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Films from the country "chine", sorted by rating
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Let the Bullets Fly (2010)
, 2h12Directed by Jiang Wen
Origin Chine
Genres Comedy, Documentary, Action, Historical
Actors Chow Yun-fat, Jiang Wen, Carina Lau, Liao Fan, Feng Xiaogang, Chen Kun
Set in China during the warring 1920s,"Pocky Mark" Zhang Mazi (张麻子; Jiang Wen) leads a group of bandits (each of whom is numbered rather than named). The gang ambush a government train carrying Ma Bangde (马邦德; Ge You), who is on his way to Goose Town (鹅城 E-cheng) to assume the position of governor. Ma's train is derailed, killing both his bodyguards and his counselor, Tang (汤师爷 Tang-shiye; Feng Xiaogang). Ma has no money, having spent it all to buy his position; to avoid being killed by Zhang's bandits he lies to them, claiming that he is actually Counselor Tang and that his wife (Carina Lau) was the dead governor's wife. He tells the bandits that, if they spare him and his wife, he will help Zhang to impersonate Ma and pilfer Goose Town's finances.
Red Cliff (2008)
, 4h48Directed by John Woo
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films based on mythology
Actors Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Chang Chen, Lin Chi-ling, Zhang Fengyi, Zhao Wei
Director John Woo said in an interview with David Stratton that the film is only 50% factual. Woo decided to alter the story using modern feelings and his own feelings for a more worldly acceptance. According to Woo, historical accuracy was less important than how the audience felt about the battle.
Still Life (2006)
, 1h48Directed by Jia Zhang-ke (贾樟柯)
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Zhao Tao, Wang Hongwei
Still Life is set in Fengjie, a city upstream of the massive Three Gorges Dam. Now marked for flooding, the city undergoes a process of self-deconstruction. Into this dying town comes Han Sanming, a coal-miner from the province of Shanxi who has returned in search of a wife who ran away sixteen years ago. Upon arriving, he asks a local motorcyclist to drive him to his former address on "Granite Street." The driver takes him to the river bank, revealing that his entire neighborhood has been flooded since the building of the dam. After a failed attempt to obtain his wife's information from the local municipal office, Han Sanming settles into a local hotel. Sanming's next stop is a rickety boat owned by his wife's elder brother. The brother informs Sanming that his wife and daughter (the real reason for his return) work downriver in Yichang but that if he remains in the city, they will eventually return.
Platform (2001)
, 2h34Directed by Jia Zhang-ke (贾樟柯)
Origin Chine
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre
Actors Zhao Tao, Wang Hongwei
Entre 1979 et 1989, l'histoire d'une troupe de théâtre amateur composée de jeunes acteurs.
Love Education (2017)
, 2hDirected by Sylvia Chang
Origin Chine
Genres Drama
Actors Sylvia Chang, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Rene Liu, Wang Zhiwen
Une vieille dame mourante se rappelle ses meilleurs moments. Sa fille, Hui Ying, décide de déplacer la tombe de son père de son village natal pour qu'il rejoigne celle de sa femme. Mais sa première femme, surveillant la tombe depuis des années refuse, créant un désaccord impactant le village entier.
, 1h45Directed by Fei Xie
Origin Chine
Genres Drama
Actors Siqin Gaowa
Illiterate villager Second Sister Xiang (Siqin Gaowa) was sold as a tongyangxi (child bride) to her present husband, a man with a lame leg, when she was seven. She has an intellectually disabled son Dunzi, who suffers from epileptic fits and is now grown up, and a younger daughter Zhi'er. Through her diligence she has started a successful sesame oil mill and now becomes the richest person in her village.
Wild Horse from Shangri-La (2008)
, 1h30Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Adventure
Themes Films about families, Sports films
Geza, un jeune garçon d'une vingtaine d'années, est le coureur le plus rapide de son petit village. Les médecins découvre que sa petite sœur, malade, doit être opérée du cœur. Malheureusement, l'opération coûte cher et la famille de Geza est pauvre. L'adolescent n'a plus qu'un espoir : participer à une grande course organisée à travers le Tibet et dont le gagnant se verra remettre une très grosse somme d'argent. Devenu le héros de tout un pays, Geza va vitre une incroyable aventure, pleine de rencontres et de suspense : il va se faire capturer par des chasseurs, va devoir affaire à des serpents tueurs, à un gamin qui fait pipi...
