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1. The Summer Is Gone (2016)

106 min | Drama

In Inner Mongolia in the early 1990s, 12-year-old Xiaolei enjoys summer with his father, who works at a film studio, and his education-minded mother. But life is rapidly changing, as stable... See full summary »

Director: Dalei Zhang | Stars: Weiyi Kong, Chen Zhang

Votes: 394

2. Mr. No Problem (2016)

144 min | Drama

This three-act fable, set in wartime Chongqing, focuses on the indifferent rich, the head clerk on a farm, and some young intruders.

Director: Feng Mei | Stars: Wei Fan, Tao Yin, Yihong Shi, Chao Zhang

Votes: 648

3. 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

4. The Assassin (2015)

Not Rated | 105 min | Action, Drama, History

82 Metascore

A female assassin receives a dangerous mission to kill a political leader in eighth-century China.

Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Stars: Shu Qi, Chang Chen, Yun Zhou, Satoshi Tsumabuki

Votes: 17,976 | Gross: $0.61M

5. A City of Sadness (1989)

157 min | Drama, History

The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror" that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government after their arrival from mainland China in the late 1940s.

Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Shu-Fen Hsin, Sung-Young Chen, Jack Kao

Votes: 6,093

6. Flowers of Shanghai (1998)

Unrated | 113 min | Drama

73 Metascore

In the "flower houses" (upscale brothels) of Shanghai, various interweaving stories of love, loyalty, and deceit play out subtly.

Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Michiko Hada, Michelle Reis, Carina Lau

Votes: 4,073

7. A Time to Live and a Time to Die (1985)

Not Rated | 138 min | Biography, Drama

The semi-autobiographical film on director Hou Hsiao-Hsien's childhood and adolescence, when he was growing up in Taiwan, living through the deaths of his father, mother and grandmother.

Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Stars: Chia-bao Chang, Neng Chang, Chih-Chen Chen, Han-wen Chen

Votes: 3,511

8. Good Men, Good Women (1995)

108 min | Drama, Romance

Intended as the concluding film in the trilogy on the modern history of Taiwan began with Beiqing Chengshi (1989), this film reveals the story through three levels: a film within a film as ... See full summary »

Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Stars: Annie Shizuka Inoh, Giong Lim, Jack Kao, Ah-Cheng

Votes: 1,242

9. A Summer at Grandpa's (1984)

93 min | Drama

A coming-of-age story about a young brother and sister who spend a pivotal summer in the country with their grandparents.

Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Stars: Chi-Kuang Wang, Shu-Chen Li, Hsiu-Ling Lin, Mei-Feng

Votes: 1,737

10. Dust in the Wind (1986)

Not Rated | 109 min | Drama, Romance

A young couple leave their mining town home for Taipei where they struggle to eke out a living in an industrial wasteland.

Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Stars: Grace Chen, Shu-Fang Chen, Shu-Fen Hsin, Chi-Ying Kao

Votes: 3,183

11. The Puppetmaster (1993)

142 min | Biography, Drama, War

Puppeteer Li Tian-lu tells his life story, and through it, the story of Taiwan in the first half of the 20th century.

Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Stars: Tien-Lu Li, Giong Lim, Kuei-Chung Cheng, Chien-ru Huang

Votes: 2,071

12. Coming Home (2014)

PG-13 | 109 min | Drama, Romance

81 Metascore

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: 6,684 | Gross: $0.38M

13. Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005)

PG | 107 min | Drama

73 Metascore

A Japanese father travels to China's Yunnan province in the place of his ailing son to film a folk-opera singer.

Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Ken Takakura, Kiichi Nakai, Shinobu Terajima, Ken Nakamoto

Votes: 5,625 | Gross: $0.25M

14. The Bright Red Lanterns Hung High (2008 Video)

87 min | Musical

The story of a woman in the period before the Chinese Civil War, which began in the late 1920s. She becomes one of the wives of a lord and struggles with the rules of her new home.

Votes: 86

15. Under the Hawthorn Tree (2010)

114 min | Drama, Romance

Romance sparks between a young woman and a young man from different economic backgrounds during China's Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and '70s.

Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Xuejian Li, Taishen Cheng, Dongyu Zhou, Rina Sa

Votes: 3,716

16. To Live (1994)

Not Rated | 133 min | Drama, War

After Fugui and Jiazhen lose their personal fortunes, they raise a family and survive difficult cultural changes during 1940s to 1970s China.

Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: You Ge, Gong Li, Ben Niu, Wu Jiang

Votes: 20,428 | Gross: $2.33M

17. Happy Times (2000)

PG | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

63 Metascore

Zhao is an aging bachelor who hasn't been lucky in love. Thinking he has finally met the woman of his dreams, Zhao leads her to believe he is wealthy and agrees to a wedding far beyond his ... See full summary »

Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Lifan Dong, Benshan Zhao, Jie Dong, Biao Fu

Votes: 4,178 | Gross: $0.24M

18. The Road Home (1999)

G | 89 min | Drama, Romance

71 Metascore

Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.

Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Ziyi Zhang, Honglei Sun, Hao Zheng, Yulian Zhao

Votes: 13,913 | Gross: $1.28M

19. Not One Less (1999)

G | 106 min | Drama

73 Metascore

In a remote mountain village, the teacher must leave for a month, and the mayor can find only a 13-year old girl, Wei Minzhi, to substitute. The teacher leaves one stick of chalk for each ... See full summary »

Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Minzhi Wei, Huike Zhang, Zhenda Tian, Enman Gao

Votes: 9,357 | Gross: $0.59M

20. Keep Cool (1997)

93 min | Comedy

A spurned lover seeks a rich man for revenge. A random onlooker -- who witnessed the public assault committed by the rich man against the lover -- seeks for monetary compensation for his ... See full summary »

Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Wen Jiang, Baotian Li, Ying Qu, Xinyi Liu

Votes: 2,248

21. Shanghai Triad (1995)

R | 108 min | Crime, Drama, History

77 Metascore

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: 6,022 | Gross: $2.30M

22. 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: 6,650 | Gross: $1.89M

23. 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: 35,317 | Gross: $2.60M

24. 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: 9,012 | Gross: $1.99M

25. Codename Cougar (1989)

76 min | Drama, Thriller

Aircraft hijacking with Chinese special forces rescue. Gong Li as a heroic stewardess.

Directors: Yimou Zhang, Fengliang Yang | Stars: You Ge, Zhaoji Jia, Gong Li, Xiaoning Liu

Votes: 300

26. 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: 9,867

27. Mountains May Depart (2015)

Not Rated | 126 min | Drama, Romance

79 Metascore

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: 6,384 | Gross: $0.08M

28. A Touch of Sin (2013)

Not Rated | 130 min | Crime, Drama

77 Metascore

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: 12,879 | Gross: $0.09M

29. Still Life (2006)

Unrated | 111 min | Drama

81 Metascore

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: 7,299 | Gross: $0.07M

30. The World (2004)

Not Rated | 143 min | Drama

81 Metascore

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: 3,488 | Gross: $0.06M

31. 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: 3,285

32. Happy Together (1997)

Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Romance

70 Metascore

A couple take a trip to Argentina but both men find their lives drifting apart in opposite directions.

Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Chang Chen, Gregory Dayton

Votes: 34,008 | Gross: $0.19M

33. Fallen Angels (1995)

Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

71 Metascore

This Hong Kong-set crime drama follows the lives of a hitman, hoping to get out of the business, and his elusive female partner.

Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Leon Lai, Michelle Reis, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Charlie Yeung

Votes: 50,759

34. Ashes of Time (1994)

R | 100 min | Action, Drama

69 Metascore

A broken-hearted hit man moves to the desert where he finds skilled swordsmen to carry out his contract killings.

Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung, Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai

Votes: 16,949 | Gross: $0.17M

35. Chungking Express (1994)

PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

78 Metascore

Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal waitress at a late-night restaurant he frequents.

Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Brigitte Lin, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Faye Wong

Votes: 95,664 | Gross: $0.60M

36. Days of Being Wild (1990)

Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

93 Metascore

A man tries to find out who his real mother is after the woman who raised him tells him the truth.

Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau, Carina Lau

Votes: 25,463 | Gross: $0.14M

37. As Tears Go By (1988)

Not Rated | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

67 Metascore

Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.

Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung, Jacky Cheung, Alex Man

Votes: 12,480 | Gross: $0.01M

38. Blind Shaft (2003)

Unrated | 92 min | Crime, Drama

78 Metascore

Two Chinese coal miners have hit upon the perfect scam: murder one of their fellow mine workers, make the death look like an accident, and extort money from the boss to keep the incident ... See full summary »

Director: Yang Li | Stars: Yixiang Li, Baoqiang Wang, Shuangbao Wang, Jing Ai

Votes: 2,915 | Gross: $0.03M

39. Hibiscus Town (1987)

164 min | Drama, History, Romance

Love, humiliation, and politics play out in a distant village of China during the Cultural Revolution.

Director: Jin Xie | Stars: Wen Jiang, Linian Liu, Xiaoqing Liu, Ning Xu

Votes: 1,368

40. Mountain Patrol (2004)

PG-13 | 90 min | Action, Drama

77 Metascore

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: 5,429 | Gross: $0.14M

41. Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (1998)

R | 99 min | Drama

Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year ... See full summary »

Director: Joan Chen | Stars: Xiaolu Li, Lopsang, Zheng Qian, Jie Gao

Votes: 3,675 | Gross: $1.00M

42. Vive L'Amour (1994)

R | 118 min | Drama, Romance

Three lonely young denizens of Taipei unknowingly share an apartment used for sexual trysts.

Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Stars: Chen Chao-jung, Kang-sheng Lee, Kuei-Mei Yang, Yi-ching Lu

Votes: 4,789

43. The Blue Kite (1993)

140 min | Drama, History

The lives of a Beijing family throughout the 1950s and 1960s, as they experience the impact of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution.

Director: Zhuangzhuang Tian | Stars: Tian Yi, Wenyao Zhang, Xiaoman Chen, Liping Lü

Votes: 3,256 | Gross: $0.36M

44. City of Life and Death (2009)

R | 133 min | Drama, History, War

85 Metascore

In 1937, Japan occupied Nanjing, the Chinese capital. There was a battle and subsequent atrocities against the inhabitants, especially those who took refuge in the International Security Zone.

Director: Chuan Lu | Stars: Ye Liu, Wei Fan, Hideo Nakaizumi, Yuanyuan Gao

Votes: 11,709 | Gross: $0.12M

45. In the Heat of the Sun (1994)

134 min | Drama, Romance

Beijing, 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."

Director: Wen Jiang | Stars: Yu Xia, Wei Chen, Shaobo Dai, Hua Fang

Votes: 5,521

46. Devils on the Doorstep (2000)

139 min | Comedy, Drama, War

70 Metascore

Villagers in World War II China are unsure what to do with the two enemy prisoners who have been left in their care.

Director: Wen Jiang | Stars: Wen Jiang, Kenya Sawada, Hongbo Jiang, Teruyuki Kagawa

Votes: 8,613 | Gross: $0.02M

47. Blind Mountain (2007)

95 min | Crime, Drama

60 Metascore

A young woman is kidnapped and sold to a villager in the mountains.

Director: Yang Li | Stars: Lu Huang, Youan Yang, Yuling Zhang, Yunle He

Votes: 2,090 | Gross: $0.01M

48. Street Angel (1937)

91 min | Comedy, Drama

In 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.

Director: Muzhi Yuan | Stars: Dan Zhao, Heling Wei, Xuan Zhou, Jiting Wang

Votes: 944

49. Shen nu (1934)

TV-PG | 85 min | Drama

Street walker by night, devoted mother by day, a woman fights to get her young son an education amid criminal and social injustice in China.

Director: Yonggang Wu | Stars: Lingyu Ruan, Tian Jian, Zhizhi Zhang, Keng Li

Votes: 2,469

50. The Red Detachment of Women (1961)

92 min | Drama, War

In 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, ... See full summary »

Director: Jin Xie | Stars: Xijuan Zhu, Xingang Wang, Mei Xiang, Naihua Jin

Votes: 363

51. The Ditch (2010)

112 min | Drama

It recounts the harrowing story of life at one of Mao's camps, at the end of the fifties, where 'rightists' were sent to be 're-educated through labor'.

