China Movies

Over the past hundred years, dramatic social upheavals have taken place in the name of Karl Marx's theories. In Western Europe, the student movement...

Set in the 1950s, the PLA exterminates residual bandits in the Yunwushan Mountain.

In the 19th century, China held the monopoly on tea, which was dear and fashionable in the West, and the British Empire exchanged poppies, produced...

Explores the plans for the construction of the monumental dam on China's Yangtze River, the structure that when completed in 2009 will become the...

Two college roommates live together and one is killed in a car accident. He was given the chance to come back for a limited time to tie up loose...

In China’s popular live-streaming showrooms, three millennials – a karaoke singer, a migrant worker and a rags-to-riches comedian –...

A documentary that examines the issue of forced live organ harvesting from Chinese prisoners of conscience, and the response - or lack of it - around...

The Missing’ centres on the mysterious case of a policewoman’s missing daughter. When the main suspect suffers amnesia due to a car...

This documentary from 1980 depicts a factory community in China where over 6000 workers process, spin and weave raw cotton into 90 million yards of...

Examines the early 1980s Hong Kong filmmaking community. Tony Rayns interviews some of the new generation of filmmakers and figures from the wider...

October 1st, 1957. Dusk descends on Tiananmen Square, Peking. Fireworks crackle light across the night sky, above a city alive with National Day...

An epic aerial journey covering the whole length of China’s Great Wall. Across 2500km, for the first time ever, this triumph of Ming dynasty...

Ivo, a young Argentine of Chinese descent, dreams of becoming a filmmaker, but his family's supermarket leaves little room for his ambitions. Caught...

On a renovation site in Shanghai in the 80’s, workers are waking up from their daily nap and going back to work.

The journalist Don Davis becomes involved in a murder case, where Chrystal Malone is part of it. Davis follows Chrystal to China. When Chrystal...

A young man, Jason, decides to go to a remote village in Asia to meet Kate, whom he has been chatting with online for a while. But he becomes...

Set in early 1980s, Xishan tuberculosis hospital. Three female patients lives in ward 16. A new one moves in and makes others think about their lives.

"Disturbing the Peace" is a documentary of an incident during Tan Zuoren's trial on August 12, 2009. Tan Zuoren was charged with inciting subversion...

How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often seem happier than the rich? Must a society lose its...

Could our mounting modern problems have ancient solutions? Travel to the depths of China to find out.