A Soul Haunted by Painting 1994

A Chinese prostitute weds, studies painting, and becomes a renowned artist and professor in Paris.

Stand Straight, Don't Bend Over 1993

Writer Gao moves into a new apartment neighboring rude Zhang and his wife. The Zhangs have already forced four neighbor families to leave for different disputes. Now they are clashing with cadre Liu because of a dog issue.

Heaven and Hell 1989

A cruel, shameless man who defrauds money, kills his own wife and is sentenced to death seems to come back to haunt his troubled daughter.

Princess Fragrance 1987

Princess Fragrance is a 1987 Hong Kong film based on Louis Cha's novel The Book and the Sword. The film is a sequel to The Romance of Book and Sword, which was released earlier in the same month and was also directed by Ann Hui.

The Romance of Book and Sword 1987

The story is based on the popular novel developed from folk legend. It goes that the Manchurian emperor Qianlong of China (circa 18th Century) was actually the son of a Han Chinese, the subject ethnicity. His brother of blood, Chen Jialuo just happened to be the chief of the Red Flower Society, an anti-Manchu secret society. Chen, a learned scholar, thought he could get his brother turn his back on the Manchu and restore the Han Chinese reign. But the story was ended by brutal clearence of the society members. It reflects one of the dark pages in Chinese culture, that ethics and humanity always become impotent when countered with power.

T Province in 1984 & 1985 1986

Tan Si Tong 1984

Visions Cinema: Cinema in China - An Account by Tony Rayns 1983

History of filmmaking in China from its beginnings in the 1920s to 1982, featuring Shanghai cinema of 1930s; the progressive filmmakers; the organisation of filmmaking under the post-war communist government; the impact of the Cultural Revolution; the work of Xie Jin.

At Middle Age 1982

A middle aged woman oculist has a heart attack. Recalling her past, she feels sorry for not having been a dutiful wife and mother, but she consoles herself with the thought that she has saved many people from blindness.

They Are in Love 1980

Feature film produced by Beijing Film Studio in 1980, directed by Qian Jiang and Zhao Yuan. During the period of the "Gang of Four," Chen Hao -- a veteran cadre of a certain unit of the People's Liberation Army -- is brutally persecuted. Chen's three biological sons are also tortured physically and mentally. Defending the honor of a soldier, Chen is beaten into disability. After the collapse of the "Gang of Four," Chen returns to his post. Two of his children see their love lives fall apart, due to their father's precarious status, while the third child pursues a decadent lifestyle to dangerous ends.

Come Home Swallow 1980

During the Cultural Revolution, Xie Zhixin (Yuan Yue) learns that his son Xie Feng (Ma Xiaowei)'s lover Ulan (Zhang Xiaolei) is the daughter of his student, Lu Yan (Gao Ying), from many years ago. After watching Ulan's performance, Xie leaves in a hurry; Ulan mistakenly believes that Xie's father has scorned her because he knows that her mother is a "rightist."

曙光 1979

Spy In East Harbor 1978

The police try to recover the blueprint of a newly designed submarine after it is stolen by enemy spies.

年青的一代 1976

Nan wang de zhan dou 1975

In 1949, as the country celebrates liberation, KMT agents are ploting.

Chunmiao 1975

During the Cultural Revolution, the director of a farm collective studies medicine on her own in order to provide a more effective alternative to the collective's "capitalist" health care clinic, then investigates and exposes a sinister plot by the clinic's staff.

年青的一代 1965