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1. 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: 33,188 | Gross: $5.22M
2. 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: 35,367 | Gross: $2.60M
4. 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: 9,879
5. 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: 6,665 | Gross: $1.89M
6. A Chinese Odyssey: Part 2 - Cinderella (1995)
98 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The convoluted continuation of the adventures of the time-traveling, now-human Monkey King, who attempts to fulfill his divine destiny.
Director: Jeffrey Lau | Stars: Stephen Chow, Man-Tat Ng, Athena Chu, Ada Choi
Votes: 8,544
7. 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: 6,471 | Gross: $1.33M
8. 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: 9,024 | Gross: $1.99M
9. Back to 1942 (2012)
Not Rated | 145 min | Drama, History, War
A deadly drought in 1942 takes its toll on central China's Henan province during the war against Japan.
Director: Xiaogang Feng | Stars: Guoli Zhang, Hanyu Zhang, Wei Fan, Yuanzheng Feng
Votes: 3,732 | Gross: $0.31M
10. A Chinese Odyssey: Part One - Pandora's Box (1995)
87 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A Monkey King is reincarnated in the un human form as Joker, a highwayman oblivious to his original identity and the fact that 500 years earlier, he and his master, the Longevity Monk, were punished and made to stay human.
Director: Jeffrey Lau | Stars: Stephen Chow, Man-Tat Ng, Kar-Ying Law, Kit Ying Lam
Votes: 8,413
11. Da zhai men (2001–2003)
47 min | Drama
This Chinese period drama series follows the fortunes of a prominent merchant family engaged in Traditional Chinese Medicine during the waning years of the Qing dynasty.
Stars: Baoguo Chen, Saifei He, Peiqi Liu, Siqin Gaowa
Votes: 559
12. Ming Dynasty 1566 (2007)
42 min | Drama, History
This is the story of the Ming emperor Jiajing and Hai Rui story. At that time, China's economy developed and its culture became prosperous. However, the social contradictions are prominent,... See full summary »
Stars: Baoguo Chen, Dahong Ni, Guangming Xu, Zhijian Zhang
Votes: 394
13. Yellow Earth (1984)
TV-PG | 89 min | Drama, History, Music
A communist soldier travels to Shanbei to collect folk songs for propaganda while visiting a poor peasant family, giving hope to the teenage daughter in escaping an arranged marriage.
Director: Kaige Chen | Stars: Xueqi Wang, Bai Xue, Quiang Liu, Tuo Tan
Votes: 2,574
14. Confucius (2010)
TV-MA | 125 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life story of the highly-influential Chinese philosopher, Confucius.
Director: Mei Hu | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Xun Zhou, Jianbin Chen, Quan Ren
Votes: 3,989
15. The King of Masks (1995)
91 min | Drama
In a remote area of China, in the 1930s, a street performer named Wang practices the change-mask opera art of bian lian. Seeking to pass his art, Wang buys what he believes to be an orphan boy, but quickly learns his new disciple's secret.
Director: Tian-Ming Wu | Stars: Xu Zhu, Renying Zhou, Zhigang Zhao, Li Chen
Votes: 3,475 | Gross: $1.10M
16. White Deer Plain (2011)
220 min | Drama, History
In the White Deer Village in Shaanxi Province the two most important families - Bai and Lu - and their sons have always lived together in peace. But the turmoil leads to a fierce struggle for land ownership.
Director: Quan'an Wang | Stars: Fengyi Zhang, Yuqi Zhang, Gang Wu, Yihong Duan
Votes: 450
17. Shui hu zhuan (1997– )
46 min | Drama, History
A historical adaptations of one of the Four Great Classical Chinese novels, detailing the trials and tribulations of 108 outlaws during the mid Song Dynasty.
Stars: Fan Yang, Naishe Zhai, Qiang Li, Dong-guo Li
Votes: 533
18. 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
19. Mei Lanfang (2008)
150 min | Biography, Drama, History
A biographical account of Mei Lanfang, China's greatest opera star.
