980 Films & TV Shows Set In China
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Bride Wars
ShanghaiMary and Jing are childhood best friends. When they were kids, they dreamed about their ideal weddings. Ten years later, on the day of their weddings, however, a mistake by the wedding planner pits them against each other, in a battle of wits.
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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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Ulterior Motive
๐จ๐ณ ChinaOriginally living a happy and stable life, things have become clouded for rich heiress Ye Shuang (Qin Lan) after the unexpected disappearance of her husband Ling Feng (Archie Kao) and daughter. After consulting with her father Ye Cheng (Simon Yam), Shuang decides to call the police, where she re-encounters her ex-boyfriend, Yao Jie (Gordon Lam). During the investigation process, Jie finds this million-dollar ransom kidnapping case to be a misty mystery. Specializing in investigating by starting from minor details, he targets Cheng as a potential suspect. At this time, Cheng's activities has also become suspiciously strange. When the mystery seemed to have dispersed, Cheng dies from an accident. At this time, clues from a murder case that took place 20 years ago begins to surface. Behind the mysterious kidnappings lies the ulterior motive.
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The Himalayas
๐ณ๐ต Nepal TibetBased on true events, renowned mountaineer UM Hong-gil sets out on a mission to Everest to retrieve his late junior climber's body and faces the greatest challenge of his life.
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Mountain Cry
๐จ๐ณ China The 1980sA pained cry pierces the heart of a rustic mountain town in Larry Yangโs remarkable second feature Mountain Cry. When La Hong (Yu Ailei) dies in an accident involving an explosive badger trap, naรฏve Han Chong (Wang Ziyi) obeys village decree and takes the responsibility of caring for La Hongโs mute widow Hong Xia (Lang Yueting) and their children. But as they start to form an emotional bond, suspicions arise concerning La Hongโs death. A melodrama condemning intolerance, it is also a love story of remarkable credibility and emotional depth.
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Floating Melon
๐จ๐ณ ChinaA journey of passion, a bitter night. Xiao Cheng ask for help to resolve a big trouble, the guy with whom he spend the afternoon is dead on his bed from the effect of a drug, not something the Chinese authorities look kindly on.
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River
TibetThe rich complexity of human relationships is central to this story of a young girl, her father, and his father, who each long to strengthen their bonds, but find themselves fighting the weight of personal and national histories. Tibetan writer-Director Sonthar Gyal (The Sun-Beaten Path) makes breathtaking use of the Tibetan plains and mountains as an epic backdrop to this intimate family drama.
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A Tibet mountaineering school recruits qualified residents from the two counties at the foot of Mount Everest only, and trains them to be mountain guide of the Everest.
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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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The Monkey King
๐จ๐ณ China The 7th CenturyHavoc in Heaven โ Sun Wukong is a monkey born from a heavenly stone who acquires supernatural powers. After rebelling against heaven and being imprisoned under a mountain for 500 years, he later accompanies the monk Xuanzang on a journey to India. Thus, according to legend, Buddhism is brought to ancient China.
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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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Bringing Home Tibet
TibetWhen New York based Tibetan artist Tenzing Rigdol's father passes away in exile with an unfulfilled wish to take his last breath in Tibet, Tenzing realizes that his father's dream to return home to his lost nation is shared by all exiles. Driven by this realization, the artist embarks on a mission to reunite the Tibetan land with its people, literally, through an art project that involves smuggling 20,000 kilograms of native Tibetan soil to India.
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Once Upon a Time in Shanghai
ShanghaiThe Legend that was never told. โ A laborer moves to Shanghai in the hope of becoming rich. But ends up using his kung fu skills to survive. Remake of The Boxer From Shantung.
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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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Hector and the Search for Happiness
California Shanghai Africa - General ๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaSometimes to find yourself you need to get a little lost. โ Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasnโt really tasted life, and yet heโs offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.
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Beijing Love Story
BeijingA cross-generational look at how denizens of China's largest city deal with romance and commitment.
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Fantasy adventure as the fairies face a new foe.
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The Breakup Guru
Beijing ๐ฒ๐บ MauritiusOne is a bum, one gets by selling self-help DVDs: Mei Yuan Gui is a guy who survives by leeching off his girlfriends; Ye Xiao Chun is a girl who sells DVDs for a living. Two people in the bottom rungs of society meet by accident one day when the guy saves the girl, and so begins the most hilarious, silly and touching love story.
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Tiny Times 3
๐ฎ๐น Italy ShanghaiTo be blind, to be loved. โ Lin Xiao, Gu Li, Nan Xiang, Tang Wanru - these four best friends, after waving goodbye to their school campus and entering the workforce, they are faced with various challenges in their life: friendship, love, and career. Together, they become lost in life, having long forgotten their past courage.
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Penguins of Madagascar
New York ๐ฎ๐น Italy ShanghaiThe Movie Event That Will Blow Their Cover โ Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private join forces with undercover organization The North Wind to stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine from destroying the world as we know it.
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Dearest
๐จ๐ณ ChinaDrawing on remarkable true stories, Peter Chan delivers a moving drama about child abduction in China. Huang Bo stars as a father whose young son disappears in the streets of a big city. He sets out on a search across China, stopping at nothing to find him. In this star-studded cast, Zhao Wei plays the role of a mother from a poor rural area.
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