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Browse 63 movies from Youth Film Studio of Beijing Film Academy 北京电影学院青年电影制片厂
An imperial guard searches for the truth behind a conspiracy that framed him and his partners. The proof of his innocence lies with a wanted woman named Bei Zhai... but will she reveal what she knows? In this intense prequel to BROTHERHOOD OF BLADES, the only thing he can truly trust is his sword.
Jun 2017
Before dying from HIV, a man names three college girls that he had sexual relationships with while working at Southern University. A four-member special investigation team is formed to track them down
Jan 1988
A Beijing bus driver is in love with a ticket-taker, but she becomes pregnant by a Singapore student.
Jan 1990
Our Field depicts the lives of five sent-down youths during the Cultural Revolution and follows their continuous search for meaning during the subsequent years.
Jan 1983
A divorced man must deal with his son's delicate issue after his ex-wife drops him off. So much for his bachelor's life.
Jan 2014
When her husband is kicked in the groin by the village head, Qiu Ju, a peasant woman, despite her pregnancy, travels to a nearby town, and later a big city to deal with its bureaucrats and find justice.
Aug 1992
A man returns to his native Beijing after serving in a labor camp, to find that he has no family or prospects or friends. He tries to make a living, but his old underworld contacts drag him back into a life of crime.
Apr 1990
Xiao Xiao is sold into arranged marriage with a 2 year old boy, who she must raise as his nanny until he is old enough to marry her. She is expected to honour tradition and to toe the line so far as social proprieties are concerned, but the young girl rebels against the edicts of her elders until at 16, she falls in love with another man.
May 1986
A group of young people have problems operating a small hotel.
Jan 1987
Lamenting the accidental death of his comrade and model citizen Lei Feng, Qiao adopts him as a role model in serving his people.
Mar 1996
Realistic portraits of Chinese youth embracing western culture
Buyan, an honest and wealthy rancher who is well-known in his area, organizes a rebellion against the local Mr. Behe's increase in his official tax. On his way to the south to trade, Mr. Behe agrees to kill him secretly with his partner in China. As a result, Buyan barely escapes and hides in the mountains. A Chinese kung-fu teacher, along with an old man and a girl, took care of the wounded man and raised him on his feet. It tells the story of Buyan becoming a kung fu teacher, maturing in the field and then returning to his homeland and continuing his bloody struggle to avenge his spouses and ordinary people who were destroyed by Mr. Behe and achieve victory.
Jan 1992
Twelve-year-old Ma Tianshan, raised in a desert frontier army farm, returns one scorching summer to confront a buried family secret: Is his ruthless foster-father Ma Hongguang truly his parent? The return of Shanghai youth Kong Xiaoxue, rumored to have borne a child with the outcast herdsman Li Dalin, upends Tianshan’s world.
Nov 2007
Bayinbulag and Somiya are brought up, from a young age, as brother and sister by their adoptive grandmother. The three live happily in a yurt on the Mongolian steppes. Just before Bayinbulag is to leave for the city, to be trained as a vet, the grandmother suggests that Bayinbulag and Somiya should eventually marry. Bayinbulag, now training to be a musician, stays away for long periods of time without communicating with Somiya. He finally comes back expecting to marry her.
Nov 1995
During the Japanese evacuation from China in 1945, a poor and ill mother leaves her child to her Chinese sister-in-law. Years later, she returns to China to find her child.
Aug 1979
Winner of the Golden Rooster Award in 1982 for Best Film
May 1982
A sixteen year old teenager Haoran escapes from his home when his parents decide to live abroad. Instead, he lives with his classmate, Luyang, at the shabby city village in downtown Shenzhen that is bound to be reconstructed. At an exhibition held here, he cannot take his eyes off a photo of the back of a "beer girl". During Haoran's stay, the maturity of Luyang's sister, Shiyan, makes Haoran's heart flutter. However, in a wandering caused by his insomnia, Haoran accidentally discovers that the "beer girl" is Shiyun. Out of a desire to protect and possess her, Luyang goes to the food stall every night and saves her from people who try to make Shiyun drunk regardless of her own will.
Jun 2019
In 1946’s autumn, troupe medic Lu Lan escorts a shy young soldier to a village en route to the frontline assault on a county town. Initially cold, Lu Lan warms to his honest simplicity and shared hometown roots, as they cajole a beautifully embroidered quilt from his new bride to kit out their field aid station.
Jul 1981
Love story between three young workers and a girl in a large steel factory.
Jan 1982