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Kanopy
87
8.1
/36183/
82
/752/
79
/641/
4.4
/56021/
90
/52/
93
/724/
84
/28/

Farewell My Concubine (1993)
Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.
poster
86
7.9
/291647/
77
/7340/
74
/3437/
4.1
/242005/
98
/169/
86
/13672/
94
/32/
cc age 12+

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physically-skilled, teenage nobleman's daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
84
8.5
/42701/
84
/1308/
82
/651/
4.3
/38272/
81
/26/
96
/21691/

Baraka (1992)
A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision—an odyssey through landscape and time—that attempts to capture the essence of life.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
7.7
/117907/
75
/2693/
75
/1830/
3.9
/80082/
86
/126/
88
/1366/
76
/15/
cc age 14+

The Last Emperor (1987)
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.
poster
Netflix
82
8.0
/989839/
81
/58780/
76
/20641/
3.8
/1504702/
91
/385/
91
/7129/
80
/46/
cc age 12+

The Martian (2015)
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.
poster
Kanopy
79
7.3
/2352/
75
/140/
74
/80/
3.6
/2237/
100
/14/
85
/48/

Urbanized (2011)
A documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world's foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers.
poster
77
7.5
/4327/
73
/67/
68
/71/
3.7
/1687/
87
/30/
91
/202/

Shower (1999)
An aged father and his younger, mentally challenged son have been working hard every day to keep the bathhouse running for a motley group of regular customers. When his elder son, who left years ago to seek his fortune in the southern city of Shenzhen, abruptly returns one day, it once again puts under stress the long-broken father-son ties. Presented as a light-hearted comedy, Shower explores the value of family, friendship, and tradition.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
81
77
7.7
/10680/
74
/196/
71
/99/
3.8
/4977/
98
/138/
89
/829/
87
/33/
cc age 16+

Murderball (2005)
Quadriplegics, who play full-contact rugby in wheelchairs, overcome unimaginable obstacles to compete in the Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece.
poster
Kanopy
76
7.3
/95189/
74
/7698/
70
/1663/
3.5
/34742/
95
/219/
82
/1270/
73
/39/
cc age 15+

Eye in the Sky (2015)
A UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” As American pilot Steve Watts is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute reaching the highest levels of US and British government over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.
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Fandango at Home Free
75
7.6
/35442/
76
/733/
73
/436/
3.6
/10750/
73
/41/
91
/1630/
57
/22/

The Red Violin (1998)
300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria, England, China, and Canada, leaving both beauty and tragedy in its wake. In Montreal, Samuel L Jackson plays an appraiser going over its complex history.
poster
74
7.4
/4562/
70
/30/
69
/61/
3.7
/1480/
73
/77/
89
/203/
60
/24/

Together (2002)
When a violin prodigy Xiaochun and his father head to Beijing seeking fame and fortune, they soon discover a fierce world of cutthroat ambition. But when Xiaochun is "adopted" by a famous music tutor, success finally seems within reach - until a shocking discovery begins to unravel his entire world, and the boy must make the most difficult choice of his life. Can he achieve the fame his father had always hoped for without losing the extraordinary passion that sets him apart?
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Kanopy
80
74
7.5
/4584/
77
/162/
70
/81/
3.7
/4361/
98
/81/
87
/119/
81
/28/

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012)
An account of the many tribulations that Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, known for his subversive art and political activism, endured between 2008 and 2011, from his rise to world fame via the Internet to his highly publicized arrest due to his frequent and daring confrontations with the Chinese authorities.
poster
83
72
8.1
/6148/
81
/146/
77
/131/
4.1
/5215/
96
/39/

In the Heat of the Sun (1995)
Beijing, 1970s. The Cultural Revolution has driven most adults to the provinces leaving 14-year-old Monkey and his pals have free reign over the city. They hang around, get up to no good, and discover that unsolvable mystery known as "girls."
poster
70
7.1
/825/
70
/12/
65
/19/
3.6
/311/
77
/44/
85
/34/
61
/19/

