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Summer, 1997. In a small community in southwest China, an 8-year-old tries to capture the thief responsible for stealing his grandma's bike and enters the moral quandary for the first time.

The life of senior Kuomintang generals inside the Gongdelin Prison in Beijing after losing the civil war.

As the son of the famous exorcist Yan Hongxia, Yan Chixia, who scorns and sells magical weapons all day long, has not inherited the powerful strength of her father, nor the consciousness of saving the world, but it is strange that trouble will always find him.

Ma, who lost his son, had hatred for the poachers and was caught in a grudge thirsty for revenge. However, he was gradually moved by Xiao Gu's sincerity and kindness and eventually regained hope. The poachers, on the other hand, are the opposite of the Ma, taking innocent lives for their own selfish reasons. They are bent on revenge, causing it to conclude as a tragedy.

Assembling actors and actresses from Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and China spread positivity through several stories about love and friendship.

Main Characters/Performers: 1. Xiao Mei - first appearing as new star dancer in lavish Peony Pavilion brothel, Mei is believed to be the blind daughter of a rebel group's recently assassinated leader- played by Zhang Ziyi . 2. Jin - police captain in the ruling Tang emperor's service, enlisted by his superior Leo to play the role of double agent by helping Mei escape and getting her to lead him - and government troops - to the rebel stronghold - played by Takeshi Kaneshiro. 3. Leo - introduced as a high ranking policeman in the Tang emperor's service, Leo turns out to a mole planted years earlier by the rebels working to overthrow the corrupt ruling Tang government - played by Andy Lau.

Tells the story of Tang Yang who was entrusted by the heroine's father to protect the heroine Yang Yi's treatment pills from being snatched by criminals. In the face of extremely dangerous pursuit, he still protected Yang Yi without fear of danger, and fought against the villains with all his strength, and finally defeated the villain forces.

In the peaceful town of Whitehorse, strange things are happening recently. In the meantime, a group of strange and evil people have assembled in the barren forest on the outskirts of the town, and they vow to wash the town in blood. The town is shrouded in death gas and oxygen. Everything seems to be pointing at the mysterious woman from outside protecting the hero's descendants, Li San thin and Yue An Yu. Can the heroes turn the tide of the war with the help of Bian Buwen and Li San thin? Will the "Swallow" show up? The answer lies in the hands of Big Brother Innocent.

Actress-turned-director and first-time producer Xu Jinglei presents her third feature film, titled Dreams May Come. Like her widely acclaimed directorial piece Letter From An Unknown Woman, Dreams May Come also stars Xu as the female lead. Written by top Chinese novelist Wang Shuo, witty dialogues between a TV actress and a TV director occupy over 90% of the film’s running time. The actress is tired of good-girl roles in TV dramas and wants to quit, but the director persuades her not to.

In ancient times The Immortals built the magic tower and sealed Demon World with the "Dustless Sword". Hundreds of years later, Wuchenjian disappeared bizarrely. The guardian Saint of Swords is unwilling to sacrifice his own cultivation, so he siphons off the soul of his newborn son, Forget-Sheng, to seal the demon realm. Twenty-four years later, Forget-Sheng (Xie Miao) and Yi (Jing Pei), his best female friend from childhood, meet Feng Ruoliu (Nao Yao), a swordswoman from Shu Mountain, and the three of them embark on a treacherous journey to rid the village of evil. The tangled relationship with the kind-hearted villagers of the evil village makes Sheng forget that there is a difference between good and evil.

After the battle of Sky City, Feng Ren declares war on the human tribe. Seeing that the human tribe has no means of retaliating, Fang Qiwu, the queen of Human tribe, tries to use a time machine device to return to the past so that she can possess the body of Nan Yinmeng, Feng Ren's beloved consort, and kill Feng Ren. However when she wakes up in another timeline, she is told that Feng Ren is dead.

This film mainly tells the story of a young girl who is being chased and beaten by two big men in the noisy and flickering corner of Lan Kwai Fong. When the girl finally fainted from exhaustion, the mysterious and handsome Bartender rescued the girl. The girl woke up in a bar called "Bar.tender" with a tasteful decoration. Bartender with a smile on the corner of her mouth was elegantly mixing drinks in front of the bar. The girl walked to the bar and sat down. At this time, the first customer entered the bar...

