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- 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.
- DirectorBi GanStarsTang WeiJue HuangSylvia ChangA man went back to Guizhou, found the tracks of a mysterious woman. He recalls the summer he spent with her twenty years ago.
- DirectorBi GanStarsYongzhong ChenFeiyang LuoLixun XieWhile travelling the countryside to locate his nephew, a small town doctor finds himself interacting with people from his past and future.
- DirectorYi'nan DiaoStarsFan LiaoGwei Lun-MeiXuebing WangAn 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.
- DirectorZhangke JiaStarsTao ZhaoFan LiaoZheng XuA story of violent love within a time frame spanning from 2001 to 2017.
- DirectorZhangke JiaStarsWu JiangBaoqiang WangTao ZhaoFour independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
- DirectorZhangke JiaStarsTao ZhaoYi ZhangLiang JingdongThe life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.
- DirectorZhangke JiaStarsMichelangelo AntonioniYindi CaoHsin-i ChangFocuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid-1800s, when Shanghai was opened as a trading port, to the present day.
- DirectorBo HuStarsYu ZhangYuchang PengUvin WangFour people in a Chinese city live through a complicated day as their lives intersect.
- DirectorBo HuStarsTieguang GaoXiaoqian ZhangYiji ZhaoApocalypse. Two starving kids find a dead body in the ruins.
- DirectorBi GanStarsYongzhong ChenLixun XieWater and lightning. Music and poetry. Life and death. An incantatory and visually sublime river journey that anticipates the cosmic mystery of KAILI BLUES.
- DirectorWei ShujunStarsYuan CuiPeng FeiZhengming LiIn a border village, a Chinese teenager of Korean roots aspires to join South Korea. He tries by all means to realize his dream.
- 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.
- DirectorXiaogang FengStarsXuan HuangMiao MiaoCaiyu YangA look at the lives of members of a Military Cultural Troupe in the 1970s.
- DirectorLulu WangStarsShuzhen ZhaoAwkwafinaX MayoA 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorXue BaiStarsYao HuangSunny SunCarmen SoupStudying in Hong Kong but living in Shenzhen (the port city of Mainland China), Peipei has spent 16 years in her life travelling between these two cities. To realize the dream of seeing snow in Japan with her bestie, Peipei joins a smuggling gang and uses her student identity to smuggle iPhones from Hong Kong to Mainland. Her family life and friendships begin to fall apart. The daily life of Peipei starts to get out of control.
- DirectorYe LouStarsBoran JingSongwen ZhangJia SongThe Chief of Construction Committee leaps to his death from a tall building. Yang Jiadong, a rookie cop, begins investigating it. Forced out of his job and to the safety of Hong Kong, he endeavors to discover the truth.
- DirectorYe LouStarsHao QinSicheng ChenWei WuHired to spy on a philandering husband, Luo Haitao soon becomes entangled in a clandestine affair with the other man. Along with Luo's girlfriend, they succumb to the delirium of drunken nights, but how long can their tryst last?
- DirectorYe LouStarsLei HaoHao QinXi QiLu Jie is having coffee with her desperate friend Sang Qi, who believes her husband is cheating on her. At the same time at a hotel across the road from the coffee shop, Lu Jie sees her husband businessman Qiao Yongzhao entering the hotel with a young girl. A few hours later the girl Sun Xiaomin is run over and killed on a nearby motorway by a group of joyriding rich kids but when the police arrive they notice that Sun had been attacked before she was run over.
- DirectorYe LouStarsGong LiMark You-Ting ChaoPascal GreggoryYu Jin is working undercover gathering intelligence for the Allies.
- DirectorYonfanStarsSylvia ChangWei ZhaoAlex Tak-Shun LamZiming, a University undergraduate, is entangled between his amorous feelings for a self-exiled mother Mrs Yu from Taiwan and her beautiful daughter Meiling, in the era coincides with Hong Kong's turbulent times of 1967.
- DirectorPeter Ho-Sun ChanStarsGong LiHuang BoGang WuAfter 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.
