Hired assassin John Lee is asked by Chinatown crime boss Terence Wei to murder the young son of policeman Stan Zedkov. Lee has the boy in his sights, but his conscience gets the better of him, and he spares the child's life. Afraid that Wei will take revenge on his family in China, Lee seeks out expert forger Meg Coburn to obtain the passport he needs to get out of the country, but a band of replacement killers is soon on his trail.

A Girl from Hunan

1987

Chinese

7.1

♡ 2

U Lan Director

Dang Hiu-Gwong as

Yu Zhang as Chun Guan

Fan Zhang as Yi Po - Grandmother

Liu Qing as Young Xiao Xiao

Xiao Xiao is sold into arranged marriage with a 2 year old boy, who she must raise as his nanny until he is old enough to marry her. She is expected to honour tradition and to toe the line so far as social proprieties are concerned, but the young girl rebels against the edicts of her elders until at 16, she falls in love with another man.

The Left Hand of God

1955

English

6.4

♡ 8

48%

Action

based on novel or book

Edward Dmytryk Director

Agnes Moorehead as Beryl Sigman

Philip Ahn as Jan Teng

Victor Sen Yung as John Wong

Lee J. Cobb as Mieh Yang

A man in priestly robes, seemingly the long-awaited Father O'Shea, arrives at a little-frequented Catholic mission in 1947 China. Though the man seems curiously uncomfortable with his priestly duties, his tough tactics prove very successful in the Seven Villages, as around them China disintegrates in civil war and revolution. But he has a secret, and his friendship with mission nurse Anne (an attractive war widow) seems to be taking on an unpriestly tone.

Maineland

2017

English

6.3

♡ 3

82%

Chinese teenagers from the wealthy elite, with big American dreams, settle into a boarding school in small-town Maine. As their fuzzy visions of the American dream slowly gain more clarity, their relationship to home takes on a poignant new aspect.

Ghostbox Cowboy

2018

English

5.4

♡ 10

100%

John Maringouin Director

Robert Longstreet as Bob

Tax Ninja as Himself

David Zellner as Jimmy Van Horn

Nicholas Grgich as Ronnie

Tech entrepreneur Jimmy Van Horn arrives in China armed with an invention and confidence, only to learn that being American is not enough to succeed.

Once Upon A Time

2017

Chinese

5.1

♡ 23

40%

Anthony LaMolinara Director

Yifei Liu as Bai Qian' / 'Si Yin' / 'Su Su'

Wang Yu Zheng as Judge

Marissa Cohen as Su Jin

Yang Yang as Ye Hua / Mo Yuan

Bai Qian, a goddess and monarch from the Heavenly Realms, is sent to the mortal world to undergo a trial to become a High Goddess. There, she meets Ye Hua, with whom she falls in love and marries. When an old enemy reappears in her life, everything she holds dear is threatened.

The Amazing Panda Adventure

1995

English

5.7

♡ 11

33%

Christopher Cain Director

Isabella Hofmann as Beth

Daniella Evangelista as Classmate He Yu

He Yu as Lei

Stephen Lang as Michael Tyler

Far from home in the lush bamboo forests of China, ten-year-old Ryan Tyler, with the help of a young girl, goes on a wonderful journey to rescue a baby panda taken by poachers.

Crosscurrent

2016

Chinese

6.6

♡ 5

58%

Chao Yang Director

Zhilei Xin as An Lu Hao Qin

Hao Qin as Gao Chun Kai Tan

Kai Tan as Luo Ding

Lipeng Wu as Wu Sheng

A voyage between a woman searching for the meaning of life and a man holding a book of poems on the longest river of Mainland China.

Passport to China

1960

English

5.2

♡ 2

Michael Carreras Director

Richard Basehart as Don Benton

Marne Maitland as Han Po

Athene Seyler as Mao Tai Tai

Bernard Cribbins as Pereira

A former World War II pilot, now the owner of a travel agency in Hong Kong, gets involved in espionage trying to help a Chinese woman locate her son.

Once Upon a Time in China

1991

Cn

7.2

♡ 59

90%

Hark Tsui Director

Rosamund Kwan as Aunt Yee

Mark King as British General Wickens

Biao Yuen as Leung Foon Jet Li

Jet Li as Wong Fei Hung

Set in late 19th century Canton, this martial arts film depicts the stance taken by the legendary martial arts hero Wong Fei-Hung against foreign forces' plundering of China.

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

1958

English

7.2

♡ 11

100%

84%

Action

based on a true story

trans-siberian railway

War

Mark Robson Director

Ric Young as Bit part

Curd Jürgens as Capt. Lin Nan

Ingrid Bergman as Gladys Aylward

Aileen Lewis as Train Passenger

All her life, Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qualified to be sent there as a missionary, Gladys works as a domestic to earn the money to send herself to a poor, remote village. There she eventually lives a full and happy life: running the inn, acting as "foot inspector", advising the local Mandarin, and even winning the heart of mixed race Captain Lin Nan. But Gladys discovers her real destiny when the country is invaded by Japan and the Chinese children need her to save their lives. Based on a true story.

