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A wife borrows a necklace for a party, and it is subsequently stolen. Her husband embezzles funds to pay for the loss, but he is discovered and arrested.

Shows a market where puppies are bought and sold. Several puppies are placed in a cloth bag, and they struggle to break free. One bites through the bag, pokes his head, and is observed in his triumph and then confusion.

The film tells the story of the big head son’s family who encountered difficulties in the process of the child’s growth; they were not afraid of anything and faced everything together. The mother hoped that their son will become a dragon.

One of the earliest cinematic adaptation of Chinese classic novel Journey to the West. When seeking for food alone, Tang Xuanzang was kept prisoner by seven spider monsters who took the form of seven beautiful women. The Monkey King and the other two of Xuanzang's disciples managed to rescue him with the help of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva/Guanyin. They renounced the desire for lust and continued the quest for Buddhist Scriptures.

The hotel room as a place where everyone is a stranger. A place that is yours for just a moment. A temporarily intimate space entered by a maid in order to clean it while, if possible, not leaving a trace of her visit. Each episode of Stranger is set in such a place, and each is captured in one long take. Weaving together a series of episodic stories – some humorous and absurd, some poignant and mysterious – that all unfold within a seemingly confined space, Stranger explores the idea of home while being away from it, and sheds light on the distinctive yet universal experiences of isolation and loneliness.

A young woman Mianhua ("Cotton") gets a job which she has never done before: to be a full-time caretaker of an old stubborn boxer who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. The old man's son with his later wife lives overseas and almost takes no care of him, and his daughter with his ex-wife hires Mianhua to take care of him - but the daughter distrusts and despises all nannies for "knows only lying, abusing, and taking advantages". Under the same roof, however, the old man and Mianhua start to get along with each other well over time, and he starts to mistake Mianhua as his ex-wife whom he owed a love debt to. All of a sudden, Mianhua finds out that she got pregnant...

Sora and Umi (both played by Lee Tae-kyung) who were born to a Japanese father and a Korean mother and raised in South Korea. Sora now lives in Shanghai and works as an illustrator. When she meets a Japanese guy named Mochizuki, they become close. This is when her sibling Umi visits. Umi was born inter-sex and had undergone gender reassignment surgery to become a woman. Umi encourages Sora and Mochizuki to fall in love, but Sora becomes mentally unstable.

Bright Sunshine (a.k.a. The Sun, 大太阳)

The play was adapted from Luo Guanzhong’s Ming Dynasty novel “Ping Yao Biography”. The film “Ruyi Tianshu” tells that during the Northern Song Dynasty, three foxes with different forms and ideas have been eager to snatch the heavenly books and cultivate them into immortals, and then entangled the human eggs with the books of the heavens, and the eggs are at this time for their mission. Still have no idea. In the process of entanglement with the three foxes, the egg is gradually growing, and there is a feeling of incompetence between the fox and the fox, and finally staged a world-famous aesthetic miraculous sadism.

Xiaoya grew up in a single-parent family, the lack of affection and friendship, made the city girl fall in love with then-boyfriend Wang Hao. On a weekend, Xiaoya, Wang Hao and Jianwen, Mary and several friends of the club resolve to camp on the road encounter a stranger, what appeared to be a camp becomes a terror when Wang Hao mysteriously disappears.

On their journey to the west, Tang Seng and Sun Wukong have a falling out and set out a challenge for each other. Sun Wukong agrees to give Tang Seng his magical powers in exchange for Tang Seng's appearance and learning. The challenge they set is to bypass the Seven Spider Sisters and defeat the Hundred-eyed Demon Lord within seven days. After the swap, who will have the determination and wit to win this challenge?

Once the thriving capital of Imperial China, the city of Datong now lies in near ruins. Not only is it the most polluted city in the country, it is also crippled by decrepit infrastructure and even shakier economic prospects. But Mayor Geng Yanbo plans to change all that, announcing a bold, new plan to return Datong to its former glory, the cultural haven it was some 1,600 years ago. Such declarations, however, come at a devastatingly high cost. Thousands of homes are to be bulldozed, and a half-million of its residents (30 percent of Datong’s total population) will be relocated under his watch. Whether he succeeds depends entirely on his ability to calm swarms of furious workers and an increasingly perturbed ruling elite. The Chinese Mayor captures, with remarkable access, a man and, by extension, a country leaping frantically into an increasingly unstable future.

