Empire of Dust (2011)

Chungking Express (1994)

Summary: Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal waitress at a late-night restaurant he frequents.

Release Date: March 15, 1996

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Crime

Director: Kar-Wai Wong

Writer: Kar-Wai Wong

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Jet Tone Production

Distributor: Miramax, Rolling Thunder Pictures, Buena Vista Home Video, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max

Country: Hong Kong

Language: Chinese

Domestic: $ 600,200

International: $ 2,674,063

Hung Fan Kui (1995)

Summary: A young man visiting and helping his uncle in New York City finds himself forced to fight a street gang and the mob with his martial art skills.

Release Date: February 23, 1996

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Director: Stanley Tong

Writers: Edward Tang

, Fibe Ma

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: PA

Production: Golden Harvest Company, Golden Way Films Ltd., Maple Ridge Films

Distributor: Fox Network, Miramax, New Line Home Video, TBS Superstation, TNT, Turner Home Entertainment

Country: Hong Kong

Language: Chinese

Movie budget: $ 7,500,000

Domestic: $ 32,392,047

Production: Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Huayi Brothers Media, Taihe Film Investment Co. Ltd., Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Beijing Film Studio, China Film Group Corporation (CFGC), The Fourth Production Company Film Group, Star Overseas, China Film Co-Production Corporation, Columbia Pictures

Kung Fu Hustle (2004)

Summary: In Shanghai, China in the 1940s, a wannabe gangster aspires to join the notorious "Axe Gang" while residents of a housing complex exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf.

Release Date: April 22, 2005

Genres: Action, Comedy, Fantasy

Director: Stephen Chow

Writers: Stephen Chow

, Kan-Cheung Tsang

, Xin Huo

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: R

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: Hong Kong, China, United States

Language: Chinese

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 17,108,591

International: $ 87,773,854

Man Behind the Sun (1988)

Summary: Japanese troops round up Chinese and Russian prisoners of war and take them to unit 731, where they're horribly tortured and experimented on to test new biological weapons.

Release Date: December 01, 1988

Genres: Drama, Horror, History

Director: Tun-Fei Mou

Writers: Mei Liu

, Wen Yuan Mou

, Dun Jing Teng

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Sil-Metropole Organisation

Distributor: Cinefear, Dead Alive Productions, Massacre Video, World Video & Supply Inc.

Country: Hong Kong

Language: Chinese

My Country, My Parents (2021)

Summary: Included as the third installment of "National Day Celebration" trilogy with My People, My Country (2019) and My People, My Homeland (2020), My Country, My Parents focuses on four Chinese families in four different eras. Combined ...

Release Date: September 30, 2021

Genre: Drama

Directors: Teng Shen

, Jing Wu

, Zheng Xu

Writers: Baimei Yu

, Yan Zhang

, Yuan Li

Runtime: 2 h 37 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: China Film Co., Ltd., Shanghai Dimension Film, Such A Good Film, Beijing Joy Leader Culture Commmunication, Beijing Fun Age Pictures

Distributor: CMC Pictures

Country: China

Language: Chinese

Domestic: $ 177,133

International: $ 221,653,953

Return to Dust (2022)

Summary: The humble, unassuming Ma and timid Cao have been cast off by their families and forced into an arranged marriage. To survive, they have to come together and build a home for themselves.

Release Date: July 08, 2022

Genre: Drama

Director: Ruijun Li

Writer: Ruijun Li

Runtime: 2 h 11 min

Production: Beijing Showcase Culture Media, Dream Media, Alibaba Pictures, Aranya Pictures, Beijing J.Q. Spring Pictures, Alibaba Pictures Group

Distributor: M-Appeal

Country: China

Language: Chinese

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

Domestic: $ 22,692

International: $ 888,838

The Legend of Heroes (2024)

Summary: A gathering of great warriors brings forth a joyful martial art world. A new tradition reboots the martial arts.

Release Date: June 17, 2024

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Runtime: 0 h 45 min

Production: Shanghai Youhug Media Co., Tencent Penguin Pictures, You Hug Media

Country: China

Language: Chinese

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Future Cops (1993)

Summary: Ryu, Dhalsim, and Vega team up with a student to confront M. Bison. Bison dispatches Ken and Sagat to engage them. The groups clash in a battle to determine the fate of their conflicting agendas.

Release Date: July 15, 1993

Genres: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Director: Jing Wong

Writer: Jing Wong

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Fantasy Productions, Golden Harvest Company, Wong Jing's Workshop Ltd.

Country: Hong Kong

Language: Chinese

Master of the Flying Guillotine (1976)

Summary: After his students are killed by the One Armed Boxer, a vengeful and blind Kung Fu expert travels to a village where a martial arts contest is being held and vows to behead every one armed man he comes across.

