Zhang Yimou

All Movies of Zhang Yimou

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  6.1
  Scare Out
  Following a devastating leak of classified intelligence, a high-stakes national security unit initiates a relentless investigation. However, as their arrest operations face one setback after another, a chilling reality emerges: th...
  Director of the film

   2026

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  5.3
  Full River Red
  A pawn tries to get rid of a traitorous minister, Qin Hui, when he leads an army to the border for talks with a Jurchen mission.
  Director of the film

   2023

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  9.0
  Sharpshooter
  The film follows the real-life story of a 22-year-old sniper named Zhang Dagong, who battled U.S. troops during the Korean War, killing or injuring a record 214 American soldiers in 32 days
  Director of the film

   2022

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  6.0
  Cliff Walkers
  It follow a group of chinese spies who are investigating inhumane experiments by Japan. Set the state of Manchukuo, a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in China in the 1930s, the story follows four Communist party special agents...
  Director of the film

   2021

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  Under the Light
  Director of the film

   2021

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  7.0
  One Second
  A prisoner is sent to a labour camp in China’s desolate northwest during the country’s Cultural Revolution. Using his wit, and with the sole purpose of seeing a newsreel containing a glimpse of his daughter, he escapes and hea...
  Director of the film

   2020

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  6.8
  Shadow
  Pei is ruled by a wild, dangerous king (Zheng Kai). The king's military commander (Deng Chao) has fought bravely on the battlefield, but needs unique strategies to survive treachery in the king's court. He has cultivated a "s...
  Director of the film

   2018

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  4.7
  The Great Wall
  Set in 15th century China, the film revolves around soldiers in search of gunpowder who happen upon the construction of the massive wall, and learn that its hurried construction isn’t just to keep out the Mongols, but mystical c
  Director of the film

   2017

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  Lady Of The Dynasty
  The tragic story of a Tang Dynasty imperial consort who was the favorite of the Emperor Xuanzong.
  Director of the film

   2015

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  6.5
  Coming Home
  Lu Yanshi and Feng Wanyu are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner, just as his wife is injured in an accident. Released during the last days of the Cultural Revol...
  Director of the film

   2014

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  7.3
  Trespassing Bergman
  Ingmar Bergman's home on Fårö island occupies something of a mythical status among legendary filmmakers as Woody Allen, Michael Haneke, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Tomas Alfredson, Francis Ford Coppola, Wes Anderson, Takeshi ...
   2013

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  5.7
  The Flowers of War
  In 1937 China, during the second Sino-Japanese war, a mortician, John (Christian Bale) arrives at a Catholic church in Nanjing to prepare a priest for burial. Upon arrival he finds himself the lone adult among a group of convent g...
  Director of the film

   2011

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  7.0
  The Love of the Hawthorn Tree
  Romance sparks between a young woman and a young man from different economic backgrounds during China's Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and '70s.
  Director of the film

   2010

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  6.0
  A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
  The owner of a Chinese noodle shop's scheme to murder his adulterous wife and her lover goes awry. Free remake from "Blood Simple", the first movie from brothers Coen.
  Director of the film

   2009

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  6.7
  To Each His Cinema
  To Each His Cinema is a 2007 film, produced and conceived by Gilles Jacob, celebrating the Cannes Film Festival's 60th anniversary. The film is comprised of a collection of 35 three-minute short films by some of the world's leadin...
  Director of the film

   2007

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  6.8
  Curse of the Golden Flower
  The plot concerns the volatile balance of power between the King (Chow Yun Fat) and the Queen (Gong Li) and his three sons, which entails betrayal, deceit and passion, pitting the King against Queen and father against sons.
  Director of the film

   2006

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  Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
  From three-time Academy Award nominated director Zhang Yimou comes a moving story of one man's journey across China's heartland. For the first time in many years, TAKATA Gou-ichi (TAKAKURA Ken) takes the bullet train to Tokyo from...
  Director of the film

   2005

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  Making of 'House of Flying Daggers'
  Making of 'House of Flying Daggers'.
  Director of the film

   2004

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  8.2
  House of Flying Daggers
  It is 859AD, and the Tang Dynasty, one of the most enlightened empires in Chinese history at its height, is in decline. The Emperor is incompetent and the government is corrupt. Unrest is spreading throughout the land, and many re...
  Director of the film

   2004

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  7.7
  Hero
  2003 Foreign Language Oscar nominee. At the height of China's Warring States period, the country was divided into seven kingdoms: Qin, Zhao, Han Wei, Yan, Chu and Qi. For years, the separate kingdoms fought ruthlessly for supremac...
  Director of the film

   2002

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  Happy Times
  Zhao (Zhao Benshan), a retired man of humble means who doesnt want to be lonely anymore, proposes marriage to a fat lady (Dong Lihua) who he believes will be easily coaxed into loving him. But he quickly learns that this assumptio...
  Director of the film

   2000

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  7.4
  The Road Home
  A man returns to the village where he was raised to help his mother arrange his father's funeral in this romantic drama about the courtship of his parents and the value of tradition and devotion. Upon his return to the village of ...
  Director of the film

   1999

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  Not One Less
  In a remote mountain village, the teacher must leave for a month, and the mayor can find only a 13-year old girl, Wei Minzhi, to substitute. The teacher leaves one stick of chalk for each day and promises her an extra 10 yuan if t...
  Director of the film

   1999

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  Keep Cool
  Xiao Shuai (Jiang Wen) is a bookseller who falls in love with the seductive, free-spirited An Hong (Qu Ying). To learn her address, Xiao follows her, but An spurns his advances. He refuses to give up; eventually she caves in and i...
  | Movie director

   1997

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  6.7
  Lumière and Company
  In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Lumière brothers' first films, filmmakers Sarah Moon and Philippe Poulet challenged 39 renowned international directors to each complete a 52-second film using the original Cinematog...
  | Movie director

   1995

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  7.1
  Shanghai Triad
  Uncle Liu brings his cousin to Shanghai to work for 'Boss,' the leader of a powerful drug empire in the 1930's. Shuisheng, a simple country boy is awed and overwhelmed by the opulence and immense wealth he is suddenly surrounded b...
  Director of the film

   1995

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  8.0
  To Live
  Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry. Addicted to gambling, Fugui loses everything. In the years that follow he is pressed into both the nation...
  Director of the film

   1994

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  8.0
  The Story of Qiu Ju
  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 fart...
  Director of the film

   1992

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  8.1
  Raise the Red Lantern
  China in the 1920's. After her father's death, 19 year-old Songlian is forced to marry Chen Zuoqian, the lord of a powerfull family. 50 year-old Chen has already three wives, each of them living in a separate house within the grea...
  Director of the film

   1991

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  7.9
  Ju Dou
  A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy...
  Director of the film

   1990

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  5.0
  Code Name: Cugar
  A plane loaded with Taiwanese businessmen is hijacked by a terrorist and lands in mainland China. An joint Chinese-Taiwanese anti-terrorism special team is formed to save the hostages, but can they outwit the cunning terrorist?
  Director of the film

   1989

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  7.0
  Red Sorghum
  In 1930s China a young woman is sent by her father to marry the leprous owner of a winery. In the nearby red sorghum fields she falls for one of his servants. When the master dies she finds herself inheriting the isolated business
  | Movie director

   1988

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  Old Well
  A 1986 Chinese film about a village worker's effort of digging a well in his water-starved hometown located in northwest China and his affairs with his old girlfriend.
   1986