Country of Origin: China
Certification12
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In the northern Chinese city of Manzhouli, they say there is an elephant that simply sits and ignores the world. Manzhouli becomes an obsession for the protagonists of this film, a longed-for escape from the downward spiral in which they find themselves. Among them is schoolboy Bu, on the run after pushing
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Certification15
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A Chinese soldier's tale; Guzidi was a child of poverty who became a successful guerrilla soldier and then officer in the Liberation Army. After a fierce battle with the KMT Guzidi and his remaining 46 troops are sent to a front line defensive position, where they are abandoned by the main army corps to a fight to the death. After a heroic act in the Korean War Guzidi, riddled with guilt and loss of meaningful identity, fights a long battle to atone for the loss of his company by gaining recogni
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Certification12
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Set during the cultural revolution in China we follow two urbane young men after they are dismissed to a remote, but beautiful, mountainous corner of the country to re-learn the basic tenets of Chairman Mao's communist ideology. At first depressed by their predicament, the two lads soon perk up when they come across a hidden selection of western literature, a find they eagerly share with the curious and beguiling local seamstress. They also survive by telling stories, making music and pulling te
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CertificationPG
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Two boys become acquainted when one accuses the other of stealing his bicycle. One is a simple peasant, the other an ambitious schoolboy, thus pitting the doubtful virtues of capitalism against human dignity and pride. Winner of the Silver Bear and Grand Jury Prizes at the 2001 Berlin International Film Festival Beijing Bicycle is considered to be reminiscent of The Bicycle Thief, yet exceptional cinema in itself.
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Certification15
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A bold feature from writer-director Li Yang, also producer, film editor and focus puller, who is not afraid to expose the 'every-man-for-himself' corruption and swindling situations of China's miners' conditions. Seems like a sad story, yet its plot progression is as taut a thriller and chilling as it is straightforward, with its dauntless depiction of the ugly, the callous and the innocent. Amorality and moral strength are at play here, and the script was written with dramatic turns akin to the
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Certification15
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1905; Chinese revolutionary Sun Yen (good guy) intends to journey to British run Hong Kong to further plans for a revolt against the dying Qing dynasty, but the Empress Dowager Cixi (bad person) sends assassins who bump off, or kidnap, his colleagues. However local HK businessman Li Yutang (good guy) rallies an ad hoc mixture of rickshaw boys, street traders and beggars to thwart them and provide safe passage for Sun Yen.
So there you are you now know who the good guys are in this stunning act
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Certification18
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'City of Life and Death', like the earlier 'City of War; the John Rabe Story', is an account of the Rape of Nanjing; the terrible crimes committed by the Japanese army during the sacking of the Chinese city and the desperate efforts to protect those, mainly Chinese, sheltering in the protected German zone. This version concentrates less on the atrocities and heroic whites and more on the growing sensitivity and terrible guilt of a Japanese sergeant.
An important and artfully made film. find out more...
An important and artfully made film. find out more...
Certification12
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Martial arts master Li Mu Bai and Yu Shu Lien battle against the mysterious forces of evil to recover the Green Destiny sword. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is a simple story of bad versus good, intertwined with romance in its purest fairytale form and all done on an epic scale. Visually stunning, beautifully performed and with the most breathtaking martial arts fight sequences yet to be committed to celluloid.
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Certification15
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Certification15
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A violent lab accident leaves drug manufacturer Timmy Choi hospitalised and in the custody of veteran Police Captain Zhang. Facing the death penalty, Choi agrees to turn informant, giving the Police vital information on his partners and their organisation in order to avoid execution. In a bid to take down the powerful drug ring, Captain Zhang and his team are forced to infiltrate Choi’s organisation. But when things spiral out of control, the lines between cop and criminal are blurred a find out more...
Certification15
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British journalist George sneaks into Nanjing during the Japanese atrocities of 1938. Unfortunately, the Japanese catch him and just as they are about to send him to meet his maker fate intervenes in the form of local commie chief Chen, who rescues George and packs him off to an orphanage to assist red US nurse Radha. Fleeing from the nationalists' attempts to conscript orphaned boys into their army, they make a hair-raising three-month journey - the first 900km on foot - across the snow-bound L
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Certification15
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The time is 1998 and Macau is on the cusp of reverting back to Chinese rule. The colony’s population are all attempting to make a quick buck in the last throws of ‘free enterprise’ and Macau’s hit men are no different. Two of these killers are employed to take out a former associate, but theirs is a ruthless and over subscribed market and the men are frustrated by the increasing difficulty of their initially simple task. An action packed thriller from legendary Hong Ko find out more...
Certification15
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The troubled relationship, from 1925 to 1977, of two Peking Opera actors. Their boyhood friendship arises in protective reaction to the disciplines of the Academy; but by the time they've become stars, Dieyi has fallen for his friend Xiaolou, mirroring the on-stage devotion of the concubine he plays for Xiaolou's King of Chu. Inevitably, he is distraught when Xiaolou marries a prostitute, Juxian, who is more than a match for Dieyi's jealous hysteria. But the trio are also caught up in bigger eve
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Certification15
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Based on the real life legend Huo Yuanjia, this brutal martial arts epic focuses on his entrance into an international fighting tournaments for the honour of his motherland. Eventually he is challenged him to take on four foreign champions in a single evening; a British boxer, a German lancer, a Spanish fencer and a Japanese martial artist. However the only way to stop him is by poison, a fact that his honourable Japanese opponent recognises and cedes victory over. Starring Jet Li and choreograp
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CertificationPG
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Zhao is a middle aged man who has yet to find himself a wife. Having reached an unbearable level of desperation Zhao resorts to deception in order to secure himself a partner and it is from here that this funny, sad drama stems as our 'hero' weaves an increasingly implausible web of wealth. Happy Times is a sweet and enjoyable film, slighter than you might have expected, but touching and amusing nonetheless.
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Certification12
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A nameless warrior presents himself before the emperor with news that he has vanquished all who stood against him. Wary but curious the Emperor listens with increasing disbelief to the soldier's story, but as the epic battles are recounted in flashback it becomes increasingly clear that this was not merely a simple act of service by a servant to his lord. Hero is a stunning piece of moviemaking before you even take the electrifying fight scenes into account, a sumptuous feast for the eyes that o
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Certification15
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Set in an ancient China of constantly warring dynasties and conflicting factions, two prefects of the district conspire to use a beautiful dancer believed to be a member of the fearsome House Of Flying Daggers, and trick her into revealing the location of her leader. An epic journey, beautifully choreographed, and stunningly shot, gradually blossoms into love, but just as deceit brought the couple together so it will be their undoing. A mesmerizing film from start to finish, The House Of Flying
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