Zhang Yuan

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东陵大盗（三）
1

东陵大盗（三）

Jan 01, 1987

东陵大盗（三）
1987 137 min 1 vues
The story revolves around the mysterious disappearance of the Eastern Tombs' treasures, drawing in high-ranking military and political figures like Chiang Kai-shek and Yan Xishan. As they scramble to resolve the situation, a web of intrigue unfolds involving tomb raiders, corrupt officials, and conflicting allegiances. At the center of the action is Na Xinting, who finds himself entangled with a group of masked Daoists, romance, and betrayal, all while he tries to uncover the truth behind the missing treasure.
Drama
Green Tea
7

Green Tea

Aug 18, 2003

Green Tea
2003 83 min 13 vues
Fang, une étudiante récemment diplômée, prend régulièrement des rendez-vous galants avec des hommes inconnus. À chaque fois, elle commande une tasse de thé vert afin d'y voir si sa nouvelle rencontre est compatible avec elle. Chen, un de ces prétendants, trouve que tout cela est bien vain. Il ne sait pas lire les prédictions dans le thé vert mais pense bien connaître les femmes. Fang et Chen, chacun avec leur passé propre et leur certitude sur l'amour, se suivent et s'épient. Mais Chen découvre rapidement que leur destin est entre les mains d'une tierce personne, la mystérieuse Lang...
Drama
东陵大盗（四）
1

东陵大盗（四）

Aug 08, 1987

东陵大盗（四）
1987 137 min 1 vues
The story continues with Na Xinting’s unwavering commitment to his patriotic duty, even as he faces mounting threats from multiple forces. His relationship with the Daoist leader, Shen Jiu, is a key dynamic, as Shen’s fiery patriotism shakes Na’s worldview. Meanwhile, various factions, including government troops, traitors, and foreign mercenaries, close in on the hidden treasure. The situation escalates into a tense struggle for control of the treasure and the fate of the mountain village. Na is forced to navigate complex alliances and betrayals as he seeks to protect the treasure and his newfound Daoist allies.
Drama
我和爸爸
5.9

我和爸爸

Sep 10, 2003

我和爸爸
2003 98 min 8 vues
After Xiao Yu's mother died in an accident, she moved back to live with her birth father who she knows little about. Gradually, they grew to know each other and to accept each other for who they are.
Drama
停机
1

停机

Jan 01, 1994

停机
1994 55 min 1 vues
The one directorial feature by Ning Dai, sister of 5th generation filmmaker Ning Ying and wife of 6th generation filmmaker Zhang Yuan. It follows a chaotic period in November of 1993, when production suddenly halted on Zhang Yuan's TV film adaptation of a popular novel, Chicken Feathers, after the Chinese Film Bureau announced that Zhang could no longer direct the film due to submitting his previous independent feature, 1992's Beijing Bastards, to a film festival in Japan without receiving the proper authorization to do so. Ning's documentary features anguished meetings between the Chicken Feather's production crew as they debate replacing Zhang with another director, along with testimonials on the state of censorship in Chinese independent cinema of the early '90s from Wu Wenguang, Tang Danian, He Jianjun, Cui Jian, and others.
艳遇
10

艳遇

Aug 12, 2013

艳遇
2013 42 min 1 vues
Chinese short film directed by Zhang Yuan.
笔中情
7.5

笔中情

Jan 01, 1982

笔中情
1982 96 min 2 vues
Love story of a young calligrapher and the daughter of a supreme government official in ancient China.
Drama
智截玉香笼
7

智截玉香笼

Jan 01, 1981

智截玉香笼
1981 89 min 1 vues
An Incense Jade Case, a first-degree Chinese cultural relic, is incidentally discovered by the policemen of an anti-smuggling department of the Customs when they inspect goods mailing overseas. Then the Customs and Police Department carry out a life-and-death fight with the smuggling clique.
Crime
男生女相：華語電影之性別
5.4

