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Paris, 1927. Nach dem Tod ihres Vaters hätte Madeleine Péricourt sein Finanzimperium erben sollen, doch sie fiel einer Verschwörung zum Opfer, die sie in den Ruin trieb. Nun will sie sich rächen.

A young man develops severe neck pain after swimming in a polluted river; his dysfunctional parents are unable to provide any relief for him or themselves.

A sadisitic landlord manipulates the lives of his tenants through a network of surveillance cameras installed throughout the building.

Four short films from four different directors, spanning from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Two best friends So-so and Nancy are love-struck by the same handsome Japanese boy who cannot fulfill both girls' destinies.

Es ist das 10. Jahrhundert v. Chr., dem Kaiser geht es nicht gut, und die Medikamente, die er von dem Hochstapler "Unsterblicher Li" erhält, verschlimmern seinen Zustand nur noch.

Liu befriends an Englishman bringing cinema to Beijing. Their modern interests conflict with traditions, Liu's father, and Liu's love for Ling. They navigate screening films for the Empress Dowager while balancing progress and customs.

A tribute from filmmakers and critics around the world to the Taiwan New Cinema movement in the 1980s.

A battalion of Chinese soldiers defend the Sihang (4 Bank) warehouse from the invading Japanese army in 1937 at the end of the Battle of Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War. There are only 452 defenders, but to mislead the Japanese they tell the outside world that they are 800 in number. Their heroism leads to them becoming known as the 800 Heroes.

Three consecutive seasons at an ecological summer camp.

This film tells of a woman's never-ending struggle to keep herself and her family fed and clothed.

Gen. Cheng Tsu-chung, the "Mars of China", is held in high esteem by his Japanese counterpart, General Itagaki during Sino-Japanese war.

A 12-year-old girl's dilemma between a friendship and a possible future.

A girl, who was sold by her stepfather at the age of 14, has had been a prostitute for 14 years. Her family, despite enjoying a comfortable life with her help, avoids her. She thus decides to have a son of her own and succeeds by sheer determination. She is now hopeful that her son will have a life better than hers.

A soldier from Mainland China arrives at Hong Kong to look for his estranged sister and finds out that she has been forced into prostitution by a criminal organization.

Wen-Hsiang reluctantly studies at a mountain temple, where he meets Su-pi and they share intimate encounters before Su-pi discovers her unexpected pregnancy and must make a decision.

A clever and lively girl who gets lost in the world of radio drama runs away from home to search for her imaginary mother. A scoundrel claims to be the girl's father to escape from police. They encounter two women in the mountains: one is tortured by her workaholic husband who engages madly in his scientific research, the other is a pure and naive girl living in the mountains. Typhoon is now coming.

The relationships between three generations of women - grandmother, mother and daughter, set in Taiwan.

Nara, Japan, A.D. 763. In Toshodai Temple, Chinese Buddhist Master the Venerable Jian Zhen dies, aged 76, after nine years in Japan. His Japanese disciple Si Tuo remembers how in 733 he and another monk were sent to China to learn from Buddhist scriptures there and to try and convince Jian Zhen to come to Japan with other Chinese monks to develop and purify Buddhism in their country. After 10 years they finally get to meet Jian Zhen at Daming Temple in Yangzhou and persuade him to travel to Japan. Jian Zhen chooses 17 other Chinese monks to accompany him, but one, Ru Hai, betrays their secret mission to the Chinese authorities. Later that year, in December 743, Jian Zhen and Co. set out again but are shipwrecked off the coast of Zhejiang, where monks inform on them and they are arrested by the Chinese authorities to keep Jian Zhen in the country. Next, Jian Zhen and Co. try to cross the mountains in winter to Fuzhou and charter a ship from there, but are again caught by the authorities. Three years later, in June 748, they make their fifth attempt, even though Jian Zhen's eyesight is now failing, but are swept south by a storm to Zhenzhou, where they are almost killed by fierce natives but are finally welcomed by a Zhenzhou dignitary and given an old temple to renovate. In 751 they set out for the sixth time via Yangzhou, where a Japanese ambassador, Fujiwara, finally smuggles them out on a ship. In December 753 Jian Zhen and his monks reach Japan, where they are presented with their own temple in Nara.