Movies: Xi An Film Studio
- 1995
A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box (1995)
A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box7.51995HD
When the Goddess of Happiness tosses the Longevity Monk and his disciples out of heaven (because the Monkey King tried to attain immortality), the Monkey King is reincarnated as the Joker. He now spends his time chasing two jealous women. When one of...
- 1995
A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella (1995)
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This sequel to "Pandora's Box" continues director Jeffrey Lau's adaptation of the Buddhism saga "Journey to the West". Stranded five centuries in the past, Joker Monkey King must battle a variety of monsters, seductive women and super-powered villain...
- 1988
Red Sorghum (1988)
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An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed by Jiu'er. When...
- 1990
Ju Dou (1990)
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A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy. Filmed in glowing ...
- 1999
Shower (1999)
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An aged father and his younger, mentally challenged son have been working hard every day to keep the bathhouse running for a motley group of regular customers. When his elder son, who left years ago to seek his fortune in the southern city of Shenzhe...
- 2003
Warriors of Heaven and Earth (2003)
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A Chinese emissary is sent to the Gobi desert to execute a renegade soldier. When a caravan transporting a Buddhist monk and a valuable treasure is threatened by thieves, however, the two warriors might unite to protect the travelers....
- 1991
The Swordsman in Double Flag Town (1991)
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Honoring his father's dying words, a young man comes to the dusty desert village of Double Flag Town to claim his bride. Everyone looks down upon him because he looks inept and ignorant. When he kills a man who is attempting to rape his bride, he pro...
- 1999
Spicy Love Soup (1999)
Spicy Love Soup6.71999HD
Six different episodes about different generations' relationships. Love can be sweet, sour, or spicy....
- 1986
The Horse Thief (1986)
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Devout Buddhists, Norbu and Dolma live with their young son Tashi in a clan in Tibet. Norbu is a highwayman. After Norbu is charged with stealing from the temple, he and his family are banished. Impoverished and marginalized, they can do little when ...
- 1994
Back to Back, Face to Face (1994)
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Wang Shuangli is Deputy Director of the local Cultural Centre, and hopes to be appointed Director. However Old Ma is brought in from the country and installed as Director. This starts a long train of events with Wang's cronies using the bureaucracy t...
- 1986
Dislocation (1986)
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Engineer Zhao Shuxin has been promoted and clones a robot in his image to attend his meetings, resulting in comic situations....
- 1980
Traitors (1980)
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1975 on the south west border of China...
- 1984
Life (1984)
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Adapted from the novel with the same title. This is a tragedy that occurs in modern China. By a vivid description of the frustrated life story of Gao Jialin, a high school graduate who is first dismissed from teaching post and then enrolled as a jour...
- 1999
Home in My Heart (1999)
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Gun and Wai are two young ladies who grow up in a church during wartime. One day, an army passes by the church near the border, and the two young ladies volunteer to take them to the base of the hostile force. On the way there, they witness the hards...
- 1999
A Beautiful New World (1999)
A Beautiful New World5.61999HD
A satirical comedy about a country bumpkin who goes to the big city, and ends up teaching the cynical city folk a few lessons about basic human decency. The hero leaves home for the first time to go to Shanghai, to collect his lottery prize - a brand...
- 1996
The Emperor's Shadow (1996)
The Emperor's Shadow7.21996HD
Epic drama about China's first emperor (221 BC) who struggles to make his childhood best friend, now China's greatest composer, succumb to his will and compose a grand anthem to his exploits....
- 1987
King of the Children (1987)
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An unschooled young man, one of the countless victims of Mao's Cultural Revolution, is laboring in the countryside when he is assigned to teach in a nearby school. Gradually, he abandons the Maoist textbook and encourages the barely literate kids to ...
- 1985
The Black Cannon Incident (1985)
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A bumbling factory translator is suspected of industrial espionage after sending an innocent telegram that is intercepted by a militant snoop. Placed under investigation and reassigned to a less sensitive department but never informed of the reason f...
- 1999
My 1919 (1999)
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To the Chinese, the Conference at Versailles was more of an insult at their dignity and sovreignity than a celebration of peace....
- 2007
Mr Cinema (2007)
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Zhou Heung Kong (Anthony Wong) runs the film projector in a Hong Kong cinema and staunchly embraces a left-wing viewpoint. Dedicated to his work, he screens movies over the course of decades, while also witnessing turbulent events of the times, inclu...