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1. 3 Body Problem (2024)
TV-MA | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A fateful decision made in 1960s China reverberates in the present, where a group of scientists partner with a detective to confront an existential planetary threat.
Stars: Jovan Adepo, Liam Cunningham, Eiza González, Jess Hong
Votes: 101,867
2. Farewell My Concubine (1993)
R | 171 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.
Director: Kaige Chen | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Gong Li, You Ge
Votes: 33,184 | Gross: $5.22M
4. The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
During his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son.
Director: Denys Arcand | Stars: Rémy Girard, Dorothée Berryman, Stéphane Rousseau, Marie-Josée Croze
Votes: 30,039 | Gross: $3.43M
5. Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (1998)
R | 99 min | Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Joan Chen | Stars: Xiaolu Li, Lopsang, Zheng Qian, Jie Gao
Votes: 3,678 | Gross: $1.00M
6. Coming Home (2014)
PG-13 | 109 min | Drama, Romance
Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer recognizes him.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Gong Li, Daoming Chen, Huiwen Zhang, Tao Guo
Votes: 6,690 | Gross: $0.38M
7. Something in the Air (2012)
Not Rated | 122 min | Drama
In the months after the heady weeks of May '68, a group of young Europeans search for a way to continue the revolution believed to be just beginning.
Director: Olivier Assayas | Stars: Clément Métayer, André Marcon, Lola Créton, Felix Armand
Votes: 4,716 | Gross: $0.07M
8. The Chairman (1969)
M/PG | 93 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
During the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the US government sends a scientist to China to steal the formula for a new agricultural enzyme developed by the Chinese.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Gregory Peck, Anne Heywood, Arthur Hill, Alan Dobie
Votes: 1,414
9. Hibiscus Town (1987)
164 min | Drama, History, Romance
Love, humiliation, and politics play out in a distant village of China during the Cultural Revolution.
Director: Jin Xie | Stars: Wen Jiang, Linian Liu, Xiaoqing Liu, Ning Xu
Votes: 1,375
10. 11 Flowers (2011)
Not Rated | 110 min | Crime, Drama, History
11-year-old Wang lives with his family in a remote village in China. Life is tough, but they make the most of what little they have. When Wang is selected to lead his school's daily ... See full summary »
Director: Xiaoshuai Wang | Stars: Jingchun Wang, Wenqing Liu, Guo Liuxing Zhong, Kexuan Zhang
Votes: 759
11. The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble (2015)
PG-13 | 96 min | Documentary, Music
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and other international artists of The Silk Road Project discuss their philosophies on music and culture.
Director: Morgan Neville | Stars: Yo-Yo Ma, Kinan Azmeh, Kayhan Kalhor, Cristina Pato
Votes: 744 | Gross: $1.16M
12. Tiananmen (2019)
Documentary, History
It's been thirty years since the massacre at Tianamen Square in Beijing, where upwards of a few thousand students were killed in the military crackdown on their protests, the massacre which... See full summary »
Star: Shen Tong
Votes: 138
13. I Wish I Knew (2010)
116 min | Documentary, History
Focuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid-1800s, when Shanghai was opened as a trading port, to the present day.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Michelangelo Antonioni, Yindi Cao, Hsin-i Chang, Danqing Chen
Votes: 834
14. Red Amnesia (2014)
116 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Deng is a stubborn retired widow who spends her days caring about her two grown up sons and her elderly mother, despite her family efforts to stop her. But her daily routine starts derailing when she keeps receiving anonymous calls..
Director: Xiaoshuai Wang | Stars: Zhong Lü, Yuanzheng Feng, Hailu Qin, Hao Qin
Votes: 706
15. China: The Wild East (1994)
96 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Filmmakers Philip Kaufman and his son Peter explore their relationship with China and their Chinese friends to tell Chinese history as it approaches the millennium. Through segments ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Kaufman | Stars: Philip Kaufman, Yang Bai, Armen Baliantz, Peter Fong
16. Enan no musume (2002)
120 min | Documentary
Director: Kaoru Ikeya | Stars: Haixia He, Yuling Huang
Votes: 23
17. Feathered Fan and Silken Ribbon (2009)
84 min | Documentary
Portraits of four performers of Beijing opera. Two of them are still students of the Beijing opera school, and two are recent graduates. Through opera the film provides a glance at the past half century of Chinese history.
Directors: Volker Schaner, Wieland Schulz-Keil, Dan Tang, Richard Böhringer | Stars: Wang Peiyu, Liu Zheng, Wenduan Wang, Shimin Sun
18. Pan tian shou (2003)
5 min | Animation, Short
Pan Tianshou was a lavis painter in china in the 1960s, but his work has been rejected and repealed by the communist. Finally, nothing left but the name.
Director: Joe Chang
Votes: 15
20.
Can't Get You Out of My Head (2021)
Episode:
Money Changes Everything
(2021)
71 min | Documentary, History
The story of how in the 1970s those in power set out to create a world free of the dangerous big ideas of the past. They banished the grand dreams of changing the world. And replaced them ... See full summary »
Stars: Lin Biao, Reid Bryson, Harry Caudill, Adam Curtis
Votes: 112
21.
Can't Get You Out of My Head (2021)
Episode:
But What if the People are Stupid
(2021)
73 min | Documentary, History
No one trusted politics or politicians any longer. Instead we were all one world of free individuals. And we could intervene to save other individuals around the world without bothering ... See full summary »
Stars: Joan Baez, Tony Blair, Ling Chai, Bill Clinton
Votes: 100
22.
Can't Get You Out of My Head (2021)
Episode:
The Lordly Ones
(2021)
66 min | Documentary, History
It wasn't just the Slave Trade. 150 years ago Britain had wrecked China by forcing opium on the country. It made Britain the richest and most powerful country in the world. But it enslaved ... See full summary »
Star: Adam Curtis
Votes: 102
23.
New Discourses (2020– )
Marcuse's Subverting Forces in Transition
(2021 Podcast Episode)
151 min
James Lindsay discusses the third part of Herbert Marcuse's 1969 essay, "An Essay on Liberation."
Star: James Lindsay
24.
Exploring History (2015– )
Episode:
Why China's Social Credit System Is Worse Than You Think
(2019)
17 min | History, Documentary
China is building more sophisticated methods to monitor and control the social behavior of it's citizens.
Star: William Fox