Chinese submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Yingzi is a young, impressionable girl living on the southern side of Beijing in the late 1920s. Encountering people in the city, she tries to understand how people are really like inside through her own eyes.

In a transitioning 1980s China, an ambitious young man struggles with life choices represented by two women; one from his traditional, poverty-stricken peasant background, and another who offers a more affluent, modern urban life.

Love, humiliation, and politics play out in a distant village of China during the Cultural Revolution.

When a leprous winery owner in 1930s China dies a few days after his arranged marriage, his young widow is forced to run the winery to make a living while contending with bandits, her drunkard lover, and the invading Japanese army.

In the spring and summer of 1949, the People's Liberation Army launched an offensive under the orders of Mao Zedong and Zhu De, they crossed the Yangtze River and Nanjing was liberated on April 23 which signaled the fall of the KMT regime, Chiang Kai-Shek fled to Taiwan; on October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong standing on the rostrum of Tiananmen, solemnly declared the foundation of the People's Republic of China.

In rural China, the young bride of a tyrannical owner of a silk-dyeing business finds temporary solace in the arms of her husband's nephew, but problems arise when she becomes pregnant.

A man returns to his sublet apartment to find the previous tenants, three offbeat young women, still in residence, under the mistaken belief that they have the apartment until the end of New Year's Day.

A peasant woman seeks justice after the headman of her village has kicked her husband in the groin.

A heart-warming but yet funny story of a hi-school where boys and girls are merged to study in the same class for the first time.

It is 1940. Chuchu and Luo Xiaoman are Chinese students who have been sent to study in Moscow, at the international school. She is 13; he is 12. Xiaoman is from Yanan, Mao's base after the long march; Chuchu had seen her father executed by Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang. The youngsters fit in well and learn to speak Russian. A large group of students, including Chuchu, leave for summer camp in Byelorussia accompanied by their teacher, Miss Vera. Xiaoman remains behind. The Germans invade the Soviet Union but Moscow remains unoccupied. Xiaoman takes a job delivering condolence letters to soldiers' families. At one apartment, he finds a mother has died and her very young daughter, Nadia, has not realized it. The summer camp is occupied by Germans and Miss Vera is murdered. One of the Soviet boys, Carl, is half-German, and helps the others escape but they are quickly recaptured. Chuchu and several other students are sent by Gen. von Dietrich to work as servants at German headquarters in the Yakovliv Monastery. The general is also a medical doctor with a peculiar hobby, tattooing.

Chronicles the first half of Genghis Khan's life, from his lowly beginnings after his father is killed until he rescues his wife and becomes the first Khan of a united Mongol confederation.

The story of a grounded American pilot during the Second World War who learns about the noble spirit of the Chinese people when he is rescued by the communist-led Chinese army after an emergency landing near the Great Wall.

Gong Li stars in this low-key drama about a single mother who will do anything to provide for her son. Sun Liying (Li) struggles to care for her hearing-impaired child Zheng Da (Gao Xin) after her taxi driver husband divorces.

A defense officer, Nameless, was summoned by the King of Qin regarding his success of terminating three warriors.

A Chinese emissary is sent to the Gobi desert to execute a renegade soldier. When a caravan transporting a Buddhist monk and a valuable treasure is threatened by thieves, however, the two warriors might unite to protect the travelers.

A romantic police captain breaks a beautiful member of a rebel group out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.

Empowered by the love of a slave (Jang), a royal concubine (Cheung) is given the chance to make an extraordinary decision.

During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself.

A Taiwanese medical student defects to Mainland China due to Nationalist persecution, became an army surgeon during Korean War, and later went to Tibet as a doctor, while pining for his first love who is still in Taiwan, and being persistently pursued by another girl. Compiled from several actual events.

A documentary shot over the course of five years telling five stories in the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics: the construction of the Bird's Nest Olympic Stadium, Gold medal hopeful & Olympic hurdler Liu Xiang, the selection of the Chinese women's gymnastics team, the training of the Beijing SWAT team, and the story one of the 4000 families relocated to make room for the Olympic Athlete's Village.

A biographical account of Mei Lanfang, China's greatest opera star.

The epic story of a family separated as a result of the Great Tangshan Earthquake of 1976.