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Ju Dou (1989)
7.7/10
Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Gong Li, Li Wei, Li Baotian, Zhang Li
This erotic drama follows the passion as a beautiful young bride is drawn to the handsome, strong nephew of her new husband. An exquisitely photograph... Read more
Shanghai Triad (1995)
7.2/10
Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Gong Li, Li Baotian, Li Xuejian, Sun Chun
Zhang Yimou's absorbing tale of the Chinese underworld in the 1930s, focusing on a boy who's hired to be the silent servant of a pampered nightclub qu... Read more
What Women Want (2011)
6.4/10
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
2046 (2004)
7.5/10
Director: Wong Kar-wai
Starring: Maggie Cheung, Takuya Kimura, Tony Leung (Chiu Wai), Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi, Faye W...
Wong Kar-wai's lush companion to 2000's festival hit 'In The Mood For Love', sees Tony Leung return as Hong Kong writer Chow, who has given up journal... Read more
Chinese Box (1997)
6.3/10
Director: Wayne Wang
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Gong Li, Maggie Cheung, Ruben Blades
Hong Kong's 1997 return to China is the setting for this romantic drama starring Jeremy Irons as a jaded journalist whose life is at crossroads and wh... Read more
Eros (2004)
6/10
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, Wong Kar-wai
Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Alan Arkin, Gong Li
Three short films, one each from Directors Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, and Wong Kar Wai, address the themes of love and sex. Read more
Temptress Moon (1996)
6.9/10
Director: Chen Kaige
Starring: Leslie Cheung, Gong Li, Kevin Lin, He Saifei
1920's Shanghai is displayed in all it's decadence with opium-addicted Ruyi (Gong Li) forced to officially head the Pang family after the death of the... Read more
Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
8.2/10
Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Gong Li, Ma Jingwu, He Caifei, Cao Cuifeng
This magnificent film chronicles the life of a 1920s maiden who, at her mother's urging, agrees to marry a wealthy man. She becomes 'fourth mistress'... Read more
Red Sorghum (1989)
7.5/10
Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Gong Li, Wen Jiang, Liu Jia, Rujun Ten
A vivid, richly coloured drama about a young woman who takes on the management of her late husband's distillery in Northern China. All appears to be g... Read more
Zhou Yu's Train (2003)
Director: Sun Zhou
Starring: Gong Li, Tony Leung (Ka Fai), Sun Honglei
This stylized romantic drama sees Zhou Yu (Gong Li) take a long train ride twice a week to meet her poet lover, Tony Leung. But accompanying her on t... Read more
Dragon Chronicles: The Maidens of Heavenly Mountains (1994)
Director: Wing Keung Chien
Starring: Brigitte Lin, Gong Li, Man Cheung, Norman Chu
AKA: 'The Immortals'. This big budget wu shu spectacular was slated on its original release, and though the plot, based on a complex novel, is somewh... Read more
The Emperor and the Assassin (1999)
7.3/10
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
Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)
7/10
Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Gong Li, Jay Chou, Liu Ye, Dahong Ni, Junjie Qin, Man Li
Zhang Yimou's characteristically lush historical melodrama, set near the end of theTang Dynasty, with Chow Yun-Fat as the Emperor whose wife (Gong Li)... Read more
Hannibal Rising (2007)
6.2/10
Director: Peter Webber
Starring: Gaspard Ulliel, Gong Li, Rhys Ifans, Dominic West, Kevin McKidd
Beginning in World War II-era Lithuania, young Hannibal (Gaspard Ulliel) is forced to watch his family brutally massacred. After a brief spell in a S... Read more
Once Upon A Time In China And America (1997)
6.4/10
Director: Sammo Hung
Starring: Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, Chan Kwok Pong
Martial arts goes western in this action-filled saga starring Jet Li as Master Wong, who journeys with his aunt to the American West, where they encou... Read more
Shanghai (2010)
6.4/10
Director: Mikael Hafstrom
Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, David Morse, Franka Potente, Gong Li, Hugh Bonneville, John Cusack...
Set in 1941 on the eve of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the story revolves around American spy Paul Soames (John Cusack), who arrives in Japane... Read more
Farewell My Concubine (1993)
8.1/10
Director: Chen Kaige
Starring: Leslie Cheung, Zhang Fengyi, Gong Li, Lu Qi, Ying Da
A sumptuously detailed panorama of Chinese history as seen through the eyes of two male stars of the Chinese Opera. Joint winner (with 'The Piano') of... Read more
To Live (1994)
8.3/10
Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Ge You, Gong Li, Niu Ben, Guo Tao, Jiang Wu
This stirring film follows a married couple as their fortunes rise and fall, through several decades of Chinese life, from the 1940s onward. Ge You, G... Read more
The Story of Qiu Ju (1992)
7.6/10
Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Gong Li, Lei Lao Sheng, Ge Zhi Jun, Lui Pei Qi
In this beautiful and humourous film from the acclaimed director of 'Raise the Red Lantern', a peasant woman takes on the Chinese legal system when he... Read more
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
7.4/10
Director: Rob Marshall
Starring: Zhang Ziyi, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Koji Yakusho, Youki Kudoh, Gong Li
Adapted from Arthur Golden's best-selling novel, nine-year-old Chiyo is sold into servitude at a geisha house in 1930s Kyoto. However the head geisha... Read more
Born to Defend (1986)
Director: Jet Li
Starring: Jet Li, Kurt Roland Petersson, Jia Song, Paulo Tocha
Jet Li's first and last film as a director tells a story of foreign oppression as American G.I.s invade China, ganging up on kickboxing champ, Jet. W... Read more
Romeo Must Die (1999)
6.1/10
Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Starring: Jet Li, Aaliyah, Isaiah Washington, Russell Wong, Delroy Lindo
Gravity warping martial arts, cool visual effects and an all-star music track combine in this revved-up action movie from producer Joel Silver ("The M... Read more
Miami Vice ( Blu-ray ) (2006)
6/10
Director: Michael Mann
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell, Naomie Harris, Gong Li, Ciaran Hinds, Justin Theroux
Leaving the pastels and synthesizers far behind Michael Mann reinvents his original series into a hard-boiled police drama. Unfortunately, also gone i... Read more
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (2010)
6.1/10
Director: Wayne Wang
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Vivian Wu, Russell Wong, Bingbing Li, Gianna Jun
Based on the best-selling novel by Lisa See, this sweeping drama tells the story of seven-year-old girls Snow Flower and Lily, in 19th Century China,... Read more
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor ( Blu-ray ) (2008)
5.2/10
Director: Rob Cohen
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Maria Bello, John Hannah, Michelle Yeoh, Anthony Wong, R...
Another entertaining entry in the FX-laden 'Mummy' franchise, with Brendan Fraser and co back to kick more crusty old butt. Jet Li is the 2000-year-ol... Read more
Miami Vice (2006)
6/10
Director: Michael Mann
Starring: Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li, Naomie Harris, Ciaran Hinds, Justin Theroux,...
Leaving the pastels and synthesizers far behind Michael Mann reinvents his original series into a hard-boiled police drama. Unfortunately, also gone... Read more
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)
5.2/10
Director: Rob Cohen
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Maria Bello, John Hannah, Michelle Yeoh, Anthony Wong, R...
Another entertaining entry in the FX-laden 'Mummy' franchise, with Brendan Fraser and co back to kick more crusty old butt. Jet Li is the 2000-year-ol... Read more