Chinese movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant chinese movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out exciting, captivating, tense, realistic, stylized and suspense films and TV shows about / with martial arts, heroes, kung fu, friendship, violence, murder, medieval, fight, wuxia and asian plots mostly in Drama, Action and Romance genres shot in China, Hong Kong, USA and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as chinese: Nirvana in Fire (2015), Love O2O (2016), Sheep Without a Shepherd (2019), The Untamed (2019), Love Me If You Dare (2015), Mulan: Rise of a Warrior (2009), Sword Master (2016), When a Snail Falls in Love (2016), Red Cliff II (2009), Blind Massage (2014).

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Nirvana in Fire (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: During the great unrest of 4th-century China, war breaks out between the feudal Northern Wei and Southern Liang dynasties. General Lin Xie of Liang takes his only 17-year-old son, Lin Shu, into battle and successfully fights off the hostile Wei ...
Style: captivating, suspense, exciting, tense, costume drama
Plot: justice, political intrigue, betrayal, loyalty, chinese history, friendship, battles, chinese emperor, deception, murder, father son relationship, medieval ...
Place: china, ancient china
Is relevant ?
 7.7
 3K
Love O2O (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: What is it that makes a man fall in love with a woman at first sight? Appearance? Aura? Wealth? NO, when campus prince and gaming expert, student Xiao Nai first saw Bei Wei Wei, what made him fall in love was not her extraordinary beauty, but her ...
Style: romantic, feel good, touching, sweet, uplifting ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: hopes, couple relations, couples, computer game, love affair, youth, love and romance, happy ending, destiny, friendship, love, internet ...
Place: china
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Sheep Without a Shepherd (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Li Weijie, his wife Ayu and their two daughters Pingping and An-an, are a Chinese family living in northern Thailand since last 17 years. Weijie run an internet service providing shop and is a film enthusiast who likes to watch detective films and ...
Style: bleak, psychological thriller, serious, suspenseful, brutal ...
Plot: investigation, emotional blackmail, teenage rape, police investigation, blackmail, family relations, fighting the system, crime investigation, immigrant, physical abuse, suspicion of murder, aggression ...
Place: china, thailand
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 8.8
 9K
The Untamed (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: In a land dominated by the mighty Wen clan, a young man named Wei Wuxian strikes up an unconventional friendship with justice-loving Lan Wangji. When the duo unexpectedly stumbles across evidence implicating the Wen clan’s chief in a plot to bring ...
Style: xianxia, yaoi, captivating, unusual plot structure, suspense ...
Plot: homosexual subtext, exorcist, martial artist, young man, past, magical power, coping, heroes, fantasy world, self sacrifice, talent, chinese mythology ...
Place: ancient china, china, thailand
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Love Me If You Dare (2015)
Genre: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Getting inside the head of a violent criminal is not easy. But Simon Bo, a brilliant criminal psychologist, has the ability to get into the minds of even the most mysterious and violent criminals. He’s a professor at The University of Maryland and ...
Style: detective, tense, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: maniac, serial killer, investigation, cruelty, whodunit, sociopath, psychological manipulation, love, psychopath, justice, police, good versus evil ...
Place: shanghai
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Mulan: Rise of a Warrior (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: China, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When barbarian hordes threaten her homeland, the brave and cunning Mulan disguises herself as a male soldier to swell the ranks in her aging father's stead. The warrior's remarkable courage drives her through powerful battle scenes and ...
Style: exciting, stylized, serious, realistic, epic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: female warrior, cross dressing, heroic mission, female soldier, gender, martial arts, female fighter, medieval, tough girl, military, escapades, heroes ...
Place: china, ancient china, asia
Is relevant ?
 6.0
 3K
Sword Master (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Weary of the bloodshed and violence from the martial arts world, a powerful swordsman banishes himself to the humble life a vagrant, wandering the fringes of society. But his violent past refuses to let him go quietly. The master swordsman must ...
Style: exciting, humorous, stylized, light, psychotronic ...
Plot: martial arts, medieval, violence, master warrior, brothel, illness, heroes, warrior, flirting, prostitute, supernatural ability, journey ...
Place: china
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When a Snail Falls in Love (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 33 min.
TV show
Story: Detective Ji Bai and new criminal profiler Xu Xu may seem like an awkward teacher-student pair at first glance, yet they are actually the best partners in the police force, solving one crime after another. Ji Bai slowly falls in love with Xu Xu, yet ...
Style: romantic, exciting, suspenseful, humorous, psychological ...
Plot: policewoman, police detective, crime investigation, murder, coworker relationship, teamwork, whodunit, gang, fighting crime, partner, crime solving, uncover truth ...
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 7.5
 25K
Red Cliff II (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: The battle of Red Cliff continues and the alliance between Xu and East Wu is fracturing. With Cao Cao's massive forces on their doorstep, will the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu survive?
