Golden Horse's 100 Greatest Chinese-Language Films
by meuisviocm | created - 25 May 2011 | updated - 22 Aug 2012 | PublicGolden Horse Film Festival / 100 Greatest Chinese-Language Films
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Original Title：無米樂
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1. A City of Sadness (1989)
157 min | Drama, History
The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror" that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government after their arrival from mainland China in the late 1940s.
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Shu-Fen Hsin, Sung-Young Chen, Jack Kao
Votes: 6,100
Rank：#1 Original Title：悲情城市
2. A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
Not Rated | 237 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Based on a true story, primarily on a conflict between two youth gangs, a 14-year-old boy's girlfriend conflicts with the head of one gang for an unclear reason, until finally the conflict comes to a violent climax.
Director: Edward Yang | Stars: Chang Chen, Lisa Yang, Kuo-Chu Chang, Elaine Jin
Votes: 12,774
Rank：#2 Original Title：牯嶺街少年殺人事件
3. A Time to Live and a Time to Die (1985)
Not Rated | 138 min | Biography, Drama
The semi-autobiographical film on director Hou Hsiao-Hsien's childhood and adolescence, when he was growing up in Taiwan, living through the deaths of his father, mother and grandmother.
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Stars: Chia-bao Chang, Neng Chang, Chih-Chen Chen, Han-wen Chen
Votes: 3,514
Rank：#3 Original Title：童年往事
4. Days of Being Wild (1990)
Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A man tries to find out who his real mother is after the woman who raised him tells him the truth.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau, Carina Lau
Votes: 25,495 | Gross: $0.14M
Rank：#4 Original Title：阿飛正傳
5. Spring in a Small Town (1948)
98 min | Drama, Romance
A lonely housewife finds her monotonous life altered when her childhood sweetheart returns to town.
Director: Mu Fei | Stars: Chaoming Cui, Wei Li, Yu Shi, Wei Wei
Votes: 3,353
Rank：#5 Original Title：小城之春
6. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
PG-13 | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A young Chinese warrior steals a sword from a famed swordsman and then escapes into a world of romantic adventure with a mysterious man in the frontier of the nation.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang, Chang Chen
Votes: 281,636 | Gross: $128.08M
Rank：#6 Original Title：臥虎藏龍
7. Yi Yi (2000)
Not Rated | 173 min | Drama, Romance
Each member of a middle-class Taipei family seeks to reconcile past and present relationships within their daily lives.
Director: Edward Yang | Stars: Nien-Jen Wu, Elaine Jin, Issei Ogata, Kelly Lee
Votes: 28,413 | Gross: $1.14M
Rank：#7 Original Title：一一
8. Dust in the Wind (1986)
Not Rated | 109 min | Drama, Romance
A young couple leave their mining town home for Taipei where they struggle to eke out a living in an industrial wasteland.
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Stars: Grace Chen, Shu-Fang Chen, Shu-Fen Hsin, Chi-Ying Kao
Votes: 3,186
Rank：#7 Original Title：戀戀風塵
9. Dragon Inn (1967)
Not Rated | 111 min | Action, Adventure
When the children of an executed General are pursued in 1457 China, some heroic martial arts swordsmen intervene.
Director: King Hu | Stars: Polly Ling-Feng Shang-Kuan, Chun Shih, Ying Bai, Feng Hsu
Votes: 3,626
Rank：#9 Original Title：龍門客棧
10. In the Mood for Love (2000)
PG | 98 min | Drama, Romance
Two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung, Siu Ping-Lam, Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung
Votes: 166,885 | Gross: $2.73M
Rank：#9 Original Title：花樣年華
11. The Love Eterne (1963)
126 min | Fantasy, Musical, Romance
The story about the life of the students at a university in Hangchow. Chu Ying-Tai is a female who has to be disguised as a man in order to gain entry into the school.
Director: Han Hsiang Li | Stars: Betty Loh Ti, Ivy Ling Po, Li-Chu Chang, Yanyan Chen
Votes: 514
Rank：#11 Original Title：梁山伯與祝英台
12. The Terrorizers (1986)
109 min | Crime, Drama
A metaphysical mystery about the lives of three couples in Taipei that continually intersect over a span of several weeks.
Director: Edward Yang | Stars: Cora Miao, Li-Chun Lee, Shih-Chieh King, Pao-Ming Ku
Votes: 5,505
Rank：#11 Original Title：恐怖份子
13. Vive L'Amour (1994)
R | 118 min | Drama, Romance
Three lonely young denizens of Taipei unknowingly share an apartment used for sexual trysts.
Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Stars: Chen Chao-jung, Kang-sheng Lee, Kuei-Mei Yang, Yi-ching Lu
Votes: 4,795
Rank：#13 Original Title：愛情萬歲
14. Yellow Earth (1984)
TV-PG | 89 min | Drama, History, Music
A communist soldier travels to Shanbei to collect folk songs for propaganda while visiting a poor peasant family, giving hope to the teenage daughter in escaping an arranged marriage.
Director: Kaige Chen | Stars: Xueqi Wang, Bai Xue, Quiang Liu, Tuo Tan
Votes: 2,571
Rank：#13 Original Title：黃土地
15. A Touch of Zen (1971)
Not Rated | 200 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A lady fugitive on the run from corrupt government officials is joined in her endeavors by an unambitious painter and skilled Buddhist monks.
Director: King Hu | Stars: Feng Hsu, Chun Shih, Ying Bai, Peng Tien
Votes: 7,310
Rank：#15 Original Title：俠女
16. Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996)
118 min | Drama, Romance
Two Chinese-mainlanders living in Hong Kong form a close friendship. Over the years this grows into love, but there are obstacles.
Director: Peter Ho-Sun Chan | Stars: Maggie Cheung, Leon Lai, Eric Tsang, Kristy Yeung
Votes: 7,633
Rank：#16 Original Title：甜蜜蜜
17. A Better Tomorrow (1986)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Lung Ti, Leslie Cheung, Chow Yun-Fat, Emily Chu
Votes: 25,464
Rank：#17 Original Title：英雄本色
18. Infernal Affairs (2002)
R | 101 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A story between a mole in the police department and an undercover cop. Their objectives are the same: to find out who is the mole, and who is the cop.
Directors: Andrew Lau, Alan Mak | Stars: Andy Lau, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Eric Tsang
Votes: 131,455 | Gross: $0.17M
Rank：#18 Original Title：無間道
19. In the Heat of the Sun (1994)
134 min | Drama, Romance
Beijing, 1970s. Now that the CR has driven most adults to the provinces, 14-year-old Monkey and his pals have free reign over the city. They hang around, get up to no good, and discover that unsolvable mystery referred to as "girls."
Director: Wen Jiang | Stars: Yu Xia, Wei Chen, Shaobo Dai, Hua Fang
Votes: 5,525
Rank：#19 Original Title：陽光燦爛的日子
20. Street Angel (1937)
91 min | Comedy, Drama
In old Shanghai, two sisters, a prostitute and a singer, tried to escape from the local scoundrels with the help of a trumpet player and a newspaper seller.
Director: Muzhi Yuan | Stars: Dan Zhao, Heling Wei, Xuan Zhou, Jiting Wang
Votes: 945
Rank：#19 Original Title：馬路天使
21. Chungking Express (1994)
PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal waitress at a late-night restaurant he frequents.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Brigitte Lin, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Faye Wong
Votes: 95,789 | Gross: $0.60M
Rank：#21 Original Title：重慶森林
22. Red Sorghum (1988)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, History, Romance
When a leprous winery owner in 1930s China dies a few days after his arranged marriage, his young widow is forced to run the winery to make a living while contending with bandits, her drunkard lover, and the invading Japanese army.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Gong Li, Wen Jiang, Rujun Teng, Ji Liu
Votes: 9,873
Rank：#22 Original Title：紅高粱
23. The Wedding Banquet (1993)
R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
To satisfy his nagging parents, a gay landlord and a female tenant agree to a marriage of convenience, but his parents arrive to visit and things get out of hand.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Winston Chao, May Chin, Ah-Lei Gua, Sihung Lung
Votes: 17,144 | Gross: $6.93M
Rank：#23 Original Title：喜宴
24. Shen nu (1934)
TV-PG | 85 min | Drama
Street walker by night, devoted mother by day, a woman fights to get her young son an education amid criminal and social injustice in China.
Director: Yonggang Wu | Stars: Lingyu Ruan, Tian Jian, Zhizhi Zhang, Keng Li
Votes: 2,475
Rank：#23 Original Title：神女
25. The Boys from Fengkuei (1983)
99 min | Drama
Ah-Ching and his friends have just finished school in their island fishing village, and now spend most of their time drinking and fighting. Three of them decide to go to the port city of ... See full summary »
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Stars: Doze Niu, Shih Chang, Chung-Hua Tou, Li-Yin Yang
Votes: 1,909
Rank：#23 Original Title：風櫃來的人
26. Happy Together (1997)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Romance
A couple take a trip to Argentina but both men find their lives drifting apart in opposite directions.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Chang Chen, Gregory Dayton
Votes: 34,050 | Gross: $0.19M
Rank：#26 Original Title：春光乍洩
27. Rouge (1987)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Fantasy, Music
Fleur is the blue angel in one of Hong Kong's "flower houses" - bordellos and night clubs of the 1930s. A detached and beautiful performer, she falls in love with Twelfth Master Chan, heir ... See full summary »
Director: Stanley Kwan | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Anita Mui, Alex Man, Emily Chu
Votes: 3,432
Rank：#27 Original Title：胭脂扣
28. The Sandwich Man (1983)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
Three vignettes from three different directors that tell stories of ordinary people during Taiwan's Cold War period.
