Qing Yao is a botanist. She bumps into Zhang Gaixiu, a taxi driver. First they hate each other and gradually they understand each other and later help each other.
When the Cultural Revolution comes to an end and reform sweeps over China, two drivers of the Fifth Iron and Steel Factory set up a pancake stall in the free market in front of the factory, annoying the secretary of the Party Committee.
Qing Yao is a botanist. She bumps into Zhang Gaixiu, a taxi driver. First they hate each other and gradually they understand each other and later help each other.
In 1935, Japan's Unit 731 conducts inhumane experiments. A doctor tries to free prisoners, including his fiancée, from the camp while witnessing atrocities.
Principal of a reformatory school leads a lost boy back on the right direction.
The adventure in Nanjing of the legendary CCP undercover Qian Zhuangfei.
The story of village children in the 1930s who do their part to help overthrow the White forces in semi-feudal China and bring the Reds to power.
Shot in 1995, but banned until 2004, this is an adaptation of Su Tong's novel about a shrewd amoral country boy who arrives in the big city in the 1930s and works at a rice emporium.. Initially pushed around, he learns the ropes in his new environment quickly, eventually climbing to the position of boss by marrying the daughter of the house.
The intricate and difficult life of a theatrical troupe actress with the stage name of Red Peony.
A 29-year-old assistant engineer is assigned the director of a failing synthetic fiber factory.
A Xiang, a country girl working at Dafeng cotton mill, purchases a red dress, in fashion on the streets of Shanghai. One day, she lends it to Xing'er, a model worker, and causes a drastic shift in her personality.
Assistant researcher Li Dapin’s claim of discovering a Quaternary “living fossil” tree propels him into sudden fame and brutal institutional rivalry at a research institute.
A restaurant in Suzhou learns how to incite employees to provide best service to customers.
Set in late 1920s, Huang Ying Gu leads a group of outlaws in green woods, and joins the Red Army.
In the snowy countryside of northern China, Wen receives a telegram informing her that her father is dead. She travels to the city and finds he was branded a reactionary in the midst of the Cultural Revolution. She is distraught, and on the way home, she is harassed and attacked by thugs, but she stays in the home of a kind-hearted doctor.
The Shore of Yanming Lake
1981 Chinese Film
A woman leaves her husband after the death of their son. She becomes a well-known but unhappy socialite.
When Gu Tingting, a young worker in a silk factory in Suzhou, is suddenly notified by a court in Shanghai that she will inherit a large sum of money from her aunt as her adopted daughter, her cousin Feng files a lawsuit against her backed by a forgery. Judge Ping senses foul play, and meets with Tingting, who begins recounting her past.
Young people encounter life lost in Chinese ten years chaos. A couple fall in love and get married, and then vacillate about affection after the end of chaos.
This is to be the last winter for Grandpa Ge. Instead of pining away in hospital, he feverishly shapes his life; an eccentric individualist who is becoming demented, but persists when youths try to sway him. Grandpa wants to survive until spring when the fields are ploughed.
Yu Hong leaves her home village and starts university in Beijing, where she develops a consuming and compulsive relationship with another student. The student riots from 1989 then ensue and take a toll on their lives.
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