Top Chinese Movies


The Top Chinese Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Chinese List". Lists are calculated daily.

131. Crows and Sparrows ( Wuya yu maque )

Year of Release: 1949
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Junli Zheng
Actors: Dan Zhao, Yinyan Wu, Daolin Sun, Yunzhu Shangguan

132. Chinese Odyssey 2002, A ( Tian xia wu shuang )

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jeffrey Lau
Actors: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Faye Wong, Wei Zhao, Chen Chang

133. Lucky Grandma

Year of Release: 2020
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sasie Sealy
Actors: Tsai Chin, Hsiao-Yuan Ha, Michael Tow, Woody Fu

134. Jackie Chan's First Strike ( Ging chaat goo si 4: Ji gaan daan yam mo )

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Adventure/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Stanley Tong
Actors: Jackie Chan, Jackson Liu, Annie Wu, Bill Tung
Plot: A CIA agent has stolen a nuclear warhead and martial artist Jackie Chan is the world's only hope. As a cop, Chan delivers James Bond-style adventure and hilarious global high jinks, hopping from Hong Kong to the Ukraine to Australia.

135. Ip Man 3 ( Yip Man 3 )

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Wilson Yip
Actors: Donnie Yen, Lynn Hung, Jin Zhang, Mike Tyson
Plot: When his town is marked by a crooked property developer and his brutal gang, Master Ip must once again make a stand or risk losing everything.

136. Warlords, The ( Tau ming chong )

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Chan, Wai Man Yip
Actors: Jet Li, Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Jinglei Xu

137. Shinjuku Incident ( San suk si gin )

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tung-Shing Yee
Actors: Jackie Chan, Naoto Takenaka, Daniel Wu, Jinglei Xu
Plot: Steelhead is an illegal Chinese immigrant in Japan who comes to Tokyo to find his childhood sweetheart Xiu Xiu. He teams up with a group of Chinese workers who help him get a roof, some manual labor and sharing a tricks on how to survive living shadowy live. Life in Japan isn’t easy; the Chinese work at odd jobs, but have to bolt every time the cops show up for an illegal worker raid. From other side, they are constantly oppressed by Japanese yakuza gangs. Soon Steelhead discovers that Xiu Xiu has adopted a Japanese identity and married Eguchi, an ambitious up and coming yakuza chief.

138. Suzhou River ( Suzhou he )

Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ye Lou
Actors: Xun Zhou, Hongshen Jia, Zhongkai Hua, Anlian Yao
Plot: This is an interesting re-imagining of Hitchcock's Vertigo. Set in modern-day Shanghai, it tells the story of a poor young man who falls in love with the daughter of a man who has hired him to transport her around the city. He pretends to kidnap her in order to get money from her father. The girl is upset by all this,and jumps from a bridge and disappears into the river.
The young man (and the audience) assume that the girl has died... but then he seems to see her. He follows a girl who looks just like her, and yet... is it her, or someone else?

139. Aftershock ( Tangshan dadizhen )

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Xiaogang Feng
Actors: Jingchu Zhang, Daoming Chen, Chen Li, Guoqiang Zhang
Plot: Shows the extraordinary lengths that a family will go through in the face of tragedy when China is rocked by the Tangshan Earthquake in 1976 that caused the deaths of 240,000 people.

140. Brave Archer, The ( She diao ying xiong chuan )

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Cheh Chang
Actors: Sheng Fu, Shen Chan, Kuan-chung Ku, Niu Tien

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