Shanghai Film Studio Movies

Married couple Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in mid-20th century mainland China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy...

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...

Based on a novel by the same name written by Gu Hua, a melodrama about the life and travails of a young woman who lives through the turmoil of the...

300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria,...

Winner of the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Film in 1984

The film is a powerful condemnation of the political radicalism of the Cultural Revolution and shows how ordinary people were victimized during a...

At the turn of the century, a young Chinese girl escapes from a religious sacrifice, and is rescued by an honorable Tibetan herdsman. The two fall in...

Zhou's husband died in the Cultural Revolution. She lived arduously with her only son. Lo, a kind postman, helped her during her hardest time.

Set in southwest China, a spy code-named "old Guanyin" wants to send information hidden in a statue of Guanyin.

In 1937, after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, the Second Sino-Japanese War breaks out. San Mao, a wandering orphan, joins the army to participate in...

In the mid-19th century, at the height of the Opium War, the Chinese people rose up against the feudal system and the Manchu dynasty, which had...

A beautiful girl is humiliated by powerful people both in the human world and dragon palace, and tries to suicide with her lover.

After Hero Hua marries Jade and leaves her in China, he goes to America to work as a servant and rebels against cruel labour conditions. Jade soon...

Su Wei's summer between high school and college

An impulsive rendezvous with her American employer causes the break-up of Lin's marriage. Her husband, Li, leaves her for a stewardess, but when...

In the spring of 1949, a war is about to happen between the Liberation Army and Kuomintang Army on the Yangtze River. The Liberation Army dispatches...

Based on the famous novel of the same name by well-known author Ba Jin, this movie traces the decline of a large, wealthy family in the early part of...

During the Cultural Revolution, the director of a farm collective studies medicine on her own in order to provide a more effective alternative to the...

Girls at a Beijing High School in 1952 have dreams for China.