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- DirectorYimou ZhangStarsYou GeGong LiBen NiuAfter Fugui and Jiazhen lose their personal fortunes, they raise a family and survive difficult cultural changes during 1940s to 1970s China.
- DirectorKaige ChenStarsLeslie CheungFengyi ZhangGong LiTwo 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.
- DirectorWen JiangStarsWen JiangKenya SawadaHongbo JiangVillagers in World War II China are unsure what to do with the two enemy prisoners who have been left in their care.
- DirectorMuye WenStarsZheng XuYiwei ZhouChuan-jun WangThe story of how a small drugstore owner became the exclusive selling agent of a cheap Indian generic drug against Chronic Granulocytic Leukemia in China.
- DirectorHaofeng XuStarsFan LiaoJia SongWenli JiangA Wing Chun master has to defeat 8 martial arts schools to open his own school, yet he has become a chess piece to the local power dynamics.
- DirectorXuan LiangChun ZhangStarsGuanlin JiShangqing SuTimmy XuA 16-year-old girl travels to the human world in the form of a dolphin and forms a connection with a human boy.
- DirectorWen JiangStarsYu XiaWei ChenShaobo DaiBeijing, 1970s. Now that the CR has driven most adults to the provinces, 14-year-old Monkey and his pals have free reign over the city. They hang around, get up to no good, and discover that unsolvable mystery referred to as "girls."
- DirectorXiaogang FengStarsYou GeXiaogang FengPei LiuFour friends come up with an unusual idea to make some money and have fun doing it. For a small fee, they will impersonate and act out any character role for their customers. In the course of executing this novel service, they encounter a whole spectrum of people in society, finding ways to genuinely help them boost their morale and overcome their fears, while gaining unusual and new insights into the human condition.
- DirectorXiaogang FengStarsHanyu ZhangChao DengWenkang YuanA soldier fights to gain recognition for comrades who died during the Chinese Civil War.
- DirectorXiaogang FengStarsDaoming ChenChen LiYi LuThe epic story of a family separated as a result of the Great Tangshan Earthquake of 1976.
- DirectorHu GuanStarsXiaogang FengHanyu ZhangQing XuA well respected man residing in what's left of old-Beijing attempts to exonerate his son from his wrongdoings with his own methods and beliefs.
- DirectorYimou ZhangStarsGong LiWen JiangRujun TengWhen 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.
- DirectorYimou ZhangStarsGong LiJingwu MaSaifei HeChina 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.
- DirectorYimou ZhangStarsJet LiTony Leung Chiu-waiMaggie CheungA defense officer, Nameless, was summoned by the King of Qin regarding his success of terminating three warriors.
- DirectorYimou ZhangStarsChristian BaleNi NiXinyi ZhangAn American finds refuge during the 1937 Japanese invasion of Nanking in a church with a group of women. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.
- DirectorZhangke JiaStarsTao ZhaoZhou LanSanming HanA 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.
- DirectorZhangke JiaStarsHongwei WangHongjian HaoBaitao ZuoA small town pickpocket whose friends have moved on to higher trades finds himself bitter and unable to adapt.
- DirectorZhangke JiaStarsWu JiangBaoqiang WangTao ZhaoFour independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
- DirectorHu GuanStarsHuang BoNi YanTielong ShangA Chinese peasant is given the responsibility of protecting his village's special dairy cow during a particularly harsh winter in 1940.
- DirectorPing HeStarsWei GaoMana ZhaoJiang ChangA teenage lad arrives at Double Flag Town to claim his betrothed bride, when he encounters a group of outlaws and kills one of them. A vendetta is expected.
- DirectorXiaozhi RaoStarsJianbin ChenSuxi RenBinlong PanWhile two criminals hide out at a woman's apartment after a botched robbery, an ex-cop tries to find a missing gun.
- DirectorAmp WongJi ZhaoStarsKaiji TangJames SieFaye MataA love story between a snake spirit and a snake hunter.
- DirectorDerek TsangStarsDongyu ZhouSichun MaToby LeeTwo women who have been close friends since adolescence must cope with the changes that maturity brings.
- DirectorKuo-Fu ChenQunshu GaoStarsXun ZhouBingbing LiHanyu ZhangFollowing a series of assassination attempts on officials of the Japanese-controlled puppet government in 1942 Nanjingn (Nanking), the Japanese spy chief gathers a group of suspects in a mansion house for questioning. A tense game of "cat and mouse" ensues as the Chinese code-breaker attempts to send out a crucial message while protecting his/her own identity.