Coming Home (2014)
, 1h49Directed by Zhang Yimou
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Gong Li, Guo Tao, Zhang Huiwen, Liu Peiqi, Zu Feng, Ding Jiali
The story is adapted from the novel, The Criminal Lu Yanshi (陆犯焉识; 陸犯焉識) written by novelist Geling Yan. Lu Yanshi (陆焉识; 陸焉識, "Yanshi" literally means "how to recognize") was a professor before being sent to the labor camp (laogai, literally "reform through labor") during the Cultural Revolution. He escaped from the labor camp in Xining to meet his long-missed wife Feng Wanyu (冯婉瑜; 馮婉瑜) and daughter Dandan (Chinese: 丹丹). However, the police were already waiting outside the house to arrest him. Dandan, who was then a teenage ballerina, could not play the leading role in Red Detachment of Women due to her father's outlaw status. Under the temptation of regaining the leading role, Dandan revealed her parents' secret meeting plan to the police. The meeting ended with the capture of Lu and Dandan getting the supporting role. After the end of the Cultural Revolution, Lu came home only to find his broken family, his wife suffering from amnesia and his daughter working as textile worker. Under the shock of a former official's sexual harassment, his wife sometimes recognized him as Officer "Fang" instead of being her husband. To reawaken his wife's memory, Lu played out as a total stranger just to be near with his wife. Although she recognized him as a letter reader or a piano tuner, he never could be able to be close enough to live with his chaste wife. During these years, Lu continued to write to his wife as a way of communicating with her, and to convince his wife to forgive their daughter. The movie ended with Feng waiting to receive her husband outside the railway station and Lu standing with her on a snowy day, pretending to be pedicab driver.
Summer Palace (2006)
, 2h20Directed by Lou Ye
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Hao Lei, Duan Yihong
Spanning several cities and over a decade, Summer Palace tells the story of Yu Hong (played by Hao Lei), a young woman from the border-city of Tumen, who is accepted to the fictional Beiqing University, a name that evokes either Peking University ("Beida") or Tsinghua University ("Qinghua"). While in school, Yu Hong meets Li Ti, her best friend (played by Hu Lingling), and Zhou Wei, her college boyfriend and the love of her life (played by Guo Xiaodong). The film is divided into two parts. The first begins in the late 1980s (subtitles inform the audience of the place and year at various points in the film), as Yu Hong enters the university. Lonely and isolated despite the cramped living conditions, Yu Hong eventually befriends another student, Li Ti, who introduces her to her boyfriend Ruo Gu (played by Zhang Xianmin), and Ruo Gu's friend Zhou Wei. Yu Hong and Zhou Wei embark upon a passionate but volatile love affair just as political forces are moving towards Tiananmen Square.
The Emperor and the Assassin (1998)
, 2h42Directed by Chen Kaige
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Gong Li, 周迅 (Zhou Xun), Zhang Fengyi, Chen Kaige, Sun Zhou, Wang Zhiwen
The film covers much of Ying Zheng's career, recalling his early experiences as a hostage and foreshadowing his dominance over China. It depicts him essentially as an idealist seeking to impose a peace or unity on the world despite various betrayals and losses. Its story consists in the main of three incidents: the attempt by Jing Ke to assassinate Ying Zheng in 227 BCE; the rumour of a Chief Minister's having sired the latter before transferring his concubine to become the Queen Dowager; and the (possibly fictitious) story of an official having sired children by the Queen Dowager herself. The first incident plays out only at the end of the film, but earlier scenes foreshadow it; the other two incidents occur between the fictional genesis and historical manifestation of the first.
Kaili Blues (2016)
, 1h53Directed by Bi Gan
Origin Chine
Genres Drama
A Kaili, ville de la province du Guizhou au sud de la Chine, Chen partage une officine médicale avec une femme âgée. Apprenant que son ancien amant agonise, elle demande à Chen de lui apporter quelques souvenirs de leur passé. Chen, qui comptait partir à la recherche de son neveu Wei-wei, prend la route.
Beijing Bicycle (2002)
, 1h53Directed by Wang Xiaoshuai
Origin Chine
Genres Drama
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors 周迅 (Zhou Xun), Gao Yuanyuan
Guei (played by Cui Lin) is a seventeen-year-old country boy who came to Beijing to make a living. Along with a number of other boys from the country, Guei finds employment with a courier company, which assigns them brand-new bicycles for use in their deliveries. The company manager (Xie Jian) announces to them that since the bicycles do not yet belong to them, they will only earn twenty percent of the commission. But once they have made enough deliveries to earn the bicycles, their share will be raised to fifty percent. Within two months Guei has made enough to earn his bicycle. However, on the day that Guei is due to take over the ownership, the bicycle is stolen while he is picking up a document. The manager fires Guei for neglecting to deliver the package, but, upon the latter's pleas, agrees to take him back if he succeeds in recovering his bicycle.
Tuya's Marriage (2006)
, 1h32Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Yu Nan
C'est un portrait émouvant d'une fermière de Mongolie-Intérieure qui, pour subvenir aux besoins de sa famille (en particulier de son mari handicapé après un accident) et d'une centaine de moutons, demande le divorce pour pouvoir se remarier.
Under the Hawthorn Tree (2010)
, 1h54Directed by Zhang Yimou
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Zhou Dongyu, Lü Liping, Sun Haiying
Set during the end of China's Cultural Revolution in a small village in Yichang City, Hubei Province, China, this film is about a pure love that develops between a beautiful high school student, Zhang Jing Qiu and a handsome young prospector named Lao San. Jing Qiu is one of the "educated youth" sent to be "re-educated" through work in the countryside under a directive from Chairman Mao Zedong.