本剧讲述的是嘉靖与海瑞的故事。嘉靖三十九年，贪墨横行、民不聊生。奸臣严嵩（倪大红 饰）党羽密布、权倾朝野，清官海瑞（黄志忠 饰）不惧强权，敢于向腐朽封建的皇权发起挑战。皇帝朱厚熜（陈宝国 饰）练道修玄二十载，始终把控着大明朝的军政、经济大权。当时的中国经济发达，市井文化也算繁荣，但社会各阶层矛盾突出，国家大面积实施的土地兼并使千百万农民一夜之间失去了赖以生存的土地。严嵩的专权引起了地方各级官员的不满，“倒严”之声甚嚣尘上，从上至下、从里到外，从朝廷到地方官府，到处充斥着尔虞我诈、勾心斗角的血雨腥风。忠臣良将与乱臣贼子纷纷登上了当时的历史舞台......

In the summer of 1991, a rape case broke the peace of a small town. The fathers of two girls in the local middle school were the policemen in charge of the case.

With his directorial debut actor Chen Jianbin walks in the footsteps of A Touch of Sin, No Man’s Land, and Black Coal, Thin Ice and offers a hard-edged mainland noir where kindness and cruelty, madness and reason, greed and humanity all struggle for dominance and the fool might not be who you think . The hook here is Chen’s amazing performance as the simple, slightly crude Latioazi, a goat farmer who has a son in jail. When a young mentally handicapped man follows him home one day and enters his life, it sets off a blaze and a chain of events follows, which bares China’s class divide raw. His random act of reluctant kindness invites a parade of strangers and grifters all intent on draining Latioazi of what little he has.

2015 film by Yan Han

Zhen Huan, a 17-year-old innocent introduced into the imperial court as the latest concubine of Emperor Yong Zheng. Her dreams of a new life of love and prosperity are swiftly dashed as she enters a dog-eat-dog world of treachery and corruption.

To fight for custody of his daughter who loves playing the piano, a steel factory worker decides to forge a piano from scratch.

Freely adapted from Gabriel García Márquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold, the film follows the investigation of a local teacher's murder in a small and desperately poor rural village, the story of the crime gradually pieced together from the fragmented memories of witnesses forced to testify at an inquest. Sharing with her Fifth Generation colleagues Chen Kaige and Tian Zhuangzhuang a remarkable eye for the barren landscapes of northern China and a fascination with small-town life — especially those enduring superstitions that Communism failed to erase — director Li Shaohong also introduces several formal innovations, particularly in storytelling structure, that remain unprecedented in Chinese cinema.

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。

2007 film by Jiang Wen