Never Gone

2016

Chinese

5.2

♡ 9

62%

unhealthy relationship

youth

Zhou Tuo Ru Director Kris Wu

Kris Wu as Cheng Zheng Meng Li

Meng Li as Mo Yuhua

Yifei Liu as Su Yunjin

Scar Kim as Zhou Ziyi

A wealthy young man pursues a young woman of modest means, but circumstances often separate them as the years pass.

The Sand Pebbles

1966

English

7.5

♡ 20

85%

Robert Wise Director

Joe Turkel as Bronson

Jon Lormer as Hamilton

Steve McQueen as Jake Holman

Robert Emhardt as Officer on San Pablo

Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the 'rice-bowl' system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.

The Painted Veil

1934

English

6.5

♡ 6

56%

Action

based on novel or book

Richard Boleslawski Director

Gus Leonard as Major Domo

Keye Luke as Shay Key Fong

Lillian Lawrence as Spinster

Forrester Harvey as Waddington

The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat.

The Battle of Port Arthur

1980

Japanese

6.6

♡ 4

Toshio Masuda Director

Yoshio Inaba as

Toshirô Mifune as Emperor Meiji

Tatsuya Nakadai as General Nogi

Hisaya Morishige as Hirobumi Ito

Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (1904 - 1905). In the story dominated the character Lt Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), teachers, and a reserve officer who became commander of the platoon and later company. At the same time monitors the conduct of the army commander general Nogi (Tatsuya Nakadai), which was commissioned of the emperor Matsuhito (Toshirô Mifune) to the conquest of the fort.

Scars of Nanking

2017

English

6.4

♡ 1

second sino-japanese war

John Ealer Director

Michael Koltes as Archibald Steele

Konan Cheung as Japanese Sergeant

Ines Laimins as Minnie Vautrin

Christine Choy as Self

During the brutal invasion of China in 1937 by Imperial Japanese forces, tens of thousands of civilians and prisoners of war are murdered and women raped in what is known simply as "The Rape of Nanking." This docudrama is a stirring account of a small band of courageous American missionaries who choose to stay in Nanking to try and protect a quarter million vulnerable Chinese civilians who are trapped in a city ruled by a savage, out of control army. Their stories are brought vividly to life through actual real-time letters and diaries as they bear witness to one of the worst wartime atrocities in history.

Tai-Pan

1986

English

5.6

♡ 8

14%

interracial relationship

Daryl Duke Director

Bert Remsen as

Pat Gorman as British Merchant 2

Patrick Ryecart as Captain Glessing

Joan Chen as May-May

The film begins following the British victory of the first Opium War and the seizure of Hong Kong. Although the island is largely uninhabited and the terrain unfriendly, it has a large port that both the British government and various trading companies believe will be useful for the import of merchandise to be traded on mainland China, a highly lucrative market.

The Message

2009

Chinese

7.4

♡ 12

japanese occupation of china

Thriller

War

world war ii

Kuo-Fu Chen Director Alec Su

Alec Su as Bai Xiaonian

Xun Zhou as Gu Xiaomeng

Bingbing Li as Li Ning Yu

Hongjia Zhu as Liu

After a series of assassinations in Nanking, a Japanese spy master gathers a group of suspects in a mansion, then a tense cat-and-mouse game erupts as the Chinese agent tries to keep his or her identity a secret.

Disputed Passage

1939

English

6.4

♡ 4

Frank Borzage Director

Keye Luke as Andrew Abbott

Philip Ahn as Dr. Fung

David S. Horsley as Intern

James P. Hogan as Messenger Boy

A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a Japanese bombing raid.

The Warrior

2001

Korean

7.1

♡ 12

Sung-su Kim Director

Jin-mo Ju as Choi Jung

Yeong-mok Han as Dan-saeng

Ziyi Zhang as Princess Bu-yong

Rongguang Yu as Rambulhua, Yuan General

In 1375, China was in chaos between Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. Coryo (an ancient kingdom of Korea then) sent a delegation of many diplomats, soldiers and a silent slave to make peace with the new Chinese government. However, this delegation got charged as spies and sent in exile to a remote desert.

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The Replacement Killers

A Girl from Hunan

The Left Hand of God

Maineland

Ghostbox Cowboy

Once Upon A Time

The Amazing Panda Adventure

Crosscurrent

Passport to China

Once Upon a Time in China

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

Never Gone

The Sand Pebbles

The Painted Veil

The Battle of Port Arthur

Scars of Nanking

Tai-Pan

The Message

Disputed Passage

The Warrior