Director: Wang Bing | Stars: Ye Lu, Renjun Lian, Cenzi Xu, Haoyu Yang

Votes: 538

52. Ordinary Heroes (1999)

128 min | Drama

Ordinary Heroes is a 1999 Cantonese-language film directed by Ann Hui. It was co-produced by Hong Kong and China. It concerns social reform activists in Hong Kong. The film's Chinese title ... See full synopsis »

Director: Ann Hui | Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Kwan-Ho Tse, Mo-Chan Chik

Votes: 323

53. July Rhapsody (2002)

103 min | Drama

Yiu-Kwok is a high school teacher, having a perfect family. Good times don't last long, when a student, Choy-Nam, falls in love with him. For dealing with a relationship with Mr. Seng, a ... See full summary »

Director: Ann Hui | Stars: Jacky Cheung, Anita Mui, Karena Kar-Yan Lam, Eric Kot

Votes: 1,108

54. A Simple Life (2011)

Not Rated | 118 min | Drama

78 Metascore

After suffering a stroke, an altruistic maid announces that she wants to quit her job and move into an old people's home.

Director: Ann Hui | Stars: Andy Lau, Deannie Ip, Hailu Qin, Fuli Wang

Votes: 6,303 | Gross: $0.19M

55. The Way We Are (2008)

90 min | Drama

"The Way We Are" tells the story of a hardworking, widowed, single mother (Mrs. Cheung) and her teenage son (Ka-on) living in the troubled housing estate of Tinshuiwai, a suburb regularly featured in the news for all the wrong reasons.

Director: Ann Hui | Stars: Hee Ching Paw, Chun-lung Leung, Cheuk Man Au, Idy Chan

Votes: 1,080

56. Night and Fog (2009)

122 min | Crime, Drama

Starts at the end of the story, with the brutal murder by a man of his wife and daughters. Hui gradually unmasks the idyll of the peaceful family and that of Hong Kong as the promised land for gold seekers.

Director: Ann Hui | Stars: Simon Yam, Jingchu Zhang, Ariel Hiu-Man Chan, Audrey Hiu-Yau Chan

Votes: 597

57. Summer Snow (1995)

101 min | Comedy, Drama

The Suns are a typical Hong Kong family: May, forty something, works for a trading company; her husband, Bing, works as a low-grade civil servant, and Allen, their teenage son, is still at ... See full summary »

Director: Ann Hui | Stars: Josephine Siao, Kar-Ying Law, Allen Ting, Roy Chiao

Votes: 825

58. Boat People (1982)

R | 109 min | Drama

A Japanese photojournalist revisits Vietnam after the Liberation and learns harsh truths about its regime and its "New Economic Zones".

Director: Ann Hui | Stars: George Lam, Cora Miao, Season Ma, Andy Lau

Votes: 1,679

59. Long Arm of the Law (1984)

105 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Four men sneak into Hong Kong to rob a jewelry store. Before the robbery, they're hired by a local triad to kill a man, who turns out to be a cop. They have to execute the heist while hiding from the police hunting them down.

Director: Johnny Mak | Stars: Jing Chen, Lung Chiang, Ling Chow, Pak Fei

Votes: 964

60. Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996)

118 min | Drama, Romance

Two Chinese-mainlanders living in Hong Kong form a close friendship. Over the years this grows into love, but there are obstacles.

Director: Peter Ho-Sun Chan | Stars: Maggie Cheung, Leon Lai, Eric Tsang, Kristy Yeung

Votes: 7,604

61. Let the Bullets Fly (2010)

Not Rated | 132 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

66 Metascore

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: 13,128 | Gross: $0.06M

62. A World Without Thieves (2004)

113 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A con-team couple (Andy Lau & Rene Liu) head west after taking a city businessman for his BMW. But an encounter with a naive young carpenter travelling home with his life savings challenges their fate as thieves.

