Chinese Film and Music: Feature Films

Set in the early 1970s during the later stages of China's Cultural Revolution, the film follows two city-bred teenage best friends who are sent to a backward mountainous region for Maoist re-education. There they discover the redeeming power of literature and love.

Just as Guai, a bicycle messenger, makes his final payment for the silver mountain bike loaned to him by his company, he finds it stolen. After endless searching, Guai discovers his bicycle is now in the hands of Jian who bought the bicycle with stolen money. Although Guai and Jian finally work out a deal, they find themselves involved in a series of unforgettable events.

Banned in China, this film is the most acclaimed and controversial to come out of the new Chinese cinema. Told from the perspective of a young boy, Tietou, it traces the fate of a Beijing family and their neighbors through the political and social upheavals in 1950's and 60's China.

Set in 19th-century China, two master warriors are faced with their greatest challenge when the treasured Green Destiny sword is stolen. A young aristocratic woman prepares for an arranged marriage, but soon reveals her superior fighting talents and her romantic past. As each warrior battles for justice, they come face-to-face with their worst enemy, and the enduring power of love.

During the Tang Dynasty an Emperor is concerned with a conspiracy involving his Empress and several of his sons.

A retired widowed master chef is worried about the future of his three unmarried daughters who are skeptical about marriage. Yet he himself surprises them with his secret love affair with a young woman many years his junior.

When a delivery man crashes into a girl, she asks him to feed the pets in her apartment, while she is in the hospital. What he finds there is a diary that exposes the young girl for who she really is.

In a story that spans more than 50 years in the lives of two men at the Peking Opera, who have been friends since childhood face the woman who comes between them. The film is also an absorbing drama of the period in Chinese history from the warlord era through the Cultural Revolution.

In the parched desert landscape of northwest China, peasant Meili Zhang founds a school, determined to give her students a chance at a better life. When Yu Xia, a cultured volunteer teacher from Beijing arrives to help her out, these two women from strikingly different backgrounds discover that they share the same goal: to help a generation of disadvantaged children overcome a legacy of poverty and lost opportunities with the most precious and valuable gift there is, education

After a town is completely destroyed by a flood, the residents must try to rebuild their homes, the town, and their lives.

When a shy small-town boy heads to Beijing for violin lessons, he discovers a new world filled with first loves, lasting friendships ... and a secret that will change his life forever.

Ruo ma, a girl from Xiani tribe, lives with her grandma. Fantasizing about the outside world, Ruo ma wants to visit the city but has no money. She meets Ming, an amateur photographer, who helps her earn money by asking Ruo ma to take photos with tourists with her tribe dresses on. Eventually Ruo ma makes enough money, but Ming has to leave.