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Niu Er is a peddler who provides for the widow Gan Cao and her mother and son. Gan Cao sews and cooks for Niu Er but is reluctant to get close to him, because she is in love with Ba Dun, a gambler.

A patriotic doctor returns to his homeland with his family, seeking a long missing treasure. A series of weird things keeps happening and the doctor begins to behave oddly. Meanwhile, a madman is murdering the local citizens and the doctor’s wife starts to have suspicions. Right before she is able to uncover the truth, another larger conspiracy quietly comes along.

The film is based on the history of the birth of the Lenin, the first plane of the Red Army, and is based on the time when the children's league was born, and the time when they shot down and wounded 114 enemy planes and produced a dozen famous air force combat heroes such as Wang Hai and Sun Shenglu. The film is based on the youth of many of the founding generals of the Dabie Mountains, including Gao Houliang, political commissar of the Third Air Division of the Volunteer Army, and was filmed over three years.

Set in an old time in China, a young man buys a bride for marriage. The marriage brings new thoughts to the village because of the resistance of the bride.

Batianhu deceived nine rural children under the guise of recruiting acrobats, forcing them to beg for money. Lu Wadan, refusing to beg to maintain his dignity, was starved and beaten to death by Batianhu. Ling Lan, a grief-stricken psychotherapist who had lost her husband and daughter, accompanied the rescued children to a rural school and established a psychological therapy room called "Soul Haven." When Batianhu kidnapped Ling Lan, she managed to persuade him to turn himself in to the authorities.

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Seventeen-year-old Xu Mengjiao hears troubling rumors at his private school about his mother’s mysterious identity. Seeking the truth, he returns home to question his family, but finds no clear answers. Guided only by hints and the words of a loyal servant, he is drawn to the foot of Leifeng Tower during a thunderstorm, where his cries awaken attention from the nearby temple. An abbot tells him that to uncover what he seeks, he must achieve fame. Determined, Mengjiao commits himself to study and, years later, returns to Leifeng Tower where a fateful encounter awaits.

A young and ambitious lawyer who has just graduated starts his own office and is ready to conquer the world. One night a female taxi-driver comes into his offic, tells him she has been raped and wants him to track down the rapist. He is not just excited about his first 'case', he also becomes intrigued by the woman who describes the details of her rape. Looking for the culprit, he hears the same thing everywhere: 'I have seen him, he just left'. In the meantime, the lawyer regularly visits the barber's shop over the road where he feels attracted to the fresh natural beauty of the hairdresser. Then one evening he is invited round to the taxi driver's home and sees for the first time her 'true' face...

Desperate to support her family and earn enough money to get her husband out of jail, a woman with an unusual crying style becomes a professional mourner.

Nana Xu travels to the place built by her father as a prisoner during the Cultural Revolution: first a work camp, later a prison, fruit farm and treatment centre. Conversations with last remaining witnesses, where home is still shaped by a repressed past.

The first post-1949 Mainland production to shoot on location in Hong Kong, this seagoing drama has a dual timeframe connecting pre– and post–Cultural Revolution China, along with introducing one of the era’s most popular movie theme songs. It was a milestone in the career of Mainland film icon Yu Yang (who also directed the film) and provided Paul Fonoroff with what proved to be his largest screen role: a liuxuesheng (foreign exchange student) majoring in oceanography and serving his apprenticeship on a ship helmed by Yu, marking the captain’s return to the sea after the tumultuous Cultural Revolution.

The People's Liberation Army and the Nationalists battle over Longwang Island in 1947.

A comedy about four best friends. Lila, Sammi, Gigi and Muscle. They have four completely different personalities and four different points of view, which define their lives, relationships and this particular friendship. Four different conflicting personalities, managed by humor, will be tested when deep secrets that they kept hidden between them become revealed one by one. Their friendships now will be challenged beyond what they ever thought was possible.

In the early days of the Republic of China, Zhang Tian Ming, Jiang Dayu and Ge Xiaobone, the heirs of Yi Xue, coincidentally received a mysterious invitation, and Ling Wu Er, who was not learned, also received the invitation. Subsequently, the four of them follow the invitation's instructions and meet at a luxurious manor. They thought it was just an ordinary site selection, but all this was just the beginning of a plot by the Japanese secret spy Nobuko Miyazawa to use the Their ancestral relics find a secret base that has disappeared for centuries. In order to blackmail them, Zhang Tian Ming's fiancée, Tang Wanqing, is also secretly captured by them

In January 2010, veteran Hong Kong crooner Jacky Cheung returned to the Canto-pop world with the jazz-pop album Private Corner, and it was a resounding success with Hong Kong music fans and critics alike. When Cheung announced a mini concert for an exclusive audience to commemorate the release of the album, debate began among music fans and professionals about which classic songs Cheung would give his new jazz sound to. Now, the answer is finally revealed with the release of the Private Corner Mini Concert. The two-disc set includes the entire 85-minute concert, which took place in the performing hall of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. In addition to seven songs from Private Corner, Jacky also performs beloved classics like Blessing, Li Xiang Lan, and a cover of Lover's Tears.

1983 Chinese film

This documentary is named after the well known novel (and later propaganda film) of the same title, which offered a telling of an historic event in 1946 in Northeastern China, when the CCP initiated Land Reform as a means of attracting peasants to join-up with the PLA and help seize state power. Decades later, residents who are still alive and can recall those days offer their personal memories of the class struggle that erupted in Yuanbao Village. Meanwhile, in today's Yuanbao, the local cultural bureau is setting up the Museum of Land Reform as a memorial and a space for education.

Following a girl's release from an asylum, she is reunited with her older sister and together they return to their abandoned family home. However, the two sisters harbour a dark and tragic family secret, which begins to unfold after their return.

In many times, people exist as a part of just background to each other. This desolate scenery brings you a certain feeling. As time overlaps on the cold street, you will get caught in a deeper hole.

On the day of their golden anniversary, a couple leave a long note to all their children and board a train. They are going back to the place where they first met each other. They are going to celebrate the golden jubilee by themselves, for themselves.

Steelworker Ding Da-gan suffered severe burns in an accident. The victim's condition was almost hopeless, but people from all over the country rallied to save Ding Da-gan's life, and death receded.

In the 1960s, bandits from Taiwan are provoking trouble.

"Little Heroes" describes the story of the little animals uniting together and bravely fighting hungry wolves.

Sheng follows his master Yuan Gong in his training, but he never forgets his beloved fox demon Meier. At the same time, the strange scenes in his dream make him even more uneasy and many doubts are solved one by one along with his journey to find the "dream". The fox demon Meier represents the group that Sheng is fighting against, and the love relationship makes Sheng even more in a dilemma.