List of the best Gong Li movies: Raise the Red Lantern(1991), Ju Dou(1990), The Story of Qiu Ju(1992), The Emperor and the Assassin(1999), Leap(2020), Saturday Fiction(2019), Eros(2004), Shanghai Triad(1995), Red Sorghum(1988), To Live(1994), 2046(2004), Curse of the Golden Flower(2006) ... ...
Drama
China|Hong Kong|Taiwan
1991
125 Minutes
Songlian
Gong Li Ma Jingwu Saifei He Cao Cuifeng Jin Shuyuan Kong Lin Ding Weimin Cui Zhihgang
concubine wife husband servant bleak melodramatic china palace marriage gossip lying rivalry wretched excess 1920s
A young woman becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy lord, and must learn to live with the strict rules and tensions within the household.
Drama
China|Japan
1990
98 Minutes
Ju Dou
Gong Li Baotian Li Wei Li Zhang Yi Zhen Ji-an
husband wife nephew illegitimate son lover dark tense moving china household funeral infidelity family dysfunction abusive marriage deception pregnancy forbidden love temptation revenge 1920s
A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy.
Drama
China|Hong Kong
1992
100 Minutes
Qiu Ju
Gong Li Lei Laosheng Liu Peiqi Yang Liuchun Zhu Qanqing Cui Luowen Yang Huiqin Wang Jianfa Lin Zi
peasant pregnant woman villager husband wife bureaucrat moving powerful gutsy spirited china countryside big city city vs. country injustice corruption husband/wife relationship quest underdog sacrifice
A pregnant peasant woman seeks redress from the Chinese bureaucracy after the village chief kicks her husband in the groin in this comedy of justice. As she is frustrated by each level of ... See full summary »
Drama, History
China|Japan|France
1999
160 Minutes
Lady Zhao
Gong Li Fengyi Zhang Xuejian Li Sun Zhou Wang Zhiwen Kaige Chen Lu Xiaohe Gu Yongfei Haifeng Ding Benshan Zhao Changjiang Pan
heir assassin concubine striking intense passionate china palace conspiracy war assassination quest love 3rd century b.c.
In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king's cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty faltering.
Drama
China
2020
135 Minutes
Lang Ping
Gong Li Huang Bo Gang Wu Yuchang Peng Bai Lang Jiajie An Jaqueline Carvalho Matthew Del Bel Belluz Fiona Fu
After 12 years, the Chinese women's volleyball team again reached the Olympic final. The ups and downs of the Chinese women's volleyball team for more than three decades have slowly spread away.
Drama, History
China
2019
126 Minutes
Gong Li Mark Chao Pascal Greggory Xiangli Huang
Yu Jin is working undercover gathering intelligence for the Allies.
Romance, Drama
USA|Italy|Hong Kong|France|Luxembourg|UK
2004
109 Minutes
Hua Yibao (segment "The Hand")
Gong Li Michelangelo Antonioni Chang Chen Feng Tien Robert Downey Jr. Alan Arkin Ele Keats Christopher Buchholz Regina Nemni Luisa Ranieri
tailor prostitute advertising executive therapist boyfriend girlfriend sultry melodramatic hong kong new york city tuscany, italy beach house restaurant sex dreams obsession marital problems prostitution therapy
Three short films, one each from Directors Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, and Wong Kar Wai, address the themes of love and sex.
Crime, Drama
1995
108 Minutes
Xiao Jingbao
Gong Li Baotian Li Li Xuejian Chun Sun Wang Xiaoxiao Cuihua Jiang Baoying
teenager criminal singer uncle rival striking intense sad gritty shanghai nightclub island crime betrayal violence coming of age growing up revenge 1930s
Director Zhang Yimou's tale of a Chinese boy's eye-opening experiences during a week in the realm of organized crime.
Drama
1988
91 Minutes
My Grandma
son leper bethrothed laborer soldier bandit brooding endearing emotional china farm arranged marriage rape communism world war ii agriculture forbidden love growing up 1940s
The narrator tells a folk tale of his grandparents (Gong Li, Wen Jiang), their distillery and Japanese invaders in China.
Drama
China|Hong Kong
1994
125 Minutes
You Ge Gong Li Niu Ben Tao Guo Jiang Wu Ni Dabong Liu Tianchi Deng Fei
chinese man gambler wife peasant soldier daughter bleak emotional tender china village house field war zone chinese cultural revolution starting over family poverty tragedy gambling
After Fugui and Jiazhen lose their personal fortunes, they raise a family and survive difficult cultural changes during 1940s to 1970s China.