Directors: Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Chuang-Hsiang Tseng, Jen Wan | Stars: Bor-Jeng Chen, Li-Yin Yang, Kuo-Feng Tseng, Te-Nan Lai
Votes: 778
Rank：#27 Original Title：兒子的大玩偶
29. Po xiao shi fen (1968)
106 min | Drama
A young guard witnesses the corruption of the system during his first night call in the tribunal. A series of dramatic stories told by each prisoner to the judge ensues in flashbacks. The ... See full summary »
Directors: Han Hsiang Li, Tsun-Shou Sung | Stars: Chun Yang, Hsiu-Fang Wu, Li-Ping Chao, Chen Chiang
Votes: 39
Rank：#27 Original Title：破曉時分
30. That Day, on the Beach (1983)
Not Rated | 166 min | Drama
Two friends who haven't seen each other for thirteen years reunite. One is a successful concert pianist just back from a European tour and the other has just started a new business.
Director: Edward Yang | Stars: Sylvia Chang, Ming Hsu, Lieh Lee, David Mao
Votes: 1,454
Rank：#30 Original Title：海灘的一天
31. Fist of Fury (1972)
R | 107 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A young man seeks vengence for the death of his teacher.
Director: Wei Lo | Stars: Bruce Lee, Nora Miao, James Tien, Maria Yi
Votes: 33,888 | Gross: $1.29M
Rank：#30 Original Title：精武門
32. Center Stage (1991)
126 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Biopic of 1930s Chinese actress Lingyu Ruan.
Director: Stanley Kwan | Stars: Maggie Cheung, Han Chin, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Carina Lau
Votes: 2,723
Rank：#30 Original Title：阮玲玉
33. 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: 33,153 | Gross: $5.22M
Rank：#30 Original Title：霸王別姬
34. Lust, Caution (2007)
NC-17 | 157 min | Drama, History, Romance
During World War II era, a young woman, Wang Jiazhi, gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with a powerful political figure, Mr. Yee.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Tang Wei, Joan Chen, Leehom Wang
Votes: 45,525 | Gross: $4.60M
Rank：#30 Original Title：色，戒
35. The Story of Qiu Ju (1992)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
A peasant woman seeks justice after the headman of her village has kicked her husband in the groin.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Gong Li, Peiqi Liu, Liuchun Yang, Kesheng Lei
Votes: 6,656 | Gross: $1.89M
Rank：#35 Original Title：秋菊打官司
36. Pickpocket (1997)
Unrated | 108 min | Drama
A small town pickpocket whose friends have moved on to higher trades finds himself bitter and unable to adapt.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Hongwei Wang, Hongjian Hao, Baitao Zuo, Ma Jinrei
Votes: 3,294
Rank：#35 Original Title：小武
37. A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)
Unrated | 98 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
After a string of bad luck, a debt collector has no other choice than to spend the night in a haunted temple, where he encounters a ravishing female ghost and later battles to save her soul from the control of a wicked tree demon.
Director: Siu-Tung Ching | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Joey Wang, Wu Ma, Wai Lam
Votes: 11,072
Rank：#35 Original Title：倩女幽魂
38. Execution in Autumn (1972)
99 min | Drama
Peigang, his family's only son for three generations running, is to be executed on account of larceny, but not without the intervention of his grandmother.
Director: Hsing Lee | Stars: Hui-Lou Chen, Shao-Ching Chou, Bi-Hui Fu, Su Han
Votes: 283
Rank：#38 Original Title：秋決
39. Cape No. 7 (2008)
129 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A unusual group of people in a village on the coast of Taiwan form a band to perform at a beach concert, while the lead singer searches for the intended recipient of 7 lost love letters.
