Xie Jin

History of filmmaking in China from its beginnings in the 1920s to 1982, featuring Shanghai cinema of 1930s; the progressive filmmakers; the...

An exploration of Chinese cinema and its relationships with gender and sexuality, which the film argues has been more frankly and provocatively...

After her senses are surgically restored, a formerly deaf mute teenager enlists in the army and is assigned to communications work. But her...

During the Cultural Revolution, the director of a farm collective studies medicine on her own in order to provide a more effective alternative to the...

A man must take care of his terminally ill son.

Biopic of Qiu Jin (1877-1907), early Chinese womens’ liberationist and martyred revolutionary.

Based on a novel by the same name written by Gu Hua, a melodrama about the life and travails of a young woman who lives through the turmoil of the...

In pre-revolutionary China, two young girls, Chunhua and Yuehong Xing, rise through the ranks of Chinese opera, but with their artistic success comes...

When Song Wei's fiancee Luo Qun is denounced as a right-wing traitor by Party official Wu Yao, he is sentenced to ten years' hard labor. Song Wei...

The story of the Opium War between China, in the waning days of the Qing Dynasty, and the British Empire, in the 1830s, and the subsequent takeover...

This is a story about seven female prisoners each with different backgrounds, living within the one prison. At the beginning of the story, a new...

In 1980, Xu Jingshan, a wealthy Chinese-American businessman returns to China to find his son, Xu Lingjun, whom he had abandoned over 30 years...

Wu Qionghua, a house maid, is abused by a cruel warlord until she joins a troop of women soldiers.

In 1945, Japan is defeated in its war of aggression against China. During a panic retreat, a baby boy is abandoned, but is adopted and grows up to...

An Old Man and His Dog is a 1993 Chinese film directed by Xie Jin.

Biopic of Qiu Jin (1877-1907), early Chinese womens’ liberationist and martyred revolutionary.

Wreaths at the Foot of the Mountain is a 1984 Chinese film about the life of the soldiers in a PLA army company before, during and after the...

In 1948, four young girls, daughters of Shanghai's elite, attending college in America find themselves unable to return after the Communists take...

Tian Zhenhua arrives in Shanghai to coach a local women's basketball team. Number 5 on the team, Xiaoje, excels at basketball but is unsure of...

The film introduces the famous national model worker, textile worker Huang Baomei, who is played by the real Huang Baomei herself.

Sports gain acceptance among workers at a meat processing plant.

Adaptation of a lesser known to Western world, yet wildly popular Peking Opera developed during the Cultural Revolution under the leadership of Jiang...

In pre-revolutionary China, two young girls, Chunhua and Yuehong Xing, rise through the ranks of Chinese opera, but with their artistic success comes...

In the early period of China's War of Liberation the Yan'an Nursey which housed the children of the revolutionary fighters had to be evacuated. Li...

Chinese movie

Based on a novel by the same name written by Gu Hua, a melodrama about the life and travails of a young woman who lives through the turmoil of the...

Sports gain acceptance among workers at a meat processing plant.

Tian Zhenhua arrives in Shanghai to coach a local women's basketball team. Number 5 on the team, Xiaoje, excels at basketball but is unsure of...

The clan law of the Yang family works against the relationships of a widow and her daughter until a new marriage law is enacted after liberation.