Mainland Movies
by Marksman99 | created - 23 Apr 2022 | updated - 18 May 2022 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. The Flowers of War (2011)
R | 146 min | Drama, History, Romance
An 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.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Christian Bale, Ni Ni, Xinyi Zhang, Tianyuan Huang
Votes: 55,715 | Gross: $0.01M
2. Assembly (2007)
124 min | Action, Biography, Drama
A soldier fights to gain recognition for comrades who died during the Chinese Civil War.
Director: Xiaogang Feng | Stars: Hanyu Zhang, Chao Deng, Wenkang Yuan, Yan Tang
Votes: 7,336
3. Dragon Blade (2015)
R | 127 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
When corrupt Roman leader Tiberius arrives with a giant army to claim the Silk Road, Huo An teams up his army with an elite Legion of defected Roman soldiers led by General Lucius to protect his country and his new friends.
Director: Daniel Lee | Stars: Jackie Chan, John Cusack, Adrien Brody, Choi Siwon
Votes: 21,266 | Gross: $0.07M
4. Red River Valley (1997)
115 min | Drama, History, Romance
At the turn of the century, a young Chinese girl escapes from a religious sacrifice, and is rescued by an honorable Tibetan herdsman. The two fall in love, but problems arise when she is ... See full summary »
Director: Xiaoning Feng | Stars: Jing Ning, Bing Shao, Zhen Ying, Paul Kersey
Votes: 379
5. The Sino-Japanese War at Sea 1894 (2012)
120 min | History, War
After the Nagasaki Incident, Japan declares war on China. Shichang Deng, Chinese captain of the Zhiyuan, sails his warship to fight for his country.
Director: Xiaoning Feng | Stars: Yi Lu, Yu Xia, Lixin Yang, Tashi Dhondup
Votes: 42
6. Guerrillas on the Plain (1955)
100 min | War
A guerrilla group around Li Xiangyang are ambushed by the Japanese invasion army during the War of Resistance.
Directors: Su Li, Zhaodi Wu | Stars: Zhenqing Guo, Ying Zhang, Hua Fang, Liankai Xu
Votes: 37
7. An End to Killing (2013)
PG-13 | 108 min | Action, Drama, History
In the 1200s, a man arose whose ruthlessness was so feared, he emerged as the greatest empire builder ever known to mankind. Inspired by true historical events.
Director: Ping Wang | Stars: Youliang Zhao, Tumen, Le Geng, Xiaoran Li
Votes: 230
8. Red Guards on Honghu Lake (1961)
112 min | Drama, Musical, War
Captain Liu and secretary Han lead a group of red guards retreat from base area and fight back again.
Directors: Fangqian Chen, Tian Xie, Feng Xu | Stars: Kuibin Xia, Ling Fu, Zengyin Cao, Jinpeng Chen
Votes: 17
9. The Taking of Tiger Mountain (2014)
Not Rated | 141 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
A story focusing on a conflict between a People's Liberation Army squad and a bandit gang in north-east China during the Chinese revolution.
Director: Hark Tsui | Stars: Hanyu Zhang, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Kenny Lin, Nan Yu
Votes: 3,352 | Gross: $0.23M
10. Purple Sunset (2001)
106 min | War
A Soviet Russian lady officer, a Chinese peasant and a Japanese schoolgirl must walk their way out of a forest toward the end of World War II, despite their mutual distrust of one another.
Director: Xiaoning Feng | Stars: Eddie Eagle, Dalong Fu, Anna Generalova, Chie Maeda
Votes: 516
11. 1911 (2011)
R | 99 min | Drama, History, War
A historical drama based on the founding of the Republic of China when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the Qing Dynasty.
Directors: Tao Hai, Wei Li, Guoqiang Tang, Li Zhang, Jackie Chan | Stars: Jackie Chan, Winston Chao, Bingbing Li, Chun Sun
Votes: 6,527 | Gross: $0.13M
12. Death and Glory in Changde (2010)
131 min | Action, Drama, History
Set in 1943, late in the WWII period in China. A brave KMT army division is stationed in Changde city, a strategic garrison in Northwest Hunan province. They fight the invading Japanese army violently to protect the city.
Director: Dong Shen | Stars: Ray Lui, Ady An, Wenkang Yuan, Mengwei Xie
Votes: 295
13. The Bloody Battle of Taierzhuang (1986)
120 min | War
The Chinese army stops the Japanese army in 1938 at Suzhou.
Director: Guangyuan Yang | Stars: Yaming Ge, Hengduo Zao, Junjie Zhai
Votes: 181
14. 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: 8,616 | Gross: $0.02M
15. The Opium War (1997)
153 min | Drama, History, War
Historical Drama starting in 1839 in Guangzhou where British merchants dealing with opium are to be executed because the opium is destroying the Empire. After the burning of 20,000 boxes of... See full summary »
Director: Jin Xie | Stars: Guoan Bao, Liankun Lin, Sihung Lung, Debra Beaumont
Votes: 599
16. 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
17. Man Behind the Sun (1988)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, History, Horror
Japanese troops round up Chinese and Russian prisoners of war and take them to unit 731, where they're horribly tortured and experimented on to test new biological weapons.