男生女相：華語電影之性別

Jun 04, 1998

男生女相：華語電影之性別
1998 80 min 7 vues
An exploration of Chinese cinema and its relationships with gender and sexuality, which the film argues has been more frankly and provocatively explored than in any other national cinema. Utilizing both film excerpts and interviews with many leading directors and academics, the film examines topics such as male bonding in kung fu movies, depictions of same-sex bonding and physical intimacy, the emphasis on women's grievances in melodramas, and the career of Yam Kim-Fai, a Hong Kong actress who spent her life portraying men on and off the screen.
Documentary
My Camera Doesn’t Lie
1

My Camera Doesn’t Lie

Aug 19, 2003

My Camera Doesn’t Lie
2003 92 min 1 vues
A film about Chinese underground filmmakers who were the first to express their truthful and realistic views on China from 1989 until today. It is also the first film to speak about the Chinese homosexual film scene. The documentary features Chinese intellectuals and directors such as Cui Zi’en, Jia Zhangke, Ju An Qi, Li Yu, Liu Bingjian, Liu Hao, Wang Xiaoshuai, Zhang Yuan.
Documentary
过年回家
6.4

过年回家

Sep 01, 1999

过年回家
1999 90 min 9 vues
Yu Xiaoqin steals money from her father and blames on her sister Tao Lan, who accidentally kills her sister while attempting to prove her innocence. After 17 years in jail, Tao Lan is escorted by a guard only to find her home long demolished. The two go to the new address of her ageing parents, and the guard becomes witness to the family's difficult reunion.
Drama
过年回家
6.4

过年回家

Sep 01, 1999

过年回家
1999 90 min 9 vues
Yu Xiaoqin steals money from her father and blames on her sister Tao Lan, who accidentally kills her sister while attempting to prove her innocence. After 17 years in jail, Tao Lan is escorted by a guard only to find her home long demolished. The two go to the new address of her ageing parents, and the guard becomes witness to the family's difficult reunion.
Drama
Les Petites fleurs rouges
6.2

Les Petites fleurs rouges

Apr 08, 2006

Les Petites fleurs rouges
2006 92 min 40 vues
Yu Xiaoqin steals money from her father and blames on her sister Tao Lan, who accidentally kills her sister while attempting to prove her innocence. After 17 years in jail, Tao Lan is escorted by a guard only to find her home long demolished. The two go to the new address of her ageing parents, and the guard becomes witness to the family's difficult reunion.
Comedy
Palais de l'Est, palais de l'Ouest – Derrière la cité interdite
6.5

Palais de l'Est, palais de l'Ouest – Derrière la cité interdite

Nov 11, 1996

Palais de l'Est, palais de l'Ouest – Derrière la cité interdite
1996 90 min 22 vues
Yu Xiaoqin steals money from her father and blames on her sister Tao Lan, who accidentally kills her sister while attempting to prove her innocence. After 17 years in jail, Tao Lan is escorted by a guard only to find her home long demolished. The two go to the new address of her ageing parents, and the guard becomes witness to the family's difficult reunion.
Drama
北京杂种
6

北京杂种

Aug 01, 1993

北京杂种
1993 88 min 8 vues
A rock musician looks for his girl-friend who left while pregnant, trying to decide whether to keep the baby.
Music
有种
6.3

有种

Sep 10, 2012

有种
2012 96 min 3 vues
Beijing is happening these days, but not everyone is living the golden life. Dumped, fired, evicted and abandoned by everyone (including his dog), a down-on-his-luck man finds solace with a circle of equally ill-fated friends, in this touching and lighthearted drama from independent Chinese auteur Zhang Yuan (Beijing Bastards). (TIFF.)
Comedy
妈妈
6.8

妈妈

May 01, 1990

妈妈
1990 89 min 4 vues
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 with a documentary aesthetic that includes interviews with families of mentally challenged persons, the film helped kick-start the Sixth Generation of filmmakers (including Wang Xiaoshuai and Jia Zhangke) and their ethos of employing documentary realism to depict the true conditions of contemporary China.
Drama
疯狂英语
5

