FR #303 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Adventure | USA, Canada | Mandarin, French
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 #1052 | 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 #1753 | TV | Adventure, Drama | USA, India | Mandarin, Cantonese
Writer
Joss Whedon
Cast
Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk
Plot
A renegade crew aboard a small spacecraft tries to survive as they travel the unknown parts of the galaxy and evade warring factions as well as authority agents out to get them.
FR #2219 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | Mandarin, English
Director
Frank Capra
Writer
Robert Riskin, James Hilton, Sidney Buchman
Cast
Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, Thomas Mitchell
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 #2628 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Taiwan, France | 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.
FR #3290 | Movie | 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.
FR #3742 | TV | Fantasy, Animation | China | Mandarin, Chinese
Writer
Cuttlefish That Loves Diving
Cast
Joshua Waters, Blake Mcnamara, Yang Kaiqi
Plot
Zhou Mingrui awakens in the body of Klein Moretti in a Victorian world of steam and hidden magic. As a new Beyonder, he confronts secret societies and dark rituals while seeking the truth behind his mysterious transmigration.
FR #3882 | Movie | History, Drama | 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.
FR #4129 | Movie | Crime, Action | 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.
FR #5039 | Movie | History, Drama | China, Turkey | 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 #6067 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Taiwan, USA | Mandarin, Korean
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 #7074 | 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 #7901 | 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 #8233 | TV | Drama, Romance | 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 #8997 | TV | Drama, Romance | 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 #11127 | Movie | History, Drama | Hong Kong | Mandarin, Cantonese
Director
Tun-Fei Mou
Writer
Mei Liu, Wen Yuan Mou, Dun Jing Teng
Cast
Dai Yao Wu, Gang Wang, Ying Git Wong
Plot
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.
FR #11128 | 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 #11577 | Movie | History, Drama | Japan, China | Mandarin, English
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 #11828 | 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 #14075 | Movie | Horror, Drama | Hong Kong | Mandarin, Cantonese
Director
Fruit Chan
Writer
Pik-Wah Lee
Cast
Bai Ling, Miriam Chin-Wah Yeung, Sum-Yeung Wong
Plot
Aunt Mei's famous homemade dumplings provide amazing age-defying qualities popular with middle-aged women. But her latest customer - a fading actress - is determined to find out what the secret ingredient is.
FR #14290 | Movie | Action, Adventure | USA, Germany | Mandarin, Sanskrit
Director
Rob Cohen
Writer
Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, John L. Balderston
Cast
Brendan Fraser, Jet LI, Maria Bello, Michelle Yeoh
Plot
In the Far East, Alex O'Connell, the son of famed mummy fighters Rick and Evy O'Connell, unearths the mummy of the first Emperor of Qin -- a shape-shifting entity cursed by a witch centuries ago.
FR #15078 | Movie | History, Drama | China, France | Mandarin, German
Director
Ye Lou
Writer
Ye Lou, Yingli Ma, Feng Mei
Cast
Lei Hao, Xiaodong Guo, Xueyun Bai
Plot
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.
FR #15319 | Movie | Crime, Action | Japan | Mandarin, Japanese
Director
Takashi Miike
Writer
Toshiki Kimura
Cast
Sho Aikawa, Riki Takeuchi, Renji Ishibashi
Plot
A yakuza of Chinese descent and a Japanese cop each wage their own war against the Japanese mafia. But they are destined to meet. Their encounter will change the world.
FR #15569 | Movie | Action, Adventure | Hong Kong, China | Mandarin, Cantonese
Director
Stanley Tong
Writer
Stanley Tong, Hui-Ling Wang, Hai-Shu LI
Cast
Bing Shao, Jackie Chan, Weixing Yao
Plot
Archeologist Jack keeps having reoccurring dreams of a past life, where he is the great general Meng Yi, who is sworn to protect a princess named Ok-Soo. Jack decides to go investigate everything with his friend William.
FR #15743 | TV | Drama, Adventure | China | Mandarin, Chinese
Writer
Teng Luo Wei Zhi
Cast
Yunxi Luo, Lu Bai, Ruiyang Sun
Plot
An immortal, Li Susu is destined to time-travel 500 years back to prevent the death of a hostage prince to stop his transformation into the Devil god, who destroys four continents and three realms. Will secrets of time and fate de...
FR #16128 | Movie | Drama | Taiwan | Mandarin, Min Nan
Director
Edward Yang
Writer
Nien-Jen Wu, Edward Yang
Cast
Sylvia Chang, Ming Hsu, Lieh Lee
Plot
Two friends who haven't seen each other for thirteen years reunite. One is a successful concert pianist just back from a European tour and the other has just started a new business.
FR #16567 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Hong Kong, France | Mandarin, Cantonese
Director
Kirk Wong, Jackie Chan
Writer
Tin-Nam Chun, Man-Keung Chan, Lai Ling Cheung
Cast
Jackie Chan, Kent Cheng, Christine Ng
Plot
A Special Agent is assigned to protect a wealthy business magnate. However, when the businessman is kidnapped in a daring ambush, he teams up with a seasoned detective to crack the case. But soon he discovers the case isn't that s...