An An (Guo Biting), a single young woman of marriageable age, is an ordinary white-collar worker in an advertising agency. She moved to get rid of her ex-boyfriend's harassment. The new neighbors are a pair of siblings. Her brother Pan Xiaozhe (played by Duan Yihong) likes to use biological knowledge. As a postdoctoral fellow in biology who looks at all daily affairs, his younger sister Pan Xiaoxing (played by Liu Yase) is optimistic and cheerful. In a competition for advertising proposals, Pan Xiaozhe, who often made people laugh or cry on weekdays, unexpectedly helped An An with his biological knowledge, and An An was promoted smoothly.

Somewhere in a southern county of China, summer has just begun and it’s already greeted by a series of indecent assault, victims are identical: Girl in one-piece dress. Captain Hu along with Officer Tsai are assigned to crack the case, meanwhile Tsai is suffering from hemorrhoids that makes his life more complicated. Little did Tsai know that he’d reunite with a nurse named Fen whom he first met in the hospital again at a matchup afterwards. Meanwhile, Papa Hu has other issues to deal with; he realizes his teenage daughter has grown up into a young woman overnight, he must now learn to reconnect with an adolescent. Elsewhere, his semi-paralyzed father-in-law has been awfully picky on choosing a desirable nanny. Obviously the old man is seeking for someone young, to make things worse, Hu’s wife, slippery like an eel, has gradually isolated herself from the family.

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Kang Qiao (Huang Zitao) witnesses Xia Yingying (Yang Caiyu) in the process of committing what could be a crime, but yet is drawn to the beautiful girl. After getting to know her better, Kang discovers that there are even more mysteries surrounding Xia and finds himself placed in serious danger.

Father documents the tumultuous relationship between a widowed father, Ma Lisheng, and his school-age son, Ma Che. Though he works as a low-level party functionary during the day, he finds his greatest challenges in the raising of a son on his own. Alternating between trying to bond with his son (even getting drunk with him), and verbally accosting him, Ma is at a loss. One day the son decides that the best way for his father to stop harassing him, will be to find him a new wife, which he finds in the form of the mother of a school friend, Qing Huaiyuan.

Two strangers' worlds collide after a Beijing traffic accident results in the husband of Yu Miao shooting and killing the girlfriend of young, penniless Xu Tian

Following in the footsteps of her late fiancée, who drowned under mysterious circumstances, Rebecca (played by Katie Savoy) and her film crew are in China making a documentary about the Chinese Ghost Festival. There, she learns of a story about a concubine Chan Ju Chi who is violently murdered and thrown into a well by the head concubine Ping Wei (Played by JuJu Chan) within the secret grounds of a palace. Legend has it that the Chan Ju Chi has risen to become a "jiangshi", killing innocent people in the hope of taking over their bodies. Things take a turn when a worker is attacked in a decrepit well within an old palace. Rebecca tries to piece together the mystery behind the legend as one by one the people she knows are gruesomely murdered.

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The Tiger Security Team of the Storm Security Company is responsible for security and rescue work. Luo Xinglie is punished for accidentally injuring a hostage during a rescue mission. He gets reduced to a security officer and gets no reward for the mission. At this time, the Tiger Team receives a new mission, hired by the International Peace Foundation, to escort a truck full of water purifiers and a large number of crop seeds to the villages of Sakiya for civilian assistance. However, due to the invasion of the non-government organization in Sakya, some areas are in war. The team is likely to encounter fighting, and the unknown danger is gradually approaching.

In the future world, artificial intelligence is highly developed, and the underground scientific research organization controlled by Cheng Fei secretly develops brain-computer chips used to stimulate the potential of the human body, in an attempt to cultivate a group of supernatural beings and seek immoral profits.

Jau (Ronald CHENG) is transported back to the Qing Dynasty to rewrite his unsuccessful life via time machine. He sets off on his treasure hunting adventure in South China Seas as the legendary notorious pirate, CHEUNG Po Tsai.

