Top Chinese Movies


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

71. Purple Butterfly ( Zi hudie )

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ye Lou
Actors: Ziyi Zhang, Ye Liu, Yuanzheng Feng, Tôru Nakamura

72. Simple Life, A ( Tao jie )

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ann Hui
Actors: Andy Lau, Deannie Yip, Paul Chun, Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
Plot: A woman who had worked as a maid practically her entire life decides to retire to an old-folks home following a stroke. Yet she finds it hard fitting into her new life being cared for instead of the one doing the work.

73. Wolf Totem ( dernier loup, Le )

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Actors: Shaofeng Feng, Shawn Dou, Ankhnyam Ragchaa, Yin Zhusheng
Plot: Cultural revolution in the 60's: A young student is sent in west Mongolia to help teach to a nomadic tribe. Here he will find, through the wolves they are forced to fight and finally hunt, that changes in people's lives are just like that: old ways of life are about to change.

74. Good Bye, Dragon Inn aka Goodbye, Dragon Inn ( Bu san )

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ming-liang Tsai
Actors: Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Kiyonobu Mitamura, Tien Miao

75. Jackie Chan's Project A2 ( 'A' gai waak juk jaap )

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jackie Chan
Actors: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Rosamund Kwan, Carina Lau
Plot: Dragon Ma is back, having rid the seas of the dreaded Pirate Lo. Back on land, assigned to the police force, he is to clean up corruption and crime in a local suburb. Along the way, he is caught up in the fate of Chinese patriots attempting to secure sympathy and support for their cause. The Chinese Manchu government is after the revolutionaries, and anyone that stands in their way, even the police force.

76. Red Sorghum ( Hong gao liang )

Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Yimou Zhang
Actors: Li Gong, Wen Jiang, Rujun Ten, Chun Hua Ji
Plot: Taking place in 1930s China, a young woman is sent by her father to marry a leprous winery owner. Finding no love - she often travels to the nearby red sorghum fields, where she finds herself falling for a servant there. When her husband dies, she inherits the isolated business.

77. Three... Extremes ( Sam gang yi )

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Fruit Chan, Takashi Miike, Chan-wook Park
Actors: Ling Bai, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Miki Yeung, Byung-hun Lee
Plot: In this Asian horror film, there are three sub plots:

The first story is called Dumplings and a woman is trying very hard to have a child to keep her marriage from falling apart. She goes to desperate lengths to do this when she finds out she is unable to bare children.

The second story called The Cut involves a director who is casting a movie that involves someone he knows. This someone is asked to do things for the movie that seem odd and scary.

The third story is called The Box and it involves the relationship of a girl and her sister. She is buried in the snow and tries to separate between dream and reality.

78. What Time Is It Over There? ( Ni na bian ji dian )

Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ming-liang Tsai
Actors: Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Yi-Ching Lu, Tien Miao

79. Together ( He ni zai yi qi )

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Kaige Chen
Actors: Yun Tang, Peiqi Liu, Hong Chen, Zhiwen Wang

80. Swordsman II aka Legend of the Swordsman, The ( Xiao ao jiang hu zhi: Dong Fang Bu Bai )

Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Siu-Tung Ching, Stanley Tong
Actors: Jet Li, Brigitte Lin, Michelle Reis, Waise Lee

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