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1. A Touch of Sin (2013)
Not Rated | 130 min | Crime, Drama
Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Wu Jiang, Baoqiang Wang, Tao Zhao, Lanshan Luo
Votes: 12,884 | Gross: $0.09M
2. Memoria (I) (2021)
PG | 136 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A woman from Scotland, while traveling in Colombia, begins to notice strange sounds. Soon she begins to think about their appearance.
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Agnes Brekke, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Jerónimo Barón
Votes: 11,139
3. Jiang hu er nü (2018)
Not Rated | 136 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A story of violent love within a time frame spanning from 2001 to 2017.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Tao Zhao, Fan Liao, Zheng Xu, Casper Liang
Votes: 10,605 | Gross: $0.42M
4. Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014)
Not Rated | 110 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
An ex cop and his ex partner decide to follow up on investigation of a series of murders that ended their careers and shamed them, when identical murders begin again.
Director: Yi'nan Diao | Stars: Fan Liao, Gwei Lun-Mei, Xuebing Wang, Jingchun Wang
Votes: 9,571
5. Still Life (2006)
Unrated | 111 min | Drama
A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A man and woman visit the town to locate their estranged spouses, and become witness to the societal changes.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Tao Zhao, Zhou Lan, Sanming Han, Lizhen Ma
Votes: 7,302 | Gross: $0.07M
6. Mountains May Depart (2015)
Not Rated | 126 min | Drama, Romance
The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Tao Zhao, Yi Zhang, Liang Jingdong, Zijian Dong
Votes: 6,386 | Gross: $0.08M
7. The World (2004)
Not Rated | 143 min | Drama
An exploration on the impact of urbanization and globalization on a traditional culture.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Tao Zhao, Taishen Cheng, Jue Jing, Zhongwei Jiang
Votes: 3,490 | Gross: $0.06M
8. Pickpocket (1997)
Unrated | 108 min | Drama
A small town pickpocket whose friends have moved on to higher trades finds himself bitter and unable to adapt.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Hongwei Wang, Hongjian Hao, Baitao Zuo, Ma Jinrei
Votes: 3,288
9. Platform (2000)
154 min | Drama, History
A theatre troupe from rural Fenyang struggles under the decline of communism and rise of popular culture in China in the 1980s.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Hongwei Wang, Tao Zhao, Liang Jingdong, Tian-yi Yang
Votes: 3,075
10. Unknown Pleasures (2002)
Unrated | 112 min | Comedy, Drama
Two unemployed Chinese teenagers have trouble resisting the temptations of the Western world.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Wei Wei Zhao, Qiong Wu, Tao Zhao, Qing Feng Zhou
Votes: 2,548 | Gross: $0.01M
11. 24 City (2008)
Not Rated | 112 min | Documentary, Drama
When a factory is being torn down in Chengdu, China, workers reflect on their experiences and the importance of the factory in their lives.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Jianbin Chen, Joan Chen, Liping Lü, Tao Zhao
Votes: 2,336
12. The Continent (2014)
105 min | Comedy, Drama
Three men living in the Eastern most island of China go on a road trip to the Western most end of the country, and facing crises of love, friendship, and faith on their journey to the West.
Director: Han Han | Stars: Shaofeng Feng, Chen Bo-lin, Wallace Chung, Luodan Wang
Votes: 1,863
13. Dead Pigs (2018)
Not Rated | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A bumbling pig farmer, a feisty salon owner, a sensitive busboy, an expat architect and a disenchanted rich girl converge and collide as thousands of dead pigs float down the river towards a rapidly-modernizing Shanghai.
