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see all genres ›While still subject to strict governmental control over indigenous and foreign films exhibited at home, China's film industry is nonetheless one of the world's largest and most successful. In recent years, new generations of talent raised in a somewhat more liberal, quasi-capitalist atmosphere have pushed the envelope, often winning acclaim abroad even when censors consider their efforts too hot for fellow countrymen.
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Along the Sungari River
In Manchuria, a village inn by a river is a regular stop for carters, so it's not surprising that the daughter of the innkeeper has a carter for a sweetheart. But all sweetness and tranquility is shattered by the invasion of the brutal Japanese in 1931. Quinnian and Sunnu end up as slaves in a coal mine,...Start your free trial to watch
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An Orphan on the Streets
Three Hairs was the name of a popular comic character, a street urchin with a bald head save for three thin stalks sticking straight up towards the sky. After a night on the streets, Three Hairs looks for work wherever he can get it; he polishes shoes, picks garbage and even sells newspapers, but finally...Start your free trial to watch
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Before the Flood
A landmark documentary following the residents of the historic city of Fengjie as they clash with the officials forcing them to evacuate their homes to make way for the world’s largest dam. China’s Three Gorges Dam, the largest dam built on earth, has displaced millions of local residents whose towns and...Start your free trial to watch
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Before the Flood II
Yan Yu follows his groundbreaking documentary BEFORE THE FLOOD with this profile of the residents of Gongtan, a 1,700-year-old village soon to be demolished by a hydroelectric dam project. Gongtan, an historic village located on a tributary of the Yangtze, is about to be flooded by a dam project, forcing...Start your free trial to watch
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Betelnut
Along a sleepy Hunan riverside, two delinquent boys experience a summer of love and violence in Yang Heng’s visually stunning debut. Ali and Xiao Yu are two teenage rebels idling away their days along the banks of a river in Jishou, a quiet town in Hunan province. They steal motorbikes, bully and rob kids, sing karaoke and...Start your free trial to watch
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The Big Road
Six friends decide to head "north" and become involved in the construction of a highway crucial for the Chinese army. A hymn to the solidarity necessary for China to move ahead (and defeat the enemy), THE BIG ROAD shows its young protagonists only discovering who they are when they become part of a collective action. The...Start your free trial to watch
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The Black and White Milk Cow
A young schoolteacher unknowingly enters a tangled web of politics in Yang Jin’s unsentimental dissection of the Chinese countryside. When his father dies from AIDS following a botched blood transfer, Jinsheng must return to his home village to take care of his aging grandmother. Taking on the role of a...Start your free trial to watch
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Blind Shaft
BLIND SHAFT tells the story of two itinerant miners (Song Jinming and Tang Chaoyang) who risk their lives under dangerous working conditions and develop questionable morals in order to survive. In the dark caves of one of the many illegal Chinese coal mines, Song and Tang murder a co-worker whom they have convinced to pose as...Start your free trial to watch
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Chiseen
An insane anthology of some of Hong Kong's biggest stars and friends performing stomach-churning, neck-breaking and (at times) some of the stupidest acts possible! This crazy combination of daredevil tribute to JACKASS and FEAR FACTOR will leave you cringing, crying and hysterical with disbelief! The main CHISEEN crew are...Start your free trial to watch
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City of Life and Death
CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH, a stunning depiction of the Rape of Nanking, is "a film strong enough to change your life" (Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times). Director Lu Chuan based the film on the recorded witness testimony from the real-life survivors of the massacre, meticulously recreating the infamous reign...Start your free trial to watch
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Crime and Punishment
On the North Korean border, Chinese military police enforce the law with a heavy hand, leading to moments of harrowing abuse and surreal satire. Amidst the barren wintry landscape of Northeast China, Chinese military police officers rigidly enforce law and order in an impoverished mountain town. They raid...Start your free trial to watch
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Crossroads
CROSSROADS follows four recent graduates: Zhao wants to be a writer but is stuck proofreading; Tang wants to be an artist but is hired to dress windows. Xu has given up hope, while Liu has "gone north" to fight the Japanese. Zhao lives in a crowded boardinghouse with an annoying female neighbor. Unbeknownst to each other, the...Start your free trial to watch
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Daybreak
Perhaps more than any other director working at that time, Sun Yu consistently sought to portray the working class affected by feudalism and imperialism. In DAYBREAK, Li plays a villager forced into prostitution in Shanghai, while her lover (Gao) joins the revolutionaries.Start your free trial to watch
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Deng Xiaoping
CCTV, the official Chinese TV news station, produced this documentary highlighting the political career and reign of Deng Xiaoping, the successor to Mao for the leadership of China. Among the topics covered are the Cultural Revolution, Tianmen Square and the rise of China to a Westernized economy.Start your free trial to watch
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Dooman River
Writer-director Zhang Lu’s fascinating window into a rarely seen corner of rural China revolves around 12-year-old Chang-ho, living with his grandfather and mute sister along the frozen river-border with North Korea. Although fraught with unemployment and other tensions, his community seems sympathetic toward the Korean...Start your free trial to watch
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Every 7th Person
Every seventh person in the world is a Chinese farmer. Between 2002 and 2005, the filmmakers Elke Groen and Ina Ivanceaneau carried out numerous interviews in three Chinese villages documenting everyday life (without any censorship whatsoever). At the same time, the inhabitants of the villages shot their...Start your free trial to watch
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1428
Du Haibin’s award-winning documentary of the earthquake that devastated China’s Sichuan province in 2008 explores how victims, citizens and government respond to a national tragedy. The Great Sichuan Earthquake took place at 14:28 on May 12, 2008, causing 70,000 deaths and 375,000 casualties. Days later, Du Haibin visited...Start your free trial to watch
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Getting Home
In this soulful and humane comedy, Zhao, a middle-aged construction worker, struggles to fulfill a dying co-worker's last wish to be buried in China's Three Gorges region. Setting out with his colleague's body in tow, Zhao travels hundreds of miles across extraordinary countryside, encountering a number of colorful adventures...Start your free trial to watch