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Directed by Zhang YimouOrigin ChineGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes Politique,
Political filmsActors Gong Li,
Guo Tao,
Zhang Huiwen,
Liu Peiqi,
Zu Feng,
Ding JialiRating71%
The story is adapted from the novel, The Criminal Lu Yanshi (陆犯焉识; 陸犯焉識) written by novelist Geling Yan. Lu Yanshi (陆焉识; 陸焉識, "Yanshi" literally means "how to recognize") was a professor before being sent to the labor camp (laogai, literally "reform through labor") during the Cultural Revolution. He escaped from the labor camp in Xining to meet his long-missed wife Feng Wanyu (冯婉瑜; 馮婉瑜) and daughter Dandan (Chinese: 丹丹). However, the police were already waiting outside the house to arrest him. Dandan, who was then a teenage ballerina, could not play the leading role in Red Detachment of Women due to her father's outlaw status. Under the temptation of regaining the leading role, Dandan revealed her parents' secret meeting plan to the police. The meeting ended with the capture of Lu and Dandan getting the supporting role. After the end of the Cultural Revolution, Lu came home only to find his broken family, his wife suffering from amnesia and his daughter working as textile worker. Under the shock of a former official's sexual harassment, his wife sometimes recognized him as Officer "Fang" instead of being her husband. To reawaken his wife's memory, Lu played out as a total stranger just to be near with his wife. Although she recognized him as a letter reader or a piano tuner, he never could be able to be close enough to live with his chaste wife. During these years, Lu continued to write to his wife as a way of communicating with her, and to convince his wife to forgive their daughter. The movie ended with Feng waiting to receive her husband outside the railway station and Lu standing with her on a snowy day, pretending to be pedicab driver., 1h31
Directed by Zhang YimouGenres Drama,
War,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Films about music and musicians,
Musiques du monde,
Musical films,
Political filmsActors Gong Li,
Jiang Wen,
Zhang YimouRating72%
The film takes place in a rural village in China's eastern province of Shandong during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It is narrated from the point of view of the protagonist’s grandson, who reminisces about his grandmother, Jiu'er (S: 九儿, T: 九兒, P: Jiǔ'ér). She was a poor girl who was sent by her parents into a pre-arranged marriage with an old man, Li Datou, who owns a distillery., 1h54
Directed by Zhang YimouOrigin ChineGenres Drama,
Fantasy,
Action,
Adventure,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Films about families,
Films about sexuality,
Sports films,
Martial arts films,
Wuxia filmsActors Chow Yun-fat,
Gong Li,
Jay Chou,
Aaron Shang,
Liu Ye,
Chen JinRating69%
Golden flowers fill the imperial palace on the eve of Zhong Yang. The Emperor (Chow Yun-fat) returns from his campaign with his second son, Prince Jai (Jay Chou), in order to celebrate with his family., 1h35
Directed by Zhang Yimou,
Yang FengliangGenres Drama,
Horror,
RomanceThemes Films about familiesActors Gong Li,
Li BaotianRating75%
Ju Dou takes place in the early 20th century in rural China. The story begins as Yang Tianqing (the regular Zhang collaborator Li Baotian) is returning from a trek to sell silk for his adoptive uncle, Yang Jinshan (Li Wei). Jinshan, whose trade is dyeing fabrics, is known for his cruelty. Tianqing learns that Jinshan has just recently purchased a new wife, having beaten two previous wives to death after they failed to produce a son, the cruel irony being that Jinshan is in fact impotent., 2h5
Directed by Zhang Yimou,
Hou Hsiao-hsienOrigin ChineGenres DramaThemes Feminist films,
Political filmsActors Gong Li,
Li BaotianRating80%
The film is set in 1920s China during the Warlord Era, years before the Chinese Civil War. Nineteen-year-old Songlian (Sònglián, played by Gong Li), whose father has recently died and left the family bankrupt, marries into the wealthy Chen family, becoming the fourth wife or rather the third concubine or, as she is referred to, the Fourth Mistress (Sì Tàitai) of the household. Arriving at the palatial abode, she is at first treated like royalty, receiving sensuous foot massages and brightly lit red lanterns, as well as a visit from her husband, Master Chen (Ma Jingwu), the master of the house, whose face is never clearly shown., 2h25
Directed by Zhang YimouOrigin ChineGenres Drama,
War,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Political filmsActors Christian Bale,
Ni Ni,
Shigeo Kobayashi,
Paul Schneider,
Junichi KajiokaRating74%
In 1937, Japan invades China, beginning the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Japanese Imperial Army overruns China's capital city, Nanking, in December and carries out the systematic and brutal Nanking massacre., 1h54
Directed by Zhang YimouOrigin ChineGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes Political filmsActors Zhou Dongyu,
Lü Liping,
Sun HaiyingRating71%
Set during the end of China's Cultural Revolution in a small village in Yichang City, Hubei Province, China, this film is about a pure love that develops between a beautiful high school student, Zhang Jing Qiu and a handsome young prospector named Lao San. Jing Qiu is one of the "educated youth" sent to be "re-educated" through work in the countryside under a directive from Chairman Mao Zedong., 1h57
Directed by Pietro Scalia,
Peter WebberOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Horror,
CrimeThemes L'adolescence,
Films about children,
Films about families,
Politique,
Serial killer films,
Political films,
Tiré d'une œuvre de Thomas HarrisActors Gaspard Ulliel,
Gong Li,
Rhys Ifans,
Richard Leaf,
Dominic West,
Kevin McKiddRating61%
In 1941, an eight-year-old Hannibal Lecter lives in Lecter Castle in Lithuania. Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union turns the Baltic region into part of the bloodiest front line of World War II. Lecter, his younger sister Mischa, and their parents travel to the family's hunting lodge in the woods to elude the advancing German troops. After three years, the Nazis are finally driven out of the countries soon to be occupied by the Soviet Union. During their retreat, however, they destroy a Soviet tank that had stopped at the Lecter family's lodge looking for water. The explosion kills everyone but Lecter and Mischa. They survive in the cottage until six former Lithuanian militiamen, led by a Nazi collaborator named Vladis Grutas, storm and loot it. Finding no other food in the bitterly cold Baltic winter, the men look menacingly at Lecter and Mischa., 1h41
Directed by Zhang YimouGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-dramaActors Gong Li,
Liu PeiqiRating74%
Qiu Ju is a peasant who lives in a small farming enclave with her husband Qinglai. She is in the final trimester of her pregnancy. One day while her husband is conversing to Wang Shantang, the head of the community, a miscommunication ensues. The leader feels insulted and beats Qinglai, kicking him so severely that he must see a doctor and remain absent from work., 1h43
Directed by Zhang YimouOrigin ChineGenres Drama,
Action,
CrimeThemes Gangster filmsActors Gong Li,
Li Baotian,
Fu BiaoRating70%
Tang Shuisheng (Wang Xiaoxiao) has arrived in Shanghai to work for a Triad Boss (played by Li Baotian), also named Tang. He is taken to a warehouse where two rival groups of Triads carry out an opium deal that goes wrong, leaving one of the rival members dead. Shuisheng is then taken by his uncle to Tang's palatial home, where he is assigned to serve Xiao Jinbao (Gong Li), a cabaret singer and mistress of the Boss. It is soon learned that Jinbao is also carrying on an affair with the Boss's number two man, Song (Sun Chun).