Back to 1942

The film begins following the British victory of the first Opium War and the seizure of Hong Kong. Although the island is largely uninhabited and the...

Giacomo, a second-generation Italian-Chinese youngman, travels to Wencheng County to bring his late father’s ashes back to his hometown. There...

The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escape from his native home, Tibet, when communist...

Abandoned by his prostitute mother in 1920, Douzi was raised by a theater troupe. There he meets Shitou and over the following years the two develop...

A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.

The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.

A young teenager returns home after an absence to find his village in Iran deserted because of an incredibly severe drought. He begins a search to...

During the brutal invasion of China in 1937 by Imperial Japanese forces, tens of thousands of civilians and prisoners of war are murdered and women...

A glimpse into the lives of 4 Shanghai teenagers.

Two Chinese miners, who make money by killing fellow miners and then extorting money from the mine owner to keep quiet about the "accident", happen...

Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.

In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was...