Chinese films at the Berlinale
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1. Ah Ying (1983)
110 min | Drama
When romance starts to cool, Ah Ying applies for a job in a film centre. Instead of paying her for her work, the centre lets her attend its classes for free. She is later drawn into a ... See full summary »
Director: Allen Fong | Stars: Kwok-Lam Cha, Chi-Hung Chang, Ming-Cheung Chin, Pui Hui
Votes: 166
2. Blood Is Always Hot (1983)
107 min | Drama
Set in the early stage of Chinese reform and opening. Luo Xingang is a factory director and tries to save the products, the factory, and the faith.
Director: Yan Wen | Stars: Zaibao Yang, Xin Yin, Fei Lu, Senguan Zhou
Votes: 12
3. Quan shui ding dong (1983)
92 min | Drama
Xueli comes to understand the goodness of her aunt.
Director: Xiaohua Shi | Stars: Yi Lu, Yilin Ni, Ben Niu, Ruifang Zhang
Votes: 24
4. Strange Friends (1983)
80 min | Drama
An emotionally disturbed woman encounters two passengers on a train who befriend her and ultimately save her from self-destruction. Her fellow travelers find out she has a criminal past but they show her friendship and give her hope.
Director: Lei Xu | Stars: Ling Li, Yunxia Wang, Jingbo Zhan, Chao Zhang
Votes: 10
5. Crows and Sparrows (1949)
113 min | Drama
A story of a corrupt party official who attempts to sell an apartment building he has appropriated from the original owner and the struggles of the tenants to prevent themselves being thrown onto the street.
Director: Junli Zheng | Stars: Dan Zhao, Yinyan Wu, Daolin Sun, Yunzhu Shangguan
Votes: 319
6. Sha Ou (1981)
84 min | Drama, Sport
Sha Ou is a volleyball player and works hard against her injuries resulting from training. In spite of her defeat in an international competition and the the death of her boyfriend, she insists on her training.
Director: Nuanxing Zhang | Stars: Shanshan Chang, Bichuan Guo, Yunhui Jiang, Ping Li
Votes: 35
7. Life After Life (1981)
88 min | Horror
Puppets are brought to life and terrorize a rural area in medieval China.
Director: Wai-Chuen Yung | Stars: George Lam, Flora Chong-Leen, Mang-Ha Cheng, Sang Cheung
Votes: 71
8. 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
9. Wanjia denghuo (1948)
Not Rated | 124 min | Drama
This tale of familial warfare and sacrifice takes place in hard-pressed Shanghai at the end of the 1940s. Hu Zhiqing can barely support his wife and children, and his situation is worsened ... See full summary »
Director: Fu Shen | Stars: Ma Lan, Yunzhu Shangguan, Qiaqia Shi, Yinyan Wu
Votes: 153
10. Longing for Home (1981)
100 min | Drama
Kuang and his wife Liao left their son during the revolutionary war. When they finally find their son, Liao wants to get back him and breaks of all his relations with his foster mother.
Directors: Bingliu Hu, Jin Wang | Stars: Jinshang Huang, Xiaolei Huang, Yexiang Ren, Jin Wang
Votes: 11
11. Come Back Swallow (1981)
107 min | Drama
Two medical students, a married couple, are chosen to study abroad in the 1950s. But the wife has antagonised Party members and is banished to Mongolia. She divorces her husband without ... See full summary »
Director: Jinggong Fu | Stars: Shichang Da, Ying Gao, Yue Yuan
12. Breaking with Old Ideas (1976)
122 min | Drama
Set in the "cultural revolution" period of China, a college of labor is set up in a mountain area of Jiangxi Province. Long Guozheng, a veteran cadre of Chinese People's Anti-Japanese ... See full summary »
Director: Wenhua Li | Stars: Zhenqing Guo, Suya Wang, Xiying Wen, Zheng Zhang
Votes: 92
15. Huang shan lai de gu niang (1984)
Drama
Directors: Yanfu Yu, Yuan Zhang | Stars: Yi Ding, Ling Li, Yunying Zhang
Votes: 13
16. Evening Bell (1989)
90 min | Drama
Five Eighth-Route army soldiers induce a isolated Japanese squad to capitulate.
