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Pickpocket
(小武)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- China, Hong Kong • 1997
- Director 贾樟柯
- Cast Wang Hongwei, Hao Hongjian, Baitao Zuo, Ma Jinrei, Liu Junying, Yonghao Liang
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
So Long, My Son
(地久天长)
A powerful portrait of the sweeping changes in Chinese society from the 1980s to the present day, as experienced by two families.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- China • 2019
- Director Wang Xiaoshuai
- Cast Wang Jingchun, Yong Mei, Qi Xi, Du Jiang, Ai Liya, Li Jingjing
- Genre Drama
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel
Shadow
(影)
A king attempts to lead his displaced people out of exile.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- China, Hong Kong • 2018
- Director Zhang Yimou
- Cast Deng Chao, Sun Li, Ryan Zheng Kai, Wang Qian-Yuan, Wang Jingchun, Hu Jun
- Genre Action, Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, Peacock Premium, Peacock Premium Plus, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, Pluto TV, Freevee, Xumo Play, Kanopy, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
An Elephant Sitting Still
(大象席地而坐)
In the northern Chinese city of Manzhouli, they say there is an elephant that simply sits and ignores the world.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- China • 2018
- Director Hu Bo
- Cast Zhang Yu, Peng Yuchang, Wang Yu Wen, Congxi Li, Xiang Rong Dong
- Genre Drama
- Available on Fandor, Fandor Amazon Channel, OVID, AsianCrush, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Kanopy
I Wish I Knew
(海上传奇)
The stories of Shanghai – its history, its people, and its architecture -- spanning over more than a century.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- China • 2010
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast Zhao Tao, Chen Danqing, Toon Wang, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Wei Wei, Rebecca Pan
- Genre Documentary, History
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
Office
(華麗上班族)
A takedown of capitalist corruption and greed that's savvily packaged as a song-and-dance extravaganza.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- China, Hong Kong • 2015
- Director Johnnie To
- Cast Chow Yun-Fat, Sylvia Chang, Eason Chan, Tang Wei, Wang Ziyi, Lang Yueting
- Genre Music, Drama
- Available on Fandor, OVID, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Tubi TV, AsianCrush, Cineverse
Still Life
(三峡好人)
A man and woman witness societal changes in their hometown, which is headed for demolition.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- China, Hong Kong • 2006
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast Han Sanming, Zhao Tao, Wang Hongwei, Zhubin Li, Haiyu Xiang, Lin Zhou
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, YouTube, Kanopy
The World
(世界)
Employees experience alienation at a Beijing theme park filled with recreations of famous monuments.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- China, Japan, France • 2004
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast Zhao Tao, Cheng Taishen, Jue Jing, Jiang Zhongwei, Yi-qun Wang, Wang Hongwei
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Eat Drink Man Woman
(飲食男女)
Food unites the diverging lives of a widowed chef and his four daughters
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Taiwan, China • 1994
- Director Ang Lee
- Cast Sihung Lung, Yu-Wen Wang, Wu Chien-Lien, Yang Kuei-Mei, Winston Chao, Sylvia Chang
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Iron Monkey
(少年黃飛鴻之鐵馬騮)
Unmask the legend.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Hong Kong • 1993
- Director Yuen Woo-ping
- Cast Yu Rongguang, Donnie Yen, Jean Wang, Angie Tsang Sze-Man, Yen Shi-Kwan, James Wong Jim
- Genre Action, Crime, Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Pluto TV
Deep Sea
(深海)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- China • 2023
- Director Tian Xiao Peng
- Cast Su Xin, Wang Ting Wen, 滕奎兴, Ji Jing, Haoran Guo, 李晓鹏
- Genre Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Available on Peacock Premium, Peacock Premium Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, VUDU Free
Blind Shaft
(盲井)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- China, Germany, Hong Kong • 2003
- Director Li Yang
- Cast Li Yixiang, Baoqiang Wang, Wang Shuangbao, Jing Ai, Bao Zhenjiang, Sun Wei
- Genre Drama, Crime
- Available on No streaming locations found.
A Simple Life
(桃姐)
Companionship is imperishable.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Hong Kong • 2011
- Director Ann Hui
- Cast Andy Lau, Deannie Yip, Fuli Wang, Paul Chun Pui, Leung Tin, Hui Siu-ying
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Are You Lonesome Tonight?
