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- A fateful decision made in 1960s China reverberates in the present, where a group of scientists partner with a detective to confront an existential planetary threat.
- The story of 7 people on trial stemming from various charges surrounding the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
- Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning dramatization of China's eleventh and final monarch of the Qing dynasty: Emperor Puyi.
- 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.
- Nanomaterials scientist sees countdown, investigated by military. Enters VR game "Three Body" by secret ETO group. Uncovers truth behind scientists' deaths, Cultural Revolution tragedy. Explores connection between events.
- In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling - but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.
- After Fugui and Jiazhen lose their personal fortunes, they raise a family and survive difficult cultural changes during 1940s to 1970s China.
- The chauvinist Alexandre balances relationships with several women in the post-1968 intellectual scene of Paris.
- During his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son.
- An American attorney on business in China is wrongfully arrested and put on trial for murder, with a female defense lawyer from the country the only key to proving his innocence.
- In Maoist China, a boy is taken from his family and trained to become a dancer, but everything he knows is challenged when he is chosen to attend a ballet summer school in Houston, Texas.
- A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
- Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.
- A film studying the depiction of a friendship between an art dealer named Rothman and his student, Adolf Hitler.
- Lu 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.
- During China's Cultural Revolution, a young urban student is sent to live with Mongolian herders, where he adopts a wolf cub.
- 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."
- A look at the lives of members of a Military Cultural Troupe in the 1970s.
- Love, humiliation, and politics play out in a distant village of China during the Cultural Revolution.
- 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 to be rumor mongers instead of being faithful to the truth, the society became suffocating. Fu Bin, a journalist, didn't want to tell lies, but he couldn't keep silent as the common people. As a result, he felt extremely afflicted. At length, he chose to be an honest man and was arrested...
- A comedy centered on three flatmates living desperate lives in London.
- Jiang Wen stars in his third directorial work that boasts a stellar cast including Joan Chen, Anthony Wong and Jaycee Chan. A polyptych of interconnected stories in different time-zones, shifting between a Yunnan village, a campus, and the Gobi Desert.
- A communist soldier travels to Shanbei to collect folk songs for propaganda while visiting a poor peasant family, giving hope to the teenage daughter in escaping an arranged marriage.
- A documentary on China, concentrating mainly on the faces of the people, filmed in the areas they were allowed to visit. The 220-minute version consists of three parts. The first part, taken around Beijing, includes a cotton factory, older sections of the city, and a clinic where a Caesarean operation is performed using acupuncture. The middle part visits the Red Flag canal and a collective farm in Henan, as well as the old city of Suzhou. The final part shows the port and industries of Shanghai and ends with a stage presentation by Chinese acrobats.
- How do we learn? What do we know? Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris's student revolt, the Vietnam War, and other events of the late 1960s, along with posters, photographs, and cartoons, are backdrops to their words. Words themselves are often Patricia and Emile's subject, as are images, sounds, and juxtapositions. In addition to the two characters' musings, the soundtrack includes narration, music, news clips, and noise. The result is a montage, a meditation, a reflection on ideas and how words and images mix - and how filmmaking is a path.