Christopher Rea

Spring in a Small Town 小城之春 (1948)

Director Fei Mu’s lyrical masterpiece shows people coping with loss and longing in the aftermath of the Anti-Japanese War.

A fibbing housewife runs into problems with her unreliable husband and his con woman mistress in this wartime screwball comedy.

An epic melodrama in two parts. A dutiful wife struggles to keep her family together through eight years of war, only to suffer betrayal.

A young professional woman is hired to care of the young daughter of a married man, only to find herself in an impossible position.

Monkey and companions try to outwit a demon’s wife in this animated feature film, which adapts an episode from Journey to the West.

A young woman takes her father’s place in the army and protects the Tang empire from invaders in this wartime adaptation of the Mulan legend.

Zhou Xuan sings two hit songs in this social drama by experimental filmmaker Yuan Muzhi, costarring heartthrob Zhao Dan.

Phantom of the Opera and Nosferatu meet underground revolutionary history in China’s first horror-musical.

Director Wu Yonggang’s encore to “Goddess” (1934) focuses on the trials of a poor but loving family and their angelic boy.

Fei Mu’s traditionalist parable dramatizes the triumph of filial piety. Set to a lavish orchestral score and produced for a bilingual market.