- DirectorDante LamStarsYi ZhangJohnny HuangHai-QingPLA Navy Marine Corps launch a hostage rescue operation in the fictional Republic of Ihwea and undergo a fierce battle with rebellions and terrorism.
- DirectorFrant GwoStarsJing WuMan-Tat NgZhi WangWith the sun dying out, a group of brave astronauts set out to find new planet for the whole human race.
- DirectorJin XieStarsWen JiangLinian LiuXiaoqing LiuLove, humiliation, and politics play out in a distant village of China during the Cultural Revolution.
- DirectorKaige ChenStarsXueqi WangBai XueQuiang LiuA 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.
- DirectorJin XieStarsXijuan ZhuXingang WangMei XiangIn 1930s, Wu Qionghua was a housemaid of Nan-ba-tian, a cruel warlord of a village in Hainan Island, China. Often abused by her master, Qionghua was finally rescued by Hong Changqing, leader of the Red Detachment of Women - a troop of women soldiers. She joined the troop and became the Detachment leader after the death of Hong. They captivated and executed the warlord and liberated Qionghua's home village.
- DirectorXudong RenStarsLung-Kuang ChuGuodong HanJiang LiuChinese excavated a lot of tunnels in middle Hebei flatlands and fight invaders in these tunnels in the anti-Japanese war.
- DirectorYingqi Tang
- DirectorWei CuiHongying OuyangStarsJisi AnYing ZhangCunzhuang GeZhang Ga was a naughty boy who wanted to join the Eighth Route Army, and he tried to fight Japanese invaders in his own way.
- DirectorKe GuoAn estimated 200,000 Chinese women were forced into prostitution by the Japanese army during WWII. Only 22 of them remain today to speak out publicly. This documentary is not a film for political gains or narrow nationalistic purposes. For the director and the crew, each and every one of those elderly women is a brave and strong individual with similar yet distinctive experiences. This is a group that deserves to be known and correctly understood by more people and a history worth being preserved in a most accurate yet sensitive way. In the documentary, the current situation of those 22 elderly women will be presented in an impersonal way. There's no interrogation, sympathy, nor exaggeration in our film. You will hear them talk about their own experiences, and you will also learn about their perspectives on life, sufferings and happiness. Now all over 80 or 90 years old, those elderly ladies are at the very last stage of their life. This is probably the last chance for the public to actually see their situations and hear their own words while they are still alive. It should not be a history just written on pages.
- DirectorBaoping CaoStarsXinyue CaoXu DaiJinglin GuoTwelve year old Li Wan (Zhang Xueying) has lost her mother long ago. When she grew up, her father remarried. Not long after, Li played with a half brother. This series of events lead to adolescent Li play has become strange and silent, in order to appease and divert the daughter inside depressed, father bought a lovely dog, hoping it can replace himself with his daughter. Li Wan and the puppy soon established a deep affection, she named the puppy "Einstein"". Unfortunately, an accident, Einstein lost, under a huge blow, Lee with his wayward will play the whole family jiquanbuning exhortations. After the father sent Lee Wanyi puppy to replace Einstein, but Li Wan knew that everything changed, he could not go back to the past, compromise, seems to be the only choice.
- DirectorYukun XinStarsWu JiangYang SongWenkang YuanA young boy tends sheep on a hillside in Northern China goes missing. His mute father looks for him with a special way of solving problems: Fisticuffs.
- DirectorZhigang YangStarsXiao-LianshaTu-Te-Ha-MengShih-Chieh KingA warrior named Da Hufa goes to save his prince from a dystopian village. He finds the dystopian village ruled by a fake God and his guards. In order to save the prince, Da hufa has to defeat the God and his men and discloses the whole conspiracy.
- DirectorYukun XinStarsWeimin HuoXiaotian WangYun LuoA young man tries to get away from his family's overwhelming power, but when he accidentally kills a local thug, his fate will be intricately linked to his father's. A woman, who for years has been victim of domestic violence, finds comfort in the arms of her ex-lover. The news of the death of her husband arrives as she was planning his murder. An honest village chief plans to retire but an exceptional event related to his son will pull him into the abyss.