Director: Kaige Chen | Stars: Leon Lai, Ziyi Zhang, Honglei Sun, Hong Chen
Votes: 1,629
20. 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
21. Seventeen Years (1999)
90 min | Drama
Tao Lan and Yu Xiaoqin are teenage stepsisters. They go to the same high school, sleep in the same bedroom, but couldn't be more different. The first is wild, a bit of a vagabond, while the... See full summary »
Director: Yuan Zhang | Stars: Lin Liu, Bingbing Li, Yeding Li, Song Liang
Votes: 632
22. The Emperor's Shadow (1996)
130 min | Drama, History
Epic drama about China's first emperor (221 BC) who struggles to make his childhood best friend, now China's greatest composer, succumb to his will and compose a grand anthem to his exploits.
Director: Xiaowen Zhou | Stars: Wen Jiang, You Ge, Qing Xu, Chung Chang
Votes: 722 | Gross: $0.07M
23. Five Girls and a Rope (1990)
123 min | Drama
Five girls grow up in China during the first years of the twentieth century. When they become adults they have to learn that women are almost without rights. Other women close to them are ... See full summary »
Director: Hung-Wei Yeh | Stars: Jing Ai, Shih Chang, Ying Chang, Yuan-Chi Lu
Votes: 107
24. Laughing in the Wind (2001– )
Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Laughing in the Wind is a 2001 Chinese television series produced by Zhang Jizhong, starring Li Yapeng and Xu Qing in the leading roles. The series is an adaptation of Louis Cha's novel The Smiling, Proud Wanderer.
Stars: Yapeng Li, Qing Xu, Jewel Lee, Kun Yang
Votes: 591
25. Kangxi wei fu si fang ji (1997– )
Drama, Romance
Emperor Kang Xi's Private Visits is a series about the Qing Emperor Kang Xi and the adventures he goes on when going on trips out of the palace. Vicki Zhao playing the daughter of a ... See full summary »
Stars: Guoli Zhang, Jie Deng, Liang Zhao, Wei Zhao
Votes: 183
26. Buddha's Lock (1987)
96 min | Drama
The story about the arrest and enslavement of a crashed American airman by a backward tribe of the Yi people in central Sichuan during WWII.
Director: Ho Yim | Stars: Bide Yan, Feihu Sun, Zongwan Wei, Yiu Chan
Votes: 19
27. Pao Da Shuang Deng (1994)
R | 111 min | Drama, Romance
In 1920s China, the wealthy heiress of a fireworks business falls in love with an impoverished painter, but her late father's will prohibits their union.
Director: Ping He | Stars: Jing Ning, Gang Wu, Xiaorui Zhao, Yang Gao
Votes: 509 | Gross: $0.27M
28. Xin xiang (1992)
97 min | Drama, Music
Director: Zhou Sun | Stars: Xu Zhu, Yumei Wang, Zhenxiang Fei, Jielin He
Votes: 46
29. The Big Parade (1986)
94 min | Drama
Stories occurred in the training days before the big parade in the 35th anniversary National Day of China in 1984.
Director: Kaige Chen | Stars: Qiang Guan, Lu Lei, Chun Sun, Li Tung
Votes: 197
30. Dragon Town Story (1997)
95 min | Drama
It was the happy day when the Jiang family married their daughter. But the light of swords and the splashing blood turned the happy day into the unforgettable painful memory of the bride ... See full summary »
Director: Fengliang Yang | Stars: Chien-Lien Wu, Yong You, Ruyan Chang, Xian Gao
Votes: 59
31. Taiyangniao (1998)
100 min | Drama
Directors: Xueqi Wang, Liping Yang | Stars: Liping Yang, Xueqi Wang
Votes: 8
32. Yue Yue (1986)
102 min | Drama
Yue Yue is a village girl living in the Qin Ling Mountain. Two boys, Cai Cai and Men Men, are her friends and both like her. Cai Cai is diligent and conservative, Men Men is discontented with life and like novelty.
Director: Gaowa Qiqin | Stars: Xiaolei Huang, Jian Li, Shunan Li, Wei Li
Votes: 10
33. Yang Yue Lou zhuan (1999)
Biography, Drama
Jung Yuet-Lau is the country's most popular opera actor. He performs throughout the country and even in the imperial palace.