Director: Cathy Yan | Stars: Vivian Wu, Haoyu Yang, Meng Li, Mason Lee
Votes: 1,818
14. I Wish I Knew (2010)
116 min | Documentary, History
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.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Michelangelo Antonioni, Yindi Cao, Hsin-i Chang, Danqing Chen
Votes: 833
15. Song of the Phoenix (2013)
110 min | Drama, History, Music
The life and trials of You Tianming, a young suona apprentice who forms his own suona troupe at a time when the traditions of suona music are declining in Chinese society. As a grown man, ... See full summary »
Director: Tian-Ming Wu | Stars: Peng Chi, Xianxu Hu, Mincheng Li, Yang Mo
Votes: 676
17. Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (2020)
112 min | Documentary, History
Filmmaker Jia Zhangke chronicles his local literature festival in Shanxi, China which includes a multi-generational roster of the country's most esteemed writers.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Huifang Duan, Liang Hong, Yu Hua, Pingwa Jia
Votes: 526
18. Gone with the Light (2019)
131 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
'Gone With The Light' is a 2019 Chinese sci-fi thriller, revolves around a group of people that disappear after a mysterious light falls upon the city, leaving the survivors to try and unravel the mystery.
Director: Runnian Dong | Stars: Huang Bo, Luodan Wang, Zhuo Tan, White-K
Votes: 450
19. Dong (2006)
Not Rated | 66 min | Documentary, Drama
China's greatest living filmmaker Jia Zhangke (Platform, The World) travels with acclaimed painter Liu Xiaodong from China to Thailand as they meet everyday workers in the throes of social ... See full summary »
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Xiaodong Liu, Sanming Han
Votes: 422
20. Dang kou (2008)
118 min | Thriller
Yuda, a feared Chinese outlaw, and his adopted son Kirin, an impulsive young dreamer, together rule the pirated goods racket in an ultra-liberal Brazilian metropolis. The magnate and his ... See full summary »
Director: Nelson Lik-wai Yu | Stars: Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Joe Odagiri, Domingos Antonio, Alessandro Azevedo
Votes: 401
21. White Building (2021)
90 min | Drama
Samnang, 20, faces the demolition of his lifelong home in Phnom Penh and the pressures from family, friends, and neighbors which arise and intersect in this moment of sudden change.
Director: Kavich Neang | Stars: Piseth Chhun, Hout Sithorn, Ok Sokha, Chinnaro Soem
Votes: 398
22. Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013)
120 min | Documentary, Drama
Seventy short films about cinema and its future.
Directors: Hala Abdallah, John Akomfrah, Wang Bing, Catherine Breillat, Júlio Bressane, Rama Burshtein, Antonio Capuano, Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Isabel Coixet, Amiel Courtin-Wilson, Claire Denis, Lav Diaz, Amit Dutta, Aleksey Fedorchenko, Frédéric Fonteyne, James Franco, Lluís Galter, Haile Gerima, Aleksey German Jr., Amos Gitai, Benoît Jacquot, Zhangke Jia, Kim Ki-duk, Abbas Kiarostami, Pablo Larraín, Tobias Lindholm, Guido Lombardi, Jazmín López, Samuel Maoz, Pietro Marcello, Brillante Mendoza, Celina Murga, Amir Naderi, Shirin Neshat, Nicolás Pereda, Franco Piavoli, Giuseppe Piccioni, João Pedro Rodrigues, Walter Salles, Paul Schrader, Ulrich Seidl, Luca Severi, Jean-Marie Straub, Tusi Tamasese, Tariq Teguia, Pablo Trapero, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Teresa Villaverde, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Andrew Wonder, Yonfan, Krzysztof Zanussi, Karim Aïnouz, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jan Cvitkovic, Atom Egoyan, Davide Ferrario, Monte Hellman, Semih Kaplanoglu, Marlen Khutsiev, Yorgos Lanthimos, Milcho Manchevski, Franco Maresco, Salvatore Mereu, Ermanno Olmi, Michele Placido, Edgar Reitz, Hong Sang-soo, Todd Solondz, Sion Sono, Kounosuke Tsukamoto, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Shekhar Kapur, Heeraz Marfatia | Stars: Jessica Alexander, Bernardo Bertolucci, Lola Créton, Haile Gerima
Votes: 395
23. Días de cine (1991– )
60 min | News
Antonio Gasset hosts this show in which recently released movies and DVDs are thoughtfully discussed in a documentary-like way.