Rewinding to 1979, Xu Haifeng (Li Dongxue), then a sent-down educated youth, won the air rifle title at the 4th Anhui Provincial Games with an amateur air gun. Yet he was denied entry to the provincial team for exceeding the national age limit. Three years later, while working at the Hexian supply and marketing cooperative, he returned to the Games, won again, and still received no offer for the same reason. Soon after, he injured both eyes while protecting state property and nearly went blind. At this low point, Coach Wu Quanquing (Cong Lin) unexpectedly brought a temporary transfer notice from the provincial team, leaving Xu torn over whether to go. At the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, Xu was in top form and ranked first. But with his final three shots remaining, his old eye injury suddenly flared up, forcing him to rest, where he sat overwhelmed by emotion.

A gifted criminal profiler, Fang Mu was asked to assist the police in solving a bizarre campus serial killing. Working together with Police Captain Tai Wei, Fang Mu tries to crack down the murder cases, but he unknowingly gets embroiled in a battle of wits.

Wang Mao joins the army in order to earn money to marry his favorite girl. He struggled his life through the whole war against Janpanese invaders.

Set in 1930s pre-war Wuzhou, Wangjiang Tower follows Ah Xiu, a young woman living in a historic riverside building repeatedly targeted by outsiders. She meets and falls in love with Liang Wenting, an architect from Guangzhou, who helps save the tower and gifts it to her. War soon separates them, and for ten years, Ah Xiu waits faithfully, enduring bombings and the pressures of others. When peace returns, she reunites with Liang, only to discover he is now married. Faced with heartbreak, Ah Xiu must choose how to move on from a decade-long wait. The film won Best Picture at the 23rd Varna International Film Festival in Bulgaria.

Eight people try to end their loneliness by searching for that one person to love, who can make their life complete.

A woman seeks vengeance against the man who killed her entire family.

Ximen Debao is an innkeeper without big ambitions. In order to attract business, he instructs his younger brother Tu Hao and his friends to pose as robbers and rob passers-by, and at critical moments he assists them by posing as a saviour and crime-fighter, and then guides the customers into the shop. The good times don't last long, as Tak Po's scam is exposed by a mysterious monk who finds it difficult to continue. In the meantime, the assassin of Lingzhou, He Snap, kills the imperial envoy in order to seize the treasure map hidden in the inn, and frames Debao for the crime. Overnight, Debao becomes a wanted criminal and his son, Yau Fei, dies. In order to take revenge, Debao begins to train with a monk.

Ma Yiming graduated from university and worked as a photojournalist in a newspaper office, dreaming of creating his own film festival. Yiming wants to find beauty around him and wants to use nostalgia to explore the confusion of modern urban people. The old artist Xu Lao, who is engaged in root carving, suggested Yiming and him go to the mountains to observe the simplicity and rural spirit of the people in the mountains. Yiming fulfilled the old man's will and went to Dashan and opened his own film exhibition. Following the proposal of the newspaper director, the theme of the village was changed to change the theme of the film exhibition. The film festival really succeeded. Yiming finally got rid of the hustle and bustle of the city and walked on the land of China to pursue the true meaning of beauty. He finally became a promising young photographer.

The Nationalists have a secret mission of sending a truckload of coins into the mountains but the commander of the army unit guarding the warehouse where the coins are stored wants them for his own use.

Gu Liyan, on the verge of graduating from university, suddenly faced her father's death and had to assist her sharp-witted mother in navigating the tedious funeral arrangements. Unexpectedly, the 'Funeral Affairs Committee' secretly organized by her father before his death suddenly arrived at their doorstep... With unanticipated guests, absurd situations, and ridiculously dramatic events, the mother-daughter duo urgently needed to gather their strength to confront it all.

After having to quarantine together during COVID-19, a mother and daughter are forced to confront their personal obstacles and relationship tensions.

This drama tells the story of how the police arranged for special forces member Tang Shiyu to get close to the sister of drug lord Zhao Wenjiu in order to infiltrate the drug trafficking gang and capture him. Meanwhile, in the midst of the operation, Zhao's enemy, the notorious drug lord Chen Jiahua, enters China seeking revenge. Tang Shiyu finds herself caught between the two sides, collecting evidence while also making contact with Zhao's subordinates, including Hua Jiu. After a series of twists and turns, Hua Jiu begins to trust Tang Shiyu, and with her help, all the criminals are brought to justice. The story reflects how as a police officer, one must not only distinguish between right and wrong and punish evil while promoting good, but also must be willing to risk their life to rescue people in danger. Tang Shiyu, as a woman, demonstrates exceptional intelligence and the ability to turn danger into safety, not inferior to male team members.

