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1. Safe (I) (2012)
R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
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's trail.
Director: Boaz Yakin | Stars: Jason Statham, Catherine Chan, Chris Sarandon, Robert John Burke
Votes: 117,574 | Gross: $17.14M
2. City of Life and Death (2009)
R | 133 min | Drama, History, War
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.
Director: Chuan Lu | Stars: Ye Liu, Wei Fan, Hideo Nakaizumi, Yuanyuan Gao
Votes: 11,715 | Gross: $0.12M
3. The Flowers of War (2011)
R | 146 min | Drama, History, Romance
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.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Christian Bale, Ni Ni, Xinyi Zhang, Tianyuan Huang
Votes: 55,716 | Gross: $0.01M
4. The Warlords (2007)
R | 126 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
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.
Directors: Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Wai-Man Yip | Stars: Jet Li, Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Jinglei Xu
Votes: 27,815 | Gross: $0.13M
5. Nanking (2007)
R | 88 min | Biography, History, War
Through readings of historical account by actors and the testimony of survivors, the events of the Nanjing Massacre are recounted.
Directors: Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman | Stars: Hugo Armstrong, Rosalind Chao, Stephen Dorff, John Getz
Votes: 3,588 | Gross: $0.16M
6. John Rabe (2009)
134 min | Biography, Drama, History
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.
Director: Florian Gallenberger | Stars: Ulrich Tukur, Daniel Brühl, Steve Buscemi, Anne Consigny
Votes: 6,742 | Gross: $0.07M
7. The Founding of a Republic (2009)
138 min | Drama, History, War
Inspired by true events, Founding of a Republic weaves a rousing tale of one man who fought against the tyranny of a ruler and led his people in battle in the ultimate sacrifice for his country.
Directors: Sanping Han, Jianxin Huang | Stars: Guoqiang Tang, Guoli Zhang, Qing Xu, Jin Liu
Votes: 3,872
8. The Children of Huang Shi (2008)
R | 125 min | Drama, War
About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh
Votes: 9,985 | Gross: $1.03M
9. Spring Fever (2009)
116 min | Drama
Hired to spy on a philandering husband, Luo Haitao soon becomes entangled in a clandestine affair with the other man. Along with Luo's girlfriend, they succumb to the delirium of drunken nights, but how long can their tryst last?
Director: Ye Lou | Stars: Hao Qin, Sicheng Chen, Wei Wu, Zhuo Tan
Votes: 1,639 | Gross: $0.01M
10. The Message (2009)
118 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
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 ... See full summary »
Directors: Kuo-Fu Chen, Qunshu Gao | Stars: Xun Zhou, Bingbing Li, Hanyu Zhang, Xiaoming Huang
Votes: 4,218
11. Men Behind the Sun 4 (1995)
91 min | Drama, History, Horror
In 1937, Japanese troops raid the Chinese city of Nanking to execute a planned massacre by subjecting over 300,000 helpless civilians to various tortures and atrocities before slaughtering them all.
Director: Tun-Fei Mou | Stars: Stephen Cecil Thomas, Liang Zhang, Yung Pan, Shao-tien Hsiung
Votes: 916
12. Don't Cry, Nanking (1995)
120 min | Drama, History, War
In December 1937, during the Second Japanese-Sino War, a Chinese doctor, his Japanese pregnant wife, their teenage daughter and their young son travel from Shanghai to Nanjing seeking ... See full summary »
Director: Ziniu Wu | Stars: Han Chin, Ai Saotome, Rene Liu, Tao Bai
Votes: 273
13. Moving the Mountain (1994)
83 min | Documentary, History
The film is a documentary about the demonstrations of students in Peking on the 4th of June 1989 for more democracy in the People's Republic which were ended by army forces. The story is told from students point of view.
Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Jinming Zhang, Yiming Huang, Yi-fen Kan, Ke-Hsi Hsiang
Votes: 146 | Gross: $0.04M
14. In the Name of the Emperor (1998)
50 min | Documentary, War
A matter-of-fact documentary of the massacre of over 300,000 Chinese civilians by the Japanese in the so-called 'Rape of Nanjing' in 1937. In the name of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, the ... See full summary »
Directors: Christine Choy, Nancy Tong | Stars: Robin Brentano, Ted Hannon, Matthew Myers, Lamar Sanders
Votes: 30
15. Qi xia si 1937 (2004)
105 min | War
Director: Jianguo Deng | Stars: Cunxin Pu, Ismael Amodeo, Xinhua Zhang
Votes: 15
16. Vautrin (2012)
60 min | Drama
In early December, 1937 the Japanese army invaded Nanjing, China and committed mass slaughter and atrocities against the Chinese people. Minnie Vautrin, an American woman who was the dean ... See full summary »
Director: Lucinda McNary | Stars: Tera Whitten, Robert S. Benjamin, Stefan Dobber, Matthew Hahn
Votes: 20
17. The Genocide Factor (2000 TV Movie)
Documentary
This documentary consists of four programs. (1) "Genocide from Biblical Times through the Ages" covers the Biblical period, the Greeks and Romans, the Mongols, the Crusades, witchcraft ... See full summary »
Director: Robert J. Emery | Stars: Martha Barnett, Yehuda Bauer, Iris Chang, Eddie Faye Gates
Votes: 27
18. Umi no santôhei (1957)
78 min | Comedy, War
Director: Toshio Shimura | Stars: Ken Utsui, Susumu Fujita, Teruo Wakatsuki, Arata Shibata
19.
Serpentza (2008– )
Episode:
Revenge Attacks! China's Mass Stabbing Crisis!
(2021)
16 min | Documentary
Star: Winston Sterzel
20.
Lonely Planet Six Degrees (2003– )
Episode:
Nanjing
(2012)
Documentary, Adventure
Oli enjoys a visit to Nanjing, China's ninth metropolis, land-inward from Shanghai on the mighty Yangtze and a tributary, with the world's largest city wall. The dating scene is gruesome, ... See full summary »
Director: Nick McInerney | Star: Oli Pettigrew
21.
The Armchair Historian (2017– )
Episode:
Chinese Stalingrad: Battle of Shanghai
(2020)
12 min | Documentary, Animation
Director: Griffin Johnsen | Star: Griffin Johnsen
22.
World War II in Colour (2009)
Episode:
The Gathering Storm
(2009)
TV-MA | 51 min | Documentary, History, War
The activities of nations after World War I that lead to World War II.
Stars: Robert Powell, Adolf Hitler, Paul von Hindenburg, Kai-Shek Chiang
Votes: 408
23.
CaspianReport (2010– )
Episode:
Taiwan has a secret doomsday plan for China
(2023)
14 min | Documentary
In a plan reminiscent of the Soviet-American strategy of Mutual Assured Destruction in the Cold War, Taiwan is preparing the capability to destroy the Three Gorges Dam.
Star: Shirvan Neftchi
24.
How to Lose a War (2023)
Episode:
The Best Laid Plans
(2023)
Documentary, History, War
Explore how the seeds of Japan's defeat in 1945 were sown a decade earlier with the occupation of Manchuria in China.
Director: Tim Bosanquet | Stars: Rana Mitter, Sandra Wilson, Yuma Totani, Guy Walters
25.
Top Luxury (2020– )
Episode:
The Strangest Buildings in the World
(2023)
14 min | Documentary
A collection of eleven innovative buildings though some are still on the drawing board.
Star: Regis O.
26.
Military Masterminds (2022)
Episode:
Guerrilla Warfare
(2022)
52 min | Documentary, History, War
Looking at how Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Josip Broz Tito and Võ Nguyên Giáp used Guerrilla Warfare to overcome a militarily superior enemy.
Director: Roberto Irwin | Stars: Eric Y. Shibuya, Eric Gomez, James Rogers, William Leogrande