Director: Tso Nam Lee | Stars: Mark Cheng, Jay Lau, Carrie Ng, Ling Lu
34. Ri guang xia gu (1995)
TV-14 | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Avenger, a brooding swordsman armed with a blade marked "Slayer of 1000 Armies" claims he's waiting for a long-missing friend, at an outpost in Northwest China's Sun Valley. The Avenger... See full summary »
Director: Ping He | Stars: Fengyi Zhang, Xueqi Wang, Kuei-Mei Yang, Feng Ku
Votes: 65
35. The First Emperor of China (1990)
42 min | Documentary, Short
Qin Shihuang conquered six powerful warring states and, in 221 BC, declared himself emperor of all China. During his reign, he introduced sweeping reforms, built a vast network of roads and... See full summary »
Directors: Tony Ianzelo, Liu Hao Xue | Stars: Christopher Plummer, Michel Garneau, Bo Guan Jun, Guoren Wang
Votes: 105
36. A White War: Mei You Xiao Yan De Zhan Zheng (2003)
Drama
Set in 2003 China, SARS, namely severe acute respiratory syndrome broke out of the blue and spreading swiftly over the nation which bringing scientists, medical front line workers all involved together ultimately dedicated to saving lives
Stars: Yujuan Wu, Bonnie Xian, Jie Zhang, Hao Zheng
37. Qingchun wu hui (1991)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama
Zheng Jianong, a bulldozer driver, has been suffering from illness for years and his wife leaves him
Director: Xiaowen Zhou | Stars: Lan Shi, Fengyi Zhang, Yunlong Liu, Liping Lü
Votes: 20
38. Meili de dajiao (2003)
103 min | Drama
Peasant Zhang Meili has big feet and an even bigger heart. Founding a school for young rural children, she teaches there alone until helped by Xia Yu, a young volunteer teacher from Beijing who brings in new ideas.
Director: Yazhou Yang | Stars: Ping Ni, Quan Yuan, Haiying Sun, Yajun Xu
Votes: 163
39. Guan yu ai de gu shi (1998)
99 min | Drama, Romance
In the first story, a man with cerebral palsy saves a nurse from suicide and they begin a relationship. In the second on a handicapped woman races around the city to gather money to pay for the operation of a man who got injured.
Director: Xiaowen Zhou | Stars: Hu Gao, Liyuan Wang, Shangxian Liu, Qiang Li
Votes: 13
40. Sweet Grass (1994)
87 min | Drama
Director: Youchao Zhou | Stars: Haiying Sun, Gang Wang, Tianwei Zheng
42. Hei shan lu (1995)
97 min | Drama
Director: Xiaowen Zhou | Stars: Liya Ai, Yuan Xie, Xiaorui Zhao
Votes: 15
43. A White Horse Named Feifei (1996)
113 min | Action, Drama, War
Set in the Chinese Anti-Japanese War. A white horse named Feifei steers away enemy raiding team to save its wounded master --a cavalry officer --and gets caught. Enemies can't tame Feifei and it fasts to death.
Directors: Zien Zhang, Jianxin Zhu | Stars: Hui Ye, Xiang-Jing Liu, Dazhi Wang, Pu Miao
46. Magician Romance (2005– )
60 min | Drama, Romance
When her foster father passes away, Lin Xiao Mei is surprised to learn that he left his magic theatre in her keep. Still deeply sorrowful of her father's passing, she did not expect her ... See full summary »
Stars: Ruby Lin, Alec Su, Wenkang Yuan, Zhenhai Kou
Votes: 94
47. One Thousand Stars (2000)
90 min | Drama
A fourth-year university student intrudes into several women's lives by teaching piano lessons, and gets a taste of the real world.
Director: Gang Xia | Stars: Xueyun Bai, Yang Xu, Yi Fang, Zi Ge Fang
48. Huabian (1988)
80 min | War
Director: Qun He | Stars: Jianfei Chen, Qiang Li, Shujie Xue, Guangbei Zhang
49. Xian shi huo bao (1990)
Drama
2 has-been actors open a sham business in North China and scam money from the citizens.
Director: Ji-shun Duan | Stars: Lifan Dong, Hanlin Gong, Da Guo, Aimin Hao
Votes: 22
50. The Invisible Doctor (1991)
94 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
A doctor invents invisibility potion after years of research and tells his assistant. Disclosure of the invention causes a lot of trouble, the biggest problem is that criminals steal the ... See full summary »
Director: Zien Zhang | Stars: Lantian Chang, Lanmei Bai, Jingyu Jiang, Quan'an Wang
Votes: 7