Tian Zhuangzhuang Movies

An unschooled young man, one of the countless victims of Mao's Cultural Revolution, is laboring in the countryside when he is assigned to teach in a...

Zhang Ziyi plays the youngest of three generations of women who leads lives in Shanghai. Joan Chen plays the great-grandmother, grandmother, and...

Tony Rayns presents the work of the 'Fifth Generation' and other innovative filmmakers who emerged during the 1980s in China.

In one night, in one room, three strangers–a thief, a retired policeman, and a delivery guy–are all present during the murder of the...

Based on Lao She’s novel, a story about a street player set in the wartime Chongqing.

First film directed by Lu Xuechang.

A young lady comes to Lhasa alone for pilgrimage, but a "multicolored magical lobster" enshrined by other people has totally changed her plan. She...

Two young farm workers, who like millions of others, leave their village to seek their fortunes in the city. Each chose a vastly different path to...

The dazzling new film from Bhutanese lama and filmmaker Khyentse Norbu (The Cup, Travellers and Magicians) chronicles a sacred jungle ritual whose...

In the southwest frontiers of China there lie many luxuriant forests where live a great variety of plants and animals. Three kids of Daizu minority...

A young teacher in the first seventeen years of the People's Republic of China approaches the teaching of her students with a humanistic philosophy,...

This film is a record of the Tea-Horse Road, the caravans of the Nujiang River Valley, and the aboriginal peoples who live there -- Mm. Ding who has...

Xu Daqin, a retired Chinese factory worker, returns to the remote Yunnan province, where he hopes to reconcile himself with the life and opportunity...

Based on the Wang Anyi story "Life in a Small Courtyard"

An old retired puppet master has his quiet life disrupted his 6-year-old American grandson, who barely speaks Chinese.

Inspired by the novel “King of the Trees” by Ah Cheng.

Realistic portraits of Chinese youth embracing western culture

A hunter violates the ancient Mongolian hunting code and must pay his penance.