A young woman who has been abandoned by her husband is left to cope with her mentally challenged and epileptic 13-year-old son.
Little Fanzi, a waitress in a restaurant, is a girl who is not at ease with her job and is full of fantasies. She fantasizes that one day she will be able to take off her "unprofitable waitress uniform" and become a singer and a medical worker.However, reality shatters her fantasy again and again, and Fanzi becomes depressed, hating her job even more and venting her frustration on the customers. Zhang Zhi, a university student who grew up as a childhood friend of Fanzi, is unwilling to watch Fanzi's depression, so he often comes to comfort her, telling her that all work is to serve the people...
A young woman who has been abandoned by her husband is left to cope with her mentally challenged and epileptic 13-year-old son.
Our Field depicts the lives of five sent-down youths during the Cultural Revolution and follows their continuous search for meaning during the subsequent years.
Winner of the Golden Rooster Award in 1982 for Best Film
Biography of the beloved Kong Fan Sen, a government official of Ali, an outlying area of Tibet. Kong leads the people of Ali to build a better home, but unfortunately dies on the way of an investigation.
A brilliant, blackly comic script and the subtle comic genius of star Zhu Xu mark this as one of the best tragi-comedies of post-liberation Chinese cinema.
Photographer Ouyang loves the Three Gorges and wins the love of Li Lan, a teacher from college of fine arts. After marriage, they have divergence on how the life should be. Ouyang shows that a wonderful life comes from dedication to career.
Love story between three young workers and a girl in a large steel factory.
Set in southwest China, a spy code-named "old Guanyin" wants to send information hidden in a statue of Guanyin.
The four old brothers are all fans of Journey to the West. They usually gag, spit, and abuse each other in a small city. One day, Hao Kunpeng (played by Liu Xiaoling Tong), who sells vegetables for a living, suddenly became rich overnight, changing from 20,000 to 20,000. I don’t worry about depositing the money in the bank and the habit of counting money. I took all the 20 million home and turned over the tricks to count money regularly every day.
In 1920s China, 19-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced to compete with his three wives for the privileges gained.
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