Best New Independent Chinese Films

After being swindled by her ex-husband, a woman takes on the Chinese legal system.

A man went back to Guizhou, found the tracks of a mysterious woman. He recalls the summer he spent with her twenty years ago.

In a Chinese royal court, an army commander secretly trains a "shadow" to retake a city against the wishes of the king.

The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.

After getting out of prison, small-time crook Mardar stumbles upon a woman who looks exactly like his long-lost lover.

Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.

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.

In a small seaside town, two schoolgirls are sexually assaulted by a middle-aged man in a motel. Mia, a teenager who was working on reception that night, is the only witness. For fear of losing her job, she chooses to keep silence.

In 1920s China, a bandit arrives in a remote provincial town posing as its new mayor, where he faces off against a tyrannical local nobleman.

After Fugui and Jiazhen lose their personal fortunes, they raise a family and survive difficult cultural changes during 1940s to 1970s China.

When a young man and his friends dig a hole to expand their restaurant, they enter a nearby bank vault that is being robbed.

The story of how a small drugstore owner became the exclusive selling agent of a cheap Indian generic drug against Chronic Granulocytic Leukemia in China.

A romantic police captain breaks a beautiful member of a rebel group out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.

While she copes with the pressures of her final examinations, a bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants.

Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.

A chief of police investigates a series of murders in a riverside town in rural China in the 1990s. An arrest is made quickly; clues push the policeman to dive deeper into the hidden behaviour of the locals.

A gangster on the run sacrifices everything for his family and a woman he meets while on the lam.

While travelling the countryside to locate his nephew, a small town doctor finds himself interacting with people from his past and future.

Mr. Wu, a Hong Kong movie star, is kidnapped by four unpredictable criminals disguised as police officers. Will he get rescued?

Romance sparks between a young woman and a young man from different economic backgrounds during China's Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and '70s.

An ordinary village in Northern China, the last day of the winter vacation. Four idle, aimless adolescents gather at Zhou Zhixin's home, a friend who lives with his father, brother and nephew. Like most contemporary teenagers, these youths want to enjoy their last day of holiday and simply hang out in this place where nothing ever seems likely to happen. Their conversations are desultory and they sometimes seem to argue for argument's sake. One of them, Laowu, talks frankly with his girlfriend about how teenage love might affect their studies, while Laobao questions school's value and relevance to real life.

When a leprous winery owner in 1930s China dies a few days after his arranged marriage, his young widow is forced to run the winery to make a living while contending with bandits, her drunkard lover, and the invading Japanese army.

In 1944, the gunman Gu Nian was entrusted by his close friend Fang Ping on his deathbed to deliver the remains in Harbin. Upon arriving in Harbin, Gu Nian learned that the Fang family had been brutally destroyed several years ago. Gu decided to stay in Harbin to investigate the murderer behind the Fang family. In the following year, Gu disguised himself as "Fang Ping" and began to assassinate all suspected villains one by one. The time came to the victory of the Anti Japanese War in 1945, when the puppet Manchukuo was temporarily taken over by the Soviet army. To conceal his identity, Gu Nian was hired by Zhong Zhen, the owner of the cargo yard dock, to find a job as a gunman under his command. At this time, Zhong Zhen was at the height of the black and white lanes in Harbin, and Gu Nian also found the best hiding place for the next revenge action. The gunman Old Jiao, who was lurking in a tailor's shop in the suburbs, was as jealous of evil as his enemies. The dark forces in Harbin have always been his target for assassination. Every gang in Harbin turned pale upon hearing Old Jiao. On the winter night of 1944, Gu Nian was ordered by Zhong Zhen to track down Jiao's hiding place, intending to take his life and commit suicide. However, after a confrontation between the two, the clues about the Fang family's extermination began to gradually become clear. The film reveals different levels of human nature, and in this materialistic old era, everyone had two faces. An epic and legendary story about keeping promises and sacrificing oneself to become benevolent has also begun.

A movie fan in a remote farmland strikes a relationship with a homeless female vagabond.

A provincial boy related to a Shanghai crime family is recruited by his uncle into cosmopolitan Shanghai in the 1930s to be a servant to a ganglord's mistress.