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  • The Women From The Lake of Scented Souls

    The Women From The Lake of Scented Souls

    The men in a rural Chinese village make secret plans to watch sex and action films from Hong Kong. As the story unfolds it becomes clear that the little village can provide more scandalous and juicy materials than any filmmaker can dream up.

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  • Before We Fall In Love Again

    Before We Fall In Love Again

    Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here:    Original Title: Nian Ni Ru Xi  Released: 2006 Country: Malaysia Director: James Lee Language: Mandarin, Cantonese Theme: Family & Relationships Genre: Romance Summary Before We Fall In Love Again is the first part in James Lee’s Love Trilogy, inspired by Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, the second being Things We Do When We Fall In Love.  [...]

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  • White Days

    White Days

    Dreaming of a trip to Taiwan but stuck in a city they can’t seem to leave from, three young people get together to create a friendship net that would save them from their inanimate loneliness.

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  • In The House Of Straw

    In The House Of Straw

    Over the summer break, Zhi Wen decides to move out of his parents’ house to live with two friends. After discovering that Ah Pin and Mark are professional bicycle thieves, Zhi Wen slowly finds himself entrapped in a strange world of vice and deception.

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  • The New Year

    The New Year

    Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here:    Original Title: Jeonjaeng Geu Ihu Released: 2002 Country: China Director: Wang Xiaoshuai Language: Mandarin Theme: Family & Relationships Genre: Drama Summary New Year directed by Wang Xiaoshuai, one of the members of the Sixth Generation of Chinese filmmakers, shot in cinéma verité style, the gathering of a far-flung Chinese family, around the bedside of [...]

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  • Dance Me To The End Of Love

    Dance Me To The End Of Love

    Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here: Released: 2004 Country: China Director: Yu Lik Wai Language: Mandarin Theme: Globalization & Modernization Genre: Sci Fi Summary Dance Me to the End of Love director, Yu Likwai, paints a prophetic cinema of the post-apocalyptic Plastic City, where the extreme weather conditions prohibit any human existence on the ground surface. Near the 50th Periphery, an [...]

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  • Waiting For Love

    Waiting For Love

    Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here:    Released: 2007 Country: Malaysia Director: James Lee Language: Mandarin, Cantonese Theme: Gender & Sexuality Genre: Romance Summary The third instalment in director James Lee’s “Love Trilogy” comprises three tales. The first shows a couple of five years contemplating a leap into marriage, the second has a long-term unmarried couple, who still argue about their [...]

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  • When Ruo Ma Was Seventeen

    When Ruo Ma Was Seventeen

    Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here:    Released: 2002 Country: China Director: Zhang Jiarui Language: Mandarin Theme: Ethnicity & Cultural Identity Genre: Drama Summary When Ruo Ma Was Seventeen illustrates the perspectives and fantasies of young people towards love. Ruo Ma, a girl from the Xiani tribe, lives with her grandmother since childhood. Fantasising about the world outside, Ruo Ma wants [...]

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  • Weekend Plot

    Weekend Plot

    Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here:    Original Title: Mi yu shi qi xiao shi Released: 2001 Country: China Director: Zhang Ming Language: Mandarin Theme: Gender & Sexuality Genre: Drama Summary Six young urbanites who haven’t seen each other for four years spend the weekend together on the banks of the Yangzhe river to escape the hustle and bustle of Beijing [...]

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  • The Inspector & the Prince

    The Inspector & the Prince

    Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here:    Released: 2004 Country: China Director: Zhang Da Zheng Language: Mandarin Theme: Law, Politics & Government Genre: Drama Summary It is 1678 during the Qing dynasty and Inspector Yu Chenglong has been assigned to Fujian province. He is a veteran civil servant who wears simple clothing and eats sparingly. He finds the province suffering from [...]

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  • Maiden Work

    Maiden Work

    Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here:    Original Title: Chu Nu Zuo Released: 1998 Country: China Director: Wang Guangli Language: Mandarin Theme: Globalization & Modernization Genre: Drama Summary Painter Jinian, undergoing eye surgery for wounds received in a bar fight, remembers or imagines his relationships with student journalist Xue and her lesbian lover Yu. On recovering, he sets about trying to [...]

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  • I Graduated

    I Graduated

    Wang Guangli, a former professor and now a self-taught filmmaker, interviews Chinese university graduates of 1992 in Beijing. Shot over six days, I Graduated explores the feelings and thoughts of young men and women about their lives as students since the Tiananmen Square protest on June 4, 1989.

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