120 Films & TV Shows Set In Beijing
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Man of Tai Chi
Beijing 🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇲🇴 MacaoNo Rules. No Mercy. Pure Fighting. — In Beijing, a young martial artist's skill places him in position to experience opportunities and sacrifices.
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A Touch of Sin
Guangdong Province Beijing Chongqing Municipality The 2010sFour independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
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Finding Mr. Right
BeijingTang Wei plays Jiajia, a young woman in Beijing who lives a luxurious life provided by her wealthy boyfriend. When Jiajia got pregnant, she goes to the United States, hoping that the baby will be born an American citizen. While waiting for the baby’s arrival, Jiajia loses contact with her boyfriend and suddenly finds that she is unable to make end meets. At this point, she meets Frank, played by Wu Xiubo, who offers help and makes her think twice about who her Mr. Right really is.
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American Dreams in China
Beijing The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sDuring the economic reform period of the 80’s, three undergraduates bind together by a common ambition – to live the American dream. They are Cheng Dongqing, a hillbilly who refuses to accept his destiny of being a farmer; Meng Xiaojun, a self-confident, cynical intellectual; and Wang Yang, an idealistic romantic poet. Xiaojun is the first to obtain an US Visa for studying abroad. Yang follows but decides to remain in China for his beloved. Poor Dongqing is rejected by the US Embassy repeatedly. Baffled, he reluctantly accepts the job as an English instructor in the university but eventually gets fired for teaching tutorial classes in private. Across the Pacific, Xiaojun fails to find a decent job and is driven to work as a busboy in a diner.
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This Is Sanlitun
BeijingChina is like a beer, if you don't like the taste you can just keep drinking — British sad sack Gary is a failed entrepreneur who has just arrived in Beijing's stylish Sanlitun district, allegedly to start a business. There are other reasons why he has uprooted himself — he's followed his ex-wife and young son, for one — but he soon finds out that China isn't the easiest place to succeed. Blissfully untouched by self-awareness, and only fitfully in tune with reality, Gary sallies forth to make money, armed with faith in himself and little to no knowledge of Chinese culture. He soon hooks up with Frank, a trust-fund kid from Australia who offers to mentor Gary in Eastern ways, although Frank's pedagogical method is restricted to yelling at Gary for being a Westerner and not being as "Chinese" as him.
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Police Story: Lockdown
BeijingA man looking for the release of a long-time prisoner takes a police officer, his daughter, and a group of strangers hostage.
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Bunshinsaba 2
BeijingA group of friends go through a series of horrifying events. A suicide that occurred two years earlier is revealed.
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A Moment of Love
Beijing Yunnan ProvinceJi Ya Qing goes on a business trip right before her wedding. She meets on her stay at the hotel a young man intent on the search of an old lady, having in his possession only letters his grandfather wrote before passing away. They go together on a journey in the country scenery of China, in the quest of the lady in the letters. This journey yet holds more for both of them, as they discover what love could mean and bring.
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Chinese Zodiac
🇫🇷 France 🇷🇺 Russia Beijing 🇦🇺 Australia The 1860s The 2010sTwelve heads. Five continents. One man. — Asian Hawk (Jackie Chan) leads a mercenary team to recover several lost artifacts from the Old Summer Palace, the bronze heads of the 12 Chinese Zodiac animals which were sacked by the French and British armies from the imperial Summer Palace in Beijing in 1860. Assisted by a Chinese student & a Parisian lady, Hawk stops at nothing to accomplish the mission.
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Love in the Buff
Beijing 🇭🇰 Hong KongWhen old flames reunite, will it be second time's the charm or a case of once bitten twice shy? Jimmy and Cherie, two ex-lovers from Hong Kong, cross paths in Beijing and can't seem to forget each other, despite being involved with someone else. Torn between fidelity towards their new partners or following their hearts, they explore the struggles, doubts and fears that exist among modern young couples
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Bunshinsaba
BeijingA novel writer discovers that her husband is released from prison and is after her and her son soon she takes a hideout in an old house where mysterious events begin to happen.
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What Women Want
BeijingAfter an accident, a chauvinistic executive gains the ability to hear what women are really thinking.