- DirectorHu GuanStarsZhizhong HuangJunyi ZhangHao OuIn 1937, 800 Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorHu GuanStarsYe LiuHanyu ZhangHuang BoDuring Second Sino-Japanese War, China suffered from cholera outbreak because Japanese uses it as an biological weapon. Four Chinese agents captures a Japanese scientist and his bodyguard and interrogate them by Chinese opera in order to get the vaccine formula.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorYa-che YangStarsKara WaiKe-Xi WuVicky ChenMadame Tang colludes and mediates between the government and the private businesses for the benefits of her all-female family. One case does not go according to plan, and an entire family close to Madame Tang fall victim to a cruel murder.
- 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.
- DirectorLu LiuShen ZhouStarsSuxi RenLi DaShuailiang LiuIn an effort to draw more funding from the government, faculty members of a rural Chinese school try to pass off an uneducated laborer as a qualified teacher.
- DirectorWen JiangStarsChow Yun-FatWen JiangYou GeIn 1920s China, a bandit arrives in a remote provincial town posing as its new mayor, where he faces off against a tyrannical local nobleman.
- DirectorWen JiangStarsEddie PengFan LiaoYun ZhouA young swordsman in 1930's China returns home to try and solve a five-year-old murder case. Described as the third installment of the gangster trilogy that includes "Let The Bullets Fly" and "Gone With The Bullets."
- DirectorWen JiangStarsWen JiangYou GeYun ZhouSet in 1920s Shanghai, Ma Zouri and Xiang Feitian establish a notorious beauty pageant called the Flowers Competition. All of the city's elite attend the gala event, but when Wanyan Ying unexpectedly wins, it sets into motion a series of tragic events that change their destinies.
- DirectorHuang BoStarsHuang BoShu QiBaoqiang WangA cataclysmic event causes a man, who dreams of winning the lottery, to become stranded on an island with his co-workers.
- DirectorDa-Mo PengFei YanStarsTeng ShenLi MaZheng YinAfter attending a wedding of his high school crush Qiuya, Xia Luo gets drunk embarrassing himself and angers his wife Ma Dongmei.
- DirectorPeter Ho-Sun ChanStarsXiaoming HuangDawei TongChao DengThe story of three friends who build a successful English language school in China called "New Dream". This school helps the dreams of Chinese teenagers come true. Before they stood proudly in the American stock market, many stories happened with them.
- DirectorPeter Ho-Sun ChanStarsWei ZhaoHuang BoDawei TongA story centered around a divorced couple living in a southern Chinese city Shenzhen and dealing with the disappearance of their missing son.
- DirectorDerek TsangStarsDongyu ZhouSichun MaToby LeeTwo women who have been close friends since adolescence must cope with the changes that maturity brings.
- DirectorFrant GwoRandy LiuStarsDongyu ZhouKenny LinNatsuko AoikeMy Old Classmate was an extraordinarily popular song composed by Gao Xiaosong in 1994. After 20 years, the movie My Old Classmate utilized the same name to recall all the romantic memories for several generations. The movie focused on a pair of young couple with pure love and their struggles in different varieties of obstacles during their growth, which expressed the sorrow in a soft way. The movie turn out to be a masterpiece, which got over 450 million RMB as the perfect end.
- DirectorWai-Man YipStarsBaoqiang WangZheng XuMan LiA 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.
- DirectorZheng XuStarsZheng XuBaoqiang WangHuang BoOn a wild road trip, three men find inner peace in the city that never sleeps.
- DirectorSicheng ChenStarsBaoqiang WangHaoran LiuHe ChenAfter being rejected from the police academy, a mild-mannered young man travels to Bangkok where he and an energetic distant relative must solve a murder case.
- DirectorSicheng ChenStarsHaoran LiuBaoqiang WangYang XiaoTang and Qin team up to solve a murder in New York's Chinatown.
- 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.
- DirectorDaniel LeeStarsJing WuZiyi ZhangYi ZhangThe four members of the China Everest Climbing Commando confront the most difficult mount. The first four failures have cost them too much physical strength until the wind and snow stop the gap.
- DirectorAo ShenStarsDa PengYan LiuZixian ZhangA struggling father agrees to run a scam in which he convinces a camgirl to marry him.
- 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.
- DirectorTian-yi YangStarsLei HaoElaine JinJunxi QuJournalist Guo lives together with her mother and daughter in the same residence. The relation of three generations looks placid but there is actually a fierce undercurrent of rebellion and resistance.
- DirectorLingxiao LiLegendary Higan Bana is an ominous flower, it can bring disasters to things around. Ding Guo and his master start off an adventure to wipe out Higan Bana and save people.
