Based on a novel by the same name written by Gu Hua, a melodrama about the life and travails of a young woman who lives through the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution.

Platform

2000

Chinese

7.4

♡ 10

80%

Zhangke Jia Director

Jing Dong Liang as Chang Jun

Hongwei Wang as Minliang

Tao Zhao as Ruijuan

Sanming Han as Sanming

China’s rapid changes from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe.

Matrix: Generation

2024

French

6.3

♡ 6

Benjamin Clavel Director

George W. Bush as Self

Keanu Reeves as Self

Carrie-Anne Moss as Self

Laurence Fishburne as Self

After the 1999 premiere of the first Matrix movie, it became a pop culture phenomenon. A special documentary about the Matrix saga and its prophetic aspects.

Youth

2017

Chinese

7.0

♡ 20

82%

Xiaogang Feng Director Hai Tao

Hai Tao as

Yuan Sui as Drolma

Guoli Zhang as Plasterer

Keru Wang as Xiao Ba Lei

A group of performing art troupe members each face their own trials and tribulations in Chengdu; from escaping a family scandal to dealing with unrequited love, each experiences rejection that shapes their lives.

The Best of Youth

2003

Italian

8.4

♡ 39

94%

Marco Tullio Giordana Director

Adriana Asti as Adriana Carati

Riccardo Scamarcio as Andrea Utano

Jasmine Trinca as Giorgia Esposti

Giuseppe Battiston as Second Role

After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.

How the Beatles Changed the World

2017

English

6.9

♡ 7

Tom O'Dell Director

John Lennon as Self

George Harrison as Self

John F. Kennedy as Self

Dwight D. Eisenhower as Self

The fascinating story of the cultural, social, spiritual, and musical revolution ignited by the coming of the Beatles. Tracing the impact that these four band members had, first in their native Britain and soon after worldwide, it reappraises the band and follows their path from young subversives to countercultural heroes. Featuring fresh, revealing interviews with key collaborators as well as a wealth of rarely-seen archival footage, this is a bold new take on the most significant band in the history of music and their enduring impact on popular culture.

In the Heat of the Sun

1994

Chinese

8.0

♡ 15

96%

1970s

Action

based on novel or book

Wen Jiang Director

Nan Shang as Liu Sitian Bin Liu

Bin Liu as Liu Sitian

Wen Jiang as Ma Xiaojun Yu Xia

Yu Xia as Ma Xiaojun

Beijing, 1970s. The Cultural Revolution has driven most adults to the provinces leaving 14-year-old Monkey and his pals have free reign over the city. They hang around, get up to no good, and discover that unsolvable mystery known as "girls."

Sight

2023

English

6.6

♡ 6

74%

Andrew Hyatt Director

Wai Ching Ho as Alian

Greg Kinnear as Dr. Misha Bartnovsky

Ben Wang as Ming

Fionnula Flanagan as Sister Marie

Ming Wang is an impoverished Chinese prodigy who flees Communist China to become a pioneering eye surgeon in America. When tasked with restoring the sight of an orphan in India, who was blinded by her stepmother, Wang must confront the trauma of living through the violent uprising in his youth, the Cultural Revolution.

Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder

2009

English

6.9

♡ 1

san francisco, california

Christopher Felver Director

George Whitman as

Dennis Hopper as Self

Amiri Baraka as Self

Jack Hirschman as Self

The poet and painter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is among the world's living monuments to arts and letters. For well over a half century, Ferlinghetti helped shape the currents of poetry and literature with his forceful engagement with society and an ideological position that often found him at odds with the political currents of his day. Ferlinghetti's quiet, behind the scenes demeanor and disarming mien may have assuaged, or even fooled, certain opponents, while in reality he was a literary mercenary, a rebel at the forefront of our own cultural revolution.

Farewell My Concubine

1993

Chinese

8.1

♡ 35

90%

woman between two men

Kaige Chen Director

Leslie Cheung as Cheng Dieyi

Wenli Jiang as Douzi's Mother Li Gong

Li Gong as Juxian Dan Li

Dan Li as Laizi / Peking Opera schoolboy

Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.

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