Roosters + Flowers 2000-2009
by antodimichele | created - 21 Feb 2023 | updated - 21 Feb 2023 | PublicMovies to watch awarded or nominated in Golden Rooster Awards and Hundred Flowers Awards in the '00s
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1. The Road Home (1999)
G | 89 min | Drama, Romance
Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Ziyi Zhang, Honglei Sun, Hao Zheng, Yulian Zhao
Votes: 13,920 | Gross: $1.28M
2. Roaring Across the Horizon (1999)
111 min | Drama, History
Set in 1950s and 1960s, general Feng Shi and Dr. Lu Guangda coming back from USA lead a team of scientists and soldiers to research and develop China's own atomic bomb in the Gobi Desert of northwest China.
Director: Guoxing Chen | Stars: Xuejian Li, Youbin Li, Jin Chen, Ming Gao
Votes: 210
3. Sheng si jue ze (2000)
162 min | Drama
Li Gaocheng is the mayor of the city of Haizhou. One day, workers at the textile factory of which he used to be chief are in uproar. Indeed, the workers accuse the new managers of the ... See full summary »
Director: Benzheng Yu | Stars: Qingxiang Wang, Jingsheng Liao, Ling Zuo, Zhenrong Wang
Votes: 45
4. Meili de dajiao (2003)
103 min | Drama
In response to the death of her husband and young son, peasant Zhang Meili founds a school in the dry desert landscape of northwest China. When cultured and chipper Xia Yu arrives from ... See full summary »
Director: Yazhou Yang | Stars: Ping Ni, Quan Yuan, Haiying Sun, Yajun Xu
Votes: 163
5. Chong chu ya ma xun (2002)
102 min | Action
Set in 1999. Two China special force soldiers are selected to join in an international training camp located in Amazon basin in Latin America. They withstand plenty of tests and tremendous ... See full summary »
Director: Yeming Song | Stars: Yong Hou, Lixin Mu
Votes: 209
6. Nuan (2003)
109 min | Drama
The film follows Lin Jinghe, a young man who, for the last ten years, has been living in the big city. When he returns home, he runs into his childhood love, Nuan.
Director: Jianqi Huo | Stars: Xiaotong Guan, Xiaodong Guo, Teruyuki Kagawa, Jia Li
Votes: 274
7. Meili Shanghai (2004)
100 min | Drama
the rise and fall of a family in Shanghai. Once wealthy and capitalist, the family unraveled during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s. Their home, once a French concession ... See full summary »
Director: Xiaolian Peng | Stars: Yuanzheng Feng, Josephine Koo, Joey Wang, Youliang Zhao
Votes: 82
8. Tai Hang shan shang (2005)
117 min | History, War
As the Japanese troops sweep southwards from Manchuria to China proper, the Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang ally to hold them back at Taihang Mountains. But their alliance proves fragile at best.
Directors: Jian Chen, Dong Shen, Lian Wei | Stars: Wufu Wang, Shusheng Li, Guangming Xu, Shikui Yan
Votes: 148
9. 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
10. The Knot (2006)
117 min | Drama, Romance, War
A Taiwanese medical student defects to Mainland China due to Nationalist persecution, became an army surgeon during Korean War, and later went to Tibet as a doctor, while pining for his ... See full summary »
Director: Li Yin | Stars: Kun Chen, Vivian Hsu, Bingbing Li, Steven Cheung
Votes: 505
11. Assembly (2007)
124 min | Action, Biography, Drama
A soldier fights to gain recognition for comrades who died during the Chinese Civil War.
Director: Xiaogang Feng | Stars: Hanyu Zhang, Chao Deng, Wenkang Yuan, Yan Tang
Votes: 7,336
12. Mei Lanfang (2008)
150 min | Biography, Drama, History
A biographical account of Mei Lanfang, China's greatest opera star.
Director: Kaige Chen | Stars: Leon Lai, Ziyi Zhang, Honglei Sun, Hong Chen
Votes: 1,628
13. A Love of Blueness (2001)
99 min | Romance
Rookie policeman Tai Lin yearned to be an artist before he failed an examination and followed in his father's footsteps. One day he interrupts an apparent suicide attempt by a woman standing on the edge of a bridge.
Director: Jianqi Huo | Stars: Minjie Cui, Yueming Pan, Rujun Teng, Gang Wang
Votes: 62
14. He ni zai yi qi (2002)
PG | 116 min | Drama, Music
A violin prodigy and his father travel to Beijing, where the father seeks the means to his son's success while the son struggles to accept the path laid before him.
Director: Kaige Chen | Stars: Yun Tang, Peiqi Liu, Hong Chen, Zhiwen Wang
Votes: 4,476 | Gross: $0.60M
15. Tianshang caoyuan (2002)
110 min | Drama
A Mongol and his ex-wife take care of a 10-year-old Chinese boy, the son of a man he met in prison.
Directors: Mailisi, Saifu | Stars: Guersireng, Renhua Na, Cai Ning, Tumen
Votes: 29
16. Tiangou (2006)
101 min | Crime, Drama
A plucky guard risks life and limb battling illegal loggers.
Director: Jian Qi | Stars: Dalong Fu, Zifeng Liu, Li Zhou, Yuanyuan Zhu
Votes: 191
17. Battle of the Warriors (2006)
R | 133 min | Action, Drama, War
Story centers on a battle during China's Warring States Period, a series of civil wars, which spanned from the 5th to the 3rd century B.C. Based on a popular Japanese manga, which was in turn based a Japanese novel inspired by Warring States history in China.
