Lü Liping

For Next Generations (2021)

Biographical film based on the life of Luo Yusheng, the master of modern Chinese folk art, the master of drum music, and the founder of Luo Pai Jingyun drum section. ...

Parkour Courier (2019)

Love Never Dies (2011)

An urban movie that integrates love, action, fantasy, suspense, and black humor. A traffic jam reveals the fate of a group of people: a drug dealer, Rashomon (Wu Zhenyu), Clockwork (Chen Zhipeng) and Yixiu (Wu Junyu). ...

City Monkey (2010)

Under the Hawthorn Tree (2010)

The daughter of a right-winger, schoolgirl Jing Qiu is sent to the countryside for reeducation, and tasked to help write a textbook. There she meets Lao San, a young soldier with a bright future ahead. Despite the class divide and parental disapproval, rom ...

Lost (2010)

Shenzhen, China, the present day. Nineteen-year-old Wang Baihe is a migrant worker from a village in Shaanxi province. She has a baby son from a one-night stand with a man from Hong Kong and a small income from making Chinese decorative knots at home. Her ...

24 City (2008)

As a decades-old state-run aeronautics munitions factory in downtown Chengdu, China is being torn down for the construction of the titular luxury apartment complex, director Jia Zhangke interviews various people affiliated with it about their experiences. ...

Shanghai Women (2002)

After Women's Story, Peng returns to the most straightforward representation of women's issues in Shanghai Women, a film about three rural women. As the first work in Peng's Shanghai Trilogy, Shanghai Women describes the problem that women encounter trying ...

The Marriage Certificate (2001)

The wife of a prominent psychiatrist can't find her marriage certificate one day. This "jiehunzheng" is all important. Without it, the family officially has never existed, including the daughter. The couple go on a wild goose chase through the Chinese bure ...

Shadow Magic (2000)

Beijing, 1902: an enterprising young portrait photographer named Liu Jinglun, keen on new technology, befriends a newly-arrived Englishman who's brought projector, camera, and Lumière-brothers' shorts to open the Shadow Magic theater. Liu's work with Wall ...

Breaking the Silence (2000)

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 her. After Zheng Da gets his h ...

Spicy Love Soup (1999)

Six different episodes about different generations' relationships. Love can be sweet, sour, or spicy. ...

Love Will Tear Us Apart (1999)

The film gets under the skin of a very marginalized group: recent immigrants to Hong Kong from Mainland China. Belying the expectation that they will belong in a territory now returned to China's sovereignty, they find themselves lonely, frustrated, poor, ...

The Making of Steel (1997)

First film directed by Lu Xuechang. ...

The Blue Kite (1994)

A young man recalls his childhood growing up in a poor alley in Beijing during the 1950s and 1960s. ...

No Regrets About Youth (1991)

Zheng Jianong, a bulldozer driver, has been suffering from illness for years and his wife leaves him ...

The Ozone Layer Vanishes (1990)

A couple (Zhang Jingsheng & Lu Liping) robbed the money train for money, causing a canister truck carrying highly toxic drugs to leak gas and eventually burn through the ozone layer. At the same time, the boy (Zhang Ning) who was resting at home due to his ...

Dragon Year Cops (1990)

Hi Brothers! (1987)

Dangerous Honeymoon (1987)

A husband is called back to emergency duty from his honeymoon and his bride investigates the sudden death of a couple also on their honeymoon. ...

Old Well (1986)

A married village worker teams up with an old girlfriend to try to dig a well for his water-starved village. The well collapses and they are trapped. Their enforced confinement leads to them exploring their feelings for each other and those around them. ...

The way she lives (1985)

During the ten years of Chaos, the young lady from businessman Zhang's family takes care of the whole family and keeps everyone together. ...

Childhood Friends (1984)

An adaptation of Weng Meng's 1953 novel. ...