Quitting (2001)
An actor becomes increasingly introverted and psychotic and his entire family attempts to intervene.
poster
Kanopy
68
7.0
/28522/
69
/565/
67
/352/
3.4
/4108/
62
/53/
70
/1724/
70
/16/

The Warlords (2007)
The civil war in China has ruined many lives including General Pang's. A wounded General Pang is saved by a beautiful young woman along with two other men. Together they vow to eradicate the rebels.
poster
Netflix
67
6.3
/223130/
65
/10124/
66
/6378/
3.1
/456952/
67
/207/
67
/11666/
61
/37/
cc age 8+

The Karate Kid (2010)
12-year-old Dre Parker could've been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother's latest career move has landed him in China. Dre immediately falls for his classmate Mei Ying but the cultural differences make such a friendship impossible. Even worse, Dre's feelings make him an enemy of the class bully, Cheng. With no friends in a strange land, Dre has nowhere to turn but maintenance man Mr. Han, who is a kung fu master. As Han teaches Dre that kung fu is not about punches and parries, but maturity and calm, Dre realizes that facing down the bullies will be the fight of his life.
poster
Netflix
65
6.3
/39517/
69
/5345/
71
/996/
2.8
/164471/
58
/198/
90
/1227/
51
/36/
cc age 10+

Karate Kid: Legends (2025)
After a family tragedy, kung fu prodigy Li Fong is uprooted from his home in Beijing and forced to move to New York City with his mother. When a new friend needs his help, Li enters a karate competition – but his skills alone aren't enough. Li's kung fu teacher Mr. Han enlists original Karate Kid Daniel LaRusso for help, and Li learns a new way to fight, merging their two styles into one for the ultimate martial arts showdown.
poster
72
64
7.2
/4927/
73
/85/
72
/106/
3.9
/4933/
72
/32/
59
/150/
79
/12/

Summer Palace (2006)
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.
poster
Kanopy
63
7.3
/359148/
74
/10674/
70
/4824/
3.3
/133947/
39
/87/
81
/18143/
33
/22/
cc age 16+

Equilibrium (2002)
In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
poster
63
6.3
/3754/
63
/51/
58
/55/
3.2
/1561/
67
/21/
54
/53/

Chinese Box (1997)
The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of China.
poster
Criterion Channel
72
63
7.1
/3743/
70
/55/
69
/71/
3.8
/7344/
74
/46/
66
/101/
81
/23/

The World (2004)
At Beijing World Park, a bizarre cross-pollination of Las Vegas and Epcot Center where visitors can interact with famous international monuments without ever leaving the city’s suburbs, a security guard betrays his dancer girlfriend by pursuing another woman.
poster
71
62
7.1
/4052/
76
/389/
71
/108/
3.4
/1386/
86
/14/
62
/14/
64
/4/
cc age 10+

I Am Bolt (2016)
Fully authorized, access-all-areas feature doc on the hugely charismatic and globally adored Usain Bolt – officially the fastest man alive. With never-before-seen archive footage of his youth in Jamaica, through to original footage that will be captured at his fourth and final Olympic Games in Rio, where he will compete for the gold in both the 100 and 200 metres races, for a third straight Games before his retirement in 2017. I AM BOLT will reveal the man and define the legacy of this incredible athlete.
poster
Criterion Channel
71
61
7.2
/3331/
72
/69/
69
/55/
3.6
/5497/
68
/38/
83
/102/
62
/19/

Lan Yu (2001)
A love story between a country boy in Beijing to study and a wealthy businessman set against the backdrop of the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
66
61
7.3
/8503/
72
/183/
65
/118/
3.5
/3531/
55
/75/
76
/515/
55
/23/

Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)
At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he falls in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.
poster
The CW
61
6.0
/42117/
64
/2205/
61
/966/
2.9
/16422/
70
/67/
50
/505/
52
/22/

Man of Tai Chi (2013)
In Beijing, a young martial artist's skill places him in position to experience opportunities and sacrifices.
poster
64
60
6.7
/7968/
71
/232/
70
/172/
3.2
/3116/
57
/7/
58
/64/