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Love in Space
Beijing 🇦🇺 AustraliaThe film tells the stories of a mother and her three daughters about their own struggles in love. All the women had achieved progress in some way except in love. However, each of them found their own Mr.Right in the end. The woman named Mary (acted by XuFan) was a widow and came back to China from abroad. She was a generous woman and she learnt to cook with the help of a driver called Uncle Hua. After being together for a period of time, they fell in love. The eldest daughter, Rose (acted by René Liu), was an astronaut, who was very independent and capable, but alse a little bit competitive. In order to have the chance to go into space, she trained hard, only to find that she had to work with her ex: Michael (acted by Aaron Kwok). They stayed in the small capsule, working, eating and sleeping in the same place. Many things happened to them, making the fire of their love burn again.
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7Aum Arivu
BeijingA genetic engineering student tries to bring back the skills of a legend of the past and use his skills to save India from a deadly virus attack by China.
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The Karate Kid
Michigan BeijingA Challenge He Never Imagined. A Teacher He Never Expected. — Twelve-year-old Dre Parker could have been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother's latest career move has landed him in China. Dre immediately falls for his classmate Mei Ying but the cultural differences make such a friendship impossible. Even worse, Dre's feelings make him an enemy of the class bully, Cheng. With no friends in a strange land, Dre has nowhere to turn but maintenance man Mr. Han, who is a kung fu master. As Han teaches Dre that kung fu is not about punches and parries, but maturity and calm, Dre realizes that facing down the bullies will be the fight of his life.
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You Deserve To Be Single
BeijingLi Zheng and Li Ying are two brothers the owners of a dating agency called "True Love Club". The business is going very well, but everything changed when Xiao Feng is passed by a sweet love, who is interested in the agency to prove the relationship with their supposed "future wife", the beautiful psychiatrist Fei. What they do not know is that this regular case ends up in an unexpected and fun mess.
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Jackie Chan Kung Fu Master
Beijing 🇮🇩 IndonesiaJackie Chan is the undefeated Kung Fu Master who dishes out the action in traditional Jackie Chan style. When a young boy sets out to learn how to fight from the Master himself, he not only witnesses some spectacular fights, but learns some important life lessons along the way.
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Evening of Roses
BeijingA man named Ke Zhi Hong (Wallace Chung) moves into a new apartment. His initially horny landlord, whose Chinese name sounds similar to the words for "Evening Rose", Xia Mei Gui (Ruby Lin), lets him rent one room of the apartment because her dog likes him. She reminds him of his dream girl from his university years, who was his senior by one year and taught him to dance the Jewish dance "Evening Rose". He gradually falls in love with his landlord, but he continues to dwell on his memories of the past "Evening Rose". In the end, he realizes that he remembers the past "Evening Rose" because the name "Evening Rose" reminds him of the feeling of love, and he falls into the arms of the present "Evening Rose"
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In Love We Trust
BeijingA divorced couple learns that the only way to possibly save their daughter, who is suffering from blood cancer, is to have another child. The problem is they've both already remarried.
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All About Women
BeijingA series of intertwining stories focus on the lives and transformations of three women and their romantic relationships.
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Forever Enthralled
Beijing The 1930s The 1940sA biographical account of Mei Lanfang, China's greatest opera star.
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Lost in Beijing
Beijing The 2000sA look at modern-day life in China's capital centered on a ménage-a-quatre involving a young woman, her boss, her husband and her boss's wife. Massage girl Pingguo (Apple) (The stunning Fan Bingbing) lives in a cramped apartment with her bad-tempered window cleaner husband Kun (Tong Dawei), barely eking by on their miniscule pay. When Pingguo gets raped by her boss Lin (Tony Leung) one afternoon, Kun, who is washing the windows of the building, witnesses the act. The enraged Kun tries to get even first by (unsuccessfully) blackmailing Lin, then by sleeping with Lin's wife (Elaine Kam). The relationships get even more tangled when Pingguo discovers she's pregnant. With the paternity of the baby up in the air, Kun, who is eager for money, strikes a deal with Lin, who is eager for a son.
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Mid-Afternoon Barks
BeijingMid-Afternoon Barks is a surrealist triptych of stories that take place in Beijing, all involving the installation of electrical poles.
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