Movies: Chen Shu

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation ...

Shanghai, China, 1930. When young Shuisheng arrives from the countryside, his uncle Liushu puts him at the service of Bijou, the mistress of Laoda, supreme boss of the Tang Triad, constantly threatened by his enemies, both those he knows and those lu...

The film begins following the British victory of the first Opium War and the seizure of Hong Kong. Although the island is largely uninhabited and the terrain unfriendly, it has a large port that both the British government and various trading compani...

Financial and political pressures bankrupt a Chinese store owner....

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 a reconnaissance to scout the southern parts of the River, whose work is actually full of hardships a...

Wu Qionghua, a house maid, is abused by a cruel warlord until she joins a troop of women soldiers....

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As most families only want to have boys, women end up becoming rare and precious....

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In 1949, as the country celebrates liberation, KMT agents are ploting....

The sailors on a Kuomintang warship revolt, arrest their officers and defect to the Chinese People's Liberation Army....

This movie is based on the true story, which happened in Shan-Dong Province of China during World War II. It is based on a collection of memoirs of the guerrilla members. Due to the fact that it happened during World War II and there was not much sec...

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Shot in gorgeous color, this fascinating communist flipside to fifties Hollywood music biopics chronicles the life and tragic early death of Nie Er, the composer of the PRC’s national anthem....

Based on the novel "Mother" by Maxim Gorky, about the hardships of a peasant laborer....

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PLA send scouts to get through Yangtze River to collect enemy information of defense....

A New York City businessman meets a window washer hoping to commit suicide and decides to market his grief to the highest bidder in this acidic satire on American capitalism, one made even more memorable by the fact that the entire “American” cast ar...

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