55 Days at Peking (1963)
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.
poster
69
60
7.2
/4882/
71
/67/
67
/76/
3.6
/2516/
62
/60/
73
/171/
cc age 13+

Beijing Bicycle (2002)
A seventeen-year-old country boy working in Beijing as a courier has his bicycle stolen, and finds it with a schoolboy his age.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
66
60
6.4
/6065/
70
/165/
68
/145/
3.2
/2202/
67
/6/
67
/180/

The Bodyguard from Beijing (1994)
A corrupt businessman commits a murder and the only witness is the girlfriend of another businessman with close connections to the Chinese government, so a bodyguard from Beijing is dispatched to help two Hong Kong cops protect the witness.
poster
62
60
6.4
/7645/
67
/294/
59
/485/
3.0
/7255/
64
/96/

Tanguy (2001)
Tanguy is 28 years old and still living with his parents. They think it's time he moves out. He doesn't, so they hatch a plan.
poster
65
59
6.5
/5753/
69
/169/
66
/166/
3.3
/2425/
58
/12/
68
/130/

The Enforcer (1995)
An undercover cop struggling to provide for his son and ailing wife, must infiltrate a ruthless gang. But things turn sour when another cop blows his cover and he quickly finds himself battling for his life and the lives of his family.
poster
56
6.3
/10953/
67
/300/
64
/246/
3.2
/5052/
45
/22/
56
/246/

Rapid Fire (1992)
College student Jake Lo is pursued by smugglers, mobsters and crooked federal agents after he witnesses a murder by a Mafia kingpin.
poster
69
53
6.8
/2819/
67
/42/
67
/55/
3.4
/1734/
77
/255/

Perhaps Love (2005)
A love triangle develops between the male and female leads and the director during the making of a musical in Mainland China.
poster
65
53
6.4
/2768/
63
/129/
63
/81/
3.3
/2296/
73
/33/

Martial Arts of Shaolin (1986)
In ancient China, Zhi Ming trains at the legendary Northern Shaolin temple to avenge the death of his father at the hands of a nefarious magistrate.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
51
5.9
/11281/
60
/729/
62
/394/
2.7
/4948/
25
/8/
33
/54/
44
/5/

Police Story: Lockdown (2013)
A man looking for the release of a long-time prisoner takes a police officer, his daughter, and a group of strangers hostage.
poster
51
6.1
/58456/
66
/1401/
60
/905/
2.9
/13933/
30
/117/
40
/1456/
47
/28/
cc age 14+

Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
When an oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, an aircraft crew are sent to shut the operation down and fly them out. On the flight out over the desert on the way to Beijing, Capt. Frank Towns and co-pilot A.J. are unable to keep their cargo plane, a C-119 Flying Boxcar, in the air when a violent sandstorm strikes. Crash-landing in a remote uncharted part of the desert, the two pilots and their passengers -- a crew of oil workers and a drifter -- must work together to survive by rebuilding the aircraft. Soon, low supplies and a band of merciless smugglers add even greater urgency to their task.
poster
Netflix
47
5.6
/345758/
62
/18227/
59
/8535/
2.2
/280905/
18
/212/
50
/9792/
32
/38/
cc age 13+

Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
As humanity picks up the pieces after the battle of Chicago, a shadowy group reveals itself in an attempt to control the direction of history…while an ancient, powerful new menace sets Earth in its crosshairs. With help from Cade Yeager, Optimus Prime and the Autobots rise to meet their most fearsome challenge yet.
poster
YouTube TV
46
5.6
/79898/
63
/3339/
57
/1456/
2.8
/55493/
20
/41/
31
/1360/
36
/25/

Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
In a dystopian 2021, Johnny is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to securely store data too sensitive for regular computer networks. On one delivery run, he accepts a package that not only exceeds the implant's safety limits—and will kill him if the data is not removed in time—but also contains information far more important and valuable than he had ever imagined. On a race against time, he must avoid the assassins sent to kill him and remove the data before it, too, ends his life.
poster
61
46
6.7
/2501/
63
/59/
65
/58/
3.4
/843/
52
/23/
59
/122/
58
/6/

