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1. Casino Royale (1967)
Approved | 131 min | Comedy
In an early spy spoof, aging Sir James Bond comes out of retirement to take on SMERSH.
Directors: Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish, Richard Talmadge | Stars: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles
Votes: 32,446
2. Mulan (1998)
G | 87 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.
Directors: Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook | Stars: Ming-Na Wen, Eddie Murphy, BD Wong, Miguel Ferrer
Votes: 316,014 | Gross: $120.62M
3. Empire of the Sun (1987)
PG | 153 min | Drama, War
A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers
Votes: 134,187 | Gross: $22.24M
5. The Great Wall (I) (2016)
PG-13 | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
In ancient China, a group of European mercenaries encounters a secret army that maintains and defends the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Matt Damon, Tian Jing, Willem Dafoe, Andy Lau
Votes: 145,973 | Gross: $45.54M
6. Kundun (1997)
PG-13 | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History
From childhood to adulthood, Tibet's fourteenth Dalai Lama deals with Chinese oppression and other problems.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, Gyurme Tethong, Tulku Jamyang Kunga Tenzin, Tenzin Yeshi Paichang
Votes: 30,472 | Gross: $5.53M
8. The Battle at Lake Changjin (2021)
Not Rated | 176 min | Action, Drama, History
In the fierce battlefield in the midst of the harsh weather conditions, Wu Qian Li and Wu Wan Li, two brothers soldier including the brave Chinese soldiers must fight together and find a way to cope with the invasion of US forces.
Directors: Kaige Chen, Dante Lam, Hark Tsui, Jianxin Huang, Haiqiang Ning, Ju-chun Park | Stars: Jing Wu, Jackson Yee, Yihong Duan, Yawen Zhu
Votes: 4,102 | Gross: $0.34M
9. The Eight Hundred (2020)
Not Rated | 149 min | Action, Drama, History
In 1937, 800 Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army.
Director: Hu Guan | Stars: Zhizhong Huang, Junyi Zhang, Hao Ou, Xiaoguang Hu
Votes: 7,181 | Gross: $0.37M
10. Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)
R | 140 min | Action, Drama, War
When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest missions if it will help shield the younger from battle.
Director: Kang Je-kyu | Stars: Jang Dong-Gun, Won Bin, Eun-ju Lee, Kong Hyeong-jin
Votes: 41,059 | Gross: $1.11M
11. 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
12. Shanghai Surprise (1986)
PG-13 | 97 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Shanghai, 1938: A missionary woman hires a fortune hunter to help her find 1100 lbs. opium lost, as wounded need the morphine. Adventure and romance follows.
Director: Jim Goddard | Stars: Sean Penn, Madonna, Paul Freeman, Richard Griffiths
Votes: 5,760 | Gross: $2.32M
13. City of Life and Death (2009)
R | 133 min | Drama, History, War
In 1937, Japan occupied Nanjing, the Chinese capital. There was a battle and subsequent atrocities against the inhabitants, especially those who took refuge in the International Security Zone.
Director: Chuan Lu | Stars: Ye Liu, Wei Fan, Hideo Nakaizumi, Yuanyuan Gao
Votes: 11,702 | Gross: $0.12M
14. The Chairman (1969)
M/PG | 93 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
During the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the US government sends a scientist to China to steal the formula for a new agricultural enzyme developed by the Chinese.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Gregory Peck, Anne Heywood, Arthur Hill, Alan Dobie
Votes: 1,415
15. Three Times (2005)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, Romance
Three stories set in three times, 1911, 1966 and 2005. Two actors play the two main characters in each story.
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Stars: Shu Qi, Chang Chen, Fang Mei, Shu-Chen Liao
Votes: 6,148 | Gross: $0.15M
16. The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
Passed | 137 min | Drama, War
A young priest is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish.
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Gregory Peck, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, Rose Stradner
Votes: 3,089
17. Operation Red Sea (2018)
TV-MA | 142 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
PLA Navy Marine Corps launch a hostage rescue operation in the fictional Republic of Ihwea and undergo a fierce battle with rebellions and terrorism.
Director: Dante Lam | Stars: Yi Zhang, Johnny Huang, Hai-Qing, Jiang Du
Votes: 7,938 | Gross: $1.54M
18. Nanking (2007)
R | 88 min | Biography, History, War
Through readings of historical account by actors and the testimony of survivors, the events of the Nanjing Massacre are recounted.
Directors: Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman | Stars: Hugo Armstrong, Rosalind Chao, Stephen Dorff, John Getz
Votes: 3,586 | Gross: $0.16M
19. 7 Women (1965)
Passed | 87 min | Drama
In 1935 China, seven dedicated missionary women try to protect themselves from the advances of a barbaric Mongolian warlord and his cut-throat gang of warriors.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Anne Bancroft, Sue Lyon, Margaret Leighton, Flora Robson
Votes: 2,662
20. The Founding of a Republic (2009)
138 min | Drama, History, War
Inspired by true events, Founding of a Republic weaves a rousing tale of one man who fought against the tyranny of a ruler and led his people in battle in the ultimate sacrifice for his country.
