Zhao Tao Movies
- 2024
Caught by the Tides
Caught by the Tides7.22024HD
Years after her boyfriend left her for the big city and promised to bring her there after he’s settled down, a Chinese woman sets out on a...
- 2013
A Touch of Sin
A Touch of Sin7.22013HD
Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
- 2018
Ash Is Purest White
Ash Is Purest White6.82018HD
Set in China's underworld, this tale of love and betrayal follows a dancer who fired a gun to protect her mobster boyfriend during a fight. On...
- 2018
An Elephant Sitting Still
An Elephant Sitting Still7.7062018HD
In the northern Chinese city of Manzhouli, they say there is an elephant that simply sits and ignores the world. Manzhouli becomes an obsession for...
- 2006
Still Life
Still Life7.22006HD
A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A man and woman visit the town to locate...
- 2015
Mountains May Depart
Mountains May Depart6.932015HD
The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.
- 2008
24 City
24 City7.0182008HD
As a decades-old state-run aeronautics munitions factory in downtown Chengdu, China is being torn down for the construction of the titular luxury...
- 2011
Shun Li and the Poet
Shun Li and the Poet7.12011HD
A study of the friendship between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia many years ago, who live in a small city-island...
- 2001
Platform
Platform6.92001HD
China's rapid changes from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe.
- 2004
The World
The World6.8532004HD
At Beijing World Park, a bizarre cross-pollination of Las Vegas and Epcot Center where visitors can interact with famous international monuments...
- 2010
I Wish I Knew
I Wish I Knew6.82010HD
Focuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid-1800s, when Shanghai was opened as a trading port, to the present day.
- 2002
Unknown Pleasures
Unknown Pleasures6.32002HD
Two disaffected, unemployed Chinese youth drift through life on the streets of their industrial town, their paths crossing with that of a local young...
- 2021
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue72021HD
Filmmaker Jia Zhangke chronicles his local literature festival in Shanxi, China which includes a multi-generational roster of the country's most...
- 2008
Useless
Useless6.42008HD
Observations of three varied corners of China’s garment industry: workers in a large-scale production line factory; a designer who rallies...
- 2008
Cry Me a River
Cry Me a River5.82008HD
An ancestral city; through its delicious botanical garden and its branched canals, we observe the clues and traces of its ancient culture. Two...
- 2007
Our Ten Years
Our Ten Years62007HD
Throughout ten years of a key era in Chinese and Hong Kong history, a girl becomes fixated on a fellow commuter who she observes regularly. While the...
- 2014
Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang
Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang6.92014HD
Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke returns to the shooting locations of his films, along with his actors, friends and close collaborators. Jia recalls the...
- 2010
Ten Thousand Waves
Ten Thousand Waves7.52010HD
TEN THOUSAND WAVES is a 9-screen installation shot on location in China. The work poetically weaves together stories linking China’s ancient...
- 2017
Revive
Revive02017HD
Revive is one of five short films within the Jia Zhangke-produced omnibus film Where Has Time Gone? with contributions from each of the BRICS...
- 2016
The Hedonists
The Hedonists7.42016HD
The closure of an unprofitable state-run coal mine in Shanxi, China forces three middle-aged men who worked there to search for employment elsewhere.