Tian Zhuangzhuang Movies

Set against the backdrop of the Boxer Rebellion and the takeover of the Forbidden City by foreign powers, the empress-dowager Cixi and her notorious...

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...

Zhang Ziyi plays the youngest of three generations of women who leads lives in Shanghai. Joan Chen plays the great-grandmother, grandmother, and...

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...

An old retired puppet master has his quiet life disrupted his 6-year-old American grandson, who barely speaks Chinese.

Inspired by the novel “King of the Trees” by Ah Cheng.

The dazzling new film from Bhutanese lama and filmmaker Khyentse Norbu (The Cup, Travellers and Magicians) chronicles a sacred jungle ritual whose...

In the southwest frontiers of China there lie many luxuriant forests where live a great variety of plants and animals. Three kids of Daizu minority...

The story is adapted from a short story by Shi Shuqing, which takes place in a small village called Shujiachuan in Northwest China during the...

Based on Lao She’s novel, a story about a street player set in the wartime Chongqing.

Two young farm workers, who like millions of others, leave their village to seek their fortunes in the city. Each chose a vastly different path to...

Set in Hong Kong in 1967 — a time of complex politics when it was still a British colony — No. 7 Cherry Lane revolves around a love...

A young teacher in the first seventeen years of the People's Republic of China approaches the teaching of her students with a humanistic philosophy,...

A hunter violates the ancient Mongolian hunting code and must pay his penance.

Xu Daqin, a retired Chinese factory worker, returns to the remote Yunnan province, where he hopes to reconcile himself with the life and opportunity...

Based on the Wang Anyi story "Life in a Small Courtyard"

A young male student develops a very close relationship with a teacher when both outsiders become ostracized from their town.

Tony Rayns presents the work of the 'Fifth Generation' and other innovative filmmakers who emerged during the 1980s in China.