Song at Midnight 1937 ( 5.9)

In this Chinese version of The Phantom of the Opera, the mysterious Song Danping terrorizes the newly rebuilt opera house and its young star.

Princess Iron Fan 1941 ( 5.2)

The story was liberally adapted from a short sequence in the popular Chinese folk tale Journey to the West. Princess Iron Fan is a main character. Specifically, the film focused on the duel between the Monkey King and a vengeful princess, whose fan is desperately needed to quench the flames that surround a peasant village.

Sable Cicada 1938 ( 6)

Diaochan (aka Diau Charn and Sable Cicada), one of the Four Beauties of China, is supposed to be so stunningly lovely that the moon was shamed to hide behind clouds. Despite being the only Beauty among the four who is not a real historical figure but one conjured by storytelling imagination and embellished by public fascination, her story was nonetheless incorporated by author Luo Guangzhong into his popular and influential novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Her tale is one of Machiavellian intrigue, in which she schemes with her godfather Wang Yun to restore moral order to the land, sowing discord between the corrupt Minister Dong Zhuo and his adopted son Lu Bu, a man of martial and military prowess.

Night Runner 2014 ( 6.3)

This early work of Hu Bo (director of An Elephant Sitting Still (2018)) was his graduation work at Beijing Film Academy. It features the self-redemption of a lumbago sufferer, which is a metaphor.

The Kung Fu Kids 1986 ( 7.5)

Three young boys learn the art of kung fu from their grandfather, a martial arts expert, and are able to hold their own on a trip to the city.

13 Golden Nuns 1977 ( 6)

Set near the turn of the 18th-century in China, thirteen women train to become nuns after they are ravaged by bandits. A mastery of kung fu is required before the women finish their training and after they leave the temple the nuns head out for chop-socky 3-D action.

Dynasty 1977 ( 5.5)

In the last days of the Ming dynasty, a heroic martial artist battles the evil chief of the palace guard.

N/A N/A ( 9)

After being reborn in the ancient times before the Great God-Conferment War, Li Changshou becomes a minor cultivator. His only dream is to live a long life as a cultivator. In order to survive in the cruel Primordial Times, Li Changshou tries hard not to accumulate any karma—killing inevitably leads to feuds. Thus, he always plans thoroughly before doing anything and never allows himself to walk into dangerous situations. He hides his trump cards well, trains himself in escape techniques, refines poisonous pills, and masters his mystical abilities. Li Changshou originally plans to remain hidden and safe in the mountain. There, he is supposed to cultivate until he ascends to immortality. However, everything changed one year when his master seems to think that their lives are too peaceful. He takes in a junior sister…

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Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl 1998 ( 7.2)

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 year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.

Diao Chan VS Zombies 2016

The film tells the tortuous love story of Diao Chan and Lu Bu after various hardships in the Three Kingdoms period, praising the innocent story that is missing at the moment.

Sweet Osmanthus Flowering Late 2024

"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.

Story of Jiangcheng 2018

Xu Mengqi, the daughter of a wealthy family, was originally the eldest daughter of the chairman of the Jiuding Group. However, she becomes involved in a family power struggle after discovering that someone in her father's company had forged accounts and misappropriated funds and committed crimes. Xu Mengqi decides to eliminate the traitors for her father.