The best Zhang Songwen’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Zhang Songwen’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Zhang Songwen.
The Last Tycoon
6.5/10
Cheng, a young man who is set up by the chief of police, must leave the life he knows and Qiu, the woman he loves, to start again. After escaping prison Cheng quickly and violently moves his way up the ladder of Shanghais criminal underworld to become on the most powerful mob bosses in Shanghais history. But fame and notoriety take their toll when Cheng finds himself stuck between the looming Japanese army and the scheming local secret service. Matters are only made worse when he bumps into the love of his life QIU, along with her writer husband. Will love re-kindle in the dusk of an era?
Love and Bruises
5.6/10
Hua, a young woman from Beijing, is a recent arrival in Paris. Exiled in an unknown city, she wanders between her tiny apartment and the university, drifting between former lovers and recent French acquaintances. She meets Matthieu, a young worker who falls madly in love with her. Possessed by an insatiable desire for her body, he treats Hua like a dog. An intense affair begins, marked by Matthieu’s passionate embraces and harsh verbal abuse. When Hua determines to leave her lover, she discovers the strength of her addiction, and the vital role he has come to play in her life as a woman.
Saturday Fiction
6.6/10
An actress working undercover for the Allies in 1941 Shanghai discovers the Japanese plan to attack Pearl Harbor.
The Shadow Play
6.6/10
Tang Yijie, the Construction Committee Director, falls off from rooftop and dies in a demolition riot. Yang Jiadong, a young police officer starts his investigation and finds that Tang's death is tied up with another case several years ago. Soon he is framed and suspended from duty, but he never gives up. The film unfolds how individuals and family make fortune in the past 30 years since the reform in China began.
A Beautiful Life
6.6/10
Fang Zhen Dong (Liu Ye) is a patrolling officer in Beijing who one night meets the drunk Li Pei Ru (Shu Qi) while singing karaoke at the KTV place. Li Pei Ru is a real estate agent from Hong Kong who has vowed to make her fortune in the cosmoplitan Beijing, but is caught up in the complexities of life and ends up becoming a mistress of a married man.
Chinese Doctors
4.7/10
Based on real-life events, the film recounts the efforts of the Wuhan medical staff as they attempt to deal with the rising cases of Covid-19.
Spring Fever
6.4/10
Hired to spy on a philandering husband, Luo Haitao soon becomes entangled in a clandestine affair with the other man. Along with Luo's girlfriend, they succumb to the delirium of drunken nights, but how long can their tryst last?
Break Through the Darkness
5.4/10
Film tells about Song Yirui, the leader of a certain anti-criminal task force, who led the team to conduct an in-depth investigation of a land acquisition case.
Ip Man: The Final Fight
6.1/10
In postwar Hong Kong, legendary Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man is reluctantly called into action once more, when what begin as simple challenges from rival kung fu styles soon draw him into the dark and dangerous underworld of the Triads. Now, to defend life and honor, he has no choice but to fight one last time...
The Pioneer
5.4/10
The story of Li Dazhao's revolutionary deeds from 1912 to 1927, and the story of the benevolent and revolutionary pioneers who were led by him to devote themselves to the great cause of Marxism
End of Summer
6.4/10
A coming-of-age family drama with a timid fifth grader, an orthodox middle-aged teacher, and a grumpy old man awakening to their true selves during the 1998 World Cup.
Knock Knock
6.5/10
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Fake Fiction
4.9/10
A trickster and an 8-year-old girl are in constant conflict.
The Best is Yet to Come
6.6/10
In 2003, Han Dong, a teenager who dropped out of high school, arrives at Beijing with a dream of becoming a journalist.
Night Runner
This early work of Hu Bo (director of An Elephant Sitting Still (2018)) was his graduation work at Beijing Film Academy. It features the self-redemption of a lumbago sufferer, which is a metaphor.
Summer Arousal
Somewhere in a southern county of China, summer has just begun and it’s already greeted by a series of indecent assault, victims are identical: Girl in one-piece dress. Captain Hu along with Officer Tsai are assigned to crack the case, meanwhile Tsai is suffering from hemorrhoids that makes his life more complicated. Little did Tsai know that he’d reunite with a nurse named Fen whom he first met in the hospital again at a matchup afterwards. Meanwhile, Papa Hu has other issues to deal with; he realizes his teenage daughter has grown up into a young woman overnight, he must now learn to reconnect with an adolescent. Elsewhere, his semi-paralyzed father-in-law has been awfully picky on choosing a desirable nanny. Obviously the old man is seeking for someone young, to make things worse, Hu’s wife, slippery like an eel, has gradually isolated herself from the family.
Mr. Zheng
Zheng, a middle-aged man, falls in straitened circumstances after divorce and job loss. However, an incident of his anger venting turns him into an Internet celebrity, "Busy Buddy". While savoring the unprecedented success in his life, Zheng meets his partner Liangliang, a middle school student. They team up to reveal people who have uncivilized behaviors in the town. A father-son relationship evolves between them. It seems that Zheng has come to a turning point in his life that will end all his misfortune. However, Zheng's ego and arrogance annoy Liangliang. Their relationship almost breaks down until Liangliang finds that Zheng has been diagnosed with a deadly disease. Zheng has decided to accomplish something meaningful during his remaining time, to save Liangliang from a crisis.
Shut Down