Director: Xiaogang Feng | Stars: Andy Lau, Rene Liu, Baoqiang Wang, You Ge

Votes: 5,537

63. Jia fang yi fang (1997)

90 min | Comedy

Four 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 ... See full summary »

Director: Xiaogang Feng | Stars: You Ge, Xiaogang Feng, Pei Liu, Bing He

Votes: 1,729

64. The Sun Also Rises (2007)

116 min | Drama, Fantasy

Jiang Wen stars in his third directorial work that boasts a stellar cast including Joan Chen, Anthony Wong and Jaycee Chan. A polyptych of interconnected stories in different time-zones, ... See full summary »

Director: Wen Jiang | Stars: Wen Jiang, Joan Chen, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Jaycee Chan

Votes: 2,568

65. Crazy Stone (2006)

98 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

What do you get when you have a precious jewel, a group of bumbling thieves intent on getting their hands on it, the mob wanting a piece of the action, and a loyal but mischievous security ... See full summary »

Director: Ning Hao | Stars: Tao Guo, Teddy Lin, Hua Liu, Gang Liu

Votes: 4,441

66. No Man's Land (2013)

118 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

A young lawyer from the city travels to the Gobi desert where he embarks on a series of adventures and challenges.

Director: Ning Hao | Stars: Zheng Xu, Duobujie, Nan Yu, Huang Bo

Votes: 2,749

67. The Dead End (2015)

139 min | Crime, Drama

It 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 ... See full summary »

Director: Baoping Cao | Stars: Yihong Duan, Chao Deng, Tao Guo, Luodan Wang

Votes: 2,011

68. The Final Master (2015)

Not Rated | 109 min | Action, Drama

72 Metascore

A 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.

Director: Haofeng Xu | Stars: Fan Liao, Jia Song, Wenli Jiang, Shih-Chieh King

Votes: 2,831

69. The Coffin in the Mountain (2014)

119 min | Drama, Mystery

A 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 ... See full summary »

Director: Yukun Xin | Stars: Weimin Huo, Xiaotian Wang, Yun Luo, Yuzen Yang

Votes: 2,217

70. 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

71. The Wasted Times (2016)

Unrated | 125 min | Crime, Drama

Over the course of several decades, a deal between the Japanese army and criminals in Shanghai plays out with violence and betrayal.

Director: Er Cheng | Stars: You Ge, Ziyi Zhang, Tadanobu Asano, Chun Du

Votes: 2,039 | Gross: $0.24M

72. Kaili Blues (2015)

Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, Mystery

85 Metascore

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: 4,352 | Gross: $0.03M

73. Paths of the Soul (2015)

Not Rated | 115 min | Drama

90 Metascore

A group of Tibetans make a 1200 kilometer pilgrimage to Lasa.

Director: Yang Zhang | Stars: Tsring Chodron, Tsewang Dolkar, Jiangcuo Seba, Pei Yang

Votes: 955 | Gross: $0.03M

74. Happiness (2016)

111 min | Drama

After his mother's death, Chan Kai-yuk feels so alone that he leaves Guangzhou for Hong Kong to look up the father who abandoned him and his mom. But Yuk's hopes are dashed: his dad has a ... See full summary »

Director: Yiu Fai Lo | Stars: Kara Wai, Carlos Chan, Yase Liu, Louis Cheung

Votes: 291

75. A Fool (2014)

Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama

Latiaozi was a Farmer who made a living with shepherding with his wife Jinzhizi. One day.

Director: Jianbin Chen | Stars: Jianbin Chen, Qinqin Jiang, Kim Scar, Liu Bin

Votes: 688

76. 12 Citizens (2014)

108 min | Crime, Drama

When the film broke out that a young man coming from a rich adopted family murdered his birth father, the controversy around the case hit a nerve with the public at large. An experiment was... See full summary »

Director: Ang Xu | Stars: Bing He, Jia Lei, Gang Wang, Tongsheng Han

Votes: 967

77. Mr. Six (2015)

PG-13 | 134 min | Action, Crime, Drama

57 Metascore

A 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.

