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1. Last Train Home (2009)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, Drama
A couple embarks on a journey home for Chinese new year along with 130 million other migrant workers, to reunite with their children and struggle for a future. Their unseen story plays out as China soars towards being a world superpower.
Director: Lixin Fan | Stars: Changhua Zhang, Yang Zhang, Suqin Chen, Qin Zhang
Votes: 3,717 | Gross: $0.29M
2. The World (2004)
Not Rated | 143 min | Drama
An exploration on the impact of urbanization and globalization on a traditional culture.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Tao Zhao, Taishen Cheng, Jue Jing, Zhongwei Jiang
Votes: 3,490 | Gross: $0.06M
3. Unknown Pleasures (2002)
Unrated | 112 min | Comedy, Drama
Two unemployed Chinese teenagers have trouble resisting the temptations of the Western world.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Wei Wei Zhao, Qiong Wu, Tao Zhao, Qing Feng Zhou
Votes: 2,549 | Gross: $0.01M
4. Green Tea (2003)
83 min | Drama, Romance
Well, apparently Wu Fang (Wei Zhao) is a young lady on a mission. Namely, to go on as many dates as quickly as possible, not to drink as much tea as possible, but to find the man of her ... See full summary »
Director: Yuan Zhang | Stars: Wen Jiang, Wei Zhao, Lijun Fang, Haizhen Wang
Votes: 757
5. King of Comedy (1999)
89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A bar girl hires a struggling actor to give her acting lessons so that she can feign a greater interest in her customers. The longer they work together, the more they find they have in common.
Directors: Stephen Chow, Lik-Chi Lee | Stars: Stephen Chow, Karen Mok, Cecilia Cheung, Man-Tat Ng
Votes: 8,023
6. 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: 25,495 | Gross: $0.14M
7. 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: 61,783 | Gross: $1.44M
8. 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: 45,526 | Gross: $4.60M
9. Shaolin Soccer (2001)
PG | 87 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
A young Shaolin follower reunites with his discouraged brothers to form a soccer team using their martial art skills to their advantage.
Director: Stephen Chow | Stars: Stephen Chow, Wei Zhao, Yat-Fei Wong, Man-Tat Ng
Votes: 89,212 | Gross: $0.49M
10. Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996)
118 min | Drama, Romance
Two Chinese-mainlanders living in Hong Kong form a close friendship. Over the years this grows into love, but there are obstacles.
Director: Peter Ho-Sun Chan | Stars: Maggie Cheung, Leon Lai, Eric Tsang, Kristy Yeung
Votes: 7,639
11. Chungking Express (1994)
PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal waitress at a late-night restaurant he frequents.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Brigitte Lin, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Faye Wong
Votes: 95,803 | Gross: $0.60M
12. The Great Hypnotist (2014)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
The famous psychologist Xu Ruining has a raising career, when he met the troublesome patient Ren Xiaoyan. The meeting is not easy as feeble-looking Ren is point by point against him.
Director: Leste Chen | Stars: Zheng Xu, Karen Mok, Zhong Lü, David Yaoqing Wang
Votes: 3,084
13. 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: 4,318 | Gross: $0.06M
14. 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: 6,428 | Gross: $0.10M
15. So Young (2013)
131 min | Drama, Romance
A college freshman encounters new friends, romance, and adventure upon her arrival at campus.
Director: Wei Zhao | Stars: Mark You-Ting Chao, Geng Han, Zishan Yang, Shuying Jiang
Votes: 2,301 | Gross: $0.01M
16. Infernal Affairs (2002)
R | 101 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A story between a mole in the police department and an undercover cop. Their objectives are the same: to find out who is the mole, and who is the cop.
Directors: Andrew Lau, Alan Mak | Stars: Andy Lau, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Eric Tsang
Votes: 131,460 | Gross: $0.17M
17. Three Sisters (2012)
Not Rated | 153 min | Documentary
Three young sisters live and work in extreme poverty in the harsh environment of Yunnan, a province on the Sino Burmese border area of China.
