After getting out of prison, small-time crook Mardar stumbles upon a woman who looks exactly like his long-lost lover, who he attempted to kidnap 3 years ago.
Ding Hui is a member of Purple Butterfly, a powerful resistance group in Japanese occupied Shanghai. An unexpected encounter reunites her with Itami, an ex-lover and officer with a secret police unit tasked with dismantling Purple Butterfly.
Backed into a corner by mounting debts, a youth agrees to submit himself to a high stakes game of chance in international waters aboard a disused warship.
During the dates of celebrating the Emperor's 80th birthday, an opera troupe from southern China was invited to come to Beijing to perform for the Emperor. Afterwards, the opera troupe was granted to stay in Beijing and became what we had known as 'Peking Opera' today.
When Song Qi stumbles upon her boyfriend's affair with her best friend, her life quickly starts falling apart and she is subsequently drawn into a quicksand of revenge and murder. Though all is not as it seems and Song Qi will have to embark on a twisted journey into her past and the very depths of...
In 1920s Shanghai, a group of brave young individuals band together to carry out a dangerous mission, and amid political turmoil, they grow through sacrifice and resilience.
In order to better support the blind mother of his fallen comrade, Kong Wanshan voluntarily gives up the preferential treatment policy granted by the state and settled at the foot of Mount Tai. There, in his twilight years, he finds the abandoned baby, named Shanxi.
In 1980s China, the country is beginning to reform and workers who had been moved with their families to the provinces in the 60s now long to return to Shanghai. For one displaced family a conflict arises when their 19-year-old daughter finds love with a local boy, threatening their chance of a...
Three interwoven stories of contemporary China. In the snowy forests of northern China, a lonely man herds reindeer and busies himself with his daily tasks, looking forward to visits from his wife and son. In Shanghai, a young restaurant worker becomes drawn to a troubled young woman and tries to...
One river, three generations, countless failures. In the late 1950s, a group of people living along the Qiantang River fought against fearsome tides for their respective beliefs.
During the Anti-Japanese War, Yang Haotian, a soldier of the New Fourth Army, is leading his fallen comrades back to his unit when he meets Qin Yu, a Nationalist intelligence officer who is being pursued by the Japanese at Lost Cloud Ridge.
The film tells the touching story of Yin Lingzhi, a young girl from a mountain village who experienced the severe test of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, and eventually grew into a staunch communist fighter and sacrificed her life for it.
When Lin Dalin's company loses clients to cheaper competitors, he accepts a large order with no profit margins in order to survive. But unpaid workers and rising wages risk a calamitous strike.
