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2. Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
PG-13 | 145 min | Drama, Romance
Nitta Sayuri reveals how she transcended her fishing-village roots and became one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.
Director: Rob Marshall | Stars: Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Suzuka Ohgo
Votes: 145,137 | Gross: $57.49M
3. Miami Vice (2006)
R | 132 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Based on the 1980s TV action/drama, this update focuses on vice detectives Crockett and Tubbs as their respective personal and professional lives become dangerously intertwined.
Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li, Naomie Harris
Votes: 114,918 | Gross: $63.45M
4. 2046 (2004)
R | 129 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Several women enter a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years, after the author has lost the woman he considers his one true love.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Ziyi Zhang, Faye Wong, Gong Li
Votes: 56,131 | Gross: $1.44M
5. Hannibal Rising (2007)
R | 121 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
After the death of his parents during World War II, young Hannibal Lecter moves in with his beautiful aunt and begins plotting revenge on the barbarians responsible for his sister's death.
Director: Peter Webber | Stars: Gaspard Ulliel, Rhys Ifans, Gong Li, Aaran Thomas
Votes: 108,212 | Gross: $27.67M
6. My Blueberry Nights (2007)
PG-13 | 95 min | Drama, Romance
A young lonely woman takes a soul-searching journey across America to resolve her questions about love while encountering a series of offbeat characters along the way.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Norah Jones, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Chad R. Davis
Votes: 53,693 | Gross: $0.87M
7. Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)
R | 114 min | Action, Drama, History
During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Gong Li, Jay Chou, Ye Liu
Votes: 43,636 | Gross: $6.57M
8. Eros (2004)
R | 104 min | Drama, Romance
Three short films, one each from Directors Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, and Wong Kar Wai, address the themes of love and sex.
Directors: Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Alan Arkin, Gong Li, Chang Chen
Votes: 6,704 | Gross: $0.19M
9. Farewell My Concubine (1993)
R | 171 min | Drama, History, Music
Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and will endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.
Director: Kaige Chen | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Gong Li, You Ge
Votes: 27,429 | Gross: $5.22M
11. Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
PG | 125 min | Drama, History, Romance
A young woman becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy lord, and must learn to live with the strict rules and tensions within the household.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Gong Li, Jingwu Ma, Saifei He, Cuifen Cao
Votes: 31,720 | Gross: $2.60M
12. The Monkey King 2 (2016)
Not Rated | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
When a travelling monk is stranded in a wasteland, The Monkey King must escort him across the land to retrieve sacred scriptures and protect him from an evil demon.
Director: Soi Cheang | Stars: Aaron Kwok, Gong Li, Shaofeng Feng, Shenyang Xiao
Votes: 3,096 | Gross: $0.71M
13. Shanghai (2010)
R | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A '40s period piece which revolves around an American expat who returns to Shanghai in the months before Pearl Harbor due to the death of his friend.
Director: Mikael Håfström | Stars: John Cusack, Gong Li, Chow Yun-Fat, David Morse
Votes: 9,640 | Gross: $0.04M
14. At the Movies (1986–2010)
TV-PG | 30 min | Talk-Show
Chicago critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert rate new movies with a thumbs up, or a thumbs down.
Stars: Roger Ebert, Gene Siskel, Richard Roeper, Michael Phillips
Votes: 2,042
15. Ju Dou (1990)
PG-13 | 95 min | Drama, Romance
A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy.
Directors: Yimou Zhang, Fengliang Yang | Stars: Gong Li, Wei Li, Baotian Li, Zhang Yi
Votes: 8,202 | Gross: $1.99M
16. Coming Home (2014)
PG-13 | 109 min | Drama, Romance
Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer recognizes him.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Gong Li, Daoming Chen, Huiwen Zhang, Tao Guo
Votes: 5,960 | Gross: $0.38M
17. Red Sorghum (1988)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, History, Romance
When a leprous winery owner in 1930s China dies a few days after his arranged marriage, his young widow is forced to run the winery to make a living while contending with bandits, her drunkard lover, and the invading Japanese army.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Gong Li, Wen Jiang, Rujun Teng, Ji Liu
Votes: 8,759
18. Arena (1975– )
Documentary
Wide-ranging arts program.
Stars: Gavin Millar, Kenneth Tynan, Jonathan Miller, John Walters
Votes: 266
19. Chinese Box (1997)
R | 99 min | Drama, Romance
The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of China.
Director: Wayne Wang | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Gong Li, Chaplin Chang, Noel Rands
Votes: 3,367 | Gross: $2.20M
20. The Story of Qiu Ju (1992)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
A peasant woman seeks justice after the headman of her village has kicked her husband in the groin.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Gong Li, Peiqi Liu, Liuchun Yang, Kesheng Lei
Votes: 5,926 | Gross: $1.89M
21. Saturday Fiction (2019)
126 min | Drama, History
Yu Jin is working undercover gathering intelligence for the Allies.
