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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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Kaili Blues
An audacious, richly imagined feature debut that has collected prizes around the world, KAILI BLUES heralds the arrival of a major new filmmaker. Chen, a preoccupied doctor working in a small clinic in the rain-drenched city of Kaili, decides to fulfill his late mother's wish and sets off on a...Watch Movie
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Master of the Flying Guillotine
The legendary Jimmy Wang Yu stars as the one armed boxer, a martial arts expert, who is targeted by the blind master of the flying guillotine, who has vowed revenge for the deaths of his two disciples. The MASTER OF THE FLYING GUILLOTINE combines eye-popping visuals,...Watch Movie
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Behemoth
Beginning with a mining explosion in Mongolia and ending in a ghost city west of Beijing, political documentarian Zhao Liang's visionary new film BEHEMOTH details, in one breathtaking sequence after another, the social and ecological devastation behind an economic miracle that may yet prove...Watch Movie
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Black Sun
An uncompromising portrayal of the war crimes perpetrated by the Japanese Imperial Army upon the Chinese military and civilian population of Nanking during the occupation of the city. Hailed by critics as one of the most disturbing films ever released, BLACK SUN: THE NANKING MASSACRE is...Watch Movie
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Millennium Mambo
MILLENNIUM MAMBO is acclaimed Taiwan director Hou Hsiao Hsien's neon-saturated story about female entrapment and all-too-sudden blossoming in an urban setting populated by hedonistic, angst-ridden characters and scored by a throbbing techno thump. Starring the gorgeous Shu Qi.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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A Touch of Sin
A TOUCH OF SIN was inspired by four shocking (and true) events that forced the world's fastest growing economy into a period of self-examination. Written and directed by master filmmaker Jia Zhangke, this daring, poetic and grand-scale film focuses on four characters, each living in different...Watch Movie
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China in Three Words
Author Yu Hua is one of the only "honest writers to survive in China," Ian Johnson recently wrote. This makes him an inspiration. This short documentary takes its cue from an interview with Yu Hua about his book "China in Ten Words," focusing on words common in the Chinese...Watch Movie
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Beijing Taxi
A feature-length documentary that vividly portrays the ancient capital of China undergoing a profound transformation. The intimate lives of three taxi drivers are seen through a humanistic lens as they navigate a quickly morphing city, confronting modern issues and changing values. The three...Watch Movie
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Manufactured Landscapes
Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of "manufactured landscapes" (quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams), Edward Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization's materials and debris. The film follows him through China, as he...Watch Movie
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Inside Foxconn
Our iPhones, iPads and, more recently, Apple Watches are made by the Chinese company Foxconn in Shenzhen, China. Tian Yu decided to work there when she was seventeen. One month later she tried to commit suicide. Today, five years later, she's campaigning for better working conditions at the factory.Watch Movie
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Uniform
Double lives and deceptions provide the core of Diao Yinan's DV blend of urban realism and Gogolian satire, one of the key early works of China's digital underground. A put-upon youth, busy slaving away at his family’s tailor shop and barely interested in his town's epidemic of factory closures,...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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Last Train Home
Every spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year's holiday. This mass exodus is the world's largest human migration, an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial...Watch Movie
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The Yellow Bank
Capturing the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, THE YELLOW BANK takes you on a contemplative boat ride across the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China. Filmmaker J.P. Sniadecki, who lived and worked in Shanghai nine years earlier, uses the eclipse as a catalyst to explore the way...Watch Movie
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Mardi Gras: Made in China
Winner of twenty-one national and international awards, this film follows the path of Mardi Gras beads from the streets of New Orleans during Carnival (where revelers party and exchange beads for nudity) to the disciplined factories in Fuzhou, China (where teenage girls live...Watch Movie
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Fulltime Killer
Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau re-teams with directors Johnnie To and Wai Ka Fai for a spectacular no holds barred cinematic extravaganza. Lau plays Tok, a flamboyant new assassin who sets out to become the Number One Killer by taking down O, a disciplined and isolated killer. Staged with one...Watch Movie