Director: Wang Bing
Votes: 475
18. The Equation of Love and Death (2008)
96 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
When a mysterious death occurs, the lives of five unexpected strangers are suddenly intertwined together. A drug trafficking crime is unveiled, and through the twists and turns of the ... See full summary »
Director: Baoping Cao | Stars: Xun Zhou, Chao Deng, Wang Ning, Yanhui Wang
Votes: 1,475
19. 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: 166,906 | Gross: $2.73M
20. Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
R | 99 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
In Shanghai, China in the 1940s, a wannabe gangster aspires to join the notorious "Axe Gang" while residents of a housing complex exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf.
Director: Stephen Chow | Stars: Stephen Chow, Wah Yuen, Qiu Yuen, Siu-Lung Leung
Votes: 150,873 | Gross: $17.11M
21. Up the Yangtze (2007)
Not Rated | 93 min | Documentary
At the edge of the Yangtze River, not far from the Three Gorges Dam, young men and women take up employment on a cruise ship, where they confront rising waters and a radically changing China.
Director: Yung Chang | Stars: Jerry Bo Yu Chen, Campbell Ping He, Cindy Shui Yu
Votes: 1,946 | Gross: $0.78M
22. Lost in Thailand (2012)
Not Rated | 105 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
On a wild road trip, three men find inner peace in the city that never sleeps.
Director: Zheng Xu | Stars: Zheng Xu, Baoqiang Wang, Huang Bo, Hong Tao
Votes: 3,881 | Gross: $0.06M
23. Millennium Mambo (2001)
R | 119 min | Drama, Romance
The ethereally beautiful Vicky recalls her romances with Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Stars: Shu Qi, Jack Kao, Chun-hao Tuan, Jun Takeuchi
Votes: 6,758 | Gross: $0.01M
25. Mi guo (2008)
100 min | Drama
The relationship between a teenage son and his mother becomes complicated when they take a secretive young woman into their home.
Director: Yibai Zhang | Stars: Karen Mok, Wenli Jiang, Eason Chan, Bowen Duan
Votes: 223
26. 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: 9,574
27. Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
PG | 125 min | Drama, Romance
China in the 1920s. After her father's death, Songlian is forced to marry the wealthy Master Chen. With three wives already, each living in a separate house, there is fierce competition for his attention and the privileges that are gained.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Gong Li, Jingwu Ma, Saifei He, Cuifen Cao
Votes: 35,349 | Gross: $2.60M
28. The God of Cookery (1996)
95 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
The most renowned and feared chef in the world loses his title of God of Cookery because of his pompous attitude. Humbled, he sets out to reclaim his title.
Directors: Stephen Chow, Lik-Chi Lee | Stars: Stephen Chow, Karen Mok, Vincent Kok, Man-Tat Ng
Votes: 9,843
29. Yi Yi (2000)
Not Rated | 173 min | Drama, Romance
Each member of a middle-class Taipei family seeks to reconcile past and present relationships within their daily lives.
Director: Edward Yang | Stars: Nien-Jen Wu, Elaine Jin, Issei Ogata, Kelly Lee
Votes: 28,418 | Gross: $1.14M
30. Jian Bing Man (2015)
113 min | Comedy
A story of a disgraced actor struggling to find a way back to the top, finding the meaning of true friends on the way.
Director: Da Peng | Stars: Da Peng, Shanshan Yuan, Yan Liu, Sandra Kwan Yue Ng
Votes: 1,405
31. Double Xposure (2012)
105 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When Song Qi stumbles upon her boyfriend's affair with her best friend, her life quickly starts falling apart and she is subsequently drawn into a quicksand of revenge and murder. Though ... See full summary »
Director: Yu Li | Stars: Bingbing Fan, Shaofeng Feng, Siyan Huo, Anlian Yao
Votes: 492
32. Hot Summer Days (2010)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Romance
The whole city is burning up during the hottest summer on record. Tempers flare, irrational feelings erupt and the impossible becomes possible. And in every corner of the city, love explodes like fireworks.
Directors: Tony Chan, Wing Shya | Stars: Nicholas Tse, Jacky Cheung, Rene Liu, Vivian Hsu
Votes: 936
33. Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (2013)
PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Tang Sanzang, an aspiring Buddhist hero tries to protect a village from three demons. He develops complex feelings for Miss Duan, the demon hunter who repeatedly helps him, and finally quests to meet the legendary Monkey King.
