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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)

Director: Dai Sijie
Starring: Xun Zhou, Chen Kun, Liu Ye

Set in China during the Cultural Revolution of the 1970s, the story follows Luo (Chen Kun) and Ma (Liu Ye), two young men from the city who are sent t... Read more

Beijing Bicycle (2002)

Director: Wang Xiao-Shuai
Starring: Xun Zhou, Cui Lin, Li Bin

Director/co-scripter Wang Xiao-Shuai's Sino-flavoured take on De Sica's "The Bicycle Thief" follows a rural Chinese youth who comes to Beijing and lan... Read more

Pavilion of Women (2000)

Director: Yim Ho
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Luo Yan, Shek Sau, John Cho, Yi Ding, Anita Loo

This romantic, historical epic, set in rural Southern China in 1938 is the love story of Madame Wu (Luo Yan), the Chinese wife of an aristocrat, and A... Read more

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

Director: Ang Lee
Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Chang Chen, Zhang Ziyi

A pair of martial arts masters and would-be lovers, an independent young woman with a dark secret, and the search for a stolen mystical sword all come... Read more

What Women Want (2011)

Director: Nancy Meyers
Starring: Andy Lau, Gong Li

After an accident, a chauvinistic executive gains the ability to hear what women are really thinking. Based on the Hollywood blockbuster. Read more

The Emperor and the Assassin (1999)

Director: Chen Kaige
Starring: Gong Li, Zhang Fengyi, Li Xuejian, Sun Zhou, Lu Xiaohe, Wang Zhiwen

This lavishly produced, epic historical drama is set in the third century B.C. and tells the multi-faceted story of the man who became the first Emper... Read more

Not One Less (1999)

Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Wei Minzhi, Zhang Huike

Follow the adventures of a 13 year old girl who, despite her age, finds herself working as a substitute teacher in the school of her small Chinese vil... Read more

Shower (1999)

Director: Zhang Yang
Starring: Zhu Xu, Pu Cun Xin, Jiang Wu

This acclaimed drama from Zhang Yang is set in and around a Beijing bathhouse run by its elderly owner and his slow witted son. The proprietor's older... Read more

The Road Home (1999)

Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Sun Honglei, Zhang Ziyi, Zheng Hao, Zhao Yuelin, Li Bin

An exotic and exquisite film set in the unfamiliar Chinese outback that tells a simple, sweet love story in flashback. Sun Honglei, Zheng Hao and Zhao... Read more

The Blue Kite (1993)

Director: Tian Zhuangzhuang
Starring: Lu Liping, Zhang Wenyao, Pu Quanxin

This harrowing tale of a family's struggle to survive in revolutionary China is told from the perspective of a young boy, Tietou, who witnesses first... Read more