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1. Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
PG-13 | 145 min | Drama, Romance
The heartwarming tale of Nitta Sayuri, a young Japanese woman who transcended from her fishing-village roots and became one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.
Director: Rob Marshall | Stars: Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Suzuka Ohgo
Votes: 160,984 | Gross: $57.49M
3. Miami Vice (2006)
R | 132 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Based on the 1980s TV action/drama, this update focuses on vice detectives Crockett and Tubbs as their respective personal and professional lives become dangerously intertwined.
Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li, Naomie Harris
Votes: 123,841 | Gross: $63.45M
4. Hannibal Rising (2007)
R | 121 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
After the death of his parents during World War II, young Hannibal Lecter moves in with his beautiful aunt and begins plotting revenge on the barbarians responsible for his sister's death.
Director: Peter Webber | Stars: Gaspard Ulliel, Rhys Ifans, Gong Li, Aaran Thomas
Votes: 115,984 | Gross: $27.67M
5. 2046 (2004)
R | 129 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Several women enter a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years, after the author has lost the woman he considers his one true love.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Ziyi Zhang, Faye Wong, Gong Li
Votes: 61,826 | Gross: $1.44M
6. Farewell My Concubine (1993)
R | 171 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.
Director: Kaige Chen | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Gong Li, You Ge
Votes: 33,206 | Gross: $5.22M
7. Eros (2004)
R | 104 min | Drama, Romance
Three short films, one each from Directors Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, and Wong Kar Wai, address the themes of love and sex.
Directors: Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Alan Arkin, Gong Li, Chang Chen
Votes: 7,339 | Gross: $0.19M
8. Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)
R | 114 min | Action, Drama, Romance
During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Gong Li, Jay Chou, Ye Liu
Votes: 45,989 | Gross: $6.57M
9. Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
PG | 125 min | Drama, Romance
China in the 1920s. After her father's death, Songlian is forced to marry the wealthy Master Chen. With three wives already, each living in a separate house, there is fierce competition for his attention and the privileges that are gained.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Gong Li, Jingwu Ma, Saifei He, Cuifen Cao
Votes: 35,389 | Gross: $2.60M
10. My Blueberry Nights (2007)
PG-13 | 95 min | Drama, Romance
A young lonely woman takes a soul-searching journey across America to resolve her questions about love while encountering a series of off-beat characters along the way.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Norah Jones, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Chad R. Davis
Votes: 56,574 | Gross: $0.87M
12. Shanghai (2010)
R | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A '40s period piece which revolves around an American expat who returns to Shanghai in the months before Pearl Harbor due to the death of his friend.
Director: Mikael Håfström | Stars: John Cusack, Gong Li, Chow Yun-Fat, David Morse
Votes: 10,346 | Gross: $0.04M
13. Arena (1975– )
60 min | Documentary
Wide-ranging arts program.
Stars: Gavin Millar, Kenneth Tynan, John Walters, Jonathan Miller
Votes: 320
14. The First Monday in May (2016)
PG-13 | 90 min | Documentary
Follows the creation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's most attended fashion exhibition in history, "China: Through The Looking Glass," an exploration of Chinese-inspired Western fashions by Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton.
Director: Andrew Rossi | Stars: Anna Wintour, Andrew Bolton, John Galliano, Karl Lagerfeld
Votes: 1,952 | Gross: $0.53M
15. Red Sorghum (1988)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, History, Romance
When a leprous winery owner in 1930s China dies a few days after his arranged marriage, his young widow is forced to run the winery to make a living while contending with bandits, her drunkard lover, and the invading Japanese army.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Gong Li, Wen Jiang, Rujun Teng, Ji Liu
Votes: 9,884
16. Siskel & Ebert (1986–2010)
TV-PG | 30 min | Talk-Show
Chicago critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert rate new movies with a thumbs up, or a thumbs down.
Stars: Roger Ebert, Gene Siskel, Richard Roeper, Michael Phillips
Votes: 2,275
17. The Monkey King 2 (2016)
Not Rated | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
When a travelling monk is stranded in a wasteland, The Monkey King must escort him across the land to retrieve sacred scriptures and protect him from an evil demon.
Director: Soi Cheang | Stars: Aaron Kwok, Gong Li, Shaofeng Feng, Shenyang Xiao
Votes: 3,460 | Gross: $0.71M
18. The Hand (III) (2004)
56 min | Drama, Romance
Zhang, a shy tailor's assistant, is riveted by his imperious client Miss Hua. Upon meeting her, she seduces him to make sure he will truly remember her when designing her garments, and a rapport soon develops between the two.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Chang Chen, Feng Tien, Chun-Luk Chan, Jianjun Zhou
Votes: 884
19. Coming Home (2014)
PG-13 | 109 min | Drama, Romance
Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer recognizes him.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Gong Li, Daoming Chen, Huiwen Zhang, Tao Guo
Votes: 6,693 | Gross: $0.38M
20. Flirting Scholar (1993)
102 min | Comedy, Romance
A scholar in search of true love. Disguising himself as a houseboy, he indentures himself to a rich family in order to pursue the ravishing servant girl who has stolen his heart.
