Qi Xi is a film and television actress in Mainland China. She graduated from the Dance Department of the People's Liberation Army Art Academy and the Directing Department of the Central Academy of Drama.
Orphaned as a child, Liu E travels to the capital Kaifeng, and later catches the eye of Zhao Heng. Though she was a concubine, Liu E was perceptive to state affairs, and often discussed politics with Zhao Heng. This tradition continued when he became emperor in 997. Liu E is crowned empress after adopting the son of a concubine (later Emperor Renzong), and serves as regent of the Song Dynasty during the last two years of her husband’s reign. Liu E would continue to rule until her death twelve ...
In 1948, Yu Beiping, an important official of the Special Investigation Bureau, was transferred to Qingcheng by his superior and was ordered to investigate the murder case that occurred there. In fact, Yu Beiping's true identity is being investigated and suspected by his superior, and he is in danger all the time. Yu Beiping has to successfully complete the tasks assigned by his superior on one hand, deal with the cunning and insidious enemy on the other hand, and also bear the incomprehension a...
A coming-of-age story about young love and brotherhood among a group of young adults who lived during the revolutionary times in Beijing....
Unexpected changes bring Zhou Quan and Che Li’s happy ten-year marriage to a standstill, as one is suddenly laid off despite their talent while the other rushes to start a business. Can the two in their thirties get back on track towards a happy life?...
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Stand-up Comedy is a reality show about stand-up comedies. To make stand-up comedies get close to professions and daily life, Li Dan presents nine stand-up comedians with the task to hold ten stand-up comedies about professions. Stand-up comedies make up "the Best Editorial Office of the Universe"....
Ex-cop Zhang Haifeng discovers new clues about his daughter's death while investigating a serial murder case. After a fatal encounter, he wakes up in the past, just before his own death. Using this second chance, he races to unravel a decades-old conspiracy and alter his daughter's fate....
Trilateral Slopes, a tropical exotic melting pot teeming with all kinds of people, a place where prosperity and decay coexist. Shen Xing, a laborer who unexpectedly ends up here, crosses paths with Mr. Cai, a local wheeler-dealer navigating through the various forces at play. Together, they embark on an adventure, guided by a glimmer of kindness, as they face the struggle between staying and escaping. How will their story unfold in the midst of the disarray?...
Consists of 8 different stories that talk about the problems and pain women face in the modern-day. Topics include leftover women, objectification of women, the role of a housewife, domestic violence, social appearance anxiety, women’s career choices, midlife crises, and family of origin issues....
Wen Shan is a mediocre screenwriter struggling to make a living in Beijing. Commercial projects are left undone, and his own stories fall by the wayside. He lives a stagnant life in a fast growing city. By chance, he begins to write eulogies for a living. He meets the families of the deceased, carefully observes, listens to the stories, and at last, puts pen to paper. As he restores the lives of others, he finds his own place in the city and finally realizes that ordinary people can take the cen...
Chef Xia Mingjun of a fashionable restaurant and his wife Lin Mo have been married for seven years. The previous passion and romance has grown dull and dry. Lin Mo uses every trick she can think of to restore their marriage, but Xia Mingjun ends up leaving the city without a word. A year later, the reborn Xia Mingjun worked as a diving instructor on an unknown island. He meets a woman named Bai Jie, and falls in love immediately. Suddenly Mingjun realizes, all the methods Bai Jie used to approac...
20-year-old Jing Hao came to Shenzhen to live with his young sister alone. The siblings live a warm yet straitened life. In an effort to pay for his sister's expensive surgery, Jing Hao gets an opportunity by chance, thinking that a better life is coming, but unexpectedly encounters a serious setback. Under the pressure of both time and money, Jing Hao, who has no way out, decides to take a desperate gamble. Can this ignite the spark of hope for his troubled ordinary life?...
Following the brutal rape and murder of his teenage daughter, a single father seeks revenge against the responsible youths. His pursuit for justice becomes a deadly cat-and-mouse game with both the perpetrators and the police....
21 years after a major armed robbery where the masterminds escaped, a video of the crime resurfaces causing the police to reopen their investigation....
Lu Jie has no idea her husband is leading a double life, until the day she sees him entering a hotel with a young woman. Her world crumbles. A few hours later, the young woman dies beneath the wheels of a car. The police officer in charge of the case refuses to believe her death was accidental....
