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- 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.
- 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.
- Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning dramatisation of the life story of China's last emperor, Pu Yi.
- A young boy is whisked away to the mythical land of Tao where he becomes the center of a conflict between an evil lord and a group of animal warriors.
- A biography of Chinese Martial Arts Master Huo Yuanjia, who is the founder and spiritual guru of the Jin Wu Sports Federation.
- The first chapter of a two-part story centered on a battle fought in China's Three Kingdoms period (220-280 A.D.).
- A broken-hearted hit man moves to the desert where he finds skilled swordsmen to carry out his contract killings.
- A poor Chinese laborer learns important lessons after his son gets a strange new toy.
- 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.
- Second and final part of epic tale about a legendary battle that changed the course of China history.
- A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.
- An old teahouse in Beijing serves as the stage for a drama that unfolds over several tumultuous decades of modern Chinese history, from the waning days of the Qing dynasty to the eve of the People's Republic.
- 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.
- A sister and brother, the last heirs of a family of acrobats, are called upon by a Buddhist monk sect to retrieve an artifact that their ancestors have protected throughout the ages.
- 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.
- Set in 1930s in Shanghai, several love and life stories intertwine between families of watch store, banker, MD, and Big Boss.
- 1375. Nine Koryo warriors, envoys exiled by Imperial China, battle to protect a Chinese Ming Princess from Mongolian troops.
- A seventeen-year-old country boy working in Beijing as a courier has his bicycle stolen, and finds it with a schoolboy his age.
- With World War 2 looming, a prominent family in China must confront the contrasting ideas of traditionalism, communism and Western thinking, while dealing with the most important ideal of all: love and its meaning in society.
- Jackie Chan is the undefeated Kung Fu Master who dishes out the action in traditional Jackie Chan style. When a young boy sets out to learn how to fight from the Master himself, he not only witnesses some spectacular fights, but learns some important life lessons along the way.
- The saga of the Storm Riders continues in this visually spectacular kung fu fantasy based on the classic martial arts comic books of the same name.
- Beijing, 1902: an enterprising young portrait photographer named Liu Jinglun, keen on new technology, befriends a newly-arrived Englishman who's brought projector, camera, and Lumière-brothers' shorts to open the Shadow Magic theater. Liu's work with Wallace brings him conflict with tradition and his father's authority, complicated by his falling in love with Ling, daughter of Lord Tan, star of Beijing's traditional opera. Liu sees movies as his chance to become wealthy and worthy of Ling. When the Shadow Magic pair are invited to show the films to the Empress Dowager, things look good. But, is disaster in the script? And, can movies preserve tradition even as they bring change?
- A love story between an alien and a monk.
- Assassins, scammers, gangsters, cops, a washed-up bicycle racer, and a body continually cross paths; usually with negative outcomes.
- Xiangzi heads to the big city to enjoy the freedom of being a rickshaw boy. In Beijing, a better life eludes the boy from the countryside, and his dream turns into a desperate nightmare. He is humiliated and struggles to feed himself.
- The eight-year marriage of Liyan and Yuwen has left them both unfulfilled and distant. A visitor arrives from Shanghai, a doctor who's an old school friend of Liyan's and, unbeknownst to her husband, Yuwen's childhood sweetheart.
- When her family is killed by the evil Minister Ji Xian for refusing to become his wife, Yunfeng trains in kung-fu while awaiting her opportunity for revenge. She becomes "Sister Thirteen" and her brother fighters plot a plan to end Ji.
- Set in 1950s and 1960s, general Feng Shi and Dr. Lu Guangda coming back from USA lead a team of scientists and soldiers to research and develop China's own atomic bomb in the Gobi Desert of northwest China.
- Chen Ping protects a young boy named "Christophe" from his kidnappers.
- Set in 1970s-1980s. A group of female soldiers retire from army, return to their home city Beijing, and start their respective new lives, winding or wonderful. Several years later, they reunite on the Great Wall and recall military days with affect.
- Set in China in the 1930s, the film is about the unsettling relationship between three characters. Ing'er, the daughter of a theatre-owner, welcomes the return of Shao-dung, her fiancee and a fine cellist from America. Shao-dung soon finds himself captivated by the opera "Fleeing By Night" and its celebrated actor, Lin Chung, whose voice seems to articulate something within himself. While Shao-dung attempts to blend eastern and western music, Ing'er becomes torn between her affection for both men, and an awareness of the growing intimacy between them.
