65 Films & TV Shows Set In China During The 21st Century
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Eye in the Sky
Nevada Hawaii England Beijing ๐ธ๐ฌ Singapore ๐ฐ๐ช Kenya The 2010sWelcome to the new front line โ A UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from โcaptureโ to โkill.โ As American pilot Steve Watts is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute reaching the highest levels of US and British government over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.
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Sherpa
Tibet The 2010sSome Live to Climb. They Climb to Live. โ In 2013, the world's media reported on a shocking mountain-high brawl as European climbers fled a mob of angry Sherpas. Director Jennifer Peedom and her team set out to uncover the cause of this altercation, intending to film the 2014 climbing season from the Sherpa's point-of-view. Instead, they captured Everest's greatest tragedy, when a huge block of ice crashed down onto the climbing route...
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Goodbye Mr. Loser
๐จ๐ณ China The 1990s The 2000s The 2010sA middle-aged loser travels back in time to his high scool years to put his life on the right track.
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Transformers: Age of Extinction
Michigan Illinois Texas Beijing ๐ญ๐ฐ Hong Kong The 2010sThis is not war. It's extinction. โ As humanity picks up the pieces, following the conclusion of "Transformers: Dark of the Moon," Autobots and Decepticons have all but vanished from the face of the planet. However, a group of powerful, ingenious businessman and scientists attempt to learn from past Transformer incursions and push the boundaries of technology beyond what they can control - all while an ancient, powerful Transformer menace sets Earth in his cross-hairs.
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RoboCop
Michigan District of Columbia ๐ฎ๐ท Iran ๐จ๐ณ China The 2020sWe've got the future under control. โ In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years, but have been forbidden for law enforcement in America. Now OmniCorp wants to bring their controversial technology to the home front, and they see a golden opportunity to do it. When Alex Murphy โ a loving husband, father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit โ is critically injured, OmniCorp sees their chance to build a part-man, part-robot police officer. OmniCorp envisions a RoboCop in every city and even more billions for their shareholders, but they never counted on one thing: there is still a man inside the machine.
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X-Men: Days of Future Past
New York ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ท๐บ Russia ๐จ๐ณ China ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1970s The 2020sTo save the future, they must alter the past โ The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an epic battle that must change the past โ to save our future.
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The Interview
๐ฐ๐ต North Korea (DPRK) Virginia ๐จ๐ณ China ๐ฐ๐ท South Korea The 2010sThe Film Hackers Tried To Get Banned โ Dave Skylark and his producer Aaron Rapaport run the celebrity tabloid show "Skylark Tonight". When they land an interview with a surprise fan, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, they are recruited by the CIA to turn their trip to Pyongyang into an assassination mission.
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Son of Batman
Scotland England ๐จ๐ณ China The 2010sVengeance runs in the blood. โ Batman learns he has a violent, unruly pre-teen son, secretly raised by the terrorist group known as The League of Assassins.
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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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American Dreams in China
Beijing The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sDuring the economic reform period of the 80โs, three undergraduates bind together by a common ambition โ 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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The Constable
Guangdong Province ๐ญ๐ฐ Hong Kong The 2010sLam Kwok Kuen, nearing retirement and raising a mentally challenged son by himself, is a police officer whose sole requirement on the job is oversee the department fleet. Despite this, he remains active in the front line of police service, putting his life on the line for the sake of others, his heroism bettering even the most seasoned professionals. He fights the bad guys, putting criminals behind bars, upholding the law at any cost, for as his adage proclaims, to live a day surmounts to pursuing justice relentlessly, whether life or death proceeds in its aftermath.
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Skyfall
Shanghai England Scotland ๐น๐ท Turkey ๐ฒ๐ด Macao The 2010sThink on your sins. โ When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong and agents around the world are exposed, MI6 is attacked forcing M to relocate the agency. These events cause her authority and position to be challenged by Gareth Mallory, the new Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee. With MI6 now compromised from both inside and out, M is left with one ally she can trust: Bond. 007 takes to the shadows - aided only by field agent, Eve - following a trail to the mysterious Silva, whose lethal and hidden motives have yet to reveal themselves.
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Looper
Missouri Kansas Shanghai The 2040s The 2070sHunted by your future, haunted by your past. โ In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination.