Director: Ziniu Wu | Stars: Chong Peipei, Qi Zhao, Ruolei Liu, Yaming Ge
Votes: 48
17. Yuanli zhanzhengde niandai (1987)
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Mei Hu | Stars: Zongluo Huang, Xueqi Wang, Lin Zhu, Yuling Tao
Votes: 9
19. 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: 9,860
20. Ben ming nian (1990)
107 min | Crime, Drama
A semi-literate who was deprived of schooling during the Cultural Revolution, Li Huiquan, is released from labor camp. But his attempts to make good are continually thwarted. His street ... See full summary »
Director: Fei Xie | Stars: Wen Jiang, Cheng Lin, Hong Yue, Xiaoning Liu
Votes: 552
21. A Terra-Cotta Warrior (1989)
145 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
China 2.200 years ago. It's the time of the Qin dynasty. The emperor seeks immortality by busily letting his alchemists search for a formula and building the famous terracotta army from the... See full summary »
Director: Siu-Tung Ching | Stars: Yimou Zhang, Gong Li, Tian-Ming Wu, Rongguang Yu
Votes: 1,086
22. Full Moon in New York (1989)
88 min | Drama
Three very different Asian women forge a friendship in New York.
Director: Stanley Kwan | Stars: Sylvia Chang, Maggie Cheung, Yat-Gam Chu, Siqin Gaowa
Votes: 335
23. Dull Ice Flower (1989)
99 min | Family, Drama
A young fine-art teacher Kuo is assigned to teach in a small-town. Ah-Ming, an eight-year-old painting genius, is in Kuo's class. Ah- Ming performed badly in school, but he has great sense ... See full summary »
Director: Li Kao Yang | Stars: Kun-Hsuan Huang, Shu-Chen Li, Han Yu, Rachel Chang
Votes: 435
24. Raining in the Mountain (1979)
120 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In Ming Dynasty China, the abbot of the San Pao Buddhist monastery must choose a successor. Among the high dignitaries invited, there are some who are after the priceless parchment kept in the temple: the Mahayana Sutras.
Director: King Hu | Stars: Feng Hsu, Yueh Sun, Lin Tung, Feng Tien
Votes: 1,492
26. Doctor Bethune (1993)
Drama
Canadian surgeon Norman Bethune assists the Communists during the anti-Japanese struggle.
Directors: Zheng Gao, Shutian Li | Stars: Li Cun, Wei Shi, Gerald Tannebaum, Hua Tian
Votes: 23
27. Lin Zexu (1959)
102 min | Drama, History, War
Set in the middle of 19th century, in city of Guangzhou. The United Kingdom stretches her tentacles to China, the country of great antiquity. UK exports a lot of opium to the Qing Dynasty ... See full summary »
Directors: Fan Cen, Junli Zheng | Stars: Dan Zhao, Zheng Gao, Nan Deng, Bo Gao
Votes: 126
28. Havoc in Heaven (1961)
Not Rated | 114 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Sun Wukong, the King of the Monkeys, sets off on his first adventure to gain a worthy weapon. This earns the attention of the Jade Emperor of Heaven.
Directors: Wan Laiming, Cheng Tang | Stars: Yue-Feng Qiu, Run-Sheng Fu, Hans Alfredson, Ke Bi
Votes: 2,387
29. Bao feng zhou yu (1961)
108 min | Drama
Set in the war of liberation in China, CCP send a working group led by Xiang Xiao to a village in northeast China called Yuanmao Tun to carry through rural land reform.
Director: Tieli Xie | Stars: Yang Yu, Baocheng Gao, Fei Lu, Baiwan Li
Votes: 9
30. Da lang tao sha (1964)
124 min | Drama
Story of 4 young people joining the revolutionary movement in 1920s China.
Director: Yi Lin | Stars: Ruichao Jian, Tsin Kung-cho, Ku Ta-Ming, Yu Yang
Votes: 10
31. Chuang ye (1974)
Not Rated | 148 min | Drama
The story of the beginning of China's oil industry.