- DirectorLina WangStarsTajigul HeilmeierYasan KamisuKuramu KasimuWhen Isa is not at school or working on his parents' farmyard, he spends carefree days with his friends - until the outside world starts forcing him to say one goodbye after another.
- DirectorHing Fan WongStarsAaron KwokMiriam Chin-Wah YeungZeno KooOnce a star in the finance firm, Bowen now spends his nights in a 24-hour fast food joint, where he encounters others who are in a similar predicament. Together, these accidental people must strive to lift one another out of rock bottom.
- DirectorJevons AuKiwi ChowZune KwokStarsBrenda ChanCow ChanFun-Kei ChanFive short films set in Hong Kong in the year 2025.
- DirectorPhilip YungStarsAaron KwokJessie LiMichael NingHuman nature begins where truth ends Welcome to the murder without a body
- DirectorLok Man LeungKim-Ching LukStarsAaron KwokTony Ka Fai LeungCharlie YeungThe police department has long been untouchable until tonight when hijackers kidnap 5 highly trained officers. Cryptic messages from the hijackers expose a mole within the task force.
- DirectorSheng DingStarsAndy LauYe LiuQianyuan WangMr. Wu, a Hong Kong movie star, is kidnapped by four unpredictable criminals disguised as police officers. Will he get rescued?
- DirectorJohnnie ToStarsAndy LauSammi ChengTao GuoA brilliant detective is forced into early retirement after losing eyesight. Making ends meet by solving cold cases for reward money, he teams up with a rookie lady inspector to solve a case from her personal past.
- DirectorJohnnie ToStarsChing Wan LauRichie JenDenise HoThree people - a criminal, a bank officer and a cop - end up in a catastrophic situation in the midst of a global economical crisis and are forced to betray any morals and principles to solve their financial problems.
- DirectorChih-Yen HsuMag HsuStarsRoy ChiuYing-Hsuan HsiehSpark ChenA teenage boy and his mother are further driven apart when they find out that his father's life insurance policy is to be received by his lover.
- DirectorYe LouStarsXiaodong GuoHao QinLei ZhangA drama centered around the employees of a Nanjing massage parlor who share a common trait: they are all blind.
- DirectorNing HaoStarsHuang BoTeng ShenTom PelphreyA monkey trainer whose act goes wrong after an alien crash lands on Earth and injures his monkey. Desperate to perform the act, he attempts to train the alien instead, but is punished after the alien regains his powers.
- DirectorHan HanStarsTeng ShenJohnny HuangZheng YinAn old-time racing champion tries to come back to the race track.
- DirectorHan HanStarsChao DengEddie PengZanilia ZhaoIn the near-death after an accident, a sports car driver time-travelled back to the 1990s to meet his severe father and never-seen mother in a small Chinese town.
- DirectorHan HanStarsShaofeng FengChen Bo-linWallace ChungThree 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.
- 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.
- DirectorJing WuStarsJing WuFrank GrilloCelina JadeChina's deadliest special forces operative settles into a quiet life on the sea. When sadistic mercenaries begin targeting nearby civilians, he must leave his newfound peace behind and return to his duties as a soldier and protector.
- DirectorDante LamStarsHanyu ZhangEddie PengBaoguo ChenInspired by the true story known as the Mekong Massacre--two Chinese commercial vessels are ambushed while traveling down the Mekong River in the waters of the Golden Triangle, one of the largest drug-manufacturing regions in the world. 13 sailors are executed at gunpoint, and 900,000 methamphetamine pills are recovered at the scene. Upon discovery, the Chinese government immediately sends a band of elite narcotics officers led by Captain Gao Gang (Zhang Hanyu) to the Golden Triangle to uncover the truth behind the murders. Tea field owner and Golden Triangle-based intelligence officer Fang Xinwu (Eddie Peng) joins the investigation. After it is discovered that the drugs seized on the Chinese ships had been planted by the henchman of a notorious drug cartel leader named Naw Khar, the governments of Thailand, Laos, Myanmar and China launch a joint task force to apprehend the criminal. The road to justice is, however, paved with dangerous and deadly obstacles.
- 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.
- DirectorAndrew LauStarsYe LiuYawen ZhuZhizhong HuangThe foundation of CCP army in 1927, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province.