Director: Ye Lou | Stars: Gong Li, Mark Chao, Pascal Greggory, Xiangli Huang
Votes: 710
22. Shanghai Triad (1995)
R | 108 min | Crime, Drama, History
A provincial boy related to a Shanghai crime family is recruited by his uncle into cosmopolitan Shanghai in the 1930s to be a servant to a ganglord's mistress.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Gong Li, Baotian Li, Xiaoxiao Wang, Xuejian Li
Votes: 5,559 | Gross: $2.30M
23. Flirting Scholar (1993)
102 min | Comedy, Romance
A scholar in search of true love. Disguising himself as a houseboy, he indentures himself to a rich family in order to pursue the ravishing servant girl who has stolen his heart.
Director: Lik-Chi Lee | Stars: Stephen Chow, Gong Li, Pak-Cheung Chan, James Wong
Votes: 5,002
24. Hollywood Insider (2018– )
Talk-Show
A show focused on substance and meaningful entertainment while staying away from gossip and scandal.
Stars: Pritan Ambroase, Tom Holland, Leonardo DiCaprio, Eileen Shortall
Votes: 1,339
25. Wo zhi nv ren xin (2011)
Not Rated | 116 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
After an accident, a chauvinistic executive gains the ability to hear what women are really thinking.
Director: Daming Chen | Stars: Andy Lau, Gong Li, Li Yuan, Julian Chen
Votes: 1,294 | Gross: $0.12M
26. HBO First Look (1992– )
13 min | Documentary, Short
Behind-the-scenes look at upcoming feature films, featuring interview commentary with their casts and crews.
Stars: Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Will Smith, Matt Damon
Votes: 442
27. The Emperor and the Assassin (1998)
R | 162 min | Drama, History, Romance
In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king's cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty faltering.
Director: Kaige Chen | Stars: Gong Li, Fengyi Zhang, Zhou Sun, Xiaohe Lü
Votes: 6,159 | Gross: $1.33M
28. Leap (2020)
135 min | Drama, Sport
After 12 years, the Chinese women's volleyball team again reached the Olympic final. The ups and downs of the Chinese women's volleyball team for more than three decades have slowly spread away.
Director: Peter Ho-Sun Chan | Stars: Gong Li, Bo Huang, Gang Wu, Yuchang Peng
Votes: 1,071 | Gross: $0.08M
29. The First Monday in May (2016)
PG-13 | 90 min | Documentary
Follows the creation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's most attended fashion exhibition in history, "China: Through The Looking Glass," an exploration of Chinese-inspired Western fashions by Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton.
Director: Andrew Rossi | Stars: Anna Wintour, Andrew Bolton, John Galliano, Karl Lagerfeld
Votes: 1,666 | Gross: $0.53M
30. Cannes Film Festival (1952– )
News
A festival for international movies, which give each year the Palme d'Or.
Stars: Pedro Almodóvar, Kristin Scott Thomas, Isabelle Huppert, Emir Kusturica
Votes: 77
31. King's Man (2010)
TV-14 | 114 min | Drama
Children are targeted by a syndicate and forced into the sex trade. Distressed by the disappearance of her nieces while returning to Mexico Laura turns to a local minister who believes that God can help him get back the missing children.
Director: Brenton Covington | Stars: Joe Estevez, Jose Rosete, Doua Moua, Daved Wilkins
Votes: 56
32. Temptress Moon (1996)
R | 130 min | Drama, Romance
Not far from Shanghai, in a country town stands the palatial home of the Pang family. Old Master Pang is an addict who brings up his beautiful daughter Ruyi on opium smoke. Her older ... See full summary »
Director: Kaige Chen | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Gong Li, Kevin Lin, Saifei He
Votes: 1,864 | Gross: $1.08M
33. God of Gamblers Part III: Back to Shanghai (1991)
116 min | Comedy, Drama
This film focuses on the disciple of the God of Gamblers, Chow Sing Cho, also known as the "Saint of Gamblers". A group of people with telekinetic powers matching his attack him and his ... See full summary »
Director: Jing Wong | Stars: Stephen Chow, Gong Li, Ray Lui, Man-Tat Ng
Votes: 2,251
34. Zhou Yu's Train (2002)
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Romance
Zhou Yu, a ceramic decorative artist, travels twice a week from her home town of San Ming to Chongyang to visit her boyfriend, Chen Qing, a government worker and budding poet. The two met ... See full summary »
Director: Zhou Sun | Stars: Gong Li, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Honglei Sun, Zhixiong Li
Votes: 1,528 | Gross: $0.14M
35. A Soul Haunted by Painting (1994)
130 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Yu-liang leaves a brothel in a small Chinese town, to become the second wife of Mr. Pan. While Pan is away at the revolution in Yunnan, Yu-liang ... See full summary »
Directors: Shuqin Huang, Yimou Zhang | Stars: Gong Li, Fang-Tsen, Shichang Da, Tung-Shing Yee
Votes: 428
36. A Terra-Cotta Warrior (1989)
145 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
China 2.200 years ago. It's the time of the Qin dynasty. The emperor seeks immortality by busily letting his alchemists search for a formula and building the famous terracotta army from the... See full summary »
Director: Siu-Tung Ching | Stars: Yimou Zhang, Gong Li, Tian-Ming Wu, Rongguang Yu
Votes: 970
37. Volle Kanne (1999– )
85 min | Documentary, News, Talk-Show
Volle Kanne is a service magazine on ZDF, which is sent from Monday to Friday.