- DirectorBaoping CaoStarsYihong DuanChao DengTao GuoIt is a story about the redemption of three man, a cab driver who never takes credit for helping others, a auxiliary policeman who never asks for promotion even when he risks his life to serve justice, and a fisherman who voluntarily takes care of an orphan girl. All of them lead a quiet and normal life, but never in a second are them at peace with their conscience. Seven years of running yet the past still catches up with them. With the showing up of new detective Guchun Yi, the truth of the once sensational Termination Document begins to surface.
- DirectorQuan'an WangStarsNan YuBa'toerSen'geSet in Inner Mongolia, a physical setback causes a young woman to choose a suitor who can take care of her, as well as her disabled husband.
- DirectorYang ZhangStarsTsring ChodronTsewang DolkarJiangcuo SebaA group of Tibetans make a 1200 kilometer pilgrimage to Lasa.
- DirectorYimou ZhangStarsGong LiPeiqi LiuLiuchun YangA peasant woman seeks justice after the headman of her village has kicked her husband in the groin.
- DirectorYimou ZhangStarsZiyi ZhangHonglei SunHao ZhengPrompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.
- DirectorYu YangStarsYanting LüJosephMo HanBorn with unique powers, a boy is recruited to fight demons and save the community that fears him.
- DirectorWang ChuanStarsSheng FengKetsuLu LiuEvery 333 years Kuiba is reborn. During the rebirth, Kuiba absorbs the body of Manji. To become the best spirit, Manji enlists to kill Kuiba. What Manji doesn't know is Kuiba is a part of him. How will he face fate and accept destiny?
- DirectorWang ChuanStarsLei AoZhengjian GuoLu LiuManji and Master Man board a warship bound headed to Maelstrom Island. Meanwhile, on Maelstrom Island, Kuiba's fiercest lieutenants are preparing for battle. Manji soon faces conflicts between his father, the gods, and Kuiba's lieutenants.
- DirectorFangfang LiStarsZiyi ZhangXiaoming HuangLeehom WangFrom 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 set of challenges. Up against corporate corruption, the trials and tribulations of the cultural revolution, and one's duty to nation in time of war, they are faced with choosing their individual paths through history. But as the challenges and turmoil of each generation may differ as time changes, what was learned in the past cannot help but effect the choices that are made in the future as it is passed down from generation to generation. And that is the universal message that being true to yourself is precious. It is the source of strength that empowers one to become the person they want to be, to march forward as far as their hearts desire, into the future.
- DirectorKaige ChenHu GuanNing HaoStarsHuang BoQianyuan WangHao OuAn anthology film consist of 7 short stories directed by several different directors, which are based on 7 moments since the founding of People's Republic of China.
- DirectorDerek TsangStarsDongyu ZhouJackson YeeFang YinWhile she copes the the pressures of her final examinations, a bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants.
- DirectorYi'nan DiaoStarsGe HuGwei Lun-MeiFan LiaoA gangster on the run sacrifices everything for his family and a woman he meets while on the lam.
- DirectorXu LeiStarsChaoying XuZhanyi ZhangShuhe SuSherlock on the Plains is an absurd comedy film produced by Rao Xiaozhi and directed by Xu Lei. The film tells that a super-British house was flipped over, a friend Shuhe came to help with cooking, and was hit by a car while in a coma while being hospitalized, and the vehicle escaped. Chaoying and his good friend Zhanyi transformed into a rural detective group, riding an electric three-wheeler on the North China Plain, and set off on the story of chasing the driver. The film won the "Best Film Text" award at the 13th FIRST Youth Film Festival.
- DirectorAng LiJun LiStarsBaocheng GaoXuehong LiJiang LiuThe adventure of Dongzi Pan, a boy whose father left home for the Long March in the Red Army and whose mother was killed by gangster of the evil landlord Hu.
- DirectorShuchen WangJingda XuDing Xian YanStarsKe BiBanjô GingaDaisuke GôriTells the fable from Chinese mythology about the young warrior Nezha who takes on a group of evil dragons.
- DirectorShuchen WangYunda QianStarsJianhua DingKe BiXiu SuYuangong, the deacon, opened the shrine and exposed the holy book to the human world. He also carved the contents of the book on the stone wall of white cloud cave in the mountains. He is now punished to guard the book for life by the jade emperor for breaking heaven's law and betraying the holy secret to human. In order to pass this holy book to human beings, he would have to get by the antagonist fox.
