Wen Shan is a mediocre screenwriter struggling to make a living in Beijing. Commercial projects are left undone, and his own stories fall by the wayside. He lives a stagnant life in a fast growing city. By chance, he begins to write eulogies for a living. He meets the families of the deceased, carefully observes, listens to the stories, and at last, puts pen to paper. As he restores the lives of others, he finds his own place in the city and finally realizes that ordinary people can take the center stage too.
Chef Xia Mingjun of a fashionable restaurant and his wife Lin Mo have been married for seven years. The previous passion and romance has grown dull and dry. Lin Mo uses every trick she can think of to restore their marriage, but Xia Mingjun ends up leaving the city without a word. A year later, the reborn Xia Mingjun worked as a diving instructor on an unknown island. He meets a woman named Bai Jie, and falls in love immediately. Suddenly Mingjun realizes, all the methods Bai Jie used to approach him were the tricks he used to pursue Lin Mo; could this familiar yet strange woman Bai Jie be his wife?
Desperate to pay for his little sister's surgery, a young man takes part in a risky business venture - only to encounter some serious setbacks.
Following the brutal rape and murder of his teenage daughter, a single father seeks revenge against the responsible youths. His pursuit for justice becomes a deadly cat-and-mouse game with both the perpetrators and the police.
21 years after a major armed robbery where the masterminds escaped, a video of the crime resurfaces causing the police to reopen their investigation.
Lu Jie has no idea her husband is leading a double life, until the day she sees him entering a hotel with a young woman. Her world crumbles. A few hours later, the young woman dies beneath the wheels of a car. The police officer in charge of the case refuses to believe her death was accidental.
Professional astrologer Huang Ershan lives her life by the rules of the stars. When she learns that her brother is in Korea and is about to marry his astrology incompatible fiancée, she decides to fly straight to Busan to try and cancel the wedding. On the flight there, she meets the fiancée's father, and together they try to break up the marriage.
To Qiu Shui, a young lad in his most hungry, curious, and restless 20s, the whole world feels a little erotic. Studying at China's top medical college, he can break down men's carnal impulses with solid human anatomy knowledge but can't grasp the inner desire that draws him to three disparate romantic interests-the fairy-like hometown first love, the marriageable college girlfriend, and the sensuous working woman.
A man is looking for his missing girlfriend in Tibet.
A film crew gathers in a hotel near Wuhan to resume production of a film that was interrupted ten years earlier, but an unexpected event once again disrupts the preparations.
The couple of Ma Xiao, a foreign correspondent, and Pan Wenjia, a volunteer doctor, accompanied engineer Miao Feng on a trip to the suburbs to repair a base station. During the trip, the local situation suddenly changed and the three were kidnapped by an extremist organisation. While in prison, they met Zhou Weijie, an overseas Chinese businessman. In order to find a chance of survival, they embarked on a journey of escape in the midst of barbaric warfare and chaos.
An adaptation of Liu Zhenyun’s award-winning novel One Sentence Worth Ten Thousand, produced by Bill Kong. The novel, which won the Mao Dun Literature Prize after it was published in 2008, revolves around a divorced woman and her married younger brother and deals with loneliness and alienation in contemporary Chinese society. The film marks the feature debut of award-winning short filmmaker Liu Yulin, who is adapting her father’s work. A New York University film graduate, Liu’s short film Door God (2014) won a silver medal at the 41st Student Academy Awards and was selected by Cannes.
Thirtysomething Chinese-born Lina borrows money to move to Paris to save up money to pursue her entrepreneurial dreams, leaving behind her husband and son in Liaoning province. But once in Europe, nothing goes as planned, and she is forced into a line of work she never would have imagined. When her flighty sister-in-law shows up on her doorstep, Lina becomes inevitably tangled in her own web of lies.
A filmmaker is constantly on the move after recently ending a relationship. As she travels alone between Beijing, Nanjing, Hong Kong and Japan, she observes and engages with her ever-changing environs while seeking an inner calm.
Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.
Crew members from the spacecraft "Pathfinder" are accidentally stranded in an alien desert and must make their way back to the ship to save themselves and any other survivors. But their accident conceals a great secret...
