Direction: Lou Ye
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Lou Ye. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Suzhou River
2000 · Movie · 83 min. · China
Direction Lou Ye
Cast Zhou Xun · Jia Hongshen · Zhongkai Hua · Yao Anlian
Plot Mardar, a motorcycle courier in his mid-twenties, rides all over the city with all kinds of packages for his clients. He knows every inch and is successful thanks to the...
6.8
207 votes
6.8
207 votes
Summer Palace
2006 · Movie · 140 min. · China
Direction Lou Ye
Cast Bai Xueyun · Cui Lin · Duan Yihong · Guo Xiaodong
Plot Country girl Yu Hong leaves her village, her family and her lover to study in Beijing. At university, she discovers an intense world of sexual freedom and forbidden pleasure. Enraptured,...
6.6
126 votes
6.6
126 votes
Purple Butterfly
2003 · Movie · 124 min. · China
Direction Lou Ye
Cast Zhang Ziyi · Ye Liu · Feng Yuanzheng · Tôru Nakamura
Plot Ding Hui is a member of Purple Butterfly, a powerful resistance group in Japanese occupied Shanghai. An unexpected encounter reunites her with Itami, an ex-lover... and officer with a secret...
6.4
98 votes
6.4
98 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
Spring Fever
2009 · Movie · 116 min. · China
Direction Lou Ye
Cast Eric Qin · Chen Sicheng · Wu Wei · Tan Zhuo
Plot 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...
5.6
67 votes
5.6
67 votes
Blind Massage
2014 · Movie · 114 min. · China
Direction Lou Ye
Cast Guo Xiaodong · Eric Qin · Lei Zhang · Mei Ting
Plot Ma lost his sight in a childhood accident and now relies on his hearing. His co-workers in a Nanjing massage parlour share his fate. With a camera that follows closely...
5.3
42 votes
5.3
42 votes
Love and Bruises
2011 · Movie · 105 min. · France
Direction Lou Ye
Cast Tahar Rahim · Jalil Lespert · Lika Minamoto · Corinne Yam
Plot In Paris, the Chinese university student Hua is dumped by her lover. Hua wanders on the streets and the French worker Mathieu accidentally hits her face with the pipes that...
5.2
328 votes
5.2
328 votes
42 One Dream Rush
2010 · Movie · 45 min. · United States
Direction Kenneth Anger · Asia Argento · Tadanobu Asano · Sergey Bodrov
Cast Kenneth Anger · Tadanobu Asano · Brian Butler · Helena Christensen
Plot An omnibus of short films by auteur directors based on Dreams.
4.9
105 votes
4.9
105 votes
Weekend Lover
1996 · Movie · 98 min. · China
Direction Lou Ye
Cast Nai An · Jia Hongshen · Ma Xiaoqing · Wang Xiaoshuai
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In Shanghai (S)
2001 · Documentary · 16 min. · China
Direction Lou Ye
Plot A short essay on the hidden realities beneath the surface of Shanghai.
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The Shadow Play
2018 · Movie · 129 min. · China
Direction Lou Ye
Cast Eric Qin · Herman Lau · Edison Chen · Michelle Chen
Plot Yang Jiadong, a naive newbie cop, witnesses the Chief of Construction Committee jumping to his death from a tall building. He immediately begins investigation, but was brutally dismissed from his...
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