A silent film, Xin Ke (The Immigrant) is the story of a newcomer (played by Zheng Chaoren) to Singapore from mainland China, living in a mansion of wealthy relatives, unfamiliar with the customs of Southeast Asia (Malaya and Singapore), suffering and being excluded everywhere. After his own efforts, he is finally accepted and loved.
Zheng Lianjie
Shen Huaqiang
Chen Ziying
Malaya 'Xin Tak Cheng Gum Trading Company' East Advocate Tianxi
Wo Ying
Mrs Zhang Yu
Lu Xiaoyu
Zhang Huizhen
Chen Bingxun
Zhang Xinmin
Yunduan Nan
Liu Boqi
Wang Guanan
Liu Yanshi
Huang Mengmei
Liu Jieyu
Tan Minxing
Gan Fusheng
A silent film, Xin Ke (The Immigrant) is the story of a newcomer (played by Zheng Chaoren) to Singapore from mainland China, living in a mansion of wealthy relatives, unfamiliar with the customs of Southeast Asia (Malaya and Singapore), suffering and being excluded everywhere. After his own efforts, he is finally accepted and loved.
A boss of a toy corporation, Chenggong Li, tries to head back to Chan Sar to celebrate the Chinese New Year with his family. However, plans don't go as smoothly after he crosses paths with a stranger, Geng Niu.
An illegal Chinese immigrant falls behind on payments on an enormous smuggling debt. Ming Ding has only until the end of the day to come up with the money.
In 1992, teenager Sandi Tan shot Singapore's first indie road movie with her enigmatic American mentor Georges – who then vanished with all the footage. Twenty years later, the 16mm film is recovered, sending Tan, now a novelist in Los Angeles, on a personal odyssey in search of Georges' vanishing footprints.
When a change of circumstances leaves Miriam unable to pay her college tuition, she makes a surprising decision: to start performing in adult films, using the pseudonym Belle Knox. Miriam lies to her family and her friends at school, keeping her double life a secret. But soon rumours spread and Miriam becomes the subject of vicious online attacks and unwanted attention. Miriam fights back: she talks to the media, saying her new line of work empowers her as a feminist. But her confident stand has unintended consequences. Miriam is shunned by her conservative family and her colleagues in the adult film world. One impulsive decision has quickly spiralled out of control - and Miriam's problems are just beginning.
Hollywood veteran Bing Russell creates the only independent baseball team in the country—alarming the baseball establishment and sparking the meteoric rise of the 1970s Portland Mavericks.
Over seven decades, actor and activist George Takei journeyed from a World War II internment camp to the helm of the Starship Enterprise, and then to the daily news feeds of five million Facebook fans. Join George and his husband, Brad, on a wacky and profound trek for life, liberty, and love.
In Chengdu, China, a retired female opera singer named Master Chang takes in a trio of young tenants into her boarding home. The tenants include a rock singer and a college student who has run away from home.
Iverson is the ultimate legacy of NBA legend Allen Iverson, who rose from a childhood of crushing poverty in Hampton, Virginia, to become an 11-time NBA All-Star and universally recognized icon of his sport. Off the court, his audacious rejection of conservative NBA convention and unapologetic embrace of hip hop culture sent shockwaves throughout the league and influenced an entire generation. Told largely in Iverson's own words, the film charts the career highs and lows of one of the most distinctive and accomplished figures the sport of basketball has ever seen.
A Chinese special force soldier with extraordinary marksmanship is confronted by a group of deadly foreign mercenaries who are hired to assassinate him by a vicious drug lord.
An American-born Chinese economics professor accompanies her boyfriend to Singapore for his best friend's wedding, only to get thrust into the lives of Asia's rich and famous.