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Professional astrologer Huang Ershan lives her life by the rules of the stars. When she learns that her brother is in Korea and is about to marry his astrology incompatible fiancée, she decides to fly straight to Busan to try and cancel the wedding. On the flight there, she meets the fiancée's father, and together they try to break up the marriage....
To Qiu Shui, a young lad in his most hungry, curious, and restless 20s, the whole world feels a little erotic. Studying at China's top medical college, he can break down men's carnal impulses with solid human anatomy knowledge but can't grasp the inner desire that draws him to three disparate romantic interests-the fairy-like hometown first love, the marriageable college girlfriend, and the sensuous working woman....
A man is looking for his missing girlfriend in Tibet....
In January 2020, director Xiaorui convinces his cast and crew to resume the shooting of a film halted a decade earlier. With the shoot almost complete, rumors regarding an illness begin to circulate. Some cast and crew manage to leave before the hotel is put on lockdown. Everyone remaining is confined to their rooms, and the director must decide whether to halt filming once more as Wuhan is shut down in the early days of a terrifying pandemic....
The couple of Ma Xiao, a foreign correspondent, and Pan Wenjia, a volunteer doctor, accompanied engineer Miao Feng on a trip to the suburbs to repair a base station. During the trip, the local situation suddenly changed and the three were kidnapped by an extremist organisation. While in prison, they met Zhou Weijie, an overseas Chinese businessman. In order to find a chance of survival, they embarked on a journey of escape in the midst of barbaric warfare and chaos....
An adaptation of Liu Zhenyun’s award-winning novel One Sentence Worth Ten Thousand, produced by Bill Kong. The novel, which won the Mao Dun Literature Prize after it was published in 2008, revolves around a divorced woman and her married younger brother and deals with loneliness and alienation in contemporary Chinese society. The film marks the feature debut of award-winning short filmmaker Liu Yulin, who is adapting her father’s work. A New York University film graduate, Liu’s short film Door...
Thirtysomething Chinese-born Lina borrows money to move to Paris to save up money to pursue her entrepreneurial dreams, leaving behind her husband and son in Dong Bei province. But once in Europe, nothing goes as planned, and she is forced into a line of work she never would have imagined. When her flighty sister-in-law shows up on her doorstep, Lina becomes inevitably tangled in her own web of lies....
A filmmaker is constantly on the move after recently ending a relationship. As she travels alone between Beijing, Nanjing, Hong Kong and Japan, she observes and engages with her ever-changing environs while seeking an inner calm....
Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present....
Crew members from the spacecraft "Pathfinder" are accidentally stranded in an alien desert and must make their way back to the ship to save themselves and any other survivors. But their accident conceals a great secret......
Yuan Xiuling, a former star and has-been actress plans to return to the spotlight of the theater a year after her philandering husband died. She decides to star in Two Sisters, written and directed by transwoman An Ouyang. But, her biggest rival, He Yuwen, a rising actress, also stars in the play. Yuwen plans her theatrical debut through it. During the preparation of the play, such a drama unfolds at the backstage as much as on stage. With the opening night at Hong Kong’s City Hall Theater just ...
Following a fatal accident, a Chinese expatriate working for a mining company in Australia discovers that new technology developed by the company may be a health risk, and investigates a web of conspiracies in his search for the truth....
Luo Hongwu returns to Kaili, the hometown from which he fled many years ago. He begins the search for the woman he loved and whom he has never been able to forget....
Zhang Chu lives a simple, charmed life in the small town of Tao Yuan. His ex-wife, Cao Shujuan, left him behind to pursue greater dreams in Beijing, while his girlfriend, Li Hong, is back to town from Beijing to pursue a stable relationship with him but ends up failing. The three childhood friends struggle with each other and seek for a way out......
After young Tutu kills a bear to save his little brothers life, he is considered an outcast as bears are sacred to the Lonki tribe. Years later Tutu and Linzi struggle to get by and work as lumberjacks near the forest they grew up in. When they both fall for the same woman, it drives the brothers apart. While Linzi connects more and more with nature and the forest, Tutu chooses another path. Through their story, we experience the deep connection of all living things and witness the mysterious re...
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Where is home? For a group of Chinese students studying and working in Tokyo, it might be the Nankokute restaurant whose manager has been in Japan for years without ever managing to obtain a residence permit. The cook left his family in China and hasn't yet managed to have them brought over to join him and one waiter's father is sick while the other's is a violent alcoholic. An engaging fresco of everyday life with touching moments and an authentic, natural atmosphere....