FR #67 | Movie | Adventure, Action | Hong Kong, Taiwan | Mandarin, Chinese
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 #307 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Adventure | USA, Canada | Mandarin, English
Director
Denis Villeneuve
Writer
Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve, Eric Roth
Cast
Timothee Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya
Plot
Paul Atreides arrives on Arrakis after his father accepts the stewardship of the dangerous planet. However, chaos ensues after a betrayal as forces clash to control melange, a precious resource.
FR #571 | Movie | Musical, Drama | China, Hong Kong | Mandarin, Chinese
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 #585 | Movie | Romance, Drama | China, Hong Kong | Mandarin, Chinese
Director
Yimou Zhang
Writer
Tong Su, Ni Zhen
Cast
Gong LI, Jingwu Ma, Saifei He
Plot
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 ar...
FR #1038 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | USA, Canada | Mandarin, Russian
Director
Denis Villeneuve
Writer
Eric Heisserer, Ted Chiang
Cast
Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker
Plot
Linguist Louise Banks leads a team of investigators when gigantic spaceships touch down around the world. As nations teeter on the verge of global war, Banks and her crew must find a way to communicate with the extraterrestrial vi...
FR #1070 | Movie | Biography, Action | China, Hong Kong | Mandarin, Japanese
Director
Wilson Yip
Writer
Edmond Wong, Tai-Lee Chan
Cast
Donnie Yen, Simon Yam, Louis Fan
Plot
During the Japanese invasion of China, a wealthy martial artist is forced to leave his home when his city is occupied. With little means of providing for themselves, Ip Man and the remaining members of the city must find a way to ...
FR #1302 | Movie | Crime, Thriller | USA, France | Mandarin, Italian
Director
Steven Soderbergh
Writer
George Clayton Johnson, Jack Golden Russell, Harry Brown
Cast
George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts
Plot
Danny Ocean, a gangster, rounds up a gang of associates to stage a sophisticated and elaborate casino heist which involves robbing three Las Vegas casinos simultaneously during a popular boxing event.
FR #1313 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Taiwan, USA | Mandarin, French
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 #2211 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | Mandarin, English
Director
Frank Capra
Writer
Robert Riskin, James Hilton, Sidney Buchman
Cast
Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton
Plot
When a revered diplomat's plane is diverted and crashes in the peaks of Tibet, he and the other survivors are guided to an isolated monastery at Shangri-La, where they wrestle with the invitation to stay.
FR #2379 | Movie | Action, Drama | Hong Kong | Mandarin, Cantonese
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 #4005 | TV | Romance, Drama | Taiwan | Mandarin, Min Nan
Cast
Dongqin Liu, Benjamin Tsang, Yan-Ting Chen
Plot
Sheng Wang, a high school transfer student, immediately clashes with classmate Jiang Tian. Their lives intertwine when their parents marry, forcing them to adapt as stepbrothers while dealing with family dynamics and a budding rom...
FR #4276 | Movie | Animation, Action | Japan, USA | Mandarin, Japanese
Director
Masahiro Ando
Writer
Masahiro Ando, Fumihiko Takayama
Cast
Tomoya Nagase, Yuri Chinen, Koichi Yamadera
Plot
A swordsman from a strange land is caught in a struggle between morality, righteousness, and devotion as he reluctantly agrees to take a raggedy boy and his dog to a remote, Buddhist temple.
FR #4563 | Movie | History, Drama | China, Hong Kong | Mandarin, Japanese
Director
Yimou Zhang
Writer
Heng Liu, Geling Yan
Cast
Christian Bale, Ni Ni, Xinyi Zhang
Plot
An American finds refuge during the 1937 Japanese invasion of Nanking in a church with a group of women. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.
FR #4812 | Movie | Romance, Drama | China, Japan | Mandarin, English
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 #5566 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Taiwan, USA | Mandarin, English
Director
Ang Lee
Writer
Ang Lee, Neil Peng, James Schamus
Cast
Winston Chao, May Chin, Ah-Lei Gua
Plot
To satisfy his nagging parents, a gay landlord and a female tenant agree to a marriage of convenience, but his parents arrive to visit and things get out of hand.
FR #5576 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Argentina, Spain | Mandarin, Spanish
Director
Sebastian Borensztein
Writer
Sebastian Borensztein
Cast
Ricardo Darin, Ignacio Huang, Carolina Hsu
Plot
A well-ordered hardware store owner in Buenos Aires will see his life turn upside down when he helps a stranded Chinese man who doesn't speak a word of Spanish find his uncle in the bustling city. But can this coexistence bear fruit?
FR #5810 | Movie | Romance, Drama | China, Hong Kong | Mandarin, Hindi
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 #5814 | Movie | Action, Drama | China, Hong Kong | Mandarin, Hindi
Director
Yimou Zhang
Writer
Zhihong Bian, Yu Cao, Nan Wu
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 #6113 | Movie | Drama | Taiwan, France | Mandarin, 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 #6526 | Movie | Crime, Drama | China, Hong Kong | Mandarin, English
Director
Derek Tsang
Writer
Wing-Sum Lam, Yuan LI, Yimeng Xu
Cast
Dongyu Zhou, Jackson Yee, Fang Yin
Plot
While she copes with the pressures of her final examinations, a bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants.
FR #6872 | Movie | Action, Drama | Hong Kong | Mandarin, Cantonese
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 #6882 | Movie | Crime, Action | Hong Kong | Mandarin, Chinese
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 #7312 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Hong Kong | Mandarin, Cantonese
Director
Johnnie To
Writer
Nai-Hoi Yau, Tin-Shing Yip
Cast
Louis Koo, Simon Yam, Nick Cheung
Plot
As election time nears, current Triad chairman Lok (Yam) faces competition from his godsons. At the same time, Jimmy (Koo) looks to increase his business relations with mainland China.
