Soundtrack: Zhao Jiping

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Gong Li · Jin Shuyuan · Cao Cuifen · He Caifei

Plot China in the 1920's. After her father's death, 19 year-old Songlian is forced to marry Chen Zuoqian, the lord of a powerfull family. 50 year-old Chen has already three wives,...

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Gong Li · Ge You · Jiang Wu · Niu Ben

Plot Fugui is the father of a once-wealthy family whose addiction to gambling and chronic bad luck causes him to lose his home in a game of dice with Long'er. Fugui's...

Direction Zhang Yimou · Yang Fengliang

Cast Gong Li · Li Baotian · Cong Zhijun · Li Wei

Plot A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son...

Direction Wu Tianming

Cast Chu Yuk · Chao Yim Yin · Zhang Riuyang · Zhao Zhigang

Plot The film is about a street performer named Wang who practices the change-mask opera art of bian lian as "The King of Masks". Seeking to pass his art to a...

Direction Chen Kaige

Cast Gong Li · Leslie Cheung · Zhang Fengyi · Lu Qi

Plot "Farewell, My Concubine" is a movie with two parallel, intertwined stories. It is the story of two performers in the Beijing Opera, stage brothers, and the woman who comes between...

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Gong Li · Lei Kesheng · Zhijun Ge · Liu Peiqi

Plot A pregnant peasant woman seeks redress from the Chinese bureaucracy after the village chief kicks her husband in the groin in this comedy of justice. As she is frustrated by...

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Gong Li · Jiang Wen · Teng Rujun · Liu Jia

Plot In 1930s China a young woman is sent by her father to marry the leprous owner of a winery. In the nearby red sorghum fields she falls for one of...

Direction Feng Xiaogang

Cast Tim Robbins · Adrien Brody · Chen Daoming · Xu Fan

Plot A deadly drought in 1942 takes its toll on central China's Henan province during the war against Japan.

Direction Chen Kaige

Cast Gong Li · Zhang Fengyi · Li Xuejian · Zhou Sun

Plot In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king's cruelty mounts she finds...

Direction Chen Kaige

Cast Wang Xueqi · Bai Xue · Quiang Liu · Tuo Tan

Plot A haunting, evocative film set in the barren wilderness of Northern Shaanxi province in 1939. The life of a fourteen year-old peasant girl is changed forever by the arrival of...

Direction Jeff Lau

Cast Stephen Chow · Ng Man-Tat · Law Kar-Ying · Karen Mok

Plot Fantasy adventure about the arrival of Buddhism in China. When the Goddess of Happiness tosses the Longevity Monk and his disciples out of heaven (because the Monkey King tried to...

Direction He Ping

Cast Ning Jing · Wu Gang · Zhao Xiaorui · Zhao Liang

Direction Jeff Lau

Cast Stephen Chow · Ng Man-Tat · Athena Chu · Ada Choi

Plot The convoluted continuation of the adventures of the time-traveling, now-human Monkey King, who attempts to fulfill his divine destiny.

Direction Zhou Xiaowen

Cast Jiang Wen · Ge You · Summer Xu · Wang Shuangbao

Plot The most expensive film ever made in China up to the time of its release, Qin Song (1996) is an historical epic of that country's first emperor. Jiang Wen stars...

Direction Chen Kaige

Cast Gong Li · Leslie Cheung · Kevin Lin · He Caifei

Plot Not far from Shanghai, in a country twon stands the palatial home of the Pang family. Old Master Pang is an addict who brings up his beautiful daughter Ruyi on...

Direction Chen Kaige

Cast Leon Lai · Zhang Ziyi · Sun Honglei · Chen Hong

Plot A biographical account of Mei Lanfang, China's greatest opera star. Bertolt Brecht was one of his admirers, as was Charlie Chaplin and Sergei Eisenstein, who even filmed him. Chinese actor...

Direction Hu Mei

Cast Chow Yun-Fat · Chen Daoming · Zhou Xun · Lu Yi

Plot The life story of the highly-influential Chinese philosopher, Confucius.

Direction Zhou Sun

Cast Gong Li · Gao Xin · Shi Jingming · Yue Guan

Plot Critically acclaimed actress Gong Li stars as a loving mother out to save her child against many odds.

Direction Yang Fengliang · Youchao Zhou

Cast Jia Hongshen · Luo Yan · Jingyang Cao

Direction Zhou Xiaowen

Cast Ai Liya · Xie Yuan · Zhao Xiaorui

Plot The setting is a heavily wooded, bandit-infested mountain pass somewhere in northern China during the Sino-Japanese War. In a dilapidated church lives a sullen young woman and her ferocious mutt....