In the Heat of the Sun (1994)

7.4

Drama
2009
Movie

The Message

7.4
2009

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.

7.5

Action
2006
Movie

Crazy Stone

7.5
2006

Three thieves try to steal a valuable jade that is tightly guarded by a security chief. But the security guards are not the only obstacle these thieves are facing. An extremely unlucky internationally known master thief is also trying to get a hand on this piece of precious jade. What would be the final destination of this piece of crazy stone?

7.4

Drama
1999
Movie

Not One Less

7.4
1999

Set in the People's Republic of China during the 1990s, the film centers on a 13-year-old substitute teacher, Wei Minzhi, in the Chinese countryside. Called in to substitute for a village teacher for one month, Wei is told not to lose any students.

7.8

Action
2010
Movie

Let the Bullets Fly

7.8
2010

When circumstances force an outlaw to impersonate a county governor and clean up a corrupt town, the Robin Hood figure finds himself in a showdown with the local godfather.

6.7

Romance
2014
Movie

Brotherhood of Blades

6.7
2014

In the late Ming Dynasty, three sworn brothers who serve as the imperial secret police are dispatched to hunt down Wei Zhongxian, a eunuch politician who had been forced to resign from his influential post and exiled from Beijing. The brothers return successfully from their quest, only to find that their task was but the beginning of a strange conspiracy.

Genre : Romance

6.6

Drama
2023
Movie

LOLA

6.6
2023

Sussex, England, 1938. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Thomasina and Martha Hanbury, two ingenious sisters, create LOLA, a miraculous machine.

7.2

Comedy
1997
Movie

Keep Cool

7.2
1997

China, the 1990s. A young bookseller is in love with a woman. The woman is now with another guy, a rich man. The rich man sends his people to beat the bookseller. In the fight, the laptop computer from a man looking at the scene gets broken. Who will pay for the computer? The bookseller wants revenge. Will it be useful? The bookseller and the laptop owner are from different ages and classes. They are two different points of view, two different Chinas. How will they fight for justice?

Genre : Comedy

8.7

Documentary
2019
Movie

We Were Smart

8.7
2019

A documentary about shamate, a wildly controversial subculture that emerged in China in the late ’00s.

Genre : Documentary

4.2

Thriller
2019
Movie

Road Kill

4.2
2019

Oh-Gwang is vicious real estate broker. One day, he gets into an accident while driving on a mountain path. Two days later, he wakes up. Oh-Gwang finds himself at the home of Mr. Jang, which is located deep in the mountain. Oh-Gwang was saved by Mr. Jang’s family. The family consists of Mr. Jang, his wife Yeon-Hee, son Hyun-Seok and daughter So-Hee. They are very nice to Oh-Gwang, but something about the family is suspicious. The family might be hiding something from Oh-Gwang.

Genre : Thriller

8.2

Drama
2001
Movie

Devils on the Doorstep

8.2
2001

During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are dumped in a peasant's home in a small town. The owner is bullied into keeping the prisoners until the next New Year, at which time they will be collected. The village leaders convene to interrogate the prisoners. The townspeople then struggle to accommodate the prisoners. One is a bellicose Japanese nationalist, the other a nervous translator. Will the townspeople manage to keep the prisoners until the New Year?

7.2

Animation
2024
Movie

My Oni Girl

7.2
2024

A shy teenage boy's inability to say no is tested when a headstrong girl drags him on a mystical journey amid summer snow to find her missing mom.

Genre : Animation

Drama
1994
Movie

To Live

8
1994

Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry. Addicted to gambling, Fugui loses everything. In the years that follow he is pressed into both the nationalist and communist armies, while Jiazhen is forced into menial work.

Drama
1956
Movie

A Man Escaped

8
1956

A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.

7.5

Action
1994
Movie

Fist of Legend

7.5
1994

Chen Zhen, a Chinese engineering student in Kyoto, who braves the insults and abuse of his Japanse fellow students for his local love Mitsuko Yamada, daughter of the director, returns in 1937 to his native Shangai, under Japanse protectorate -in fact military occupation- after reading about the death of his kung-fu master Hou Ting-An in a fight against the Japanese champion Ryuichi Akutagawa.

7.5

Comedy
1972
Movie

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

7.5
1972

In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.

Genre : Comedy

7.2

Action
2007
Movie

Lust, Caution

7.2
2007

During World War II, a secret agent must seduce then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling in love with the man she is assigned to kill.

Crime
2024
Movie

Rebel Ridge

7
2024

A former Marine confronts corruption in a small town when local law enforcement unjustly seizes the bag of cash he needs to post his cousin's bail.

Genre : Crime