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The Great Wall (2016) A mystery centered around the construction of the Great Wall of China.

Hero (2002) In ancient China, before the reign of the first emperor, warring factions throughout the Six Kingdoms plot to assassinate the most powerful ruler, Qin. When a minor official defeats Qin's three principal enemies, he is summoned to the palace to tell Qin the story of his surprising victor

House of Flying Daggers (2004) During the reign of the Tang dynasty in China, a secret organization called "The House of the Flying Daggers" rises and opposes the government. A police officer called Leo sends officer Jin to investigate a young dancer named Mei, claiming that she has ties to the "Fly

Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia 2006 China, Later Tang Dynasty, 10th Century On the eve of the Chong Yang Festival, golden flowers fill the Imperial Palace The Emperor Chow Yun Fat returns unexpectedly with his second son, Prince Jai Jay Chou His pretext is to celebrate the holiday with his family,

Snipers 2022 The story of sharpshooter Zhang Taofang, a young army recruit who at age 22 sets a record during the Korean War by reportedly killing or wounding 214 American soldiers with 435 shots in just 32 days

In 1937 China, during the second Sino-Japanese war, a mortician, John (Christian Bale) arrives at a Catholic church in Nanjing to prepare a priest for burial. Upon arrival he finds himself the lone adult among a group of convent girl students and prostitutes from a nearby brothel. When he finds hims

To Live (1994) Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry. Addicted to gambling, Fugui loses everything. In the years that follow he is pressed into both the nationalist and communist armies, while Jiazhen is forced int

The Road Home (1999) City businessman Luo Yusheng returns to his home village in North China for the funeral of his father, the village teacher. He finds his elderly mother insisting that all the traditional burial customs be observed, despite the fact that times have changed so much, and that it in

Red Sorghum (1988) In 1930s China a young woman is sent by her father to marry the leprous owner of a winery. In the nearby red sorghum fields she falls for one of his servants. When the master dies she finds herself inheriting the isolated business.

Shadow (2018) Life and intrigue in an ancient Chinese court.

Raise the Red Lantern (1991) China in the 1920's. After her father's death, nineteen year old Songlian is forced to marry Chen Zuoqian, the lord of a powerful family. Fifty year old Chen has already three wives, each of them living in separate houses within the great castle. The competition between

Xuan ya zhi shang (2021) In the puppet state of Manchukuo in the 1930s, four Communist party special agents, afterreturning to China, embark on a secret mission. Sold out by a traitor, the team find themselves surrounded by threats on all sides.

Full River Red 2023 A pawn tries to get rid of a traitorous minister, Qin Hui, when he leads an army to the border for talks with a Jurchen mission

Qiu Ju da guan si 1992 A pregnant peasant woman seeks redress from the Chinese bureaucracy after the village chief kicks her husband in the groin in this comedy of justice As she is frustrated by each level of the hierarchy and travels farther and farther away from the countryside the viewer is also

Yao a yao, yao dao wai po qiao 1995 Uncle Liu brings his cousin to Shanghai to work for Boss, the leader of a powerful drug empire in the 1930s Shuisheng, a simple country boy is awed and overwhelmed by the opulence and immense wealth he is suddenly surrounded by He is to be the attendant of Xiao Ji

Qian li zou dan qi 2005 In a village of fishermen in Japan, Takata misses his son Kenichi, to whom he has been estranged for many years When his daughter in law Rie tells him that Kenichi is sick in the hospital, she suggests Takata to come to Tokyo to visit his son in the hospital where he would ha

One Second 2020 A movie fan in a remote farmland strikes a relationship with a homeless female vagabond

At boss Wang's traditional Chinese noodle shop, a colourful and exotic Persian trader of arms introduces the shop owner's wife to the weapons of the West, and consequently, to mankind's greatest invention: the handgun. As a result, the woman excited with her newest acquisition that kills instantly,