Style: epic, stylized, saga, scenic, visual ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, master warrior, soldier, battles, chinese history, ancient history, horse, historical event, war, wuxia, military, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2009, year 2008, medieval times, ancient times
Place: china, ancient china, east asia, asia
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Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Tang Monk brings three disciples on a journey to the West. On the outside, everything seems harmonious. However, tension is present beneath the surface, and their hearts and minds are not in agreement. After a series of demon-capturing events, the ...
Style: captivating, exciting, tense, humorous, suspense ...
Plot: monkey king, giant spider, demonic possession, kung fu, supernatural power, martial arts, demon, monk, magic, giant monster, destruction, buddha ...
Time: year 2017
Place: china
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Blind Massage (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A drama centered on the employees of a Nanjing massage parlor who share a common trait: they are all blind.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching
Plot: massage parlor, massage, love and romance, disability, misfit, love, blind man, flirting, blindness, sex worker, disappearance, sex scene ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia
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Three Kingdoms (2010)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Three Kingdoms is a Chinese television series based on the events in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period. The plot is based on Luo Guanzhong's classical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the historical text Records of ...
Style: captivating, tense, psychological, factual, period drama
Plot: civil war, politics, battles, heroes, combat, rise to power, envy, mercenary, duel, hypocrisy, political conflict, asian history ...
Place: ancient china, greece, china
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Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Jun arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, hoping to be able to earn enough money to marry his girlfriend back home. He meets the streetwise Qiao and they become friends. As friendship turns into love, problems develop, and although they seem ...
Style: realistic, emotional, art house, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, gay, asian history, love letter, gangster, street life, friends, disorder, couples, love and romance, couple relations, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: hong kong, china, new york, asia, east asia ...
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Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
Style: cerebral, surreal, philosophical, psychedelic, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, adult
Plot: female protagonist, fight, multiverse, lgbt, alternate universe, chinese immigrant, immigrant, mother daughter relationship, time travel, save the world, good versus evil, kung fu ...
Time: 2020s, future
Place: brighton
Is relevant ?
 7.4
 8K
Ne Zha (2019)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The Primus extracts a Mixed Yuan Bead into a Spirit Seed and a Demon Pill. The Spirit Seed can be reincarnated as a human to help King Zhou establish a new dynasty, whereas the Demon Pill will create a devil threatening humanity. Ne Zha is the one ...
Style: exciting, captivating, anime, light, tense ...
Plot: supernatural ability, rebelliousness, heaven, demon, spirit, magic, good versus evil, battles, hopes, imaginary, deity, heroes ...
Time: 16th century
Place: china
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The Assassins (2012)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: China
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the year 198 BC, Cao Cao (Chow Yun Fat), Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty, ventured to the east and defeated China's greatest warrior Lu Bu, terrifying every ambitious warlord across the country. Several years later, after taking the Han ...
Style: serious, exciting, epic, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: ancient history, political conspiracy, head of state, state affairs, assassination, medieval, battles, hidden identity, martial arts, wuxia, ancient, asian history ...
Time: ancient times
Place: east asia, seattle, china, ancient china, asia
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Million Dollar Heiress (1984)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Cousins Thomas and David, owners of a mobile restaurant, team up with their friend Moby, a bumbling private detective, to save the beautiful Sylvia, a pickpocket.
Style: exciting, humorous, stylized, action comedy, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: martial arts, private detective, kung fu, van, chase, hand to hand combat, kung fu fighting, buddies, femme fatale, escapades, danger, woman in danger ...
Time: 80s, year 1984
Place: italy, spain, europe, barcelona, rome italy
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7 Guardians of the Tomb (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror
Country: China, Australia, Russia, Thailand
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An innocent discovery of a well-preserved mummified Emperor from 200 BC China unearths a 2000 year old nightmare - a secret that should have remained buried.
Style: suspense, intense, scary, exciting, independent film ...
Plot: giant spider, archaeology, monster, medieval, archaeologist, trap, betrayal, supernatural, mythology, cobweb, giant animal, spider ...
Time: 2010s
Place: china
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Meteor Garden (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: An ordinary girl is admitted to the most prestigious school in the country where she encounters F4, an exclusive group comprised of the four wealthiest and handsomest boys in the school - Dao Ming Si, Hua Ze Lei, Xi Men and Mei Zuo.
Style: sweet, dorama, romantic, light, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: couples, school, friendship, university, youth, love hate relationship, university student, love and romance, looking for love, friends, envy, parents and children ...
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 7.7
 150K
Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong, China, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Set in Canton, China in the 1940s, the story revolves in a town ruled by the Axe Gang, Sing who desperately wants to become a member. He stumbles into a slum ruled by eccentric landlords who turns out to be the greatest kung-fu masters in disguise. ...
Style: humorous, stylized, surreal, parody, spoof ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, gangster, kung fu fighting, master warrior, heroes, mob boss, wuxia, gang, murder, contests and competitions, tough guy ...