Director: Chi Leung 'Jacob' Cheung | Stars: Andy Lau, Ahn Sung-ki, Zhiwen Wang, Bingbing Fan
Votes: 4,404
18. A Postman of Paradise (2007)
88 min | Drama
Based on the extraordinary but true life story of Sichuan country postman Wang Shunyou, who was voted among "China's 10 Personalities of the Year 2005" for his awe-inspiring dedication to his work.
Director: Zhong Yu | Stars: Ermayina, Lin Qiu
Votes: 11
19. The Equation of Love and Death (2008)
96 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
When a mysterious death occurs, the lives of five unexpected strangers are suddenly intertwined together. A drug trafficking crime is unveiled, and through the twists and turns of the ... See full summary »
Director: Baoping Cao | Stars: Xun Zhou, Chao Deng, Wang Ning, Yanhui Wang
Votes: 1,474
20. Painted Skin (2008)
103 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
An action-thriller centered on a vampire-like woman who eats the skins and hearts of her lovers.
Directors: Gordon Chan, Andy Wing-Keung Chin, Danny Ko | Stars: Donnie Yen, Xun Zhou, Kun Chen, Wei Zhao
Votes: 5,279
21. Crazy Racer (2009)
99 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Assassins, scammers, gangsters, cops, a washed-up bicycle racer, and a body continually cross paths; usually with negative outcomes.
Director: Ning Hao | Stars: Huang Bo, Kung-Wei Lu, Morris Hsiang Jung, Jack Kao
Votes: 2,616
22. National Anthem (1999)
100 min | Drama, War
Director: Ziniu Wu | Stars: Kun Chen, Heng Fu, Zhengjun He, Wei Kong
Votes: 30
23. Lover's Grief Over the Yellow River (1999)
105 min | Drama, War
The film tells the story of a grounded American pilot during the Second World War who learns about the noble spirit of the Chinese poeple when he is rescued by the communist-led Chinese ... See full summary »
Director: Xiaoning Feng | Stars: Jing Ning, Paul Kersey, Xinjun Wang, Tumen
Votes: 325
24. Big Shot's Funeral (2001)
PG | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
Yankie director Don Tyler faces mounting insecurity and declining health while on location in Beijing, so his assistant hires down-and-out camerman YoYo to take the reins. Scrambling, ... See full summary »
Director: Xiaogang Feng | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Rosamund Kwan, Paul Mazursky, You Ge
Votes: 2,407 | Gross: $0.00M
25. A Father with His Twenty-five Children (2002)
90 min | Drama, Family
Having been an orphan himself, a philanthropic bachelor claims to the press at an orphanage endowment event that he shall be father to any orphan, and once word gets around, urchins start pouring in.
Director: Hong Huang | Stars: Siqin Gaowa, Lan Yu, Lin Li, Kesheng Lei
Votes: 45
26. Sound of Colors (2003)
108 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Ming a marriage consultant who runs into the charming but blind Yeuk through a little help of a guardian angel. The wheel of fortune is set in motion after the lonesome Ming discovers that ... See full summary »
Director: Joe Ma | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Miriam Chin-Wah Yeung, Chang Chen, Jie Dong
Votes: 489
27. Goddess of Mercy (2003)
110 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The film has been made after a popular novel that is devoted to the everyday work of a drug police team. The protagonist is a courageous police woman whose relations with three men in her ... See full summary »
Director: Ann Hui | Stars: Wei Zhao, Nicholas Tse, Yunlong Liu, Jianbin Chen
Votes: 509
28. Tian di ying xiong (2003)
R | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A Chinese emissary is sent to the Gobi desert to execute a renegade soldier. When a caravan transporting a Buddhist monk and a valuable treasure is threatened by thieves, however, the two warriors might unite to protect the travelers.
Director: Ping He | Stars: Wen Jiang, Kiichi Nakai, Xueqi Wang, Wei Zhao
Votes: 4,442 | Gross: $0.08M
29. Nuan chun (2003)
100 min | Drama
Family roles and responsibilities are questioned when an elderly father welcomes a foster child into his home despite the adamant disapproval of his son and daughter-in-law.
Director: Wulan Tana | Stars: Yang Hao, Qi Ruyi, Chengren Tian, Weijie Yu
Votes: 206
30. Cell Phone (2003)
107 min | Drama, Comedy
Follows the story of a television host who's hidden so much personal and secret information on his phone, that when it gets out, catastrophe strikes.
Director: Xiaogang Feng | Stars: You Ge, Fan Xu, Guoli Zhang, Bingbing Fan
Votes: 1,526
31. New Police Story (2004)
R | 123 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A hero cop accidentally leads his team into a trap from which he is the only survivor. Drowning his guilt in booze, he is eventually assigned a new younger partner who turns out to have his own secrets.
Director: Benny Chan | Stars: Jackie Chan, Nicholas Tse, Charlie Yeung, Daniel Wu
Votes: 28,992
32. 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: 150,834 | Gross: $17.11M
33. 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: 4,443
34. Invisible Wings (2007)
93 min | Family
A girl named Zhi Hua lost both of her arms because of a high voltage electric shock. She could do nothing, not even going to school, because she couldn't write her homework. This sudden ... See full summary »
Director: Zhenzhi Feng | Star: Qingyao Lei
Votes: 29
35. The Myth (2005)
PG-13 | 122 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Archeologist Jack keeps having reoccurring dreams of a past life, where he is the great general Meng Yi, who is sworn to protect a princess named Ok-Soo. Jack decides to go investigate everything with his friend William.
Director: Stanley Tong | Stars: Bing Shao, Jackie Chan, Weixing Yao, Jianzhong Zhang
Votes: 16,314
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