上海苏州河上，用摩托车替人送货的马达接下送接纯真少女牡丹的活，两人相处时，牡丹爱上马达，但就在她决定把终身托付给对方时，马达财迷心窍联合黑道朋友绑架了她，令牡丹心灰意冷跳进苏州河里。临跳前，牡丹丢下会变成美人鱼再寻马达的话。 五年后，为自己行为懊悔不迭的马达疑惑牡丹又回来了，开始四处找寻。当在某酒吧里看到扮美人鱼表演的美美时，马达认定她就是牡丹，然而美美不过是另一个痴情女子而已。

2001 film directed by Li Yu

2001 Chinese film directed by Zheng Xiaolong

2006 film by Wang Quan'an

小小老鼠小小老鼠穿蓝衣，大脸猫大脸猫长胡须；一个尾巴细又长，一个脸大吹牛皮；世上有我就有你，我们永远不分离。讲述了一对好朋友蓝皮鼠与大脸猫，他们都是马戏团的明星，经常外出表演，每到达一个新地方，就会遇见一些有趣的事。蓝皮鼠聪明，点子多，耳朵里住着一对名叫金豆豆和绿方方的甲虫，时不时的出谋划策。而大脸猫虽然又馋又懒，但心地纯良。两位小伙伴和他们的朋友，为我们上演一出出有趣又富有意义的故事。 改编自著名儿童文学作家葛冰的同名作品，同时他也是《小糊涂神》的作者。

Like Huo's Postmen in the Mountains, Nuan is a rural drama. The film follows Lin Jinghe, a young man who, for the last ten years, has been living in the big city. When he returns home, he runs into his childhood love, Nuan.

1995 film by He Jianjun

A prostitute from the Northeast, desperate and unable to make ends meet, abandons her baby. An unemployed factory worker decides to take the child for the 200 yuan (about $37 Canadian) a month in child support promised by its mother. His early attempts at child-rearing are somewhat painful to watch, but also charming and amusing. Eventually, he and the mother become friendly and it seems that the child will be raised in a sweetly unorthodox family. However, when the woman's pimp, a local gangster, not only finds out that he may have fathered the child, but also that he is dying of cancer, he decides that he must adopt the baby - and is willing to resort to violence if necessary.

中国首部新媒体（手机）电影，包括《在那里》（贾樟柯，导演，后同）、《寂静一刻》（王小帅）、《西瓜》（孟京辉）、《有钱难买乐意》（刘浩）、《我想对你撒点野》（小江）、《星光梦旅》（孙小茹）、《小小FU蛋》（李虹）、《新娘》（姜丽芬）等8部3分钟短片。 《西瓜》荣获2008年法国口袋电影节“移动银幕单元”二等奖，该片场景在现实与梦境间来回切换，讲一个男人在梦里找寻厕所却总不得。另外7部短片，或有一个完整故事，或讲一种生命状态，或涉某一刻心境，质量虽参差不齐，却也折射出当下人们多样的生活姿态。

Yun Fei, a young poet, seeks the advice of an old university friend who lives in the Beijing suburbs, discovering that his friend has gone into business breeding black chickens. Discouraged about his future as a poet, Yun Fei starts a relationship with a colorblind young girl who encourages him to persevere. But even this new relationship is not enough to inspire him to write. It’s at this point that he buys a pirated record whose magical powers bring him the success he’s longed for. However, sudden fame does not seem to solve everything. The first film of Beijing theatre director Meng Jing Hui, Chicken Poets is an insightful and poetic look at materialism and the younger generation in China.

