At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he falls in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.

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September 1945. The new communist authorities go into the church, hang the flag of the Party and pai...

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Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. Delphine is a dancing teacher and Solange ...

An actor on the skids is given one more chance to regain his stardom, as well as his self-respect, y...

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In the spring of 1913, Parisian businessman Gabriel Astruc opens a new theater on the Champs Elysées...

Kathiresan aka Kaththi, a criminal, escapes from the Kolkata prison and comes to Chennai, where he c...

An exuberant dancer decides to change her lifestyle after meeting a millionaire.

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up f...

As she tries to cope with the changes in Yugoslav rural life brought about by increasing modernizati...

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

Haunted by her past, a nurse travels from England to a remote Irish village in 1862 to investigate a...

Alex Owens, a young woman juggling between two odd jobs, aspires to become a successful ballet dance...

In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and h...

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...