Stars: Gerardo Sánchez, Elena S. Sánchez, Antonio Gasset, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo
Votes: 334
24. The Best Is Yet to Come (2020)
114 min | Drama
China, 2003. Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed journalism intern Han Dong decides to change the fate of 100 million people with a single article.
Director: Jing Wang | Stars: White-K, Miao Miao, Songwen Zhang, Yang Song
Votes: 321
25. Useless (2007)
80 min | Documentary
About people around fashion and clothing industry in China.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Star: Ke Ma
Votes: 316
26. Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang (2014)
105 min | Documentary, Biography
Documentary of the life & filmmaking of Jia Zhang-Ke from the Brazilian Walter Salles. Reflections on transformation of Chinese society, towns, family, the cultural revolution and ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Salles | Star: Zhangke Jia
Votes: 275
27. Cry Me a River (2008)
19 min | Short, Drama, Romance
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, meet ... See full summary »
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Aaron C. Shang, Xiaodong Guo, Lei Hao, Hongwei Wang
Votes: 253
28. Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema (2014)
109 min | Documentary
A tribute from filmmakers and critics around the world to the Taiwan New Cinema movement in the 1980s.
Director: Chinlin Hsieh | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Olivier Assayas, Jingjing Bao, Wang Bing
Votes: 250
29. The Hedonists (2016)
Not Rated | 25 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
An engaging drama about several unemployed Shanxi coalminers looking for work.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Sanming Han, Zhangke Jia, Liang Jingdong, Wenqian Yuan
Votes: 247
30. Cinema 3 (1984–2016)
News
Stars: Jaume Figueras, Crisol Tuà, Monts Llussà, Àlex Gorina
Votes: 229
31. Stories on Human Rights (2008)
70 min | Drama
Directors: Marina Abramovic, Hany Abu-Assad, Armagan Ballantyne, Sergei Bodrov, Charles de Meaux, Shira Geffen, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Runa Islam, Zhangke Jia, Francesco Jodice, Etgar Keret, Ange Leccia, Murali Nair, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Pipilotti Rist, Walter Salles, Saman Salur, Sarkis, Bram Schouw, Teresa Serrano, Abderrahmane Sissako, Daniela Thomas, Pablo Trapero, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Jasmila Zbanic | Stars: Svetlana Ustinova, Elena Anisimova, Arseniy Gevorkyan, Mariya Shalayeva
Votes: 184
32. Xiaoshan Going Home (1995)
59 min | Drama
A cook living in Beijing, whose employment is coming to an end, plans to return home to his rural village for the New Year. He approaches several of his old friends, also working in the ... See full summary »
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Shuzhe Dong, Hongwei Wang, Sheng Yao, Xiaomin Zhou
Votes: 182
34. Life After Life (2016)
80 min | Drama
The spirit of a deceased mother takes over her son's body in order to oversee the task of replanting a very important tree, only after which it will be able to leave the earthly limits.
Director: Hanyi Zhang | Stars: Zhang Li, Zhang Mingjun
Votes: 161
35. Mingri tianya (2003)
96 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In a future century, after the apocalypse, Gui Dao dynasty controls continental Asia. Zhuai and his younger brother Mian are captured and sent to "Prosperity Camp" for reeducation. They ... See full summary »
Director: Nelson Lik-wai Yu | Stars: Yong-won Cho, Yi'nan Diao, Ren Na, Wei Wei Zhao
Votes: 159
36. Tracing Her Shadow (2020)
97 min | Drama
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan in 1945, a large number of Japanese orphans were adopted by families in Northeast China. With the normalization of diplomatic ... See full summary »
Director: Peng Fei Song | Stars: Yanshu Wu, Ze Ying, Jun Kunimura, Masatoshi Nagase
Votes: 154
37. Boundless (2013)
95 min | Documentary
As Hong Kong's foremost filmmaker, Johnnie To himself becomes the protagonist of this painstaking documentary exploring him and his boundless world of cinema. Shot over two years and ... See full summary »
Director: Ferris Lin | Stars: Johnnie To, Sylvia Chang, Ching Wan Lau, Louis Koo
Votes: 151
38. Art College 1994 (2023)
118 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
Set in China in the 1990s, takes a look at youth featuring a group of art students.
