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1. 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: 2,276
3. 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: 33,219 | Gross: $5.22M
4. 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: 35,399 | Gross: $2.60M
6. Arena (1975– )
60 min | Documentary
Wide-ranging arts program.
Stars: Gavin Millar, Kenneth Tynan, John Walters, Jonathan Miller
Votes: 320
7.
HBO First Look (1992– )
Episode:
Miami Vice: Undercover
(2006)
Documentary, Short
Stars: Alexander Alonso, Dion Beebe, Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx
Votes: 22
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: 9,028 | Gross: $1.99M
9. 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: 6,671 | Gross: $1.89M
10. 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: 6,214
11. 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: 61,840 | Gross: $1.44M
12. 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: 886
13. 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: 161,049 | Gross: $57.49M
14. 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: 9,886
15. 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: 6,474 | Gross: $1.33M
16. 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: 6,694 | Gross: $0.38M
17. 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
18. 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: 6,032 | Gross: $2.30M
19. 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: 45,999 | Gross: $6.57M
20. 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: 120
21.
HBO First Look (1992– )
Episode:
Lady in the Water
(2006)
Documentary, Short
Stars: Pieter Jan Brugge, Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li
Votes: 14
22. Tout le monde en parle (1998–2006)
210 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Thierry Ardisson, Laurent Baffie, Philippe Corti, Laurent Ruquier
Votes: 181
23. 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
24. 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
25. 2006 Asian Excellence Awards (2006 TV Special)
120 min | Music
Show about sex, blood and money.
Director: Michael Dempsey | Stars: Keiko Agena, Naveen Andrews, K.D. Aubert, Jackie Chan
Votes: 95
26. 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
27. 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: 1,089
28. 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
29. On the Set: Memoirs of a Geisha (2005 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 22 min | Documentary
Director: Tjardus Greidanus | Stars: Rob Marshall, Lucy Fisher, Douglas Wick, Dion Beebe
Votes: 32
30. Miami Vice: Undercover (2006 TV Movie)
22 min | Documentary
Director: Tjardus Greidanus | Stars: Alexander Alonso, Dion Beebe, Michelle Chin, Colin Farrell
Votes: 64
31. 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: 56,580 | Gross: $0.87M
32. 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: 1,243
33. 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: 2,643
34. 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: 1,446 | Gross: $0.08M
35. 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
36. 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
37. 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
38. The 2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards (2014 TV Special)
Director: Chris Donovan | Stars: Patton Oswalt, Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Lake Bell
Votes: 51
39. Secrets Within: Inside Look at 'Curse of the Golden Flower' (2007 Video)
22 min | Documentary, Short
Behind the scenes look at the making of Zhang Yimou's "Curse of the Golden Flower".
Director: Stanley J. Orzel | Stars: Jay Chou, Gong Li, Beau Weaver, Chow Yun-Fat
Votes: 45
40. 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: 10,349 | Gross: $0.04M
41. 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: 480
42. 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: 3,598 | Gross: $2.20M
43. 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: 123,869 | Gross: $63.45M
44. 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: 116,012 | Gross: $27.67M
45. 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. 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: 7,344 | Gross: $0.19M
47. 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: 3,461 | Gross: $0.71M
48. 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. 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