01 A big-budget sci-fi spectacle about relocating the entire planet, China's biggest crossover hit.
10 Best Chinese-Language Movies to Watch
By Vlad Zakh · August 25, 2025
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Chinese-language cinema covers two very different traditions at once: the wuxia epics that turned Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon into a global crossover, and the slower, more interior dramas that arthouse audiences discovered through Wong Kar-wai and Zhang Yimou.
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02 A gangster's girlfriend takes the fall for him, then spends years living with the choice.
03 Four loosely connected stories of ordinary people pushed toward sudden violence.
04 A stylized account of Ip Man's life, more meditative than a typical martial-arts biopic.
05 One family's survival through decades of Chinese political upheaval, told with real restraint.
06 A young concubine navigates a household's brutal internal hierarchy.
07 Two Peking Opera performers' friendship stretched across five decades of upheaval.
08 An assassination story told from four contradicting perspectives, gorgeously staged.
09 A repressed almost-affair between neighbors, told through glances more than dialogue.
10 Wire-fu duels across rooftops that made wuxia a mainstream genre outside Asia.
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