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Browse 21 movies from Maxtimes Pictures
Wang Tiemei, a single mother, loses her job and moves, befriending neighbor Xiaoye who appears cheerful but is depressed. Their bond grows as Tiemei navigates relationships with her ex-husband causing trouble.
Nov 2024
Lin and her brother Lai stepped into no man's land again - they want to search for their missing father. When heavy sandstorm attacks them, Lai is wounded. He persuaded Lin to walk alone, with limited food and water. Lin needs to find a way to save her brother, and also herself...
Mar 2023
The story follows an estranged father, nicknamed Reindeer, who is involved in a gruelling human trafficking run on China’s northeaster border with a young pregnant woman and a boy who has been kidnapped before.
Nov 2025
A moment of impulsiveness turns Gao Zhilei into a "stay-at-home" individual, but he never expected his life to take a turn in the opposite direction. A series of changes compel him to take on his responsibilities as the head of the family. When life's burdens hit hard, he must confront himself and start anew.
Aug 2024
Old Lin, a retired steel mill veteran with mobility issues, lives a materially comfortable yet emotionally desolate life. His routine is unexpectedly disrupted when he crosses paths with Ma Teng, an idle drifter brimming with "useless knowledge" and a chronic habit of abandoning projects midway, during a botched caregiver interview. What begins as a comedic clash of misunderstandings evolves into an extraordinary companionship. Through their unlikely journey bridging generational and social divides, the mismatched pair transforms from chaotic strangers into mutual pillars of support. This transgenerational bond defying conventional boundaries of age and mortality becomes a profound testament to human resilience. In each other's flawed existence, they discover the courage to confront physical decline and mortality, ultimately unearthing the fortitude to embrace life's uncertainties with renewed bravery.
Jan 2026
Hiding among the gangsters is like walking on thin ice—can the fiery youth hold onto their original aspirations and prove themselves? As the wheels of time roll on, the gangsters' rampant activities and "spectacles" have faded away. Today's peace and security are our best "proof".
Oct 2025
A divorced, retired painting teacher from Shanghai falls in love with a woman who is also divorced. The involvement of his ex-wife and a student of his makes the whole thing complicated.
Dec 2021
In both work and life, Liu Hao had always been the one looked down upon. That is, until he met Cai Cai—two young souls who fell deeply in love. Just as they were brimming with confidence, ready to embark on a bright future, a sudden accident overturned their lives completely. Faced with a cruel world and a humiliating existence, they chose divergent paths of resistance...
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The film focuses on an epic battle in the history of China's War of Resistance against Japan, which shocked the world with its overwhelming force against a small enemy. In the 1944 Hengyang defense battle, the 10th Army of the Chinese front battlefield, with a force of less than 18,000 people, defended the city alone against the Japanese army with a total strength of 110,000 people outside the city for 47 days. The Chinese army suffered more than 16,000 casualties and the Japanese army suffered more than 48,000 casualties, creating the only record of the comparison of enemy and our forces and casualties since the War of Resistance. It dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese army's No. 1 operation launched by the Japanese headquarters and became a battle case comparable to any battle in World War II.
Mr. Zhong passed away suddenly. He left behind only one small problem. The small courtyard where his ex-wife Li Yu lived was left to her by Mr. Zhong when they divorced. The transfer procedures were not completed. Now, his current wife Shen Qing has become the legal heir. The two began a dispute of emotion and law.
Aug 2025
Woody, a man disheartened by setbacks in both his career and love life, chooses to return to his hometown in a bout of depression. This "sudden" return disrupts the tranquil life of his family, as he not only has to navigate close quarters with relatives but also seek out new possibilities for his future. After numerous rejections in reality, a chance encounter with his high school classmate, Feng Liuliu, leads to unexpected changes in his life.
May 2024
Her father's 80th birthday celebration tragically turned into a funeral, and the flood of family secrets that surfaced afterward stranded Li Zhiyan—already apprehensive about returning home—by her mother and two sisters.
Gu Liyan, on the verge of graduating from university, suddenly faced her father's death and had to assist her sharp-witted mother in navigating the tedious funeral arrangements. Unexpectedly, the 'Funeral Affairs Committee' secretly organized by her father before his death suddenly arrived at their doorstep... With unanticipated guests, absurd situations, and ridiculously dramatic events, the mother-daughter duo urgently needed to gather their strength to confront it all.
The story chronicles four decades in the lives of a family deeply rooted in the soil of Northeast China. Through times of prosperity and hardship, they navigate cycles of love and hatred, fortune and misfortune. Though buffeted by the twists of fate, they never relinquish their steadfast guardianship of one another and the profound commitment to this ancestral land that sustains them.
Ji Hong, a sanitation worker, is desperate to secure a school enrollment spot for her child. She finds herself subjected to inappropriate advances disguised as "jokes" by her supervisor at work. While her colleagues turn a blind eye to such behavior, the stubborn Ji Hong resolves to fight back.
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?
A daughter embarks on a fantasy journey to "rescue" her mother from the suffocating shackles of marriage and motherhood.
Liu Hong once worked at a film studio, but now he is idle at home. One by one, his old neighbors moved away; the former workplace is to be demolished and rebuilt into a business district; his close friend passed away unexpectedly. All these things have plunged him into life’s troubles. Just as he and his wife decided to move out of their old residence, his wife got injured accidentally — this incident changed him and reignited his motivation for life.