Director: Yanfu Yu | Stars: Yin Chen, Xibin Gong, Rentang Li, Jie Zhang
Votes: 8
32. Da taijian Li Lianying (1991)
110 min | Drama, History, Romance
The story of Li Lianying, a eunuch who wielded power in the waning days of the Qing Dynasty. The film was entered into the 41st Berlin International Film Festival, where it won an Honourable Mention.
Director: Zhuangzhuang Tian | Stars: Wen Jiang, Xiaoqing Liu, Jiali Ding, Xianzhen Feng
Votes: 126
33. The Big Mill (1992)
Action, Drama
A Communist is outraged by the structures of power in his village in China in the 1930s, during the corrupt Nationalist regime of Chiang Kai Shek.
Director: Ziniu Wu | Star: Zeru Tao
Votes: 6
34. O, xiangxue (1991)
89 min | Family
Director: Haowei Wang | Stars: Ye Tang, Bai Xue, Li Zhuang
Votes: 15
35. Miss Jiao Jiao (1986)
100 min | Family
Director: Jinjing Chen | Stars: Xundong Gong, Haiguang Cheng, Yuan Shi, Lei Hua
Votes: 7
36. Sparkling Fox (1994)
98 min
In this metaphysical adventure two very different men come to the same mountain to hunt a special fox and end up hunting each other.
Director: Ziniu Wu | Stars: Hanlin Gong, Tumen, Jieming Yu
37. Always on My Mind (1993)
104 min | Comedy
When news anchor Michael Hui discovers he has cancer and only has three months to live, he decides to play it for all its worth on television for big ratings and lots of money.
Director: Chi Leung 'Jacob' Cheung | Stars: Josephine Siao, Michael Hui, Siu-Ha Chan, Spencer Chan
Votes: 168
38. Pao Da Shuang Deng (1994)
R | 111 min | Drama, Romance
In 1920s China, the wealthy heiress of a firework business falls in love with an impoverished painter, but her late father's will prohibits their union.
Director: Ping He | Stars: Jing Ning, Gang Wu, Xiaorui Zhao, Yang Gao
Votes: 509 | Gross: $0.27M
39. The Most Terrible Time in My Life (1993)
92 min | Drama, Thriller
Maiku Hama is a private detective working in Yokohama. Hama comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter named Yang and agrees to track down his missing brother. Through a series of ... See full summary »
Director: Kaizô Hayashi | Stars: Masatoshi Nagase, Shirô Sano, Kiyotaka Nanbara, Hai-Ping Yang
Votes: 432
40. Chatterbox (1993)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Jixiang(which means "lucky" in Mandarin) village has a child called Min Sheng, because of his talkative, people call him "Chatterbox." His brother Qun Sheng grew up and brought his fiancé, ... See full summary »
Director: Miaomiao Liu | Stars: Cuifen Cao, Shaoxiong Guo, Lei Li, Xiaoyan Lu
41. Luminous Moss (1992)
118 min | Drama, Horror
A headmaster and a novelist, looking for inspiration, regard a strange natural phenomenon before sharing stories of their own.
Director: Kei Kumai | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Hisashi Igawa, Satoko Iwasaki, Taketoshi Naitô
Votes: 67
42. 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: 2,708
43. Pushing Hands (1991)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Drama
All the while, Master Chu tries to find his place in the foreign American world.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Sihung Lung, Lai Wang, Bozhao Wang, Deb Snyder
Votes: 4,808 | Gross: $0.15M
44. Huo yan shan lai de gu shou (1991)
Family
A talented young tambourine player joins an ensemble in the capital of a West China province.
Director: Chunlan Guang | Stars: Nula Ayi, Banjiang Kuer
Votes: 9
45. 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: 17,113 | Gross: $6.93M
46. Woman Sesame Oil Maker (1993)
105 min | Drama
If money can't buy happiness, can it at least buy control over others? Xiang is hard-working, running a small sesame oil business. Her husband is lazy and drinks; her son is blood simple. ... See full summary »
Director: Fei Xie | Stars: Siqin Gaowa, Yujuan Wu, Kesheng Lei, Baoguo Chen
Votes: 404
47. Cageman (1992)
145 min | Drama
The story about a young, unemployed man, who after being kicked out is desperate enough to live anywhere. He is directed to Fatso, who owns the caged establishment, and is given a living space.