Director: Te-Sheng Wei | Stars: Van Fan, Chie Tanaka, Min-Hsiung, Wei-min Ying
Votes: 4,459
Rank：#38 Original Title：海角七號
40. The Spring River Flows East (1947)
192 min | Drama, War
1930's China. The village of a poor family is taken over by the occupying Japanese army. One son, Zhongliang, leaves his wife and young son to join a medic group for the Chinese Army. The ... See full summary »
Directors: Chusheng Cai, Junli Zheng | Stars: Yang Bai, Jin Tao, Yinyan Wu, Yunzhu Shangguan
Votes: 369
Rank：#40 Original Title：一江春水向東流
41. The Blue Kite (1993)
140 min | Drama, History
The lives of a Beijing family throughout the 1950s and 1960s, as they experience the impact of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution.
Director: Zhuangzhuang Tian | Stars: Tian Yi, Wenyao Zhang, Xiaoman Chen, Liping Lü
Votes: 3,259 | Gross: $0.36M
Rank：#41 Original Title：藍風箏
42. The Puppetmaster (1993)
142 min | Biography, Drama, War
Puppeteer Li Tian-lu tells his life story, and through it, the story of Taiwan in the first half of the 20th century.
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Stars: Tien-Lu Li, Giong Lim, Kuei-Chung Cheng, Chien-ru Huang
Votes: 2,072
Rank：#41 Original Title：戲夢人生
43. Darkness and Light (1999)
104 min | Drama
Kang-Yi is a teenage girl who lives in an apartment building in the port city of Keelung. Most of her family, and the people in the apartment, are blind, and she helps them out. Ah Ping, ... See full summary »
Director: Tso-chi Chang | Stars: Kang-i Lee, Ming-shiou Tsai, Bau-huei Shie, Huang-ji He
Votes: 280
Rank：#41 Original Title：黑暗之光
44. The Mission (1999)
Not Rated | 84 min | Action
Triad boss Lung, who has just escaped being killed in an assassination, hires five killers for his protection. Their grown solidarity is under compulsion when Lung gives a special order.
Director: Johnnie To | Stars: Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Francis Ng, Jackie Chung-yin Lui, Roy Cheung
Votes: 6,143
Rank：#44 Original Title：鎗火
45. Still Life (2006)
Unrated | 111 min | Drama
A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A man and woman visit the town to locate their estranged spouses, and become witness to the societal changes.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Tao Zhao, Zhou Lan, Sanming Han, Lizhen Ma
Votes: 7,306 | Gross: $0.07M
Rank：#44 Original Title：三峽好人
46. To Live (1994)
Not Rated | 133 min | Drama, War
After Fugui and Jiazhen lose their personal fortunes, they raise a family and survive difficult cultural changes during 1940s to 1970s China.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: You Ge, Gong Li, Ben Niu, Wu Jiang
Votes: 20,441 | Gross: $2.33M
Rank：#44 Original Title：活著
47. The Arch (1968)
94 min | Drama
A woman falls in love with a visiting cavalry captain, but chooses to suppress it for the sake of her daughter.
Director: Shu Shuen Tong | Stars: Lisa Lu, Roy Chiao, Hilda Chow Hsuan, Szu-yun Chen
Votes: 246
Rank：#44 Original Title：董夫人
48. Zai jian a lang (1970)
92 min | Romance
Director: Ching-Jui Pai | Stars: Chun-Hsiung Ko, Mei-Yao Chang, Ching Chu, Chia Chi Wu
Votes: 11
Rank：#48 Original Title：再見阿郎
49. Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
R | 99 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
In Shanghai, China in the 1940s, a wannabe gangster aspires to join the notorious "Axe Gang" while residents of a housing complex exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf.
Director: Stephen Chow | Stars: Stephen Chow, Wah Yuen, Qiu Yuen, Siu-Lung Leung
Votes: 150,861 | Gross: $17.11M
Rank：#48 Original Title：功夫
50. Yang ya ren jia (1965)
111 min | Drama
The story of duck man Lin and his adopted daughter Hsiao-yue. Hsiao-yue knows nothing about her real descent, which Lin has been keeping secret from her. But one day, someone appears and changes her life.
Director: Hsing Lee | Stars: Wen-Wen Chang, Kuo-Chun Chen, Ming Chiang, Su-chen Hsieh
Votes: 173
Rank：#50 Original Title：養鴨人家
51. The Big Road (1935)
Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy, Musical, Drama
Six young men from the city take jobs on a road crew, building a highway of strategic importance to the Chinese Army. The story relates the men's interactions with each other, the local ... See full summary »
Director: Yu Sun | Stars: Yan Jin, Yanyan Chen, Li-li Li, Peng Luo
Votes: 324
Rank：#50 Original Title：大路
52. Ashes of Time (1994)
R | 100 min | Action, Drama
A broken-hearted hit man moves to the desert where he finds skilled swordsmen to carry out his contract killings.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung, Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai
Votes: 16,966 | Gross: $0.17M
Rank：#50 Original Title：東邪西毒
53. Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
PG | 125 min | Drama, Romance
China in the 1920s. After her father's death, Songlian is forced to marry the wealthy Master Chen. With three wives already, each living in a separate house, there is fierce competition for his attention and the privileges that are gained.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Gong Li, Jingwu Ma, Saifei He, Cuifen Cao
Votes: 35,343 | Gross: $2.60M
Rank：#50 Original Title：大紅燈籠高高掛
54. Taipei Story (1985)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama
Lung is a former member of the national Little League team who lives with his old childhood sweetheart Ah-chin, a traditional family woman. Although they live together, Ah-chin is weary of Lung's past liaison with another girl.