Director: Jian Liu | Stars: Huang Bo, Guanjin Bu, Xu Changchu, Zijian Dong
Votes: 128
39. Visit (2020)
4 min | Short, Drama
A meeting between two work partners reveals the strict care protocols imposed by the new coronavirus: masked, the men only meet after the visitor's temperature is measured, the handshake is... See full summary »
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Zhangke Jia, Yirui Lian, Casper Liang
Votes: 122
40. 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
41. Lai xiao zi (2006)
89 min | Drama
A drama centered on a youth gang in a coal mining area of China's Shanxi province.
Director: Jie Han | Stars: Peijiang Bai, Qiang Guo, Jing Hou, Jie Lu
Votes: 113
42. Xue zhan dao di (2006)
98 min | Comedy
Director: Guangli Wang | Stars: Paul Chun, Xiaoyang Ding, Zhangke Jia, Boqing Li
Votes: 111
43. Where Has the Time Gone? (2017)
112 min | Drama
A short film omnibus featuring the work of five directors representing five countries involved in the 2017 BRICS summit, an annual international relations conference held between Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
Directors: Madhur Bhandarkar, Aleksey Fedorchenko, Zhangke Jia, Jahmil X.T. Qubeka, Walter Salles | Stars: Rodrigo Bolzan, Parvin Dabas, Master Devrath, Jonita Doda
Votes: 109
44. The Mysterious Family (2017)
92 min | Drama
A young girl was raped by a weird stranger, and her parents and elder brothers were all killed months later. She survived and tried to find out the truth of massacre.
Director: Park Yoo-hwan | Stars: Ariel Lin, Xiao Chen, Wu Jiang, Kara Wai
Votes: 109
45. The Bucket (2019)
6 min | Short
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.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Xuan Li, Zhen Jiang
Votes: 93
46. The Condition of Dogs (2001)
6 min | Documentary, Short
Shows a market where puppies are bought and sold. Several puppies are placed in a cloth bag, and they struggle to break free. One bites through the bag, pokes his head, and is observed in his triumph and then confusion.
Director: Zhangke Jia
Votes: 82
47. Um Filme de Cinema (2017)
111 min | Documentary
An abandoned tumbledown theater in the Brazilian outback is the initial setting of a film about cinema, with testimonials from filmmakers such as Béla Tarr, Gus Van Sant, Jia Zhangke, Karim Ainouz, Ken Loach and Lucrecia Martel.
Director: Walter Carvalho | Stars: Karim Aïnouz, Hector Babenco, Júlio Bressane, Salvatore Cascio
Votes: 79
48. Smog Journeys (2015)
7 min | Short
Jia Zhangke's short film for Greenpeace East Asia depicts the effects of air pollution in northeast China, a region frequently blanketed in dangerous levels of air pollution. 'Smog Journeys... See full summary »
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Liang Jingdong, Lu Liu, Qiang Liu, Tao Zhao
Votes: 77
49. K (II) (2015)
88 min | Drama
A stranger claiming to be a land surveyor arrives at a remote frontier village governed by a nearby castle and fights to gain the acceptance of the villagers.
Directors: Darhad Erdenibulag, Emyr ap Richard | Stars: Bayaneruul, Jula, Yirgui, Altanochir
Votes: 66
50. The Calming (2020)
93 min | Drama
A filmmaker is constantly on the move after recently ending a relationship. As she travels alone between Beijing, Nanjing, Hong Kong and Japan, she observes and engages with her ever-changing environs while seeking an inner calm.
Director: Fang Song | Star: Xi Qi
Votes: 64