
Robert Lin
Actor · Beijing, China
ROBERT LIN is a Chinese-American actor/writer/filmmaker based in New York and Beijing. His major film acting credits include the starring role as Chairman Mao in Martin Scorsese directed Tibetan epic Kundun, which was nominated for four Academy Awards. He was also featured in 2003’s smash hit School of Rock (Paramount Pictures) with Jack Black, and appeared in Red Corner (MGM) with Richard Gere. Other film credits include Green Card Fever, Man of the Century, Lift to Hell, The Nightingale of Tibet, Iceberg and just releasedFront Cover, an American comedy.
Movies12
Movie7.1ComedyFamilyFired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his straight-A students the finer points of rock 'n' roll and the power of sticking it to the man. But as the school’s stern principal closes in and the Battle of the Bands looms, Dewey must risk everything to prove that rock 'n' roll can change lives.
The School of Rock
2003 · 6.4K votes
Movie6.1AdventureComedyWhen a Chinese rebel murders Chon's estranged father and escapes to England, Chon and Roy make their way to London with revenge on their minds.
Shanghai Knights
2003 · 2.5K votes
Movie6.3CrimeDramaAn American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the country.
Red Corner
1997 · 419 votes
Movie6.8DramaHistoryFrom childhood to adulthood, Tibet's fourteenth Dalai Lama deals with Chinese oppression and other problems.
Kundun
1997 · 514 votes
Movie6.0RomanceComedyThe sidewalks of New York will never be the same, thanks to Johnny Twennies, an ace reporter who bangs out his column on an old manual typewriter and is blissfully aware that he sticks out like a sore thubm. His girlfriend is fed up because he hasn't even kissed her and the local mob wants to bump him off because he's hot on their trail. Can Johnny blow the lid off an important crime scoop, get the girl, and keep from getting himself killed?
Man of the Century
1999 · 10 votes
Movie1.0ComedyDramaNova, a twenty-two year old drummer in a Beijing rock band, is going to America and falling in love for the first time.
Iceberg
2013 · 1 votes
Movie5.4DramaMysteryLiu Zhi, a young man, depressed and trapped in a loveless marriage with a dominating girl, meets Baober (an ageless young girl) on a Beijing street one day. They fall in love and start to live a strange, mysterious life....
MovieHistoryDrama4 Rivers 6 Ranges is based on the book “Flight at the Cuckoos Behest” by Dorjee Wangdi Dewatshang
Movie4.0HorrorThrillerA killing spree takes place in a northern China's hospital, an old elevator goes to the 18th floor - underground.
Movie7.3DocumentaryIn Search of Kundun, a “making-of” documentary that is so much more, follows Scorsese as he plans his epic film and shoots in Morocco, and continues on to an audience with the Dalai Lama himself in the foothills of the Himalayas. Edited from over a hundred hours of footage, the documentary captures Scorsese’s fervor as a filmmaker and a man, the modest yet charismatic Dalai Lama, and the plight of the exiled Tibetans. -Denver Film Society
In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese
1998 · 3 votes
MovieAmerican George and Iraqi Nadia fall in love in Paris, but as the Iraq War threatens to erupt, the two are separated. When Nadia doesn't show up for a planned meeting at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, George is left waiting. Soon, Judy, a spirited Chinese national, begins helping George search for Nadia in this lush, sweeping drama based on actual events.
- Movie6.5
The story of a young immigrant from India (Dasu) who overstays his US visa. As he is forced to make decisions about whom to trust, he naively relies on his new found friends in his land of dreams, and a comical and poignant sequence of adventures ensue.
Green Card Fever
2003 · 2 votes
Series2
TV6.9ComedyNewsA late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.
Saturday Night Live
1975 · 532 votes
TV8.0CrimeDramaThe daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.
Oz
1997 · 884 votes