FR #62 | Movie | Adventure, Action | Hong Kong, Taiwan | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Ang Lee
Writer
Hui-Ling Wang, James Schamus, Kuo Jung Tsai
Cast
Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang
Plot
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.
FR #567 | Movie | Musical, Drama | China, Hong Kong | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Kaige Chen
Writer
Pik-Wah Lee, Wei Lu
Cast
Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Gong LI
Plot
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.
FR #575 | Movie | Romance, Drama | China, Hong Kong | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Yimou Zhang
Writer
Tong Su, Ni Zhen
Cast
Gong LI, Jingwu Ma, Saifei He
Plot
A young woman becomes the fourth concubine of a wealthy man and soon realizes there's fierce competition for his attention and the associated privileges.
FR #1252 | Movie | Action, Horror | USA, Australia | Chinese, English
Director
Ryan Coogler
Writer
Ryan Coogler
Cast
Michael B. Jordan, Jack O'Connell, Hailee Steinfeld
Plot
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
FR #1572 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Taiwan, USA | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Ang Lee
Writer
Ang Lee, James Schamus, Hui-Ling Wang
Cast
Sihung Lung, Kuei-Mei Yang, Wang Yu-Wen
Plot
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.
FR #2377 | Movie | Action, Drama | Hong Kong | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Wei Lo
Writer
Wei Lo
Cast
Bruce Lee, Nora Miao, James Tien
Plot
During the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, the star pupil of a recently-deceased martial arts teacher battles a Japanese dojo which seeks the demise of his master's fighting school.
FR #2746 | Movie | Animation, Action | China | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Yu Yang
Writer
Xixing Lu, Zhonglin Xu, Yu Yang
Cast
Yanting Lu, Joseph, Mo Han
Plot
After a great catastrophe, the souls of Nezha and Aobing are saved, but their bodies face ruin. To give them new life, Taiyi Zhenren turns to the mystical seven-colored lotus in a daring bid to rebuild them and change their fate.
FR #4567 | Movie | Romance, Drama | China, Japan | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Yimou Zhang, Fengliang Yang
Writer
Heng Liu
Cast
Gong LI, Wei LI, Baotian LI
Plot
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.
FR #5816 | Movie | Romance, Drama | China, Hong Kong | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Wen Jiang
Writer
Wen Jiang, Shuo Wang
Cast
Yu Xia, Wei Chen, Shaobo Dai
Plot
Beijing, 1970s. Now that the CR has driven most adults to the provinces, 14-year-old Monkey and his pals have free reign over the city. They hang around, get up to no good, and discover that unsolvable mystery referred to as "girls."
FR #5817 | Movie | Action, Drama | China, Hong Kong | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Yimou Zhang
Writer
Nan Wu, Zhihong Bian, Yu Cao
Cast
Chow Yun-Fat, Gong LI, Jay Chou
Plot
During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself.
FR #6116 | Movie | Drama | Taiwan, France | Chinese, Min Nan
Director
Edward Yang
Writer
T'Ien-Wen Chu, Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Edward Yang
Cast
Chin Tsai, Hsiao-Hsien Hou, I-Chen Ko
Plot
Lung is a former member of the national Little League team who lives with his old childhood sweetheart Ah-chin, a traditional family woman. Although they live together, Ah-chin is weary of Lung's past liaison with another girl.
FR #6238 | TV | Drama | USA, China | Chinese, English
Writer
Danny Strong
Cast
Michael Keaton, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg
Plot
The series takes viewers to the epicenter of America's struggle with opioid addiction, from the boardrooms of Purdue Pharma, to a distressed Virginia mining community, to the hallways of the DEA.
FR #6743 | TV | Adventure, Action | China | Chinese, Mandarin
Cast
Zhan Xiao, Kai Xu, Yibo Wang
Plot
Two talented disciples from respected clans meet during their youth and form a close affinity, only to be separated by dire circumstances. Sixteen years later, can they unravel the tragedy of the past to solve the mysteries of the...
FR #6882 | Movie | Crime, Action | Hong Kong | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
King Hu
Writer
King Hu, Shan-Hsi Ting
Cast
Pei-Pei Cheng, Yueh Hua, Chih-Ching Yang
Plot
Bandits kidnap a governor's son and demand their imprisoned leader to be set free in exchange. The governor's daughter, a skilled martial artist, is sent to rescue him, but eventually finds herself overmatched and in need of assis...