疯狂英语

Aug 07, 1999

疯狂英语
1999 90 min 1 vues
A documentary about Li Yang, who tries to teach large numbers of Chinese to speak English, using unusual methods. He holds motivational rallies, where he gets the crowd to shout out English phrases, in order to instill confidence, and tells them not to be afraid of losing face. His goal is to increase Chinese trade, and export Chinese culture, to the main world markets: North America, Japan, and Europe. After the rally, they can continue their English lessons using his taped courses.
Documentary
我爱你
7.4

我爱你

Oct 25, 2002

我爱你
2002 97 min 7 vues
A young woman who has lost her first love begins a relationship with his best friend, and the two of them attempt to create a baggage-free future.
Romance
达达
6

达达

Sep 11, 2009

达达
2009 92 min 1 vues
After her mother's lecherous boyfriend reveals she's adopted, incorrigible flirt Dada skips town -- with hopelessly smitten boy-next-door Zhou in tow -- in search of her birth mother.
Drama
江姐
1

江姐

Feb 12, 2002

江姐
2002 125 min 1 vues
Jiang Jie is famous throughout China: the “Chinese Joan of Arc,” in the words of director Zhang Yuan, a communist heroine executed by the Kuomintang in 1949, on the eve of the revolution. Zhang Yuan’s film, a passionately engaged tribute to the 1964 “revolutionary opera” based on Jiang Jie’s life, follows the original closely...The Revolutionary melodrama plot, not that different from Verdi’s 19th century versions, has of course a completely different resonance today. The Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) enshrined this kind of “revolutionary opera” — based on traditional Beijing opera, but with substantial stylistic and formal revisions — as the epitome of Maoist propaganda art. In the past ten years, Chinese and Western experts have begun to re-evaluate the art behind the propaganda, to find creativity, and even shocking beauty under the layers of kitsch and repellent politics the works have sometimes embodied. —Shelly Kraicer
旅馆
7.5

旅馆

Sep 08, 2022

旅馆
2022 113 min 2 vues
The first days of 2020's lockdown seem to drag forever for a group of tourists trapped in a Thai hotel. In strict confinement and as the big day of an unexpected event approaches, emotional entanglements, tensions and long kept secrets rise to the surface.
Drama
广场
1

广场

Jan 01, 1994

广场
1994 100 min 1 vues
The film documents a day in the life of Tiananmen Square in 1994, a mere five years after the crushing of a student-led democracy movement in 1989.
Documentary
儿子
7

儿子

Sep 13, 1996

儿子
1996 95 min 2 vues
Story of a real family in Beijing. The father's drinking problem starts it all. The mother struggles to keep the family together till she cannot take it any more.
Drama
Danske piger viser alt
5.3

Danske piger viser alt

Jun 14, 1996

Danske piger viser alt
1996 93 min 3 vues
Despite its suggestive title, this multi-part Danish omnibus film is not a work of exploitation. Instead, it presents 20 different short films (back-to-back) on the general theme of Danish women, directed by filmmakers including Krzysztof Zanussi, Monika Treut, Gustav Hamos, David Blair, Vibeke Vogel, Dusan Makavejev, Morten Skallerud and Lars Norgaard. Some dramatic vignettes mix with other comedic ones, but all are offbeat and experimental. The picture includes one animated sequence (by Norgaard).
Drama
Les Petites fleurs rouges
6.2

Les Petites fleurs rouges

Apr 08, 2006

Les Petites fleurs rouges
2006 92 min 40 vues
Despite its suggestive title, this multi-part Danish omnibus film is not a work of exploitation. Instead, it presents 20 different short films (back-to-back) on the general theme of Danish women, directed by filmmakers including Krzysztof Zanussi, Monika Treut, Gustav Hamos, David Blair, Vibeke Vogel, Dusan Makavejev, Morten Skallerud and Lars Norgaard. Some dramatic vignettes mix with other comedic ones, but all are offbeat and experimental. The picture includes one animated sequence (by Norgaard).
Comedy
妈妈
6.8

