Li Bin
Actor · 1929 – 2024 · Beijing, China
Li Bin (李滨) is a Chinese actress born in 1929 in Beijing.
Movies17
Movie7.3RomanceDramaA British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
The Painted Veil
2006 · 1.3K votes
Movie7.4DramaRomancePrompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.
The Road Home
1999 · 238 votes
Movie5.3DramaHistoryThe tale of one man who fought against the tyranny of a ruler and led his people in battle in the ultimate sacrifice for his country.
Movie7.2DramaA young man recalls his childhood growing up in a poor alley in Beijing during the 1950s and 1960s.
Movie6.9ComedyDramaSix different episodes about different generations' relationships. Love can be sweet, sour, or spicy.
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City Monkey
2010
Movie6.2DramaHistoryThe epic story Mei Lanfang, who overcame the prejudice against artists in 1930s China to become the country's greatest opera star.
Movie3.5CrimeHorrorA reckless female detective, Xingmin, when investigating a murder case, finds the victim dead naked, hung upside down in the basement bathroom. Old detective Laozhou assures that this is one of the prostitute serial murder cases that he has been after for 15 years. As Xingmin tracks down the murderer, she has to deal with her inner prejudice against prostitutes caused by her traumatizing childhood memory, while irresistibly resonate to the murderer herself. To breakthrough the case, she needs to conquer her nightmare and risk herself to uncover the truth.
Movie7.1ComedyFour friends come up with an unusual idea to make some money and have fun doing it. For a small fee, they will impersonate and act out any character role for their customers. In the course of executing this novel service, they encounter a whole spectrum of people in society, finding ways to genuinely help them boost their morale and overcome their fears, while gaining unusual and new insights into the human condition.
Movie5.9DramaHistoryBeijing, 1902: an enterprising young portrait photographer named Liu Jinglun, keen on new technology, befriends a newly-arrived Englishman who's brought projector, camera, and Lumière-brothers' shorts to open the Shadow Magic theater. Liu's work with Wallace brings him conflict with tradition and his father's authority, complicated by his falling in love with Ling, daughter of Lord Tan, star of Beijing's traditional opera. Liu sees movies as his chance to become wealthy and worthy of Ling. When the Shadow Magic pair are invited to show the films to the Empress Dowager, things look good. But, is disaster in the script? And, can movies preserve tradition even as they bring change?
Movie7.3DramaComedyFor anyone with tricky personal troubles — marital, professional and otherwise — Yu Guan and his buddies have a new business that will provide the solution, from taking the abuse of a man’s nagging wife to showering an obscure writer with awards.
Movie6.4DramaComedyThe residents of a nursing home sneak past security guards to compete in a nationally televised talent contest.
Movie5.8DramaFamily
Movie6.2Drama
Movie5.5DramaComedyThe humdrum existence of a Beijing factory worker and his family is disrupted when their beloved dog is confiscated by the police for being unlicensed. The worker has but 24 hours to raise the sizable sum required to pay the license fee.
Movie5.8DramaCrimeIn the late 70s, an impotent policeman tries to catch a rapist with the help of a traditional Chinese medicine doctor in Northeast China.
Movie6.1HorrorThrillerA man convinced he murdered his wife is haunted by her ghost. Marketed as Mainland China's first horror movie.