Xie Jin Movies

The story of the Opium War between China, in the waning days of the Qing Dynasty, and the British Empire, in the 1830s, and the subsequent takeover...

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...

Wreaths at the Foot of the Mountain is a 1984 Chinese film about the life of the soldiers in a PLA army company before, during and after the...

Adaptation of a lesser known to Western world, yet wildly popular Peking Opera developed during the Cultural Revolution under the leadership of Jiang...

In 1980, Xu Jingshan, a wealthy Chinese-American businessman returns to China to find his son, Xu Lingjun, whom he had abandoned over 30 years...

A man must take care of his terminally ill son.

The film introduces the famous national model worker, textile worker Huang Baomei, who is played by the real Huang Baomei herself.

Tian Zhenhua arrives in Shanghai to coach a local women's basketball team. Number 5 on the team, Xiaoje, excels at basketball but is unsure of...

An exploration of Chinese cinema and its relationships with gender and sexuality, which the film argues has been more frankly and provocatively...

An Old Man and His Dog is a 1993 Chinese film directed by Xie Jin.

After her senses are surgically restored, a formerly deaf mute teenager enlists in the army and is assigned to communications work. But her...

Biopic of Qiu Jin (1877-1907), early Chinese womens’ liberationist and martyred revolutionary.

Revolutionary film from Shanghai about the Gang of Four. Stopped in the middle of production

History of filmmaking in China from its beginnings in the 1920s to 1982, featuring Shanghai cinema of 1930s; the progressive filmmakers; the...

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...

The clan law of the Yang family works against the relationships of a widow and her daughter until a new marriage law is enacted after liberation.