Cinematography: Gu Changwei

Direction Zhang Yimou · Yang Fengliang

Cast Gong Li · Li Baotian · Cong Zhijun · Li Wei

Synopsis 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 as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this...

Direction Mehdi Charef · Emir Kusturica · Spike Lee · Kátia Lund

Cast María Grazia Cucinotta · Jiang Wenli · Francisco Anawake · David Thewlis

Synopsis Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist. This film is a very special initiative. Three years ago, the project’s producers sought to create a cinematic project that would raise awareness about the...

Direction Chen Kaige

Cast Gong Li · Leslie Cheung · Zhang Fengyi · Lu Qi

Synopsis Farewell My Concubine (1993) follows the tumultuous lives of two Peking Opera performers, Douzi (later known as Cheng Dieyi) and Shitou (later known as Duan Xiaolou), spanning decades of political and personal upheaval in 20th-century China. Bound by their art...

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Gong Li · Jiang Wen · Teng Rujun · Liu Jia

Synopsis 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 his servants. When the master dies she finds herself inheriting...

Direction Jiang Wen

Cast Jiang Wen · Haibin Li · Jiang Hongbo · Cong Zhijun

Synopsis During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are dumped in a peasant's home in a small town. The owner is bullied into keeping the prisoners until the next New Year, at which time they will be collected. The village...

Direction Jiang Wen

Cast Xia Yu · Ning Jing · Geng Le · Tao Hong

Direction Chen Kaige

Cast Xie Yuan · Yang Xuewen · Chen Shaohua · Zhang Caimei

Synopsis In "King of the Children," the tale of a young man, exiled during the Cultural Revolution to Yunnan and chosen (despite his own minimal education) to teach a class of semi-literate peasant children who are accustomed to learning by memory...

Direction Anthony Drazan

Cast Sean Penn · Kevin Spacey · Chazz Palminteri · Meg Ryan

Synopsis David Rabe's 1984 play HURLYBURLY made it to the big screen in 1998, with some well-measured performances from a cast littered with big names from the Hollywood A-list. Ostensibly Anthony Drazan's film is a riff on the empty-headedness and misogyny...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Kenneth Branagh · Daryl Hannah · Robert Downey Jr. · Embeth Davidtz

Synopsis Lawyer Rick Magruder has a one-night-stand affair with caterer Mallory Doss. He becomes hooked on her, and when he learns her nut-case father Dixon is threatening her, he puts the weight of his law firm behind Mallory, has Dixon arrested...

Direction Joan Chen

Cast Richard Gere · Winona Ryder · Anthony LaPaglia · Elaine Stritch

Synopsis A May-December romance. He's 48, on the cover of New York magazine, an upscale restaurateur, and a womanizer who rejects ideas of love. She's 22, living with her grandmother, artistic, facing a tumor that's life-threatening, which she tells him about...

Direction Zhang Yimou · Yang Fengliang

Cast Ge You · Gong Li · Liu Xiaoning · Wang Xueqi

Synopsis A plane loaded with Taiwanese businessmen is hijacked by a terrorist and lands in mainland China. An joint Chinese-Taiwanese anti-terrorism special team is formed to save the hostages, but can they outwit the cunning terrorist?

Direction Chen Kaige

Cast Liu Zhongyuan · Huang Lei · Summer Xu · Ling Zhong

Synopsis Two blind men pursue ephemeral and unlikely hopes. One is an aged master, a wandering troubador venerated as a saint, in physical decline, waiting to break his 1,000th banjo string, an event his own master promised years before would bring...

Direction Gu Changwei

Cast Zhang Ziyi · Aaron Kwok · Jiang Wenli · Wang Baoqiang

Synopsis Set in a small Chinese village, where an illicit trade in human blood has resulted in the spread of HIV, De Yi and Qin Qin are two fellow AIDS sufferers who unexpectedly fall in love with each other and risk...

Direction Zhou Xiaowen · Manfred Wong

Cast Jiang Wen · Alex Man · Yu Li · Kenneth Tsang

Synopsis Heroic Bloodshed Movie.