2011 Chinese film by Huang Jianxin, Han Sanping

Yun is shunned when she becomes pregnant in school, and her mother gives the child up for adoption. When Yun tutors a boy 10 years later, her mother discovers he is Yun's son.

In Chengdu, China, a retired female opera singer named Master Chang takes in a trio of young tenants into her boarding home. The tenants include a rock singer and a college student who has run away from home.

For generations the Zhao family has wielded power, until their mortal enemy TU’AN GU slaughters the entire clan, determined to wipe out their influence forever. But one Zhao baby survives hidden by CHENG YING the doctor who delivered him. When Tu’an Gu learns of the baby’s escape he seizes every infant in the city, vowing to kill them all unless the Zhao baby is surrendered. As the tyrant’s soldiers arrive at Cheng Ying’s home the frantic doctor hides his wife with their own baby whilst surrendering the Zhao child as his own. But his family is discovered; his baby is presumed to be the Zhao heir and murdered along with his wife for harboring the infant. Now set on revenge Cheng Ying enrolls the Zhao orphan into the service of the Tu’an Gu household, plotting to use him as an instrument of vengeance when he comes of age.

2009 Chinese film by Lou Ye

2010 film by Zhang Yimou

Focuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid-1800s, when Shanghai was opened as a trading port, to the present day.

20世纪70年代末，位于安徽省凤阳县小岗村的十八位农民，冒着砍头的危险按下了土地承包责任书的红手印。此举震惊全国，并由此拉开中国改革开放的大幕。转眼近三十年过去，从小岗村到全国各地，都有了翻天覆地的变化。谁曾想集体按手印的故事，又再度发生在小岗村中。2004年，小岗村迎来新的党支部第一书记沈浩（杨立新 饰）。沈浩为人开朗豁达，公正无私，他一心扑在工作上，以实际行动践行着科学发展观。吴奶奶（黄素影 饰）对她从不解到信任，刺儿头村民杨德福（何冰 饰）从制造祸端到心悦诚服。纵然最初受到妻子 王晓勤（徐帆 饰）和女儿汪汪（李若思 饰）的怨言，但沈浩凭借一身正气让他在小岗村村民心中留下难以磨灭的光辉形象……
本片根据真实人物事迹改编。

Li Li, intelligent young woman is working in a mill Xian'an. The company knows the difficulties. Her husband, who worked in the same company, was among the first laid off and has launched a small business (fish). They have a little boy, Bing Bing. Tired, Li Li will visit the hospital. The verdict: acute leukemia. The bone marrow is financially out of reach. Rest chemotherapy less effective but require her husband to sell the family home. In addition, Li Li needs a little freedom to live a little for herself and get answers before ... She goes to Beijing to visit the one she was in love ten years ago, and who was not accepted by her parents.

A portrait of contemporary China seen through the dreams and choices of a young peasant who has accepted her fate.

Lunar Eclipse is an urban drama following the wife of a newlywed couple who becomes mesmerized by an amateur photographer who claims to have once been in love with a woman who looked just like her.

About a working class woman climbing her way up the corporate ladder and scoring a hot, rich boyfriend along the way, this romantic comedy is based on the same-name popular novel.

Wang Shuangli is Deputy Director of the local Cultural Centre, and hopes to be appointed Director. However Old Ma is brought in from the country and installed as Director. This starts a long train of events with Wang's cronies using the bureaucracy to try to oust the new director.

1985 film directed by Huang Jianxin

1940年代后期，出身望族的李彤（潘虹 饰）、黄惠芬（李克纯 饰）、雷芷苓（肖雄 饰）和张嘉行（卢玲 饰）四姐妹远渡重洋，来到美国留学。49年元旦，她们在学校联谊会上，用歌声抒发对祖国亲人的思念和祝福。不久，李彤因家中巨大变故离开三个女友，谁也不知她去了哪里。李彤的男友陈寅（濮存昕 饰）苦等无着，与惠芬和其他一对新人准备结婚。李彤突然出现在了婚宴上，她近乎疯狂的装扮和举止令朋友们惊诧，原来她已和一个已婚男人同居。时光荏苒，李彤后来又和一个南美商人混在一起，并因酒后滋事关进拘留所，保释出来后，她在惠芬女儿莉莉生日后不久，又不知飘向何方去了......

The film follows a young man, A Xi who is recently released from prison. Once released, he seeks out his old girlfriend Li Xin who has since begun a relationship with La La a young musician. As the two men vie for her attention, tension and violence escalate.

After laying bare backward village mentalities in Bloody Morning, Li Shaohong turns her attention to China’s urban middle class. Cao is a photographer, married to an opera singer and with an infant son, caught in the usual professional morass of political compromise. His life starts to fall apart when he learns that his ex-wife also bore him a son some months after their divorce – and when the boy turns up looking for his father. Nothing wildly dramatic, just believable people in believable situations. If the ending seems a touch forced, this is nevertheless a sign that ‘Fifth Generation’ cinema is changing and coming to terms with up-to-date realities.

2009 film directed by Chen Kuo-fu and Gao Qunshu

If money can't buy happiness, can it at least buy control over others? Xiang is hard-working, running a small sesame oil business. Her husband is lazy and drinks; her son is blood simple. When Japanese investors provide capital to expand Xiang's business, she has the wealth to raise her social standing and buy a wife for her son, Dunzi. When money and a forceful personality fail to bend others to her will, including daughter-in-law Huanhuan, Xiang must find another way to tranquillity.

故事发生在北京，叶彤（孔琳 饰）回到了阔别已久的故乡，在这里，有她全部的童年回忆。再度相逢，曾经的玩伴们已经长大，卫东（张嘉译 饰）、卫萍（丁嘉丽 饰）、雷兵（扈强 饰），每个人的身上都留下了时间的痕迹。在学校里，叶彤结识了摇滚乐队主唱彭威（耿乐 饰），彭威的自由不羁吸引了叶彤，两人的关系越走越近。
彭威和卫东是旧相识，两人之间有过一些过节，其中的龃龉并没能随着时间的流逝而渐渐淡化，如今沦为罪犯的雷兵又和当警察的卫东结下了梁子。卫萍告诉叶彤自己怀孕了，希望叶彤能够帮她做流产手术，雷兵和卫东之间的矛盾升级成为了暴力冲突，卫东受伤住院，雷兵失足身亡。悲伤和痛苦之中，叶彤明白，曾经的单纯时光一去再也不会复返。