FR #7316 | Movie | Adventure, Action | China, Hong Kong | Mandarin, Chinese
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 #7371 | Movie | Biography, Drama | Taiwan | Mandarin, Hakka
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 #7560 | Movie | Drama | Hong Kong, China | Mandarin, Hindi
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 #7621 | Movie | Action, Drama | Hong Kong, Taiwan | Mandarin, Chinese
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 #7737 | TV | Adventure, Action | China | Mandarin, Chinese
Cast
Zhan Xiao, Yibo Wang, Zhuocheng 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 #8321 | Movie | Comedy, Action | Hong Kong, UK | Mandarin, Cantonese
Director
Corey Yuen
Writer
Kin Chung Chan, Susan Godfrey, Jeffrey Lau
Cast
Jet LI, Josephine Siao, Michelle Reis
Plot
Martial artists join Red Lotus Flower Society to overthrow evil emperor. Governor hunts society members. Kung fu practitioner falls for merchant's daughter amid kung fu contest for her hand. Gender role reversal comedy ensues.
FR #8646 | TV | Adventure, Action | China | Mandarin, Chinese
Cast
Liu Xiao Ling Tong, Dehua Ma, Huaili Yan
Plot
Participate in the legendary long pilgrimage of Tang Dynasty Buddhist monk Tang Shen, who traveled to the western regions of Central Asia and India to obtain sacred Buddhist texts.
FR #9240 | TV | Animation, Crime | China | Mandarin, Chinese
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 #9269 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Taiwan, Argentina | Mandarin, Spanish
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 | Mandarin, Chinese
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 #10079 | Movie | Comedy, Crime | China, Hong Kong | Mandarin, Korean
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 #10241 | TV | Romance, Drama | China | Mandarin, Chinese
Cast
Lusi Zhao, Zheyuan Chen, Zhang Jiong Min
Plot
Sang Zhi falls in love with Duan Jia Xu, the boy who often comes to her house to play with her brother. Years after she joins the university in the city he now lives, and during their day-to-day interactions, they slowly fall in l...
FR #10322 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, China | Mandarin, English
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 #10376 | Movie | Action, Drama | Hong Kong, Japan | Mandarin, Japanese
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 #10492 | TV | Animation, Action | China | Mandarin, Chinese
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 #10824 | Movie | History, Drama | Japan, China | Mandarin, Polish
Director
Kaige Chen
Writer
Hiroshi Aramata, Kaige Chen, Peigong Wang
Cast
Gong LI, Fengyi Zhang, Zhou Sun
Plot
In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king's cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty faltering.
FR #10879 | Movie | Action, Drama | Hong Kong | Mandarin, Chinese
Director
Cheh Chang
Writer
Cheh Chang, Kuang Ni
Cast
Tien-Chi Cheng, Tien-Hsiang Lung, Meng Lo
Plot
A Chinese martial arts school is infiltrated and destroyed by ninjas. Tian Hao survives the massacre and seeks to uncover the trickery of ninjutsu in order to beat the Five Element Ninjas and avenge his family.
FR #11323 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | China | Mandarin, Italian
Director
Yang Zhang
Writer
Yang Zhang, Fendou Liu, Xin Huo
Cast
Jiayi Du, Zheng Fang, Bing He
Plot
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.
FR #11572 | Movie | Biography, Drama | China | Mandarin, Japanese
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 #11625 | Movie | Comedy, Action | Hong Kong, Italy | Mandarin, Cantonese
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 #11878 | Movie | SuperHeroes, Action | Hong Kong, Mexico | Mandarin, Cantonese
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 #12073 | Movie | Crime, Drama | China, Hong Kong | Mandarin, Cantonese
Director
Wai Keung Lau, Alan Mak
Writer
Alan Mak, Felix Chong
Cast
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Andy Lau, Leon Lai
Plot
Months after the events of the original film, Ming suspects a police superintendent as being a new mole for the triads, while years earlier, Yan embarks on his first mission.
FR #12525 | Movie | Crime, Action | Hong Kong, China | 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 #12769 | Movie | Adventure, Action | China, Hong Kong | Mandarin, Chinese
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 #13032 | Movie | Adventure, Action | China | Mandarin, Spanish
Director
Frant Gwo
Writer
Cixin Liu, Hongwei Wang, Yang Zhixue
Cast
Jing Wu, Yi Sha, Yanmanzi Zhu
Plot
Humans built huge engines on the surface of the earth to find a new home. But the road to the universe is perilous. In order to save earth, young people once again have to step forward to start a race against time for life and death.
FR #13077 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Taiwan, France | Mandarin, Chinese
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 #13269 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | Taiwan, China | Mandarin, Min Nan
Director
Yu Shan Chen
Writer
Yung-Ting Tseng
Cast
Vivian Sung, Talu Wang, Dino Lee
Plot
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 #13318 | Movie | History, Drama | China, Hong Kong | Mandarin, Tamil
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 #13437 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | China | Mandarin, Chinese
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.
FR #13573 | Movie | Crime, Action | China, Hong Kong | Mandarin, Chinese
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 #13624 | Movie | History, Drama | China | Mandarin, Chinese
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 #14074 | Movie | Drama | China, USA | Mandarin, Chinese
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 #14776 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | France, Russia | Mandarin, Mongolian
Director
Nikita Mikhalkov
Writer
Rustam Ibragimbekov, Nikita Mikhalkov
Cast
Badema, Bayaertu, Vladimir Gostyukhin
Plot
A curious friendship develops between Gombo, a young Mongolian shepherd living with his wife and family in a hut, deep in the wilderness of the steppes, and Sergei, a Russian worker whose truck breaks down not far from Gombo's hut.
