So Long, My Son (Di jiu tian chang) (2019), Quitting (2001), The Story of Qiu Ju (1992), Shower (1999), A Touch of Sin (2013), Ash Is Purest White (2018), Have a Nice Day (2017), Last Train Home (2009) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Chinese Society movies.
Storyline: 'We're waiting to grow old'. This sentence briefly sums up Yaoyun and his wife Liyun's bitter realization about their lives. They were once a happy family - until their son drowned playing by a reservoir. And so Yaojun and Liyun leave their home and plunge into the big city, although nobody knows them there and they cannot even understand the local dialect. Their adopted son Liu Xing does not offer them the comfort they had hoped for either. Defiantly rejecting his 'foreign' parents, he one day disappears altogether. The married couple are repeatedly enmeshed in their memories. Finally, they decide to return to the site of their lost hopes. In this family saga spanning three decades of Chinese history, the private and the political merge and the individual gets caught up in the gears of a society in the throes of constant change. Part melodrama, part critique of the times, this film takes us from the country's upheaval in the 1980s following the Cultural Revolution to the prospering turbo-capitalism of the present day. Told in sweeping tableaux, it makes visible the deep scars that lie beneath the surface of an ostensibly unbroken success story.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: family, drama, chinese cinema, history, society, tragedy, time span ...
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: drama, biography, drug addiction, recovery, chinese cinema, independent film, true story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A pregnant peasant woman seeks redress from the Chinese bureaucracy after the village chief kicks her husband in the groin in this comedy of justice. As she is frustrated by each level of the hierarchy and travels farther and farther away from the countryside the viewer is also provided with a look at the changing Chinese society through the verite camera used in most scenes.—Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca>
Plot Keywords: drama, rural, legal, female, social, realism, family ...
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: family, father-son relationship, traditional culture, nostalgia, warmth, humor, social change ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
Plot Keywords: violence, social reality, chinese society, wealth gap, human nature, moral dilemma, crime ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In an industrial city in China, a young dancer named Qiao falls in love with a mobster named Bin. When a fight breaks out between rival gangs, Qiao uses a gun to protect Bin and is sent to prison for five years.
Plot Keywords: crime, romance, drama, chinese cinema, gangster, female protagonist, social change ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A city in southern China and a bag containing a million yuan draw several people from diverse backgrounds with different personal motives into a bloody conflict.
Plot Keywords: animation, black comedy, crime, violence, independent film, absurd, thriller ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Forced to live far away, two Chinese factory workers make an arduous journey once a year to visit their children, who barely know them.
Plot Keywords: documentary, china, family, social issues, homecoming, poverty, life struggles ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In China, women are under immense pressure to marry young or face the stigma that comes with being single.
Plot Keywords: documentary, women, social issues, marriage, china, family pressure, gender discrimination ...
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