Lost in Beijing (2007)
A look at modern-day life in China's capital centered on a ménage-a-quatre involving a young woman, her boss, her husband and her boss's wife.
poster
53
43
6.0
/3746/
67
/153/
55
/67/
3.0
/881/
41
/41/
40
/196/
49
/16/
cc age 17+

Dark Matter (2008)
Liu Xing a brilliant Chinese student, arrives at University and makes the transition into American life with the help of Joanna Silver. Xing joins a cosmology group working to create a model of the origins of the universe. He is obsessed with the study of dark matter and a theory that conflicts with the group's model. When he begins to make breakthroughs of his own, he encounters obstructions.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
66
41
6.5
/1350/
65
/36/
62
/24/
3.5
/3182/
83
/6/
56
/10/

East Palace, West Palace (1996)
A young gay man, identified as a writer, encounters a local policeman, who arrests him for public cruising in a park. The policeman is more than professionally curious about the young man, who seems to have the cop's number and suddenly kisses him.
poster
67
39
7.2
/731/
66
/3/
60
/15/
69
/13/
74
/32/
64
/4/

Sunflower (2005)
Sunflower is the story of the Zhang family in Beijing father, mother and son across three decades, centering on the tensions and misunderstandings between father and son. Nine-year-old Xiangyang is having the time of his life, free of adult supervision until the day he meets the father he can hardly remember. Having spent years away, he returns with strong ideas about his son learning to draw. But Xiangyang chafes under his father's constant rules and soon stages his own revolution against the lessons enforced.
poster
59
36
6.7
/2491/
67
/65/
63
/50/
3.4
/674/
20
/15/
71
/24/

Big Shot's Funeral (2001)
Don Tyler, a famous film-maker, falls ill on the sets of his movie. Fascinated by the funereal traditions of China, he requests a cameraman named Yoyo to arrange a grand, comedic funeral for him.
poster
74
35
6.7
/366/
77
/4/
69
/14/
80
/5/
79
/27/

Stolen Life (2005)
When Yan'ni starts college she believes she is embarking on a new life away from her family, and she is, but not the new beginning she anticipates. Once at school, she immediately meets Muyu and falls in love with him. What she does not know is that from the moment he met her Muyu began an intricate deception that will lead to the loss of her child and the future she believes in.
poster
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.
poster
76
32
7.3
/500/
68
/18/
72
/13/
3.5
/486/
100
/10/

Leftover Women (2019)
In China, single women are under immense pressure to marry young or face the stigma that comes with being "leftover." Leftover Women follows three hopeful singles seeking to define love on their own terms.
poster
49
29
5.4
/2099/
52
/58/
50
/34/
2.9
/691/
35
/1567/

Bullet to Beijing (1995)
When long-time British agent Harry Palmer loses his job because the Cold War is over, he's promptly approached by a Russian bossman, Alex. In St. Petersburg Alex tells Harry of his plan for Russia's future, which is threatened because a deadly biochemical weapon called the Red Death has been stolen from him. He'll pay Harry handsomely to retrieve it. An ex-spy friend tips Harry off that it's being sent to Beijing by train, aboard which we begin to learn whose side everyone's really on.
poster
57
29
5.8
/1778/
62
/73/
56
/58/
3.1
/767/
50
/10/

American Shaolin (1991)
After being humiliated in the ring a young karate student travels to China in order to study the ancient art of Shaolin Kung Fu, and in the process becoming the first American Shaolin.
poster
74
28
7.5
/1009/
73
/11/
73
/21/
3.8
/934/

Chung Kuo: China (1972)
A sweeping documentary explores China through its people, showcasing life in Beijing's old city and a bustling cotton factory, a collective farm in Henan, the historic city of Suzhou, and the industrial port of Shanghai, culminating in a vibrant acrobatic performance.


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