Director: Edward Yang | Stars: Chin Tsai, Hsiao-Hsien Hou, I-Chen Ko, Su-Yun Ko
Votes: 3,914 | Gross: $0.01M
Rank：#50 Original Title：青梅竹馬
55. An Autumn's Tale (1987)
98 min | Drama, Romance
Filmed in New York, story of naive young woman from Hong Kong who goes to New York to study. Street-wise cabbie cousin takes care of her in the big city.
Director: Mabel Cheung | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Cherie Chung, Danny Bak-Keung Chan, Gigi Suk Yee Wong
Votes: 2,348
Rank：#56 Original Title：秋天的童話（流氓大亨）
56. Growing Up (1983)
100 min | Drama
The story follows a young man as he changes from an intelligently aware youth, to a teenager with much less confidence than he once had, and finally, to a stable adult.
Director: Kun-Hou Chen | Stars: Chun-Fang Chang, Fu-Sheng Tsui, Doze Niu, Chuan-Wen Cheng
Votes: 404
Rank：#56 Original Title：小畢的故事
57. The Spooky Bunch (1980)
97 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A Cantonese opera company arrives in Cheung Chau to perform for a rich man, who wants to marry of his nephew Dick to the star of the company Ah Gee. As soon as they arrive, the company is ... See full summary »
Director: Ann Hui | Stars: Josephine Siao, Kenny Bee, Mang-Ha Cheng, Chung Kwan
Votes: 124
Rank：#58 Original Title：撞到正（小姐撞到鬼）
58. The Way of the Dragon (1972)
R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A man visits his relatives at their restaurant in Italy and has to help them defend against brutal gangsters harassing them.
Director: Bruce Lee | Stars: Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, Nora Miao, Ping-Ou Wei
Votes: 41,043 | Gross: $4.06M
Rank：#58 Original Title：猛龍過江
59. The Old Well (1987)
129 min | Drama, Romance
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Tian-Ming Wu | Stars: Yujing Liang, Yuqing Liao, Liping Lü, Xingli Niu
Votes: 370
Rank：#58 Original Title：老井
60. Rebels of the Neon God (1992)
Not Rated | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Within the urban gloom of Taipei, four youths face alienation, loneliness, and moments of existential crisis amidst a series of minor crimes.
Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Stars: Wang Yu-wen, Chen Chao-jung, Kang-sheng Lee, Jen Chang-bin
Votes: 5,529 | Gross: $0.03M
Rank：#58 Original Title：青少年哪吒
61. Cannot Live Without You (2009)
93 min | Drama
A down and out man and his daughter live in an illegal hovel. The two live a happy peaceful life until the authorities intervene when the child reaches school age.
Director: Leon Dai | Stars: Yo Hsuan Chao, Akira Chen, Chih-Ju Lin, Sze-Chi Lo
Votes: 613
Rank：#58 Original Title：不能沒有你
62. The Way We Are (2008)
90 min | Drama
"The Way We Are" tells the story of a hardworking, widowed, single mother (Mrs. Cheung) and her teenage son (Ka-on) living in the troubled housing estate of Tinshuiwai, a suburb regularly featured in the news for all the wrong reasons.
Director: Ann Hui | Stars: Hee Ching Paw, Chun-lung Leung, Cheuk Man Au, Idy Chan
Votes: 1,081
Rank：#58 Original Title：天水圍的日與夜
63. Blind Shaft (2003)
Unrated | 92 min | Crime, Drama
Two coal miners and conmen looking for their next murder victim decide on a naïve country boy desperately looking for a job.
Director: Yang Li | Stars: Yixiang Li, Baoqiang Wang, Shuangbao Wang, Jing Ai
Votes: 2,914 | Gross: $0.03M
Rank：#58 Original Title：盲井
64. Made in Hong Kong (1997)
109 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Autumn Moon (Sam Lee), a low-rent triad living in Hong Kong, struggles to find meaning in his hopelessly violent existence.