FR #7124 | Movie | Action, Drama | Hong Kong | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Cheh Chang
Writer
Kuang Ni, Cheh Chang
Cast
Sheng Chiang, Chien Sun, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok
Plot
The sixth and final disciple of a dying martial arts master is instructed to find the master's five former disciples, each specializing in their own unique kung fu style, and defeat any evil ones amongst them.
FR #7569 | Movie | Drama | Hong Kong, China | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Jia Zhang-Ke
Writer
Jia Zhang-Ke, Na Guan, Jiamin Sun
Cast
Tao Zhao, Zhou Lan, Sanming Han
Plot
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.
FR #7622 | Movie | Biography, Drama | Taiwan | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Writer
T'Ien-Wen Chu, Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Cast
Yu An-Shun, Chia-Bao Chang, Neng Chang
Plot
The semi-autobiographical film on director Hou Hsiao-Hsien's childhood and adolescence, when he was growing up in Taiwan, living through the deaths of his father, mother and grandmother.
FR #7813 | Movie | Adventure, Action | China, Hong Kong | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Wai-Man Yip
Writer
Tin-Nam Chun, Junli Guo, Jiping He
Cast
Jet LI, Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro
Plot
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.
FR #8122 | Movie | Action, Drama | Hong Kong, Taiwan | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Jimmy Wang Yu
Writer
Jimmy Wang Yu
Cast
Jimmy Wang Yu, Tien Wu Chu, Kang Chin
Plot
After his students are killed by the One Armed Boxer, a vengeful and blind Kung Fu expert travels to a village where a martial arts contest is being held and vows to behead every one armed man he comes across.
FR #9232 | TV | Animation, Crime | China | Chinese, Mandarin
Cast
Tianxiang Yang, Yi LI, Alejandro Saab
Plot
Using superpowers to enter their clientele's photos one by one, Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang take their work seriously at "Time Photo Studio," a small photography shop set in the backdrop of a modern metropolis.
FR #9238 | TV | Animation, Action | China | Chinese, Mandarin
Writer
Xiaofeng He
Cast
Zhen Zhang, Jas Patrick, Jill Bartlett
Plot
Seeking to recover his memories, a scissor-wielding hairdresser, bungling quasi-assassin stumbles into a struggle for power among three feuding factions.
FR #9267 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Taiwan, Argentina | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Giddens Ko
Writer
Giddens Ko
Cast
Kai Ko, Michelle Chen, Shao-Wen Hao
Plot
A group of close friends who attend a private school all have a debilitating crush on the sunny star pupil, Shen Jiayi. The only member of the group who claims not to is Ke Jingteng, but he ends up loving her as well.
FR #9878 | Movie | Comedy, Action | China, Hong Kong | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Hsin-Yen Chang
Writer
Hau Sit, Shau-Chang Lu
Cast
Jet LI, Hai Yu, Chenghui Yu
Plot
A young man, hounded by a psychopathic general, learns martial arts at the Shaolin temple to avenge his father's death. To achieve this he forgoes a budding romance with his kungfu master's daughter, a shepherdess.
FR #10329 | Movie | Comedy, Crime | China, Hong Kong | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Hao Ning
Writer
Hao Ning, Xiaojun Yue, Cheng Zhang
Cast
Tao Guo, Teddy Lin, Hua Liu
Plot
What do you get when you have a precious jewel, a group of bumbling thieves intent on getting their hands on it, the mob wanting a piece of the action, and a loyal but mischievous security guard all thrown together? Crazy Stone. I...
FR #10375 | Movie | Action, Drama | Hong Kong, Japan | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Chang-Hwa Jeong
Writer
Yang Chiang
Cast
Lo Lieh, Ping Wang, Hsiung Chao
Plot
As two martial arts schools prepare for an important tournament, one school's master is a dishonorable man, and to ensure his son wins the title, he hires three Japanese samurais, who target the rival school's best fighter.
FR #10831 | Movie | Biography, Drama | China | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Kuo-Fu Chen, Qunshu Gao
Writer
Chia-Lu Chang, Kuo-Fu Chen, Jia Mai
Cast
Xun Zhou, Bingbing LI, Hanyu Zhang
Plot
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 mansion house for questioning. A tense game...