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Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
๐จ๐ณ China The 2000s The 2010sCan an artist change China? โ An account of the many tribulations that Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, known for his subversive art and political activism, endured between 2008 and 2011, from his rise to world fame via the Internet to his highly publicized arrest due to his frequent and daring confrontations with the Chinese authorities.
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Chinese Zodiac
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ท๐บ Russia Beijing ๐ฆ๐บ Australia The 1860s The 2010sTwelve heads. Five continents. One man. โ 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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Mystery
Hubei Province The 2010sA car full of irresponsible youths hit a woman on a rainy freeway and think she is trying an insurance scam.
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Mayday 3DNA
Guangdong Province Shanghai The 2010sDream a Dream inside the Dream... โ Billed as a "concept film" MAYDAY 3DNA combines play from the group's DNA concert tour in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and China 2010 and interweaves that with three fictional stories. The fictional sequences include a vignette about a Guangzhou father and daughter; another about a Taiwan taxi driver and passenger; and a third about a Shanghai delivery boy. All are affected by the lure of a Mayday gathering and the three separate stories intersect at one particular Mayday concert in Shanghai. Established in Taiwan in the late 1990s, Mayday has remained popular for over a decade by tuning into a Taiwan youth beat and pushing rock music in Greater China. Most songs are performed in Mandarin with some Taiwanese Hokkien tracks by band.
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Aftershock
Hebei Province The 1970s The 2000s23 seconds, 32 years. โ The epic story of a family separated as a result of the Great Tangshan Earthquake of 1976. Based on the Tangshan Earthquake in 1976 that took the lives of 240,000 people.
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
New York Pennsylvania Virginia District of Columbia California ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฏ๐ด Jordan ๐ช๐ฌ Egypt Shanghai The 2000sRevenge is coming. โ Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.
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2012
California District of Columbia Wyoming Nevada England ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ป๐ฆ Holy See ๐ฎ๐ณ India Tibet Tokyo Prefecture Pacific Ocean The 2010s The 2000sWe Were Warned. โ Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming unstable and that without proper preparations for saving a fraction of the world's population, the entire race is doomed. Meanwhile, writer Jackson Curtis stumbles on the same information. While the world's leaders race to build "arks" to escape the impending cataclysm, Curtis struggles to find a way to save his family. Meanwhile, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc around the world.
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China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
Sichuan Province The 2000sOn May 12, 2008, a catastrophic earthquake hit Sichuan Province in rural China, killing nearly 70,000 people, including 10,000 children. In town after town, poorly constructed school buildings crumbled, wiping out classrooms filled with students, most of them their parents' only child. But when grieving mothers and fathers sought explanations and justice, they found their path blocked by incompetence, corruption and empty promises.
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Crossing
๐จ๐ณ China ๐ฒ๐ณ Mongolia ๐ฐ๐ต North Korea (DPRK) ๐ฐ๐ท South Korea The 2000sYong-soo is an ex-soccer player who lives in a small coal-mine village in North Korea with his wife and young son, Joon. Although living in extreme poverty like many other families in North Korea, the family is happy just to be with each other. Then one day, Yong-soo's pregnant wife becomes critically ill. Let alone medicine, Yong-soo can't even find food for her in North Korea. So he decides to secretly cross the border to China hoping to find the medicine for his wife.
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August 15th
Inner Mongolia The 2000sBased on a real life event, a young Chinese woman boards a bus with her boyfriend to head home to meet his parents. What was supposed to be a joyful holiday turns unpredictable when a pair of countryside crooks hijack their bus. Traveling through China's dangerous mountain passes, the passengers must decide how much they are willing to sacrifice for their own safety.
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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
New York England ๐ท๐ด Romania ๐ช๐ฌ Egypt Shanghai ๐ฏ๐ต Japan The 2000sDiscover the secret of the Surfer. โ The Fantastic Four return to the big screen as a new and all powerful enemy threatens the Earth. The seemingly unstoppable 'Silver Surfer', but all is not what it seems and there are old and new enemies that pose a greater threat than the intrepid superheroes realize.
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Night Train
Shaanxi Province The 2000sA woman employed performing state-sanctioned executions unknowingly becomes romantically involved with the husband of the last woman she executed.
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