Director: Tun-Fei Mou | Stars: Gang Wang, Dai Yao Wu, Runshen Wang, Zhe Quan
Votes: 7,274
18. Operation Mekong (2016)
Not Rated | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Inspired 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... See full summary »
Director: Dante Lam | Stars: Hanyu Zhang, Eddie Peng, Baoguo Chen, Chun Sun
Votes: 5,310 | Gross: $0.80M
19. Mr. Six (2015)
PG-13 | 134 min | Action, Crime, Drama
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: 4,273 | Gross: $1.42M
20. 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: 5,539
21. 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: 4,443
22. Switch (2013)
TV-MA | 122 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
In search of an ancient Chinese scroll, a Chinese agent battles against Japanese Yakuzas and British mercenaries.
Director: Jianjun Sun | Stars: Andy Lau, Chi-Ling Lin, Jingchu Zhang, Dawei Tong
Votes: 1,985
23. 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: 2,017
24. The Myth (2005)
PG-13 | 122 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Archeologist Jack keeps having reoccurring dreams of a past life, where he is the great general Meng Yi, who is sworn to protect a princess named Ok-Soo. Jack decides to go investigate everything with his friend William.
Director: Stanley Tong | Stars: Bing Shao, Jackie Chan, Weixing Yao, Jianzhong Zhang
Votes: 16,313
25. Teahouse (1982)
125 min | Drama
An old teahouse in Beijing serves as the stage for a drama that unfolds over several tumultuous decades of modern Chinese history, from the waning days of the Qing dynasty to the eve of the People's Republic.
Director: Tian Xie | Stars: Shixiang Cao, Zhong Cheng, Haitao Ding, Zengxiang Feng
Votes: 574
26. Blind Shaft (2003)
Unrated | 92 min | Crime, Drama
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: 2,914 | Gross: $0.03M
27. 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: 5,523
28. 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: 33,126 | Gross: $5.22M
29. Back to 1942 (2012)
Not Rated | 145 min | Drama
A deadly drought in 1942 takes its toll on central China's Henan province during the war against Japan.
Director: Xiaogang Feng | Stars: Guoli Zhang, Hanyu Zhang, Wei Fan, Yuanzheng Feng
Votes: 3,728 | Gross: $0.31M
30. Mojin: The Lost Legend (2015)
Not Rated | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In 1969 PRChina, two men survive a supernatural tomb. They later become tomb raiders with Shirley/Shu Qi. 20 years later in NYC, one is hired to find that tomb again and the 2 friends follow later.
Director: Wuershan | Stars: Kun Chen, Huang Bo, Shu Qi, Angelababy
Votes: 4,361 | Gross: $1.24M
31. Big Shot's Funeral (2001)
PG | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
Yankie director Don Tyler faces mounting insecurity and declining health while on location in Beijing, so his assistant hires down-and-out camerman YoYo to take the reins. Scrambling, ... See full summary »
Director: Xiaogang Feng | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Rosamund Kwan, Paul Mazursky, You Ge
Votes: 2,407 | Gross: $0.00M
32. 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
33. I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016)
Not Rated | 128 min | Comedy, Drama
After being swindled by her ex-husband, a woman takes on the Chinese legal system.
Director: Xiaogang Feng | Stars: Bingbing Fan, Wei Fan, Xiaogang Feng, Tao Guo
Votes: 2,483 | Gross: $0.44M
34. Zhou Enlai (1991)
164 min | Biography, Drama, History
Story of the highly respected Premier Zhou Enlai. During the ultra-left trend, Premier Zhou protects many revolutionary predecessors from being persecuted and keeps the country in most normalizing diplomatic relations with the world.
Director: Yinnan Ding | Stars: Tiecheng Wang, Xiaojuan Zheng, Geng Bi, Huiliang Chen
Votes: 87
35. Sanmao Joins the Army (1993)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, War
San Mao joins the army and experiences a tough, dangerous, and funny life.
Director: Jianya Zhang | Stars: Lin Jia, Zongwan Wei, Jie Cui, Lin Dong
Votes: 200
36. 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: 1,371
37. A Cool Fish (2018)
Not Rated | 109 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
While two criminals hide out at a woman's apartment after a botched robbery, an ex-cop tries to find a missing gun.
Director: Xiaozhi Rao | Stars: Jianbin Chen, Suxi Ren, Binlong Pan, Yu Zhang
Votes: 2,005 | Gross: $0.55M
38. Mr. Donkey (2016)
113 min | Comedy
In 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.
Directors: Lu Liu, Shen Zhou | Stars: Suxi Ren, Li Da, Shuailiang Liu, Kuishan Pei
Votes: 2,183 | Gross: $0.36M
39. Let the Bullets Fly (2010)
Not Rated | 132 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
In 1920s China, a bandit arrives in a remote provincial town posing as its new mayor, where he faces off against a tyrannical local nobleman.
Director: Wen Jiang | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Wen Jiang, You Ge, Carina Lau
Votes: 13,136 | Gross: $0.06M
41. John Rabe (2009)
134 min | Biography, Drama, History
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.
Director: Florian Gallenberger | Stars: Ulrich Tukur, Daniel Brühl, Steve Buscemi, Anne Consigny
Votes: 6,742 | Gross: $0.07M
42. Si du Chishui (1983)
156 min | War
The Red Army and Nationalist forces battle over the Chishui River in 1935.
Directors: Jiwei Cai, Dexian Gu | Stars: Xuecheng Fu, Yue Gu, Ange Jin, Guoqiang Tang
Votes: 25
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