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Kanopy
87
8.1
/36490/
82
/765/
79
/654/
4.4
/62486/
90
/52/
93
/726/
84
/28/

Farewell My Concubine (1993)
In an epic tale of theater, gender, love and class, two Beijing opera actors navigate political turmoil as their friendship evolves over decades.
poster
78
75
7.3
/11619/
72
/274/
69
/223/
3.7
/24747/
96
/68/
79
/110/
83
/15/

Shanghai Express (1932)
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
poster
83
73
8.0
/6198/
82
/154/
78
/132/
4.1
/5496/
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
72
7.0
/31928/
69
/528/
67
/477/
3.5
/26178/
76
/62/
78
/660/
74
/26/

Kundun (1997)
The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escape from his native home, Tibet, when communist China invaded and enforced an oppressive regime upon the peaceful nation. The Dalai Lama escaped to India in 1959 and has been living in exile in Dharamsala ever since.
poster
75
68
7.3
/9823/
71
/105/
68
/104/
3.7
/3762/
88
/51/
85
/307/
68
/19/

Noi the Albino (2003)
17 year old Nói drifts through life on a remote fjord in Iceland. In winter, the fjord is cut off from the outside world, surrounded by ominous mountains and buried under a shroud of snow. Nói dreams of escaping from this white-walled prison with Íris, a city girl who works in a local gas station. But his clumsy attempts at escape spiral out of control.
poster
Kanopy
78
68
7.2
/5236/
72
/109/
73
/84/
3.5
/5561/
100
/12/
83
/35/

Pushing Hands (1991)
Mr. Chu is an elderly widower who teaches tai chi chuan in Beijing. He moves to America to live with his son's family, but finds the cultural adjustment difficult. Since his daughter-in-law is a white woman who does not speak Chinese, Mr. Chu's son, Alex, must mediate.
poster
Criterion Channel
67
6.8
/7012/
69
/178/
62
/104/
3.6
/9705/
65
/17/
77
/269/
63
/22/

How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)
Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
65
6.5
/14365/
65
/458/
63
/324/
3.3
/18747/
80
/15/
53
/214/
68
/4/

Horror Express (1972)
Mysterious and unearthly deaths start to occur while Professor Saxton is transporting the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature he found in Manchuria back to Europe.
poster
64
7.1
/846/
65
/9/
54
/9/
3.3
/300/
73
/51/
67
/20/
66
/22/

Shadow Magic (2000)
Beijing, 1902: an enterprising young portrait photographer named Liu Jinglun, keen on new technology, befriends a newly-arrived Englishman who's brought projector, camera, and Lumière-brothers' shorts to open the Shadow Magic theater. Liu's work with Wallace brings him conflict with tradition and his father's authority, complicated by his falling in love with Ling, daughter of Lord Tan, star of Beijing's traditional opera. Liu sees movies as his chance to become wealthy and worthy of Ling. When the Shadow Magic pair are invited to show the films to the Empress Dowager, things look good. But, is disaster in the script? And, can movies preserve tradition even as they bring change?
poster
64
6.6
/2140/
64
/22/
66
/35/
3.5
/1257/
62
/13/
73
/40/

Temptress Moon (1996)
Set in the decadent 1920s, Temptress Moon tells the very complicated story of a wealthy family living on the outskirts of Shanghai. Their youngest daughter, Ruyi, is brought up as a servant to her opium-addicted father and brother. Meanwhile, her brother-in-law Zhongliang has a successful, if illegal, career seducing and blackmailing married women in the city. When he comes to Ruyi's home the two fall in love, and trouble ensues.
poster
Disney Plus
64
6.3
/88296/
65
/2232/
63
/1445/
3.0
/67703/
91
/43/
68
/21/
71
/15/
cc age 12+

Splash (1984)
A successful businessman falls in love with the girl of his dreams. There's one big complication though; he's fallen hook, line and sinker for a mermaid.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
66
62
7.3
/8522/
71
/187/
66
/118/
3.5
/3638/
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
64
60
6.7
/8050/
71
/232/
68
/178/
3.2
/3348/
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
61
47
6.7
/2514/
63
/63/
65
/61/
3.4
/891/
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
Criterion Channel
67
32
7.0
/584/
66
/20/
63
/22/
3.6
/2995/

Sunday in Peking (1956)
Chris Marker’s travel essay Sunday in Peking transforms a long-held childhood dream into a cinematic journey through Beijing. Blending documentary observation with reflective narration, Marker captures the city’s rhythms, traditions, and everyday life in mid-1950s China with his signature curiosity and lyricism.
poster
55
30
5.8
/2735/
62
/66/
58
/53/
3.0
/645/
37
/12/

Genghis Khan (1965)
This is the story of the shy Mongol boy Temujin who,during the 13th century, becomes the fearless Mongol leader Genghis Khan that unites all Mongol tribes and conquers India,China,Persia,Korea and parts of Rusia,Europe and Middle-East.
poster
65
20
6.9
/1191/
64
/18/
61
/19/
3.3
/456/
68
/10/

Thank You, Mr. Moto (1937)
Mr. Moto Heads to China on a quest for seven ancient scrolls that reveal the location of Genghis Khan's tomb—a crypt filled with fabulous treasure! But Moto isn't the only one stalking the scrolls—so is a shadowy band of thieves. But when his ruthless rivals go too far, the mild-mannered detective's quest for antiquities becomes a passion for vengeance—because if he can't bring these villains to justice... he'll bring them to their knees.
poster
60
15
6.5
/314/
60
/6/
58
/12/
3.5
/259/
50
/8/
62
/3/

Frozen (1996)
A young performance artist decides to make his own suicide his last work of art. On the longest day of the year, he plans to melt a huge block of ice with his own body heat and die of hypothermia. He calls this protest against the coldness of society "Funeral on Ice." Based on a true story.
poster
?
6.9
/19/
10
/1/
60
/1/

Victory of the Chinese People (1950)
Film about the victory of the Chinese people under the leadership of Mao Tse Tung in the war with the puppet regime of Chiang Kai-shek and the establishment in 1949, the People's Republic of China.
poster
55
?
6.0
/214/
53
/6/
52
/6/

The Big Parade (1986)
Army volunteers train for places in China's 1984 National Day parade, where they are expected to be a perfect marching unit.
poster
56
?
5.6
/401/
57
/6/

Behind the Rising Sun (1943)
A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.
poster
48
?
5.0
/258/
42
/4/
52
/16/

The Blonde from Peking (1967)
Spies from several countries try to find out what secrets are hidden in the mind of a young amnesiac girl who has appeared in Paris.
poster
Cultpix
?
3.7
/43/
30
/1/

Samurai (1945)
A young Japanese-American orphan in California is taken in by a priest who is actually a Japanese secret agent and a samurai warrior. Due to the samurai's training, the boy murders his English teacher, kills the American parents who have adopted him, smuggles Japanese secret plans into the country, and eventually becomes the governor of California with plans to infiltrate Japanese spies into the state so they can take over.
poster
?
6.6
/58/
60
/1/

Destination Unknown (1942)
Foreign spies and police pursue an attractive Dutch spy throughout Peking.


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