Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the 'rice-bowl' system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.

Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has b...

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

At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat capta...

Tian Zhenhua arrives in Shanghai to coach a local women's basketball team. Number 5 on the team, Xia...

Throughout ten years of a key era in Chinese and Hong Kong history, a girl becomes fixated on a fell...

A band of soldiers tasked with staying behind during the Battle of Dunkirk to rescue a scientist wit...

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to k...

In response to political pressure from Senator Lillian DeHaven, the U.S. Navy begins a program that ...

The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ult...

In an epic tale of theater, gender, love and class, two Beijing opera actors navigate political turm...

During the Ming Dynasty, as Japanese pirates wreak havoc along the Chinese coast, laying waste to en...

Devout Buddhists, Norbu and Dolma live with their young son Tashi in a clan in Tibet. Norbu is a hig...

American sailor Charlie Madison falls for a pretty Englishwoman while trying to avoid a senseless an...

Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified position...

A young, beautiful prostitute named Sadie Thompson arrives on the South Pacific island of Pago Pago ...

Strip Search follows several parallel stories examining personal freedoms vs. national security in t...

At the beginning of 1991, Yugoslav army did not acknowledge Croatian's independence, and still holdi...

At the end of 1918 while civil war is raging on in Russia, antagonism is slowly spreading to the Eas...

During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in...

The famous psychologist Xu Ruining has a raising career, when he met the troublesome patient Ren Xia...