Yuan Xiuling, a former star and has-been actress plans to return to the spotlight of the theater a year after her philandering husband died. She decides to star in Two Sisters, written and directed by transwoman An Ouyang. But, her biggest rival, He Yuwen, a rising actress, also stars in the play. Yuwen plans her theatrical debut through it. During the preparation of the play, such a drama unfolds at the backstage as much as on stage. With the opening night at Hong Kong’s City Hall Theater just seven days away, tensions at rehearsal increase and tempers flare as actresses Xiuling and Yuwen’s buried resentments rise to the surface.
Following a fatal accident, a Chinese expatriate working for a mining company in Australia discovers that new technology developed by the company may be a health risk, and investigates a web of conspiracies in his search for the truth.
Luo Hongwu returns to Kaili, the hometown from which he fled many years ago. He begins the search for the woman he loved and whom he has never been able to forget.
Zhang Chu lives a simple, charmed life in the small town of Tao Yuan. His ex-wife, Cao Shujuan, left him behind to pursue greater dreams in Beijing, while his girlfriend, Li Hong, is back to town from Beijing to pursue a stable relationship with him but ends up failing. The three childhood friends struggle with each other and seek for a way out...
After young Tutu kills a bear to save his little brothers life, he is considered an outcast as bears are sacred to the Lonki tribe. Years later Tutu and Linzi struggle to get by and work as lumberjacks near the forest they grew up in. When they both fall for the same woman, it drives the brothers apart. While Linzi connects more and more with nature and the forest, Tutu chooses another path. Through their story, we experience the deep connection of all living things and witness the mysterious retribution wrought by nature on humans who wound it. The film gives us an opportunity to contemplate our relationship with Mother Earth.
Bai Xiaoyu and Xia Mi, both seeking jobs at the fashion company S&T, end up switching roles due to a mix-up. As they navigate their new positions, they become caught in a power struggle within the company and must team up to fight for their futures.
Where is home? For a group of Chinese students studying and working in Tokyo, it might be the Nankokute restaurant whose manager has been in Japan for years without ever managing to obtain a residence permit. The cook left his family in China and hasn't yet managed to have them brought over to join him and one waiter's father is sick while the other's is a violent alcoholic. An engaging fresco of everyday life with touching moments and an authentic, natural atmosphere.
Ding Lei, a street dance veteran, invites a young entertainer to join his club. However, they are faced with a series of challenges.
At the turn of the century, Ma Fei (played by Guo Qilin) returns to Tianjin after leaving his hometown. After encountering various unsatisfactory experiences, he "kidnaps" his nephew Li Jiawen (played by Hu Langquan), and the uncle and nephew embark on a "deviant" journey. Things get out of control, the image continues to escalate, and all the absurdity follows...
70 year old Shen Yanhong (played by Yang Ziqiong) was sent to a nursing home by her son after falling seriously ill, and the house was also rented out by her son. In order to regain her life, she tried to make money but encountered obstacles everywhere. Just as she was about to give up, her talent in the Rubik's Cube was discovered by young Rubik's Cube coach Xiao Wu. One wants to make money and leave the nursing home, while the other wants to save the dying Rubik's Cube training class. The two hit it off and appeared on TV programs. From the beginning, she not only gained fame and fortune, attention, dignity, love, and initiative in life, but also brought vitality to the stagnant nursing home. She was not afraid of failure, fought against aging and prejudice, and arrived at the highest stage of the Rubik's Cube all the way. Finally, with her son's encouragement, she completed an extremely difficult challenge and won the Guinness World Record.
The Pandora's box opened in the name of love has already been unlocked. When love is consumed by obsession, just how many uncrossable boundaries will one break just to hold onto what they call "love"?
After his marriage falls apart, Wang Dali (portrayed by Zhang Luyi) continues to live under the same roof as his ex-wife Zhang Jing (portrayed by Qi Xi), yet an insurmountable "emotional time lag" has grown between them. However, a bird-searching experience and the shared responsibility of taking care of their family gradually bridge the gap between them. How will Wang Dali seize this chance to win back his lost love and family?
After a failed suicide attempt, Zhang Xiaobing (Jiang Long) is sent to Ward 10 — a ward for the critically ill, but strangely full of joy. Among patients clinging to life, a man who wanted to die discovers the courage to live.
Their separate worlds converge when a restaurant owner suggests they "share a table" during overlapping lunch breaks. What starts as awkward silence evolves into tacit understanding over shared noodles, leading them to explore Shanghai's culinary scene together .