(热带往事)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- China • 2021
- Director Shipei Wen
- Cast Eddie Peng, Sylvia Chang, Yanhui Wang, Zhang Yu, Jiang Peiyao, Lu Xin
- Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Available on Film Movement Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Hoopla
Shanghai Triad
(摇啊摇，摇到外婆桥)
Shuisheng is thrust into the glamorous and deadly world of 1930s Shanghai after he is hired to serve a gang lord's mistress.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, China • 1995
- Director Zhang Yimou
- Cast Gong Li, Li Baotian, Sun Chun, Wang Xiaoxiao, Li Xuejian, Liu Jiang
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Kanopy
A Touch of Sin
(天注定)
Sin is in all of us --- it just takes different forms.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- China, Japan, France • 2013
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast Jiang Wu, Baoqiang Wang, Zhao Tao, Zhang Jiayi, Luo Lanshan, Han Dong
- Genre Drama
- Available on AMC+ Amazon Channel, Kino Film Collection, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, YouTube, Kanopy
Platform
(站台)
An amateur theater troupe evolves after China's "open door" policy.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Hong Kong, China, Japan • 2001
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast Zhao Tao, Wang Hongwei, Liang Jingdong, Tian Yi Yang, Wang Bo, Han Sanming
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Vengeance!
(報仇)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Hong Kong • 1970
- Director Chang Cheh
- Cast David Chiang, Ti Lung, Wang Ping, Ku Feng, Alice Au Yin-Ching, Yang Chi-Ching
- Genre Action
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
Humans
(你好，安怡)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- China • 2021
- Creator
- Cast Ma Tianyu, Qi Wei, Ludi Lin, Sun Anke, Wang Cong
- Genre Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
New Worlds, The Cradle of Civilization
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United States, Greece • 2021
- Director Andrew J. Muscato
- Cast Bill Murray, Jan Vogler, Vanessa Perez, Mira Wang
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Emperor and the Assassin
(荆轲刺秦王)
As the king's cruelty mounts, his hidden assassin finds her loyalty faltering.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- China, Japan, France • 1998
- Director Chen Kaige
- Cast Gong Li, Zhang Fengyi, Sun Zhou, Xiaohe Lü, Zhiwen Wang, Chen Kaige
- Genre History
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case
While under house arrest, artist Ai Weiwei continues to challenge the Chinese government in his fight for human rights.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Denmark, China, United Kingdom • 2013
- Director Andreas Johnsen
- Cast Ai Weiwei, Jerome A. Cohen, Feng Wang, Pan Haixia, Yunchang He
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
Old Stone
(老石)
A taxi driver helps a man after a catastrophic accident but finds himself saddled with the victim's hospital bills.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada, China • 2016
- Director Johnny Ma
- Cast Chen Gang, Nai An, Wang Hongwei, Zebin Zhang, Xue'er Luo
- Genre Thriller
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
镖行天下前传4：虎口夺镖
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- • 2010
- Director Deng Yancheng
- Cast Nicky Wu, Wang Ou
- Genre Action, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Menu
(導火新聞線)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Hong Kong, China • 2016
- Director Ben Fong
- Cast Catherine Chau, Kate Yeung, Gregory Wang, Ng Man-tat, Yu Silu, Justin Cheung
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, YouTube
Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang
(Jia Zhangke, Um Homem de Fenyang)
Acclaimed filmmaker Zia Zhangke returns to the shootings locations of his films.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Brazil, France • 2014
- Director Walter Salles
- Cast Jia Zhangke, Wang Hongwei, Zhao Tao, Han Sanming, Nelson Yu Lik-wai
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, YouTube, Kanopy
Black Coal, Thin Ice
(白日焰火)
A neo-noir exploring the serpentine city, its neon lights, and its coal-black heart.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- China • 2014
- Director Diao Yi'nan
- Cast Liao Fan, Kwai Lun-Mei, Wang Xuebing, Wang Jingchun, Yu Ailei, Ni Jingyang
- Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Hi-YAH, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Pluto TV, Freevee, Plex, Plex Channel
