Cast: Gong Li
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Gong Li. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Raise the Red Lantern
1991 · Movie · 125 min. · China
Direction Zhang Yimou
Cast Gong Li · Jin Shuyuan · Cao Cuifen · He Caifei
Plot China in the 1920's. After her father's death, 19 year-old Songlian is forced to marry Chen Zuoqian, the lord of a powerfull family. 50 year-old Chen has already three wives,...
8.0
11K votes
8.0
11K votes
To Live
1994 · Movie · 125 min. · China
Direction Zhang Yimou
Cast Gong Li · Ge You · Jiang Wu · Niu Ben
Plot Fugui is the father of a once-wealthy family whose addiction to gambling and chronic bad luck causes him to lose his home in a game of dice with Long'er. Fugui's...
7.9
5K votes
7.9
5K votes
Ju Dou
1990 · Movie · 93 min. · China
Direction Zhang Yimou · Yang Fengliang
Cast Gong Li · Li Baotian · Cong Zhijun · Li Wei
Plot A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son...
7.8
4K votes
7.8
4K votes
The Hand
2004 · Movie · 44 min. · Hong Kong
Direction Wong Kar-Wai
Cast Chang Chen · Gong Li · Tien Feng · Jianjun Zhou
Plot The Hand stars Gong Li as a 1960s high-end call girl in an impossible love affair with her tailor.
7.4
1K votes
7.4
1K votes
Farewell My Concubine
1993 · Movie · 171 min. · China
Direction Chen Kaige
Cast Gong Li · Leslie Cheung · Zhang Fengyi · Lu Qi
Plot "Farewell, My Concubine" is a movie with two parallel, intertwined stories. It is the story of two performers in the Beijing Opera, stage brothers, and the woman who comes between...
7.3
7K votes
7.3
7K votes
The Story of Qiu Ju
1992 · Movie · 100 min. · China
Direction Zhang Yimou
Cast Gong Li · Lei Kesheng · Zhijun Ge · Liu Peiqi
Plot A pregnant peasant woman seeks redress from the Chinese bureaucracy after the village chief kicks her husband in the groin in this comedy of justice. As she is frustrated by...
7.1
1K votes
7.1
1K votes
2046
2004 · Movie · 120 min. · Hong Kong
Direction Wong Kar-Wai
Cast Tony Leung Chiu-Wai · Zhang Ziyi · Faye Wong · Gong Li
Plot He was a writer. He thought he wrote about the future but it really was the past. In his novel, a mysterious train left for 2046 every once in a...
7.1
24K votes
7.1
24K votes
Red Sorghum
1988 · Movie · 91 min. · China
Direction Zhang Yimou
Cast Gong Li · Jiang Wen · Teng Rujun · Liu Jia
Plot In 1930s China a young woman is sent by her father to marry the leprous owner of a winery. In the nearby red sorghum fields she falls for one of...
7.0
3K votes
7.0
3K votes
Coming Home
2014 · Movie · 109 min. · China
Direction Zhang Yimou
Cast Gong Li · Chen Daoming · Zhang Huiwen · Guo Tao
Plot Lu Yanshi and Feng Wanyu are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner, just as his wife...
7.0
3K votes
7.0
3K votes
Memoirs of a Geisha
2005 · Movie · 145 min. · United States
Direction Rob Marshall
Cast Zhang Ziyi · Suzuka Ohgo · Gong Li · Samantha Futerman
Plot Based on the internationally acclaimed best-selling novel by Arthur Golden. In the years before World War II, a Japanese child is torn from her penniless family to work as a...
6.9
50K votes
6.9
50K votes
The Emperor and the Assassin
1998 · Movie · 163 min. · China
Direction Chen Kaige
Cast Gong Li · Zhang Fengyi · Li Xuejian · 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...
6.7
429 votes
6.7
429 votes
Shanghai Triad
1995 · Movie · 107 min. · China
Direction Zhang Yimou
Cast Gong Li · Li Baotian · Li Xuejian · Sun Chun
Plot Uncle Liu brings his cousin to Shanghai to work for 'Boss,' the leader of a powerful drug empire in the 1930's. Shuisheng, a simple country boy is awed and overwhelmed...
6.7
1K votes
6.7
1K votes
Curse of the Golden Flower
2006 · Movie · 114 min. · China
Direction Zhang Yimou
Cast Chow Yun-Fat · Gong Li · Jay Chou · Qin Junjie
Plot The plot concerns the volatile balance of power between the King (Chow Yun Fat) and the Queen (Gong Li) and his three sons, which entails betrayal, deceit and passion, pitting...
6.4
12K votes
6.4
12K votes
Zhou Yu's Train
2002 · Movie · 96 min. · China
Direction Zhou Sun
Cast Gong Li · Tony Leung Ka-Fai · Sun Honglei · Li Zhixiong
Plot Zhou Yu, a ceramic artisan in China's rural Northwest, has a deep rapport with Chen Qing, a shy sensitive poet. Taking a long train ride every weekend just to make...
6.4
814 votes
6.4
814 votes
Chinese Box
1997 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Wayne Wang
Cast Jeremy Irons · Gong Li · Maggie Cheung · Ricky Hui
Plot New Year's Eve 1996. John (Jeremy Iron) is an English journalist moving among the Chinese business elite and British officials at expensive nightclubs. However, the politics of transition are seen...
6.3
2K votes
6.3
2K votes
Saturday Fiction
2019 · Movie · 126 min. · China
Direction Lou Ye
Cast Gong Li · Mark Chao · Jô Odagiri · Pascal Greggory
Plot An actress working undercover for the Allies in 1941 Shanghai discovers the Japanese plan to attack Pearl Harbor.
6.2
229 votes
6.2
229 votes
Temptress Moon
1996 · Movie · 115 min. · China
Direction Chen Kaige
Cast Gong Li · Leslie Cheung · Kevin Lin · He Caifei
Plot Not far from Shanghai, in a country twon stands the palatial home of the Pang family. Old Master Pang is an addict who brings up his beautiful daughter Ruyi on...
6.2
83 votes
6.2
83 votes
The First Monday in May
2016 · Documentary · 90 min. · United States
Direction Andrew Rossi
Cast Andrew Bolton · John Galliano · Jean-Paul Gaultier · Karl Lagerfeld
Plot A behind the scenes look at the preparations for the 2015 art exhibit, China: Through the Looking Glass held at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, commonly referred to as...
6.1
78 votes
6.1
78 votes
Hannibal Rising
2007 · Movie · 117 min. · France
Direction Peter Webber
Cast Gaspard Ulliel · Gong Li · Rhys Ifans · Dominic West
Plot Based on Thomas Harris' upcoming new book of the same name, this prequel shows a young Hannibal Lechter in three different phases of his life from childhood in Lithuania to...
5.9
16K votes
5.9
16K votes
Eros
2004 · Movie · 104 min. · Hong Kong
Direction Wong Kar-Wai · Steven Soderbergh · Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast Gong Li · Chang Chen · Robert Downey Jr. · Alan Arkin
Plot Wong Kar wai’s "Shou" (The Hand) is the story of a young tailor’s long-unrequired love for a beautiful Hong Kong courtesan. Over many years, he lovingly crafts the clothes she...
5.9
2K votes
5.9
2K votes