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- Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning dramatisation of the life story of China's last emperor, Pu Yi.
- Love, humiliation, and politics play out in a distant village of China during the Cultural Revolution.
- A married village worker teams up with an old girlfriend to try to dig a well for his water-starved village. The well collapses and they are trapped. Their enforced confinement leads to them exploring their feelings for each other and those around them.
- The tragic life of the last empress Wan Rong in imperial palace.
- Ninja Over the Great Wall takes place in the early nineteen-thirties when China was occupied by the Japanese imperial forces. Wa Chi Keung is a peasant who escaped the mass murder of his village by the Japanese. He joins his master in Bejing shortly before the old man's assassination by ninjas.
- The story about the arrest and enslavement of a crashed American airman by a backward tribe of the Yi people in central Sichuan during WWII.
- The heartbreaking tale of a young girl sold into an arranged marriage with a 2 year old boy who she must raise.
- The country is in uproar as the Chinese are forced to combat the Vietnamese.
- The young leader of the rebel Red Flower Society discovers a secret about the current Manchu emperor which may change the fate of China.
- The fictional life and career of a famous actress in Chinese opera, a woman who goes against tradition by specializing in playing male roles, especially that of Zhang Kui, a benevolent ghost who appears in several Chinese operas. Although the actress's career brings wealth and fame, it is attained only through considerable struggle against an anti-female system and an unhappy personal life.
- Set in 1930s. Photographer Tang sees a spectacular mirage in desert. He also sees a beautiful woman in the scene. When Tang returns home, he can not forget the woman. So he and his friend go back to the desert to look for the woman.
- Part Three, the big battle. The blind fortune teller and his crew, Tiger and the Japanese brother and sister prepare to battle The Grandmaster, Devil Mask, and Infinite Ninjas. There's a battle every minute with epic weapons!
- Chen Jialuo, the leader of Red Flower Society, falls in love with the Uyghur Princess Fragrance during their adventures in Xinjiang. But he realizes that the Qianlong Emperor, his brother, also fancies her.
- In the late Qing Dynasty, when the European football team Pirates came to China, they played a game with the embassy team, attracting a large number of people and officials to watch. After the pirate team won, captain Harry, in order to win over his girlfriend Jenny's smile, forcefully kicked the ball at the onlookers and officials. Just as a crowd of foreigners laughed loudly, a big man sprang up from the crowd and repaid Harry with his superb football skills. Seeing this, Jenny instigated Harry to challenge the Chinese side, and a major football match between China and foreign countries was imminent. The big man Zhou Tian was a progressive young man who once studied at Oxford University. He was well aware of the gap between Chinese and foreign football levels, and it was difficult to breathe a sigh of relief for the Chinese people alone. Therefore, Zhou embarked on the road of visiting folk ball players and adding glory to the country.
- A young Chinese heir to millions in the US is suddenly destitute after a bankruptcy. He assigns his former teacher to kill him because he believes that he cannot endure a life in poverty.
- The second part of Ninja Death. A young martial artist named Tiger is in training and is being stalked by an Evil Ninja. However, his master is killed and young Tiger continues to study the ways under various other masters.
- A rumor of an impending earthquake panics a community.
- In a small town, Wang Lan a director of a martial art team found surprisingly someone is skilled of her family's style of martial art and her own tomb. This can only be possible that her lost husband was still alive.
- In 1864, the death of the emperor of China's Taiping rebellion gives the rival Ch'ings an opportunity to attack. They break into the Taiping capital; the emperor's son goes into hiding, taking with him his family's invaluable sword. The loyal army chief, Gao Dekum, wants to find the young man and reinstall him as emperor of the heavenly kingdom of great peace. But he is double-crossed by Bei Wenbing. Several years later, after ardent training in kung fu, Gao's son Yulong and his daughter are ready to avenge their father's death and lead the Taiping loyalists into battle against the Ch'ings. A showdown between Yulong and Bei appears inevitable.
- In December 1937, Imperial Japanese Army occupied Nanjing. Nanjing International Safety Zone became a safe haven amid massacres. Japanese officers sought to suppress reporting while the Chinese wanted to smuggle out the damning evidence.
- A wealthy man is shamed into supporting a daycare center.
- Set in 1860s, the Qing Dynasty. Empress Ci'an and empress Ci'xi struggle fiercely for the power.
- Elementary school teachers alter their methods to increase the pupils' confidence in learning.
- Two comic performers return to the village where one resided years earlier. They get material for a new routine and also point out a problem to the villagers.
- Outlaw Huang Tian-ba becomes indignant when his adopted brother is killed by Shi Shalun the Yangzhou magistrate. Armed with his Golden Darts he wages a one man war on the magistrate and his army. A brilliant Wu Shu action film.
- A husband is called back to emergency duty from his honeymoon and his bride investigates the sudden death of a couple also on their honeymoon.
- Set in 1930s in Northeast China. Three friends attend the high school in Japanese puppet regime in Manchuria. They are forced to study Japanese and learn to live as conquered people. They see that their patriot teacher is arrested, revolutionists are killed, family members are persecuted. They determine to envisage nationalistic pride and make up their minds to fight Japanese aggressors.
- Set in Qing Dynasty, a unprofessional artillery troop fights against invaders.
- A small city official organized a "fascinating newspaper" for the unemployed youth. He misinterpreted the policy of opening up and published a manuscripts of martial arts and obscene contents, using such improper way to make a big profit.
- Tragical lives of Qing Yu, a woman lives in late Qing Dynasty and Gui Hua, a woman lives in modern time.
- A man released from prison believes that humanity is composed of half good and half evil. He wants to live a good life but the past drags him back to evil.
- Set in early 1930s, Japanese invaders slaughter Huangqi village. Hunter Gao Yuntian leads villagers fight and take revenge on invaders and traitors.
- Daily stories of six young couples who living in the same apartment building.
- A group of young people have problems operating a small hotel.
- Li Qingyuan, the chief engineer of a solar equipment factory, makes the company profitable and globally accepted. The government appreciates him and appoints him as the deputy city mayor. But Li does not like the government position and gets away to avoid the appointment press conference for him. Some accidents happen on Li's escape way and make people misunderstanding that he is dead. Many stupid and ridiculous things happen under this circumstance.
- An elderly veteran of WWII living in peaceful retirement with his son and the latter's family becomes increasingly lost in wartime memories and reminiscences, much to his son's consternation. One day, an item the old man reads in a magazine prompts him to go off unannounced on a war-related quest. The son goes searching for his father, and in doing so reaches a greater understanding of both the old man and the generation he represents.
- A group of students attempts to escape to Hong Kong during the Cultural Revolution. Some are successful. Years later one who was left behind goes to Hong Kong on business and learns her former lover is alive and successful in business there.
- Liu Ping heads the investigation of the death of a fashion model.