Screenplay: Wang Bing

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Wang Bing. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks

2002 · Documentary · 556 min. · China

Direction Wang Bing

Plot Over 9 hours long, the film consists of three parts, "Rust," "Remnants" and "Rails." Tie Xi Qu was filmed over the course of two years between 1999 and 2001 and...

8.2

196 votes

8.2

196 votes

'Til Madness Do Us Part

2013 · Documentary · 227 min. · China

Direction Wang Bing

Plot In an isolated asylum live all year long fifty men. They spend their days locked in one floor. The men have little contact with the outside world, even with the...

8.1

75 votes

8.1

75 votes

Dead Souls

2018 · Documentary · 495 min. · China

Direction Wang Bing

Plot A history of what truly went on in the Chinese "re-education" camps of the late 1950s. Premiere: Cannes Film Festival 2018.

7.7

34 votes

7.7

34 votes

Three Sisters

2012 · Documentary · 153 min. · China

Direction Wang Bing

Plot Three sisters: ten-year-old Ying, six-year-old Zhen and four-year-old Fen are the youngest female members of a multi-generational farming family and expected to contribute to their family’s income. Wang Bing’s documentary...

7.5

99 votes

7.5

99 votes

Ta'ang

2016 · Documentary · 148 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Wang Bing

Plot A civil war has been smouldering for decades in Myanmar’s Kokang region, which is home to the Ta’ang people (also known as the Palaung). When their lives are once again...

7.0

79 votes

7.0

79 votes

The Ditch

2010 · Movie · 112 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Wang Bing

Cast Zhengwu Cheng · Niansong Jing · Xiangnian Li · Renjun Lian

Plot At the end of the 1950s, the Chinese government condemned thousands of citizens – considered “right wing dissidents” due their past activities, criticisms of the Communist Party or simply their...

6.8

53 votes

6.8

53 votes

Bitter Money

2016 · Documentary · 152 min. · China

Direction Wang Bing

Cast Xiao Min · Ling Ling · Huang Lei

Plot Furiously developing Eastern China has been inhabited by enlarging number of immigrants. In search for better tomorrow, they become violent and corrupted.

6.5

61 votes

6.5

61 votes

Coal Money

2009 · Documentary · 52 min. · China

Direction Wang Bing

6.5

71 votes

6.5

71 votes

Mrs. Fang

2017 · Documentary · 86 min. · China

Direction Wang Bing

Cast Fang Xiuying

Plot Fang Xiuying was a farmer born in Huzhou, Fujian in 1948. She suffered from Alzheimer’s for the last eight years of her life. By 2015, her symptoms were already very...

6.3

92 votes

6.3

92 votes

6.0

52 votes

The White Haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom

2014 · Movie · 104 min. · China

Direction Jacob Cheung

Cast Fan Bingbing · Huang Xiaoming · Vincent Zhao · Wang Xuebing

Plot In the twilight of the Ming Dynasty, the Imperial court is plagued by corruption as tyrants rule over the land. With the Manchurians preying on a weakened empire, war is...

5.2

53 votes

5.2

53 votes

Beauty Lives in Freedom, Gao Ertai

2018 · Documentary · 300 min. · China

Direction Wang Bing

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Shanghai Youth

2019 · Documentary · 150 min. · China

Direction Wang Bing

Plot Liming is a worker district close to Shanghai – the richest city in China. Every year, many young people leave their villages and move there. They are between 17 and...

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Alone

2012 · Documentary · 89 min. · China

Direction Wang Bing

Plot Three sisters aged 10, 6 and 4 have to cope more or less on their own in a remote mountainous region of Yunnan. Terrible poverty in China, shown with gripping...

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15 Hours

2017 · Documentary · 950 min. · China

Direction Wang Bing

Plot The town of Zhili accounts for 80 percent of China’s output of children’s clothes. 15 Hours was shot in August 2016. Zhili, part of the city of Huzhou in the...

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Factory Boss

2014 · Movie · 102 min. · China

Direction Zhang Wei

Cast Yao Anlian · Tiffany Tang · Ju Zhao · Jingyi Huang

Plot Workers work for boss, boss works for the multi-nationals.

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The Ability Exchange

2016 · Documentary · 75 min. · United States

Direction Wang Bing

Plot "The Ability Exchange" is a documentary about an innovative Disability Studies class at NYU Tandon where engineering students and adults with cerebral palsy learn to communicate, connect, and cultivate their...

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Traces (S)

2014 · Documentary · 25 min. · China

Direction Wang Bing

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Crude Oil

2008 · Documentary · 840 min. · China

Direction Wang Bing

Plot Filmed in the Inner Mongolian portion of the Gobi Desert, it follows a group of oil field workers as they go about their daily routine. Like Wang's debut feature —...

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