Jia Zhangke Movies

Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.

On the edge of the Gobi desert in Northwest China, Lang returns to his hometown after being released from jail. While working for the local dog...

Set in China's underworld, this tale of love and betrayal follows a dancer who fired a gun to protect her mobster boyfriend during a fight. On...

Years after her boyfriend left her for the big city and promised to bring her there after he’s settled down, a Chinese woman sets out on a...

The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.

A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A man and woman visit the town to locate...

One morning, Jessica Holland, a Scottish orchid farmer visiting her sister in Bogotá, is woken by a loud ‘bang’. This haunting...

Two disaffected, unemployed Chinese youth drift through life on the streets of their industrial town, their paths crossing with that of a local young...

A small town pickpocket whose friends have moved on to higher trades finds himself bitter and unable to adapt.

As a decades-old state-run aeronautics munitions factory in downtown Chengdu, China is being torn down for the construction of the titular luxury...

Although Wu You (Huang Xiaoming) has reached an advanced age, his IQ and cognitive level still remain at the level of a child. As his name suggests,...

Three men living in the Eastern most island of China go on a road trip to the Western most end of the country, and facing crises of love, friendship,...

When gold medal lawyer Hu Gongping was having a secret meeting with his lover She Xiaoman, a body suddenly fell from the sky in the room. Hu Gongping...

The movie tells the story of a restaurant owner (played by Duan Yihong) who's chased after the murderer of his son for seven years. On the way, he...

China’s rapid changes from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe.

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.

Yuda, a Chinese immigrant, and his adopted son Kirin, who he saved being eaten by a tiger in the jungle, stand at the head of a massive pirated goods...

The closing film for 2021's Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon International Film Festival.

In the 1990s, a group of students on the campus of the Chinese Southern Academy of Arts are pursuing their studies and preparing to face the world....

An ancestral city; through its delicious botanical garden and its branched canals, we observe the clues and traces of its ancient culture. Two...