Director: Lik-Chi Lee | Stars: Stephen Chow, Gong Li, Pak-Cheung Chan, James Wong
Votes: 6,211
21. Chinese Box (1997)
R | 99 min | Drama, Romance
The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of China.
Director: Wayne Wang | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Gong Li, Maggie Cheung, Michael Hui
Votes: 3,597 | Gross: $2.20M
22. The Emperor and the Assassin (1998)
R | 162 min | Drama, History, Romance
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 her loyalty faltering.
Director: Kaige Chen | Stars: Gong Li, Fengyi Zhang, Zhou Sun, Xiaohe Lü
Votes: 6,472 | Gross: $1.33M
23. God of Gamblers Part III: Back to Shanghai (1991)
116 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
This film focuses on the disciple of the God of Gamblers, Chow Sing Cho, also known as the "Saint of Gamblers". A group of people with telekinetic powers matching his attack him and his ... See full summary »
Director: Jing Wong | Stars: Stephen Chow, Gong Li, Ray Lui, Man-Tat Ng
Votes: 2,642
24. Shanghai Triad (1995)
R | 108 min | Crime, Drama, History
A provincial boy related to a Shanghai crime family is recruited by his uncle into cosmopolitan Shanghai in the 1930s to be a servant to a ganglord's mistress.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Gong Li, Baotian Li, Xiaoxiao Wang, Xuejian Li
Votes: 6,030 | Gross: $2.30M
25. The Story of Qiu Ju (1992)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
A peasant woman seeks justice after the headman of her village has kicked her husband in the groin.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Gong Li, Peiqi Liu, Liuchun Yang, Kesheng Lei
Votes: 6,669 | Gross: $1.89M
26. Ju Dou (1990)
PG-13 | 95 min | Drama, Romance
In rural China, the young bride of a tyrannical owner of a silk-dyeing business finds temporary solace in the arms of her husband's nephew, but problems arise when she becomes pregnant.
Directors: Yimou Zhang, Fengliang Yang | Stars: Gong Li, Wei Li, Baotian Li, Zhang Yi
Votes: 9,027 | Gross: $1.99M
27. What Women Want (2011)
Not Rated | 116 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
After an accident, a chauvinistic executive gains the ability to hear what women are really thinking.
Director: Daming Chen | Stars: Andy Lau, Gong Li, Li Yuan, Julian Chen
Votes: 1,399 | Gross: $0.12M
28. Temptress Moon (1996)
R | 130 min | Drama, Romance
Not far from Shanghai, in a country town stands the palatial home of the Pang family. Old Master Pang is an addict who brings up his beautiful daughter Ruyi on opium smoke. Her older ... See full summary »
Director: Kaige Chen | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Gong Li, Kevin Lin, Saifei He
Votes: 2,041 | Gross: $1.08M
29. Saturday Fiction (2019)
126 min | Drama, History
Yu Jin is working undercover gathering intelligence for the Allies.
Director: Ye Lou | Stars: Gong Li, Mark You-Ting Chao, Pascal Greggory, Xiangli Huang
Votes: 1,242
30. Hollywood Insider (2018– )
Talk-Show
A show focused on substance and meaningful entertainment while staying away from gossip and scandal.
Stars: Pritan Ambroase, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Holland, Margot Robbie
Votes: 1,412
31. Leap (2020)
135 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
After 12 years, the Chinese women's volleyball team again reached the Olympic final in 2016. They were now coached by Lang Ping, a stalwart of the 1980s Chinese women's team, who won consecutive World Championships from 1981 to 1985.
Director: Peter Ho-Sun Chan | Stars: Gong Li, Huang Bo, Gang Wu, Yuchang Peng
Votes: 1,445 | Gross: $0.08M
32. HBO First Look (1992– )
13 min | Documentary, Short
Behind-the-scenes look at upcoming feature films, featuring interview commentary with their casts and crews.
Stars: Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Steven Spielberg, Matt Damon
Votes: 479
33. Cannes Film Festival (1952– )
News
A festival for international movies, which give each year the Palme d'Or.
Stars: Bjorn Jiskoot Jr., Isabelle Huppert, Pedro Almodóvar, Kristin Scott Thomas
Votes: 119
34. Zhou Yu's Train (2002)
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Romance
Zhou Yu, a beautiful artisan, indulges in a torrid affair with Chen Ching, her poet-lover. United by their passion, he finds in Zhou the ultimate muse, while she believes Chen to be her ideal soul mate.