- DirectorSanping HanJianxin HuangStarsJohn WooChow Yun-FatBingbing FanA chronicle of the events that led to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
- DirectorSanping HanJianxin HuangStarsGuoqiang TangGuoli ZhangQing XuInspired by true events, Founding of a Republic weaves a rousing tale of one man who fought against the tyranny of a ruler and led his people in battle in the ultimate sacrifice for his country.
- DirectorJianxin HuangHaiqiang NingStarsGuoqiang TangJin LiuTed DuranThe film is set in 1949, as the members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China prepare to establish a new Chinese state, the People's Republic of China.
- DirectorBo HuStarsZhongwei JiangSongwen Zhang
- 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.
- DirectorYu YangStarsYanting LüJosephMo HanBorn with unique powers, a boy is recruited to fight demons and save the community that fears him.
- DirectorXiaopeng TianStarsLei ZhangZijie LinWenlun WuThe all-powerful Monkey King was imprisoned by the Gods for 500 years, but when a child releases him from his curse, the Monkey King must now save an innocent village from the evil Mountain Lord and his monstrous army.
- DirectorTeng ChengLi WeiStarsGuanlin JiGuangtao JiangLu LiBanished to the mortal world, a warrior has to slay a demon to return to the heavenly realm and become a god.
- DirectorKaige ChenStarsXuan HuangShôta SometaniYuqi ZhangWhen a demon cat appears and breaks the peace of Chang'an City, causing a series of strange events, poet Bai Letian and monk Kukai join hands to investigate the death of the emperor's concubine by following the trail left by the cat.
- DirectorZheng XuStarsZheng XuWei ZhaoBei'er BaoThe film follows Xu Lai, a former artist whose dreams were dashed when the responsibilities of life set in. With his life now revolving around his wife Cai Bo who is obsessed with having children, the quirks of his eccentric family and his mediocre, ordinary existence, Xu Lai hopes to reconnect with his first love Yang YIi on an upcoming vacation. However, his hopes are dashed when he finds himself wrapped up in a murder investigation that proves truth is often stranger than fiction.
- DirectorAndrew LauStarsHanyu ZhangHao OuJiang DuWhen the windshield of his commercial airplane shatters at 30,000 feet in the air, a pilot and his flight crew work to ensure the safety of the passengers and land the plane.
- DirectorSheng DingStarsJackie ChanYe LiuTian JingA man looking for the release of a long-time prisoner takes a police officer, his daughter, and a group of strangers hostage.
- DirectorJackie ChanStarsJackie ChanShu QiXingtong YaoA man searches the world for a set of mystic artifacts. The twelve bronze heads of the animals from the Chinese zodiac.
- DirectorJie HanStarsJackie ChanDuling ChenDilraba DilmuratWhen three runaways shack up in an abandoned general store, a supernatural correspondence connects them to many lives that were all touched by the owner of the store years before they were born.
- DirectorZhangke JiaStarsZhangke JiaYirui LianCasper LiangA 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 refused and hand sanitizer is offered instead of coffee. This short movie is part of the project Spaces #2, produced by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, which, inspired by the book "Species of Spaces", by French writer Georges Perec, invited filmmakers to film at home a comment about the new reality we live in.
- DirectorZhangke JiaStarsHuifang DuanLiang HongYu HuaFilmmaker Jia Zhangke chronicles his local literature festival in Shanxi, China which includes a multi-generational roster of the country's most esteemed writers.
- DirectorYang XiaoStarsHaoran SunLuan LeiyingNing Yi
- DirectorBaoping CaoStarsYe LiuYi ZhangBowen DuanA widowed father and tow truck operator is given two days to clear his name of a murder he did not commit.
- DirectorJianbin ChenStarsJianbin ChenQinqin JiangJin ShijiaLatiaozi was a Farmer who made a living with shepherding with his wife Jinzhizi. One day.
- DirectorJing WangStarsBingyan YanTommy ShanahanGang ChenFamily drama about a woman desperate to ascend to the middle class and willing to pay any price. Powerful and emotionally tense.
- DirectorXiaoshuai WangStarsJingchun WangMei YongXi QiTwo married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.
- DirectorXiaoshuai WangStarsZhong LüYuanzheng FengHailu QinDeng is a stubborn retired widow who spends her days caring about her two grown up sons and her elderly mother, despite her family efforts to stop her. But her daily routine starts derailing when she keeps receiving anonymous calls..