Wang Qiang (Xing Yuanyuan), the most naughty “scumbag” in the third class of junior high school, and Shi Miona (Wang Bowen), a cranky homeroom teacher, accidentally swap bodies. Wang, who had been oppressed for a long time, got a taste of being a homeroom teacher, and Shi also experienced the feeling of being considered the “school scum”. As the date of Shi’s open class competition is approaching, the two urgently need to find a way to change back into their bodies. But first, they’ll have to overcome numerous obstacles…

An interweaving tale of 3 characters as they navigate various struggles dealing with health, loss, dreams, and unfulfillment. Lu Bai Cheng is a bartender who comes home nightly to his mentally ailing wife and two children. Across town, Bai Rong, a music teacher and wife to a wealthy businessman, is searching for answers to her amenorrhoea. Bai Rong's father-in-law, a retired soldier, is facing his own difficulties as well - needing a full-time caregiver after the death of his wife.

Xiao Dou is a shy and naive mailworker living in Beijing with his sister. When a coworker is fired for reading people's correspondences Xiao Dou takes over the same mail route. He soon finds himself indulging in the same curiosity, eventually developing an obsession. Xiao Dou chooses to spend time reading letters instead of socializing with friends or coworkers. As he becomes increasingly tied to the letters, he begins to intervene in the lives of those who write and receive the letters.

The Baolian Lantern guarding the world was stolen. Yang Jian entered the mortal world to find the light and fell in love with a mortal woman. The two join forces to fight against the Chaos Demon who tried to subvert the six realms, and finally prevented the destruction of the Baolian Lantern.

Lin Jiaying, who has lived with her sister under warlord rule, watches helplessly as her sister is persecuted by Warlord Ma Shijie. Discovering her sister was a member of Ho Meizi's Special Forces Group for Women, Lin Jiaying joins the group, endures rigorous training, and forms close bonds. As she faces internal conflicts, she begins to question and uncover the secrets of the organization.

The film is set against the backdrop of the Great Victory of Pingxingguan, and tells the story of Zheng Zhong, a cryptographer who was surrounded and hunted down by the Japanese for his crucial role in turning the tide of war.

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This tells the story of Lu Dong Bin, who was imprisoned in the mortal world. After arriving in the mortal world, he took a boat to find Bai Ying to break off their marriage. When he arrived at Bai's house, he found that Bai Ying's father was missing in Baihualou. So he sets off to Baihualou only to be met with a possessed Bai Ying and met with a sneak attack of Heijiao's men. After escaping from Baihualou, Lu Dong Bin met Taibai Jin Xing and learned that he was the reincarnation of Baihe Shang Xian. Heijiao in the past and present life is a catastrophe that scholars must go through, and there are also three lifetimes of love with Bai Ying.

The son of Yufu died tragically, and all the people in Yufu turned into straw people overnight. Song Ci was ordered to investigate and found that the case was intertwined, and was attacked by grassmen one after another in the middle. The court sent Ding Guang Li to assist Song Ci, but it made the case more complicated and confusing, but it also made Song Ci discover that the straw man case was a huge conspiracy.

Shen Wei and Tong Xin wake up one morning in a bed, with no idea what happened or even who the person in bed with them is. The two split with few words, but each is missing something. What is actually happening last night?

The mysterious Lu family villa, also known as the Butterfly Mansion, is a notorious haunted house. Physiotherapy therapist Li Han and the scheming Awei move in one after the other. Afterwards, a series of bizarre events unfold: a woman in a red dress with a blood-stained headband wanders the rooms; a distorted, eyeless boy screams in agony… Awei's greed grows wildly as he sees greater profits, while Li Han is plagued by nightmares every night and unexpectedly stumbles upon a shocking secret of the wealthy family. Meanwhile, a life-or-death game is quietly being set up within the Butterfly Mansion. Who will be the lamb to the slaughter? Who will step into an even deeper hell?

Based on online videogame. Ryan Tech is going to excavate the Wolf Tomb again. Luna, werewolf of the second level, tells about this when she meets another wolf Jiang Le during the mission. Luna mistakes him for her own brother who escaped from the lab seven years ago. Sensing that the information is related to his own father, Jiang Le infiltrates the Lane Tech excavation team. The excavation of the Wolf's Tomb is a treacherous affair, with the successful excavation of the Wolf Queen's remains triggering a violent anti-gravity shock and a chaotic battle for the remains. Ryan Tech snatches the remains of the Wolf Queen and cruelly injects the active gene from the Wolf Queen's placenta into Luna's body, who gives birth to the deformed little wolf monster.