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Top 200 Chinese Language Films

Films from China, Taiwan & Hong Kong that have Chinese (Mandarin) or Cantonese languages.

This list doesn't include documentaries or short films (less than 40 mins). Films must have more than 1,000 watches to be considered.

Criteria is co-produced by China, with language being Chinese/Mandarin, or the setting is China, or the director is Chinese.

See other lists for the other countries:
Top 250 British Films (as rated by British users)
Top 250 Spanish Speaking Films (as rated by Spanish users)
Top 250 Spanish Speaking Films (as rated by Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Spain combined)
Top 250 Japanese Films
Top 100 Italian Films (as rated by Italian users)
Top 100 Scandinavian Films (as rated by Scandinavian users)
Top 100 Korean Films
And of course, the master list that started this, with links to other users' versions for other countries:
Highest Rated Films From Each Country

  • Yi Yi

    1

  • A Brighter Summer Day

    2

  • Farewell My Concubine

    3

  • An Elephant Sitting Still

    4

  • In the Mood for Love

    5

  • Raise the Red Lantern

    6

  • Chungking Express

    7

  • Devils on the Doorstep

    8

  • To Live

    9

  • Happy Together

    10

  • Comrades, Almost a Love Story

    11

  • Hard Boiled

    12

  • Better Days

    13

  • Fallen Angels

    14

  • So Long, My Son

    15

  • The Killer

    16

  • Eat Drink Man Woman

    17

  • A City of Sadness

    18

  • Terrorizers

    19

  • Us and Them

    20

  • Made in Hong Kong

    21

  • A Touch of Zen

    22

  • Ne Zha 2

    23

  • In the Heat of the Sun

    24

  • What Time Is It There?

    25

  • Vive L'Amour

    26

  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

    27

  • Platform

    28

  • Postmen in the Mountains

    29

  • The Farewell

    30

  • The 36th Chamber of Shaolin

    31

  • Taipei Story

    32

  • 2046

    33

  • Exiled

    34

  • Infernal Affairs

    35

  • City of Life and Death

    36

  • Peking Opera Blues

    37

  • Bullet in the Head

    38

  • The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter

    39

  • The Time to Live and the Time to Die

    40

  • Police Story

    41

  • That Day, on the Beach

    42

  • Big World

    43

  • Kung Fu Hustle

    44

  • Dragon Inn

    45

  • The Hole

    46

  • Green Snake

    47

  • Time Still Turns the Pages

    48

  • Hero

    49

  • Your Name Engraved Herein

    50

  • The Joy Luck Club

    51

  • Suzhou River

    52

  • A Confucian Confusion

    53

  • The Monkey King: Uproar in Heaven

    54

  • Mahjong

    55

  • Rebels of the Neon God

    56

  • Lust, Caution

    57

  • Long Day's Journey Into Night

    58

  • School on Fire

    59

  • Election 2

    60

  • Still Life

    61

  • Tropical Fish

    62

  • Resurrection

    63

  • Legend of the Mountain

    64

  • Goodbye, Dragon Inn

    65

  • Kaili Blues

    66

  • The Lovers

    67

  • Ip Man

    68

  • Dust in the Wind

    69

  • A Sun

    70

  • Center Stage

    71

  • Drunken Master II

    72

  • A Holy Family

    73

  • The Mission

    74

  • A New Old Play

    75

  • The Great Buddha+

    76

  • A Better Tomorrow

    77

  • Her Story

    78

  • Nezha Conquers the Dragon King

    79

  • The River

    80

  • The Puppetmaster

    81

  • Flowers of Shanghai

    82

  • A Summer at Grandpa's

    83

  • Duel to the Death

    84

  • Pickpocket

    85

  • The Sun Also Rises

    86

  • Taipei Suicide Story

    87

  • A Simple Life

    88

  • Goodbye South, Goodbye

    89

  • A Touch of Sin

    90

  • Left-Handed Girl

    91

  • The Way We Are

    92

  • Stray Dogs

    93

  • Not One Less

    94

  • Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind

    95

  • Raining in the Mountain

    96

  • Dear Ex

    97

  • Rouge

    98

  • Dead to Rights

    99

  • Summer Palace

    100