Good Chinese Movies - 中国好电影
A collection of good Chinese cinema. Some titles may be quite famous and some less so. This list is an attempt to collate some of the more beautiful pieces of Chinese cinema.
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- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorXiaogang FengStarsBingbing FanWei FanXiaogang FengAfter being swindled by her ex-husband, a woman takes on the Chinese legal system.
- DirectorXiaogang FengStarsXuan HuangMiao MiaoCaiyu YangA look at the lives of members of a Military Cultural Troupe in the 1970s.
- DirectorRene LiuStarsBoran JingDongyu ZhouZhuangzhuang TianDuring the hectic chunyun period, two strangers traveling home meet on the train.
- DirectorAnn HuiStarsTang WeiShaofeng FengZhiwen WangThe life story of Xiao Hong, one of China's most famous essayists and novelists, who reflected the progressive thinking not frequently seen during the 1930s.
- DirectorAng LeeStarsTony Leung Chiu-waiTang WeiJoan ChenDuring World War II era, a young woman, Wang Jiazhi, gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with a powerful political figure, Mr. Yee.
- DirectorYimou ZhangStarsJet LiTony Leung Chiu-waiMaggie CheungA defense officer, Nameless, was summoned by the King of Qin regarding his success of terminating three warriors.
- DirectorEdward YangStarsNien-Jen WuElaine JinIssei OgataEach member of a middle-class Taipei family seeks to reconcile past and present relationships within their daily lives.
- DirectorAndrew LauAndrew Lau Wai-KeungStarsShu QiYe LiuAnthony Chau-Sang WongA cute, drunk realtor (Shu Qi), dating her married boss, pukes on a single, sober cop at a Beijing hotel after partying. They keep bumping into each other after that.
- DirectorYimou ZhangStarsGong LiDaoming ChenHuiwen ZhangLu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer recognizes him.
- DirectorZhangke JiaStarsTao ZhaoFan LiaoZheng XuIn an industrial city in China, a young dancer named Qiao falls in love with a mobster named Bin. When a fight breaks out between rival gangs, Qiao uses a gun to protect Bin and is sent to prison for five years.
- DirectorBo HuStarsYu ZhangYuchang PengUvin WangFour people in a Chinese city live through a complicated day as their lives intersect.
- 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.
- DirectorYimou ZhangStarsGong LiJingwu MaSaifei HeChina 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.
- DirectorKaige ChenStarsLeslie CheungFengyi ZhangGong LiTwo 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.
- DirectorNgai Choi LamStarsSiu-Ho ChinWai-kong HaChien-Hua HsuWhen a gambling boss named Chen Yuan Lung ends up dead, he leaves his two sons, Chia Chin and Chia Kang in the custody of his good buddy Chiptooth.
- DirectorFelix ChongAlan MakStarsTony Leung Chiu-waiXun ZhouXuebing WangAn espionage thriller set in the 1950s and adapted from the novel "Year Suan/Plot Against" by May Jia. Tony Leung Chiu Wai plays a blind man who works for a piano tuner. He is recruited for a spy mission because of his exceptional hearing.
- DirectorMeng ZhangStarsHe ChenShawn DouChen YaoFrom acclaimed filmmaker Zhang Meng (Piano in a Factory), the Chinese remake of Giuseppe Tornatore's (Cinema Paradiso) emotionally stirring film follows a widower's visits to his four adult children who lead distinctly different lives in four Chinese cities.It takes an intimate look at the struggling young generation in a nation transitioning from a collective past to a materialist present.
- 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.
- DirectorKar-Wai WongStarsBrigitte LinTakeshi KaneshiroTony Leung Chiu-waiTwo 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.
- DirectorAnn HuiStarsAndy LauDeannie IpHailu QinAfter suffering a stroke, an altruistic maid announces that she wants to quit her job and move into an old people's home.
- DirectorSam VoutasStarsJun ZhaoWang NaixunQing HanWhen home entertainment enters the market in 90s Beijing, a former projectionist ropes his young son into starting their own pirate movie company, but easy money comes with its own price tag.
- DirectorStephen ChowLik-Chi LeeStarsStephen ChowAnita YuenKar-Ying LawA Chinese spy who's been out of service for ten years whilst making a living as a butcher is sent to Hong Kong to locate a stolen Tyrannosaurus rex skull.
- DirectorWi Ding HoStarsJack KaoHong-Chi LeeLouise GrinbergThis is a story about a common man who has extraordinary events in his mundane life. The film depicts the protagonist's turns of events in three eras, three seasons, three nights, in the same city, as told with reverse chronology.