Said to be the first science-fiction film produced in China (and perhaps having its North American theatrical premiere in Future Imperfect?), Death Ray on Coral Island spares no bile, camp, or latent envy in portraying America as the cunning archenemy that will stop at nothing—industrial espionage, assassinations, even ballroom dancing—to steal China’s futuristic weaponry. The film occupies a pivotal moment in China’s modern history, representing a legacy of the Great Cultural Revolution and a harbinger of the nation’s ascension on the global economic stage. Courtesy of the China Film Archive and Shanghai Film Group.

The young Chinese animator also known as “Ray” Lei crafts a hallucinatory short that follows a doe-eyed protagonist on a quest through an imagined world.

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Tong Song, who is unable to walk, is the founder of Paradox Security. There are two other people in the team, An Ning, who is talented in mechanics, and Da Niu, who is simple-minded yet highly skilled. The company's main business is to protect the safety of their clients and their clients' property, also known as "bodyguards." On this day, they received a three-day anonymous commission to protect An Ning's sister, An Yi. Since then, An Yi has had ran into many accidents. Tong Song thinks it's not a coincidence, but he does find a clue in the details that confirms his suspicions. There is a high possibility that the organization behind this is one that is good at making murders look like accidents. Just then, An Yi disappears... Who is trying to assassinate An Yi? Is An Yi aware of the danger she's in? Is there really such an organization? How will Tong Song and the others save An Yi?

Taxi driver Ermao buys a lottery ticket on behalf of his boss, Zhang, who runs a bar. Unexpectedly, the ticket wins 5 million yuan. Meanwhile, Ermao's wife, Shanshan—upset after an argument—leaves for a tour job in Kanas and casually slips the ticket into Ermao’s red vest. When the greedy Zhang comes looking for the prize, Ermao can’t find the ticket and assumes Shanshan took it. He sets off with his buddy Dacha on a chaotic journey to track her down. In the end, the missing ticket ends up being rolled into a cigarette by an old shepherd.

"Taxi! Taxi!" is a social comedy set in the metropolitan city-state of Singapore, told through the encounters of two characters who are in what is widely perceived as the most sociable profession on the island taxi drivers. Inspired by famed blogger Dr Cai Mingjie's real life accounts as a taxi driver in his bestseller "Diary Of A Taxi Driver: True Stories From Singapore's Most Educated Cabdriver", the movie follows the trials and tribulations of a retrenched microbiology scientist, Professor Chua, as he turns to taxi driving after several failed job attempts. Along the way, he befriends (although they didn't quite start off as friends from the get-go) a veteran taxi driver, Ah Tau. The two men, who appear to be polar opposites of each other in every aspect from educational levels, personalities, attitudes toward life and even the languages that they speak, eventually find themselves interdependent and influencing each other in ways that they probably had never imagined

Zhu Zhu and Wang Wang's family lived on the edge of the desert in the northwest region. To combat desertification, the family began planting trees. Braving sandstorms and scorching sun, they carried seedlings on their shoulders, hauled water bucket by bucket, and trekked dozens of miles daily for irrigation. Their persistent efforts over decades began to bear fruit. However, Wang Wang was unfortunately diagnosed with bone cancer and passed away soon after. Despite this setback, Zhu Zhu did not give up. She continued to lead her family in tree planting and desert reclamation. Through their indomitable spirit, they transformed thousands of acres of barren land into a green oasis.

Required to retire from his job as a utility man at a Peking Opera theater, Old Han is at loose ends, wandering the backstreets of Beijing looking for something to correct.

The story follows three different girls with unique personalities in a span of 10 years (2003-2013), as they grow and work toward their dreams. Zhang Jingyi is an intelligent tomboy and her motto in life is for everyone to be happy; Chen Yinuo is a rich, temperamental girl from a wealthy family; and Liang Xiaoyi is a girl desperate to reach her dreams.

In the council of gods, no mortal voice is ever heard. And thus was the fate of the world arbitrarily determined. We know that such is the way of the world. But do the gods act out of contempt... Or have they at some hour begun to act out of fear?