Films About China and Chinese People
My list of films about China which I have watched.
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- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsGene TierneyWalter HustonVictor MatureIn Shanghai, dragon lady 'Mother' Gin Sling operates a gambling house for wealthy patrons but she clashes with influential land developer Sir Guy Charteris who wants to put her out of business.
- DirectorNicholas RayGuy GreenAndrew MartonStarsCharlton HestonAva GardnerDavid NivenDuring the 1900 Boxer Rebellion, U.S. marine, Maj. Matt Lewis, along with British consul, Sir Arthur Robertson, develop a plan to keep the rebels at bay until an international military relief force can arrive.
- DirectorJohn M. StahlStarsGregory PeckThomas MitchellVincent PriceA young priest is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanJohn WayneStarsJohn WayneLauren BacallPaul FixHis ship seized by the Chinese Communists, American Merchant Captain Tom Wilder languishes in prison but Chinese villagers help him escape to sail them to Hong-Kong.
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsMarlene DietrichClive BrookAnna May WongA notorious woman rides a train through a dangerous situation with a British captain she loved.
- DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsGary CooperMadeleine CarrollAkim TamiroffAmid the anarchy of China, an American mercenary tangles with a ruthless warlord.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsBarbara StanwyckNils AstherToshia MoriA Chinese warlord and an engaged Christian missionary fall in love.
- DirectorHarold S. BucquetJack ConwayStarsKatharine HepburnWalter HustonAline MacMahonThe lives of a small Chinese village are turned upside down when the Japanese invade it, and a heroic young woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against these invaders.
- DirectorLeo McCareyDavid W. OrtonStarsWilliam HoldenClifton WebbFrance NuyenDuring the Chinese Civil War of 1949, the Communists constantly harass the two priests of a remote Catholic mission outpost.
- DirectorMikael HåfströmStarsJohn CusackGong LiChow Yun-FatA '40s period piece which revolves around an American expat who returns to Shanghai in the months before Pearl Harbor due to the death of his friend.
- DirectorRichard QuineStarsWilliam HoldenNancy KwanSylvia SymsA businessman moves to Hong Kong to pursue a career as an artist and falls in love with a prostitute he hires as a model.
- DirectorHenry KingOtto LangStarsWilliam HoldenJennifer JonesTorin ThatcherA widowed Chinese-English doctor falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist Revolution.
- DirectorMark RobsonStarsIngrid BergmanRobert DonatCurd JürgensA tenacious British woman becomes a missionary and runs an inn for travelling merchants in China during the Japanese invasion and the tumultuous years leading up to the Second World War.
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsHumphrey BogartGene TierneyLee J. CobbAt a Catholic mission in China, long-awaited "Father O'Shea" proves to be a tough guy, disturbingly attractive to mission nurse Anne.
- DirectorRichard BoleslawskiStarsGreta GarboHerbert MarshallGeorge BrentA wife neglected by her husband, a medical researcher in China, falls in love with a dashing diplomatic attaché.
- DirectorSidney FranklinVictor FlemingGustav MachatýStarsPaul MuniLuise RainerWalter ConnollyAlthough married Chinese farmers Wang and O-Lan initially experience success, their lives are complicated by declining fortunes and lean times, as well as the arrival of the beautiful young Lotus.
- DirectorClarence BrownRobert Z. LeonardStarsHelen HayesRamon NovarroLewis StoneA large group of Chinese immigrants in San Francisco is clandestinely donating whatever money they earn to smuggle arms into China for the rebels in their fight against the centuries old Manchurian imperial oppressors. The secrecy of their mission is to hide their identities from anyone supporting the imperial regime. One of the immigrants supporting the rebels is Dr. Dong Tong. His only offspring, the demure Lien Wha, who also supports the cause, is in love with poor university student, Tom Lee, the two who, after meeting formally, want to get married, which Dr. Tong supports. However, Dr. Tong learns that the rebel backers are short $100,000 for the latest shipment of arms, and are asking the four men within the group with eligible daughters to donate $25,000 apiece, that money to be raised by selling their daughters into marriage to a wealthy buyer. Dr. Tong is one of the four, Lien Wha the daughter to be sold. Simultaneously, Dr. Tong learns of Tom's true identity as the son of one of the most important leaders of the rebel movement in China. Dr. Tong's answer to the request not only threatens Tom and Lien Wha's marriage plans and happiness, but also the arms shipment and all their lives.
- DirectorJohn FarrowStarsLoretta YoungAlan LaddWilliam BendixDuring the Japanese invasion of China, a cynical, macho profiteer meets a compassionate, beautiful schoolteacher.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsVictor MatureLi Hua LiWard BondAmerican pilot Cliff Brandon, fighting the Japanese in China, finds himself the unintentional "owner" of a Chinese housekeeper, Shu-Jen. The unlikely couple falls in love and marries, but not without tragedy brought on by the war.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsAnne BancroftSue LyonMargaret LeightonIn 1935 China, seven dedicated missionary women try to protect themselves from the advances of a barbaric Mongolian warlord and his cut-throat gang of warriors.
- DirectorRay TaylorStarsWilliam GarganIrene HerveySam LeveneA beautiful Dutch girl finds herself in Peking being pursued by agents of the Japanese government.
