Discoveries from China World Cinema

Wang Shou, a famous magician, is suspected of having stolen two historical figurines in a museum.

Two Lion dancers fight for the leading spot in a performance . When crisis hits , they quickly learn to overcome their rivalry and put on a thoroughly entertaining show , earning the applause of the audience.

The film is about a woman from a rural area and works in a small restaurant as a cleaner with very low pay. As she has to support her family (mother and daughter), she has no money for herself for better makeup or dress up. She has low esteem. She later was fired by the boss. Because of no money and no home, she goes to the massage parlor and works there a sex worker. It happens that the first customer is the chef of previous restaurant. She has admired him for a while. In this first sex exchange, she is well satisfied both emotionally as well as economically. She starts sex work this way and becomes more confident.

Hao Ge is a generation driver. The biggest dream of being a child is to earn money and wife. Inadvertently he saved the princess of the Kingdom of Freita, and every time he took the things of the princess, he could be a clue for a lot of wealth. The wealthy Hao Ge took his brothers to spend a squander and spent the happiest time of life. However, Hao Ge realized that his dream was only half realized or no daughter-in-law. After experiencing wrestling with the killer, fighting with the brothers, and all kinds of crazy adventures, Hao Ge became a poor man, but he got real happiness in life, he has his own daughter-in-law, Freita Princess of the kingdom.

Dissident artist Hu Jie has managed to make more than 30 documentaries. Films like Though I Am Gone and Searching for Lin Zhao's Soul are vital to understanding Chinese history and society. Widely recognized as the first artist to dare talk about the Great Famine, the labor camps, and the Cultural Revolution, Hu Jie is considered China's first historical documentary filmmakers.

In 1942, the skull of Peking Man disappears and the searchers include Japanese collaborators as well as US and Chinese Communist agents.

DJ is haunted by the very stories he is telling will he find the truth before the haunting before it is too late?

In 1948, to secure victory in the Crossing-the-Yangtze Campaign and stabilize the newly-born people's regime, the Third Field Army selects outstanding officers to infiltrate Nanjing, the stronghold of Kuomintang rule. With strong support from the Nanjing underground organization of the Communist Party of China, they venture deep into the enemy's lair, engaging in a life-and-death struggle of wits and prowess against the Kuomintang reactionaries.

Returning home, a queer filmmaker finds their mother awakened to a new understanding beyond patriarchy, as the two reconcile amidst a past shaped by unspoken pain.

Su Jin meets Li'er. As their bond grows, the weight of Su Jin being the crowned prince and Li'er as a cat spirit grows heavy.

Miner Junpo's daughter is seriously ill and needs urgent treatment. Junpo goes to the mine owner's house to demand money that is owed to him. To no avail. Unable to raise money anywhere for his child's treatment, in desperation Junpo kidnaps his boss's daughter. At the same time, several other unrelated people are involved, either by coincidence or on purpose, in the whole affair. The situation spins out of control. Some will lose their lives, some will be sent to jail, some will have to flee all their lives. A multifaceted story about crime, forgiveness and love in the scenery of the cold Chinese mountains.

Jiang Wentao and his ex-wife Wu Tongyu were planned to join an unknown trip by Jiang Wentao's mother who didn't know they were divorced. During the trip, Jiang Wentao and Wu Tongyu encountered a relationship crisis, and Qian Huamei, who was entangled with Jiang Wentao, mistakenly thought that Qian Huamei liked her tour guide Xia Baomi, Grandma Lin who was always nosy, and Grandpa Wang who was obedient to his wife. , Xu Jiehao and Li Qianqian, a fun-loving post-90s couple with cute baby Lele, and a mysterious person who came to investigate whether Jiang Wentao had an affair, they formed a small team to interpret various ridiculous stories.

Sultan, Lee Chun-saeng, and Cheong-cheong solve a murder phoenix case.

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Nalan Rongruo leads the snake out of the cave for the three demons of Jiangbei who captured the captive woman, but at a critical moment, he was interfered with by Gui Zhongming, who was suffering from soul-exclusion, and the plan failed.

Two men both experience life-altering events and embark on the journey towards revenge. Stopping at nothing until their punisher pays for what they have done.

The Nuo Sacrifice is an ancient court ritual, passed down for thousands of years to pray for the people's safety and happiness. After being revived by Liukeng ancestor Dong Dunyi, it was decreed that women chosen as the grand Nuo could never marry. In the 1920s, Dong Chunnv was influenced by progressive ideas, and challenged these traditional constraints, leading to significant changes in her life.