郭家驹（潘粤明）大学毕业后创建了一家小型IT公司，但因经营不善负债累累，被迫将公司关闭后，他也失去了女友。不巧的是，在老家福建某个小山村的父亲此时病重，家人要他立刻带女友回去，情急之下，郭家驹租下“三陪小姐”莉莉（李佳璇），要求对方假扮教师冒充他女友回家交差。 两人一路磕碰来到郭家驹的家后，郭的母亲为给其父冲喜，要求两人举行婚礼，没想此举竟真有效，郭父的病情有了好转，莉莉也在乡间体会到从没有过的放松。但因为郭家驹打心眼里瞧不起莉莉，两人的戏越演越别扭，莉莉更在知晓了一个曾与她是同行的疯姑娘的遭遇后，大受刺激决定独自离开。

Director Zhang Junzhao's superbly tense revisionist war film (featuring striking cinematography from future Fifth Generation standard bearer Zhang Yimou) is widely considered to be the first work of Mainland Fifth Generation cinema.

Yu Xiaoqin steals money from her father and blames on her sister Tao Lan, who accidentally kills her sister while attempting to prove her innocence. After 17 years in jail, Tao Lan is escorted by a guard only to find her home long demolished. The two go to the new address of her ageing parents, and the guard becomes witness to the family's difficult reunion.

出租车司机小谢（刘烨 饰）对同寝室的铁军的不断失踪已习以为常，在铁军又一次长期失踪后，其女友竟成了小谢的女友。老莫（倪大宏 饰）是小谢的邻居，开了一家手机店，他把刚结识的女孩柳芭（石周靓 饰）带回家，不料差点被相好芬姐（王思懿 饰）撞见，急情中藏到小谢家。柳芭对英俊的小谢一见钟情，恰巧发生了英雄救美的机缘巧合，柳芭对小谢更是爱慕有加。憨直的小谢在自己生日那天婉拒了柳芭，伤心的柳芭醉酒伤情，误上了罪犯李小东的汽车。老莫结婚前夕，情敌老K从狱中假释，他只有无奈退出。在柳芭十八岁生日那天，小谢在广场上等待与她共赴先前的约定，不料，翩翩飞来的柳芭被罪恶的子弹击中……

电影由四个独立的小故事组成。 《误会》：陈局长（杨立新饰）、孙医生（徐峥饰）和孙大头（刘仪伟饰）本来是三个生活没有交集的陌生人，却因为阴差阳错在机场错拿了对方手机，而发生了接下来的混乱场面：陈局长本想与女网友搞一夜情，这个机会却葬送在了孙大头手中。而他却发现孙医生的病人正是自己的妻子，原来妻子眼中的婚姻早已千疮百孔。而孙医生，则陷入了黑帮漩涡当中。 《生之欢歌》：宁灿（范冰冰饰）是个女歌手，由一直喜欢着她的岳为（王学兵饰）帮她写歌。然而，一场绝症袭来，让宁灿选择了默默离开。岳为知道了女友的死讯，为之颓废消沉，却意外收到了宁灿的短信回复。让人错愕惊叹的故事由此展开。 《山区》：村里人都觉得老三（葛优饰）是个吊儿郎当的人。这天老三得到了一部画家（孙周饰）留下的手机，然而贫困落后的村里并不能让他顺利地享用到这个现代工具。他开始为这台手机四处奔忙，命运也随之发生了意想不到的转折。 《山难》：奸商滕少延（邱心志饰）平日品行败坏道德低劣，在山难的生死边缘上，他打电话给自己的亲朋求助，却发现再没有人愿意相信他了，能否逃过死神掌心，对以往的恶行又该如何忏悔，此刻在他心中百感交集。

2007 Chinese war film directed by Feng Xiaogang

A lyrical and gorgeous-looking movie based loosely on a true story, A Postman in Shangri-La tells the tale of a rural postal worker tasked with transporting a girl from the mountains into the nearest town so that she can move off to college.

Shot in 1995, but banned until 2004, this is an adaptation of Su Tong's novel about a shrewd amoral country boy who arrives in the big city in the 1930s and works at a rice emporium.. Initially pushed around, he learns the ropes in his new environment quickly, eventually climbing to the position of boss by marrying the daughter of the house.

1995 film by Jia Zhangke

Shows a market where puppies are bought and sold. Several puppies are placed in a cloth bag, and they struggle to break free. One bites through the bag, pokes his head, and is observed in his triumph and then confusion.