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18 results for “1930s china”

The Wasted Times

2016 ★ 6.8

Shanghai gangsters grapple with lust and loyalty on the eve of war with Japan as they try to navigate an alliance with the enemy's army. Task: Write a 150-190 w

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The Children of Huang Shi

2008 ★ 6.7

About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese oc

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The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

1958 ★ 6.8

All her life, Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was where she belonged. Unqualified to be sent as a missionary, Gladys works as a domestic to earn to

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The Shell Game

1980 ★ 5.3

Set in 1930s Guangdong, when the gambling industry was in full bloom. One of the greatest gamblers in all of Southern China is Law Sei Hoi, who is dubbed as "Di

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Center Stage

1991 ★ 7.3

Based on the tragic true story of China's first prima donna of the silver screen, Ruan Lingyu, chronicling her rise to fame as a movie actress in Shanghai durin

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The Flowers of War

2011 ★ 7.4

A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.

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Shanghai Triad

1995 ★ 6.8

Shanghai, China, 1930. When young Shuisheng arrives from the countryside, his uncle Liushu puts him at the service of Bijou, the mistress of Laoda, supreme boss

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The Vanished Murderer

2015 ★ 5.4

In 1932, a prisoner escapes from a women's prison in northern China. Inspector Song Donglu is summoned to investigate the escape. The Vanished Murderer is a mys

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迷案1937

2010 ★ 0.0

Mystery Drama shanghai, china crime investigation 1930s japanese occupation of china Youku Bao Jianfeng Wang Likun Sun Yizhou Zheng Xiaoning Yao Gang Du Minhe X

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Hotel Shanghai

1997 ★ 8.0

German two-part miniseries about the westerns staying at a popular hotel in Shanghai as the Japanese invasion of China also known as the Second Sino-Japanese Wa

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Ip Man

2008 ★ 7.8

A semi-biographical account of Yip Man, the first martial arts master to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun. The film focuses on events surrounding Ip t

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Fortress Besieged

1990 ★ 7.2

Set in the 1930s, “Fortress Besieged” follows the misadventures of Fang Hung-chien, a bumbling everyman who wastes his time studying abroad, and secures a fake

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The Girl Who Stole Time

2025 ★ 7.1

In 1930s China, village girl Qian Xiao gains the power to control time, making her a target of powerful forces. As she uncovers the metropolis's hidden secrets,

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Yellow Earth

1984 ★ 7.2

A communist soldier is sent to a remote region of China in order to collect folk songs. Staying with a peasant family (a widower with two small children), he di

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The Eternal Wave

1958 ★ 6.4

An underground CPC telegrapher, Li Xia, fights against the Japanese enemy and dies before the eve of Shanghai's liberation in 1939. The Eternal Wave (1958) is a

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The Boxer from Shantung

1972 ★ 6.9

Leaving the poverty of his life in Shantung to seek fortune in Shanghai, The Boxer is instead drawn into a world of corruption, gang warfare and evil... Where h

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Heroes of the East

1978 ★ 7.3

When a series of martial misunderstandings spirals into an international incident, a Chinese martial arts student struggling to relate to his new Japanese wife

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Charles Ruggles

Charles Ruggles had one of the longest careers in Hollywood, lasting more than 60 years and encompassing more than 100 films. He made his film debut in 1914 in

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