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Drama written by Su Shuyangin in 1978. The feature film adaptation was produced by Beijing Film Studio in 1980. Fang Lingxuan, a veteran Chinese medicine doctor, devotes himself to the research of new drugs for coronary heart disease and receives the enthusiastic support of Premier Zhou Enlai. But the Ministry of Health, controlled by the "Gang of Four," uses Fang's son-in-law to obstruct the research. Just as Fang and his colleagues finally succeed in producing a new drug, Premier Zhou dies. Grief turns into strength, and despite persecution, Fang works hard.

Outlaw Huang Tian-ba becomes indignant when his adopted brother is killed by Shi Shalun the Yangzhou magistrate. Armed with his Golden Darts he wages a one man war on the magistrate and his army. A brilliant Wu Shu action film.

Chung and Kin grow up together at Rennie Mill Area with quite different characters. They were admitted into the Whampoa Military Training School at Taiwan. On the way to School, Kin and Chung met with other schoolmates in a train - Cheng, Lin and Wu. The mischievous kin got into trouble with other schoolmates and was punished on the first day of their arrival. The Training Officer, Lam was so strike with his training programme that everyone suffered. Under the mutual care and help, everyone got promoted. However, Cheng was advised not to take part in the field practice for his feebleness. Cheng insisted on trying. At the field practice, Wu, Chung, Kin and Cheng incidentally discovered an ammunition smuggling, this led them to fatal attack.

Based on Zhou Keqin's excellent novel, Xu Mao and His Daughters weaves a story about the life and sufferings of Xu Mao, an aging peasant and his four daughters in the countryside during the Cultural Revolution. They struggle to make ends meet since his wife's death. Preoccupied with worries, he loses touch with his maturing daughters. It takes the stubborn but kindly intervention of a woman making a governmental inspection tour to cause father and daughters to appreciate their loving family.

A Grand Statement is a Hong Kong Crime-Thriller starring Kent Cheng.

Hao Wei was a gun-maker, he made a mysterious perfect gun during the Cultural Revolution. Now he works as a film print transporter for cinemas, yet the temptation of guns drives him into the deeper crime.

Romance in 1979

Sophomore feature of Liu Miaomiao.

Lu Wei, a self-employed taxi driver in a small town in the south, drove a dilapidated van full of advertisements to pick up his newly bought luxury car in Guangzhou.

Ma Changqing went deep into the grassroots to understand the situation. He lived in the collective dormitory in the rain and witnessed the practical difficulties of the young workers. At the meeting of the Mining Party Committee, he proposed to solve the housing problem, improve the canteen, prioritize living over production, and propose democratic election of team leaders. Through a series of measures, the mine has undergone great changes. Ma Changqing always does a good job in ideological work in the first place to address the outstanding problems among the young workers.

Grand warlord Cao Cao consults the physician Hua Tuo about his chronic headaches. Cao Cao intends to take him on as his personal physician but Hua Tao refuses.

The story follows Ah Can, played by Bill Tung, who travels from mainland China to Hong Kong to attend to the affairs of his recently deceased father, Fang Damao, a character also portrayed by Tung. While in Hong Kong, Ah Can is drawn into a whirlwind of events involving his gambling cousin. Along the way, he discovers his father’s hidden stash of valuable diamonds, sparking a series of comedic misadventures.

Adaptation of the Chinese folk tale that gave rise to the proverb “One monk will shoulder two buckets of water, two monks will share the load, but add a third and no one will want to fetch water”.

Fierce battle between a hungry heron and a crafty clam.

Set in the turmoil years of China, a foreign girl is saved and protected when she suicides because of her Chinese lover has been put into prison for mourning Premier Zhou.

The path takes me home

A married village worker teams up with an old girlfriend to try to dig a well for his water-starved village. The well collapses and they are trapped. Their enforced confinement leads to them exploring their feelings for each other and those around them.

Trading company CEO Wu Hao died of brain caner, medical professor Pang transplanted the brain of Wang Jiapei, who was a farmer died of car crash, into Wu Hao's body. By this, Wang came back to life through the identity of Wu.

Three former comrades from a wartime propaganda troupe join to form a senoir choir, and are soon joined by their other comrades, who find that it is an uplifting experience in their old age.

This movie accurately describes the accomplishment of chief hydraulic engineer Mr. Bing Li 2500 years ago, and his name is used as the title of this movie.

Director Liu, a powerful figure in the Shipping Bureau, was once on his way back to the city after an inspection tour when he was teased by the daughter of the municipal Party Secretary on the highway. He dared not speak out. His driver, Yang Yang, defied the pressure and subdued the daughter, vindicating Director Liu. Director Liu, therefore, strongly recommended Yang Yang for the position of Party Group Leader. Yang Yang discovered in the previous group leader's record book that Director Liu hadn't paid his Party dues for several months, so he went to collect them. Director Liu suggested that Yang Yang have his dues deducted monthly from the accounting department. Yang Yang reminded him that these were Party dues, not Party taxes, and that if he failed to pay for six months, he would automatically withdraw from the Party. Sister Mei, hearing that Yang Yang was a powerful official in charge of the Director, came to complain.

Love story of a young calligrapher and the daughter of a supreme government official in ancient China.

Devout Buddhists, Norbu and Dolma live with their young son Tashi in a clan in Tibet. Norbu is a highwayman. After Norbu is charged with stealing from the temple, he and his family are banished. Impoverished and marginalized, they can do little when their beloved son becomes ill. Tashi dies of a fever. After a second son is born, Norbu focuses his every action on keeping this child alive, seeking re-admission to the clan for his wife and child, then risking all to save them from isolation and starvation in winter.

Swordsman Xu Tianxiong gets a message from dying gold miner Tao Jin Wang, then leads the confrontation against the treacherous gold store owner Ba Zhangui.

Sent by his parents to study kung fu at the Shaolin temple, folk hero Fong Sai Yuk (Bo Wa Shut) is taught by the finest fighters in the land and must prove himself to a particularly tough instructor in Part 1 of this two-part tale. The young student eventually enters a competition and, in a classic scene, fights off hundreds of monks in the "Swastika Formation." Wing-Ha Chan, Hung-Man Do and Gwok Leung also star in this martial arts extravaganza.

A young man ekes out a living by robbing graves and peeing in jars.

Public Security officers investigate the robbery of a post office and the injury of a young woman.

A young miner with no acting talent wants to enter film academy but fails in admission test twice.

During the Sung Dynasty, there is an order of monks enforces their own regulations harshly. Even when the evil Jins attack, and martial arts supremo Zhi Xing helps fight them off, he is punished for practicing fu without permission. The local militia, loyal to the Emperor, is led by a sword fighting beautiful woman, who teams up with some of the monks. One of these monks also has the power to summon animals and birds to help in the fighting.