Direction: Joan Chen

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Xiu Xiu

1998 · Movie · 99 min. · China

Direction Joan Chen

Cast Li Xiaolu · Lopsang · Qian Zheng · Gao Jie

Synopsis Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to the country side was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later she's...

6.7

571 votes

6.7

571 votes

Autumn in New York

2000 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

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...

4.8

11K votes

4.8

11K votes