Movies

An exploration of Chinese cinema and its relationships with gender and sexuality, which the film argues has been more frankly and provocatively...

Based on a novel by the same name written by Gu Hua, a melodrama about the life and travails of a young woman who lives through the turmoil of the...

Wreaths at the Foot of the Mountain is a 1984 Chinese film about the life of the soldiers in a PLA army company before, during and after the...

The story of the Opium War between China, in the waning days of the Qing Dynasty, and the British Empire, in the 1830s, and the subsequent takeover...

In 1980, Xu Jingshan, a wealthy Chinese-American businessman returns to China to find his son, Xu Lingjun, whom he had abandoned over 30 years...

The film introduces the famous national model worker, textile worker Huang Baomei, who is played by the real Huang Baomei herself.

A man must take care of his terminally ill son.

Adaptation of a lesser known to Western world, yet wildly popular Peking Opera developed during the Cultural Revolution under the leadership of Jiang...

Tian Zhenhua arrives in Shanghai to coach a local women's basketball team. Number 5 on the team, Xiaoje, excels at basketball but is unsure of...

This is a story about seven female prisoners each with different backgrounds, living within the one prison. At the beginning of the story, a new...

Wu Qionghua, a house maid, is abused by a cruel warlord until she joins a troop of women soldiers.

Biopic of Qiu Jin (1877-1907), early Chinese womens’ liberationist and martyred revolutionary.

The clan law of the Yang family works against the relationships of a widow and her daughter until a new marriage law is enacted after liberation.

In the early period of China's War of Liberation the Yan'an Nursey which housed the children of the revolutionary fighters had to be evacuated. Li...

After her senses are surgically restored, a formerly deaf mute teenager enlists in the army and is assigned to communications work. But her...

When Song Wei's fiancee Luo Qun is denounced as a right-wing traitor by Party official Wu Yao, he is sentenced to ten years' hard labor. Song Wei...

An Old Man and His Dog is a 1993 Chinese film directed by Xie Jin.