A Grandson from America 2012 ( 7)

An old retired puppet master has his quiet life disrupted his 6-year-old American grandson, who barely speaks Chinese.

Lighting Up the Stars 2022 ( 7.28)

Having been released after serving his sentence, a funeral director accidentally crosses paths with a girl which brings about an unexpected change in his attitude towards life.

Wang Mao 2016 ( 6.1)

Wang Mao joins the army in order to earn money to marry his favorite girl. He struggled his life through the whole war against Janpanese invaders.

Two Stage Sisters 1964 ( 6.9)

In pre-revolutionary China, two young girls, Chunhua and Yuehong Xing, rise through the ranks of Chinese opera, but with their artistic success comes a new series of personal and social challenges. After they're sold to a Shanghai opera and the revolution dawns, Yuehong radicalizes and devotes her career to politically progressive performances, while Chunhua flees to avoid turmoil. As the world changes around them, they fight to maintain their friendship.

Anecdotes of an Actor 1949

Ni zhui wo gan 1958

The Legend of Bayi's Grandpa 2023 ( 8.5)

This film tells the story of Hu Guohua, who falls victim to a plot, framed in a rigged gambling scheme that leads to the loss of his family fortune. Despite his wayward behavior, he reaches a low point by desecrating his family's ancestral grave. In a desperate attempt to deceive for money, he even stages the absurd event of marrying a paper bride. At the brink of hopelessness in life, he unexpectedly encounters Sun Guofu, a master in tomb-robbing, who guides him to self-realization. Although fate plays its tricks and eternal love is elusive, Hu Guohua undergoes a profound transformation from a reckless scion to a wandering adventurer in the world of tomb-robbing.

N/A N/A ( 8.2)

In the bustling city of Guangping, where humans and demons coexist, the wealthy young lady Ban Xia possesses unusual eyes that see shadows invisible to others. Despite her propriety and considerate nature, she is labeled a "madwoman" by others. When Ban Xia uncovers her sister-in-law's secret, she meets the demon hunter Xuan Ye, who reveals the world where humans and demons coexist. Together, they investigate various mysterious phenomena in Guangping.

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: Pupil's Language 2024 ( 6)

This film tells the story of scholar Fang Dong who endangers his life because of his greed for beauty, and his kind-hearted Ya who loves Fang Dong deeply and chooses to sacrifice herself in exchange for Fang Dong. The prodigal son Fang Dong embarks on a journey to find his true love, and encounters and rescues an oppressed kind-hearted banshee on the road. With the help of the demon catcher and others, the lovers finally get married, a poignant love story.

Blood Brothers 2007 ( 5.3)

Three best friends who are barely getting by as fishermen seek their fate in 1930s Shanghai. Upon arriving in the bustling city, the naïve trio gradually find their innocence corrupted as they fall into the deepest depths of the criminal underworld.

N/A N/A ( 8.371)

Weng Wen-fang (Hsieh Ying-hsuan) came from a political family. She joined the Justice Party as the deputy director and spokesperson of the Publicity Department, after failing to be re-elected as a member of the Council. She led the publicity team in realizing their goals, but not without facing many challenges to their faith and values.

Mystery Writers 2024 ( 7.3)

In 1984, a major fire broke out on the fourth floor of the Jin Xin Building, the residents on the 4th floor were trapped in the fire as the fire exits were blocked, which claimed a total of 19 lives. Pei who possesses psychic abilities, moves into the building, teaming up with Shao, a horror novelist seeking inspiration within the building, they investigate numerous unexplained terrifying events and aim to uncover the truth behind the tragic fire..

Scamsgiving 2023 ( 6)

Jason and his mother, Yun, make big bucks together in Chinatown swindling money out of people since Jason was little. Along with the grocery store owner Andy who took them in since Jason was a baby, they decide to do one last big job. Their target is Mrs. Apple, the founder of Tao Lin, a world renowned porcelain company. Jason pretends to be that rich old granny's long lost grandson, and Mrs. Apple insists on bringing Jason back to Taiwan, so that Jason can officially reclaim his heritage. In Mrs. Apple's extravagant house, these foreigners start role-playing to infiltrate the Zong Family. Jason starts to feel the warmth of being a part of a family that he has never felt before. This has greatly affected Team America's plan, the three of them start to blame and fight each other. Their cover is about to be exposed, but somehow the truth of Jason's family mystery is revealed..

Paper Boats 2014

Paper Boats is a poetic and surreal drama about Jayden, a 12 years old boy. that can't enjoy the present moment because he is too afraid of death and time passing by. Eventually, his encounter and friendship with Amaziah, an older man from his neighborhood will open his mind to the beautiful parts of the world and will make him realize that in life not everything is black or white

Songs of the Anti-Japanese War 1938

Seven episodes of short animated songs on anti-Japanese war.

Irregular World 2020

The original idea of Irregular world is to express the drama and contingency in the public space, which is the core of expression to find the appropriate space carrier. In several searches, we have tried to find places such as amusement parks and parks, and found that they can not be accurately expressed. The hospital emergency room is a place where dramatic conflicts are very strong in our life. We think that human beings have various states of embarrassment, sadness and panic in this space, and those exposed state emotions make the emergency room a drama stage. The most direct way to show this space is through long lens.

The Yellow Ghost 2022

The film examines the contradictory life in the everyday state of emergency of the Coronavirus pandemic. The starting point for the film was my observation of a bus full of people celebrating in the summer of 2020. In exchange with a diverse group of interlocutors, I approach their different reactions to the pandemic between individual freedom and social responsibility.

Chrysanthemum 2025

In November of 2022, a mother in Hohhot falls from her home without a single echo. Chrysanthemum mourns the dead in the censored silence, while the tragedy repeats itself outside the window.

Tiananmen 1991 ( 8)

A CCTV-commissioned, 8-part series shot between 1988 and 1990, but barred from being released after the events of June 4th. A production of the Structure, Wave, Youth, Cinema Experimental Group, an informal collective of young filmmakers founded in 1989 and devoted to the production of documentaries, that includes: this series' two directors, Shi Jian and Chen Jue, as well as Wang Guangli, cinematographers Wang Hongyou and Zhao Baohong, and others like Meng Weidong and Wang Fei. The series documents various aspects of life surrounding Tiananmen: survivors of the imperial era, street performers, grandmothers cooking for their families, fledgling entrepreneurs, fashion school students, foreigners marrying Chinese nationals, and so forth. Each episode starts with a close-up of a giant portrait of Mao hung over the Square, and proceeds as a hybrid of archival footage, direct cinema, and cinema verité, weaving a permanent dialectic between the present and the past, daily life and history.