Director: Hu Guan | Stars: Xiaogang Feng, Hanyu Zhang, Qing Xu, Kris Wu

Votes: 4,269 | Gross: $1.42M

78. Green Snake (1993)

Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Two snake spirits become human and learn about love and suffering. A monk discovers his own weaknesses and finds that morality is not as simple as he had thought.

Director: Hark Tsui | Stars: Joey Wang, Maggie Cheung, Wenzhuo Zhao, Hsing-Kuo Wu

Votes: 3,647

79. Echoes of the Rainbow (2010)

Not Rated | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The ups and downs of a Hong Kong family and their shoe shop as seen through the eyes of their eccentric eight-year-old son.

Director: Alex Law | Stars: Simon Yam, Sandra Kwan Yue Ng, Aarif Lee, Buzz Chung

Votes: 2,384

80. Made in Hong Kong (1997)

109 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Autumn Moon (Sam Lee), a low-rent triad living in Hong Kong, struggles to find meaning in his hopelessly violent existence.

Director: Fruit Chan | Stars: Sam Lee, Neiky Hui-Chi Yim, Wenders Li, Ka-Chuen Tam

Votes: 3,000

81. Durian Durian (2000)

116 min | Drama

Hong Kong life from the perspective of a young northern mainland Chinese woman working as a prostitute in Hong Kong.

Director: Fruit Chan | Stars: Hailu Qin, Wai-Fan Mak, Xiao Ming Biao, Wai Yiu Yung

Votes: 800

82. The Longest Summer (1998)

128 min | Drama

It is July 1st of 1997, and Hong Kong is bright in celebration. The United Kingdom handover of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China leaves Ga Yin, and his fellow soldiers without ... See full summary »

Director: Fruit Chan | Stars: Robby Cheung, Tak-Man Fong, Tony Ho, Jo Kuk

Votes: 482

83. Little Cheung (1999)

118 min | Drama

In 1997, Little Cheung is a street-wise nine-year-old boy living in a bustling neighbourhood of Hong Kong, just before the reunification with China. His parents are always working at their ... See full summary »

Director: Fruit Chan | Stars: Yuet-Ming Yiu, Wai-Fan Mak, Yuet-Man Mak, Robby

Votes: 651

84. Rouge (1987)

Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Fantasy, Music

Fleur is the blue angel in one of Hong Kong's "flower houses" - bordellos and night clubs of the 1930s. A detached and beautiful performer, she falls in love with Twelfth Master Chan, heir ... See full summary »

Director: Stanley Kwan | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Anita Mui, Alex Man, Emily Chu

Votes: 3,421

85. Under the Bridge (1983)

110 min | Drama, Romance

This simple romance story does not mean much to westerners, and in fact, does not even mean anything to Chinese today, but it was a big thing when it was made, not long after the end of ... See full summary »

Director: Chen Bai | Stars: Xue Gong, Tielin Zhang, Pin Wang, Xin Jin

Votes: 72

86. Kuei-mei, a Woman (1985)

152 min | Drama

This film tells of a woman's never-ending struggle to keep herself and her family fed and clothed.

Director: Yi Chang | Stars: Hui-Shan Yang, Hsiang-Ping Hu, Li-Chun Lee, Ming Liu

Votes: 218

87. A Confucian Confusion (1994)

125 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

After firing a colleague, the head of a PR company begins to question her lifestyle and values.

Director: Edward Yang | Stars: Li-Mei Chen, Shiang-chyi Chen, Yi-Wen Chen, Danny Deng

Votes: 1,477

88. Taipei Story (1985)

Not Rated | 119 min | Drama

Lung is a former member of the national Little League team who lives with his old childhood sweetheart Ah-chin, a traditional family woman. Although they live together, Ah-chin is weary of Lung's past liaison with another girl.

Director: Edward Yang | Stars: Chin Tsai, Hsiao-Hsien Hou, I-Chen Ko, Su-Yun Ko

Votes: 3,903 | Gross: $0.01M

89. That Day, on the Beach (1983)

Not Rated | 166 min | Drama

Two friends who haven't seen each other for thirteen years reunite. One is a successful concert pianist just back from a European tour and the other has just started a new business.

