Direction: Zhang Yuan

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Zhang Yuan. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Little Red Flowers

2006 · Movie · 92 min. · China

Direction Zhang Yuan

Cast Bowen Dong · Yuanyuan Ning · Chen Manyuan · Zhao Rui

Synopsis Qiang is a four-year-old little rebel, possessed of a pair of luminous eyes and a precociously indomitable will. His father deposits him at a well-appointed residential kindergarten in post-1949 Beijing,...

6.7

35 votes

6.7

35 votes

Green Tea

2003 · Movie · 82 min. · China

Direction Zhang Yuan

Cast Jiang Wen · Zhao Wei · Lijun Fang · Haizhen Wang

Synopsis This is an urban love story based on a short novel named "Adiliya by the River" by Jin Renshun. Wu Fang (Zhao Wei) is a master's degree student in university,...

6.2

33 votes

6.2

33 votes

East Palace, West Palace

1996 · Movie · 94 min. · China

Direction Zhang Yuan

Cast Si Han · Hu Jun · Zhao Wei · Jing Ye

Synopsis Dong Gong Xi Gong takes its title for a meeting place for homosexuals on Beijing's Tiananmen Square. The film centres on a young gay writer who is held by the...

5.9

44 votes

5.9

44 votes

Beijing Bastards

1993 · Movie · 88 min. · China

Direction Zhang Yuan

Cast Cui Jian · Faye Yu · Bian Tianshuo · Wei Li

Synopsis This is a film without precedent in Chinese cinema: a seemingly free-form portrait of rock-generation kids in the city, its own quest for a structure mirroring their search ‘for something...

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Danish Girls Show Everything

1996 · Movie · 94 min. · Denmark

Direction Ane Mette Ruge · Krzysztof Zanussi · Susanna Edwards · David Blair

Cast Lis Dam · Sofie Gråbøl · Astrid Henning-Jensen · Karen Møller E.

Synopsis This Danish omnibus film consists of 20 shorts, by a bevy of international directors; the project as a whole was conceived by Danish visual artist Ane Mette Ruge and Dutch...

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Dada's Dance

2008 · Movie · 92 min. · China

Direction Zhang Yuan

Cast Yi Liu · Li Xiaofeng · Lanhui Wu · Ke Gai

Synopsis Little Red Flowers director Zhang Yuan returns to the helm for this tale of a twenty-something girl from Wuhan who sets out in search of her biological mother while fending...

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Jin Xing Files

2000 · Documentary · 37 min. · China

Direction Zhang Yuan

Cast Xing Jing

Synopsis An androgynous looking young man with beautiful eyes and feminine hands gazes silently into the camera. A somewhat older, elegantly dressed woman with heavy makeup reminisces about a brief long-distance...

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Beijing Flickers

2012 · Movie · 96 min. · China

Direction Zhang Yuan

Cast Duan Bowen · Li Xiaofeng · Han Wenwen · Lu Yulai

Synopsis Beijing is happening these days, but not everyone is living the golden life. Dumped, fired, evicted and abandoned by everyone, including his dog, a down-on-his-luck man finds solace with a...

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Beautiful 2014

2014 · Movie · 117 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Christopher Doyle · Shu Kei · Zhang Yuan · Kang Je-gyu

Cast Yulai Lu · Ching Man Lip · Moon Jae-Won · Chuan Lee

Synopsis The 2014 edition of an annual short film compilation. Zhang Yuan directs "I love you boss," about the relationship between a wealthy man and his driver. Kang Je-kyu directs "Awaiting,"...

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Seventeen Years

1999 · Movie · 99 min. · China

Direction Zhang Yuan

Cast Lin Liu · Li Bingbing · Yeding Li · Song Liang

Synopsis Tao Lan and Yu Xiaoqin are teenage stepsisters. They go to the same high school, sleep in the same bedroom, but couldn't be more different. The first is wild, a...

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Mama

1991 · Movie · 90 min. · China

Direction Zhang Yuan

Cast Yan Qingyu · Xiaodan Yang

Synopsis A mother in Beijing will have to take care to his disabled son, without the help of the father or the state.

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