist forces in Jiangsu province.
- DirectorWei GuoStarsYuntai GuoRan AnZhijian ChenThe Nationalist army is dug in on Mount Hua and the People's Liberation Army finds a way to attack.
- DirectorSha HuangHu SangTian-Lin WangStarsRuijuan FanYanfang JinRuiying LuFrom a famous Chinese opera, the story of The Butterfly Lovers: the attempt at romance by a young couple is thwarted by conflicts with family.
- DirectorWancang BuStarsLingyu RuanYan JinLili ZhouThe 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.
- DirectorChusheng CaiStarsZhanfei GaoYanyan ChenJiqun LiuTo please his dying father, Hong Yu, a college student, is forced to abandon his girlfriend, Little Hong, and marry his cousin, with disastrous results.
- DirectorBugao ChengStarsYing XiaoYuexian YanChia-Nung KungThis 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.
- DirectorShichuan ZhangStarsButterfly WuChia-Nung KungYuexian Yan
- DirectorChusheng CaiStarsLingyu RuanNaidong WangJunli ZhengOvernight, 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 will end up eventually engage in luxury prostitution.
- DirectorChusheng CaiStarsRenmei WangLangen HanPeng LuoAbout the trials and tribulations of the family of a poor fisherman.
- DirectorXingzhi XuStarsRenmei WangMuzhi YuanYing TanThe 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 westernized widow in Qingdao. After hearing that Liang has been killed, Xin has a change of heart and rushes to join the war effort.
- DirectorMing-Yau LoShilin ZhuStarsLingyu RuanCho-cho LamLi-li Li
- DirectorShilin ZhuStarsKeng LiA message of hope. A Sudanese Survivor's Story
- DirectorWeibang Ma-XuStarsMenghe GuPing HuShan JinChina'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.
- DirectorChusheng CaiStarsLi-li LiLi QingMing JiangSet 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.
- DirectorWeibang Ma-XuStarsYukun LuLi Hua LiChih-Ching YangDuring 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 moral and upright man. He takes the stage name Qiu Haitang and is invited to dinner by an admiring warlord Yuan. He later meets Luo Xiangqi, a graduate of a female performance school. The two of them fall in love but it turns out that she is Warlord Yuan's wife. Later, Luo Xiangqi becomes pregnant with Yuqin's child. Yuan's adjutant Ji discovers their secret and blackmailed Qiu Haitang frequently, even scarring his face.
- DirectorPingqian LiStarsTianliu JiangBih-Yun LuShan Lu
- DirectorShan JinStarsRuifang ZhangRenlu WangKe PuUnfortunate events beset a poor Chinese girl as she escapes from invading Japanese forces, narrowly avoids being raped, and seeks solace in a neighboring village.
- DirectorHu SangStarsTianliu JiangFa ZhangZhen LinAfter setting up a new company with his father-in-law's money, a man neglects his supportive wife for a seductive gold digger.
- DirectorChusheng CaiJunli ZhengStarsYang BaiJin TaoYinyan Wu1930'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 other son, Zhangmin goes into hiding to protect his family. The focus shifts back and forth from the brothers' parents and Zhongliang's wife and son to Zhongliang's newfound life of luxury in a town not too far away. The plight of Zhongliang's mother, his wife, Sufan and her son, Kongeson is contrasted with Zhongliang's rise in a flourishing company.
- DirectorWeiyi WangTao XuStarsRenmei WangDan ZhaoJi Fung
- DirectorLiting ChenStarsYunzhu ShangguanZongying HuangLi ShaThree 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 first seconds of the film, and much of the rest deals with the social consequences this has for her.
- DirectorYuqian OuyangStarsZhe FengKeng LiTu Li
- DirectorBin WangStarsQiang ChenDefu DuJie FuFactory workers in 1947 repair a bridge over Song Hua River so that Communist forces can use it.
- DirectorGong YanMing ZhaoStarsMo ChengLongji WangLong GongboanOn the adventures of homeless orphan Three Hairs, a street urchin fighting for survival in the 1940s.
- DirectorFu ShenStarsMa LanYunzhu ShangguanYinyan Wu
- DirectorBan LüStarsZhenqing GuoZhiping LiTian XieWorkers 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.
- DirectorHuaiai ChenWei CuiStarsFang XieTai KangZengyin CaoPeople'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.
- DirectorYaoting ShenStarsXinghuo ZhongMin XuXiang YanA murder investigation in Donghai City leads to a larger conspiracy.
- DirectorFan CenStarsShunkai YanWei LiYikang JinThe 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.
- DirectorYin ChengStarsAnge JinJing XinTiecheng Wang
- DirectorYunwei YingStarsMuzhi YuanBo'er ChenHuaiqiu TangThe story of various college graduates and their attempts to improve China, often in the face of corruption.
- DirectorXinling HuStarsQiuxia GongKun XiangFeng Zhou
- DirectorZuolin HuangStarsZhi ChengChaoming CuiNi Dan
- DirectorYu SunStarsLangen HanYan JinRenmei WangA 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.
- DirectorBing LinStarsBruce LiChiang LiRobert KerverWhen 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.