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Browse 13 movies from Bad Monkey (Shanghai) 上海坏猴子
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.
Dec 2025
A depressed programmer and a model decide to seek gold as a seemingly good job opportunity, but they inadvertently become involved in a well-planned Internet scam.
Aug 2023
In an attempt to win back the public's interest, has-been Hong Kong film star Lau Wai-chi makes a comeback film with a major director. To prepare for his role as a peasant farmer in the 1960s, he travels to the mainland China countryside to experience rural life there, but his arrogance triggers a series of farces.
Feb 2024
In different parts of rural China, various people explore what makes their communities unique.
Oct 2020
On a dark night, Xueming hits a pedestrian with his car and flees the scene. Desperate to escape his feelings of guilt, he decides to approach the dead man's wife, Mrs. Liang. He develops an ambiguous relationship with the widow, while a policeman tries to resolve the investigation that will change his life forever.
Jun 2021
An 18-year-old discovers his late mother’s diary and begins piecing together the exuberant, complicated life she once led.
Apr 2026
Kai, a reclusive young man who believes he's being filmed by aliens, forms an unexpected bond with his new roommate, Xiaole. When Xiaole mysteriously vanishes, Kai must piece together the puzzle of his lover, uncovering a portrait both familiar and strange.
Aug 2024
After an accident puts his son in a coma, his father writes a fake suicide note creating a situation that spirals out of control.
Oct 2023
18-year-old Zhang Shiyi was full of pessimism and confusion about the future, until one day he accidentally discovered his mother Dongyu's diary. Through Diary 11, I gradually began to understand my mother whom I had never met before. This seemingly ordinary woman had a short but brave and sunny life.
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Chef Xu Fu and manager Ma Junsheng successfully run a Chinese restaurant in the Middle East, only to face the brutal reality of war breaking out.
The movie is about a customized “Mars” adventure and a life story full of accidents.
The closing film for 2021's Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon International Film Festival.
Oct 2021
Dafei, a complete failure in life, is unexpectedly chosen to compete in an alien-hosted tournament that will decide Earth’s survival. Through the trials, he gradually overcomes his selfishness and insecurity, shedding his self-destructive habits. In the end, he unites with the very people he once resented and dismissed—his ‘social circle adversaries,’ the marginalized masses—to save the planet together.