A Spray of Plum Blossoms

A Spray of Plum Blossoms

Bai Le De and Hu Lun tung are military cadets. After graduating, Hu Lin Tung is appointed captain of Guangdong headquarters and goes away. Later...

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The Big Road

The Big Road

Six young men from the city take jobs building roads for the Chinese Army

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Love and Duty

Love and Duty

The film tells the story of Yang Naifan (Ruan Lingyu) who runs from her arranged marriage to be with her true love, Li Zuyi (Jin Yan). The film...

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Queen of Sports

Queen of Sports

Young sprinter Lin Ying enrolls in a sports college in Shanghai. As she becomes a sports celebrity, she starts to mangle with the upper class and...

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Little Toys

Little Toys

Sister Ye lives in a rural village, where everyone makes traditional toys. When Sister Ye's husband dies of an unknown illness, and while Ye is...

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Daybreak

Daybreak

A country girl and her boyfriend arrive in Shanghai for a better life. They soon find only desperation. She is raped and falls into prostitution as...

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The Angel

The Angel

This is one of the rare gems in early Chinese musical films that still exists today. Nancy Chan plays a naïve young woman who can sing and dance...

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The Person in the Boudoir Dream

The Person in the Boudoir Dream

National Customs

National Customs

In 1930, two sisters from the countryside, the serious Zhang Lan (Ruan Lingyu) and the frivolous Zhang Tao graduate from the secondary school where...

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Spring in the South

Spring in the South

To please his dying father, Hong Yu, a college student, is forced to abandon his girlfriend, Little Hong, and marry his cousin, with disastrous...

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The Dream of the Ancient Capital

The Dream of the Ancient Capital

This film depicting the lives of ordinary people — street peddlers, poor scholars, and young revolutionaries — reflects the culturally progressive...

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The Peach Girl

The Peach Girl

An upper-class son of urbane landowners falls in love with a peasant girl. When a pregnancy results, the couple are kept apart by strict societal...

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Symphony of Lianhua

Symphony of Lianhua

"Lianhua Symphony" - a small collection, consisting of eight short films shot in 1937 by young filmmakers Shanghai Lianhua Film Company. Part 1:...

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Mulan Joins the Army

Mulan Joins the Army

This movie is based on the famous Chinese folklore that is more than one and a half millennium old. The same folklore was what the Disney animation...

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Early Morning in the Big City

Early Morning in the Big City

The entaglement of a deserted child Qiling who start to work for his biological father Menghua’s construction company 24 years later.

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Two Stars in the Milky Way

Two Stars in the Milky Way

This is a silent film from China made in 1931. It is about two leads in a film, Yan (Raymond King) and Ying (Violet Wong). They meet after hearing...

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Struggling

Struggling

A Chinese couple in the 1930s struggle to survive. Things get complicated for them when he enlists to fight the war against Japan.

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Wild Rose

Wild Rose

A wild country girl moves to Shanghai with her painter boyfriend and experiences exploitation and poverty.

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Loving Blood of the Volcano

Loving Blood of the Volcano

A warlord's nephew lusts for farmer Song Ke's sister. When Song refuses, the whole family is thrown into jail and the sister commits suicide. The...

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The Pearl Necklace

The Pearl Necklace

A wife borrows a necklace for a party, and it is subsequently stolen. Her husband embezzles funds to pay for the loss, but he is discovered and...

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