Northwest Years

Northwest Years 2024

8.00

Amid the upheaval of Chiang Kai-shek’s 1927 coup, young revolutionary Xi Zhongxun defies political terror and emerges as a leader. Inspired by Liu Zhidan’s uprising, he joins forces to establish the Shaanxi-Gansu Red Army. During the Anti-Japanese War, he strengthens the revolutionary base and fosters its development, earning Mao Zedong’s praise for his loyalty to the cause. After Japan’s surrender, Xi Zhongxun fiercely defends the Northwest, helping to lay a foundation for national progress.

2024

Frontier of Love

Frontier of Love 2018

1

At the end of the 1950s, the student of the Beijing Broadcasting Institute Wen Yi Qiu (Yin Tao) falls in love with the Soviet announcer Wei Ka and marries him in Beijing. Shortly after, however, the Soviet Union decides to withdraw its specialists stationed in Beijing and Wei Ka is forced to return to his home country. Thereupon, Yi Qiu leaves for the frontier town Hehei, where she starts working as an announcer, only to be nearer to her husband. Later on, Wei Ka gets a post in Blagoveshchensk, the city at the other side of the frontier. The two find comfort in listening to each other’s broadcast attentively, while hoping for the Chinese-Soviet relationship to get better.

2018

Blossoms in Adversity

Blossoms in Adversity 2024

8.80

A devastating tragedy of the asset forfeiture befalls the Hua family suddenly. The men are forced into exile, leaving behind the women and children in dire straits. Hua Zhi, the young lady of the family, no longer stays low-key and steps up. She braves hardship and leads the women of her household to manage to avoid starvation and danger. She transforms not only their lives but also the feared leader of the Seven Constellations, Gu Yanxi, into her beloved "Mr. Yan". During these lively and heartwarming moments, Hua Zhi rises from a sheltered lady to the head of her family, leading her toward a brighter future.

2024

Faith

Faith 2012

7.00

After being found in 918, the kingdom of Goryeo faced a critical existential crisis when the powerful Yuan dynasty tried to subjugate them. In the fictional setting of this drama, a warrior living in the timeline of Goryeo meets a plastic surgeon living in the present day. The plastic surgeon gets kidnapped by the warrior who got an order from the king to find a doctor who can cure the fatally injured queen. The two individuals who were not meant to coexist are brought together to fight their way through the ordeals on the land of Goryeo. The warrior makes a promise that he will return her to her world, but a scheming royal advisor persuades the king to force the surgeon to stay as she can be useful to him. There, the surgeon falls in love with the warrior who is the leader of the royal guard. In this era of change and chaos, love that transcends time and space blooms.

2012

Double Duty

Double Duty 2024

6.50

During the final stages of the Liberation War, Captain Zhuang leads a small PLA unit to pursue a retreating Nationalist regiment hiding in Heishan Temple, where a contagious disease has spread among their soldiers. Disguised as medical assistants, Zhuang’s team infiltrates the temple to assist Dr. Wei, a local physician captured by the Nationalists. Together, they treat the sick, contain the outbreak, and map the tunnels to rescue soldiers who wish to defect.

2024

Can't Forget

Can't Forget 1996

1

Adaptation of Park Wan Seo's novel of the same name.

1996

Sun on the Stubble

Sun on the Stubble 1996

9.00

Various stories of Bruno and his German Australian family, living in early 1930s rural South Australia.

1996

足迹

足迹 1970

1

Set in a Western-style house in Shanghai's French Concession, the film spans decades of change. Once home to the Lin family, the house is transformed into a maternity hospital in the 1930s, then a factory in the 1950s after the founding of the People's Republic of China. By the 1990s, it becomes a mixed-use building, with each era bringing new stories of the people passing through its doors.

1970

Space Rats

Space Rats 2022

1

Four escaped lab rats voyage on a mission to find life beyond Earth.

2022