Director: Fruit Chan | Stars: Sam Lee, Neiky Hui-Chi Yim, Wenders Li, Ka-Chuen Tam
Votes: 3,005
Rank：#58 Original Title：香港製造
65. Shaolin Soccer (2001)
PG | 87 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
A young Shaolin follower reunites with his discouraged brothers to form a soccer team using their martial art skills to their advantage.
Director: Stephen Chow | Stars: Stephen Chow, Wei Zhao, Yat-Fei Wong, Man-Tat Ng
Votes: 89,203 | Gross: $0.49M
Rank：#66 Original Title：少林足球
66. Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
Not Rated | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A senior chef lives with his three grown daughters; the middle one finds her future plans affected by unexpected events and the life changes of the other household members.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Sihung Lung, Kuei-Mei Yang, Wang Yu-wen, Chien-Lien Wu
Votes: 23,199 | Gross: $7.29M
Rank：#66 Original Title：飲食男女
67. Strawman (1987)
94 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Chronicles the last days of Japanese rule in a Taiwanese village, in a quasi-comical style.
Director: Toon Wang | Stars: Chun-Fang Chang, Po-Chou Chang, Sheng-Li Cho, Chun-Hsiung Ko
Votes: 322
Rank：#66 Original Title：稻草人
68. Xin Lan de gu shi (1972)
Drama
Director: Tsun-Shou Sung | Stars: Chun-Hsiung Ko, Nora Miao, Chia Chi Wu, Feng Chang
Rank：#66 Original Title：母親三十歲
69. The Private Eyes (1976)
94 min | Comedy
The kingpin of the Manix Private Detective Agency and his fellow detective solve cases together.
Director: Michael Hui | Stars: Michael Hui, Samuel Hui, Ricky Hui, Angie Chiu
Votes: 887
Rank：#66 Original Title：半斤八兩
70. Drunken Master (1978)
PG-13 | 111 min | Action, Comedy
Wong Fei-Hung is a mischievous yet righteous young man, but after a series of incidents his frustrated father has him disciplined by a master of drunken martial arts.
Director: Woo-Ping Yuen | Stars: Jackie Chan, Siu-Tin Yuen, Jeong-lee Hwang, Dean Shek
Votes: 43,855
Rank：#66 Original Title：醉拳
71. Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983)
Unrated | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A Chinese soldier in an ancient civil war flees the battlefield and gets caught up in a fantastical quest to save the world from evil.
Director: Hark Tsui | Stars: Biao Yuen, Hoi Mang, Adam Cheng, Brigitte Lin
Votes: 3,054
Rank：#66 Original Title：新蜀山劍俠
72. Jade Love (1984)
105 min | Drama
Director: Yi Chang | Stars: Chuen Fu, Shao-Hui Ku, Ding-feng Lin, Hui-Shan Yang
Votes: 23
Rank：#73 Original Title：玉卿嫂
73. Sun, Moon and Star: Part 1 (1961)
99 min | Drama, Romance, War
The story traces the relationships that develop between the protagonist Xu and the three women he meets, set against the backdrop of the Second World War.
Director: Wen Yi | Stars: Grace Chang, Yang Chang, Hao Chen, Yu-Hsin Chen
Votes: 53
Rank：#73 Original Title：星星月亮太陽
74. The One-Armed Swordsman (1967)
R | 115 min | Action, Drama
A noble swordsman, whose arm had been chopped off, returns to his former teacher to defend him from a villainous gang of rival swordsmen.
Director: Cheh Chang | Stars: Jimmy Wang Yu, Chiao Chiao, Chung-Hsin Huang, Yin-Tze Pan
Votes: 3,620
Rank：#73 Original Title：獨臂刀
75. In Our Time (1982)
110 min | Drama
Four short films from four different directors, spanning from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Directors: Yi Chang, I-Chen Ko, Te-chen Tao, Edward Yang | Stars: Emily Y. Chang, Sylvia Chang, Chi Chen, Sheng-wen Lan
Votes: 788
Rank：#73 Original Title：光陰的故事
76. A Borrowed Life (1994)
167 min | Drama
Autobiographical story about the life of a poor family in the Taiwanese countryside during the 1940s and 1950s as the Japanese rule of the island ends and nationalist forces of Kwomintang arrive when the Communists take the mainland.
Director: Nien-Jen Wu | Stars: Akio Chen, Shu-Fang Chen, Jun Fu, Yung-Feng Lee
Votes: 333
Rank：#73 Original Title：多桑
77. A Chinese Odyssey: Part One - Pandora's Box (1995)
87 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A Monkey King is reincarnated in the un human form as Joker, a highwayman oblivious to his original identity and the fact that 500 years earlier, he and his master, the Longevity Monk, were punished and made to stay human.
