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Browse 47 movies from Guangxi Film Studio
A communist soldier is sent to a remote region of China in order to collect folk songs. Staying with a peasant family (a widower with two small children), he discovers a community whose way of life is completely alien to him, but he gradually wins their trust.
Aug 1984
Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.
Oct 1999
investigation into the death of a Chinese mill worker
Jan 1984
Director Zhang Junzhao's superbly tense revisionist war film (featuring striking cinematography from future Fifth Generation standard bearer Zhang Yimou) is widely considered to be the first work of Mainland Fifth Generation cinema.
Jan 1983
An old mansion, sealed for years, re-opens as a museum. A ghost is sighted by the museum's guide, our heroine, who has fallen for a social outcast, a scientist obsessed with finding ghosts with his machines.
Jan 1981
Set in the People's Republic of China during the 1990s, the film centers on a 13-year-old substitute teacher, Wei Minzhi, in the Chinese countryside. Called in to substitute for a village teacher for one month, Wei is told not to lose any students.
As the government imposes excessive taxes and their people are killed in the fields, the leaders of the Miao mountain tribes take a blood oath to ally against the Qing dynasty.
Jan 1990
A spurned lover seeks a rich man for revenge. A random onlooker — who witnessed the public assault committed by the rich man against the lover — seeks for monetary compensation for his smashed computer.
Sep 1997
Zhao is an ageing bachelor, who has not been fortunate in love. Believing that he has finally met the female of his dreams, Zhao makes her believe that he is opulent and consents to a lavish wedding.
Dec 2000
An biography of Zhou Enlai through the Cultural Revolution.
Jan 1992
Jan 1989
He Baigang and Lu Jiajia work at same company as manager and staff, and are secret lovers. They murder He Baigang's wife Xue, but the ghost of Xue always appears.
Jan 1994
Jul 1991
Set in the Chinese Civil War, Guangxi, a southwest China province. Three teenagers must send a secret letter to the guerrillas in ten days.
Jul 1980
As most families only want to have boys, women end up becoming rare and precious.
Jan 1987
The Chinese army stops the Japanese army in 1938 at Suzhou.
Jan 1986
Oct 1992
Xue Mu is the talented and charismatic deputy director of a provincial newspaper's arts section. Having earned widespread recognition for a series of influential reports, he enjoys both professional success and a reputation as one of the industry's rising stars. His wife, Su Ning, is an editor at the provincial publishing house. Deeply devoted to her career, she spends most of her time at work, gradually neglecting her family life. As emotional distance grows between the couple, cracks begin to appear in their once-happy marriage. While covering a human-interest story, Xue Mu meets Zhang Cuichun, a model employee at a food company. During the interview, he learns of the painful hardships and failed relationships that have shaped her life. Moved by sympathy, he becomes increasingly drawn to her, and over time compassion turns into love.
Jan 1993