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To Live (1994)

Summary: After Fugui and Jiazhen lose their personal fortunes, they raise a family and survive difficult cultural changes during 1940s to 1970s China.

Release Date: December 16, 1994

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Yimou Zhang

Writers: Wei Lu

, Yu Hua

Runtime: 2 h 13 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: ERA International, Shanghai Film Studios

Distributor: The Samuel Goldwyn Company, Films sans Frontières, MGM World Films

Countries: Hong Kong, China

Language: Chinese

Domestic: $ 2,332,728

6.1 - ZR Critics
7 votes

Empire of the Sun (1987)

Summary: A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II.

Release Date: December 25, 1987

Genres: Action, Drama, History

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writers: Tom Stoppard

, J.G. Ballard

, Menno Meyjes

Runtime: 2 h 33 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Amblin Entertainment, Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., Warner Home Video, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 35,000,000

Domestic: $ 22,238,696

6.1 - ZR Critics
1 votes

Shanghai Surprise (1986)

Summary: Shanghai, 1938: A missionary woman hires a fortune hunter to help her find 1100 lbs. opium lost, as wounded need the morphine. Adventure and romance follows.

Release Date: August 29, 1986

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Crime

Director: Jim Goddard

Writers: John Kohn

, Robert Bentley

, Tony Kenrick

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: HandMade Films, The Vista Organisation

Distributor: Vestron Video, Video Treasures, Artisan Entertainment, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, HBO Max, Live Video

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 17,000,000

Domestic: $ 2,315,683

5.8 - ZR Critics
2 votes

The Battle at Lake Changjin (2021)

Summary: In the fierce battlefield in the midst of the harsh weather conditions, Wu Qian Li and Wu Wan Li, two brothers soldier including the brave Chinese soldiers must fight together and find a way to cope with the invasion of US forces.

Release Date: November 19, 2021

Genres: Action, Drama, History

Directors: Kaige Chen

, Dante Lam

, Hark Tsui

Writers: Jianxin Huang

, Xiaolong Lan

Runtime: 2 h 56 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: Bona Film Group, August 1st Film Studio, Huaxia Film Distribution, China Film Co., Ltd., China Film Group Corporation (CFGC)

Distributor: CMC Pictures

Country: China

Language: Chinese

Movie budget: $ 200,000,000

Domestic: $ 342,411

International: $ 902,206,065

5.6 - ZR Critics

Pork Chop Hill (1959)

Summary: During the Korean War peace talks, U.S. troops fight to retake a hill from the Communist Chinese forces.

Release Date: June 14, 1959

Genres: Action, Drama, War

Director: Lewis Milestone

Writers: S.L.A. Marshall

, James R. Webb

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Melville Productions

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Image Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, Olive Films, YouTube

Country: United States

Language: English

5.3 - ZR Critics
6 votes

The Painted Veil (2006)

Summary: A British medical doctor fights a cholera epidemic in a small Chinese village, while being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.

Release Date: January 19, 2007

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: John Curran

Writers: Ron Nyswaner

, W. Somerset Maugham

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: WIP, Stratus Film Co., Bob Yari Productions, Class 5 Films, Dragon Studios, Emotion Pictures, The Colleton Company, The Mark Gordon Company, Warner China Film HG Corporation

Distributor: Yari Film Group Releasing, Warner Independent Pictures (WIP), Warner Home Video

Countries: China, United States, Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 19,400,000

Domestic: $ 8,060,487

International: $ 18,850,360

5 - ZR Critics
3 votes

Kundun (1997)

Summary: From childhood to adulthood, Tibet's fourteenth Dalai Lama deals with Chinese oppression and other problems.

Release Date: January 16, 1998

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Martin Scorsese

Writer: Melissa Mathison

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Touchstone Pictures, De Fina-Cappa, Dune Films

Distributor: Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Kino Lorber Studio Classics

Countries: Monaco, Morocco, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 28,000,000

Domestic: $ 5,684,789

4.9 - ZR Critics
1 votes

John Rabe (2009)

Summary: A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.