Romance, Drama
Hong Kong|China|France|Italy|Germany
2004
127 Minutes
Tony Leung Gong Li Takuya Kimura Faye Wong Zhang Ziyi Carina Lau Chang Chen Wang Sum Ping Lam Siu Maggie Cheung Thongchai McIntyre
novelist prostitute heiress ex-lover gambler android airy offbeat intricate oriental hotel hong kong train singapore mythical land memory time travel romance writing lost loves quest
Several women enter a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years, after the author has lost the woman he considers his one true love.
Romance, Drama, History
China|Hong Kong
2006
114 Minutes
Chow Yun-Fat Gong Li Jay Chou Ye Liu Chen Jin Ni Dahong Li Man Qin Junjie
emperor empress prince young girl passionate powerful china royal court forbidden love deception poison adultery royalty revenge temptation 10th century
During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself.
Drama
France|Japan|USA
1997
100 Minutes
Jeremy Irons Gong Li Maggie Cheung Michael Hui Ruben Blades Jared Harris
journalist hostess vendor businessman photojournalist fiancée brooding intricate somber hong kong party market brothel china love triangle leukemia colonialism sex video camera love
The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of China.
Adventure, Fantasy, Action
2016
119 Minutes
Aaron Kwok Gong Li William Feng Shaofeng Xiaoshenyang Kris Phillips Him Law Kelly Chen Giselle Chia
The Monkey King (Aaron Kwok) must protect a traveling monk (William Feng Shaofeng) from White Bone Spirit (Gong Li), a demon who seeks immortality.
Romance, Comedy
2011
116 Minutes
executive creative director heartwarming sun beijing women accident book discovery
Drama
1994
178 Minutes
Lu Zhi
Ray Lui Gong Li Fengyi Zhang Rosamund Kwan Shun Lau Sung Young Chen Hsing-Kuo Wu Chuan Chen Yeh Mu Chu Elvis Tsui Kam-Kong
general wife peasant concubine brutal engaging spectacular china battlefield household qin dynasty deception civil war ambition rivalry revenge adventure 2nd century
The end of the Qin dynasty and the formation of the Chu State frames this tale of a scheming couple's quest for power.
Sports & Fitness, Comedy, Drama
1994
95 Minutes
A married Chinese scholar (Stephen Chow) tries to win a woman with song, then works as a servant to be near her.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
2010
105 Minutes
Anna Lan-Ting
John Cusack Gong Li Chow Yun-Fat David Morse Ken Watanabe Franka Potente Jeffrey Dean Morgan Hugh Bonneville
In the months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, an American intelligence official (John Cusack) investigates a friend's death in 1941 China.
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
China|Hong Kong
1993
157 Minutes
Juxian
Leslie Cheung Fengyi Zhang Gong Li Qi Lü You Ge Di Tong Da Ying Han Lei Zhi Yin
actor singer prostitute teacher headmaster bleak dark solemn moving china opera house school brothel beijing abuse opera friendship prostitution love forbidden love
Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and will endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.
Action, Crime, Drama
USA|Germany
2006
135 Minutes
Isabella
Colin Farrell Jamie Foxx Gong Li Naomie Harris Ciarán Hinds Justin Theroux Barry Shabaka Henley Tom Towles Eddie Marsan Elizabeth Rodriguez Isaach De Bankolé
detective informant fbi agent lieutenant drug trafficker drug lord suspenseful fiery thrilling gritty miami boat street police station highway port chase conspiracy murder drugs
Based on the 1980s TV action/drama, this update focuses on vice detectives Crockett and Tubbs as their respective personal and professional lives become dangerously intertwined.
Romance, Drama
USA|Japan|France
2005
136 Minutes
Hatsumomo
Zhang Ziyi Ken Watanabe Michelle Yeoh Koji Yakusho Youki Kudoh Gong Li Kaori Momoi Tsai Chin Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Suzuka Ohgo Randall Duk Kim
geisha rival mentor servant client young girl passionate spectacular gripping engaging kyoto, japan geisha house bordello house performance training servitude coming of age romance unintended consequences
Nitta Sayuri reveals how she transcended her fishing-village roots and became one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.
Adventure, Action
USA|Canada|Hong Kong
2020
116 Minutes
Liu Yifei Donnie Yen Jason Scott Lee Yoson An Utkarsh Ambudkar Ron Yuan Tzi Ma Rosalind Chao Cheng Pei-Pei Nelson Lee Chum Ehelepola
A young Chinese maiden disguises herself as a male warrior in order to save her father.