A married couple living in a desolate small town in post-WWII China are paid a surprise visit by an old friend of the husband's.

A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her...

A rock musician looks for his girl-friend who left while pregnant, trying to decide whether to keep the baby.

The young Chinese heir to millions in the USA is suddenly destitute. He takes out a life insurace policy on himself and assigns his former teacher to...

In 1995, some high schools in Beijing began to enroll students from poor families, allowing the students to attend school free of charge, to keep...

A college student researches the story of 8 brothers who flee Hebei province in the 1940's for the forests of Heilongjiang's Great Khing'an Mountains.

Yue Yue is a village girl living in the Qin Ling Mountain. Two boys, Cai Cai and Men Men, are her friends and both like her. Cai Cai is diligent and...

Biography of Red Army commander Luo Xiao, known as Xiao Luo when a slave, who joined the Chinese army in 1915.

A taiwanese romance set during the summer starring Brigitte Lin.

In pre-revolutionary China, two young girls, Chunhua and Yuehong Xing, rise through the ranks of Chinese opera, but with their artistic success comes...

Fifty years of modern Chinese history (1900-1950), including wars, revolutions and corrupt politics, as seen through the life and times of a simple...

A man from an upper class family with a promising future gets into an accident and becomes blind. The accident causes apathy toward those close to...

Soldiers stay in Hainan Island and fight Japanese invaders in harsh conditions.

Based on the novel "Mother" by Maxim Gorky, about the hardships of a peasant laborer.

Based on the 1921 novella of the same name by one of China's most well-known modern writers, Lu Xun (Lu Hsun), the True Story of Ah Q is set during...

After graduating from a Shanghai nursing school, Jian Shuhua decides to work at a construction workers’ clinic in a remote area, despite the...

A Tibetan college student is escorted down a treacherous mountain road by two soldiers/cadres. On the way, they pick up a sick hunter by the roadside.

Da Xiang, a girl whose father died early, was deceived and sold to a brothel, and her desperate mother chose to commit suicide. Now a prostitute, she...

1983 Chinese film