Topic: Chinese Cultural Revolution

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Gong Li · Ge You · Jiang Wu · Niu Ben

Plot Fugui is the father of a once-wealthy family whose addiction to gambling and chronic bad luck causes him to lose his home in a game of dice with Long'er. Fugui's...

Direction Chen Kaige

Cast Gong Li · Leslie Cheung · Zhang Fengyi · Lu Qi

Plot "Farewell, My Concubine" is a movie with two parallel, intertwined stories. It is the story of two performers in the Beijing Opera, stage brothers, and the woman who comes between...

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Zhou Dongyu · Shawn Dou · Chen Taisheng · Rina Sa

Plot Romance sparks between a young woman and a young man from different economic backgrounds during China's Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and '70s.

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Gong Li · Chen Daoming · Zhang Huiwen · Guo Tao

Plot Lu Yanshi and Feng Wanyu are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner, just as his wife...

Direction Jiang Wen

Cast Xia Yu · Ning Jing · Geng Le · Tao Hong

Direction Dai Sijie

Cast Zhou Xun · Chen Kun · Ye Liu · Wang Shuangbao

Plot Set in China during the Cultural Revolution of the 1970s, the story follows Luo (Chen Kun) and Ma (Liu Ye), two young men from the city who are sent to...

Direction Jia Zhangke

Cast Joan Chen · Lü Liping · Chen Jianbin · Zhao Tao

Plot Chengdu nowadays. The state owned factory 420 shuts down to give way to a complex of luxury apartments called "24 CITY". Three generations, eight characters : old workers, factory executives...

Direction Tian Zhuangzhuang

Cast Lü Liping · Li Xuejian · Yi Tian · Zhang Wenyao

Plot On Dry Well Lane in Beijing in 1953, Chen Shujuan and Lin Shaolong marry. A year later their son, nicknamed Tietou (Iron Head), is born. The Party is everywhere: Mao's...

Direction Zhang Yang

Cast Joan Chen · Sun Haiying · Zifeng Liu · Ge Gao

Plot The story of a family set against thirty years of Chinese history. It starts in the last year of the Cultural Revolution (1976), when the little 9-year-old Xiangyang re-encounters the...

Direction Joan Chen

Cast Li Xiaolu · Lopsang · Qian Zheng · Gao Jie

Plot Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to the country side was a...

Direction Chen Kaige

Cast Xie Yuan · Yang Xuewen · Chen Shaohua · Zhang Caimei

Plot In "King of the Children," the tale of a young man, exiled during the Cultural Revolution to Yunnan and chosen (despite his own minimal education) to teach a class of...

Direction Wang Xiaoshuai

Cast Gao Yuanyuan · Li Bin · Yao Anlian · Wang Xueyang

Plot In the 1960's, encouraged by the government, a large number of families leave Chinese cities to settle in the poorer regions of the country, in order to develop local industry....

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Yi Zhang · Fan Wei · Li Xiaochuan · Yu Ailei

Plot A prisoner is sent to a labour camp in China’s desolate northwest during the country’s Cultural Revolution. Using his wit, and with the sole purpose of seeing a newsreel containing...

Direction Jia Zhangke

Plot Focuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid-1800s, when Shanghai was opened as a trading port, to the present day.

Direction Wang Xiaoshuai

Cast Liu Wenqing · Wang Jingchun · Yan Ni · Wang Ziyi

Plot The latest film by the director of Beijing Bicycle is set during the years just before Mao’s died. Wang Han, an 11-year-old boy from the province of Ghizou, comes face...

Direction René Viénet · Francis Deron · Jean-Paul Tchang

Direction Zhang Nuanxing

Cast Li Fengxu · Feng Yuanzheng

Direction Wang Xiaoshuai

Cast Tong Wang · Shi Yu · Guo Tao

Plot Two young farm workers, who like millions of others, leave their village to seek their fortunes in the city. Each chose a vastly different path to make it and become...

Direction Xie Jin · Huang Shuqin

Cast Zhu Shimao · Cong Shan · Niu Ben · Zhao Ziyue

Plot When Xu Jingyou (Liu Qiong) an American businessman goes to China in 1980, he wants to bring his son Lingjun (Zhu Shimao) back to the U.S. so he can have...

Direction Mitsuo Yanagimachi

Cast John Lone · Koichi Sato · Sammi Davis · Vivian Wu

Plot During Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, idealistic anticommunist Henry Wong fled mainland China as a political refugee with his then girlfriend, Moo-Ling. He built himself a new life in Hong Kong...