Movie | Action, Adventure | China, 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.
Movie | Drama, Music | China, Hong Kong | 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.
Movie | Drama, Romance | Hong Kong, China | Mandarin
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...
Movie | Action, Comedy | Hong Kong, China | Mandarin, Cantonese
Director
Stephen Chow
Writer
Stephen Chow, Kan-Cheung Tsang, Xin Huo
Cast
Stephen Chow, Wah Yuen, Qiu Yuen
Plot
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.
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.
Based on a true story, primarily on a conflict between two youth gangs, a 14-year-old boy's girlfriend conflicts with the head of one gang for an unclear reason, until finally the conflict comes to a violent climax.
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.
Movie | Drama, History | Taiwan, USA | Mandarin, Japanese
Director
Ang Lee
Writer
Eileen Chang, James Schamus, Hui-Ling Wang
Cast
Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Tang Wei, Joan Chen
Plot
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.
Movie | Drama, History | China, Hong Kong | Mandarin, English
Director
Chuan Lu
Writer
Chuan Lu
Cast
Ye Liu, Wei Fan, Hideo Nakaizumi
Plot
In 1937, Japan occupied Nanjing, the Chinese capital. There was a battle and subsequent atrocities against the inhabitants, especially those who took refuge in the International Security Zone.
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.
Movie | Action, Adventure | Hong Kong | Mandarin, Cantonese
Director
Bruce Lee
Writer
Bruce Lee
Cast
Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, Nora Miao
Plot
A country bumpkin martial artist visits his relatives in Rome, Italy, where he must defend them and their restaurant against harassment from brutal gangsters.
Movie | Crime, Drama | Hong Kong, China | 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.
Movie | Comedy, Drama | Taiwan | Mandarin, Min Nan
Director
Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Writer
T'ien-wen Chu, Nien-Jen Wu
Cast
Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Shu-Fen Hsin, Sung-Young Chen
Plot
The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror" that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government after their arrival from mainland China in the late 1940s.
Movie | Drama, History | China | 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.
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.
Movie | Drama, History | China | Mandarin, Japanese
Director
Yimou Zhang
Writer
Jianyu Chen, Yan Mo, Wei Zhu
Cast
Gong Li, Wen Jiang, Rujun Teng
Plot
When a leprous winery owner in 1930s China dies a few days after his arranged marriage, his young widow is forced to run the winery to make a living while contending with bandits, her drunkard lover, and the invading Japanese army.
Movie | Action, Crime | Hong Kong | Mandarin, Cantonese
Director
Wei Lo, Chia-Hsiang Wu
Writer
Wei Lo
Cast
Bruce Lee, Maria Yi, James Tien
Plot
A young Chinese man sworn an oath of non-violence moves to Thailand to work with his cousins in an ice factory, which he discovers to be a front for a sinister heroin-smuggling operation.
Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA, China | Mandarin, English
Director
Lulu Wang
Writer
Lulu Wang
Cast
Shuzhen Zhao, Awkwafina, X Mayo
Plot
A Chinese family discovers their grandmother has only a short while left to live and decide to keep her in the dark, scheduling a wedding to gather before she dies.
Movie | Drama, Romance | China, Hong Kong | 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."
Movie | Action, Drama | Hong Kong, China | Mandarin
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.
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...
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...
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.
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.
Movie | Drama, Music | Hong Kong, Taiwan | Mandarin, English
Director
Jay Chou
Writer
Jay Chou, Chi-Long To
Cast
Jay Chou, Lun-Mei Gwei, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong
Plot
Ye Xiang Lun, a talented piano player is a new student at the prestigious Tamkang School. On his first day, he meets Lu Xiao Yu, a pretty girl playing a mysterious piece of music.
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.
The story of how a small drugstore owner became the exclusive selling agent of a cheap Indian generic drug against Chronic Granulocytic Leukemia in China.
Movie | Action, Adventure | Hong Kong, China | 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.
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.
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.
Movie | Action, Drama | Hong Kong, Taiwan | 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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Movie | Action, Comedy | China, Hong Kong | 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.
Japanese troops round up Chinese and Russian prisoners of war and take them to unit 731, where they're horribly tortured and experimented on to test new biological weapons.
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.
Movie | Action, Comedy | Hong Kong | 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...
Movie | Action, Crime | 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.
Movie | Action, Drama | Hong Kong | 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...
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.
Movie | Comedy, Crime | China, Hong Kong | 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...
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...
Set in Beijing during the 1970s, follows the personal growth and struggles of a group of young people in the midst of China's wave of reform and opening up.
Movie | Action, Adventure | China, Hong Kong | 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.
In a remote area of China, in the 1930s, a street performer named Wang practices the change-mask opera art of bian lian. Seeking to pass his art, Wang buys what he believes to be an orphan boy, but quickly learns his new disciple'...
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.
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.
