Best Chinese Movies
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1. The Great Hypnotist (2014)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
The famous psychologist Xu Ruining has a raising career, when he met the troublesome patient Ren Xiaoyan. The meeting is not easy as feeble-looking Ren is point by point against him.
Director: Leste Chen | Stars: Zheng Xu, Karen Mok, Zhong Lü, David Yaoqing Wang
Votes: 3,081
2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
PG-13 | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A young Chinese warrior steals a sword from a famed swordsman and then escapes into a world of romantic adventure with a mysterious man in the frontier of the nation.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang, Chang Chen
Votes: 281,586 | Gross: $128.08M
3. Aftershock (2010)
Not Rated | 135 min | Drama, History
The epic story of a family separated as a result of the Great Tangshan Earthquake of 1976.
Director: Xiaogang Feng | Stars: Daoming Chen, Chen Li, Yi Lu, Fan Xu
Votes: 9,737 | Gross: $0.06M
4. Mountain Patrol (2004)
PG-13 | 90 min | Action, Drama
A moving true story about volunteers protecting antelope against poachers in the severe mountains of Tibet.
Director: Chuan Lu | Stars: Duobujie, Lei Zhang, Dao Qi, Xueying Zhao
Votes: 5,432 | Gross: $0.14M
5. I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016)
Not Rated | 128 min | Comedy, Drama
After being swindled by her ex-husband, a woman takes on the Chinese legal system.
Director: Xiaogang Feng | Stars: Bingbing Fan, Wei Fan, Xiaogang Feng, Tao Guo
Votes: 2,483 | Gross: $0.44M
6. Let the Bullets Fly (2010)
Not Rated | 132 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
In 1920s China, a bandit arrives in a remote provincial town posing as its new mayor, where he faces off against a tyrannical local nobleman.
Director: Wen Jiang | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Wen Jiang, You Ge, Carina Lau
Votes: 13,134 | Gross: $0.06M
7. Lost on Journey (2010)
91 min | Comedy
A boss of a toy corporation, Chenggong Li, tries to head back to Changsha to celebrate the Chinese New Year with his family. However, plans don't go as smoothly after he crosses paths with a stranger, Geng Niu.
Director: Wai-Man Yip | Stars: Baoqiang Wang, Zheng Xu, Man Li, Xiaoqing Zuo
Votes: 2,774
8. Love is Not Blind (2011)
110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A white-collar worker goes through a bittersweet life after she broke up with her ex-boyfriend, and eventually gets her true love.
Director: Hua-Tao Teng | Stars: Zhang Wen, Baihe Bai, Jingfei Guo, Jia-yi Zhang
Votes: 1,829
9. Detective Dee: The Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010)
PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An exiled detective is recruited to solve a series of mysterious deaths that threaten to delay the inauguration of Empress Wu.
Director: Hark Tsui | Stars: Tony Ka Fai Leung, Chao Deng, Carina Lau, Bingbing Li
Votes: 11,879 | Gross: $0.46M
10. Red Cliff (2008)
R | 148 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The first chapter of a two-part story centered on a battle fought in China's Three Kingdoms period (220-280 A.D.).
Director: John Woo | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Fengyi Zhang, Chang Chen
Votes: 48,489 | Gross: $0.63M
11. Nobody Knows (2004)
PG-13 | 141 min | Drama
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Yûya Yagira, Ayu Kitaura, Hiei Kimura, Momoko Shimizu
Votes: 31,395 | Gross: $0.68M
12. Mad World (2016)
101 min | Drama
A mentally ill stockbroker struggles to reconcile with his estranged father and his perturbed ex-fiancée.
Director: Chun Wong | Stars: Shawn Yue, Eric Tsang, Elaine Jin, Charmaine Fong
Votes: 2,027
13. Forever Young (2018)
138 min | Drama
From World War, to revolution and ultimately rebirth, Forever Young is the story of four generations spanning a hundred years of modern Chinese history. Each generation faces its own unique... See full summary »
Director: Fangfang Li | Stars: Ziyi Zhang, Xiaoming Huang, Leehom Wang, Chang Chen
Votes: 1,196
14. Mural (2011)
100 min | Fantasy
A poor scholar is travelling to the capital to take an exam. During this trip, he becomes distracted by a mural and enters into the fantasy land depicted therein. There he meets the fairies who inhabit it and encounters love and hate.