FR #10879 | Movie | Comedy, Action | Hong Kong, Italy | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Chia-Liang Liu
Writer
Kuang Ni
Cast
Chia-Hui Liu, Yuka Mizuno, Yasuaki Kurata
Plot
A Chinese man marries a Japanese martial artist, and they begin to bicker over which country has the better martial arts. It reaches a point where he has to go against Japanese martial artists in different styles to prove who's th...
FR #11084 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, China | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Yimou Zhang
Writer
Feiyu Bi, Bin Wang, LI Xiao
Cast
Gong LI, Baotian LI, Xiaoxiao Wang
Plot
A provincial boy related to a Shanghai crime family is recruited by his uncle into cosmopolitan Shanghai in the 1930s to be a servant to a ganglord's mistress.
FR #11625 | Movie | SuperHeroes, Sci-Fi | Hong Kong, Mexico | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Cheh Chang
Writer
Cheh Chang, Kuang Ni
Cast
Chen Kuan-Tai, Feng Lu, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok
Plot
Three men who have been physically disabled by a vindictive martial arts master and his physically-disabled son ally together and learn kung fu from an elderly martial-artist and his mentally-disabled pupil, so they can avenge the...
FR #12272 | Movie | Romance, Drama | China | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Yimou Zhang
Writer
Geling Yan, Jingzhi Zou, Xiaofeng Zhou
Cast
Gong LI, Daoming Chen, Huiwen Zhang
Plot
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 recogniz...
FR #12579 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Taiwan, France | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Tsai Ming-Liang
Writer
Tsai Ming-Liang, Pi-Ying Yang
Cast
Kuei-Mei Yang, Kang-Sheng Lee, Miao Tien
Plot
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.
FR #12772 | Movie | Drama | Taiwan, France | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Shih-Ching Tsou
Writer
Sean Baker, Shih-Ching Tsou
Cast
Janel Tsai, Shih-Yuan Ma, Nina Ye
Plot
A single mother and her two daughters relocate to Taipei to open a night market stall, each navigating the challenges of adapting to their new environment while striving to maintain family unity.
FR #13033 | Movie | Adventure, Action | China, Hong Kong | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Stephen Chow, Chi-Kin Kwok
Writer
Stephen Chow, Chi-Kin Kwok, Xin Huo
Cast
Zhang Wen, Shu Qi, Huang Bo
Plot
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.
FR #13085 | Movie | History, Drama | China, Hong Kong | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Zhuangzhuang Tian
Writer
Mao Xiao
Cast
Tian Yi, Wenyao Zhang, Xiaoman Chen
Plot
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.
FR #13320 | Movie | Crime, Action | China, Hong Kong | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Xiaogang Feng
Writer
Chia-Lu Chang, Xiaogang Feng, Lisheng Lin
Cast
Andy Lau, Rene Liu, Baoqiang Wang
Plot
A con-team couple (Andy Lau & Rene Liu) head west after taking a city businessman for his BMW. But an encounter with a naive young carpenter travelling home with his life savings challenges their fate as thieves.
FR #13328 | Movie | Drama | China, USA | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Joan Chen
Writer
Joan Chen, Geling Yan
Cast
Xiaolu LI, Lopsang, Zheng Qian
Plot
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 later, she agrees to go to even more remote...
FR #13437 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | China | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Muzhi Yuan
Writer
Muzhi Yuan
Cast
Dan Zhao, Heling Wei, Xuan Zhou
Plot
In 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.
Truly Lin lives a lonely life as an employee in an office. She reminisces about her high school life when she and Tai Yu, the school's notorious student, fall in love with each other.
FR #13887 | Movie | Adventure, Action | Hong Kong, Japan | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Cheh Chang
Writer
Cheh Chang
Cast
Jimmy Wang Yu, Chiao Chiao, Chia Essie Lin
Plot
The One-Armed Swordsman is forced out of retirement by a criminal organization consisting of eight swordsmen, who has forced every clan to send their best to compete against them for swordsman supremacy.
FR #14374 | Movie | History, Drama | China | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Kaige Chen
Writer
Kaige Chen, Lan Ke, Ziliang Zhang
Cast
Xueqi Wang, Bai Xue, Quiang Liu
Plot
A communist soldier travels to Shanbei to collect folk songs for propaganda while visiting a poor peasant family, giving hope to the teenage daughter in escaping an arranged marriage.
FR #15464 | Movie | Horror, Romance | China | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Weibang Ma-Xu
Writer
Gaston Leroux, Weibang Ma-Xu
Cast
Menghe Gu, Ping Hu, Shan Jin
Plot
China'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.
