Movies: Yao Anlian

Backed into a corner by mounting debts, a youth agrees to submit himself to a high stakes game of chance in international waters aboard a disused warship....

After getting out of prison, small-time crook Mardar stumbles upon a woman who looks exactly like his long-lost lover....

Ding Hui is a member of Purple Butterfly, a powerful resistance group in Japanese occupied Shanghai. An unexpected encounter reunites her with Itami, an ex-lover and officer with a secret police unit tasked with dismantling Purple Butterfly....

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When Song Qi stumbles upon her boyfriend's affair with her best friend, her life quickly starts falling apart and she is subsequently drawn into a quicksand of revenge and murder. Though all is not as it seems and Song Qi will have to embark on a twi...

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In 1980s China, the country is beginning to reform and workers who had been moved with their families to the provinces in the 60s now long to return to Shanghai. For one displaced family a conflict arises when their 19-year-old daughter finds love wi...

During the dates of celebrating the Emperor's 80th birthday, an opera troupe from southern China was invited to come to Beijing to perform for the Emperor. Afterwards, the opera troupe was granted to stay in Beijing and became what we had known as 'P...

During the Anti-Japanese War, Yang Haotian, a soldier of the New Fourth Army, is leading his fallen comrades back to his unit when he meets Qin Yu, a Nationalist intelligence officer who is being pursued by the Japanese at Lost Cloud Ridge....

A father and son meet after five years of the father's absence and they go on a trip to rebuild their relationship....

Anthology short films directed by three Chinese directors from the 6th generation....

Three interwoven stories of contemporary China. In the snowy forests of northern China, a lonely man herds reindeer and busies himself with his daily tasks, looking forward to visits from his wife and son. In Shanghai, a young restaurant worker becom...

The film tells the touching story of Yin Lingzhi, a young girl from a mountain village who experienced the severe test of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, and eventually grew into a staunch communist fighte...

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When Lin Dalin's company loses clients to cheaper competitors, he accepts a large order with no profit margins in order to survive. But unpaid workers and rising wages risk a calamitous strike....

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