Directors: Stephen Chow, Chi-Kin Kwok | Stars: Zhang Wen, Shu Qi, Huang Bo, Show Lo
Votes: 13,981 | Gross: $0.02M
34. A Chinese Odyssey: Part One - Pandora's Box (1995)
87 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
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.
Director: Jeffrey Lau | Stars: Stephen Chow, Man-Tat Ng, Kar-Ying Law, Kit Ying Lam
Votes: 8,410
35. Platform (2000)
154 min | Drama, History
A theatre troupe from rural Fenyang struggles under the decline of communism and rise of popular culture in China in the 1980s.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Hongwei Wang, Tao Zhao, Liang Jingdong, Tian-yi Yang
Votes: 3,076
36. The Hole (1998)
95 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical
While never-ending rain and a strange disease spread by cockroaches ravage Taiwan, a plumber makes a hole between two apartments and the inhabitants of each form a unique connection, enacted in musical numbers.
Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Stars: Kuei-Mei Yang, Kang-sheng Lee, Miao Tien, Hui-Chin Lin
Votes: 4,406
37. Blue Gate Crossing (2002)
85 min | Drama, Romance
An is-she-or-isn't-she gay comedy focused on a Taiwanese teen, the boy she might like, and the girl she may love.
Director: Chih-yen Yee | Stars: Gwei Lun-Mei, Chen Bo-lin, Yolin Liang, Joanna Chou
Votes: 4,376
38. 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: 7,308 | Gross: $0.07M
39. The Continent (2014)
105 min | Comedy, Drama
Three men living in the Eastern most island of China go on a road trip to the Western most end of the country, and facing crises of love, friendship, and faith on their journey to the West.
Director: Han Han | Stars: Shaofeng Feng, Chen Bo-lin, Wallace Chung, Luodan Wang
Votes: 1,863
40. Made in Hong Kong (1997)
109 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Autumn Moon (Sam Lee), a low-rent triad living in Hong Kong, struggles to find meaning in his hopelessly violent existence.
Director: Fruit Chan | Stars: Sam Lee, Neiky Hui-Chi Yim, Wenders Li, Ka-Chuen Tam
Votes: 3,005
41. Go Lala Go! (2010)
100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Du Lala is an up and coming corporate woman in the DB company. But can she juggle love and business at the same time?
Director: Jinglei Xu | Stars: Jinglei Xu, Stanley Huang, Kaitong Jiang, Ai Li
Votes: 719
42. The Witness (2015)
PG-13 | 112 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After escaping an abduction attempt, a blind woman and the young man who witnessed the crime aid the police in trying to identify the man responsible.
Director: Sang-hoon Ahn | Stars: Mi Yang, Han Lu, Jingchun Wang, Yawen Zhu
Votes: 787 | Gross: $0.16M
43. Oxhide (2005)
Not Rated | 110 min | Documentary, Drama
Daily life in an impossibly cramped Beijing apartment takes on epic proportions in this, intimate portrait, with unprecedented access, of a working-class Chinese family.
Director: Jiayin Liu | Stars: Huifen Jia, Jiayin Liu, Zaiping Liu
Votes: 269
44. The Last Women Standing (2015)
PG-13 | 96 min | Romance
A single woman (Shu Qi) in Shanghai has a mother obsessed with getting her a husband - having her mother's single doctor pushed at her. A handsome young man starts working at her office.
Director: Luo Luo | Stars: Shu Qi, Eddie Peng, Hong Pan, Shih-Chieh King
Votes: 385
45. Breakup Buddies (2014)
116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Recently cuckolded and reeling from a messy divorce, a hapless former singer hits the road and the bar with his all-too-helpful best bud.
Director: Ning Hao | Stars: Huang Bo, Zheng Xu, Quan Yuan, Dongyu Zhou
Votes: 1,810 | Gross: $0.77M
46. Devil and Angel (2015)
124 min | Comedy
An unscrupulous troublemaker suffering from erectile dysfunction has his world turned sideways, as an angel from above teaches him the consequences of sex and love, and why the two cannot be forced.