Stars: Armin Roßmeier, Ingo Nommsen, Andrea Ballschuh, Nadine Krüger
Votes: 61
38. The Banquet (1991)
97 min | Comedy
Film with a weak plot about an businessman trying to clinch a deal for the reconstruction of Kuwait after the Gulf War from a Kuwaiti prince. The climax of the movie is a banquet/dinner at ... See full summary »
Directors: Alfred Cheung, Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung, Clifton Ko, Hark Tsui | Stars: Eric Tsang, Carol 'Do Do' Cheng, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Jacky Cheung
Votes: 361
39. The Maidens of Heavenly Mountains (1994)
96 min | Action, Fantasy
Legend has it that in a faraway place beyond the edge of the earth, there exists a broken-hearted man with infinite power. Abandoned by his loved ones, the inheritance of the old man's chi power becomes a battleground for evil outsiders.
Director: Andy Wing-Keung Chin | Stars: Brigitte Lin, Man Cheung, Gong Li, Frankie Lam
Votes: 533
40. Codename Cougar (1989)
76 min | Drama, Thriller
Aircraft hijacking with Chinese special forces rescue. Gong Li as a heroic stewardess.
Directors: Fengliang Yang, Yimou Zhang | Stars: You Ge, Zhaoji Jia, Gong Li, Xiaoning Liu
Votes: 262
41. The Empress Dowager (1989)
Biography, Drama, History
Court intrigue in China after the Taiping Rebellion is suppressed.
Director: Han Hsiang Li | Stars: Daoming Chen, Ye Chen, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Gong Li
Votes: 107
42. Piao liang ma ma (2000)
90 min | Drama
Gong Li stars in this low-key drama about a single mother who will do anything to provide for her son. Sun Liying (Li) struggles to care for her hearing-impaired child Zheng Da (Gao Xin) after her taxi driver husband divorces.
Director: Zhou Sun | Stars: Gong Li, Xin Gao, Jing-ming Shi, Yue Guan
Votes: 452
43. Xi chu bawang (1994)
165 min | Action, Drama, History
Insurrection deposes the tyrannical first emperor of China during the evil Qin Dynasty. Warrior/general Xiang Yu and the cunning peasant Liu Pang join forces to win through civil war. Xiang... See full summary »
Director: Stephen Shin | Stars: Ray Lui, Rosamund Kwan, Gong Li, Fengyi Zhang
Votes: 276
44. Tout le monde en parle (1998–2006)
210 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Thierry Ardisson, Laurent Baffie, Philippe Corti, Laurent Ruquier
Votes: 170
46. Secrets Within: Inside Look at 'Curse of the Golden Flower' (2007 Video)
22 min | Documentary, Short
Behind the scenes look at the making of Zhang Yimou's "Curse of the Golden Flower".
Director: Stanley J. Orzel | Stars: Jay Chou, Gong Li, Beau Weaver, Chow Yun-Fat
Votes: 42
47. Mary from Beijing (1992)
97 min | Drama, Romance
Ma Lei which sounds like "Mary" is a Chinese citizen, living in Hong Kong as the kept woman of a jeweler. She wishes for two things: to get her Hong Kong Identity Card, which will enable ... See full summary »
Director: Sylvia Chang | Stars: Gong Li, Kenny Bee, Wilson Lam, David Chiang
Votes: 86
48. Iron Army (2000)
90 min | Drama, War
After a failed mission, three remaining assassins are trapped inside the imperial army's fortress.
Director: Li Xing | Stars: Zhang Ming Fang, Gong Li, Li Yin
49. 2006 Asian Excellence Awards (2006 TV Special)
120 min | Music
Show about sex, blood and money.
Director: Michael Dempsey | Stars: Keiko Agena, Naveen Andrews, K.D. Aubert, Jackie Chan
Votes: 89
50. The 2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards (2014 TV Special)
Director: Chris Donovan | Stars: Patton Oswalt, Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Lake Bell
Votes: 40