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Films from the country "chine", sorted by name
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In the Heat of the Sun (1994)
, 2h14Directed by Jiang Wen
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Xia Yu, Feng Xiaogang, Wang Shuo, Jiang Wen, Tao Hong, Siqin Gaowa
The film is set in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution. It is told from the perspective of Ma Xiaojun nicknamed Monkey (played by Xia Yu; some of Monkey's experiences mimic director Jiang's during the Revolution), who is a teenage boy at the time. Monkey and his friends are free to roam the streets of Beijing day and night because the Cultural Revolution has caused their parents and most adults to be either busy or away and school system was extremely nonfunctional during the Cultural Revolution. Jiang Wen cryptically suggested that famous movement during the Cultural revolution that most elder young people were sent to the countryside. China was actively preparing for military due to the Vietnam War and claiming USSR to be revisionism. Since monkey and his friends were military children, their parents were off for military purposes. Most of the story happens during one summer, so the main characters are even more free because there is no school. The events of that summer revolves around Monkey's dalliances with his roguish male friends, and his subsequent angst-filled crush with one of the female characters, Mi Lan (Ning Jing). However, Mi Lan falls in love with monkey's friend, Liu Yiku.
Special ID (2013)
, 1h39Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Crime, Martial arts
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Kung fu films, Gangster films
Actors Donnie Yen, Collin Chou, Andy On, Jing Tian, Paw Hee-ching, Terence Yin
Yen takes on the role of Dragon Chan, a Hong Kong undercover police officer deep within the ranks of one of China’s most ruthless underworld gangs. The leader of the gang, Hung (Collin Chou), has made it his priority to weed out the government infiltrators in his midst. Struggling to keep his family together and his identity concealed, Chan is torn between two worlds.
Spring Subway (2002)
, 1h33Directed by Zhang Yibai
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Zhang Yang, Gao Yuanyuan
Jianbin (Geng Le) and Xiaohui (Xu Jinglei) are a young couple living in Beijing who have been married for seven years. As the film starts, the couple has begun to grow bored with their existence bringing their relationship to an impasse. Xiaohui, who works at a designing firm, tentatively begins a flirtatious relationship with one of her customers, Lao Hu, a coffee-shop owner (played by director Zhang Yang). Jianbin, meanwhile, has recently been laid off, though he keeps it a secret from his wife by dressing for work every morning, hiding his briefcase in a public bathroom and riding the Beijing metro for most of the day.
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.
The Search (2009)
Directed by Pema Tseden
Origin Chine
Themes Films about Tibet, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Accompagné d'un homme d'affaires, d'un assistant et d'un chauffeur, un cinéaste tibétain parcourt en 4x4 l'Amdo rural, y recherchant des acteurs pour un film inspiré de l'opéra tibétain Drime Kunden, éponyme du prince-bodhisattva sacrifiant ses possessions au service d'autrui.
Dragon (2011)
, 1h56Directed by Peter Ho-sun Chan
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Thriller, Martial arts, Action, Crime, Martial arts
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Kung fu films, Wuxia films
Actors Donnie Yen, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tang Wei, Jimmy Wang Yu, Kara Hui, Li Xiaoran
In 1917 Republican China, Liu Jinxi and his wife Yu are an ordinary couple with two sons, Fangzheng and Xiaotian, living together in Liu Village, Yunnan. One day, two bandits enter the village and attempt to rob the general store. Liu happens to be in the shop, and he fights and kills the robbers when they turn violent. During an autopsy, the detective Xu Baijiu, who is sent to investigate the case, discovers that one of the dead bandits was Yan Dongsheng, who is among the government's ten most wanted fugitives. The local magistrate is pleased, and his fellow villagers regard Liu as a hero.
Ta'ang (2016)
, 2h28Directed by Wang Bing (王兵)
Origin Chine
Genres Documentary
Le documentaire est consacré à l'ethnie des Ta'ang qui vit entre la Birmanie et la Chine.
Temptress Moon (1996)
, 2h10Directed by Chen Kaige
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Leslie Cheung, Gong Li, 周迅 (Zhou Xun), Patrick Tse
The film opens in 1912, immediately before the fall of the Qing Dynasty and the abdication of Emperor Pu Yi. The Pang clan, a wealthy family in a small town near Shanghai is suffering a similarly drawn out decline. Yu Zhongliang (Leslie Cheung), then a 13-year-old boy, arrives at the Pang estate to live there along with his sister Yu Xiuyi (He Caifei) and her husband, Pang Zhengda (Zhou Yemang). There, he is treated like a servant by his brother-in-law who forces him to kiss his own sister while intoxicated by the effects of opium. In revenge Zhongliang poisons his brother-in-law's opium pipe and flees. Chen Kaige, however, deliberately leaves the audience in the dark, making Zhongliang's flight from the Pang estate all the more mysterious. As Zhongliang attempts to find his way to Beijing, however, he is taken by several men who lead him to Shanghai where he is embraced by the triads.