妈妈

May 01, 1990

妈妈
1990 89 min 4 vues
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 with a documentary aesthetic that includes interviews with families of mentally challenged persons, the film helped kick-start the Sixth Generation of filmmakers (including Wang Xiaoshuai and Jia Zhangke) and their ethos of employing documentary realism to depict the true conditions of contemporary China.
Drama
儿子
7

儿子

Sep 13, 1996

儿子
1996 95 min 2 vues
Story of a real family in Beijing. The father's drinking problem starts it all. The mother struggles to keep the family together till she cannot take it any more.
Drama
Green Tea
7

Green Tea

Aug 18, 2003

Green Tea
2003 83 min 13 vues
Story of a real family in Beijing. The father's drinking problem starts it all. The mother struggles to keep the family together till she cannot take it any more.
Drama
艳遇
10

艳遇

Aug 12, 2013

艳遇
2013 42 min 1 vues
Chinese short film directed by Zhang Yuan.
老板， 我爱你
1

老板， 我爱你

Mar 27, 2014

老板， 我爱你
2014 30 min 1 vues
This short film explores same-sex attraction within the context of power relationships in contemporary China where oppression stems from the socio-economic inequality that leaves the disenfranchised pining for what they cannot have, as a young chauffeur finds himself attracted to his contemptuous and callous boss – without a single word being exchanged between the two men.
42 One Dream Rush
1

42 One Dream Rush

Sep 15, 2010

42 One Dream Rush
2010 42 min 1 vues
Collection of short films by various directors based on dreams, 42 seconds each. It was produced by the world's most awarded vodka "42 Below", known for doing things differently , with other Chinese User Generated Films.
Drama
Fearless Hero
1

Fearless Hero

Jan 12, 2011

Fearless Hero
2011 83 min 1 vues
The film tells the story of how an ordinary police officer can fight with criminals, combat criminal offenses, protect people's lives and property, and maintain social stability.
Beautiful 2014
1

Beautiful 2014

Mar 27, 2014

Beautiful 2014
2014 117 min 1 vues
The 2014 edition of an annual short film compilation. Zhang Yuan directs "I love you boss," about the relationship between a wealthy man and his driver. Kang Je-kyu directs "Awaiting," about a South Korean woman striving to reconnect with her husband in Pyongyang. Christopher Doyle does "Education for All," a documentary about the next generation in Hong Kong and Shu Kei's the dream focuses on a bored housewife who fixates on an attractive stranger at the next table.
广场
1

广场

Jan 01, 1994

广场
1994 100 min 1 vues
The film documents a day in the life of Tiananmen Square in 1994, a mere five years after the crushing of a student-led democracy movement in 1989.
Documentary
Le peuple migrateur
7.6

Le peuple migrateur

Dec 12, 2001

Le peuple migrateur
2001 89 min 185 vues
The film documents a day in the life of Tiananmen Square in 1994, a mere five years after the crushing of a student-led democracy movement in 1989.
Documentary
钉子户
1

钉子户

Jun 24, 1998

钉子户
1998 75 min 1 vues
This TV documentary recounts the fact that residents of Beijing's old quadrangle refused to move during the process of rebuilding the old city for urban development. This film focuses on the balanced relationship between residents, associations, companies and countries.
金星小姐
1

金星小姐

Jun 21, 2000

金星小姐
2000 30 min 1 vues
In February 1995, after many years of preparation, the modern dancer Venus finally underwent transgender surgery in Beijing. On the eve of becoming a woman, he gave an interview and talked about his determination, aspirations, and good life ideals. The operation was tortuous and painful. After the operation, my father went to the police station to change the gender on the Venus ID card. From then on, Miss Venus was born. In March 2000, Venus once again interviewed her about her many boyfriends in the five years after the operation, her happy life, and her special encounters and adventures. The film allows the audience to see a Miss Venus living in her dream.