Based on the tragic true story of China's first prima donna of the silver screen, Ruan Lingyu, chronicling her rise to fame as a movie actress in Shanghai during the 1930s.
A C.I.A. agent is assigned to go to Beijing to look for a hidden "treasure," which turns out to be a woman who has supernatural powers, and is the National Treasure of China.
Yu Ching seduces the innocent Yuk Lam and sells her to a brothel where she gets the attention of a general and eventually has his child. But Yu Ching schemes again and more disasters befall Yuk Lam, until finally, her sister must take revenge.
Stretching across the canvas of the Sino-Japanese War of the 30s, the subsequent Japanese surrender in 1945, and the onslaught of Communism, this film depicts an ill-fated romance between a talented lady novelist and a Chinese traitor working with the Japanese who fall victim to the mayhem of war and their tragic inability to reconcile political differences.
A taiwanese romance set during the summer starring Brigitte Lin.
Mandarin movie about the romance of an undergraduate with the prettiest girl on campus.
A romantic melodrama starring Brigitte Lin.
Senior talent manager Le-Fu and commercial director Po-En have been in love for years. Due to their age gap and traumas from original families, neither has been willing to commit to the relationship, until a big surprise hits Love on her 45-year-old birthday and both of them are forced to decide on what their future will be.
A young doctor, regardless of his family’s objection, had decided to marry his beloved one. When he discovered that he had contracted a terminal disease and had only a few months to live with, he left his house without a word and came to a rural village. When the doctor saw the run-down medical facilities in the village, he thought he should contribute his best to provide medical assistance to those needy during his lifetime. Hence, he started a medical clinic, which in a short time, his name was spread wide and far. Meanwhile, his beloved girl friend finally found him in the village. Upon hearing his terminal disease, she insisted to marry the dying doctor…
Continuing the story of Beijing Meets Seattle I from 2013, the new movie has the couple fall in love again.
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A young doctor, regardless of his family’s objection, had decided to marry his beloved one. When he discovered that he had contracted a terminal disease and had only a few months to live with, he left his house without a word and came to a rural village. When the doctor saw the run-down medical facilities in the village, he thought he should contribute his best to provide medical assistance to those needy during his lifetime. Hence, he started a medical clinic, which in a short time, his name was spread wide and far. Meanwhile, his beloved girl friend finally found him in the village. Upon hearing his terminal disease, she insisted to marry the dying doctor…
Shares 4 cast members
16-year old Rhiannon falls in love with a mysterious spirit named “A” that inhabits a different body every day. Feeling an unmatched connection, Rhiannon and “A” work each day to find each other, not knowing what the next day will bring.
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Two neighbours — a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife — forge a strong bond on the day of Adolf Hitler's historic 1938 visit to Rome.
After an extramarital indiscretion, a fairy-tale prince and his sidekick are turned into frogs for all eternity or until the prince can convince a maiden to kiss and then marry him.
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Mabel Longhetti, desperate and lonely, is married to a Los Angeles municipal construction worker, Nick. Increasingly unstable, especially in the company of others, she craves happiness, but her extremely volatile behavior convinces Nick that she poses a danger to their family and decides to commit her to an institution for six months. Alone with a trio of kids to raise on his own, he awaits her return, which holds more than a few surprises.
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov journeys through Italy with his interpreter Eugenia to research the life of an 18th-century Russian composer who once lived abroad. Isolated and consumed by an unrelenting longing for his homeland, Andrei becomes drawn to Domenico, a radical mystic obsessed with spiritual redemption. Through austere imagery and extended temporal rhythms, Tarkovsky examines exile, memory, and the profound melancholy of being unable to belong fully to either place or language.
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After getting duped time and time again, a woman comes to believe her only chance for survival is to turn some tricks on her own. But as luck would have it, she falls prey to yet another vicious being.
A demonmaster tries to defeat a young priestess who induces archetypal forces in the Chinese zodiac, the twelve animals in the form of her companions. There are monsters, spells, kung fu, and costumes galore for those who appreciate this sort of thing
Madame Tang colludes and mediates between the government and the private businesses for the benefits of her all-female family. One case does not go according to plan, and an entire family close to Madame Tang fall victim to a gruesome murder. Ambition, desire and lust eventually change Tang's relationships with her own family forever.