Directors: Sanping Han, Jianxin Huang | Stars: Guoqiang Tang, Guoli Zhang, Qing Xu, Jin Liu
Votes: 3,868
21. The Mountain Road (1960)
102 min | Drama, War
A US Army Major stationed in East China in 1944 is ordered to blow up military installations in order to slow down the advancing Japanese Army.
Director: Daniel Mann | Stars: James Stewart, Lisa Lu, Glenn Corbett, Harry Morgan
Votes: 1,071
22. Sergeant Ryker (1968)
85 min | Drama, War
During the Korean War Sergeant Paul Ryker is accused of defecting to Communist China and then returning to his unit as a spy. He's court-martialed and sentenced to death but his attorney believes Ryker's innocent and asks for a new trial.
Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: Bradford Dillman, Peter Graves, Vera Miles, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 440
23. Wolf Warrior (2015)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A Chinese special force soldier with extraordinary marksmanship is confronted by a group of deadly foreign mercenaries who are hired to assassinate him by a vicious drug lord.
Director: Jing Wu | Stars: Jing Wu, Nan Yu, Dahong Ni, Kevin Lee
Votes: 5,925
24. Assembly (2007)
124 min | Action, Biography, Drama
A soldier fights to gain recognition for comrades who died during the Chinese Civil War.
Director: Xiaogang Feng | Stars: Hanyu Zhang, Chao Deng, Wenkang Yuan, Yan Tang
Votes: 7,332
25. The Bodyguard from Beijing (1994)
R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A corrupt businessman commits a murder and the only witness is the girlfriend of another businessman with close connections to the Chinese government, so a bodyguard from Beijing is ... See full summary »
Director: Corey Yuen | Stars: Jet Li, Christy Chung, Kent Cheng, Collin Chou
Votes: 5,586
26. John Rabe (2009)
134 min | Biography, Drama, History
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.
Director: Florian Gallenberger | Stars: Ulrich Tukur, Daniel Brühl, Steve Buscemi, Anne Consigny
Votes: 6,740 | Gross: $0.07M
27. Yellow Earth (1984)
TV-PG | 89 min | Drama, History, Music
A communist soldier travels to Shanbei to collect folk songs for propaganda while visiting a poor family.
Director: Kaige Chen | Stars: Xueqi Wang, Bai Xue, Quiang Liu, Tuo Tan
Votes: 2,566
28. Objective, Burma! (1945)
Approved | 142 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A platoon of special ops are tasked to parachute into the remote Burmese jungle and destroy a strategic Japanese radar station, but getting out isn't as easy.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince, George Tobias
Votes: 5,547
29. Hell in Korea (1956)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, History, War
During the Korean War retreat in 1951, a small British recon group is surrounded by Chinese troops and holds out in a lonely temple atop a hill.
Director: Julian Amyes | Stars: Stephen Boyd, Ronald Lewis, George Baker, Harry Andrews
Votes: 618
30. Battle Beneath the Earth (1967)
Not Rated | 91 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
A Chinese general goes berserk and has a system of tunnels dug all the way from China to USA, under the Pacific Ocean. The man who has discovered this is locked up because they think he is ... See full summary »
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Kerwin Mathews, Viviane Ventura, Robert Ayres, Peter Arne
Votes: 980
31. Confucius (2010)
TV-MA | 125 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life story of the highly-influential Chinese philosopher, Confucius.
Director: Mei Hu | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Xun Zhou, Jianbin Chen, Quan Ren
Votes: 3,986
32. The Founding of an Army (2017)
133 min | Action, Drama, History
The foundation of CCP army in 1927, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province.
Director: Andrew Lau | Stars: Ye Liu, Yawen Zhu, Zhizhong Huang, Hao Ou
Votes: 1,088
33. Pavilion of Women (2001)
R | 116 min | Drama, Romance, War
With World War 2 looming, a prominent family in China must confront the contrasting ideas of traditionalism, communism and Western thinking, while dealing with the most important ideal of all: love and its meaning in society.
Director: Ho Yim | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Luo Yan, Sau Sek, John Cho
Votes: 1,078 | Gross: $0.04M
34. Hold Back the Night (1956)
80 min | Drama, War
A Marine officer tells his squad the story behind a bottle of liquor that he always keeps with him but never drinks from.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: John Payne, Mona Freeman, Peter Graves, Chuck Connors
Votes: 182
35. To Die with Honor (2017)
TV-14 | 112 min | Action, History, War
The movie is based on a real historic event. During French's invading war against China in 1885, the French army took over Zhengnan Guan located in the Guangxi Province. Wishing to protect ... See full summary »
Director: Feng Gao | Stars: Qihu An, Yunjin Cao, Denis Chernov, Shaune Diop
Votes: 151
36. The Glory Brigade (1953)
Approved | 82 min | Action, Drama, War
During the Korean War, an American unit of combat engineers must work with Greek troops in order to perform a reconnaissance mission behind Communist lines.
