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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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Dam Street
In the early 1980s, Xiao Yun, a sixteen year-old girl living in small riverside town in China, discovers she is pregnant. The local community is stunned, her family loses face and she and her boyfriend are expelled from school. In the aftermath, her boyfriend leaves her, and she gives birth and...Watch Movie
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Triad Election
Wo Shing Triad member Jimmy wants to build a legitimate business empire and go clean. However, his enterprises have made him a favorite in the upcoming Triad election. Meanwhile, the Chinese government see him as a means to a peaceful existence with the Triads. They offer him access to the...Watch Movie
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Breaking News
When a live TV news crew broadcasts an embarrassing defeat of Hong Kong's police department by just five bank robbers, public opinion of the force plummets and the department vows to capture the robbers at any cost. Detective Cheung accidentally stumbles upon the fugitives hiding out in an...Watch Movie
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Vanessa
The tantalizing Olivia Pascal stars as the titular teen who journeys from curious convent virgin to prisoner of a lavish Hong Kong bordello. But along the way, she'll experience the sensual and shocking extremes of pleasure, pain and even black magic perversion. In a world where respectable men...Watch Movie
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Election
Every two years the senior members of the oldest gang in Hong Kong, the Wo Shing Triad, elect a new chairman. Facing imminent gang violence when voting does not go as planned, the police try to cleanse the streets and retain order. However, nothing will stop the young and ambitious, and whoever...Watch Movie
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The Human Scale
50% of the world's population lives in urban areas, and by 2050 it will be 80%. Cities have become the primary human habitat. According to the revolutionary Danish architect and urban planner Jan Gehl, if we are to make cities sustainable and livable for people we must re-imagine the very...Watch Movie
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China Concerto
An observational essay shot in the southwestern city of Chongqing, CHINA CONCERTO probes the uses of public spectacle in contemporary China. Born and raised in Chongqing, filmmaker Bo Wang visited his hometown at the height of now-disgraced politician Bo Xilai's campaign to revive Mao-era "red...Watch Movie
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Made by China in America
Is China’s boom good for our economy? MADE BY CHINA IN AMERICA turns a cinematic lens on the interconnected narratives of everyday workers, leaders and business executives, and local community members in South Carolina, providing a nuanced perspective on China’s economic boom,...Watch Movie
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Dong
Noted Chinese artist Liu Xiaodong gives voice to the greatest themes in the opening film of filmmaker Jia Zhangke and his "Trilogy of Artists," a provocative documentary on the artistic process, the human condition and "Asia's state of mind" (as the director writes). A member of the Cynical...Watch Movie
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11 Flowers
One of China's foremost directors, Wang Xiaoshuai has created a moving coming-of-age tale set in the final days of China's Cultural Revolution. Eleven-year-old Wang lives with his family in a remote village in Guizhou province. Life is tough, but they make the most of what little they have. When...Watch Movie
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The Battle of China
The sixth film in Frank Capra's acclaimed WHY WE FIGHT propaganda series THE BATTLE OF CHINA focuses on Japan's invasion of China. Special attention is paid to the history of China and the origins of the conflict, including Japan's "Tanaka Memorial" plan for conquest. A...Watch Movie
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People's Park
A mesmerizing, one-of-a-kind window into modern China, PEOPLE'S PARK is an exhilarating single shot documentary that immerses viewers in an unbroken journey through a famous urban park in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. PEOPLE'S PARK was produced at Harvard's groundbreaking Sensory Ethnography Lab,...Watch Movie
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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...Watch Movie
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Spring in a Small Town
Named a formative influence by filmmakers like Wong Kar-wai and Zhang Yimou, voted the Best Chinese Film of All Time in a poll of Chinese critics and with a visual panache often compared to Max Ophuls, Michelangelo Antonioni and Orson Welles, Fei Mu's 1948 gem possesses a...Watch Movie
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How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?
A portrait of one of the world’s premier architects, HOW MUCH DOES YOUR BUILDING WEIGH, MR. FOSTER? follows Norman Foster’s unending quest to improve the quality of life through design. By investigating his origins to how his dreams and influences inspired the design of...Watch Movie
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The Eye
All is not as it appears in this psychologicial thriller. After eighteen years of blindness, twenty-year-old Mun's eyesight is restored following a corneal transplant. Immediately, mysterious black-clad figures in Mun's field of vision seem to foreshadow suddent deaths, and disfigured denizens...Watch Movie
