Carina Lau

Starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Michiko Hada, and Michelle Reis, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s gorgeous period reverie is an intoxicating, time-bending experience that traces the romantic intrigue, jealousies, and tensions swirling around four late-nineteenth-century Shanghai “flower houses,” where courtesans live confined to a gilded cage.

When a meteor carrying a destructive plant strikes the world, a suicide squad is given hours to save their post-apocalyptic city from total collapse.

Once the darling of the art-film world, Jiang Wen set the local box office ablaze with this rip-roaring action spectacular. With a star-studded cast headlined by Chow Yun Fat, Let the Bullets Fly takes to the boondocks of 1920s China for a gleefully madcap, elaborately political genre mash-up.

Ruan Lingyu was a major star in prewar Chinese cinema before she took her own life at the age of just 24 following vicious attacks by the tabloids. This beautiful biopic combines a spellbinding performance from Maggie Cheung with documentary footage and clips from her films. The result is a fitting tribute to Ruan which also highlights the difficulties faced by women in cinema, past and present.

As a Chinese Empress is set for inauguration, an exiled detective is ordered to solve the mysterious deaths that could delay her launch to the throne.

Warlords, warriors and statesmen wage a battle for supremacy in this fantasy tale based on the hit video games and the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms."

Freed from prison, ruthless triad boss Kwok launches a revenge campaign that leads to an epic showdown between an old associate and his own brother.

Sam, a dashing composer and Wing, his chanteuse girlfriend, who just happens to perform as a chanteur on stage. When Sam accidentally, publically, mentions his love for the apparently male Sam, Wing must scramble to produce a girlfriend for Sam, to quash rumors of his sexual orientation.