- DirectorRalph MurphyStarsRobert PrestonEllen DrewOtto KrugerWithout lights and in a driving rain, a bus is lumbering along the muddy Assam Road en route from Chungking to the Indian border. Passengers include Albert Pasavy (Otto Kruger), a European of unknown nationality; a missionary, the Rev. Dr. Van Der Linden (Steven Geray); a French officer Major Raoul Brissac (Ernst Deutsch as Ernest Dorian) and Countess Olga Karagin (Tamara Geva), a White Russian. There are also Madame Wu (Soo Yong), an ancient Chinese lady on an important diplomatic mission to India, and her traveling companion, Ann Richards (Ellen Drew), an American Red Cross nurse. The trip is halted after Japanese planes bomb the road and hit a munitions truck and kill many Chinese soldiers. The Chinese commander puts the wounded soldiers on the bus and directs it to a nearby secret airport where the officer in charge is Captain Nick Stanton (Robert Preston), an American attached to the Chinese Air Force. Stanton is ordered to fly the bus passengers to India and, before the take-off, he discovers that the Countess is a spy and he has her sent back to Chungking. Flying high over the mountainous Japanese-infested country, the plane is attacked by Zero fighter planes and makes a crash landing in the jungle. Just before the radio goes dead, Stanton is informed by Chungking of Olga's suicide after confessing that her superior is aboard the India-bound plane. Stanton still has to get Madame Wu to India and Van Der Linden suggests that the Buddhist monks in a near-by monastery will be happy to help. Or, perhaps, maybe they won't.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsJoseph CottenCorinne CalvetEdmund GwennA group of refugees fleeing Chinese Communist rule via train are beset by a gang of terrifying outlaws.
- DirectorNorman FosterStarsPeter LorreVirginia FieldThomas BeckOn a freighter going from San Francisco to Shanghai Mr. Moto solves mysteries caused by a gang of smugglers.
- DirectorCharles LamontStarsJames DunnRalph MorganRobert BarratA pilot carrying a valuable amulet is shot down over China by a ruthless Russian agent, who also wants the amulet.
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsClark GableSusan HaywardMichael RennieAfter Jane Hoyt's journalist husband disappears, she arrives in Hong Kong determined to find him but instead meets shady shipping magnate Hank Lee.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsRandolph ScottRuth WarrickEllen DrewThe conflicts of war-torn China are reflected in miniature within an American mission hospital.
- DirectorRobert FloreyStarsDennis MorganRaymond MasseyDane ClarkDuring WW2, American volunteer pilots are stationed in China where, as part of the Flying Tigers unit, they dog-fight against Japanese warplanes.
- DirectorDon SiegelStarsEdmond O'BrienBarry SullivanJocelyn BrandoDuring WW2, an American commando team is sent to rescue the prisoner of a warlord in Japanese-occupied China.
- DirectorLadislao VajdaStarsGriffith JonesValéry InkijinoffAdrianne RennJohn Fenton, a British secret-service agent in China, is given the assignment of learning how smugglers go undetected while delivering guns into the interior for General Ling, a ruthless war lord. It is revealed early on that General Ling is actually Mr. Wong, a rich Hong Kong merchant.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsRuth RomanEdmond O'BrienRichard JaeckelIn post-WW2 Shanghai, expatriate Westerners are detained in the Waldorf Hotel until the Communists can identify a suspected spy among them but some prisoners try to outwit the interrogators and the armed guards and flee.
- DirectorHenry KosterStarsNancy KwanJames ShigetaBenson FongA young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown from Hong Kong with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner, unaware he is involved with one of his singers.
- DirectorWilliam NighStarsAnna May WongHarold HuberMae ClarkeAfter the Japanese invade China in WW 2, a young woman leads a band of partisans against the occupying troops.
- DirectorLewis R. FosterStarsRonald ReaganRhonda FlemingNigel BruceThe theft of a jeweled treasure is within an adventurer's grasp when he is restrained by his love for a good woman. Now he must help her and the kid he was hired to rob escape as the Chinese Civil War nears Hong Kong.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsLillian GishRichard BarthelmessDonald CrispA frail waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences.
- DirectorJames TinlingStarsWarner OlandIrene HerveyJon HallWhen a prominent official is murdered at a banquet honoring Charle Chan, the detective and son Lee team up to expose an opium-smuggling ring.
- DirectorJust JaeckinStarsTawny KitaenBrent HuffZabou BreitmanGwendoline, a runaway nun, arrives in Hong Kong on a mission to find her father, who was last seen in the legendary Land of the Yik Yak searching for a rare butterfly. She's guided on her perilous journey by the selfish mercenary Willard.
- DirectorJon AvnetStarsRichard GereBai LingBradley WhitfordAn American attorney on business in China is wrongfully arrested and put on trial for murder, with a female defense lawyer from the country the only key to proving his innocence.
- DirectorBurt P. LynwoodStarsEsther RalstonRegis ToomeyJ. Farrell MacDonaldSmuggling Chinese into the United States from Mexico in car loads, with no regard for human life, smugglers resort to any means to accomplish their selfish ends
- DirectorJoseph H. LewisStarsAnna May WongNoel MadisonLeslie DenisonChinese girl risks her life on espionage mission against Japanese in World War 2.
- DirectorJoseph H. LewisStarsAnna May WongNoel MadisonLeslie DenisonChinese girl risks her life on espionage mission against Japanese in World War 2.
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsShirley TempleRobert YoungAlice FayeA young girl lost in Shanghai is taken in by an American playboy and his girlfriend.
- DirectorYimou ZhangStarsChristian BaleNi NiXinyi ZhangAn American finds refuge during the 1937 Japanese invasion of Nanking in a church with a group of women. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsEdward G. RobinsonLoretta YoungDudley DiggesA hatchet man is ordered to kill his close friend for the sake of Tong.
- DirectorJosef von SternbergMel FerrerNicholas RayStarsRobert MitchumJane RussellWilliam BendixNick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord. Undercover, can he mislead the bad guys and still woo the attractive singer/petty crook, Julie Benson?
- DirectorJohn FarrowStarsBoris KarloffBeverly RobertsRicardo CortezKarloff is the Chinese warlord Fang, who holds a group of oilmen and missionaries hostage in a remote Chinese outpost.