Dìdi (2024)
Comedy | Drama
In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can't teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.
Starring: Izaac Wang, Joan Chen, Shirley Chen, Zhang Li Hua
Director: Sean Wang
Hachiko / Zhong quan ba gong (2023)
Drama
The touching story about a loyal dog named Ba Tong who waited for the return of his owner for ten years even after his owner's death.
Starring: Xiaogang Feng, Joan Chen, Jugang Bai, Eponine Huang, Bo Qian
Director: Ang Xu
Hero / Shi jian you ta (2022)
Drama
During the initial outbreak of the pandemic in 2020, the interconnected stories of three female protagonists unfold simultaneously in different cities across China. 'Hero' tells stories of love, faith, courage and strength.
Starring: Xun Zhou, Sammi Cheng, Jackson Yee, Di Xu, Stephen Fung, Miyi Huang
Director: Sylvia Chang, Joan Chen, Shaohong Li
Sheep Without a Shepherd / Wu sha (2019)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Desperate measures are taken by a man who tries to save his family from the dark side of the law, after they commit an unexpected crime.
Starring: Yang Xiao, Zhuo Tan, Joan Chen, Philip Keung, Paul Chun
Director: Sam Quah
On Deadly Ground (1994)
Action | Adventure | Thriller
A mystical martial artist/environmental Agent takes on a ruthless oil corporation.
Starring: Steven Seagal, Michael Caine, Joan Chen, John C. McGinley, Billy Bob Thornton, Bart the Bear
Director: Steven Seagal
Tigertail (2020)
Drama
A Taiwanese factory worker leaves his homeland to seek opportunity in America, where he struggles to find connection while balancing family and newfound responsibilities in this multi-generational drama.
Starring: Hong-Chi Lee, Tzi Ma, Christine Ko, Hayden Szeto, Yo-Hsing Fang, Kunjue Li, Fiona Fu, James Saito, Joan Chen
Director: Alan Yang
24 City / Er shi si cheng ji (2008)
Drama
Change and a city in China. In Chengdu, factory 420 is being pulled down to make way for multi-story buildings with luxury flats. Scenes of factory operations, of the workforce, and of buildings stripped bare and then razed, are inter-cut with workers who were born in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s telling their stories – about the factory, which manufactured military aircraft, and about their work and their lives. A middle-aged man visits his mentor, now elderly; a woman talks of being a 19-year-old beauty there and ending up alone. The film concludes with two young people talking, each the child of workers, each relaying a story of one visit to a factory. Times change.
Starring: Tao Zhao, Joan Chen, Jianbin Chen, Liping Lü
Director: Zhangke Jia
The Hunted (1995)
Action | Drama | Thriller
Paul Racine (Christopher Lambert) is an American salesman with a computer firm who is in Japan on business. While spending an evening in a bar, he meets Kirina (Joan Chen), a beautiful but mysterious woman. Paul buys Kirina a drink, one thing leads to another, and he ends up spending the night with her. However, when Paul returns to her room to retrieve a set of keys he left behind, he discovers that Kirina is being murdered by Kinjo (John Lone), the master of a cult of bloodthirsty ninjas. Kinjo informs Karina that no one has ever seen his face and lived, so when Paul witnesses Kirina's execution and the face Kinjo hides behind his mask, he's a marked man. With the help of Takeda (Yoshio Harada), an experienced ninja fighter, Paul learns how to defend himself against his new adversaries as he plots a final showdown with the deadly Kinjo.
Starring: Christopher Lambert, John Lone, Joan Chen, Yoshio Harada, Yôko Shimada
Director: J.F. Lawton
Love in Disguise / Lian ai tong gao (2010)
Comedy | Romance
Impossibly famous an incredibly young age, DMH (Leehom Wang) has only ever known a celebrity pop star existence. Yet, despite all the perks and glamour, there is still something lacking in his charmed life: True love. Refuses to give up in his search, with the help of fellow musician and friend WZB, DMH disguised as regular Joes in hope to find true love. While incognito, DMH and WZB strmble across the performance of a classical Chinese orchestra and DMG is immediately captivated by the melodies of the guzheng soloist, LMQ (Crystal Liu), a classical music student at the Shanghai Conservatory, who's affections lie with the accomplished, if not arrogant, conservatory virtuoso, ZXZ. DMH nevertheless promisses to help bring them together, deteermined to spend more time with LMQ.
Starring: Leehom Wang, Yifei Liu, Joan Chen, Han Dian Chen
Director: Leehom Wang
Lady of the Dynasty / Wang chao de nv ren: Yang Gui Fei (2015)
History
Yang Yuhuan is a wife of Prince Li Mao and the Emperor Tang Ming Huang's daughter-in-law. When Prince Li's mother, Wu commits suicide after her conspiracy against the Emperor fails, Yang is abandoned and is given to the Emperor in exchange for the crown prince. Their affection grew through the political struggle and living together in the palace. But their happiness and good days do not last long when the Lushan Rebellion breaks out.