Youth
(芳华)
Love, lust, and war during the tumultuous time of the Cultural Revolution in China.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- China • 2017
- Director Feng Xiaogang
- Cast Huang Xuan, Miao Miao, Elane Zhong, Yang Caiyu, Li Xiaofeng, Wang Tianchen
- Genre Drama, History, Music
- Available on Fandor, Fandor Amazon Channel, OVID, Apple TV, Fandango At Home
The Sadness
A virus mutates into a disease that turns ordinary people into vicious monsters.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Taiwan • 2021
- Director Robert Jabbaz
- Cast Berant Zhu, Regina Lei, Ying-Ru Chen, Tzu-Chiang Wang, Tsai Chang-Hsien, Lan Wei-Hua
- Genre Action, Horror
- Available on Shudder, Shudder Amazon Channel, AMC+ Amazon Channel, Shudder Apple TV Channel, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, Hoopla
镖行天下前传10：决战天涯
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- • 2010
- Director
- Cast Nicky Wu, Wang Ou
- Genre Action, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Detention
(返校)
While trying to escape and find their missing teacher, two students encounter ghosts and the dark truth of their fate.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Taiwan • 2019
- Director John Hsu
- Cast Gingle Wang, Jing-Hua Tseng, Fu Meng Bo, Yun Chung-Yueh, Hsia Ching-ting, Pen-yu Chang
- Genre Horror, Mystery
- Available on OVID, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, VUDU Free, Freevee, Kanopy
Shadow Magic
(西洋镜)
An ambitious young photographer partners with an Englishman to bring the film industry to Beijing.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- China, Germany, Taiwan • 2000
- Director Ann Hu
- Cast Jared Harris, Xia Yu, Yufei Xing, Liu Peiqi, Lü Liping, Jingming Wang
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Freevee
Kung Fu Jungle
(一個人的武林)
When a killer starts targeting martial arts masters, an imprisoned fighting instructor offers to help the police in exchange for freedom.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- China, Hong Kong • 2014
- Director Teddy Chan
- Cast Donnie Yen, Charlie Yeung, Baoqiang Wang, Bai Bing, Wu Hao-kang, Yu Kang
- Genre Action, Crime, Thriller
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, Peacock Premium, Peacock Premium Plus, Hi-YAH, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, YouTube Free, Pluto TV, Freevee, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
(巴尔扎克与小裁缝)
Two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor’s beautiful granddaughter.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, China • 2002
- Director Sijie Dai
- Cast Zhou Xun, Chen Kun, Liu Ye, Xu Zu, Wang Shuangbao
- Genre Drama
- Available on Kanopy
We Are Living Things
Two immigrants on the fringes of American society hit the road in search of the truth about extraterrestrial life.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United States, China, Italy • 2021
- Director Antonio Tibaldi
- Cast O-Lan Jones, Lissa Carandang-Sweeney, James Patrick Nelson, Jorge Antonio Guerrero, wang zao, Blanca Vivancos
- Genre Drama, Science Fiction
- Available on Fandango At Home, Amazon Video
Sunflower
(向日葵)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Hong Kong, China, Netherlands • 2005
- Director Zhang Yang
- Cast Joan Chen, Gao Ge, Wang Haidi, Liang Jing, Zifeng Liu, Li Bin
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Eight Hundred
(八佰)
During World War II, 800 Chinese soldiers fight to defend a warehouse complex from the Japanese army.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- China • 2020
- Director Guan Hu
- Cast Wang Qian-Yuan, Zhang Yi, Huang Zhizhong, Jiang Wu, Oho Ou, Du Chun
- Genre Action, Drama, History, War
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Peacock Premium, Peacock Premium Plus, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Rakuten Viki, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Freevee
Dying to Survive
(我不是药神)
A man with leukemia starts smuggling a forbidden cancer drug into China, changing the lives of thousands of cancer patients.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- China • 2018
- Director Muye Wen
- Cast Xu Zheng, Eric Wang, Zhou Yiwei, Tan Zhuo, Zhang Yu, Yang Xinming
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Rakuten Viki, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, AsianCrush, Freevee
Terrorizers
(恐怖分子)
The intertwining lives of three groups of people cause a butterfly effect that leads to a tragic event.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Taiwan • 1986
