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Where to Start With Chinese-Language Cinema

Hong Kong gunfights, Taiwanese family epics and mainland dramas that span decades. Three film cultures, one place to begin.

reelrec 16 titles
  1. A Better Tomorrow
    1986 · Movie
    7.4
  2. A City of Sadness
    1989 · Movie
    7.5
  3. Raise the Red Lantern
    1991 · Movie
    8.0
  4. Farewell My Concubine
    1993 · Movie
    8.0
  5. Eat Drink Man Woman
    1994 · Movie
    7.6
  6. To Live
    1994 · Movie
    8.2
  7. Happy Together
    1997 · Movie
    7.6
  8. Yi Yi
    2000 · Movie
    8.0
  9. Shaolin Soccer
    2001 · Movie
    7.2
  10. Infernal Affairs
    2002 · Movie
    7.8
  11. Lust, Caution
    2007 · Movie
    7.3
  12. You Are the Apple of My Eye
    2011 · Movie
    7.4
  13. A Touch of Sin
    2013 · Movie
    7.2
  14. Black Coal, Thin Ice
    2014 · Movie
    6.5
  15. Better Days
    2019 · Movie
    8.1
  16. The Wild Goose Lake
    2019 · Movie
    6.6

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