Screenplay: Jia Zhangke
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Jia Zhangke. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Platform
2000 · Movie · 155 min. · China
Direction Jia Zhangke
Cast Wang Hongwei · Zhao Tao · Liang Jingdong · Tian Yi Yang
Plot Set in Fenyang, Shanxi Province, the film focuses on a group of amateur theatre troupe performers whose fate mirrors that of the general population in China as massive socio-economic changes...
7.2
389 votes
7.2
389 votes
The World
2004 · Movie · 143 min. · China
Direction Jia Zhangke
Cast Zhao Tao · Chen Taisheng · Jing Jue · Jiang Zhong-Wei
Plot A young dancer and her security guard boyfriend work at Beijing’s Window to the World theme park, and their troubled romance drives the narrative. The latest triumph from Jia Zhang-Ke...
6.9
536 votes
6.9
536 votes
Pickpocket
1997 · Movie · 110 min. · China
Direction Jia Zhangke
Cast Wang Hongwei · Hao Hongjian · Zuo Baiato · Ma Jinrei
Plot Little pocket thief Wu never got away from the streets like his friends did. He realises that he is alone, as his old buddy doesn't invite him for his wedding....
6.9
311 votes
6.9
311 votes
Unknown Pleasures
2002 · Movie · 113 min. · China
Direction Jia Zhangke
Cast Wei Wei Zhao · Qiong Wu · Zhao Tao · Ru Bai
Plot Two unemployed Chinese teenagers have trouble resisting the temptations of the Western world.
6.8
348 votes
6.8
348 votes
24 City
2008 · Documentary · 112 min. · China
Direction Jia Zhangke
Cast Joan Chen · Lü Liping · Chen Jianbin · Zhao Tao
Plot Chengdu nowadays. The state owned factory 420 shuts down to give way to a complex of luxury apartments called "24 CITY". Three generations, eight characters : old workers, factory executives...
6.8
203 votes
6.8
203 votes
Sanxia haoren (Still Life)
2006 · Movie · 108 min. · China
Direction Jia Zhangke
Cast Zhao Tao · Sanming Han · Zhou Lan · Lizhen Ma
Plot Coalminer Han Sanming comes from Fengyang in Shanxi to the Three Gorges town Fengjie to look for his ex-wife whom he has not seen for 16 years. The couple meet...
6.8
2K votes
6.8
2K votes
A Touch of Sin
2013 · Movie · 130 min. · China
Direction Jia Zhangke
Cast Jiang Wu · Vivien Li · Lanshan Luo · Wang Baoqiang
Plot An angry miner revolts against the corruption of his village leaders. A migrant worker at home for the New Year discovers the infinite possibilities a firearm can offer. A pretty...
6.7
3K votes
6.7
3K votes
Mountains May Depart
2015 · Movie · 131 min. · China
Direction Jia Zhangke
Cast Zhao Tao · Zhang Yi · Liang Jingdong · Dong Zijian
Plot China, at the end of 1999. Tao, a young woman from Fenyang, is courted by her two childhood friends, Zang and Lianzi. Zang, owner of a gas station, is destined...
6.5
2K votes
6.5
2K votes
Ash Is Purest White
2018 · Movie · 135 min. · China
Direction Jia Zhangke
Cast Zhao Tao · Liao Fan · Xu Zheng · Casper Liang
Plot A story of violent love within a time frame spanning from 2001 to 2017.
6.4
1K votes
6.4
1K votes
The Hedonists (S)
2016 · Movie · 26 min. · China
Direction Jia Zhangke
Cast Sanming Han · Jindong Liang · Yuan Wenqian
Plot Jia Zhangke brings to this edition of the Beautiful series The Hedonists, an engaging drama about several unemployed Shanxi coalminers looking for work.
6.3
68 votes
6.3
68 votes
Dong
2006 · Documentary · 67 min. · China
Direction Jia Zhangke
Cast Liu Xiaodong
Plot Here's DONG the first half of Jia Zhang-ke's Three Gorges Dam project alongside with STILL LIFE. Unfortunately I don't have the second feature film to rip but I can tell...
6.3
95 votes
6.3
95 votes
Wuyong (Useless)
2007 · Documentary · 80 min. · China
Direction Jia Zhangke
Plot Three portraits of clothing: people who make them and people who wear them... A hot and humid day in Canton. Amid the thunderous noise of sewing machines, women work quietly...
6.3
73 votes
6.3
73 votes
I Wish I Knew
2010 · Documentary · 113 min. · China
Direction Jia Zhangke
Plot Focuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid-1800s, when Shanghai was opened as a trading port, to the present day.
6.2
171 votes
6.2
171 votes
In Public
2001 · Documentary · 30 min. · China
Direction Jia Zhangke
Plot This short by Zhang Ke is, in a way, a distillation of his usual concerns and aesthetic sensibilities. It has no dialogue, no acting, no story. It starts with documentations...
5.8
47 votes
5.8
47 votes
Swimming Out Till The Sea Turns Blue
2020 · Documentary · 112 min. · China
Direction Jia Zhangke
Cast Duan Huifang · Jia Pingwa · Yu Hua · Liang Hong
Plot Prominent Chinese writers and scholars gather in a village in Shanxi, a province of China and the hometown of Jia Zhang-Ke. This starts an 18-chapter symphony about Chinese society since...
5.7
34 votes
5.7
34 votes
Cry Me A River (S)
2008 · Movie · 19 min. · China
Direction Jia Zhangke
Cast Wang Hongwei · Zhao Tao
Plot An ancestral city; through its delicious botanical garden and its branched canals, we observe the clues and traces of its ancient culture. Two couples of men and women, former lovers,...
5.6
107 votes
5.6
107 votes
Visit (S)
2020 · Movie · 4 min. · China
Direction Jia Zhangke
Cast Jia Zhangke · Yirui Lian · Casper Liang
Plot In "Spaces #2", 7 internationally acclaimed directors shot, after commissioning by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, a short film at home, making their own timely comment on the new reality...
4.9
70 votes
4.9
70 votes
The Condition of Dogs (S)
2001 · Documentary · 6 min. · China
Direction Jia Zhangke
Plot A short documentary by Jia Zhangke. Shows a market where puppies are bought and sold. Several puppies are placed in a cloth bag, and they struggle to break free. One...
4.9
59 votes
4.9
59 votes
The Bucket (S)
2019 · Movie · 7 min. · China
Direction Jia Zhangke
Cast Li Xuan · Jiang Zhen
Plot What gifts would your parents prepare when your Chinese New Year visit comes to an end? A film about the taste of home shot on iPhone XS.
4.6
31 votes
4.6
31 votes
Our Ten Years (S)
2007 · Movie · 9 min. · China
Direction Jia Zhangke
Cast Zhao Tao · Liang Jingdong
Plot Throughout ten years of a key era in Chinese and Hong Kong history, a girl becomes fixated on a fellow commuter who she observes regularly. While the two never speak...
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