Discoveries from China World Cinema

The first movie adaptation of Jin Yong's novel.

A group of terrorists holed up inside a TV studio must battle an army of undead monsters created by the deadly virus they released.

After incident at Tumu Fort, bodyguard Yang Shan and his team to escort the emperor Zhu Qizhen back to the capital, and Dragon Gate became a crucial turning point.

In the late Republican era, strange incidents occurred frequently in a mist-shrouded mountain village deep within Changbai Mountain. A villager named Chen Gouzi encountered a mysterious bride and took her in. Soon after, he suddenly became wealthy, only to die under bizarre circumstances. A series of deaths that followed plunged the village into fear. Veteran hunter Ma Sanye led the villagers in their search for the truth, navigating between supernatural rumors and the treachery of human hearts. As they dug deeper, hidden secrets and the tangled forces of good and evil in the mountain forest gradually came to light.

As a young Chinese filmmaker returns to his hometown in search for himself, a long due conversation with his mother dives the two of them into a quest for acceptance and love.

Legend has it that Changbai Mountain was an active volcano in ancient times. Every time it erupted, it would be a charcoal. The gods couldn’t bear the scene, and a tear fell. The water pearl fell on the top of the mountain, forming a Tianchi to hold down the volcanic lava. From then on, the volcano no longer erupted. Changbai Mountain has also become vibrant and full of flowers and plants. I don’t know when a spiritual fox was born in the mountains.

This story is about “Chan Dai Lek” (main character) who lost his parents when he was small and then being brought up and been taught in Kung Fu by the Beggar legend “Cheong Dai Hap” to help those who are poor and weak. As Dai Lek grows up, he made some beggar friends who are in difficulties, namely “Da Zhi” and “Satay” , also the daughter of the head gangster “Guo Fei” and they have built a very good rapport. Together, they have living the same point of view in life that “Nothing is impossible”. On the other hand, there is a beggar group from “Lan Jie Bang” which discovered the great abilities of Dai Lek and decided to make him to become the leader of the group. In the end, because of the brutal power of the black society which constantly controlling, exploiting and mistreating the beggars, Dai Lek is then unleashed his heroism and make a stand for the sake of his love and his friends which then leads to triumph. Hence, he is the beggar hero.

"Sweet Osmanthus Flowering Late" is a feature-length ethnographic film that envisions social rejuvenation and collective convalescence in the aftermath of the pandemic. Filmed in Wuhan, the film follows the everyday lives of three middle-class households. It postulates the existence of a mass dreaming phenomenon that facilitated fatigued Chinese inhabitants to rejuvenate themselves following the secluded episode of lived experience and to coexist with the enduring imprints of "the event" on their social lives.

Elderly Nun Wumei inadvertently obtained a special martial art "Yanshi's Offering", where the practitioners can control others in distance, no matter they're living or dead. At the same time, Emperor Qianlong's nephew Yonghan held a grudge since his father Hongshi died tragically after being cut from his clan status. Under the guise of killing people who had been opposing Ming Dynasty, he plundered the martial art skills of all sects and tried to usurp the throne. His new goal is the Emei secret skill "Yanshi's Offering." Bai Yuanming, who is proficient in medicine, came to Emei to relieve the malaria crisis. He met Li Erhuan, a female disciple of Emei, and was involved in disputes. Under the pseudonym Sun Ziyi, Yonghan sneaked into Emei to provoke a dispute in an attempt to profit from it, and was eventually defeated by Bai Yuanming and Li Erhuan

Best friends turned soulmates, Fang Hui and Lin Xi dreamed of forever—until their perfect world began to crack.

A couple (Zhang Jingsheng & Lu Liping) robbed the money train for money, causing a canister truck carrying highly toxic drugs to leak gas and eventually burn through the ozone layer. At the same time, the boy (Zhang Ning) who was resting at home due to his illness suddenly found that he could understand the language of his good friend, Big White Cat. The big white cat told him that this serious accident, if not stopped in time, the living things on the earth will eventually perish. However, adults are so busy running for money that they do not believe what boys and animals say.

22-year-old Meili is an ill-fated girl. Abandoned by her parents, she was raised by her elder sister, who is infertile. Meili was set up to be raped by her brother-in-law and gave birth to a daughter secretly. Her sister often asked her for child support. To avoid her sister’s harassment, Meili quits her job and decides to follow her lover Wen to Shanghai. Unexpectedly, Wen leaves her in Changchun. Abandoned by love, also unemployed, the helpless Meili meets Yu, who finds her another job. Her sister flees to Meili due to family violence. Her brother-in-law finds her, bringing to the surface unbearable memories. Meili resigns. Desperately she expects Wen's return, but what waits around the corner is more deception and betrayal.

Liu Gengsheng, a down-and-out township hair salon owner, is forced to redeem himself after falling into debt after the death of his wife, Wang Yanhua. He stumbles into a bizarre vocational college, receives alternative training, and experiences absurd and touching growth stories with students of different personalities (old, weak, sick and disabled women). In a series of funny conflicts and tender moments, Liu Gengsheng gradually regains the courage and professional dignity of life, and finally stands on the stage of his dreams. This is a comedy full of humor, satire and inspirational characters.

Xiwen Cong presents the journey of a young woman who observes how, in her environment, emotional bonds always seem to be tinged with conflict and mutual aggression. In the midst of relationships marked by ambiguous gestures and latent violence, she seeks to understand whether affection can exist without harm.

In the increasingly competitive contemporary society, parents hope that their son will become a dragon and their daughter will become a phoenix. However, when their hopes and desires cannot be realized, the distorted mentality leads to the true story of the mother killing her son. Who will return the joyful childhood dreams of children?