- DirectorWan LaimingCheng TangStarsYue-Feng QiuRun-Sheng FuHans AlfredsonSun Wukong, the King of the Monkeys, sets off on his first adventure to gain a worthy weapon. This earns the attention of the Jade Emperor of Heaven.
- DirectorGuang Xi ChangStarsWen JiangFan XuJing NingGoddess San Sheng Mu goes down to earth with the magical Lotus Lantern, marries human scholar Liu Yanchang and bears him a son called Chenxiang, in spite of the opposition of her brother, god Erlang. Erland threatens her to return the Lantern by kidnapping Chenxiang. It will be the boy's mission to return everything to order.
- DirectorMuzhi YuanStarsDan ZhaoHeling WeiXuan ZhouIn old Shanghai, two sisters, a prostitute and a singer, tried to escape from the local scoundrels with the help of a trumpet player and a newspaper seller.
- DirectorMu FeiStarsChaoming CuiWei LiYu ShiA lonely housewife finds her monotonous life altered when her childhood sweetheart returns to town.
- DirectorWan LaimingGuchan WanStarsGuanxiang LiuChen ZhengfaZhou JirangThree travelers needing to pass through a fiery mountain seek the magical fan of a princess, but she does not wish to part with it.
- DirectorJingfeng RenStarsTan XinpeiDingjunshan was the first Chinese film ever made. The content was a sung representation of Battle of Mount Dingjun.
- DirectorChusheng CaiJunli ZhengStarsYang BaiJin TaoYinyan Wu1930's China. The village of a poor family is taken over by the occupying Japanese army. One son, Zhongliang, leaves his wife and young son to join a medic group for the Chinese Army. The other son, Zhangmin goes into hiding to protect his family. The focus shifts back and forth from the brothers' parents and Zhongliang's wife and son to Zhongliang's newfound life of luxury in a town not too far away. The plight of Zhongliang's mother, his wife, Sufan and her son, Kongeson is contrasted with Zhongliang's rise in a flourishing company.
- DirectorYonggang WuStarsLingyu RuanTian JianZhizhi ZhangStreet walker by night, devoted mother by day, a woman fights to get her young son an education amid criminal and social injustice in China.
- DirectorKaige ChenStarsGong LiFengyi ZhangZhou SunIn 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.
- DirectorXiaowen ZhouStarsWen JiangYou GeQing XuEpic 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.
- DirectorDuyu DanStarsMingzhu YinWen-Chao WuMeikang JiangOne of the earliest cinematic adaptation of Chinese classic novel Journey to the West. When seeking for food alone, Tang Xuanzang was kept prisoner by seven spider monsters who took the form of seven beautiful women. The Monkey King and the other two of Xuanzang's disciples managed to rescue him with the help of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva/Guanyin. They renounced the desire for lust and continued the quest for Buddhist Scriptures.
- DirectorWenchi ShiStarsBaocheng GaoDeji HuoChanghua LiFive soldiers of the Eighth Route Army fight heroically to cover the evacuation of local people from border area between Shanxi and Hebei provinces as the Japanese attack.
- DirectorShan LinMeng ShaStarsBaocheng GaoLinge XuLiang ZhangThe story takes place during the Korean War (1951-1953). In the fall of 1952, the American troops launched a large-scale attack by the border between South Korea and North Korea during the Sino-American negotiation at Banmen Dian. Zhang Zhong Fa, a company commander of the Chinese Voluntary Army, led his troops to guard Shanggangling Mount. In an extremely difficult situation, they guarded their position for 24 days. The American were forced to resume the negotiation and sign the the armistice.
- DirectorSu LiZhaodi WuStarsZhenqing GuoYing ZhangHua FangA guerrilla group around Li Xiangyang are ambushed by the Japanese invasion army during the War of Resistance.
- DirectorSu LiStarsWanqiu HuangZongxue XiaJu-ke ZhangThis is the first musical film in China which tells the story of Liu San Jie (Liu the Third Sister), a legendary folk female singer of Zhuang minority in Guangxi Autonomous Region.
- DirectorJian ChenDong ShenLian WeiStarsWufu WangShusheng LiGuangming XuAs the Japanese troops sweep southwards from Manchuria to China proper, the Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang ally to hold them back at Taihang Mountains. But their alliance proves fragile at best.
