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poster Moonlight Sword and Jade Lion
Moonlight Sword and Jade Lion
(2.9/5)
94mn - Drama, Adventure, Action
Tyrone Shu directs Lung Chun, Wang Tao, and Angela Mao in the historically set martial arts film Moonlight Sword & Jade Lion. During the Sung Dynasty, Mao plays a martial arts expert who finds herself inv…
poster Mr. Wong in Chinatown
Mr. Wong in Chinatown
(3/5)
71mn - Mystery, Thriller
A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to scrawl "Captain J" on a sheet of paper. She proves to …
poster Alice Chops the Suey
Alice Chops the Suey
7mn - Animation
Alice is kidnapped by Chinese Gangsters and brought to Chinatown. Her cat tries (successfully) to rescue her, but then they're hunted by a bunch of angry Chinese Triad members.
poster The Red Lantern
The Red Lantern
(3.3/5)
70mn - Drama
Mahlee and Blanche Sackville are half-sisters, Blanche the daughter of an Englishman and his wife, Mahlee of the Englishman and his Chinese mistress. Mahlee rejects her people and attempts to find a life …
poster Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer
Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer
3mn - Comedy
A Chinese conjurer stands next to a table, it becomes two tables. A fan becomes a parasol, lanterns appear and disappear. The conjurer spins the open parasol in front of himself, and a dog leaps out from …
poster New Women
New Women
106mn - Drama
Overnight, the sexy Wei Ming will become a successful novelist. But, desperate to get the money that she needs to cure her little daughter (and harassed by a rich, unscrupulous rake), she will end up even…
poster The White-Haired Girl
The White-Haired Girl
(3.2/5)
111mn - Drama, Music, History
Yang Bailao, a tenant farmer, lives with his daughter Xi'er. The despotic landlord, Huang Shiren, attempts to forcibly take Xi'er for himself. On the eve of the Chinese Spring Festival, Huang forces Yang …
poster Louisa
Louisa
(3.4/5)
90mn - Comedy
Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to discover the sweet elderly lady is romantically involved with what seems to be every old coot in town.
poster Dinty
Dinty
72mn - Adventure, Comedy
Dinty is a newsboy whose fight to care for his ailing mother leads him into conflicts with the other boys on the street and then with drug smugglers in Chinatown.
poster Children of Troubled Times
Children of Troubled Times
(2.8/5)
92mn - Drama
The young poet Xin Baihe flees Shanghai with his friend, Liang. Liang soon joins the resistance against the Japanese invaders, but Xin chooses to pursue a relationship with a glamorous and westernized wid…
poster Pay or Die
Pay or Die
(2.7/5)
97mn - Action
An underworld kingpin's daughter is kidnapped by his own men. So, he calls in Cleopatra Wong, a beautiful karate queen. She brings a team with her - a 300+ pound psychic and a female impersonator
poster Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy
Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy
5mn - Comedy, Fantasy
A smoker falls asleep, and two mischievious fairies play with his pipe. He discovers this, and imprisons them in a cigar box. He removes a flower from the box, which contains a fairy smoking a cigarette. …
poster I Cover Chinatown
I Cover Chinatown
(3.1/5)
64mn - Crime, Drama, Music
A tour guide in Chinatown and his girlfriend get mixed up with jewel thieves and murder.
poster Beatrice Fairfax
Beatrice Fairfax
(4.0/5)
300mn - Action, Adventure
Beatrice Fairfax, the original advice-to-the-lovelorn reporter and her friend and not-so-secret admirer Jimmy Barton investigate calls for help and escape exotic perils and dangers. Episodes include excit…
poster The Curse of Quon Gwon: When the Far East Mingles with the West
The Curse of Quon Gwon: When the Far East Mingles with the West
(2.8/5)
35mn - Drama
The Curse of Quon Gwon is the oldest known Chinese-American film and one of the earliest American silent features made by a woman. Only two reels of the film survive, and no intertitles are known to exist…
poster Sequoia
Sequoia
(3.1/5)
86mn - Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young man meets a 23-year-old cancer patient on the way to the park and disrupts her plan to commit suicide.
poster Chinese Laundry Scene
Chinese Laundry Scene
1mn - Crime, Comedy
The pursuit of Hop Lee by an irate policeman.
poster Broke in China
Broke in China
20mn - Comedy
Donald Drake, a deep sea gondolier ex soda jerk, arrives at the All Nation Cafe in Shanghai. The proprietor believes he's a penniless ne'er-do-well - which he is - but he unexpectedly comes into a small w…
poster Fate of Graduates
Fate of Graduates
(3.7/5)
100mn -
The film tells the tragic story of two recent college graduates, Tao Jianping ("Tao" is a homophone for peach), and Li Lilian ("Li" is a homophone for plum). Married, the two hope to change society for th…
poster Smilin' Through
Smilin' Through
(3.6/5)
96mn - Romance, Drama
The story is essentially the same as the popular Jane Cowl play, with Talmadge in the dual role of Kathleen and Moonyean. Kathleen, a young Irish woman, is in love with Kenneth Wayne but is prevented from…
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