Director: Gordon Chan | Stars: Chao Deng, Li Sun, Ni Yan, Shuang Zheng
Votes: 618
15. The Wandering Earth (2019)
TV-MA | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
With the sun dying out, a group of brave astronauts set out to find new planet for the whole human race.
Director: Frant Gwo | Stars: Jing Wu, Chuxiao Qu, Guangjie Li, Man-Tat Ng
Votes: 36,323 | Gross: $5.88M
16. Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018)
Not Rated | 138 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A man went back to Guizhou, found the tracks of a mysterious woman. He recalls the summer he spent with her twenty years ago.
Director: Bi Gan | Stars: Tang Wei, Jue Huang, Sylvia Chang, Hong-Chi Lee
Votes: 9,405 | Gross: $0.50M
17. Kaili Blues (2015)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, Mystery
While travelling the countryside to locate his nephew, a small town doctor finds himself interacting with people from his past and future.
Director: Bi Gan | Stars: Yongzhong Chen, Feiyang Luo, Lixun Xie, Guangqian Qin
Votes: 4,354 | Gross: $0.03M
18. 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: 10,606 | Gross: $0.42M
19. 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: 12,885 | Gross: $0.09M
20. 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: 7,301 | Gross: $0.07M
21. The Farewell (I) (2019)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
A Chinese family discovers their grandmother has only a short while left to live and decide to keep her in the dark, scheduling a wedding to gather before she dies.
Director: Lulu Wang | Stars: Shuzhen Zhao, Awkwafina, X Mayo, Hong Lu
Votes: 71,117 | Gross: $16.88M
22. So Long, My Son (2019)
185 min | Drama
Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.
Director: Xiaoshuai Wang | Stars: Jingchun Wang, Mei Yong, Xi Qi, Roy Wang
Votes: 5,276
23. The Eight Hundred (2020)
Not Rated | 149 min | Action, Drama, History
In 1937, 800 Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army.
Director: Hu Guan | Stars: Zhizhong Huang, Junyi Zhang, Hao Ou, Xiaoguang Hu
Votes: 7,190 | Gross: $0.37M
24. 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: 1,238
25. Shock Wave 2 (2020)
120 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A terrorist expert in explosives, whose gang has been dismantled, seeks revenge. He threatens to blow up a Hong Kong tunnel with hundreds of hostages. The policeman who has already beaten him once must stop him again.
Directors: Herman Yau, Shane Comley-White | Stars: Andy Lau, Ching Wan Lau, Ni Ni, Kwan-Ho Tse
Votes: 2,879
27. The Falls (2021)
129 min | Drama
While quarantining, the relationship between a mother and daughter takes an unexpected turn.
Director: Mong-Hong Chung | Stars: Alyssa Chia, Gingle Wang, Yi-Wen Chen, Lee-zen Lee
Votes: 2,226
28. Reclaim (2022)
124 min | Drama
She is a good woman living a fulfilling life. Or so it seems. A caring mother, a capable housewife and a successful career woman, she looks after her mother with dementia on her own. What ... See full summary »
Director: CJ Wang | Stars: Hee Ching Paw, Johnny Kou, Chia-An Yu, Yi-ching Lu
Votes: 203
29. In the Mood for Love (2000)
PG | 98 min | Drama, Romance
Two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung, Siu Ping-Lam, Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung
Votes: 166,792 | Gross: $2.73M
30. Three-Body (2023– )
TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Focuses on humans dealing with the incoming invasion of a highly-advanced alien civilization called Three-Body.
Stars: Luyi Zhang, Hewei Yu, Yongjian Lin, Xiaoran Li
Votes: 6,143
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