A man brings his ex-wife home to live with their only son and his new wife.

Battle at Mount Goddess of Mercy

In order to observe the mysterious celestial bodies that were not "captured" a few years ago, astronomical observers called lunatics (Chen Chutong) stopped at the foot of the deserted Gobi Mountain and set up a temporary observation station to wait for the celestial bodies to rotate to a special angle. "Capture".

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It tells the legendary story of Li Tian, craftsman from Liuyang, who invented firecrackers more than 1,300 years ago

Anna May Wong created “My China Film” as her response to not being cast in Metro Goldwyn Meyer’s award-winning film about Chinese peasants, The Good Earth (1937). Immediately after that casting rejection, Wong travelled to China for the first and only time in 1936 to see the real China, the “native land” of her parents where she arranged to have her experiences there filmed by Newsreel Wong. In contrast to The Good Earth, “My China Film” is the result of a Hollywood film studio actress seizing the means of production. Her film reveals her craftsmanship as an American actress learning to play a Chinese by equipping herself to perform the role of a transnational Chinese. In addition, rather than being a straightforward documentary travelogue, “My China Film” reflects differing agendas and multiple Chinas.

Cheng (Andy CHOI), who goes to college in Boston, returns to the muggy Guangzhou on his final summer break. To his dismay, his maternal grandfather has died but no one in the family, including his mother (Crystal LEE), is willing to talk about it or their feelings. His elder sister Yam (Isabelle CHAN), locks herself every day in her room and smokes. ​His father (James AU) is always busy on the phone to take bets from sports gamblers. The family of four will soon move to a new place, but a shadow of estrangement looms above them. Getting drenched in sweat, sometimes by rain, Cheng discovers a melancholy reality, both old and new, in a city he calls home.

Lin Hui, a struggling anchor who is unemployed and at home, accidentally clicked on a mini program called "Koi Raid" during his live broadcast. "Koi" claims to be able to fulfill Lin Hui's wishes. He, who had just been scolded by his girlfriend, was angry on a mini program and made a malicious wish to his girlfriend, but little did he know that the wish had come true

Southern Style kung fu was unsuccessful in defeating the invading enemy aliens. General Chen has no choice but to be go back in time again to the late Qing Dynasty to find the master of Northern Style kung fu and transfer his training back to the future. Unfortunately, the time travel causes Chen to lose his memory and he ends up working for the emperor Yuan Shikai and lost in time. Meanwhile in the future, the aliens army and strength grows by the day…

Township unlock guy cold wind and send a small army brother to go home to work in the city to earn money, I thought this is a new life, but did not think that is considered the most pro-brother designed by the trap. Honest rural guy's goodness and sentiments are used, the heart in front of the conscience wavering, and gradually set foot on the almost irreversible path, in the loss of conscience, the witness to see the loved ones were injured just feel awakened , Through hard decisions eventually lost their lives, completed self-salvation.

High-school repeater Liu Lang is falsely accused of cheating days before the gaokao. To spare his cash-strapped family he quits school and, with two buddies, heads to Guangdong to hustle for wages. The trio tumble through comic scams, end up rescuing a girl from a local crime ring, and finally turn their street smarts into above-board success – a feel-good “small-guy wins” arc .

Serial killing cases happened in city and the killer disappeared. Campus Goddess, Zhao Ziyu, is always disturbed by a strange dream of childhood. Professor Bai help her with some medicine. Campus Beau, Lin Mu, lost his legs in a traffic accident. His aunt, Jiang Yexin, an expert in Psychology, found Zhao Ziyu to help this boy. Then a big secret of serial killing was discovered step by step...

Can two completely different cultures truly connect? Can two people from completely different worlds find love? These are some of the questions raised in 'China Affair.' A Chinese movie filmed from a non-Chinese perspective, 'China Affair' is a complex narrative laced with barbed satire, which allows for a fresh perspective unseen in other movies that touch upon the cultural gap between America and China. At first glance, Director Zhang Ming is simply bringing cultural differences to life through the eyes of a foreigner named Lucas, but actually Zhang Ming's 'China Affair' is a story about difficult relationships that reflects on larger issues facing an increasingly intercultural world.

Three sisters aged 10, 6 and 4 have to cope more or less on their own in a remote mountainous region of Yunnan. Terrible poverty in China, shown with gripping compassion by today's best documentary maker. Shorter version of Three Sisters, which premiered in Venice.

"Love Matters" is a movie revolving around three main protagonists - 52-year-old Tan Bo Seng, his 17-year-old teenage son Benny and 36-year-old Jeremy, Bo Seng's 'adopted' brother - and their accidental journey in seeking and keeping love and happiness. Bo Seng (Henry Thia) who leads a routine life attempts to revive the passion with his wife Jia Li (Yeo Yann Yann). Jeremy (Jack Lim) lives a colourful life; with "Never to commit" as his motto for love. Benny (Alex Leong) has just started school life and his only distraction is his crush, Jennifer (Natalli) who is his classmate's girlfriend.

Descendant of the "earth" of the magic world accidentally passed through the door of time and space, came to the demon school hidden in the depths of the jungle,

At the end of 21st century, mankind was facing global resource depletion. Space Rovers were sent out to find potentially habitable planets.

It is part 2 about soldiers called special forces king.

Amateur boxer Qin Sheng witnessed his father's sudden death in the ring at a young age and left a psychological shadow. After encountering Cheng Kexin, a trainee veterinarian who wants to get rid of the marriage contract, he overcomes many obstacles together, and finally grows up, harvests beautiful love, and realizes his dream.