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The Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures

To celebrate one hundred years of Chinese cinema, Hong Kong Film Awards released a list of The Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures. Among the 104 films on the list, there are 11 films from China (pre-1949), 13 films from the mainland China (post-1949), 61 films from Hong Kong, 16 films from Taiwan (post-1949), 1 Hong Kong/mainland China co-production and 1 Taiwan/Hong Kong co-production.

Source: ICheckMovies-list.

Also check out Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival's top 101 chinese language-films.
And the, so far, 31 Best Film Award Winner in the annual Hong Kong Film Awards.

  • Spring in a Small Town

    1

  • A Better Tomorrow

    2

  • Days of Being Wild

    3

  • Yellow Earth

    4

  • A City of Sadness

    5

  • Long Arm of the Law

    6

  • Dragon Inn

    7

  • Boat People

    8

  • A Touch of Zen

    9

  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

    10

  • Street Angel

    11

  • A Brighter Summer Day

    12

  • The Private Eyes

    13

  • The Mission

    14

  • The One-Armed Swordsman

    15

  • Fist of Fury

    16

  • In the Heat of the Sun

    17

  • In the Face of Demolition

    18

  • A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box

    19

  • A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella

    20

  • The Arch

    21

  • Rouge

    22

  • Chungking Express

    23

  • Homecoming

    24

  • The Time to Live and the Time to Die

    25

  • Red Sorghum

    26

  • Father and Son

    27

  • The Spring River Flows East

    28

  • Comrades, Almost a Love Story

    29

  • The Goddess

    30

  • The Big Road

    31

  • The Secret

    32

  • Infernal Affairs

    33

  • Drunken Master

    34

  • The Butterfly Murders

    35

  • Ashes of Time

    36

  • Made in Hong Kong

    37

  • Sorrows of the Forbidden City

    38

  • The Love Eterne

    39

  • The Story of a Discharged Prisoner

    40

  • Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain

    41

  • Terrorizers

    42

  • The Killer

    43

  • Once Upon a Time in China

    44

  • Center Stage

    45

  • The Story of Qiu Ju

    46

  • This Life of Mine

    47

  • The Kingdom and the Beauty

    48

  • The Winter

    49

  • An Autumn's Tale

    50

  • A Chinese Ghost Story

    51

  • The Legend of Purple Hairpin

    52

  • The Orphan

    53

  • Two Stage Sisters

    54

  • City on Fire

    55

  • Farewell My Concubine

    56

  • Yi Yi

    57

  • Cold Nights

    58

  • At Dawn

    59

  • Raining in the Mountain

    60

  • Police Story

    61

  • C'est La Vie Mon Cheri

    62

  • The Wedding Banquet

    63

  • Platform

    64

  • The Wild, Wild Rose

    65

  • The Great Devotion

    66

  • My Intimate Partner

    67

  • Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind

    68

  • Ah Ying

    69

  • Durian Durian

    70

  • Sorrows and Joys of a Middle-Aged Man

    71

  • Playthings

    72

  • The House of 72 Tenants

    73

  • Nomad

    74

  • Dust in the Wind

    75

  • The Legendary La Rose Noire

    76

  • Shaolin Soccer

    77

  • Song at Midnight

    78

  • China Behind

    79

  • The Spooky Bunch

    80

  • Taipei Story

    81

  • The Blue Kite

    82

  • Long Live the Mistress!

    83

  • Mambo Girl

    84

  • Feast of a Rich Family

    85

  • Execution in Autumn

    86

  • Hibiscus Town

    87

  • God of Gamblers

    88

  • As Tears Go By

    89

  • Happy Together

    90

  • In the Mood for Love

    91

  • The Lights of Ten Thousand Homes

    92

  • Festival Moon

    93

  • Parents' Hearts

    94

  • The Opium Wars

    95

  • A Dream of Red Mansions

    96

  • Flash Future Kung Fu

    97

  • Shanghai Blues

    98

  • The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter

    99

  • The Black Cannon Incident

    100