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Browse 53 movies from Youth Film Studio of Beijing Film Academy
Xinghua lives with her husband, who makes money by selling stones from the Great Wall. But she is unable to give him a son to inherit this wealth. When her husband hatches a plan to tear down the local historic fortress to find a legendary hidden treasure, she finds herself drawn to a gentler, more educated man who wants to preserve it.
Jan 1994
Huansheng Chen, an ordinary worker who prefer to live a quiet live could not get his wish simply because he had a friend who was a high ranking official, the state party secretary, and everyone wanted to utilize this relationships except himself.
Jan 1982
Realistic portraits of Chinese youth embracing western culture
Jan 1988
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
In the summer of 1983, a provincial capital in the north. During ten years of turmoil, Ding Peng, the guard of Gao Changhe, former Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, who was sent to labor reform in Xinjiang on suspicion of murder, was released after serving his sentence.
Jan 1985
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
In 1950, Xiao Sun, a scout of the People's Liberation Army, comes to the mountainous area of Zhawangzhai to track down a Kuomintang bandit commander.
Jan 1978
Much more accurate description of the life of Genghis Khan than any western films, including his military and political skills.
Jan 1986
Winner of the Golden Rooster Award in 1982 for Best Film
May 1982
Folk Singer Wang Laogan's adventures in the city
Jan 1989
A Beijing bus driver is in love with a ticket-taker, but she becomes pregnant by a Singapore student.
Jan 1990
Beauty saloons compete with each other.
A young girl from the city is sent out to work in a village of Dai people in China's cultural revolution. Here she learns to enjoy being young and gains a new outlook on life.
Mar 1985
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
The short Wang Jing made as the graduation project in Beijing Film Academy.
May 2007
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
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
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
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
Officer Lei tracks down embezzler Chen Ziliang in Mongolia. Although Chen insists he was innocent, Lei must escort him across China to bring him to justice, but it soon becomes apparent that an unknown organization wants Chen killed.
Dec 1993