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8.0
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70
/14/
73
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4.2
/1315/
100
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Dead Souls (2018)
In Gansu Province, northwest China, lie the remains of countless prisoners abandoned in the Gobi Desert sixty years ago. Designated as ultra-rightists in the Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist campaign of 1957, they starved to death in the reeducation camps. The film invites us to meet the survivors of the camps to find out firsthand who these persons were, the hardships they were forced to endure and what became their destiny.
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Kanopy
79
7.6
/2917/
74
/159/
72
/195/
3.8
/5294/
96
/28/
89
/4/
79
/11/

Return to Dust (2022)
Humble, unassuming Ma and timid Cao have been cast off by their families and forced into an arranged marriage. They have to combine their strength and build a home to survive. In the face of much adversity, an unexpected bond begins to blossom, as both Ma and Cao, uniting with Earth's cycles, create a haven for themselves in which they can thrive.
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79
7.7
/9739/
74
/146/
74
/185/
3.9
/5238/
96
/46/
90
/269/
73
/22/

Not One Less (1999)
Set in the People's Republic of China during the 1990s, the film centers on a 13-year-old substitute teacher, Wei Minzhi, in the Chinese countryside. Called in to substitute for a village teacher for one month, Wei is told not to lose any students.
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79
74
7.7
/14410/
78
/190/
75
/218/
3.8
/6665/
89
/80/
90
/609/
71
/25/

The Road Home (1999)
Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.
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Kanopy
71
7.2
/4685/
72
/45/
68
/70/
3.6
/2066/
77
/61/
83
/218/
65
/22/

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)
During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor's beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.
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75
65
7.4
/5067/
73
/91/
71
/86/
3.8
/3377/
85
/173/

The Bird People in China (1998)
Wada, a salary man, is enlisted to venture off to China to investigate a potential Jade mine. After his arrival, Wada encounters a violent, yet sentimental, yakuza, who takes the liberty of joining his adventure through China. Led on their long and disastrous journey to the mine by Shen, the three men come across something even more magical and enticing.
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48
34
4.9
/4012/
51
/74/
52
/62/
2.8
/854/
33
/57/

The Founding of a Republic (2009)
The tale of one man who fought against the tyranny of a ruler and led his people in battle in the ultimate sacrifice for his country.
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Kanopy
75
28
7.1
/341/
76
/13/
70
/4/
3.5
/607/
86
/14/
80
/17/

All In This Tea (2007)
During the 1990s, David Lee Hoffman searched throughout China for the finest teas. He's a California importer who, as a youth, lived in Asia for years and took tea with the Dali Lama. Hoffman's mission is to find and bring to the U.S. the best hand picked and hand processed tea. This search takes him directly to farms and engages him with Chinese scientists, business people, and government officials: Hoffman wants tea grown organically without a factory, high-yield mentality. By 2004, Hoffman has seen success: there are farmer's collectives selling tea, ways to export "boutique tea" from China, and a growing Chinese appreciation for organic farming's best friend, the earthworm.
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Kanopy
80
24
7.5
/285/
90
/1/
80
/2/
67
/18/
90
/16/

Mardi Gras: Made in China (2005)
This examination of cultural and economic globalization follows the life-cycle of Mardi Gras beads from a small factory in Fuzhou, China, to Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and to art galleries in New York City.
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6.8
/33/
45
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Endless Way (2008)
Ah Shui returns with her sister to a remote mountain village in Hunan (Western China) by car(an S.U.V.) and remembers episodes of her life that are related to a water project. Despite being a foggy and sometimes rainy area water is scarce and poverty is omnipresent.
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62
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6.4
/145/
68
/5/
56
/5/

Legends of Lust (1972)
Contains a trilogy of stories that on the surface level all relate directly to lust
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9.2
/6/

The Barefoot Doctors of Rural China
Diane Li, a graduate student in communication at the University of Stanford, was permitted for five weeks to visit the People’s Republic of China with her husband, a professor of Chinese law at Stanford, and a team of medical experts. Together they investigated and documented the training and work of China’s peasant paramedicals, the ‘barefoot doctors’. One of the first films about China made by an American of Chinese descent, Li’s documentary provides a rare glimpse of village life in the PRC at a time when Cold War tensions were easing between the United States and China.
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8.1
/18/
60
/1/

On the Rim of the Sky (2014)
Gulu is a village of Yi people, located beyond the cliff's edge in Sichuan, China, there is no electricity. The villagers used the lianas and Heaven-Ladders to climb up and down the cliffs like a monkey. They had hardly contact with the outside world until a mule-horse-trail out of the rocks in 2004. The substitute teacher Shen is the only teacher in the Gulu Primary School and has worked over 20 years. Shen would really like to become a real teacher, but he has just a middle school education. One day, the young man Bao who called himself 'Don Quixote' came to Gulu because of the lianas and Heaven-Ladders. He felt, Gulu was just his utopia. Since then Shen's fate has changed dramatically.
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Amazon Prime Video
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5.5
/32/
15
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Dreaming Fist with Slender Hands (1980)
Thrown out by their masters for disobedience, the two rascals Sun and Ho yearn to be Kung Fu giants. Through a series of incredible adventures, they toughen up and develop into powerhouse Kung Fu Kids, both feared and revered. Watch their fists fly in some of greatest action packed martial arts fighting you'll ever see.
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65
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6.7
/259/
70
/2/
60
/9/

Courthouse on Horseback (2006)
The film follows three characters on a tour of the remote Yunman province of China where they travel with a horse to deal with legal disputes in mountain villages. Government policy is forcing the retirement of "Auntie" Yang (Yang Yaning) and she will have to separate after years of professional partnership from Feng (Li Baotian). They are accompanied by her replacement, recent law school graduate Ah-Luo (Lu Yulai).
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Changyou's Journey (2018)
A young animator crafted this labor of love to inspire his father during his long battle with cancer and to pay tribute to the life he led, beginning with his childhood in rural China. A story of grief, perseverance, and enduring hope.


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