Director: Chi Leung 'Jacob' Cheung | Stars: Roy Chiao, Kai-Chi Liu, Teddy Robin Kwan, Feng Ku
Votes: 276
49. 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: 5,516 | Gross: $0.03M
50. 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: 825
51. Red Rose White Rose (1994)
110 min | Drama
Chronicles the love life of a man, Zhenbao. He has a steamy fling with the wife of a friend, the saucy and exciting Red Rose. Even though he feels happy with her, he knows he will not end ... See full summary »
Director: Stanley Kwan | Stars: Joan Chen, Veronica Yip, Winston Chao, Zhao Chang
Votes: 327
52. Blush (1995)
115 min | Drama
The film charts the fortunes of two women who loved each other as sisters, but whose paths diverge when the Revolution brings an end to their old way of life in the brothel.
Director: Shaohong Li | Stars: Ji Wang, Zhiwen Wang, Saifei He, Liwei Zhang
Votes: 158
53. Gui tu (1995)
106 min
Director: Pun-Hei Leung | Stars: Yim Wong, Wai-Lun Chan, Radium Cheung, Kwok-On Ho
Votes: 8
54. 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: 4,783
56. The Great Conqueror's Concubine (1994)
165 min | Action, Drama, History
Insurrection deposes the tyrannical first emperor of China during the evil Qin Dynasty. Warrior/general Xiang Yu and the cunning peasant Liu Pang join forces to win through civil war. Xiang... See full summary »
Director: Stephen Shin | Stars: Ray Lui, Rosamund Kwan, Gong Li, Fengyi Zhang
Votes: 299
57. Ri guang xia gu (1995)
TV-14 | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Avenger, a brooding swordsman armed with a blade marked "Slayer of 1000 Armies" claims he's waiting for a long-missing friend, at an outpost in Northwest China's Sun Valley. The Avenger... See full summary »
Director: Ping He | Stars: Fengyi Zhang, Xueqi Wang, Kuei-Mei Yang, Feng Ku
Votes: 65
58. Mahjong (1996)
121 min | Comedy, Drama
When a well known businessman goes missing, owing $100m to Taipei's underworld, two hoods decide to follow his son, the leader of a youth gang. A small group of trendy foreigners gets caught up in the action.
Director: Edward Yang | Stars: Tsung Sheng Tang, Chang Chen, Lawrence Ko, Chi-tsan Wang
Votes: 1,636
59. The Sun Has Ears (1995)
104 min | Drama
The story of a northern Chinese peasant wife in the 1920s whose personal life is played out against a background of sweeping political change.
Director: Ho Yim | Stars: Qiang Gao, Yong You, Yu Zhang
Votes: 35
60. Red Cherry (1995)
120 min | Drama, War
It is 1940. Chuchu and Luo Xiaoman are Chinese students who have been sent to study in Moscow, at the international school. She is 13; he is 12. Xiaoman is from Yanan, Mao's base after the ... See full summary »
Director: Daying Ye | Stars: Ke-Yu Guo, Xiao-Li Xu, Igor Ledogorov, Vyacheslav Butenko
Votes: 748
61. Chinese Chocolate (1995)
95 min | Drama
Searching for love abroad, two very different Chinese women, a dancer and a doctor, follow their dreams and journey west to Canada. They quickly learn that the paths of heart are rocky as ... See full summary »
Director: Yan Cui | Stars: Yan Cui, Diana Pang, James Purcell, Bozhao Wang
Votes: 129
62. The Blade (1995)
105 min | Action
A swordsmith trains his friend's orphaned son. The boy seeks revenge for his father's murder but loses an arm rescuing the swordsmith's daughter. A hermit girl nurses him, and he learns swordsmanship with his father's broken sword.
Director: Hark Tsui | Stars: Wenzhuo Zhao, Xin Xin Xiong, Sonny Su, Valerie Chow
Votes: 3,577
63. Sense and Sensibility (1995)
PG | 136 min | Drama, Romance
Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the title opposites.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, James Fleet, Tom Wilkinson
Votes: 125,573 | Gross: $43.18M
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