Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "beijing"

1. Joy Ride (2023)

R | 95 min | Comedy

Follows four Asian American friends as they bond and discover the truth of what it means to know and love who you are, while they travel through China in search of one of their birth mothers.

Director: Adele Lim | Stars: Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Stephanie Hsu, Sabrina Wu

Votes: 23,110

2. Zero to Hero (2021)

TV-14 | 102 min | Biography, Drama, Sport

Biopic tribute to So Wa Wai, Hong Kong's first Paralympic athlete to win gold. Even if you start at a disadvantage, you can still be first across the finish line.

Director: Chi-Man Wan | Stars: Chung-Hang Leung, Louis Cheung, Sandra Kwan Yue Ng, Hoi-Pang Lo

Votes: 1,142

3. 55 Days at Peking (1963)

Unrated | 154 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

During the 1900 Boxer Rebellion, U.S. marine, Maj. Matt Lewis, along with British consul, Sir Arthur Robertson, develop a plan to keep the rebels at bay until an international military relief force can arrive.

Directors: Nicholas Ray, Guy Green, Andrew Marton | Stars: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven, Flora Robson

Votes: 7,410

4. Police Story: Lockdown (2013)

Not Rated | 110 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A man looking for the release of a long-time prisoner takes a police officer, his daughter, and a group of strangers hostage.

Director: Sheng Ding | Stars: Jackie Chan, Ye Liu, Tian Jing, Tao Yin

Votes: 10,649

5. Mao's Last Dancer (2009)

PG | 117 min | Biography, Drama, Music

In Maoist China, a boy is taken from his family and trained to become a dancer, but everything he knows is challenged when he is chosen to attend a ballet summer school in Houston, Texas.

Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Chi Cao, Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Penne Hackforth-Jones

Votes: 8,295 | Gross: $4.81M

6. Mao Zedong 1949 (2019)

140 min | Biography, Drama, History

The film is set in 1949, as the members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China prepare to establish a new Chinese state, the People's Republic of China.

Directors: Jianxin Huang, Haiqiang Ning | Stars: Guoqiang Tang, Jin Liu, Ted Duran, Johnny Huang

Votes: 510

7. Startling by Each Step (2011– )

TV-14 | 46 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

After a car accident plunges a woman into the dreamy Chinese past that gave the whole life in the Beijing imperial palace after that she returns to her life in the modern world.

Stars: Kei Gambit, ShiShi Liu, Nicky Wu, Kevin Cheng

Votes: 613

8. Croczilla (2012)

PG-13 | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A 36 foot crocodile goes on the rampage in Beijing after being moved from a peaceful Crocodile Farm and onto the menu of a local gangster.

Director: Lisheng Lin | Stars: Barbie Hsu, Tao Guo, Zhaoqi Shi, Suet Lam

Votes: 888

9. Unsilenced (2021)

R | 108 min | Drama

When the Chinese Communist Party launches a brutal crackdown against 100 million citizens, a jaded American reporter and a team of innocent students risk everything to expose the deadly propaganda and fight for freedom.

Director: Leon Lee | Stars: Sam Trammell, Anastasia Lin, James Yi, Tzu-Chiang Wang

Votes: 530 | Gross: $0.53M

10. Mr. Six (2015)

PG-13 | 134 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A well respected man residing in what's left of old-Beijing attempts to exonerate his son from his wrongdoings with his own methods and beliefs.

Director: Hu Guan | Stars: Xiaogang Feng, Hanyu Zhang, Qing Xu, Kris Wu

Votes: 4,267 | Gross: $1.42M

11. Jing-Ju Cats (2015)

TV-Y7 | 13 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Formally a paradise for all cats, the Cat Land Purpetua has been invaded and occupied by the dark lord AN, aided by his enslaved mutant monsters. The evil chaos reigns throughout the ... See full summary »

Stars: Johnny Yong Bosch, Ryan Bartley, Cassandra Lee Morris, Kirk Thornton

Votes: 58

12. Assalamualaikum Beijing (2014)

TV-14 | 95 min | Drama, Romance

After her wedding fails, Asma (Revalina S. Temat) accepted a job offer from Beijing. In Beijing, she meets a Chinese man who introduces her to the legend of love story of Ashima, the Princess of Yunnan, and then he falls in love with her.

Director: Guntur Soeharjanto | Stars: Revalina S. Temat, Ibnu Jamil, Laudya Cynthia Bella, Deddy Mahendra Desta

Votes: 372

13. Under the Dome (2015)

104 min | Documentary

A documentary about pollution in China and how it has affected the lives of Chinese people.