Yellow Earth (1984)
, 1h31Directed by Chen Kaige
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Historical, Musical
Themes Political films
Actors Wang Xueqi
Gu Qing, a soldier from the propaganda department of the CCP Eighth Route Army in CCP-controlled Shaanxi, travels alone from Yan'an to the northern KMT-controlled area of Shaanxi, Shanbei, with the task of collecting the peasants' folk songs in order to re-write them with communist lyrics in order to boost the morale of the Eighth Route Army soldiers.
Tharlo (2015)
, 2h3Directed by Pema Tseden
Origin Chine
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about Tibet, Films about Buddhism
Tharlo, un berger âgé d'environ 40 ans, a une telle mémoire qu'il peut réciter Le petit livre rouge. Il vit de l'élevage de centaines de moutons dans les montagnes du Tibet. Quand il se déplace à la ville pour faire établir une carte d'identité, sa vie bascule. Sa plus grande ambition est de venir en aide aux autres mais son idéal va s'effondrer à son arrivée en ville où il rencontre une jeune fille.
The Bravest (2019)
, 2hOrigin Chine
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Huang Xiaoming, Yang Zi
Après l'explosion d'un pipeline de pétrole, un réservoir de stockage d'une capacité maximum de 100 000 mètres cubes explose à son tour et menace de faire exploser les réservoirs de pétrole adjacents à tout moment. De plus, tout cela a lieu près d'une zone de stockage de produits chimiques dangereux et extrêmement inflammables. Les pompiers se débattent alors avec courage pour enrayer la propagation de l'incendie et sauver l'ensemble de la ville comptant des millions d'habitants
The Brother (2012)
, 1h40Directed by An Zhanjun (安戰軍)
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Comedy
Dans un club de nuit rempli de monde et bruyant, un groupe de jeunes gens s'adonne à la drogue pour passer le temps. Parmi la foule, Yu Lin, un jeune homme à l'air décontracté, fume une cigarette, assis dans un coin de la salle. À un moment, la police fait une descente dans le club. Pris de panique, Yun Lin tente de s'échapper et blesse un des clients par accident. Le lendemain matin, il est arrêté par la police. L'officier JianJun est chargé de cette affaire. Mais ce dernier ne sait pas encore qu'au cours de son enquêtes, ses rapports avec Yu Lin vont prendre une autre dimension et qu'un secret vieux de vingt ans va être dévoilé.
, 1h32Directed by Li Han-hsiang
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, War, Martial arts, Historical
Actors Liu Xiaoqing, Tony Leung Ka-fai
Yu-lan, la fille d'un fonctionnaire sans affectation, est choisie par l'empereur Xianfeng pour devenir une de ses concubines de rang inférieur. Rapidement délaissée, elle mène une vie solitaire au palais avant se saisir l'occasion d'attirer à nouveau l'attention du jeune souverain à qui elle donne un fils, et se mêle de plus en plus des affaires de l'État au grand dam de certains ministres.
The Captain (2019)
, 1h51Directed by Andrew Lau
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Disaster films
Actors Yuan Quan, Li Qin, Chen Shu, Angelababy, Andrew Lau
Le capitaine Liu Chuanjian (Zhang Hanyu) se prépare pour un vol de routine de Chongqing à Lhassa avec ses deux co-pilotes, Xu Ruichen (Oho Ou ) et Liang Peng (Du Jiang) ainsi que les hôtesses de l'air supervisées par Bi Nan (Yuan Quan ). L'appareil, un Airbus A319, semble n'avoir aucune irrégularité. Quarante minutes après le décollage, à 32 000 pieds d'altitude, le pare-brise éclate, aspirant l'un des copilotes dehors. L'avion se dépressurise et sa communication radio devient inopérante. Pour aggraver les choses, l'avion est coupé du site d'atterrissage d'urgence le plus proche situé sur le plateau tibétain par une tempête. Le capitaine Liu Chuanjian et son équipage sont les seuls espoirs de survie des 119 passagers.
The Crossing (2014)
, 2h8Directed by John Woo
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Zhang Ziyi, Song Hye-kyo, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Huang Xiaoming, Masami Nagasawa, Bowie Lam
During the Chinese Revolution in 1949, three couples flee from China to the island of Taiwan.