Director: Edward Yang | Stars: Sylvia Chang, Ming Hsu, Lieh Lee, David Mao

Votes: 1,451

90. A Brighter Summer Day (1991)

Not Rated | 237 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

91 Metascore

Based on a true story, primarily on a conflict between two youth gangs, a 14-year-old boy's girlfriend conflicts with the head of one gang for an unclear reason, until finally the conflict comes to a violent climax.

Director: Edward Yang | Stars: Chang Chen, Lisa Yang, Kuo-Chu Chang, Elaine Jin

Votes: 12,750

91. The Eagle Shooting Heroes (1993)

103 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy

A parody of Louis Cha's renowned novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes. The story begins with the Queen of Golden Wheel Kingdom and having an affair with her cousin West Poison, both of ... See full summary »

Director: Jeffrey Lau | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai

Votes: 3,237

92. Dragon Inn (1992)

88 min | Action, Thriller

During the Ming Dynasty, Tsao Siu-yan, a power-crazed eunuch who rules his desert region of China as if he were the Emperor, ruthlessly thwarts plots against him and sets a trap for one of this enemies at the Dragon Gate Inn.

Directors: Raymond Lee, Siu-Tung Ching, Hark Tsui | Stars: Tony Ka Fai Leung, Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung, Donnie Yen

Votes: 4,832

93. A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)

Unrated | 98 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror

After a string of bad luck, a debt collector has no other choice than to spend the night in a haunted temple, where he encounters a ravishing female ghost and later battles to save her soul from the control of a wicked tree demon.

Director: Siu-Tung Ching | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Joey Wang, Wu Ma, Wai Lam

Votes: 11,072

94. Swordsman II (1992)

R | 112 min | Action, Fantasy

Ling Wu Chung decides to hide from the chaotic world. Before leaving, he visits his friends, a tribe of snake-wielding women warriors. However, he finds that the tribe have been attacked, and their leader Yam Ying Ying has been abducted.

Director: Siu-Tung Ching | Stars: Jet Li, Brigitte Lin, Michelle Reis, Waise Lee

Votes: 4,790

95. An Autumn's Tale (1987)

98 min | Drama, Romance

Filmed in New York, story of naive young woman from Hong Kong who goes to New York to study. Street-wise cabbie cousin takes care of her in the big city.

Director: Mabel Cheung | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Cherie Chung, Danny Bak-Keung Chan, Gigi Suk Yee Wong

Votes: 2,342

96. Prison on Fire (1987)

R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Inside a Chinese prison two inmates form a friendship and face the difficulty of life on the inside.

Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Ka-Kui Ho, Roy Cheung

Votes: 3,263

97. The Mission (1999)

Not Rated | 84 min | Action

Triad boss Lung, who has just escaped being killed in an assassination, hires five killers for his protection. Their grown solidarity is under compulsion when Lung gives a special order.

Director: Johnnie To | Stars: Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Francis Ng, Jackie Chung-yin Lui, Roy Cheung

Votes: 6,139

98. Election 2 (2006)

Unrated | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

83 Metascore

As election time nears, current Triad chairman Lok (Yam) faces competition from his godsons. At the same time, Jimmy (Koo) looks to increase his business relations with mainland China.

Director: Johnnie To | Stars: Louis Koo, Simon Yam, Nick Cheung, Ka-Tung Lam

Votes: 6,894 | Gross: $0.05M

99. Running Out of Time (1999)

Not Rated | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Police inspector and excellent hostage negotiator Ho Sheung-Sang finds himself in over his head when he is pulled into a 72 hour game by a cancer-suffering criminal out for vengeance on Hong Kong's organized crime Syndicates.

Director: Johnnie To | Stars: Andy Lau, Ching Wan Lau, YoYo Mung, Waise Lee

Votes: 6,541

100. What Time Is It There? (2001)

Not Rated | 116 min | Drama, Romance

79 Metascore

A watch salesman meets a young woman soon leaving for Paris and becomes infatuated, so he begins to change all the clocks in Taipei to Paris time.

Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Yi-ching Lu, Miao Tien

Votes: 5,318 | Gross: $0.19M



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