- Director Edward Yang
- Cast Cora Miao, Lee Lichun, Chin Shih-Chieh, Wang An, Shaojun Ma, Gu Bao-Ming
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Dragon
(武俠)
A martial arts expert leaves his dark past behind, but soon finds himself pursued by a determined detective and his former master.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Hong Kong, China • 2011
- Director Peter Chan
- Cast Donnie Yen, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tang Wei, Jimmy Wang Yu, Kara Hui, Yin Zhu-Sheng
- Genre Action, Drama, Thriller
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, Pluto TV, Freevee, Plex, Plex Channel
Quitting
(昨天)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- China • 2001
- Director Zhang Yang
- Cast Jia Hongsheng, Jia Fengsen, Tong Wang, Zhu Hongmao
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Unknown Pleasures
(任逍遥)
Three disaffected teenagers living in Datong represent a startling, new generation.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- China, Japan, Korea • 2002
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast Wei Wei Zhao, Qiong Wu, Zhao Tao, Qing Feng, Wang Hongwei, Ru Bai
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
So Close to Paradise
(扁担·姑娘)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- China • 1998
- Director Wang Xiaoshuai
- Cast Yu Shi, Tong Wang, Guo Tao, Tao Wu
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Island
(一出好戏)
A cataclysmic event causes a man, who dreams of winning the lottery, to become stranded on an island with his co-workers.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- China • 2018
- Director Huang Bo
- Cast Huang Bo, Shu Qi, Baoqiang Wang, Zhang Yixing, Yu Hewei, Hao Wenting
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Mystery
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, AsianCrush, Plex, Plex Channel
The Hero
(威震四方)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Taiwan • 1971
- Director Wang Hung-Chang
- Cast Jimmy Wang Yu, Lisa Chiao Chiao, Tien Yeh, Tsao Chien, Chang Ping-Yu, Li Yi-Min
- Genre
- Available on Tubi TV, Plex, Plex Channel
New Gods: Yang Jian
(新神榜：杨戬)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- China • 2022
- Director Zhao Ji
- Cast Kai Wang, Ji Guanlin, Li Lihong, Lanling Li, Yi Zhao, Xiaoyu Liu
- Genre Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
镖行天下前传9：终极任务
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- • 2010
- Director
- Cast Nicky Wu, Wang Ou
- Genre Action, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Hidden Blade
(无名)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- China • 2023
- Director Cheng Er
- Cast Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Wang Yibo, Zhou Xun, Eric Wang, Huang Lei, Dong Chengpeng
- Genre Drama, Mystery, History, Action
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Peacock Premium, Peacock Premium Plus, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Plex, Plex Channel
Dangerous Liaisons
(危險關係)
In 1930s Shanghai, an aging socialite's infatuation with her ex-boyfriend transforms into a risky game.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- China, Korea, Singapore • 2012
- Director Hur Jin-ho
- Cast Jang Dong-gun, Zhang Ziyi, Cecilia Cheung, Shawn Dou, Candy Wang, Lisa Lu
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, YouTube Free, Pluto TV, Freevee, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
Attitude!
(很有态度)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- China • 2019
- Director
- Cast Tan Yanyan, Wang Luojia, Linfei Li, Liu Chengrui
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Sex and Zen
(玉蒲團之偷情寶鑑)
Banned for 400 years, the most notorious of China's three great erotic sagas is revealed on the screen for the first time.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Hong Kong • 1991
- Director Michael Mak
- Cast Lawrence Ng, Kent Cheng Jak-Si, Elvis Tsui, Amy Yip, Isabelle Chow Wang, Rena Murakami
- Genre Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Available on Plex, Plex Channel
Master of the Flying Guillotine
(獨臂拳王大破血滴子)
A one-armed martial arts master faces off against the fighters of an Imperial assassin in an epic martial arts tournament.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Taiwan, Hong Kong • 1976
- Director Jimmy Wang Yu
- Cast Jimmy Wang Yu, Kam Kong, Doris Lung Chun-Erh, Sham Chin-Bo, Lung Fei, Wong Wing-Sang
- Genre Action, Fantasy
- Available on Fandor, Cineverse, Plex, Plex Channel, Darkroom
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