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The Opium War
The Opium War
The story of the Opium War between China, in the waning days of the Qing Dynasty, and the British Empire, in the 1830s, and the subsequent takeover of Hong Kong by Britain; through the ...
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The Dream Factory
The Dream Factory
Four friends come up with an unusual idea to make some money and have fun doing it. For a small fee, they will impersonate and act out any character role for their customers. In the ...
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Jail in Burning Island
Jail in Burning Island
A young police officer "makes a mess" of a police operation, shoots a man in self-defense, and ends up in prison. There he learns that the world isn't black and white, but has many ...
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Keep Cool
Keep Cool
China, the 1990s. A young bookseller is in love with a woman. The woman is now with another guy, a rich man. The rich man sends his people to beat the bookseller. In the fight, the ...
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Sweet Degeneration
Sweet Degeneration
With a singular voice that distinguishes him from his New Taiwan Cinema contemporaries, Lin Cheng-sheng adds to his brief, but already remarkable, filmography with Sweet Degeneration, ...
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Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A ...
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Flowers of Shanghai
Flowers of Shanghai
The lives of high-end prostitutes and their interactions with their clients in 4 brothels in fin de siècle Shanghai.
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The Emperor and the Assassin
The Emperor and the Assassin
In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king's cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty faltering.
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City of Darkness
City of Darkness
Volatile triad boss Duanmu (Collin Chou) is in search of three pendants that are believed to hold parts of the map leading to a hidden treasure. He learns that the pendants are now in ...
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Roaring Across the Horizon
Roaring Across the Horizon
General Feng Shi and Dr. Lu Guangda return from America to lead a team of scientists and soldiers to research and develop China's own atomic bomb.
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Postmen in the Mountains
Postmen in the Mountains
An old postman has spent his whole life delivering mail to the mountain of Hunan and is about to retire. His only son is due to take over his duties. As father and son journey through ...
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The Road Home
The Road Home
Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.
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Platform
Platform
China's rapid changes from the late-1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe.
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My Life as McDull
My Life as McDull
McDull is not the brightest kid on the block, but he continuously tries to do his best to please his mother. Still it seems he may not be destined for great things like she wishes, but ...
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Shadow Magic
Shadow Magic
Beijing, 1902: an enterprising young portrait photographer named Liu Jinglun, keen on new technology, befriends a newly-arrived Englishman who's brought projector, camera, and ...
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Durian Durian
Durian Durian
Yan and Fan are neighbors in Hong Kong's Mong Kok district. Yan is a 21-year-old prostitute who works for a pimp and spends her off-hours watching TV in her miniscule apartment or ...
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Summer Holiday
Summer Holiday
Summer Holiday is about a Hong Kong (Sammi Cheng) girl who loses her office job and finds that her boyfriend has been cheating on her, and travels to an island in Malaysia to sell her ...
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The Cabbie
The Cabbie
After falling in love with a traffic cop, a cab driver commits as many traffic violations as he can in order to see her again.
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Devils on the Doorstep
Devils on the Doorstep
During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are dumped in a peasant's home in a small town. The owner is bullied into keeping the prisoners until the next New Year, at which ...
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Suzhou River
Suzhou River
After getting out of prison, small-time crook Mardar stumbles upon a woman who looks exactly like his long-lost lover.
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The Gua Sha Treatment
The Gua Sha Treatment
The painless bruise marks on a child from the traditional Chinese guasha/scraping treatment was mistaken by child protection services as evidence of abuse and neglect, stirring clashes ...
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Dance of a Dream
Dance of a Dream
Namson Lau is a ballroom dancing instructor. On stage, he is a refined and suave gentleman, but in reality, he is cunning and greedy, and dancing has become a mean to strike fortune for ...
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I Love Beijing
I Love Beijing
Filmmaker Ning Ying returns to her favorite theme – the gradual decay of traditional Chinese values and culture at the dawn of the 21st century – in this low-key drama. Desi (Yu Lei) is ...
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Peony Pavilion
Peony Pavilion
The story takes place in a beautiful pavilion in 1930's Suzhou. Jade is a famous songstress courtesan, marrying into the noble house. She develops a dubious relationship with a female ...