FR #15493 | TV | Adventure, Romance | China | Chinese
Writer
Jidan Chai
Cast
Xu Ning Tian, Liu Xuan Cheng, Zhan Xuan
Plot
After a wealthy ex-girlfriend humiliates him, a poor man plots revenge by pursuing her new boyfriend - a rich heir. His seduction scheme backfires when real feelings develop, leading to complicated emotions and unexpected romance.
FR #15773 | Movie | Crime, Action | Hong Kong, China | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Peter Ho-Sun Chan
Writer
Oi-Wah Lam, Joyce Chan
Cast
Donnie Yen, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tang Wei
Plot
A papermaker gets involved with a murder case concerning two criminals leading to a determined detective suspecting him and the former's vicious father searching for him.
FR #16318 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | China, South Korea | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Kaige Chen
Writer
Kaige Chen, Xiaolu Xue
Cast
Yun Tang, Peiqi Liu, Hong Chen
Plot
A violin prodigy and his father travel to Beijing, where the father seeks the means to his son's success while the son struggles to accept the path laid before him.
FR #16375 | Movie | Drama | Taiwan, Greece | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Writer
T'Ien-Wen Chu
Cast
Doze Niu, Shih Chang, Chung-Hua Tou
Plot
Ah-Ching and his friends have just finished school in their island fishing village, and now spend most of their time drinking and fighting. Three of them decide to go to the port city of Kaohsiung to look for work. They find an ap...
FR #17524 | Movie | Drama, Thriller | China | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Guan Hu
Writer
Guan Hu, Rui Ge, Bing Wu
Cast
Eddie Peng, Liya Tong, Jia Zhang-Ke
Plot
Released from jail, Lang returns to his hometown in Northwest China. As part of a dog patrol tasked with clearing stray dogs before the 2008 Olympics, he bonds with a black stray. The two lonely souls embark on a new journey toget...
FR #17970 | Movie | War, Drama | China | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Chusheng Cai, Junli Zheng
Writer
Chusheng Cai, Junli Zheng
Cast
Yang Bai, Jin Tao, Yinyan Wu
Plot
1930'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 pr...
FR #18375 | Movie | Adventure, Action | Taiwan, Hong Kong | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
King Hu
Writer
King Hu
Cast
Feng Hsu, Yueh Sun, Lin Tung
Plot
In Ming Dynasty China, the abbot of the San Pao Buddhist monastery must choose a successor. Among the high dignitaries invited, there are some who are after the priceless parchment kept in the temple: the Mahayana Sutras.
FR #18523 | Movie | Crime, Drama | China, Hong Kong | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Yi'Nan Diao
Writer
Yi'Nan Diao
Cast
Fan Liao, Lun-Mei Gwei, Xuebing Wang
Plot
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.
FR #19033 | Movie | Drama | China, South Korea | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Ruijun LI
Writer
Ruijun LI
Cast
Renlin Wu, Hai-Qing, Guangrui Yang
Plot
The humble, unassuming Ma and timid Cao have been cast off by their families and forced into an arranged marriage. To survive, they have to come together and build a home for themselves.
FR #19624 | Movie | Action, Drama | Hong Kong | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Cheh Chang
Writer
Kuang Ni
Cast
David Da-Wei Chiang, Ching Lee, Lung Ti
Plot
Lei Li lost his right-arm in a sword duel with the master of a martial arts school, long ago. Now, he is able to defend himself well with just his left arm, and kung fu techniques. That he proves with just the help of his friend C...
FR #19972 | Movie | Drama | China | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Junli Zheng
Writer
Baichen Chen, Gu Liu, Fu Shen
Cast
Dan Zhao, Yinyan Wu, Daolin Sun
Plot
A 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.
FR #20000 | TV | Action, Fantasy | China | Chinese, Mandarin
Writer
Priest
Cast
Zhehan Zhang, Jun Gong, Yiffan Wei
Plot
Zhou Zi Shu gets embroiled in a conspiracy in the martial arts world. He meets Wen Ke Xing who leaves the Ghost Valley to avenge his parents' deaths. They become fast friends and embark on an adventure to find a legendary treasure.
One day a police officer finds a red wedding envelope, only to find out that the owner is in fact a ghost asking for the officer's hand in marriage before reincarnation. What will happen when a human and a ghost form a special bond?
