Han Lan-Gen

"Lianhua Symphony" - a small collection, consisting of eight short films shot in 1937 by young filmmakers Shanghai Lianhua Film Company. Part 1: Two...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Qing Jiang

An upper-class son of urbane landowners falls in love with a peasant girl. When a pregnancy results, the couple are kept apart by strict societal...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ruan Lingyu

A wild country girl moves to Shanghai with her painter boyfriend and experiences exploitation and poverty.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Renmei Wang

A mad scientist dresses up as a gorilla to kidnap young girls, so he can use their brains to produce the elixir of life...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Han Lan-Gen

Diaochan (aka Diau Charn and Sable Cicada), one of the Four Beauties of China, is supposed to be so stunningly lovely that the moon was shamed to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Violet Koo Lan-Chun

Historical film based on the life of Wu Zetian, the only female emperor in Chinese history

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hong Bai

During the Taiping Rebellion of the mid-19th century, anti-Qing (Manchu) Chinese forces led by Taiping commander Li Xiucheng march on Shanghai....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō

Two famous comedians from pre-Revolution days perform a series of sketches in a theatre for a group of Party cadres. The stage performances blend...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Han Lan-Gen

The story was liberally adapted from a short sequence in the popular Chinese folk tale Journey to the West. Princess Iron Fan is a main character....

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Hong Bai

Sister Ye lives in a rural village, where everyone makes traditional toys. When Sister Ye's husband dies of an unknown illness, and while Ye is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruan Lingyu

A country girl and her boyfriend arrive in Shanghai for a better life. They soon find only desperation. She is raped and falls into prostitution as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Li Lili

Young sprinter Lin Ying enrolls in a sports college in Shanghai. As she becomes a sports celebrity, she starts to mangle with the upper class and has...

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Cast: Li Lili

Six young men from the city take jobs building roads for the Chinese Army

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jin Yan

The story is about a fisherman's family living near to Shanghai. In the beginning, twin babies are born, a boy and a girl. Their growing-up is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Renmei Wang

A young woman must pretend to be a man to visit her grandfather, and gets into some romantic scrapes in the process.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Liu Ming

This movie is based on the famous Chinese folklore that is more than one and a half millennium old. The same folklore was what the Disney animation...

Genre: War

Cast: Nancy Wan-Seung Chan

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Cast: Violet Koo Lan-Chun

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Cast: Wang Cilong

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Cast: Miao Zhusan

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Cast: Meijun Gu

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Cast: Xuan Zhou

Genre: Music

Cast: Li Li-Hua

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Cast: Guan Hongda

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Cast: Mei Xi

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Cast: Chen Yan-yan

Genre: History

Cast: Renmei Wang

Genre: Drama

Cast: Li Lili

Old Shanghai

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wang Cilong

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Cast: Gong Qiuxia

The entaglement of a deserted child Qiling who start to work for his biological father Menghua’s construction company 24 years later.

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Cast: Zhanfei Gao

Chinese horror movie from 1938.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Tam Ying

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Cast: Zhang Fan