Farewell My Concubine (1993), Quitting (2001), Shower (1999), Together (2002), Sunflower (2005), M. Butterfly (1993), 55 Days at Peking (1963), Lost in Beijing (2007) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Beijing movies.
Storyline: "Farewell, My Concubine" is a movie with two parallel, intertwined stories. It is the story of two performers in the Beijing Opera, stage brothers, and the woman who comes between them. At the same time, it attempts to do no less than squeeze the entire political history of China in the twentieth century into a three-hour time-frame.
Plot Keywords: actor, singer, prostitute, teacher, headmaster, bleak, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the late 80s, a new film star, Jia Hongsheng, emerged in China. Labeled the thug idol; he gained fame playing gangsters and heroes in a series of Chinese B movies. Jia went on to star in a stage version of "The Kiss of the Spider Woman." This movie explores his journey, from the cutting edge of China's artistic movement in the early 90s, through a period of conflict with himself and his parents, to a mental institution and finally to the quest to rediscover himself and his family.
Plot Keywords: movie star, mother, father, addict, friend, brooding, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Shenzhen businessman, Da Ming, goes home to Beijing when he thinks his father has died. He finds his father hard at work at the family's bathhouse (the false message was a ruse of Da's mentally-handicapped, exuberant brother, Er Ming, to get Da home). Da stays a couple days, observing his father being social director, marriage counselor, and dispute mediator for his customers and a boon companion to Er. Da is caught between worlds: the decaying district of his childhood and the booming south where he now lives with a wife who's not met his family. When Da realizes his father's health is failing and the district is slated for razing, he must take stock of family and future.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: young man, businessman, father, brother, mentally disabled person, heartwarming, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Liu Xiaochun (Tang Yun), a 13-year-old violin prodigy, and his devoted father, Liu Cheng (Liu Peiqi), leave their provincial Chinese town for Beijing, hoping to find a violin teacher and, ultimately, success. The teenager is at first coached by the eccentric professor Jiang (Wang Zhiwen), but he is soon replaced with the renowned professor Yu (Chen Kaige). The day of the big competition is fast approaching, and Xiaochun must decide if this new, high-pressure life is right for him.
Plot Keywords: violinist, child prodigy, father, music teacher, eccentric, competitor, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Chairman Mao dies, many men jailed during his regime are released, including artist Zhang Gengnian (Sun Haiying), who comes back to his wife, Xiuqing (Joan Chen), and son, Xiangyang (Zhang Fan), after a long absence. There is unease in the family home, though, as Xiangyang is mistrustful of the father he barely knows and Gengnian is no longer able to paint after years of forced labor. Xiangyang begins to excel at art, which could either bring him closer to his father or widen the schism.
Plot Keywords: painter, husband, wife, son, daughter-in-law, chinese man, tender ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During the Cultural Revolution in China in the mid-1960s, a French diplomat falls in love with a singer in the Beijing Opera. Interwoven with allusions to the Puccini opera "Madama Butterfly", a story of love and betrayal unfolds.—Michael C. Berch <mcb@postmodern.com>
Plot Keywords: diplomat, opera singer, lover, intricate, melodramatic, beijing, china ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Diplomats, soldiers, and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1899 to 1901 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival, despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief, and tacit support of the Boxers by Dowager Empress Tzu-Hsi (Dame Flora Robson) and her Generals.—Martin H. Booda <booda@datasync.com>
Plot Keywords: military officer, empress, diplomat, baroness, soldier, emotional, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lin and Wang are a wealthy couple, approaching middle age in Beijing. They are childless, because she is infertile. He owns a foot-massage parlor. One afternoon he rapes one of his workers, Liu, who has nearly passed out from drinking alcohol with a friend. Part of the assault is witnessed by Liu's husband, An-Kun, a window washer. He's angry with the boss and with his wife, and attacks Lin's car furiously. He seeks compensation and tries to blackmail him. Lin's wife counsels him and joins in revenge. Then, Liu realizes she's pregnant and a set of emotional calculations ensues: Lin wants to buy the child, Wang agrees but she has conditions, An-Kun goes back and forth and barely contains his anger; Liu withdraws. The baby comes. Can anything be sorted out?—Wiki
Plot Keywords: business owner, wife, abusive husband, pregnant woman, masseuse, dark, offbeat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we'll ever get to build a better world? Filmed over 211 shoot days in nine countries and five continents over four years, This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. The film presents seven portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana's Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond. Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Naomi Klein's narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. Throughout the film, Klein builds to her most controversial and exciting idea: that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.—Production
Plot Keywords: environmentalist, activist, climatologist, bleak, inspiring, montana, greece ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The film is a documentary about the demonstrations of students in Peking on the 4th of June 1989 for more democracy in the People's Republic which were ended by army forces. The story is told from students point of view.—Volker Boehm
Plot Keywords: student, rebel, soldier, politician, moving, sad, beijing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 12-year-old Dre Parker has moved to China, and finds himself like a fish out of water. He befriends a fellow classmate, Mei Ying, only to make a rival, Cheng, who starts to bully and attack Dre. Soon, Mr Han, the maintenance man of Dre's apartment, fends off Cheng and his friends when they are attacking Dre and signs Dre up to fight in the Kung Fu tournament in return for the bullies laying off of Dre. Dre realizes Mr. Han is much more than a maintenance man, when he's revealed as a master of Kung Fu and Dre soon learns that Kung Fu is about self defense and peace, instead of violence and bloodshed.
Plot Keywords: student, son, mentor, mother, martial arts master, single mother, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It seems many members of our human family still regard Alaska as a chosen destination, one to be visited before all others. And perhaps, somewhat related to the same inscrutable system of values, Kansas is deemed the least-chosen destination to be visited before the end of time... at least in my experience. I have lived in both places and feel somewhat qualified to address the mystery contained within those disparate values. Having sailed the Inside Passage for over 5,000 miles, and now, having lived in tall grass country for over ten years, my footage speaks to the issues, and my narratives inform at least my observations. 'What are you doing in Kansas' is a question posed frequently. This piece is my response.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: detective, secret agent, secret police, madcap, beijing, love, secret service ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After a spectacular win of Vegas. In this last chapter of the franchise the LMNTrix crew are back to show what they have after all these years of trying of making it to Hollywood. Sean once again needs Moose in the last shot of making a successful show that will lead them to a career that the whole crew been waiting for, and this time their opponent is the show.
Plot Keywords: young person, passionate, inspiring, intense, hedonistic, engaging, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A treasure hunter (Jackie Chan) and his team set out on a global quest to find a set of Chinese zodiac bronze heads that were stolen from a Beijing palace in the 19th century.
Plot Keywords: god, mystic, master, treasure hunter, teamwork, activist, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A chauvinistic executive has an accident and can suddenly hear what women think.
Plot Keywords: executive, heartwarming, sun, beijing, women, accident, book ...
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