Directors: Jing Chai, Ming Fan | Star: Jing Chai

Votes: 480

14. Ghost of the Mountains (2017)

G | 78 min | Documentary

Disneynature's international team of filmmakers travel to the mountains of China to find and film the elusive snow leopard on the highest plateau on Earth, while enduring brutal weather and unsettled terrain.

Director: Ben Wallis | Stars: Antoine Fuqua, Shane Moore, Edward Anderson, Dondrub Dorje

Votes: 359

15. Tiananmen (2019)

Documentary, History

It's been thirty years since the massacre at Tianamen Square in Beijing, where upwards of a few thousand students were killed in the military crackdown on their protests, the massacre which... See full summary »

Star: Shen Tong

Votes: 138

16. Shi Cha Hai (2020)

Drama, Family

On three generations of the Zhuang family who live in a Shicha Hai Hutong in central Beijing.

Stars: Cuifen Cao, Marc Philip Goodman, Xiaotong Guan, Yiming Lian

17. Shadow Hearts (2001 Video Game)

M | Fantasy, Horror

Yuri Hyuga is a young harmonixer: a man who possesses the power of transforming into demons. He meets Alice Elliot, a young British girl whose father was brutally murdered, and who is ... See full summary »

Stars: Hiroki Takahashi, Chie Ishibashi, Ken'ichirô Sanada, Mie Sonozaki

Votes: 151

18. Fish Eye (2015)

15 min | Short, Drama, Horror

Amid a string of hideous homicides, a housemaid heads to the isolated home of her eccentric new client who has a long set of unbreakable rules. What could possibly be hiding a solitary man with a taste for fish, and a collection of knives?

Director: Michelle Tong Zhou | Stars: Yuti Sun, Liangbo Wang, Chunxia Liu, Xiaohe Zhang

Votes: 19

19. Love Will Tear Us Apart (2013)

97 min | Drama, Romance

A simple but heartbreaking love story. An ordinary copy director Liang Liang falls in love with a beautiful model Miao Miao. They strongly attract each other, but Miao Miao's insecurity in relationships gradually tears them apart.

Director: Weiran Li | Stars: Shaofeng Feng, Ni Ni, Xiaoxiao Guo, Dehua Zhou

Votes: 167

20. Americaville (2020)

80 min | Documentary

A replica of Jackson Hole, Wyoming lures Annie Liu from Beijing with promises of the American dream. In Americaville, her pursuit of happiness, freedom, romance, and spiritual fulfillment proves more elusive than expected.

Director: Adam James Smith

Votes: 11

21. Chinese New Year: The Biggest Celebration on Earth (2016)

Documentary

Witness how the Chinese celebrate their new year. From the norhest Haerbin to Beijing and to the very south Hong Kong, see how people of China travel, eat, perform shows and start the year of the monkey.

Stars: Jing Lusi, Ant Anstead, Dave Myers, Si King

Votes: 72

22. Children of Shanghai (2021)

60 min | Documentary

The story of how a million Chinese orphans were moved into local foster families after an extraordinary intervention by a British footballer.

Director: Richard Nash | Star: Bear Grylls

Votes: 19

23. Assalamualaikum Beijing 2: Lost in Ningxia

TV-14 | Drama, Romance | Pre-production

Plot Unknown, Sequel of 'Assalamualaikum Beijing'

Director: Guntur Soeharjanto | Stars: Laudya Cynthia Bella, Ibnu Jamil

24. Two de Force (2011)

130 min | Action, Drama

The US Delegation and the Chinese Delegation meet in Beijing to discuss US debt to China.

Director: Orestes Matacena | Stars: Luke Steward, Jesse Wang, Patty Kelley, Wendy Lee

Votes: 15

25. Troy's Team Action Class (2017)

10 min | Documentary, Short

This is a story about a group of guys that found each other under the unified love they have for the martial arts and how they navigate the film industry.

Director: Troy Sandford | Stars: Mayela De l'Arc, Vladimir Ershov, Warwick Gilles, Myra Mala

26. Beijing 2022: XIII Paralympic Winter Games (2022)

Sport

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Stars: Maria Taylor, Xi Jinping, Ahmed Fareed, Cai Qi

27. Wandering Soul (II) (2016)

2 min | Short, Thriller

A young man wanders through a hotel, only to find he's actually going nowhere at all.

