Cultural Revolution Movies
- 1993
Farewell My Concubine
Farewell My Concubine7.91993HD
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...
- 2003
The Best of Youth
The Best of Youth8.0652003HD
After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lives of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family take different directions, intersecting...
- 1994
In the Heat of the Sun
In the Heat of the Sun7.721994HD
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...
- 1994
To Live
To Live8.0421994HD
Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry. Addicted to gambling,...
- 2017
Youth
Youth7.3672017HD
A group of performing art troupe members each face their own trials and tribulations in Chengdu; from escaping a family scandal to dealing with...
- 2012
Something in the Air
Something in the Air62012HD
During the 1970s a student named Gilles gets entangled in contemporary political turmoils although he would rather just be a creative artist. While...
- 1986
Peking Opera Blues
Peking Opera Blues71986HD
The film is set in 1913 Beijing, during Yuan Shikai's presidency of the Republic of China. It depicts the adventures of a team of unlikely heroines:...
- 2002
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress6.92002HD
During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor's beautiful...
- 1987
Hibiscus Town
Hibiscus Town7.71987HD
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...
- 2011
If Not Us, Who?
If Not Us, Who?5.72011HD
In the early 60s, Bernward Vesper and fellow university student Gudrun Ensslin begin a passionate love in the stifling atmosphere of provincial West...
- 2006
Khadak
Khadak6.42006HD
Set in the frozen steppes of Mongolia, a young nomad is confronted with his destiny after animals fall victim to a plague which threatens to...
- 1970
The Three-Body Problem
The Three-Body Problem01970HD
Based on the novel of the same name by Cixin Liu, the first in the Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy. Hundreds of physicists died...
- 2001
Platform
Platform6.8592001HD
China's rapid changes from the late-1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe.
- 2005
Viva Cuba
Viva Cuba6.92005HD
The friendship between two children is threatened by their parents’ differences. Malú is from a family that was upper-class before the...
- 2002
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour22002HD
The history of the irreverent "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" and the content battles it fought with its television network.
- 2009
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder52009HD
The poet and painter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is among the world's living monuments to arts and letters. For well over a half century, Ferlinghetti...
- 1962
The Twelve Chairs
The Twelve Chairs7.11962HD
When her country is taken over by socialist revolutionaries, a wealthy woman can't bear to give up all of her wealth and possessions to the new...
- 2007
Sparkling Red Star
Sparkling Red Star02007HD
An animated remake of the 1974 children's movie "Shan shan de hong xing"
- 2018
Dead Souls
Dead Souls7.12018HD
In Gansu Province, northwest China, lie the remains of countless prisoners abandoned in the Gobi Desert sixty years ago. Designated as...
- 2015
Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture
Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture72015HD
In April 2013, a lecturer at the University of New Hampshire submitted a paper to the Annals of Mathematics. Within weeks word spread: a little-known...