Director: Jeffrey Lau | Stars: Stephen Chow, Man-Tat Ng, Kar-Ying Law, Kit Ying Lam
Votes: 8,409
Rank：#73 Original Title：西遊記第壹佰零壹回之月光寶盒（齊天大聖東遊記、大話西遊之月光寶盒）
78. A Chinese Odyssey: Part 2 - Cinderella (1995)
98 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The convoluted continuation of the adventures of the time-traveling, now-human Monkey King, who attempts to fulfill his divine destiny.
Director: Jeffrey Lau | Stars: Stephen Chow, Man-Tat Ng, Athena Chu, Ada Choi
Votes: 8,541
Rank：#73 Original Title：西遊記大結局之仙履奇緣（齊天大聖西遊記、大話西遊之大聖娶親）
79. Summer Snow (1995)
101 min | Comedy, Drama
The Suns are a typical Hong Kong family: May, forty something, works for a trading company; her husband, Bing, works as a low-grade civil servant, and Allen, their teenage son, is still at ... See full summary »
Director: Ann Hui | Stars: Josephine Siao, Kar-Ying Law, Allen Ting, Roy Chiao
Votes: 827
Rank：#73 Original Title：女人四十
80. Mountain Patrol (2004)
PG-13 | 90 min | Action, Drama
A moving true story about volunteers protecting antelope against poachers in the severe mountains of Tibet.
Director: Chuan Lu | Stars: Duobujie, Lei Zhang, Dao Qi, Xueying Zhao
Votes: 5,432 | Gross: $0.14M
Rank：#73 Original Title：可可西里
81. Platform (2000)
154 min | Drama, History
A theatre troupe from rural Fenyang struggles under the decline of communism and rise of popular culture in China in the 1980s.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Hongwei Wang, Tao Zhao, Liang Jingdong, Tian-yi Yang
Votes: 3,075
Rank：#73 Original Title：站台
82. Summer Palace (2006)
Unrated | 158 min | Drama, Romance
Yu Hong leaves her home village and starts university in Beijing, where she develops a consuming and compulsive relationship with another student. The student riots from 1989 then ensue and take a toll on their lives.
Director: Ye Lou | Stars: Lei Hao, Xiaodong Guo, Xueyun Bai, Lin Cui
Votes: 4,317 | Gross: $0.06M
Rank：#73 Original Title：頤和園
83. Crazy Stone (2006)
98 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
What do you get when you have a precious jewel, a group of bumbling thieves intent on getting their hands on it, the mob wanting a piece of the action, and a loyal but mischievous security ... See full summary »
Director: Ning Hao | Stars: Tao Guo, Teddy Lin, Hua Liu, Gang Liu
Votes: 4,446
Rank：#83 Original Title：瘋狂的石頭
84. Not One Less (1999)
G | 106 min | Drama
13-year old Wei Minzhi is the new substitute teacher of a mountain village school. She is told not to lose any of her pupils under any circumstances.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Minzhi Wei, Huike Zhang, Zhenda Tian, Enman Gao
Votes: 9,360 | Gross: $0.59M
Rank：#83 Original Title：一個都不能少
85. Flowers of Shanghai (1998)
Unrated | 113 min | Drama
In the "flower houses" (upscale brothels) of Shanghai, various interweaving stories of love, loyalty, and deceit play out subtly.
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Michiko Hada, Michelle Reis, Carina Lau
Votes: 4,077
Rank：#83 Original Title：海上花
86. Blue Gate Crossing (2002)
85 min | Drama, Romance
An is-she-or-isn't-she gay comedy focused on a Taiwanese teen, the boy she might like, and the girl she may love.
Director: Chih-yen Yee | Stars: Gwei Lun-Mei, Chen Bo-lin, Yolin Liang, Joanna Chou
Votes: 4,376
Rank：#83 Original Title：藍色大門
87. The River (1997)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Romance
A young man develops severe neck pain after swimming in a polluted river; his dysfunctional parents are unable to provide any relief for him or themselves.
Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Stars: Miao Tien, Kang-sheng Lee, Yi-ching Lu, Ann Hui
Votes: 3,331
Rank：#83 Original Title：河流
88. Hill of No Return (1992)
165 min | Crime, Drama, History
Set in 1920s Taiwan under Japanese rule, two men join the Chiu-Fen gold rush hoping for riches, while a widow struggles and a prostitute yearns for freedom. A mine collapse traps miners as the widow leaves town.