Genres: Action, Drama, Fantasy

Director: Jimmy Wang Yu

Writer: Jimmy Wang Yu

Runtime: 1 h 21 min

MPAA: R

Production: First Films Organisation

Distributor: Seymour Borde & Associates, Cinema Epoch, Pathfinder Pictures, Phaedra Cinema

Countries: Hong Kong, Taiwan

Language: Chinese

Domestic: $ 21,779

Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)

Summary: During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself.

Release Date: December 14, 2006

Genres: Action, Drama, History

Director: Yimou Zhang

Writers: Zhihong Bian

, Yu Cao

, Nan Wu

Runtime: 1 h 54 min

MPAA: R

Production: Film Partner International, Edko Films, Beijing New Picture Film, Elite Group Enterprises, Standard Chartered Bank, Xin Huamian Film

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: Hong Kong, China, United Kingdom, United States

Language: Chinese

Movie budget: $ 45,000,000

Domestic: $ 6,566,773

International: $ 72,002,204

The Hole (1998)

Summary: While never-ending rain and a strange disease spread by cockroaches ravage Taiwan, a plumber makes a hole between two apartments and the inhabitants of each form a unique connection, enacted in musical numbers.

Release Date: March 24, 1999

Genres: Drama, Musical, Fantasy

Director: Tsai Ming-liang

Writers: Tsai Ming-liang

, Pi-ying Yang

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

Production: Arc Light Films, Central Motion Pictures, China Television (CTV), Haut et Court, La Sept-Arte

Distributor: Fox Lorber, Big World Pictures, The Criterion Channel

Countries: Taiwan, France

Language: Chinese

The Killer (1989)

Summary: A disillusioned assassin accepts one last hit in hopes of using his earnings to restore the vision of a singer he accidentally blinded.

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Director: John Woo

Writer: John Woo

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: R

Production: Film Workshop, Golden Princess Film Production Limited, Long Shong Pictures, Magnum Films, Media Asia Group

Distributor: Circle Films, Buena Vista Home Video, Dragon Dynasty, Fox Lorber, HBO Max, Miramax, STAR TV Filmed Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Vivendi Entertainment

Country: Hong Kong

Language: Chinese

Purple Sunset (2001)

Summary: A Soviet Russian lady officer, a Chinese peasant and a Japanese schoolgirl must walk their way out of a forest toward the end of World War II, despite their mutual distrust of one another.

Release Date: June 09, 2001

Genre: War

Director: Xiaoning Feng

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

Production: Beijing Forbidden City Film, Shanghai Paradise Film and Television Group

Country: China

Language: Chinese

No More Bets (2023)

Summary: A Chinese programmer and a model who, enticed by the promise of high-paying jobs, find themselves trapped in a foreign country as prisoners of a scam mill and were forced to be part of their online fraud scheme.

Release Date: August 08, 2023

Genres: Drama, Crime

Directors: Ao Shen

, Randy Liu

Writers: Ao Shen

, Yifan Zhang

, Luyang Xu

Runtime: 2 h 10 min

Production: China Film Co., Ltd., Dirty Monkey Films Group

Country: China

Language: Chinese

Movie budget: $ 80,000,000

Sword and Fairy 1 (2024)

Summary: A young inn attendant and a descendant of the goddess embark on a quest to find a bead that can end a drought. They befriend allies and face dangers, ultimately thwarting a sect leader's scheme to destroy the world.

Release Date: April 02, 2024

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Runtime: 0 h 45 min

Country: China

Language: Chinese

Not One Less (1999)

Summary: 13-year old Wei Minzhi is the new substitute teacher of a mountain village school. She is told not to lose any of her pupils under any circumstances.

Release Date: October 30, 1999

Genre: Drama

Director: Yimou Zhang

Writer: Xiangsheng Shi

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: G

Production: Guangxi Film Studio, Beijing New Picture Film, Xin Huamian Film, Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Video, Sony Pictures Classics

Country: China

Language: Chinese

Domestic: $ 592,586

Taipei Story (1985)

Summary: Lung is a former member of the national Little League team who lives with his old childhood sweetheart Ah-chin, a traditional family woman. Although they live together, Ah-chin is weary of Lung's past liaison with another girl.

Genre: Drama

Director: Edward Yang

Writers: T'ien-wen Chu

, Hsiao-Hsien Hou

, Edward Yang

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Evergreen Film Company, Evergreen Film Company

Distributor: Janus Films, The Criterion Collection

Country: Taiwan

Language: Chinese

Domestic: $ 12,897

International: $ 22,439

Ip Man 4: The Finale (2019)

Summary: The Kung Fu master travels to the U.S. where his student has upset the local martial arts community by opening a Wing Chun school.

Release Date: December 20, 2019

Genres: Action, Drama, Biography

Director: Wilson Yip

Writers: Edmond Wong

, Hiroshi Fukazawa

, Tai-Lee Chan

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Golden Harvest Company, Bullet Films, Mandarin Motion Pictures, Shanghai Bona Cultural Media

Distributor: Well Go USA Entertainment

Countries: Hong Kong, China

Language: Chinese

Movie budget: $ 52,000,000

Domestic: $ 3,956,031

International: $ 172,389,935