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28 films in this collection
Collection no. #62782 minZhang Shichuan
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Chinese. · No subtitle track in this language
After her family suddenly loses its breadwinner, Li Cuifen takes a job in a department store. A transfer to the cosmetics counter exposes her to…
Collection no. #62892 minBu Wancang
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Chinese. · No subtitle track in this language
To make a living, Huiying remarries and brings her daughter with her. The daughter, Xiaomei, becomes a singer under a musician's guidance. When…
Collection no. #63094 minLuo Mingyou
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Chinese. · No subtitle track in this language
A headmistress's two daughters take different paths after graduation. The elder travels to Shanghai to study, while the younger entangles romance,…
Collection no. #60688 minBu Wancang
88 min · Subtitles embedded in the picture · English
Childhood friendship grows into love between a landowner’s son and the daughter of a herder. His mother refuses to accept a match across the class…
Collection no. #607114 minBu Wancang
114 min · Subtitles embedded in the picture · English
Two young officers enter a general’s service, where friendship and romance quickly become entangled. One man’s attraction to the general’s daughter…
Collection no. #60895 minSun Yu
95 min · Subtitles embedded in the picture · English
After a warlord’s relative destroys his family, a young man escapes to a tropical settlement of Chinese workers. A dancer offers him the possibility…
Collection no. #60983 minCai Chusheng
83 min · Subtitles embedded in the picture · English
A writer and a schoolteacher find their marriage worn down by debt and frustration. He seeks escape in Shanghai nightlife and a new relationship,…
Collection no. #61080 minSun Yu
80 min · Subtitles embedded in the picture · English
A painter brings an independent village girl to Shanghai, where her behaviour clashes with his wealthy family’s expectations. Choosing each other…
Collection no. #61197 minSun Yu
97 min · Subtitles embedded in the picture · English
Two young people leave the countryside hoping to build a life in Shanghai. Factory work and city streets expose them to exploitation rather than the…
Collection no. #612103 minSun Yu
103 min · Subtitles embedded in the picture · English
A skilled toymaker struggles to support her family as imported goods erode the market for handmade toys. Personal loss drives her toward Shanghai,…
Collection no. #61385 minSun Yu
85 min · Subtitles embedded in the picture · English
A naturally talented runner enters a women’s sports school in Shanghai. Success attracts attention, admiration and distractions she has never faced…
Collection no. #61478 minWu Yonggang
78 min · Subtitles embedded in the picture · English
A mother in Shanghai works at night to pay for her young son’s future. A violent man takes control of her earnings, while prejudice threatens the…
Collection no. #615103 minSun Yu
103 min · Subtitles embedded in the picture · English
Unemployed labourers leave Shanghai to build a road through the countryside. Friendship, jokes and flirtation sustain the crew until sabotage turns…
Collection no. #616100 minWu Yonggang
100 min · Subtitles: English
Huang Min grows up in a poor family that places great hope in his education. While his father is away, his mother, sister and grandfather support him…
Collection no. #61799 minYuan Muzhi
99 min · Subtitles embedded in the picture · English
A peep-show view of Shanghai opens onto a family caught between modest means and glittering aspirations. Courtship becomes tangled with the promise…
Collection no. #618103 minCai Chusheng
103 min · Subtitles embedded in the picture · English
A Shanghai teacher hopes to become a published writer and maintain control of her own life. Sexual pressure, insecure employment and sensational…
Collection no. #619118 minMa-Xu Weibang
118 min · Subtitles embedded in the picture · English
A theatre troupe encounters a mysterious voice in an old building. Behind the apparent haunting is a singer whose career and appearance were…
Collection no. #62089 minYuan Muzhi
89 min · Subtitles embedded in the picture · English
A singer and a young musician find affection among the crowded rooms and precarious jobs of Shanghai. Their neighbours form an improvised community,…