Director: Aaron Reynolds | Star: Aaron Reynolds

28. Zuhause (2013)

19 min | Documentary, Short

The Leng family lives on the tenth floor of a tower block in the centre of Beijing. Accompanied by the cacophony of a nearby building site they talk about their ideas of an ideal home, ... See full summary »

Directors: Nariman Mansouri, Weina Zhao

29. Up Against a Wall (2016)

2 min | Short, Drama

A young poet visiting the Great Wall of China struggles to finish the poem he's working on until he finds inspiration from his surroundings.

Director: Aaron Reynolds | Star: Samuel Welsh

30. Breaking Tides (2017)

Documentary

Breaking Tides is an inspiring film about courage, family, sports, resilience, and willpower. It tells the moving story of para-athlete Verônica Almeida and her incredible desire to push the limits imposed on her by life.

Director: Claudia Gama

31. The Promised Land (2015)

102 min | Drama

A young ballet dancer moves to Beijing in pursuit of her career and aspires for a better life in big city.

Director: Ping He | Stars: Jiajia Wang, Zhiwen Wang, Yi Zhang

Votes: 35

32. The Sound Stage (2012–2015)

Documentary, Comedy, Music

A faithful rock 'n' roller from the USA dimly makes his way through various underground music scenes in China, opening his eyes, ears and mind along the way.

33. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003)
Episode: Fool for Love (2000)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

After being bested in a fight by an ordinary vampire, Buffy asks Spike to explain how he killed two Slayers many years earlier.

Director: Nick Marck | Stars: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Marc Blucas

Votes: 3,987

34. Touched by an Angel (1994–2003)
Episode: The Spirit of Liberty Moon: Part 1 (1998)

TV-G | Drama, Family, Fantasy

Monica is assigned to accompany a group of U.S. businesspeople to China to negotiate a merger. An employee is reluctant to go due to a secret from her past.

Director: Timothy Van Patten | Stars: Roma Downey, Della Reese, John Dye, Bai Ling

Votes: 74

35. Dates That Made History (2017–2020)
Episode: Octobre 1860: Sac du palais d'été de Pékin (2020)

26 min | Documentary, History

Three Chinese emperors- Qianlong Emperor, Kangxi Emperor, Yongzheng Emperor, were responsible for creating Yuanmingyuan. In the mid-19th century, the palatial grounds were targeted by British and French forces bent on total destruction.

Director: Juliette Garcias | Stars: Patrick Boucheron, Pierre Singaravélou

36. Drive with Us Podcast (2019– )
Car Overheated in Sri Lanka (2021 Podcast Episode)

Talk-Show

Have you ever had your car overheat in a foreign country? Shannon was taking a trip in Sri Lanka and they had hired a driver to take them around, but it did not go as well as they had ... See full summary »

37. Laura McKenzie's Traveler (2003– )
Episode: Beijing (2009)

TV-G | 21 min | Biography, History, Reality-TV

The Great Wall is just one of the wonders that China has to offer. China, officially known as the People's Republic of China, is a fascinating destination with incredible sights and ... See full summary »

Stars: Charlie Dang, Laura McKenzie

38. Laura McKenzie's Traveler (2003– )
Episode: China (2009)

TV-G | 22 min | Biography, History, Reality-TV

Welcome to China, a country that's really fascinating to me because it's a mix of so many different time periods. For example, you can be on a bullet train going 250 miles an hour one day ... See full summary »

Star: Laura McKenzie

39. Ward Carroll (2020– )
Episode: The REAL Truth About Nuclear War (2021)

13 min | Documentary

Ward recaps the current nuclear warhead inventories around the world then uses the Nuke Map application to estimate casualties from a nuclear strike on four cities.

Star: Ward Carroll

40. How to Lose a War (2023)
Episode: The Best Laid Plans (2023)

Documentary, History, War

Explore how the seeds of Japan's defeat in 1945 were sown a decade earlier with the occupation of Manchuria in China.

Director: Tim Bosanquet | Stars: Rana Mitter, Sandra Wilson, Yuma Totani, Guy Walters

41. Mickey Mouse (2013–2019)
Episode: Panda-monium (2013)

TV-G | 5 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

At a zoo in Beijing, Mickey tries to take a picture of a cute little panda, but it proves to be quite camera-shy.

Director: Aaron Springer | Stars: Chris Diamantopoulos, Alex Chu, Aaron Springer

Votes: 194

42. Unreported World (2000– )
Episode: China's Pop Idols (2017)

24 min | Documentary, News

Marcel Theroux travels to China to meet the up-and-coming music stars influenced by hip-hop, punk and K-pop who face the challenges of working under increasing censorship and an authoritarian government.

Director: Sarah Collinson | Stars: Marcel Theroux, Krishnan Guru-Murthy