The passenger ship Haiyan, with more than a thousand people aboard, sails through a thick fog at night. Despite having the knowledge that there are reefs nearby, the captain refuses to stop or slow down.
Wu Qionghua, a house maid, is abused by a cruel warlord until she joins a troop of women soldiers.
Fang Xiuying (played by Li Lan) is a female worker in a textile workshop, she and her boyfriend Zeng Qiang (played by Mao Yongming) have been in love for many years, and they plan to get married after waiting for their work unit to assign them a house. Fang Xiuying is a very kind and helpful girl, but no good deed goes unpunished, and her good-hearted nature is challenged at every turn by bad luck and the bad intentions of others.
Steelworker Ding Da-gan suffered severe burns in an accident. The victim's condition was almost hopeless, but people from all over the country rallied to save Ding Da-gan's life, and death receded.
Set in southwest China, a spy code-named "old Guanyin" wants to send information hidden in a statue of Guanyin.
After the defeat of the Japanese, the leadership of the Communist forces are invited by Chiang Kai-shek to "discuss the state of affairs" in Chongqing, with the goal of avoiding civil war.
"At he beach" - A hidden masterpiece: one part rural elegy, one part urban romance, forged together in an editing tour de force. Rarely screened in China or outside, this story of a fisherman’s daughter caught between factory work and feudal forced marriage is simply astonishing.
In Shanghai in 1937, a journalist meets and falls for a woman who refuses to tell him her name, referring to herself only as "Ghost". She disappears, and his efforts to find her lead the journalist to clear up an old, unsolved murder case.
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
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