The best Zhang Ziyi’s drama movies

Zhang Ziyi

Zhang Ziyi

09/02/1979 (45 años)
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Zhang Ziyi’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 Ziyi.
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Hero

Hero
7.9/10
One man defeated three assassins who sought to murder the most powerful warlord in pre-unified China.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
7.9/10
Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physically-skilled, teenage nobleman's daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life.

Memoirs of a Geisha

Memoirs of a Geisha
7.3/10
A sweeping romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

House of Flying Daggers

House of Flying Daggers
7.5/10
In 9th century China, a corrupt government wages war against a rebel army called the Flying Daggers. A romantic warrior breaks a beautiful rebel out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.

Horsemen

Horsemen
5.5/10
A recently widowed detective still grieving over his wife's death discovers a shocking connection between himself and the suspects in a serial killing spree linked to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

2046

2046
7.4/10
Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.

The Grandmaster

The Grandmaster
6.6/10
Ip Man's peaceful life in Foshan changes after Gong Yutian seeks an heir for his family in Southern China. Ip Man then meets Gong Er who challenges him for the sake of regaining her family's honor. After the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ip Man moves to Hong Kong and struggles to provide for his family. In the mean time, Gong Er chooses the path of vengeance after her father was killed by Ma San.

The Road Home

The Road Home
7.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 16/10/1999
  • Character: Zhao Di, Young
Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.

The Climbers

The Climbers
5.5/10
May 1960. Mount Everest, the second step under the cliff. The four members of the China Everest Climbing Commando are attacking the most difficult and most difficult "second step". This is their fifth assault. The first four failures have cost them too much physical strength - ...finally, the wind and snow stop the gap.

The Founding of a Republic

The Founding of a Republic
4.9/10
The Founding of a Republic is a Chinese historical film commissioned by China's film regulator and made by the state-owned China Film Group (CFG) to mark the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China. The film retells the tale of the Communist ascendancy and triumph.

The Banquet

The Banquet
6.4/10
In 907 AD, the Tang Dynasty is in tatters; infighting snarls the imperial family. Crown Prince Wu Luan loves Little Wan, but his father takes her as his Empress. Wu Luan goes into exile, studying dance and music. His uncle murders his father, taking throne and Empress; uncle sends assassins to kill Wu Luan. The Crown Prince eludes death and comes to court. The Emperor arranges for Little Wan's coronation and dispatches Wu Luan to a distant land; he then calls for a midnight banquet on the 100th day of his rule. Poison, treachery, Wu Luan's return, and the love of the innocent Qing for Wu Luan set up the final entanglements. No Fortinbras or Horatio lay the dead to rest.

The Warrior

The Warrior
7.2/10
In 1375, China was in chaos between Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. Coryo (an ancient kingdom of Korea then) sent a delegation of many diplomats, soldiers and a silent slave to make peace with the new Chinese government. However, this delegation got charged as spies and sent in exile to a remote desert.

The Crossing II

The Crossing II
6/10
A story of three couples and their intertwining love stories set in 1940s Taiwan and Shanghai, centered around the 1949 sinking of Taiping.

Dangerous Liaisons

Dangerous Liaisons
6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 27/09/2012
  • Character: Du Fenyu
Dangerous Liaisons is a Chinese film by Hur Jin-ho based on the novel with the same title by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.

The Wasted Times

The Wasted Times
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 16/12/2016
  • Character: Xiao Liu
Set against a chaotic, war torn Shanghai, “The Wasted Times” follows a local crime boss at the receiving end of the Japanese army’s attempt to forge a dubious alliance. Spanning three separate times during the period, the story details mindsets from various perspectives, all culminating in a suspenseful and tense finale.

The Crossing

The Crossing
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/12/2014
  • Character: Yu Zhen
During the Chinese Revolution in 1949, three couples flee from China to an island of Taiwan.

Purple Butterfly

Purple Butterfly
6.1/10
Ding Hui is a member of Purple Butterfly, a powerful resistance group in Japanese occupied Shanghai. An unexpected encounter reunites her with Itami, an ex-lover... and officer with a secret police unit tasked with dismantling Purple Butterfly.

我和我的父辈

我和我的父辈
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/10/2021
  • Character: Mother
Actress Zhang Ziyi, actor-and-director Wu Jing, comedian Shen Teng, and actor-and-director Xu Zheng come together to direct four short films as part of a new anthology drama paying tribute to China’s families.

Forever Young

Forever Young
6.4/10
From World War, to revolution and ultimately rebirth, Forever Young is the story of four generations spanning a hundred years of modern Chinese history. Each generation faces its own unique set of challenges. Up against corporate corruption, the trials and tribulations of the cultural revolution, and one's duty to nation in time of war, they are faced with choosing their individual paths through history. But as the challenges and turmoil of each generation may differ as time changes, what was learned in the past cannot help but effect the choices that are made in the future as it is passed down from generation to generation. And that is the universal message that being true to yourself is precious. It is the source of strength that empowers one to become the person they want to be, to march forward as far as their hearts desire, into the future.

Sophie's Revenge

Sophie's Revenge
5.9/10
Dumped by her fiance just two months before their wedding, comic strip writer Sophie hatches an elaborate plan to get her Jeff back and punish the movie star, Joanna, who seduced him away. She finds herself a partner, Gordon, an ex-lover of Joanna's. The two start on a comic adventure full of laughs and tears, aided by Sophie's two best friends, Lucy and Lily. At the eve of her success, Sophie suddenly faced of having to chose between a repentant Jeff and Gordon who has fallen for her.

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