Chen Kaige Movies

Abandoned by his prostitute mother in 1920, Douzi was raised by a theater troupe. There he meets Shitou and over the following years the two develop...

A woman grows suspicious of her controlling husband after she discovers secrets about the women in his past.

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by...

A monk leaves his monastery and ventures out into the real world for the first time in his life, and ends up in an adventure with a kung-fu master...

In the follow-up to "The Battle At Lake Changjin", brothers Wu Qianli and Wu Wanli undertake a new task for the People's Volunteer Army, defending a...

The tale of one man who fought against the tyranny of a ruler and led his people in battle in the ultimate sacrifice for his country.

An orphaned girl, driven by poverty at such a young age, makes a promise with an enchantress. In return for beauty and the admiration of every man,...

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent...

In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king's cruelty...

In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, New China was faced with "internal and external troubles". Since the...

Korean War, winter 1950. In the frozen and snowy area of Changjin Lake, a bloody battle is about to begin between the elite troops of the United...

During the Late Tang Dynasty, a manor is invaded by a demon cat and a sense of unrest befalls the capital of Changan. A poet is charged with...

When a violin prodigy Xiaochun and his father head to Beijing seeking fame and fortune, they soon discover a fierce world of cutthroat ambition. But...

For generations the Zhao family has wielded power, until their mortal enemy TU’AN GU slaughters the entire clan, determined to wipe out their...

Set in the decadent 1920s, Temptress Moon tells the very complicated story of a wealthy family living on the outskirts of Shanghai. Their youngest...

A completely remade animation film based on the original 1961 animation The Monkey King. Mythical ancient China. Born from some magic stones that...

During WWII, a member of Mao Zedong's communist army is sent to a rural area of China to collect the region's folk songs for propagandistic purposes.

Anthology of short films directed by several different directors.

The epic story Mei Lanfang, who overcame the prejudice against artists in 1930s China to become the country's greatest opera star.

The story of three women whose worlds collide - a social commentary about the 'sound bite' society we are becoming, where perception becomes reality...