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At the Beach

1984 Movie Drama

"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.

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5.0 FILM

They fell in love; Chen Qiushui was 20. Wang Biyun was 18. When Qiushui fled Taiwan after the 228 Massacre, Biyun gave him a gold engagement ring and they promised to meet again. Qiushui served as an army doctor during the Korean War, where he met Wang Jindi, a nurse from Shanghai who fell in love with him instantly. Years had gone by, Qiushui married Jindi and settled in Tibet. While in Taiwan, Biyun buried Qiushui's mother and continued to pray for his return. Flashback to modern time, Biyun is living in New York. Her niece played by Isabella Leong, a writer, has travelled to Tibet to find out what happened to Qiushui. Through the pictures she sends back via internet, Biyun finally gets to see the familiar face once again.

The Knot

2006 Drama
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FILM

Tianhai, a criminal gang led by Huo, robs gold stores many times and repeatedly escapes from the police encirclement with their clairvoyant-like "operations predictions." Upon hearing that Mentor Zhang Chenmo and his apprentice are entrusted with a mission at a critical moment, the criminal police quickly lock in on the suspect who is out of the police’s sight; But Huo is fearless, frequently committing crimes in a high-profile manner to provoke the police... And so a cat-and-mouse game between police and criminals begins.

Fierce Hunt

2024 Action
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FILM

The setting is a heavily wooded, bandit-infested mountain pass somewhere in northern China during the Sino-Japanese War. In a dilapidated church lives a sullen young woman and her ferocious mutt. Passing through are strong, silent traders and porters, to whom she dispenses food, foot care and occasional sexual favors. Following an attack by bandits, a brutish porter stays on to tend his injuries and make moves on the woman. She, meanwhile, has the mutual hots for another porter, the handsome, kindlier “Sixth Brother." As tensions rise between the two men, the Japanese arrive to take the place by force...

Black Mountain

1994 Drama

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