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1. 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: 35,352 | Gross: $2.60M
2. Hero (2002)
PG-13 | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A defense officer, Nameless, was summoned by the King of Qin regarding his success of terminating three warriors.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung, Ziyi Zhang
Votes: 187,672 | Gross: $53.71M
3. Not One Less (1999)
G | 106 min | Drama
13-year old Wei Minzhi is the new substitute teacher of a mountain village school. She is told not to lose any of her pupils under any circumstances.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Minzhi Wei, Huike Zhang, Zhenda Tian, Enman Gao
Votes: 9,361 | Gross: $0.59M
4. The Road Home (1999)
G | 89 min | Drama, Romance
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: 13,919 | Gross: $1.28M
6. Yi Yi (2000)
Not Rated | 173 min | Drama, Romance
Each member of a middle-class Taipei family seeks to reconcile past and present relationships within their daily lives.
Director: Edward Yang | Stars: Nien-Jen Wu, Elaine Jin, Issei Ogata, Kelly Lee
Votes: 28,422 | Gross: $1.14M
7. A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
Not Rated | 237 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
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: 12,781
8. The Terrorizers (1986)
109 min | Crime, Drama
A metaphysical mystery about the lives of three couples in Taipei that continually intersect over a span of several weeks.
Director: Edward Yang | Stars: Cora Miao, Li-Chun Lee, Shih-Chieh King, Pao-Ming Ku
Votes: 5,509
9. City of Life and Death (2009)
R | 133 min | Drama, History, War
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: 11,718 | Gross: $0.12M
10. 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: 281,660 | Gross: $128.08M
11. Ip Man (2008)
R | 106 min | Action, Biography, Drama
During the Japanese invasion of China, a wealthy martial artist is forced to leave his home when his city is occupied. With little means of providing for themselves, Ip Man and the remaining members of the city must find a way to survive.
Director: Wilson Yip | Stars: Donnie Yen, Simon Yam, Siu-Wong Fan, Ka-Tung Lam
Votes: 233,624
12. 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: 166,936 | Gross: $2.73M
13. Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
R | 99 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
In Shanghai, China in the 1940s, a wannabe gangster aspires to join the notorious "Axe Gang" while residents of a housing complex exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf.
Director: Stephen Chow | Stars: Stephen Chow, Wah Yuen, Qiu Yuen, Siu-Lung Leung
Votes: 150,887 | Gross: $17.11M
14. Infernal Affairs (2002)
R | 101 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A story between a mole in the police department and an undercover cop. Their objectives are the same: to find out who is the mole, and who is the cop.
Directors: Andrew Lau, Alan Mak | Stars: Andy Lau, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Eric Tsang
Votes: 131,476 | Gross: $0.17M
15. Chungking Express (1994)
PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
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: 95,822 | Gross: $0.60M
16. Hard Boiled (1992)
R | 128 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A tough-as-nails cop teams up with an undercover agent to shut down a sinister mobster and his crew.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Teresa Mo, Philip Chan
Votes: 54,036
17. The Killer (1989)
R | 111 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A disillusioned assassin accepts one last hit in hopes of using his earnings to restore vision to a singer he accidentally blinded.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Danny Lee, Sally Yeh, Kong Chu
Votes: 51,087
18. 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: 33,166 | Gross: $5.22M
19. Happy Together (1997)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Romance
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: 34,057 | Gross: $0.19M
20. Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
Not Rated | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A senior chef lives with his three grown daughters; the middle one finds her future plans affected by unexpected events and the life changes of the other household members.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Sihung Lung, Kuei-Mei Yang, Wang Yu-wen, Chien-Lien Wu
Votes: 23,205 | Gross: $7.29M
21. Devils on the Doorstep (2000)
139 min | Comedy, Drama, War
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: 8,617 | Gross: $0.02M
22. 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: 5,531
23. A Chinese Odyssey: Part 2 - Cinderella (1995)
98 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The convoluted continuation of the adventures of the time-traveling, now-human Monkey King, who attempts to fulfill his divine destiny.
