980 Films & TV Shows Set In China
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Somewhere Winter
California Beijing Tianjin 🇹🇼 TaiwanWhen a woman chances upon a ticket to an exclusive concert, she realizes the man who gave it to her may be the key to her life’s happiness. But when life itself throws barriers in her way, it’s up to her daughter to try and reunite the star crossed lovers.
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Made In China
🇮🇳 India 🇨🇳 ChinaA struggling Gujarati businessman ventures into the world of China where he gets a brilliant business idea that could change his life forever.
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Ip Man: Kung Fu Master
Guangdong Province The 1940sIp Man’s promising career as a Policeman is ruined after he is framed for murder and targeted by a mob boss’s daughter.
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Pacific Rim: Uprising
California Shanghai Tokyo Prefecture New South Wales The 2030sRise Up — It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindicated by the victory at the Breach, the Jaeger program has evolved into the most powerful global defense force in human history. The PPDC now calls upon the best and brightest to rise up and become the next generation of heroes when the Kaiju threat returns.
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Air Strike
Chongqing Municipality The 1940s The 1930sThey fought World War II's greatest battle. — An American pilot is sent to a Chinese province to teach a crew of would-be pilots how to fly war planes against the Japanese during World War II.
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The Meg
Hainan Province Shanghai Tokyo Prefecture 🇹🇭 Thailand Pacific Ocean The 2010sChomp On This — A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.
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Duck Duck Goose
🇨🇳 ChinaFamily can be a wild ride — After he’s grounded by an injury, a high-flying bachelor is saddled with two wide-eyed orphans as they come face-to-face with the dangers and beauty of the outside world.
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Mortal Engines
England 🇨🇳 ChinaSome scars never heal — Many thousands of years in the future, Earth’s cities roam the globe on huge wheels, devouring each other in a struggle for ever diminishing resources. On one of these massive traction cities, the old London, Tom Natsworthy has an unexpected encounter with a mysterious young woman from the wastelands who will change the course of his life forever.
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Have a Nice Day
Jiangsu Province The 2010sThree parties pursue the million dollars that driver Xiao Zhang stole to help out his girlfriend.
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The Monkey King 3
🇨🇳 China The 7th CenturyKingdom of Women — The third installment of the blockbuster fantasy series sees the return of the Monkey King (Aaron Kwok) in his most action-packed adventure yet! While continuing their epic journey to the West, the Monkey King and his companions are taken captive by the Queen of an all-female land, who believes them to be part of an ancient prophecy heralding the fall of her kingdom. With a lot of sorcery and a little bit of charm, the travelers devise a plan to escape. But when their trickery angers the mighty River God, they realize they might just bring about the foretold destruction - unless they can find a way to quell her wrath.
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Escape Plan 2: Hades
Georgia 🇷🇺 Russia Shanghai 🇹🇭 ThailandHe's back. — Ray Breslin manages an elite team of security specialists trained in the art of breaking people out of the world's most impenetrable prisons. When his most trusted operative, Shu Ren, is kidnapped and disappears inside the most elaborate prison ever built, Ray must track him down with the help of some of his former friends.
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Ash Is Purest White
Shanxi Province The 2000s The 2010sSet in China's underworld, this tale of love and betrayal follows a dancer who fired a gun to protect her mobster boyfriend during a fight. On release from prison 5 years later, she sets out to find him.
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A Gentle Night
Jiangsu ProvinceIn a nameless small Chinese city, a regular mother tries to find her missing daughter, in this gentle night.
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Dead Pigs
Shanghai The 2010sA pig farmer, a busboy, a salon owner, an expat architect and a jaded rich girl cross paths as thousands of dead pigs float down the Yangtze River toward Shanghai.
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Genesis 2.0
🇷🇺 Russia The Arctic Circle 🇨🇳 China 🇰🇷 South Korea Massachusetts The 2010sA well-preserved mammoth carcass is found in the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, opening up the possibility of a world-changing “Jurassic Park” moment in genetics.
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An Elephant Sitting Still
Hebei ProvinceIn the northern Chinese city of Manzhouli, they say there is an elephant that simply sits and ignores the world. Manzhouli becomes an obsession for the protagonists of this film, a longed-for escape from the downward spiral in which they find themselves.
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Hidden Man
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sA martial arts-infused spy thriller set in 1937 Beijing. A time when China was lurching between revolution, prosperity, and chaos.
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Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings
🇨🇳 China The 7th CenturyDee, the detective serving Chinese empress Wu Zetian, is called upon to investigate a series of strange events in Loyang, including the appearance of mysterious warriors wearing Chiyou ghost masks, foxes that speak human language and the pillar sculptures in the palace coming alive.
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Flavors of Youth
Beijing Guangdong Province ShanghaiThe rigorous city life of China, while bustling and unforgiving, contains the everlasting memories of days past. Three stories told in three different cities, follow the loss of youth and the daunting realization of adulthood. Though reality may seem ever changing, unchangeable are the short-lived moments of one's childhood days. A plentiful bowl of noodles, the beauty of family and the trials of first love endure the inevitable flow of time, as three different characters explore the strength of bonds and the warmth of cherished memories. Within the disorder of the present world, witness these quaint stories recognize the comfort of the past, and attempt to revive the neglected flavors of youth.
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How Long Will I Love U
🇨🇳 China The 1990s The 2010sGu Xiaojiao, a young girl from 2018 and Lu Ming, a man from 1999, discover that they have both woken up in the same bed at the same space-time. More surprisingly, they realize that they can time travel by exiting the bedroom door. The fun begins when they start to plan a number of changes within these two eras. However, they do not know that their destiny is in the hands of a mysterious person.
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The Perfection
Minnesota Massachusetts ShanghaiIt's time to face the music — When troubled musical prodigy Charlotte seeks out Elizabeth, the new star pupil of her former school, the encounter sends both musicians down a sinister path with shocking consequences.
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Dying to Survive
🇮🇳 India ShanghaiWhen a mysterious visitor appears, the life of Yong Cheng, owner of a store that stocks aphrodisiac products, changes dramatically. He becomes the exclusive selling agent of a cheap Indian generic drug against Chronic Granulocytic Leukemia in China. Not only does Yong Cheng see his profits skyrocket, but he is dubbed the god of medicine“ by his customers
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Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi
ShanghaiHorticulture professor Happy arrives in Shanghai and the other Happy along with husband Guddu also lands up in the Chinese city at the same time. Gangsters who’ve come to kidnap Happy and her husband, pick up the wrong Happy, while Guddu and his wife Happy are escorted to a university to deliver a lecture.
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De acá a la China
🇨🇳 China The 1980s The 2010sIn 1986, Facundo's father had a store in the heart of Buenos Aires, and it was very successful. However, in the early 90s, with the arrival of Chinese supermarkets, the store couldn't compete and had to close. Thirty years later, Facundo travels to the other end of the planet with the sole purpose of getting revenge by opening the first Argentine supermarket in China.
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