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A group of Tibetans make a 1200 kilometer pilgrimage to Lasa

After her car breaks down on a rainy night, Miss Liang enters a nearby coffee shop called Cafe 6 The owner of the shop finds out that Miss Liang has just gotten into a fight with her boyfriend who is currently overseas, so to kill t

An exploration on the impact of urbanization and globalization on a traditional culture

Documentary that explores the San Quentin Prison basketball squad teammates and inmates at the Q along their journey of rehabilitation and possible redemption

A story of violent love within a time frame spanning from 2001 to 2017

Two siblings in 1980s Mexico find a airmail letter from their absent father The two must decide whether reading the letter will ultimately help or hurt the family

A young swordsman in 1930s China returns home to try and solve a five year old murder case Described as the third installment of the gangster trilogy that includes Let The Bullets Fly and Gone With The Bullets

After becoming a mother, a filmmaker uncovers the untold history of Chinas one child policy and the generations of parents and children forever shaped by this social experiment

A teenage lad arrives at Double Flag Town to claim his betrothed bride, when he encounters a group of outlaws and kills one of them A vendetta is expected

The story centers on the Chinese Special Police Unit, from their hard training to their first mission

Chinese firefighters struggle to contain a huge fire after an oil pipeline explodes

A robot servant is pushed to the brink of disaster and murder at the hands of a vicious and abusive owner

Following a fatal accident, a Chinese expatriate working for a mining company in Australia discovers that new technology developed by the company may be a health risk, and investigates a web of conspiracies in his search for the trut

Time is Art is ultimately the story of an artists search for inspiration in a money driven society that shuns creativity, and of the human search for meaning in a seemingly meaningless world

Three beautiful, vengeful witches awakened by an ancient book, the Necronomicon, bring production of a film in their old family home to a deadly halt

An engaging drama about several unemployed Shanxi coalminers looking for work

A best selling writer is forced into a situation where he must confront his inspirations while his world threatens to come crashing down as truths about his past are revealed

Wang Shuangli is Deputy Director of the local Cultural Centre, and hopes to be appointed Director However Old Ma is brought in from the country and installed as Director This starts a long train of events with Wangs cronies using

A group of juvenile delinquents lives a violent and crime filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, and the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others

A small town pickpocket whose friends have moved on to higher trades finds himself bitter and unable to adapt

Just when Tien Xiao Xiang, who is a fan of Tarot cards and author Si Yi, sees the perfect chance to confess her love to her childhood sweetheart Li Zhu Hao, he instead professes his love to her best friend Song Yi Jing But first, in

Du Lala is an up and coming corporate woman in the DB company But can she juggle love and business at the same time

Zhao Muzi went back to her hometown Hangzhou for spring festival Her parents divorced years ago, her mother is dating a foreigner now while her father started a new family and had a new kid

Set during the Tang Dynasty, The Robbers tells the story of two robbers adventures in a seemingly peaceful Bitter Bamboo Village, where they encounter a beautiful woman, a group of soldiers and a village head scheming to kill the du

In DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS, the brutal murder of a Dominican park ranger becomes the metaphor for increasing tension between Haiti and the Dominican Republic over illicit charcoal exploitation and mass deforestation

Filmmaker Jia Zhangke chronicles his local literature festival in Shanxi, China which includes a multi generational roster of the countrys most esteemed writers

Set in the worlds most dangerous maximum security penitentiary, home to the most treacherous criminals, tensions among the inmates and staff heighten, leading to anarchy that engulfs the prison and order is turned upside down

The peerless swordsmith, Meng Yezi, suffered the calamity of family extermination from the traitor Zhao Han served in the court for casting the famous Hanguang Sword

Set during the 1930s after the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, a teacher Jing Tian and a group of students establish a study club to preserve their language and culture as an act of protest against the foreign invaders

A scientist engineers a group of genetically engineered creatures for use as supersoldiers to fight U S wars in the Middle East However, things get ugly when the creatures malfunction and turn on their creators

A young student believes that the spirit of an alien from another planet has gone back in time and taken over his body to infiltrate and study humanity, to find the reasons why our civilization is doomed to future destruction He

Community workers, Alex and Stephanie take five teen dropouts on an educational journey across the Mediterranean But their skipper happens to be an ex cop with a powerful hatred for youths from the hood

A theatre troupe from rural Fenyang struggles under the decline of communism and rise of popular culture in China in the 1980s

A cinematic feature documentary about Chinas foray into Africa told through the lives of Chinese adventurers amp Zambian power brokers as they negotiate the tricky waters of this rapidly expanding and vital relationship

Love, humiliation and politics play out in a distant village of China during the cultural revolution

Uninhibited youth Zhang Chun and his friends David and Mary, while cruising on their car, meets rich heiress Wen Rou Chun and Rou fall in love at first sight and begin dating