Director: Toon Wang | Stars: Jen Chang-bin, Xianmei Chen, Pin-Yuan Huang, Chia-Chia Peng
Votes: 377
Rank：#83 Original Title：無言的山丘
89. Boat People (1982)
R | 109 min | Drama
A Japanese photojournalist revisits Vietnam after the Liberation and learns harsh truths about its regime and its "New Economic Zones".
Director: Ann Hui | Stars: George Lam, Cora Miao, Season Ma, Andy Lau
Votes: 1,682
Rank：#83 Original Title：投奔怒海
90. He Never Gives Up (1979)
110 min | Biography, Drama
It is about something that happens somewhere a couple years ago
Director: Hsing Lee | Stars: Han Chin, Feng-Jiao Lin, Hsiang-Ting Ko, Di Shao
Votes: 63
Rank：#83 Original Title：汪洋中的一條船
91. The Last Message (1975)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy
Ah Tim (Michael Hui) is a handy man and Li (Samuel Hui) is a nurse in the Hang Seng Sanitarium. Together thez engage in dubious plots and exploits.
Director: Michael Hui | Stars: Michael Hui, Samuel Hui, Roy Chiao, Eileen Humphreys
Votes: 226
Rank：#91 Original Title：天才與白癡
92. The Blue and the Black (Part 1) (1966)
118 min | Drama, Romance, War
Director: Ching Doe | Stars: Dai Lin, Shan Kwan, Han Chin, Min Chang
Votes: 63
Rank：#91 Original Title：藍與黑
93. Two Stage Sisters (1964)
112 min | Drama
Chronicles the fortunes of two actresses in pre-revolutionary China, who are separated by money and politics.
Director: Jin Xie | Stars: Fang Xie, Yindi Cao, Nan Deng, Ran Ding
Votes: 397
Rank：#91 Original Title：舞台姐妹
94. Early Spring (1963)
120 min | Drama
Jianqiu is a high school teacher and sympathizes Mrs. Wen, a widow whose husband was Jianqiu's schoolmate and died in the Guangzhou Uprising. Jianqiu and Lan fall in love, but Jianqiu decides to marry Mrs. Wen.
Director: Tieli Xie | Stars: Daolin Sun, Fang Xie, Yunzhu Shangguan, Xuepeng Fan
Votes: 175
Rank：#91 Original Title：早春二月
95. Xiao Wanyi (1933)
114 min | Drama, War
Sister Ye is the master craftswoman in a village of toymakers that is subject to outside attacks. A series of personal tragedies reduces her to a shell of herself, until she breaks and rallies the townsfolk to fight their oppressors.
Director: Yu Sun | Stars: Lingyu Ruan, Congmei Yuan, Li-li Li
Votes: 225
Rank：#91 Original Title：小玩意
96. The Lin Family Shop (1959)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama
A textile store in Zhejiang province encounters a series of trouble when the Japanese invade China and the war breaks out.
Director: Choui Khoua | Stars: Tian Xie, Bin Lin, Wei Ma, Tao Han
Votes: 155
Rank：#91 Original Title：林家鋪子
97. Shi zi jie tou (1937)
Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Four students in Shanghai have recently finished university. All are unemployed. Xu contemplates suicide but his friend Zhao talks him out of it. Zhao lives in a shabby room with just a ... See full summary »
Director: Xiling Shen | Stars: Dan Zhao, Yang Bai, Ban Lü, Yin Ying
Votes: 182
Rank：#91 Original Title：十字街頭
98. Police Story (1985)
PG-13 | 100 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A virtuous Hong Kong Police Officer must clear his good name when the drug lord he is after frames him for the murder of a dirty cop.
Directors: Jackie Chan, Chi-Hwa Chen | Stars: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Yuen Chor
Votes: 41,877 | Gross: $0.11M
Rank：#91 Original Title：警察故事
99. Once Upon a Time in China (1991)
R | 134 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Legendary martial arts hero Wong Fei-Hung fights against foreign forces' plundering of China. When Aunt Yee arrives back from America, Wong Fei-Hung assumes the role of her protector.
Director: Hark Tsui | Stars: Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, Biao Yuen, Jacky Cheung
Votes: 19,896
Rank：#91 Original Title：黃飛鴻（武狀元黃飛鴻）
100. Devils on the Doorstep (2000)
139 min | Comedy, Drama, War
Villagers in World War II China are unsure what to do with the two enemy prisoners who have been left in their care.
Director: Wen Jiang | Stars: Wen Jiang, Kenya Sawada, Hongbo Jiang, Teruyuki Kagawa
Votes: 8,617 | Gross: $0.02M
Rank：#91 Original Title：鬼子來了
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