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25 best chinese movies of the 2010s

by raunakxrestha • Created 4 years ago • Modified 4 years ago
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  • An Elephant Sitting Still (2018)

    1. An Elephant Sitting Still

    20183h 50m86Metascore
    7.8 (8.6K)
    Four people in a Chinese city live through a complicated day as their lives intersect.
    DirectorBo HuStarsZhang YuYuchang PengUvin Wang
  • Yongzhong Chen in Kaili Blues (2015)

    2. Kaili Blues

    20151h 53mNot Rated85Metascore
    7.3 (4.6K)
    While travelling the countryside to locate his nephew, a small town doctor finds himself interacting with people from his past and future.
    DirectorBi GanStarsYongzhong ChenFeiyang LuoLixun Xie
  • Stray Dogs (2013)

    3. Stray Dogs

    20132h 18mNot Rated84Metascore
    6.9 (3.2K)
    An alcoholic man and his two young children barely survive in Taipei. They cross path with a lonely grocery clerk who might help them make a better life.
    DirectorTsai Ming-liangStarsKang-sheng LeeKuei-Mei YangYi-ching Lu
  • Tang Wei in Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018)

    4. Long Day's Journey Into Night

    20182h 18mNot Rated88Metascore
    7.1 (10K)
    A man went back to Guizhou, found the tracks of a mysterious woman. He recalls the summer he spent with her twenty years ago.
    DirectorBi GanStarsTang WeiJue HuangSylvia Chang
  • Sammi Cheng and Louis Koo in Romancing in Thin Air (2012)

    5. Romancing in Thin Air

    20121h 51mNot Rated
    6.4 (662)
    After the bride of a popular actor ran away with her first love at their wedding, he went into grieving. In a drunken stupor, he ends up in a hotel atop the mountains. There, he finds love with a woman who is also grieving a lost love.
    DirectorJohnnie ToStarsLouis KooSammi ChengYuanyuan Gao
  • Tao Zhao and Fan Liao in Ash Is Purest White (2018)

    6. Ash Is Purest White

    20182h 16mNot Rated85Metascore
    7.0 (11K)
    In an industrial city in China, a young dancer named Qiao falls in love with a mobster named Bin. When a fight breaks out between rival gangs, Qiao uses a gun to protect Bin and is sent to prison for five years.
    DirectorJia Zhang-keStarsTao ZhaoFan LiaoZheng Xu
  • Tzi Ma, Shuzhen Zhao, Han Chen, Aoi Mizuhara, Hong Lu, Diana Lin, Awkwafina, and Yongbo Jiang in The Farewell (2019)

    7. The Farewell

    20191h 40mPG89Metascore
    7.5 (74K)
    A Chinese family discovers their grandmother has only a short while left to live and decide to keep her in the dark, scheduling a wedding to gather before she dies.
    DirectorLulu WangStarsShuzhen ZhaoAwkwafinaX Mayo
  • Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains (2019)

    8. Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains

    20192h 30m
    7.2 (1.2K)
    A feature film, shot over the course of two years, that intends to capture the changing of the seasons along the river, in the Fuyang district of Hangzhou city.
    DirectorXiaogang GuStarsZhenyang DongHongjun DuWei Mu
  • Wu Jiang in A Touch of Sin (2013)

    9. A Touch of Sin

    20132h 10mNot Rated77Metascore
    7.1 (13K)
    Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
    DirectorJia Zhang-keStarsWu JiangBaoqiang WangTao Zhao
  • Louis Koo and Honglei Sun in Drug War (2012)

    10. Drug War

    20121h 47mR86Metascore
    7.0 (11K)
    A drug cartel boss who is arrested in a raid is coerced into betraying his former accomplices as part of an undercover operation.
    DirectorJohnnie ToStarsLouis KooHonglei SunHuang Yi
  • A Simple Life (2011)

    11. A Simple Life

    20111h 58mNot Rated78Metascore
    7.5 (6.5K)
    After suffering a stroke, an altruistic maid announces that she wants to quit her job and move into an old people's home.
    DirectorAnn HuiStarsAndy LauDeanie lpHailu Qin
  • Winter Vacation (2010)

    12. Winter Vacation

    20101h 31mNot Rated
    6.3 (347)
    An ordinary village in Northern China, the last day of the winter vacation. Four idle, aimless adolescents gather at Zhou Zhixin's home, a friend who lives with his father, brother and nephew. Like most contemporary teenagers, these youths want to enjoy their last day of holiday and simply hang out in this place where nothing ever seems likely to happen. Their conversations are desultory and they sometimes seem to argue for argument's sake. One of them, Laowu, talks frankly with his girlfriend about how teenage love might affect their studies, while Laobao questions school's value and relevance to real life.
    DirectorHongqi LiStarsJinfeng BaiLei BaoHui Wang
  • So Long, My Son (2019)