FR #16741 | TV | Drama, Romance | China | Mandarin, Chinese
Cast
Zhan Xiao, Qin LI, Ruilin Liu
Plot
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.
FR #17134 | TV | Adventure, Action | Hong Kong | Mandarin, Cantonese
Cast
Stephen Chow, Wah Yuen, Shih Kien
Plot
Naive Kwok Ching and selfish Wong Yung's adventures lead to the creation of powerful Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre. Manipulated due to kindness, Kwok influences Wong who aids his quest to defend Han Dynasty against Mongolian invas...
FR #18128 | Movie | Action | Taiwan, Hong Kong | Mandarin, Chinese
Director
Chi-Hwa Chen
Writer
Hsin Chin
Cast
Jackie Chan, Chun-Erh Lung, Kang Chin
Plot
After witnessing the murder of his father, Little Mute trains in Shaolin Temple for revenge and is taught by various teachers, one of which is clandestine.
FR #19128 | Movie | Horror | Hong Kong | Mandarin, Cantonese
Director
Chih-Hung Kuei
Writer
Chih-Hung Kuei, On Szeto
Cast
Phillip Ko, Shao-Yen Lin, Kar-Man Wai
Plot
While in Thailand to avenge his brother who was crippled in a fight with a corrupt Thai boxer, a man gets caught up in a web of fate, Buddhism and black magic.
FR #19503 | Movie | Action | USA, Hong Kong | Mandarin, English
Director
Rza
Writer
Rza, Eli Roth
Cast
Rza, Rick Yune, Russell Crowe
Plot
On the hunt for a fabled treasure of gold, a band of warriors, assassins, and a rogue British soldier descend upon a village in feudal China, where a humble blacksmith looks to defend himself and his fellow villagers.
FR #19511 | Movie | Crime, Action | USA | Mandarin, Russian
Director
Boaz Yakin
Writer
Boaz Yakin
Cast
Jason Statham, Catherine Chan, Chris Sarandon, James Hong
Plot
Mei, a young girl whose memory holds a priceless numerical code, finds herself pursued by the Triads, the Russian mob, and corrupt NYC cops. Coming to her aid is an ex-cage fighter whose life was destroyed by the gangsters on Mei'...
FR #19524 | Movie | Action, History | China, Hong Kong | Mandarin, Latin
Director
Daniel Lee
Writer
Daniel Lee
Cast
Jackie Chan, John Cusack, Adrien Brody
Plot
When corrupt Roman leader Tiberius arrives with a giant army to claim the Silk Road, Huo An teams up his army with an elite Legion of defected Roman soldiers led by General Lucius to protect his country and his new friends.
FR #20008 | TV | Drama, Romance | China | Mandarin
Cast
Jingting Bai, Ruonan Zhang, Edward Chen
Plot
Wen Yifan, a reporter, meets Sang Yan, her former high school crush at a bar. Initially pretending not to recognize each other, circumstances lead them to become housemates. They rekindle their love and reconcile the relationship.
FR #21565 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Taiwan, USA | Mandarin, Min Nan
Director
Te-Sheng Wei
Writer
Te-Sheng Wei
Cast
Van Fan, Chie Tanaka, Min-Hsiung
Plot
A unusual group of people in a village on the coast of Taiwan form a band to perform at a beach concert, while the lead singer searches for the intended recipient of 7 lost love letters.
FR #22415 | Movie | Action, Drama | Hong Kong | Mandarin, Chinese
Director
Cheh Chang
Writer
Kuang Ni
Cast
David Da-Wei Chiang, Lung Ti, Ching Lee
Plot
Ying Ke-Feng, head of Peerless Manor, is an expert swordsman whose escort business transports 200,000 taels of silver to the capital each year. This year, however, he is afflicted with an infirmity that renders him unable to use h...
FR #22512 | Movie | Comedy, Action | USA | Mandarin, English
Director
Michel Gondry
Writer
Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, George W. Trendle
Cast
Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Christoph Waltz, Tom Wilkinson
Plot
Following the death of his father, Britt Reid, heir to his father's large company, teams up with his late dad's assistant Kato to become a masked crime fighting team.
FR #23371 | Movie | Horror, Action | Hong Kong | Mandarin, Cantonese
Director
Ngai Choi Lam
Writer
Jing Wong, Kai-Chi Yuen
Cast
Chow Yun-Fat, Siu-Ho Chin, Maggie Cheung
Plot
An adventurer who's been inflicted with a deadly curse during a previous expedition to Thailand goes back to battle an evil sorcerer, his tribal army, and his deadly creatures.
FR #24869 | Movie | Action, Adventure | Hong Kong | Mandarin, Cantonese
Director
Chung Sun
Writer
Hung Chin, Kuang Ni
Cast
Sheng Fu, Lung Ti, Ku Feng
Plot
A former disciple of a ruthless bandit leader, on the run from his master, teams up with a mysterious martial artist to take down his former colleagues one by one, in order to atone for his past sins.
