Best Mandarin Films (Language)   (108) Most Notable
Sorted by Rank
 RATING   TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
# 1 Mandarin, # 48 Overall Raise the Red Lantern 1991 Zhang, Yimou China / Hong Kong / Taiwan DS
# 2 Mandarin, # 144 Overall Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 Lee, Ang Taiwan / Hong Kong / USA / China BD
# 3 Mandarin, # 171 Overall Farewell My Concubine 1993 Chen, Kaige China / Hong Kong DS
# 4 Mandarin, # 295 Overall Yi Yi 2000 Yang, Edward Taiwan / Japan BD
# 5 Mandarin, # 729 Overall Red Sorghum 1987 Zhang, Yimou China Y
# 6 Mandarin, # 764 Overall The Story of Qiu Ju 1992 Zhang, Yimou China / Hong Kong D
# 7 Mandarin, # 801 Overall House of Flying Daggers 2004 Zhang, Yimou China / Hong Kong BD
# 8 Mandarin, # 930 Overall A Touch of Zen 1969 Hu, King Taiwan BD
# 9 Mandarin, # 952 Overall To Live 1994 Zhang, Yimou Hong Kong / China D
# 10 Mandarin, # 971 Overall Hero 2002 Zhang, Yimou Hong Kong / China BDS
# 11 Mandarin, # 1050 Overall Ju Dou 1990 Zhang, Yimou / Yang, Fengliang Japan / China D
# 12 Mandarin, # 1077 Overall A Brighter Summer Day 1991 Yang, Edward Taiwan BD
# 13 Mandarin, # 1137 Overall The Blue Kite 1993 Tian, Zhuangzhuang China / Hong Kong Y
# 14 Mandarin, # 1147 Overall The Puppetmaster 1993 Hou, Hsiao-hsien Taiwan Y
# 15 Mandarin, # 1270 Overall Happy Together 1997 Wong, Kar Wai Hong Kong BD
# 16 Mandarin, # 1316 Overall The Wedding Banquet 1993 Lee, Ang Taiwan / USA Y
# 17 Mandarin, # 1514 Overall Eat Drink Man Woman 1994 Lee, Ang Taiwan / USA BD
# 18 Mandarin, # 1656 Overall Lust, Caution 2007 Lee, Ang USA / China BD
# 19 Mandarin, # 1694 Overall What Time Is It There? 2001 Tsai, Ming-liang Taiwan / France Y
# 20 Mandarin, # 1728 Overall The Time to Live and the Time to Die 1985 Hou, Hsiao-hsien Taiwan
# 21 Mandarin, # 1731 Overall Horse Thief 1986 Tian, Zhuangzhuang China Y
# 22 Mandarin, # 1944 Overall The Way of the Dragon 1972 Lee, Bruce Hong Kong BD
# 23 Mandarin, # 1964 Overall The Assassin 2015 Hou, Hsiao-Hsien Taiwan / China / Hong Kong / France BD
# 24 Mandarin, # 1990 Overall Spring in a Small Town 1948 Fei, Mu China D
# 25 Mandarin, # 2015 Overall Platform 2000 Jia, Zhang Ke Hong Kong / China / Japan / France D
# 26 Mandarin, # 2120 Overall Shanghai Triad 1995 Zhang, Yimou Hong Kong / China / France D
# 27 Mandarin, # 2190 Overall Ermo 1994 Zhou, Xiaowen Hong Kong / China
# 28 Mandarin, # 2315 Overall Together 2002 Chen, Kaige China / South Korea D
# 29 Mandarin, # 2323 Overall Shower 1999 Zhang, Yang China D
# 30 Mandarin, # 2367 Overall Come Drink with Me 1966 Hu, King Hong Kong D
# 30 Mandarin, # 2367 Overall Ye ban ge sheng 1937 Ma-Xu, Weibang China
# 31 Mandarin, # 2371 Overall The Emperor and the Assassin 1999 Chen, Kaige France / Japan / China Y
# 32 Mandarin, # 2391 Overall City of Life and Death 2009 Lu, Chuan China / Hong Kong BD
# 33 Mandarin, # 2439 Overall Still Life 2006 Jia, Zhang Ke China / Hong Kong / Japan D
# 34 Mandarin, # 2463 Overall