Snow Maid spends years practicing kung fu under the guidance of Ugly Maid in the mountains. All she has on her mind in these years is to avenge her mother’s death. Nevertheless, after she bids farewell to her master and leaves the mountains, she unexpectedly falls in love with her enemy’s son. As they both conceal their true identities and misunderstanding keeps accumulating, how will this romance end?
A man (Chang Yi) is looking for stolen money (gold coins) and seeking revenge for the death of his master.
In this martial arts anthology film, Wang Yu plays three different characters, each of whom must employ his fighting skills to the full.
Silver Maid, a young girl, becomes caught up in the struggle between two warring sects, the Red Devils and the Black Devils. At the same time, she is on a quest to find the Fairy Fungus, which is the only means of curing her ailing grandfather. Getting it requires that she defeat a quintet of vermin-based fighters known as the Five Poisonous Creatures, who include among their number a giant puppet snake. This accomplished, everyone sets off in search of a magical superweapon called the Sacred Tooth.
1985 film by Li Hao
Lung Kong collaborated with accomplished novelist Meng Jun to pen the script for this tale of heartbreak and doomed romance. The mounting despair of two solipsistic characters headed towards an emotionally shattering break-up is depicted through an elliptical series of flashbacks.
As battle rages in Shanghai, a single battalion of soldiers led by Xie Jinyuan is ordered to hold back the Japanese forces at the Sihang warehouse. Girl scouts risk their lives to deliver food and medicine to the defenders.
Young man Po Wen is in hot soup when writing a love story which involves a film star. Po Wen accidentally mails his own photographs to the publishers. As a result, he gets girlfriend Mei Chu quite jealous and demands an explanation. But Po Wen is to find that it's going to be a long explanation as a crisis crop up!
Hong Kong comedy directed by Li Han-Hsiang.
A most touching and consistently heart-gripping war drama depicts the heroic deeds of General Chang Tsu-chung who was even held in high esteem and dubbed as “Mars of China” by his Japanese counterpart, General Itagaki during Sino-Japanese war.
In the Chinese martial arts/fantasy opus Monkey War: New Pilgrims to the West - a sequel to the original Monkey War - the brave Monkey King launches out on a quest to build a new life for himself. But as he marches westward, he encounters a series of nearly insurmountable foes (including a pig demon and a horde of angry demonic spirits who attempt to eat his monastic tutor) and trials that he must overcome to reach a state of tranquility. (Rotten Tomatoes)
In this drama, the harsh treatment of women in Chinese society is examined and subtly commented upon as it tells the tale of an impoverished woman living in Shanghai, circa 1910 who tries to support her brother and sister-in-law. A marriage to a wealthy man is arranged for her, and reluctantly she endures it, even though she does not love the man who is as cruel as he is wealthy. His mother is also brutally unkind to her. She then has a son, but her struggles are not over when her husband dies and only leaves her a modest inheritance. Her wretched life has made her bitter, and so she begins making her son suffer as she die; she also becomes addicted to opium.
The plot follows a group of women who struggle in Hong Kong, most of them illegal immigrants from mainland China.
1980 Taiwanese Drama directed by Liu Wei-Bin. Gua Ah-Lei received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 18th Golden Horse Awards.
Chih-Ting and Chia-Lin, two students in Pingtung Girls’ Senior High School, are bosom friends. Their close friendship attracts jealousy from other classmates; thus rumors about them being lesbians spread. When this groundless rumor victimizes Chih-Ting and costs her best friend, it becomes too much to bear. In the 70s, the Taiwanese mainstream society regarded homosexuality as a negative variation of sexuality and imputed the cause of homosexuality to growing up in an unhealthy environment. However, the two protagonists’ friendship remains the heart of the story. Their unspoken emotional undercurrents are left for the audience to infer.
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A group of lovely pearl divers on the Taiwan coast call on the help of an expert martial artist when they start to get exploited by a group of ruthless triads.