Hong moves to Chongqing from Yinchuan with her six-year-old daughter Ye after her divorce. Ten years later, Ye is still emotionally attached to her father, but her mother's new boyfriend Liu eventually moves into their house. Ye is confused by Liu's attitude towards her and has a hard time deciphering its ambivalence. This causes her much anxiety. She reminisces about the past, and goes back and forth between a fragmented reality and her dreams, until the day her mother leaves with Liu. She decides to take the path of escape, as her mom did, and return to her hometown. However she soon comes to realize that her hometown had disappeared one night several years ago.

A Christian virgin tries to save gay male prostitutes when his brother becomes one.

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During a trip to the country, a young couple use 'Guidance', a device made to create enlightened people. But, as time passes, they subvert Guidance to manipulate and lie-- hoping to save what they are afraid of losing the most: each other.

During the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Aunt Tang, a villager from a small town in southern Jiangsu, resolutely gave away her own daughter to protect the descendants of the female cadres of the New Fourth Army. In the battle with the Japanese army, Tang Songniang's biological son Tang Songlin died sacrificely. Tang Niang held back the pain of bereavement and cooperated with the New Fourth Army's stubborn resistance to the Japanese invaders, and finally ushered in victory.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Wei Zhongxian, a powerful eunuch, is a dictator, and the Emperor is planning to eliminate him. At this time, the daughter of Imperial Secretary Hong, who was supposed to be a consort in the palace, died in an inexplicable way. Xiang Shi, the commander of Department Six, sends Ye Fei and Yun Ling to fight with Wei Zhongxian to find out the truth of the case. Wei Zhongxian sets a bigger trap and Department Six is massacred.

Dugu Yu's father disappeared 18 years ago when four great warriors from Jiang Hu met on a terrible windy night. The young guy inherited from his lost father only a piece of purple jade, secret kung fu technique and strange tendency to sleepwalking

This film tells that during the reign of the Emperor Shenzong, he was obsessed with wine and indulged in the administration of the court, which led to the eunuch's hegemony and the destruction of loyalty. A generation of loyal Yang Yiyun

The wolf boy with seven moles on his back is a reincarnation of the Star of Heaven, the fate of the greedy wolf

The dance drama reveals the inner world of poet Li Bai through the conflicting choices and trade-offs he made during key junctures in his life. The drama highlights Li's passion, talent and bold nature, and portrays the struggle between his devotion to contribute to the rule of the country and his wish to retreat and enjoy the beauty of nature. The dance drama "Li Bai" will also bring to life the scenery, dance and music of the Tang Dynasty (618-907), showing typical artistic aesthetics from ancient China.

People's Liberation Army troops overcome difficulties to find a route to build a bridge to Shizi Mountain.

Battle at Mount Goddess of Mercy

Short film presented by Vogue Film.

On the eve of the battle with the Hunyuan Sect, all the martial arts heroes gathered together with the righteousness of upholding justice for heaven. The head of the Tang Sect, Tang Aduo, led his apprentices Tang Feng and Tang Huo to a surprise attack on the Hunyuan Sect, and rescued the county magistrate Qian who was about to be sacrificed by fire. The Hunyuan Sect held a grudge and sent a traitor who had been lurking in the world for a long time to assassinate Tang A'duo in an extremely insidious and vicious way. As the saying goes, the devil is as high as one foot, and the Tao is as high as ten feet.

Target is a 2014 Chinese action suspense crime film directed by Yang Jiang. It was released on October 24.

A parody short by Hu Ge.

Hu Ge, a young doctor from Wanfeng Town, is picking medicine in the mountains when he comes across six young girls in distress. That night, the six girls reveal their original forms, which are made of fox demons, and Hu Ge, who abides by the principle that "human beings and demons are different and should not be treated together", is determined to drive away the fox demons

A strange incident occurred somewhere in the Northeast, and all the sheep of the villager Xie Yifei disappeared overnight without a trace. His plan to marry the widow Dajuan was also ruined by his grandson Xie Xiaoxie and his love rival Wang Er Zhou. In order to find out where the sheep was, Xie Yifei embarked on the path he was looking for, but was kidnapped by the alien Mo Ji in the middle, so he accidentally learned that the alien wanted to move the village to an alien exhibition plan.