- A blind man's master told him that after he has broken 1000 strings on his Banjo, he can open the Banjo to get a script for his eyes. After 60 years he broke the 1000th string...
- Based off of a real-life story and set between the late 1940s and early 1950s during the liberation of Xinjiang. In a poor village in Kashgar, Xinjiang, Landlord Usman, in an effort to please Commissioner Yiming, offers Anarhan as a concubine. Anarhan, in love with the brave and handsome Kurban, refuses to marry Yiming, and her family becomes brutally persecuted by Usman. At the same time, Yiming joins forces with Inspector Masha to stop the Communist Party from marching into Xinjiang. Rahman, believing that the Communist Party can change their miserable lives, helps the People's Liberation Army and tasked forces arrive to Xinjiang. The villagers engage in a series of struggles to fight the evil landlords that once oppressed them, and finally welcome a new life.
- Before the Revolution of 1911, widow Aunt Xianglin heard that her mother-in-law would sell her. Therefore, she ran to the Lu town and worked as a servant in Lord Lu Si's house, but she made his wife happy because of her diligence. However, her mother-in-law found her and forced her to marry He Laoliu. He Laoliu was honest, tolerant and kind. In order to pay off the debt, he finally exhausted to death and his son was eaten by wolves. Thus, Aunt Xianglin returned to Lord Lu Si's house. She was afraid of being torn limb from limb by Hades, so she contributed her one-year earning to the temple housing the god of earth. When she offered her sacrifices excitedly on the blessing evening, members of Lu family scolded her and drove her out. As a result, she died at the snowy blessing night.
- The story of Li Lianying, a eunuch who wielded power in the waning days of the Qing Dynasty. The film was entered into the 41st Berlin International Film Festival, where it won an Honourable Mention.
- The decline of the Jia clan in imperial China.
- Two people from Beijing working in Los Angeles whose paths constantly cross in a foreign city attempt to balance work with friendship/love in spite of mounting disasters each time they meet.
- Er Dan (Wallace Huo) accidentally traveled to the past to Tang Dynasty. In Tang Dynasty he met Shi Ke Jin (Dylan Luo) whom his elder brother Shi Ke Yan wanted to kill him. Without a doubt he tried to save Shi Ke Jin and brought him back to the future. Because Shi Ke Jin knows so much about the future, he decided to go back to kill his brother and conquer the world. When ErDan discovered his intention, he intended to go back to Tang Dynasty to stop his plan.
- In the late 1930s, the Japanese army occupies Shanghai. Barber Lu Ping kills a Japanese officer by accident and then escapes from Shanghai to the residence of his master's brother, Song Fengnian. When he arrives at the small town, he falls in love with Song's daughter Jiayi at the first sight. However, Jiayi has had the engagement with an officer for a decent life in the wartime, even as concubine. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Lu is sentenced to death as a traitor because Song, his boss, has worked for the Japanese. When he closes his eyes and waits for the sound of shot, Jiayi rescues him. Arranged by her husband, Lu becomes an officer. However, he can never forget Jiayi and his barber life. After the end of the Civil War, Lu is sent to work on a farm in the northwest. There he learns that Jiayi doesn't leave with her husband and has been waiting for him at the small town where they meet for the first time. Lu decides to look for Jiayu.
- Set in the 1930s, the film tells the tale of a series of strange murders revolving around a pair of embroidered shoes.
- A charming story of a group of senior citizens who set up a Peking Opera club in hopes of finding revitalization through singing and dancing.
- Zhan Zhao is a deputy to the wise Judge Bao. When Zhan heads back home for a vacation, he uncovers a plot to assassinate Bao so that a rebel group can overthrow the Emperor.
- Yui and Ching are heading for holiday. But on the day they depart, Yui's car is stolen, sparking off a quarrel between the two which results in separation. Yui is left alone to travel to the airport. But he then discovers his stolen car in which a bandit named Wah is hiding himself. Knowing that Yui works as a nurse, Wah threatens Yui to treat his injured partner. However, the injured partner dies during the operation. Furious, Wah vows to burn Yui to death.
- Set in the internet era. Two programmers grow up and become entrepreneurs in an investor's perspective.