Director: Jeffrey Lau | Stars: Stephen Chow, Man-Tat Ng, Athena Chu, Ada Choi
Votes: 8,541
24. 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: 6,102
25. 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: 828
26. An Elephant Sitting Still (2018)
230 min | Crime, Drama
Four people in a Chinese city live through a complicated day as their lives intersect.
Director: Bo Hu | Stars: Yu Zhang, Yuchang Peng, Uvin Wang, Zi Xi
Votes: 8,001 | Gross: $0.03M
27. 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: 5,280
28. Dying to Survive (2018)
Not Rated | 117 min | Comedy, Drama
The story of how a small drugstore owner became the exclusive selling agent of a cheap Indian generic drug against Chronic Granulocytic Leukemia in China.
Director: Muye Wen | Stars: Zheng Xu, Yiwei Zhou, Chuan-jun Wang, Zhuo Tan
Votes: 7,926 | Gross: $0.01M
29. 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: 1,373
30. Wreaths at the Foot of the Mountain (1984)
139 min | Drama, War
Follows a Red Army company from training through to combat in the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979 and the aftermath of war, focusing on the anger created by corruption among the Party elite.
Director: Jin Xie | Stars: Xiaohe Lü, Guoqiang Tang, Wei He, Chao Tong
Votes: 435
31. The Last Aristocrats (1989)
112 min | Drama, History
In 1948, four young girls, daughters of Shanghai's elite, come to America for college. The Communist takeover strands them in the States and one of them, unable to cope with her parents' ... See full summary »
Director: Jin Xie | Stars: Hong Pan, Cunxin Pu, Kechun Li, Xiong Xiao
Votes: 66
32. Kong que (2005)
136 min | Drama
China in the late 1970s and early 1980s: the life of an ordinary working family as seen through its three siblings.
Director: Changwei Gu | Stars: Jing An, Li Feng, Changwei Gu, Meiying Huang
Votes: 1,125
33. 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: 2,222
34. Viva La Vida (2024)
130 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman who needs a kidney transplant wants to marry someone who will be able to donate a kidney, and meets a young man who has a brain disease.
Director: Yan Han | Stars: Yuchang Peng, Gengxi Li, Fan Xu, Yalin Gao
Votes: 97
35. Crisis Route (2022)
Drama
Gao Haojun, an international security expert, is hijacked by gunmen on the first flight of A380 airliner, and his blind daughter is one of the undercover hostages, a fact that he doesn't know.
Directors: Oxide Chun Pang, Chi-Leung Law | Stars: Andy Lau, Zifeng Zhang, Chuxiao Qu, Xiaodong Guo
Votes: 14
36. 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: 2,475
37. The King of Masks (1995)
91 min | Drama
In a remote area of China, in the 1930s, a street performer named Wang practices the change-mask opera art of bian lian. Seeking to pass his art, Wang buys what he believes to be an orphan boy, but quickly learns his new disciple's secret.
Director: Tian-Ming Wu | Stars: Xu Zhu, Renying Zhou, Zhigang Zhao, Li Chen
Votes: 3,474 | Gross: $1.10M
39. Troubled Laughter (1981)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama
The film depicts the lives and fates of Chinese intellectuals in an era of cultural revolution manipulated by the Gang of Four. In the winter of 1975, when the newspaper office was reduced ... See full summary »
Directors: Yimin Deng, Yanjin Yang | Stars: Mu Bai, Zhi Cheng, Hengzhi Fu, Fei Gong
Votes: 46
40. Taoist Priest (2021)
80 min | Thriller
Ying Shu and Hao Ge are pharmacists in Meizhou town medical bureau , they help people to eliminate the disaster. During the Hungry Ghost Festival, it is foggy and with zombies run recklessly. They fight the priest.
Director: Ricky Lau | Stars: Siu-Ho Chin, Norman Chu, Dicai Zhang, Haoxue Zou
Votes: 94
41. Postmen in the Mountains (1999)
Unrated | 93 min | Drama
A father, a retiring mailman, walks his son over his job in the mountainous regions of Hunan province.
Director: Jianqi Huo | Stars: Rujun Teng, Ye Liu, Hao Chen, Hao Dang
Votes: 1,791 | Gross: $0.20M
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