Release Date: April 02, 2009

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Florian Gallenberger

Writers: Florian Gallenberger

, John Rabe

, Erwin Wickert

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

Production: Odeon Fiction, EOS Entertainment, Majestic Filmproduktion, Canal+, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF), FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), France 2 Cinéma, Huayi Brothers & Taihe Film Investment, Lunaris Film, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Pampa Production, RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, Rai Cinema, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF)

Distributor: Strand Releasing

Countries: France, China, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 67,519

International: $ 1,417,146

3.7 - ZR Critics
2 votes

The Flowers of War (2011)

Summary: An American finds refuge during the 1937 Japanese invasion of Nanking in a church with a group of women. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.

Release Date: December 16, 2011

Genres: Drama, Romance, History

Director: Yimou Zhang

Writers: Heng Liu

, Geling Yan

Runtime: 2 h 26 min

MPAA: R

Production: Beijing New Picture Film, Edko Films, New Picture Company, Xin Huamian Film

Distributor: Row 1 Entertainment, Wrekin Hill Entertainment, Lionsgate Home Entertainment

Country: China

Language: Chinese

Movie budget: $ 94,000,000

Domestic: $ 311,434

International: $ 2,544,210

3.3 - ZR Critics
2 votes

Operation Red Sea (2018)

Summary: PLA Navy Marine Corps launch a hostage rescue operation in the fictional Republic of Ihwea and undergo a fierce battle with rebellions and terrorism.

Release Date: February 23, 2018

Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller

Director: Dante Lam

Writers: Zhuzhu Chen

, Ji Feng

, Dante Lam

Runtime: 2 h 22 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: Bona Film Group, The P.L.A Navy Government TV Art Central of China, Star Dream Studio Media, Zak Productions

Distributor: Well Go USA Entertainment

Countries: China, Morocco, Hong Kong

Language: Chinese

Movie budget: $ 70,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,543,547

International: $ 577,786,879

0.2 - ZR Critics

The Eight Hundred (2020)

Summary: From the acclaimed filmmaker behind Mr. Six comes a riveting war epic. In 1937, 800 Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army.

Release Date: August 28, 2020

Genres: Action, Drama, History

Director: Guan Hu

Writers: Guan Hu

, Rui Ge

, Kun Hu

Runtime: 2 h 29 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Beijing Diqi Yinxiang Entertainment, Huayi Brothers Media

Distributor: CMC Pictures, Look Film

Country: China

Language: Chinese

Movie budget: $ 80,000,000

Domestic: $ 372,755

International: $ 461,048,804

0 - ZR Critics
1 votes

City of Life and Death (2009)

Summary: In 1937, Japan occupied Nanjing, the Chinese capital. There was a battle and subsequent atrocities against the inhabitants, especially those who took refuge in the International Security Zone.

Release Date: April 22, 2009

Genres: Drama, History, War

Director: Chuan Lu

Writer: Chuan Lu

Runtime: 2 h 13 min

MPAA: R

Production: China Film Group Corporation (CFGC), Chuan Films, Jiangsu Broadcasting System

Countries: China, Hong Kong

Language: Chinese

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 122,558

International: $ 10,564,758

0 - ZR Critics

Pavilion of Women (2001)

Summary: With World War 2 looming, a prominent family in China must confront the contrasting ideas of traditionalism, communism and Western thinking, while dealing with the most important ideal of all: love and its meaning in society.

Release Date: November 16, 2001

Genres: Drama, Romance, War

Director: Ho Yim

Writers: Pearl S. Buck

, Luo Yan

, Paul Collins

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: R

Production: Beijing Film Studio, China Film Co-Production Corporation

Distributor: Universal Studios Home Video

Countries: China, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 36,992

0 - ZR Critics

Windhorse (1998)

Summary: Three young Tibetans struggle for freedom against the Chinese communist regime. Windhorse was filmed clandestinely inside Tibet and in Nepal. It was the first digital feature film, shot in 1996 on a Sony DVW-700WS and a consumer S...

Release Date: September 09, 1999

Genres: Drama, Romance, Music

Director: Paul Wagner