A divorced couple learns that the only way to possibly save their daughter, who is suffering from blood cancer, is to have another child. The problem is they've both already remarried.
20-year-old Jing Hao came to Shenzhen to live with his young sister alone. The siblings live a warm yet straitened life. In an effort to pay for his sister's expensive surgery, Jing Hao gets an opportunity by chance, thinking that a better life is coming, but unexpectedly encounters a serious setback. Under the pressure of both time and money, Jing Hao, who has no way out, decides to take a desperate gamble. Can this ignite the spark of hope for his troubled ordinary life?
A group of monkey show people come up with the idea of monkey human fighting show, which leads to the incident beyond everybody's control.
Wang Shuangli is Deputy Director of the local Cultural Centre, and hopes to be appointed Director. However Old Ma is brought in from the country and installed as Director. This starts a long train of events with Wang's cronies using the bureaucracy to try to oust the new director.
Shiwa, the son of a poor Chinese farmer, is doing well at school. But when his mother dies and his sister leaves the house, he's the only one left to take care of his disabled father.
Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
In the early 1930s, a young man leaves Shanghai to come to Europe and reunite with the love of his life.
Xiaoxian's life falls apart when she discovers her boyfriend is cheating on her with her best friend. Heartbroken, she struggles to move on, but her tough co-worker Jian steps in with a tough-love approach to help her heal.
Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer remembers him.
In 1990s China, a dock worker's murder sparks a major manhunt for a crime boss known as the Wise One. Detective Yan Gao leads the covert operation, enlisting port guard Ye for nighttime surveillance. As Ye juggles secrecy, a strained romance, and rising tensions, the lines between duty and personal life begin to blur.
Li Xuelian, a woman from the countryside is falsely accused by her husband of having an affair. To defend herself, Li moves from her small town to the big city until she reached the capital.
Three women from different walks of life are brought together by an abandoned baby.
A story of three couples and their intertwining love stories set in 1940s Taiwan and Shanghai, centered around the 1949 sinking of Taiping.
At the end of the World War II and the middle of the Chinese Revolution, three couples from different backgrounds with different nationalities flee from China to the island of Taiwan.
A supermarket employees plots revenge against his bosses who refused to pay out a winning lottery ticket.
Lin, a sea captain, returns from a 6 month journey when he is told that his 25-year-old son Lin Bo has been gunned down by the police. In his quest to understand what happened, he realizes he knew very little about his own son. He starts a journey back to Chongqin, a city he once lived. He will understand the impact of his paternal repeated absence on the life of his child.
During the Anti-Japanese War, Eighth Route Army officer Ma Ying returns to his hometown to mobilize resistance against Japanese forces and traitors. As enemies plot to turn villagers against each other, Ma Ying must rally the people to prevent a devastating massacre.
A love triangle develops between the male and female leads and the director during the making of a musical in Mainland China.
When a busy Beijing couple struggling with their relationship decide to holiday in Australia and focus on conceiving a baby, they suddenly find themselves caught in the middle of a complex art heist, leading them on a dangerous yet hilarious journey.
Anthology of short films directed by several different directors.
Wu, a veteran police officer in Xian, is demoted to work in a community policing center after he accidentally injures a hostage during a rescue mission. At first the new job appears to be simple and straightforward, but Wu and his family gradually get engulfed in a web of mistrust, jealousy, accusations, and even worse things...
A chronicle of the events that led to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
An interweaving tale of 3 characters as they navigate various struggles dealing with health, loss, dreams, and unfulfillment. Lu Bai Cheng is a bartender who comes home nightly to his mentally ailing wife and two children. Across town, Bai Rong, a music teacher and wife to a wealthy businessman, is searching for answers to her amenorrhoea. Bai Rong's father-in-law, a retired soldier, is facing his own difficulties as well - needing a full-time caregiver after the death of his wife.
Angry Kid is a Chinese Comedy
The stories of a newly retired editor and the antique chair he purchased.