Tao Zeru

A Chinese peasant is given the responsibility of protecting his village's special dairy cow during a particularly harsh winter in 1940.

In 1949, a small Chinese fishing village populated almost entirely by women awaits the establishment of a government by the newly victorious...

Director Zhang Junzhao's superbly tense revisionist war film (featuring striking cinematography from future Fifth Generation standard bearer Zhang...

Early life of Senior General Geng Chen of the People's Liberation Army

First part of the two series about Senior General Gen Chen of the People's Liberation Army

The story of a beautiful, single woman who runs a restaurant in inland China, delving into her battle to understand the rapid changes affecting...

On an old barge moored close to a small village inhabited by old people and children, live young Wang Wang and his grandfather. The latter is...

Taking place in the immediate aftermath of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Evening Bell follows a small platoon of five Chinese soldiers who must...

Three young people meet by chance on their way to visit relatives imprisoned in a remote labor camp.

Shot in 1995, but banned until 2004, this is an adaptation of Su Tong's novel about a shrewd amoral country boy who arrives in the big city in the...

The tale of one man who fought against the tyranny of a ruler and led his people in battle in the ultimate sacrifice for his country.

The life and trials of You Tianming, a young suona apprentice who forms his own suona troupe at a time when the traditions of suona music are...

In this sentimental family drama, a talented young boy is encouraged to pursue a singing career by his priest. Unfortunately, his father is against...

China's first President Sun Yat-Sen and military commander Huang Xing lead the revolutionary Wuchang Uprising in a bid to put an end to the reign of...

The story of two warring generals fighting for control of China at the end of the Qin Dynasty.

Set in a small Chinese village where HIV virus is spreading rapidly as a result of illicit blood trade, Mo shu wai zhuan revolves around De Yi and...

A chronicle of the events that led to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.

Before the Beijing Asian Games in 1990, a group of elementary school kids compete for the chance to participate in a martial arts performance for the...

Many years ago Mr. Six was a notorious gangster. That was back when there was still such a thing as honour among thieves, when criminals earned...

The Japanese has invaded far into china, defeating the Kuomintang (KMT) soldiers many times and pushing them back into Central China. There was a...

A Communist is outraged by the structures of power in his village in China in the 1930s, during the corrupt Nationalist regime of Chiang Kai Shek.

A story of the upheavals and changes in Chinese society from the 1960s to 1980s, set in the hutong alleyways of Beijing.

In December 1937, during the Second Japanese-Sino War, a Chinese doctor, his Japanese pregnant wife, their teenage daughter and their young son...

Ao's parents work overseas, leaving Ao with his grandfather. Ao runs away and meets Lan, a girl on the run from kidnappers. With the bad guys on...