    13. So Long, My Son

    20193h 5m88Metascore
    7.7 (5.8K)
    Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.
    DirectorXiaoshuai WangStarsJingchun WangMei YongXi Qi
  • A Sun (2019)

    14. A Sun

    20192h 36m
    7.6 (11K)
    A family of four fractures under the weight of unmet expectations, unexpected tragedy, and uncompromising pride.
    DirectorMong-Hong ChungStarsChien-Ho WuChen YiwenSamantha Shu-Chin Ko
  • Louis Koo, Jing Wu, Simon Yam, Jin Zhang, and Tony Jaa in Kill Zone 2 (2015)

    15. Kill Zone 2

    20152hNot Rated73Metascore
    6.7 (7.5K)
    While undercover officer Kit is taken prisoner by the syndicate, he befriends his keeper and discovers an organ trafficking ring.
    DirectorSoi CheangStarsTony JaaJing WuSimon Yam
  • Let the Bullets Fly (2010)

    16. Let the Bullets Fly

    20102h 12mNot Rated66Metascore
    7.3 (14K)
    In 1920s China, a bandit arrives in a remote provincial town posing as its new mayor, where he faces off against a tyrannical local nobleman.
    DirectorWen JiangStarsChow Yun-FatWen JiangYou Ge
  • Tao Zhao in Mountains May Depart (2015)

    17. Mountains May Depart

    20152h 6mNot Rated79Metascore
    6.9 (6.7K)
    The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.
    DirectorJia Zhang-keStarsTao ZhaoYi ZhangLiang Jingdong
  • Life Without Principle (2011)

    18. Life Without Principle

    20111h 47mNot Rated
    6.9 (2.9K)
    Three people - a criminal, a bank officer and a cop - end up in a catastrophic situation in the midst of a global economical crisis and are forced to betray any morals and principles to solve their financial problems.
    DirectorJohnnie ToStarsChing-Wan LauRichie JenDenise Ho
  • Shu Qi in The Assassin (2015)

    19. The Assassin

    20151h 45mNot Rated82Metascore
    6.3 (19K)
    A female assassin receives a dangerous mission to kill a political leader in eighth-century China.
    DirectorHsiao-Hsien HouStarsShu QiChang ChenYun Zhou
  • Office (2015)

    20. Office

    20151h 51m
    6.0 (2.3K)
    The investigation following a sales manager brutally killing his entire family leads to a track of mystery and tragedy in an overwhelmed work team at Seoul.
    DirectorHong Won-chanStarsKo Ah-sungBae Sung-wooPark Sung-woong
  • Aftershock (2010)

    21. Aftershock

    20102h 15mNot Rated
    7.5 (10K)
    The epic story of a family separated as a result of the Great Tangshan Earthquake of 1976.
    DirectorXiaogang FengStarsDaoming ChenChen LiYi Lu
  • The Wild Goose Lake (2019)

    22. The Wild Goose Lake

    20191h 53m76Metascore
    6.7 (8.3K)
    A gangster on the run sacrifices everything for his family and a woman he meets while on the lam.
    DirectorYi'nan DiaoStarsGe HuLun-Mei GweiFan Liao
  • Blind Massage (2014)

    23. Blind Massage

    20141h 54m
    7.2 (1.7K)
    A drama centered around the employees of a Nanjing massage parlor who share a common trait: they are all blind.
    DirectorYe LouStarsXiaodong GuoHao QinLei Zhang
  • The Great Buddha+ (2017)

    24. The Great Buddha+

    20171h 42m80Metascore
    7.6 (5.2K)
    One day when Pickle and his friend Belly Bottom watch the dashcam recordings of Pickle's boss they stumble upon a secret.
    DirectorHsin-yao HuangStarsCres ChuangBamboo Chu-Sheng ChenLeon Dai
  • Christian Bale, Ni Ni, Jia Sun, Bai Xue, Xiting Han, Xinyi Zhang, and Yuemin Li in The Flowers of War (2011)

    25. The Flowers of War

    20112h 26mR46Metascore
    7.5 (57K)
    An American finds refuge during the 1937 Japanese invasion of Nanking in a church with a group of women. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.
    DirectorYimou ZhangStarsChristian BaleNi NiXinyi Zhang

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