Goodbye, Dragon Inn 2003 Tsai, Ming-liang Taiwan Y
# 35 Mandarin, # 2480 Overall Not One Less 1999 Zhang, Yimou China Y
# 36 Mandarin, # 2492 Overall The King of Masks 1996 Wu, Tian-Ming China / Hong Kong D
# 36 Mandarin, # 2492 Overall Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles 2005 Zhang, Yimou Hong Kong / China / Japan D
# 37 Mandarin, # 2509 Overall Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress 2002 Dai, Sijie France / China D
# 38 Mandarin, # 2524 Overall Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame 2010 Tsui, Hark China / Hong Kong BD
# 39 Mandarin, # 2532 Overall The World 2004 Jia, Zhang Ke China / Japan / France D
# 40 Mandarin, # 2571 Overall A Thousand Years of Good Prayers 2007 Wang, Wayne USA D
# 41 Mandarin, # 2575 Overall Yellow Earth 1984 Chen, Kaige China Y
# 42 Mandarin, # 2584 Overall Beauties and Skeletons 1921 unknown China
# 42 Mandarin, # 2584 Overall Sea Oath 1921 Duyu, Dan China
# 42 Mandarin, # 2584 Overall The Spring River Flows East 1947 Cai, Chusheng / Zheng, Junli China
# 42 Mandarin, # 2584 Overall Wild Torrent 1933 Cheng, Bugao China
# 43 Mandarin, # 2586 Overall Temptress Moon 1996 Chen, Kaige China / Hong Kong D
# 44 Mandarin, # 2590 Overall Red Cliff 2008 Woo, John China BDS
# 45 Mandarin, # 2612 Overall Vive L'Amour 1994 Tsai, Ming-liang Taiwan Y
# 46 Mandarin, # 2630 Overall Better Days 2019 Tsang, Derek China / Hong Kong B
# 47 Mandarin, # 2648 Overall The River 1997 Tsai, Ming-liang Taiwan Y
# 48 Mandarin, # 2658 Overall Devils on the Doorstep 2000 Wen, Jiang China
# 49 Mandarin, # 2659 Overall Angels Wear White 2017 Qu, Vivian China D
# 49 Mandarin, # 2659 Overall Behemoth 2015 Zhao, Liang China / France
# 49 Mandarin, # 2659 Overall Chuang ru zhe 2014 Wang, Xiaoshuai China
# 49 Mandarin, # 2659 Overall The Ditch 2010 Wang, Bing Hong Kong / France / Belgium
# 49 Mandarin, # 2659 Overall Help Me Eros 2007 Lee, Kang-sheng Taiwan D
# 49 Mandarin, # 2659 Overall I Don't Want to Sleep Alone 2006 Tsai, Ming-liang Taiwan / Austria / France D
# 49 Mandarin, # 2659 Overall Meili shiguang 2002 Chang, Tso-chi Taiwan / Japan
# 49 Mandarin, # 2659 Overall No. 7 Cherry Lane 2019 Yonfan Hong Kong / China
# 49 Mandarin, # 2659 Overall Prince of Tears 2009 Yonfan Hong Kong
# 49 Mandarin, # 2659 Overall Ren Shan Ren Hai 2011 Cai, Shangjun China / Hong Kong
# 49 Mandarin, # 2659 Overall Saturday Fiction 2019 Lou, Ye China
# 49 Mandarin, # 2659 Overall Seventeen Years 1999 Zhang, Yuan Italy / China Y
# 49 Mandarin, # 2659 Overall Stray Dogs 2013 Tsai, Ming-liang France / Taiwan BD
# 49 Mandarin, # 2659 Overall Tai yang zhao chang sheng qi 2007 Jiang, Wen China D
# 49 Mandarin, # 2659 Overall You hua hao hao shuo 1997 Zhang, Yimou Hong Kong / China
# 50 Mandarin, # 2662 Overall Curse of the Golden Flower 2006 Zhang, Yimou Hong Kong / China BD
# 50 Mandarin, # 2662 Overall The Grandmaster 2013 Wong, Kar Wai Hong Kong / China BDS
# 51 Mandarin, # 2664 Overall Last Train Home 2009 Fan, Lixin Canada / China / UK D
# 51 Mandarin, # 2664 Overall Three Times 2005 Hou, Hsiao-hsien France / Taiwan D
# 52 Mandarin, # 2671 Overall The Flowers of War 2011 Zhang, Yimou China / Hong Kong BD
# 52 Mandarin, # 2671 Overall The Promise 2005 Chen, Kaige China / Hong Kong / Japan / South Korea D
# 53 Mandarin, # 2674 Overall Adynata 1983 Thornton, Leslie USA
# 53 Mandarin, # 2674 Overall Blue Moon 1997 I-cheng, Ko Taiwan
# 53 Mandarin, # 2674 Overall The Day the Sun Turned Cold 1994 Yim, Ho Hong Kong Y
# 53 Mandarin, # 2674 Overall Good Men, Good Women 1995 Hou, Hsiao-hsien Japan / Taiwan Y
# 53 Mandarin, # 2674 Overall Goodbye South, Goodbye 1996 Hou, Hsiao-hsien Taiwan Y
# 53 Mandarin, # 2674 Overall The Hole 1998 Tsai, Ming-liang Taiwan / France Y
# 53 Mandarin, # 2674 Overall Mahjong 1996 Yang, Edward Taiwan
# 53 Mandarin, # 2674 Overall Mr. Zhao 1998 Lu, Yue Hong Kong / China
# 53 Mandarin, # 2674 Overall Son's Big Doll 1983 Hou, Hsiao-hsien Taiwan
# 53 Mandarin, # 2674 Overall Springtime in a Small Town 2002 Tian, Zhuangzhuang China / Hong Kong / France / Netherlands Y
# 54 Mandarin, # 2676 Overall Long Day's Journey Into Night 2018 Bi, Gan China / France BD
# 55 Mandarin, # 2683 Overall Shanghai Dreams 2005 Wang, Xiaoshuai China
# 56 Mandarin, # 2684 Overall The Go Masters 1982 Duan, Ji-shun / Sato, Junya Japan / China
# 56 Mandarin, # 2684 Overall Mountain Patrol: Kekexili 2004 Lu, Chuan China / Hong Kong D
# 56 Mandarin, # 2684 Overall Sacrifice 2010 Chen, Kaige China D
# 57 Mandarin, # 2688 Overall A Touch of Sin 2013 Jia, Zhangke China BD
# 58 Mandarin, # 2691 Overall Cities of Last Things 2018 Ho, Wi Ding Taiwan / China / USA / France
# 58 Mandarin, # 2691 Overall I Am Not Madame Bovary 2016 Feng, Xiaogang China
# 58 Mandarin, # 2691 Overall Wild Rose 1930 Sun, Yu China
# 59 Mandarin, # 2713 Overall Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks 2002 Wang, Bing China / Netherlands
# 60 Mandarin, # 2715 Overall Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl 1998 Chen, Joan Hong Kong / USA / Taiwan
# 61 Mandarin, # 2728 Overall Crows and Sparrows 1949 Zheng, Junli China Y
# 61 Mandarin, # 2728 Overall Daybreak 1933 Sun, Yu China D
# 61 Mandarin, # 2728 Overall Dushi Fengguang 1935 Muzhi, Yuan China
# 61 Mandarin, # 2728 Overall The Highway 1934 Sun, Yu China
# 61 Mandarin, # 2728 Overall Red Persimmon 1995 Wang, Tong Taiwan
NR Detective Chinatown 2 2018 Chen, Sicheng China
NR The Mermaid 2016 Chow, Stephen China BD
NR Monster Hunt 2015 Hui, Raman China / Hong Kong BD
NR Monster Hunt 2 2018 Hui, Raman China S
NR Ne Zha 2019 Yang, Yu China D
NR Operation Red Sea 2018 Lam, Dante China / Morocco BDS
NR The Wandering Earth 2019 Gwo, Frant China
NR Wolf Warrior 2 2017 Wu, Jing China BD
 RATING   TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
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Media Availability Codes (Amazon.com)
T   Theaters (US)
B   Blu-ray Disc
D   DVD
V   VHS
Y   Yes (DVD or VHS, unspecified)
S   Soundtrack