Time: 1940s, 2000s, year 2004, 20th century
Place: china, east asia, shanghai, asia
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Chinese Take-Away (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A comedy that chronicles a chance encounter between Robert and a Chinese named Jun who wanders lost through the city of Buenos Aires in search of his uncle after being assaulted by a taxi driver and his henchmen.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, social ...
Plot: collector, friendship, odd couple, communication problem, society, immigrant, language barrier, cow, falklands war, fast food, refugee, migration ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
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Wolf Warrior 2 (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: China
Duration: 123 min.
Story: China's deadliest special forces operative settles into a quiet life on the sea. When sadistic mercenaries begin targeting nearby civilians, he must leave his newfound peace behind and return to his duties as a soldier and protector.
Style: captivating, tense, exciting, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: military, fight, medieval, swat team, violence, fire, blood, martial arts, friendship, courage, leadership, soldier ...
Place: china, africa
Is relevant ?
 4.8
 4K
Kung Fu Dunk (2008)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sport
Country: China, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Shi-Jie is a brilliant martial artist from the Kung Fu School. One day, he encounters a group of youths playing basketball and shows off how easy it is for him, with his martial arts training, to do a Slam Dunk. Watching him was Chen-Li, a shrewd ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, exciting, slapstick comedy, slapstick ...
Audience: teens
Plot: basketball, time travel, sport team, brother sister relationship, kung fu, combat, rivalry, youth, power relations, college, fight, hand to hand combat ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia, shanghai
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 6.6
 3K
The Soul (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China, Taiwan
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Wang Shicong, chairman of the famous group, died tragically at home. The prosecutor Liang Wenchao and his wife, Abang, learned during the investigation that the deceased’s long-term partner, Dr. Wan, and his ex-wife’s Son Wang Tianyou, young ...
Style: suspense, stylized, bleak, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder mystery, secret, police investigation, murder, partners against crime, who done it, victim, psychopath, graphic violence, investigator, escapades, suspicion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china
Is relevant ?
 6.4
 1K
Love O2O (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 103 min.
Story: What is it that makes a man fall in love with a woman at first sight? Appearance? Aura? Wealth? NO, when campus prince and gaming expert, student Xiao Nai first saw Bei Wei Wei, what made him fall in love was not her extraordinary beauty, but her ...
Style: romantic, touching, sweet, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: couples, computer game, youth, love, fall in love, friendship, love affair, love and romance, hopes, couple relations, destiny, internet ...
Place: china
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong, USA, China
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physically-skilled, teenage nobleman's daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life.
Style: epic, atmospheric, colorful, visually stunning, stylized ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: martial arts, sword fight, wuxia, fight, kung fu, sword, master warrior, female martial artist, tough girl, warrior, monastery, heroine ...
Time: 18th century, year 2000, 2000s, 19th century, 17th century ...
Place: china, beijing china, east asia, asia
Is relevant ?
 7.3
 48K
Red Cliff (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was to declare war on the kingdoms of Xu in the west and East Wu in the south. Thus began a military ...
Style: epic, realistic, breathtaking, brutal, visual ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: war, martial arts, battles, strategy, kung fu, historical event, chinese emperor, ancient history, horse, medieval, visceral, revenge ...
Time: year 2008, medieval times, ancient times
Place: china, ancient china, greece, rome italy, tibet ...
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The Horse Thief (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Devout Buddhists, Norbu and Dolma live with their young son Tashi in a clan in Tibet. Norbu is a highwayman. After Norbu is charged with stealing from the temple, he and his family are banished. Impoverished and marginalized, they can do little when ...
Style: spiritual, poetic
Plot: minimal dialogue, entertainment, spirituality, cowboy, thief, horse, dancer, survival, cruelty, animal abuse, buried alive, nomad ...
Time: year 1986, 1920s
Place: china, tibet, himalaya
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Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An American-born Chinese economics professor accompanies her boyfriend to Singapore for his best friend's wedding, only to get thrust into the lives of Asia's rich and famous.
Style: romantic, feel good, sincere, light, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, adult
Plot: wedding, wealthy family, infidelity, luxury, rich man poor woman, materialism, domineering mother, chinawoman, chinaman, aeroplane, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, marriage proposal ...
Time: 2010s, year 1995, 21st century
Place: singapore, taiwan, xian, new york, london ...
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 7.6
 78K
Fearless (2006)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Huo Yuan Jia became the most famous martial arts fighter in all of China at the turn of the 20th Century. Huo faced personal tragedy but ultimately fought his way out of darkness, defining the true spirit of martial arts and also inspiring his ...
Style: inspirational, intense, epic, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, master warrior, friendship, childhood, qing dynasty, wuxia, biopic, redemption, exile, fight, fight scenes ...
Time: year 2006, ancient times, 1800s, 20th century, 1910s ...
Place: china, japan, asia, east asia, shanghai ...
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