Discoveries from China World Cinema

The film tells the story of Liu Changjiang, a gangster brother in a certain city, who was shot and killed in a bizarre way. Under the full investigation of the police, he finally solved the case and brought the truth to the surface.

Xiu Xiu was abducted from her hometown in Hunan and taken to rural Fujian and raised to be a bride. Twenty years later, she tracks down her biological parents and finds they have fallen on hard times.

A call girl is kidnapped by a psychopath and imprisoned in an abandoned bathhouse, where she struggles to escape, while other victims have succumbed to their captor's twisted cruelty.

Ge Erdan, a young man from Tawan Village, wanted to join the militia, but he accidentally became the captain of the Imperial Association Army. How will he, who is full of patriotism and passion, outsmart the Japanese invaders and complete the strategic task of "blowing up the artillery towers"? Can the former village gangster become an excellent militiaman or even an anti-Japanese hero...

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The sequel to Cliff Walkers. Plot TBA.

A war-veteran husband and his wife are slowly consumed with distrust in Xu Changlin’s fascinating hybrid of noir thriller and melodrama.

Stunning escape of the Concubine. See: http://chinesemov.com/2016/Stealing-Love.html

A film based on two separate stories from the filmmaker's middle school in Guangzhou: one of a lunchbox found behind a television stand filled with moldy food during a school health inspection, and the other a story told by a math teacher that a thief's dead body had been found in the gap between two buildings behind the school.

This epic version of the Mulan tale was an early epic, shot on location in Northern China using hundreds of extras. It is the story of Hua Mulan, a young woman who takes her fathers place in the army as he is unwell. She gains glory but must eventually deal with her deception.

From 1948 to 1949, on the eve of the peaceful liberation of Peking, a story that happened in an elementary school for the children of workers under the Kuomintang gun repair shop. A group of innocent children, with their hope and yearning for the new life system in their lives, went from a pure love of guns and stealing guns impulsively, to being inspired and led by a young progressive female teacher — and slowly embark on a Revolutionary Road.

The film revolves around Princess Longji, Xiaoqing, Fahai, Nine-tailed Fox, and Black Mountain Demon. It is connected by five independent unit stories, which not only continues the worldview of the lege nd of the White Snake, but also supplements the experience and emotional entanglement of the original character.

During the Japanese evacuation from China in 1945, a poor and ill mother leaves her child to her Chinese sister-in-law. Years later, she returns to China to find her child.

Xiao Bo arrives in Beijing, gets a job at a boutique, and is invited to stay with his lady boss, Ah Qing, and her husband, Kang. Knowing that Xiao Bo is still single, his host tries to introduce him to her best friend, Ah Meng. After a few dates, Ah Meng begins to suspect Xiao Bo is gay. She tells Ah Qing, who then informs her husband Kang. After learning this, Kang attempts to rape Xiao Bo when his wife isn't at home. Xiao Bo leaves the house, quits his job and joins his old friend, Chong Chong, and realizes that he has a gay lover, Gui Gui. Some time later, Ah Qing confesses to Kang that she had an affair with Ah Meng.

Newly married journalist Xia Yin moved into her husband's apartment. However, her not-so-sweet newlywed life, as well as the suicide of a colleague and the failure of her investigation to be published publicly ...... the dual frustrations of family and work, prompted Xia Yin to go to the countryside on the grounds of an interview assignment. In the countryside, Xia Yin met a little girl, Xiaoshu, who lived with her grandmother. Xiaoshu's spiritual and unconscious hypnosis allowed Xia Yin to glimpse the black hole deep inside herself, and this strange encounter in the countryside made her re-examine her situation.

He Na and her mother live in the small city by the river of Xiangjiang River, She didn’t understand why her mother loved a guy who is not at all a good men. One day she found a secrets from the men, she told her mother, which led to her family misfortune.

An intimate glimpse into the experiences of a young Tibetan family struggling to reconcile their traditional way of life with a rapidly modernizing world.

In his early years great poet Li Bai was a talented but depressed young man who could only work in restaurants. By coincidence, Li Bai is ordered to investigate the case of the Flower Demon and travels around Chang'an with Yue Li, a wine maid by the Empress' side, searching for this creature. As the investigation progresses, Li Bai repeatedly uses his powers of deduction to find clues to his predicament and aids in averting danger with his extraordinary swordsmanship. His sidekick, Zhuang Dansheng, a strange warlock, and Hu Ji, a dancer, are all involved in the Flower Demon incident. Li Bai not only has to break through the maze of flower demons

Before joining the imperial court a young Di Renjie was a minor judge in Bianzhou. When his mentor Yan Liben was welcoming Empress Wu back to the imperial court from the Ganye Temple, he encountered a strange ghostly incident called "Qingji". Master Yan was wrongly accused of being the murderer who intended to kill Empress and was jailed. To unravel the mystery, Dee comes to Chang'an alone, and with the help of his lover Gongsun Yu and his friend Yang Lu, a small-time gangster in Chang'an, he solves the "Qing Ji" murder case

In an attempt to investigate the origin of the "bloody handprint", Peng Yutian, the most unreliable detective of the Sixth Department, travels to Luoyang. To preserve his agency's reputation, Peng is forced to use in the Qingyun Paviliona variety of tricks that aren't always fair.

The bloody sky reappears in the world, the emperor's life Jinyi Wei Zhancan and other four people went to the shackles to escort the blood to the sky. The mysterious man faked Zhan Can wants to take away the gems without knowing it, but he was uncovered. The road to protect the treasure is in jeopardy.

A rousing dog and man comedy composed of just 61 shots, and set in Shenyang in northeastern China, where people argue continuously. The film takes off from the premises of an MA student losing his professor’s dog and must enlist his father’s help to retrieve it, lest his prospects of a tutorship vanishes. A biting satire on every conceivable ill in modern Society, and an endearing portrait of a father-and-son relationship.

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

The Fantasy Movie "The Magic School 魔力學院之我是麻瓜" is about a fantasy story in a magical school, where generations of elemental magicians were trained. Their mission is to seal the evil Dark Messenger (An Ying). However, there is a traitor in this generation. In order to get more power, the Wind Elemental Magician agreed a soul deal with the Dark Messenger and released it. So the war between the magicians and the Dark Messenger begin...

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This film tells the story of 9 intangible cultural heritages, including Weifang kites, Yangjiabu woodblock New Year paintings, Zhucheng style guqin, Maoqiang, and shuttlecock, as well as the warm stories behind the inheritors. The movie is narrated by Liu Lin and consists of 9 stories. Based on the essence of real life, it breaks the creative framework of documentary and drama films, combines the popularization of intangible cultural heritage with the stories of inheritors through poetic shots, explores the boundary between reality and fiction, and uses reality as the needle and philosophy as the line to outline a life picture where recording and narrative are both external and internal.

A story concerning the Chinese peasants during the transition period, and the victims of the economic wave during the period of China's reform and opening up.

This film tells the story of the Republic of China period. Qifan, a descendant of a family of tomb builders, possesses the skill but has no opportunity to use it. He refuses to engage in grave robbing, even when his uncle Lao Hu, who makes a living through deceit and trickery, tries to persuade him to use his tomb-building abilities for treasure hunting. However, fate takes an unexpected turn when Qifan inadvertently reveals his identity and attracts the attention of bandits, forcing him to enter a tomb. Along the way, Qifan does everything in his power to prevent the bandits from looting treasures. The group initially enters the tomb of the martial arts master Guo Dingfeng for financial gain but stumbles upon an even bigger secret.