The Road Home

The Road Home 1999

7.50

Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.

1999

Not One Less

Not One Less 1999

7.40

Set in the People's Republic of China during the 1990s, the film centers on a 13-year-old substitute teacher, Wei Minzhi, in the Chinese countryside. Called in to substitute for a village teacher for one month, Wei is told not to lose any students.

1999

Yellow Earth

Yellow Earth 1984

7.20

A communist soldier is sent to a remote region of China in order to collect folk songs. Staying with a peasant family (a widower with two small children), he discovers a community whose way of life is completely alien to him, but he gradually wins their trust…

1984

Keep Cool

Keep Cool 1997

7.20

China, the 1990s. A young bookseller is in love with a woman. The woman is now with another guy, a rich man. The rich man sends his people to beat the bookseller. In the fight, the laptop computer from a man looking at the scene gets broken. Who will pay for the computer? The bookseller wants revenge. Will it be useful? The bookseller and the laptop owner are from different ages and classes. They are two different points of view, two different Chinas. How will they fight for justice?

1997

Happy Times

Happy Times 2000

7.10

Zhao is an old laid-off worker who's dreaming of getting married. After trying unsuccessful proposals, he finally pairs off with a gargantuan divorcée with two children. She, however, demands a lavish wedding and that Zhao finds a job and another place to stay for her blind step-daughter. Pretending he's the General Manager of a non-existent posh hotel "Happy Times", Zhao has to find ways and means of keeping both mother and stepdaughter happy.

2000

Nan ren de shi jie

Nan ren de shi jie 1987

1

As most families only want to have boys, women end up becoming rare and precious.

1987

One And Eight

One And Eight 1983

5.90

Director Zhang Junzhao's superbly tense revisionist war film (featuring striking cinematography from future Fifth Generation standard bearer Zhang Yimou) is widely considered to be the first work of Mainland Fifth Generation cinema.

1983

The Big Parade

The Big Parade 1986

5.20

Army volunteers train for places in China's 1984 National Day parade, where they are expected to be a perfect marching unit.

1986

Gu ci shi bi

Gu ci shi bi 1981

7.00

The Deputy Director of the Qinshan County Bureau of Commerce makes poor business decisions and opposes his daughter's relationship with a man who points out the Deputy Director's errors.

1981

Zhou Enlai

Zhou Enlai 1992

9.00

An biography of Zhou Enlai through the Cultural Revolution.

1992

The Shining Arc

The Shining Arc 1989

1

The Shining Arc is a 1989 Chinese drama film directed by Zhang Junzhao.

1989

Shadow of a Ghost

Shadow of a Ghost 1981

5.00

An old mansion, sealed for years, re-opens as a museum. A ghost is sighted by the museum's guide, our heroine, who has fallen for a social outcast, a scientist obsessed with finding ghosts with his machines.

1981