- DirectorJiwei CaiMukui JingJun LiStarsXu ChenYang GuangLin SuSet in 1948, the second strategic campaign in central China between CCP army and the Nationalist Party army.
- StarsLin SuHaiying SunJie ZuoSet in 1948, the first strategic campaign in northeast China during the civil war between CCP army and Nationalist Party army.
- StarsYue GuDingbao LiJiawei LiangSet in late 1940s, CCP army surrounds and liberates two most important cities in north China, Beiping (now Beijing, the capital of China) and Tianjin.
- DirectorJianya ZhangStarsLin JiaZongwan WeiJie CuiSan Mao joins the army and experiences a tough, dangerous, and funny life.
- DirectorNong LinStarsJie LiMoran LiXueqin PangIn 1894 the Japanese Imperial Navy provokes the Chinese navy to test defenses. Some Chinese want to make concessions while others want to fight. When Japan invades, some naval officers put up a heroic resistance.
- DirectorGuangyuan YangStarsXuecheng FuQi LuChangli GaoSet in late period of the War of Liberation, Liu Bo-Cheng and Deng Xiao-Ping's army march forward to southwest China.
- DirectorXiaojiang HeWei ShiStarsXuecheng FuYue GuFazeng GuoSet in late period of the War of Liberation, PLA breaks through the defense of Yangtze River and captures Nanjing, Hangzhou and Shanghai.
- DirectorJia-HeJilie ZhaoStarsPeichang CaoZheng ChenYue GuSet in spring 1949, PLA captures south central China.
- DirectorWei GuoStarsLiang ZhangYing ZhangQitian YangDong Cunrui is a young soldier of PLA. This movies describes his growth from a common civilian into a brave soldier and his heroic sacrifice of life in the destruction of the enemy's blockhouse.
- DirectorQiankuan LiGuiyun XiaoStarsShensheng ChenYou GeYue Gu
- DirectorHui ShiStarsYuanyuan CaiShi ShuAn-an CaiThe adventure of Hai Wa, a twelve-year-old boy. He sent a secret letter about Japanese military information to the Eighth Route Army during the anti-Japanese war.
- DirectorZhaodi WuStarsChu DazhangTian FangZhenqing GuoAn army officer has a chance encounter with a young soldier, the son of an old comrade in arms. The soldier tells the officer he has a sister who is also in the army. When the young soldier is killed in action, the officer visits her to pay his respects, and recognizes her as his own child, given up for adoption 18 years earlier. This presents him with a dilemma, wanting to reconnect with the only child he ever had, yet reluctant to tell her the truth about her parentage ...
- DirectorChi-Keung LeungLei ShihYan ZhuStarsJan-Ching DoHiu-Lui ChanSing-Ban SuenThe country is in uproar as the Chinese are forced to combat the Vietnamese.
- DirectorWei GuoStarsYuntai GuoRan AnZhijian ChenThe Nationalist army is dug in on Mount Hua and the People's Liberation Army finds a way to attack.
- DirectorLian WeiStarsQi LuXuecheng FuYue Gu
- DirectorLian WeiStarsXuecheng FuYue GuQi Lu
- DirectorGuangyuan YangStarsYaming GeHengduo ZaoJunjie ZhaiThe Chinese army stops the Japanese army in 1938 at Suzhou.
- DirectorQiankuan LiGuiyun XiaoStarsZhiguo DuFazeng LiYang Song
- DirectorYin ChengXiaodan TangStarsZhe FengRuifang ZhangGe ChenIn 1947 the Chinese Red Army sets a trap for the Nationalist forces in Jiangsu province.
- DirectorTieli XieStarsXiangling TongJinbo ShenKuixi HanYang Zirong, a reconnaissance soldier, goes undercover and infiltrates a group of rebellious bandits to aid a leading communist force in destroying them.
- DirectorYouxin XuStarsYongshou ZhangJitian XingHuanguang HuangFang lead a squad to explode the Kangping bridge.
- DirectorXiaodan TangStarsDaolin SunHeng QiYongping SunPLA send scouts to get through Yangtze River to collect enemy information of defense.
- DirectorJin XieStarsGuoan BaoLiankun LinSihung LungQing official Lin Zexu burns the opium of British traders in a bid to end the opium trade. Incensed by his actions, the British traders appeal to their government, leading to the First Opium War and the eventual cessation of Hong Kong.