Movies: Xi An Film Studio

  • 1995
    A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella

    A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella (1995)

    A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella

    7.71995HD

    This sequel to "Pandora's Box" continues director Jeffrey Lau's adaptation of the Buddhism saga "Journey to the West". Stranded five centuries in the past, Joker Monkey King must battle a variety of monsters, seductive women and super-powered villain...

    A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella
  • 1995
    A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box

    A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box (1995)

    A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box

    7.51995HD

    When the Goddess of Happiness tosses the Longevity Monk and his disciples out of heaven (because the Monkey King tried to attain immortality), the Monkey King is reincarnated as the Joker. He now spends his time chasing two jealous women. When one of...

    A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box
  • 1988
    Red Sorghum

    Red Sorghum (1988)

    Red Sorghum

    7.21988HD

    An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed by Jiu'er. When...

    Red Sorghum
  • 2003
    Warriors of Heaven and Earth

    Warriors of Heaven and Earth (2003)

    Warriors of Heaven and Earth

    6.32003HD

    A Chinese emissary is sent to the Gobi desert to execute a renegade soldier. When a caravan transporting a Buddhist monk and a valuable treasure is threatened by thieves, however, the two warriors might unite to protect the travelers....

    Warriors of Heaven and Earth
  • 1990
    Ju Dou

    Ju Dou (1990)

    Ju Dou

    7.11990HD

    A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy. Filmed in glowing ...

    Ju Dou
  • 1999
    Shower

    Shower (1999)

    Shower

    71999HD

    An aged father and his younger, mentally challenged son have been working hard every day to keep the bathhouse running for a motley group of regular customers. When his elder son, who left years ago to seek his fortune in the southern city of Shenzhe...

    Shower
  • 1996
    The Emperor's Shadow

    The Emperor's Shadow (1996)

    The Emperor's Shadow

    7.31996HD

    Epic drama about China's first emperor (221 BC) who struggles to make his childhood best friend, now China's greatest composer, succumb to his will and compose a grand anthem to his exploits....

    The Emperor's Shadow
  • 1990
    Mama

    Mama (1990)

    Mama

    6.81990HD

    Often cited as China’s first independent feature film, this low-budget drama, filmed largely in the director’s Beijing apartment, depicts the life of a single mother (a topic considered taboo at the time) caring for her mentally challenged son. Shot ...

    Mama
  • 1991
    The Swordsman in Double Flag Town

    The Swordsman in Double Flag Town (1991)

    The Swordsman in Double Flag Town

    6.51991HD

    Honoring his father's dying words, a young man comes to the dusty desert village of Double Flag Town to claim his bride. Everyone looks down upon him because he looks inept and ignorant. When he kills a man who is attempting to rape his bride, he pro...

    The Swordsman in Double Flag Town
  • 2009
    Wheat

    Wheat (2009)

    Wheat

    6.42009HD

    "Wheat," is a historical action drama about the women left behind when their men have gone off to war -- and the lies they are told to keep them from knowing the awful truth....

    Wheat
  • 1999
    Spicy Love Soup

    Spicy Love Soup (1999)

    Spicy Love Soup

    6.71999HD

    Six different episodes about different generations' relationships. Love can be sweet, sour, or spicy....

    Spicy Love Soup
  • 1987
    King of the Children

    King of the Children (1987)

    King of the Children

    71987HD

    An unschooled young man, one of the countless victims of Mao's Cultural Revolution, is laboring in the countryside when he is assigned to teach in a nearby school. Gradually, he abandons the Maoist textbook and encourages the barely literate kids to ...

    King of the Children
  • 1994
    Back to Back, Face to Face

    Back to Back, Face to Face (1994)

    Back to Back, Face to Face

    81994HD

    Wang Shuangli is Deputy Director of the local Cultural Centre, and hopes to be appointed Director. However Old Ma is brought in from the country and installed as Director. This starts a long train of events with Wang's cronies using the bureaucracy t...

    Back to Back, Face to Face
  • 1986
    The Horse Thief

    The Horse Thief (1986)

    The Horse Thief

    6.61986HD

    Devout Buddhists, Norbu and Dolma live with their young son Tashi in a clan in Tibet. Norbu is a highwayman. After Norbu is charged with stealing from the temple, he and his family are banished. Impoverished and marginalized, they can do little when ...

    The Horse Thief
  • 1984
    At the Beach

    At the Beach (1984)

    At the Beach

    01984HD

    "At he beach" - A hidden masterpiece: one part rural elegy, one part urban romance, forged together in an editing tour de force. Rarely screened in China or outside, this story of a fisherman’s daughter caught between factory work and feudal forced m...

    At the Beach
  • 2001
    Quitting

    Quitting (2001)

    Quitting

    6.62001HD

    An actor becomes increasingly introverted and psychotic and his entire family attempts to intervene....

    Quitting
  • 1988
    Samsara

    Samsara (1988)

    Samsara

    7.51988HD

    After Shi Ba -- a privileged youth turned con artist -- meets a fetching dancer named Yu Jing, he decides to go straight and leave his life of crime behind him. But his checkered past will come back to haunt Shi Ba when a blackmailer comes calling....

    Samsara
  • 1987
    Rang shi jie chong man ai

    Rang shi jie chong man ai (1987)

    Rang shi jie chong man ai

    01987HD

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    Rang shi jie chong man ai
  • 1989
    Code Name: Cougar

    Code Name: Cougar (1989)

    Code Name: Cougar

    5.51989HD

    A commercial airliner on a routine flight between Taipei and Seoul is hijacked and taken to mainland China by the Taiwan Revolutionary Army Front. Chinese authorities cannot seize the plane because of the presence of an important business figure on b...

    Code Name: Cougar
  • 1986
    In the Wild Mountains

    In the Wild Mountains (1986)

    In the Wild Mountains

    6.41986HD

    Set in the Shaanxi province of Northern China, In The Wild Mountains is a simple yet insightful tale of village life and how economic changes in the country affect even the most remote regions....

    In the Wild Mountains