Director: Robert D. Webb | Stars: Victor Mature, Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin, Richard Egan
Votes: 357
37. Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1990)
115 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Canadian surgeon Dr. Norman Bethune (Donald Sutherland) journeys 1,500 miles into China to reach Mao Zedong's eighth route Army in the Wu Tai mountains where he will build hospitals, ... See full summary »
Director: Phillip Borsos | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Helen Mirren, Helen Shaver, Colm Feore
Votes: 414
38. Moving the Mountain (1994)
83 min | Documentary, History
The film is a documentary about the demonstrations of students in Peking on the 4th of June 1989 for more democracy in the People's Republic which were ended by army forces. The story is told from students point of view.
Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Jinming Zhang, Yiming Huang, Yi-fen Kan, Ke-Hsi Hsiang
Votes: 146 | Gross: $0.04M
39. 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
40. The Longest Bridge (1976)
140 min | Drama, History, War
A battalion of Chinese soldiers defend the Sihang (4 Bank) warehouse from the invading Japanese army in 1937 at the end of the Battle of Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War. There ... See full summary »
Director: Shan-Hsi Ting | Stars: Chun-Hsiung Ko, Brigitte Lin, Feng Hsu, Sylvia Chang
Votes: 170
41. The Bloody Battle of Taierzhuang (1986)
120 min | War
The Chinese army stops the Japanese army in 1938 at Suzhou.
Director: Guangyuan Yang | Stars: Yaming Ge, Hengduo Zao, Junjie Zhai
Votes: 180
42. China Sky (1945)
Approved | 78 min | Adventure, Drama, War
The conflicts of war-torn China are reflected in miniature within an American mission hospital.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Randolph Scott, Ruth Warrick, Ellen Drew, Anthony Quinn
Votes: 516
43. Battle Flame (1959)
Approved | 78 min | Drama, War
The trials and tribulations of a platoon of U.S. Marines, led by 1st Lt. Frank Davis, during the Korean War.
Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Scott Brady, Elaine Edwards, Robert Blake, Wayne Heffley
Votes: 53
44. Long Arm of the Law: Part 4 (1990)
100 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
The story of gangsters versus police, focusing on the difference between how both factions act depending if they're coming from Hong Kong or Mainland China.
Director: Michael Mak | Stars: Elvis Tsui, Jing Chen, Ching Siu-Lung, Frankie Chi-Leung Chan
Votes: 201
45. The Turandot Project (2000)
Not Rated | 87 min | Documentary, Music
In May of 1997, Zubin Mehta conducts and Zhang Yimou directs Puccini's "Turnadot" in Florence. A year later, they stage nine performances in Beijing. This documentary focuses on the China ... See full summary »
Director: Allan Miller | Stars: Zubin Mehta, Carlo Allemano, Lando Bartolini, Giovanna Casolla
Votes: 137 | Gross: $0.03M
46. Crime and Punishment (2007)
Not Rated | 122 min | Documentary
In a small town near China's North Korea border, a state police station exerts itself as a solicitous caretaker of the locals. As it goes out to catch criminals and punish them too, professionalism fades into the background.
Director: Liang Zhao | Stars: Wang Yu Fu, Ge Tao
Votes: 58
47. Liberation of Nanjing (1982)
150 min | Drama, History, War
Set in 1948-1949, PLA capture Nanjing after the breakdown of negotiation between Communist Party and Nationalist Party.
Directors: Po Li, Linyu Wei, Xian Yuan | Star: Qing Xu
Votes: 9
48. Ying lie qian qiu (1976)
116 min | Drama, War
Gen. Cheng Tsu-chung, the "Mars of China", is held in high esteem by his Japanese counterpart, General Itagaki during Sino-Japanese war.
Director: Shan-Hsi Ting | Stars: Zhen Zhen, Chun-Hsiung Ko, Sha-Li Chen, Hsiang-Ting Ko
Votes: 43
49. Sparkling Red Star (1974)
101 min | Drama, War
The adventure of Dongzi Pan, a boy whose father left home for the Long March in the Red Army and whose mother was killed by gangster of the evil landlord Hu.
Directors: Ang Li, Jun Li | Stars: Baocheng Gao, Xuehong Li, Jiang Liu, Jizhong Liu
Votes: 127
50. The Sky Eye (2018)
93 min | Drama, War
Director: Hu Yang | Stars: Junwei Gao, Xiaofan Lin, Haihua Lu, Danny Ray