Directors: Chao Deng, Baimei Yu | Stars: Chao Deng, Li Sun, Lele Dai, Chao Liang
Votes: 338 | Gross: $0.13M
47. Love in the Buff (2012)
Not Rated | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Former lovers Jimmy and Cherie discover that getting over each other isn't as easy as they thought in this sequel to the romantic comedy Love in a Puff.
Director: Ho-Cheung Pang | Stars: Miriam Chin-Wah Yeung, Shawn Yue, Mi Yang, Zheng Xu
Votes: 1,963
48. Hollywood Hong Kong (2001)
108 min | Comedy
A prostitute named Tong Tong enters the life of a man who runs a barbecue pork restaurant and quickly begins to ruin his life, as well as the life of his two rotund sons, and a local gangster.
Director: Fruit Chan | Stars: Xun Zhou, Glen Chin, You-Nam Wong, Sze Ping Leung
Votes: 752
49. Lost in Hong Kong (2015)
Not Rated | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The film follows Xu Lai, a former artist whose dreams were dashed when the responsibilities of life set in. With his life now revolving around his wife Cai Bo who is obsessed with having ... See full summary »
Director: Zheng Xu | Stars: Zheng Xu, Wei Zhao, Bei'er Bao, Du Juan
Votes: 1,890 | Gross: $1.30M
50. Goodbye Mr. Loser (2015)
104 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
After attending a wedding of his high school crush Qiuya, Xia Luo gets drunk embarrassing himself and angers his wife Ma Dongmei.
Directors: Da-Mo Peng, Fei Yan | Stars: Teng Shen, Li Ma, Zheng Yin, Lun Ai
Votes: 3,527 | Gross: $1.29M
51. Aberdeen (2014)
97 min | Family
The extended Cheng family, which, like Aberdeen harbor's Chinese namesake, represents today's "Little Hong Kong" and its myriad of contradictions between traditions and modernity; superstitions and materialism; family and individuality.
Director: Ho-Cheung Pang | Stars: Louis Koo, Gigi Leung, Eric Tsang, Miriam Chin-Wah Yeung
Votes: 692
52. 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
53. Kaili Blues (2015)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, Mystery
While travelling the countryside to locate his nephew, a small town doctor finds himself interacting with people from his past and future.
Director: Bi Gan | Stars: Yongzhong Chen, Feiyang Luo, Lixun Xie, Guangqian Qin
Votes: 4,358 | Gross: $0.03M
54. Na jian feng kuang de xiao shi jiao ai qing (2016)
95 min | Comedy, Romance
Director: Snow Zou | Stars: Romualdo Castillo, William Chan, Jessica Jung, Yixin Tang
Votes: 77
55. MBA Partners (2016)
101 min | Comedy, Romance
Lu Zhenxi had a dream since her childhood, to become just like her uncle, a successful entrepreneur. But when her "Big American Dream" comes down crashing, she is left rejected, and returns... See full summary »
Director: Tae You Chang | Stars: Chen Yao, Lei Hao, Yan Tang, Aaron Kwok
Votes: 142
56. One Day (2010)
93 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
A visual love poem of magical realism.
Director: Chi-jan Hou | Stars: Bryan Shu-Hao Chang, Nikki Hsieh, Gwen Yao
Votes: 505
57. Skiptrace (2016)
PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A detective from Hong Kong teams up with an American gambler to battle against a notorious Chinese criminal.
Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Jackie Chan, Johnny Knoxville, Bingbing Fan, Eric Tsang
Votes: 22,407 | Gross: $0.00M
58. Night Peacock (2015)
85 min | Drama, Romance
Elsa, a Chinese musician born in France, travels to Chengdu for work. There she meets silk scholar Rong who also plays the flute. Through his music, she falls in love with the middle-aged ... See full summary »
Director: Sijie Dai | Stars: Liu Yifei, Leon Lai, Ye Liu, Shaoqun Yu
Votes: 191
59. 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: 2,484 | Gross: $0.44M
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