Starring: Bingbing Fan, Leon Lai, Chun Wu, Gang Wu, Jing Ning, Joan Chen
Director: Shiqing
Twin Peaks (TV Series 1990-1991)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.
Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Mädchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook, Richard Beymer, Lara Flynn Boyle, Sherilyn Fenn, Warren Frost, Peggy Lipton, James Marshall, Everett McGill, Jack Nance, Joan Chen
Creator: Mark Frost, David Lynch
Twin Peaks (TV Series 1990-1991)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.
Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Mädchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook, Richard Beymer, Lara Flynn Boyle, Sherilyn Fenn, Warren Frost, Peggy Lipton, James Marshall, Everett McGill, Jack Nance, Joan Chen
Creator: Mark Frost, David Lynch
Saving Face (2004)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
In Manhattan, the brilliant Chinese-American lesbian surgeon Wil is surprised by the arrival of her forty-eight year old widow mother to her apartment. Ma was banished from Flushing, Queens, when her father discovered that she was pregnant. The presence of Ma affects the personal life of Wil, who is in love with the daughter of her boss at the hospital, the dancer Vivian Shing. Once her grandfather has promised that her mother would only return to Flushing remarried or proving that it was an immaculate conception, Wil tries to find a Chinese bachelor to marry Ma.
Starring: Joan Chen, Michelle Krusiec, Lynn Chen
Director: Alice Wu
White Frog (2012)
Drama | Family
Nick (The Twilight Saga’s Booboo Stewart) is a neglected teen who has spent his life idolizing his older brother whose dream (against his parents wishes) was to be a dancer. When tragedy strikes, Nick’s life is changed forever. Also stars Harry Shum Jr., Kelly Hu and BD Wong.
Starring: Kelly Hu, Booboo Stewart, Talulah Riley, Tyler Posey, BD Wong, Gregg Sulkin, Joan Chen, Harry Shum Jr.
Director: Quentin Lee
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Passion Island / Re ai dao (2012)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
On a magnificent resort in Cagayan, a group of people with different background arrives for their own reasons and beliefs. It is on this island where they will paint three humorous and passionate stories of love, family and friendship.
Starring: Janice Man, Chen Chang, Simon Yam, Joan Chen, Jia Song, Francis Ng
Director: Kwok-Leung Gan
Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012)
Biography | Drama | Romance
A drama centered on the romance between Ernest Hemingway and WWII correspondent Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway's inspiration for For Whom the Bell Tolls and the only woman who ever asked for a divorce from the writer.
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Clive Owen, Lars Ulrich, David Strathairn, Santiago Cabrera, Joan Chen
Director: Philip Kaufman
The Last Emperor (1987)
Biography | Drama | History
Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor won nine Academy Awards, unexpectedly sweeping every category in which it was nominated. The power and scope of the film was, and remains, undeniable-the life of Emperor Pu Yi, who took the throne at age three, in 1908, before witnessing decades of cultural and political upheaval, within and without the walls of the Forbidden City. Recreating Ching dynasty China with astonishing detail and unparalleled craftsmanship by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro and production designer Ferdinando Scarfiotti, The Last Emperor is also an intimate character study of one man reconciling personal responsibility and political legacy.
Starring: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ying Ruocheng, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Double Xposure / Erci puguang (2012)
Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
When Song Qi stumbles upon her boyfriend's affair with her best friend, her life quickly starts falling apart and she is subsequently drawn into a quicksand of revenge and murder. Though all is not as it seems and Song Qi will have to embark on a twisted journey into her past and the very depths of her own mind…
Starring: Bingbing Fan, Shaofeng Feng, Joan Chen, Siyan Huo, Wei Kong, Anlian Yao
Director: Yu Li
Mao's Last Dancer (2009)
Biography | Drama | Music | Romance
A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet…
Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Bruce Greenwood, Joan Chen, Chi Cao, Amanda Schull
Director: Bruce Beresford
1911 Revolution / Xinhai geming (2011)
Action | Adventure | Drama
A historical drama based on the founding of the Republic of China when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the Qing Dynasty.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Bingbing Li, Winston Chao, Joan Chen, Jaycee Chan, Duobuji, Simon Dutton, Ge Hu, Ming Hu, Zhi-zhong Huang, Wenli Jiang, Wu Jiang, Dong-xue Li, Jing Ning, Liang Qi, Chun Sun, Zeru Tao, Yu-Hang To, Luyao Wang, Ya'nan Wang, Ziwen Wang, Zongwan Wei, Gang Xie, Jiadong Xing, Daying Ye, Shaoqun Yu
Director: Jackie Chan, Li Zhang