Director: Zhou Sun | Stars: Gong Li, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Honglei Sun, Zhixiong Li
Votes: 1,587 | Gross: $0.14M
35. A Terra-Cotta Warrior (1989)
145 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
China 2.200 years ago. It's the time of the Qin dynasty. The emperor seeks immortality by busily letting his alchemists search for a formula and building the famous terracotta army from the... See full summary »
Director: Siu-Tung Ching | Stars: Yimou Zhang, Gong Li, Tian-Ming Wu, Rongguang Yu
Votes: 1,088
36. A Soul Haunted by Painting (1994)
130 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A Chinese prostitute weds, studies painting, and becomes a renowned artist and professor in Paris.
Director: Shuqin Huang | Stars: Gong Li, Fang-Tsen, Shichang Da, Tung-Shing Yee
Votes: 493
37. The Banquet (1991)
97 min | Comedy
Film with a weak plot about an businessman trying to clinch a deal for the reconstruction of Kuwait after the Gulf War from a Kuwaiti prince. The climax of the movie is a banquet/dinner at ... See full summary »
Directors: Alfred Cheung, Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung, Clifton Ko, Hark Tsui | Stars: Eric Tsang, Carol 'Do Do' Cheng, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Jacky Cheung
Votes: 424
38. The Great Conqueror's Concubine (1994)
165 min | Action, Drama, History
Insurrection deposes the tyrannical first emperor of China during the evil Qin Dynasty. Warrior/general Xiang Yu and the cunning peasant Liu Pang join forces to win through civil war. Xiang... See full summary »
Director: Stephen Shin | Stars: Ray Lui, Rosamund Kwan, Gong Li, Fengyi Zhang
Votes: 299
39. L'invité (2000– )
8 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Patrick Simonin, Xavier Lambrechts, Dominique Wolton, Pierre Perret
Votes: 33
40. Tout le monde en parle (1998–2006)
210 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Thierry Ardisson, Laurent Baffie, Philippe Corti, Laurent Ruquier
Votes: 180
41. Piao liang ma ma (2000)
90 min | Drama
Gong Li stars in this low-key drama about a single mother who will do anything to provide for her son. Sun Liying (Li) struggles to care for her hearing-impaired child Zheng Da (Gao Xin) after her taxi driver husband divorces.
Director: Zhou Sun | Stars: Gong Li, Xin Gao, Jingming Shi, Yue Guan
Votes: 478
42. Volle Kanne (1999– )
85 min | Documentary, News, Talk-Show
Volle Kanne is a service magazine on ZDF, which is sent from Monday to Friday.
Stars: Armin Roßmeier, Ingo Nommsen, Nadine Krüger, Andrea Ballschuh
Votes: 71
43. Codename Cougar (1989)
76 min | Drama, Thriller
Aircraft hijacking with Chinese special forces rescue. Gong Li as a heroic stewardess.
Directors: Yimou Zhang, Fengliang Yang | Stars: You Ge, Zhaoji Jia, Gong Li, Xiaoning Liu
Votes: 300
44. The Empress Dowager (1989)
100 min | Biography, Drama, History
Court intrigue in China after the Taiping Rebellion is suppressed.
Director: Han Hsiang Li | Stars: Daoming Chen, Ye Chen, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Gong Li
Votes: 137
46. Mary from Beijing (1992)
97 min | Drama, Romance
Ma Lei which sounds like "Mary" is a Chinese citizen, living in Hong Kong as the kept woman of a jeweler. She wishes for two things: to get her Hong Kong Identity Card, which will enable ... See full summary »
Director: Sylvia Chang | Stars: Gong Li, Kenny Bee, Wilson Lam, David Chiang
Votes: 100
47. 20 heures le journal (1981– )
40 min | News
Stars: Laurent Delahousse, David Pujadas, Anne-Sophie Lapix, Julian Bugier
Votes: 66
48. King's Man (2010)
TV-14 | 114 min | Drama
Children are targeted by a syndicate and forced into the sex trade. Distressed by the disappearance of her nieces while returning to Mexico Laura turns to a local minister who believes that God can help him get back the missing children.
Director: Brenton Covington | Stars: Joe Estevez, Doua Moua, Jose Rosete, Jon Lee Brody
Votes: 64
49. The Maidens of Heavenly Mountains (1994)
96 min | Action, Fantasy
Legend has it that in a faraway place beyond the edge of the earth, there exists a broken-hearted man with infinite power. Abandoned by his loved ones, the inheritance of the old man's chi power becomes a battleground for evil outsiders.
Director: Andy Wing-Keung Chin | Stars: Brigitte Lin, Sharla Cheung, Gong Li, Frankie Lam
Votes: 619
50. Miami Vice: Undercover (2006 TV Movie)
22 min | Documentary
Director: Tjardus Greidanus | Stars: Alexander Alonso, Dion Beebe, Michelle Chin, Colin Farrell
Votes: 64