Dec 18, 1991
125 min
Full-HD

Raise the Red Lantern (1991)

In 1920s China, a nineteen year old Songlian is forced to marry the much older lord of a powerful family. With three wives already, each living in a separate chamber in the mansion, they constantly play mind games for his attention. Songlian joins the fierce competition, slowly uncovering the dark truths that lie within their gilded cage.

Category

Drama

Country

China Hong Kong Taiwan

Companies

ERA International China Film Co-Production Corporation Century Communications Salon Films

Gong Li

Song Lian

Ma Jingwu

Chen Zuo Qian

He Saifei

Mei Shan

Cao Cuifen

Zhuo Yun

Kong Lin

Yan'er

Shuyuan Jin

Yu Ru

Chu Xiao

Fei Pu

Ding Weimin

Mother Song

Recommended For You

Animation
2017
Movie

Dahufa

Dahufa

7
2017

A warrior named Dahufa goes to save his prince from a dystopian village. He finds the dystopian village ruled by a fake god and his guards. In order to save the prince, Dahufa has to defeat the god and his men, and disclose the whole conspiracy.

Genre : Animation

Comedy
1992
Movie

The Story of Qiu Ju

The Story of Qiu Ju

7.3
1992

When her husband is kicked in the groin by the village head, Qiu Ju, a peasant woman, despite her pregnancy, travels to a nearby town, and later a big city to deal with its bureaucrats and find justice.

Drama
1990
Movie

Ju Dou

Ju Dou

7.3
1990

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. Filmed in glowing technicolour, this tale of romantic and familial love in the face of unbreakable tradition is more universal than its setting.

Comedy
1957
Movie

Oh! Sabella

Oh! Sabella

7.1
1957

Raffaele, a Neapolitan student, get the news that his beloved grandmother Sabella is dying. He immediately goes to Pollena to be beside her.

Drama
2006
Movie

We're All Christs

We're All Christs

6.6
2006

Adaś Miauczyński, a Polish intelectual, has severe alcohol problems which affect his relationship with his son Sylwek.

Thriller
2012
Movie

Piggy

Piggy

5.8
2012

London, modern day: Joe, a mild mannered young man is bored by his life. When his beloved brother is murdered Joe finds solace in Piggy, one of his brother's old friends. Piggy helps Joe to cope with grief, intent on saving him and helping him get justice for his brother's killing. As their friendship grows Joe finds himself in an increasing dangerous and murky world of violence and revenge. As Joe life collapses around him he starts to question who Piggy really is, and how honest he's really been with him. When Joe confronts Piggy a series of events are put in place that lead to a disastrous climax.

Genre : Thriller

Drama
2011
Movie

Homevideo

Homevideo

6.6
2011

Shy, sensitive high school outsider Jakob Moormann is miserably lacking immaterial support at home, where his strict father, uniformed cop Claas, and selfish mother are too busy breaking up to be there for him. Jakob focuses on class dream-girl Hannah, without much luck. His secret recording of himself masturbating gets into class bullies Henry and Erik's hands through the mother's thoughtlessness. The rascals blackmail Jakob and post the video on the Internet. After a raging lecture phase, dad stands up for Jakob, but his life is already wrecked more than anyone realizes.

Drama
1991
Movie

Thank You, Life

Thank You, Life

6.3
1991

Camille, a naïve schoolgirl, meets an intriguing influence in Joelle, a slightly older and much more experienced spirit. Camille follows her new friend through the discovery of sex and the darker side of life. As the film progresses, Camille discovers AIDS and the fear that she may have picked up the disease in her early encounters.

Drama
2015
Movie

Lost and Love

Lost and Love

6.7
2015

After his young son goes missing, Lei (Andy Lau) begins a 14-year quest to find him.

Animation
1987
Movie

Kaze to Ki no Uta Sanctus: Sei Naru Kana

Kaze to Ki no Uta Sanctus: Sei Naru Kana

5.8
1987

Son of a viscount and a Roma prostitute (both deceased), Serge is intelligent, sweet, talented, and alienated by his family due to his heritage. Upon being sent to his new school, he rooms with Gilbert Cocteau, a gorgeous loner of a boy who sells his body for reasons unknown. Serge's attempts to reach out to Gilbert fail spectacularly, and yet there is something in both of them that attracts them to each other.

Genre : Animation

Adventure
2001
Movie

Red Shadow

Red Shadow

4.8
2001

The secret warriors of feudal Japan were the ninja. Sent on impossible missions, the ninja were trained to work in shadows, gather information and defeat the enemy to build a world of peace. Akakage, Aokage, and Asuka are rookie ninjas under the tutelage of Shirokage. Their life is a series of perilous missions that entail intrigue, deception and intimidation.

Genre : Adventure

Drama
1925
Movie

Smouldering Fires

Smouldering Fires

6.5
1925

A successful businesswoman falls in love with one of her much younger factory workers. She doesn't know that he is in love with her younger sister.

Drama
1992
Movie

Woman Demon Human

Woman Demon Human

6.7
1992

The fictional life and career of a famous actress in Chinese opera, a woman who goes against tradition by specializing in playing male roles, especially that of Zhang Kui, a benevolent ghost who appears in several Chinese operas. Although the actress's career brings wealth and fame, it is attained only through considerable struggle against an anti-female system and an unhappy personal life.

Drama
1968
Movie

The Postman

The Postman

6.3
1968

Abbas, a resident of Cairo, is appointed by the government to hold the office of supervisor in a post office in a small village in Upper Egypt.

Drama
2017
Movie

Pool Sweeper

Pool Sweeper

6
2017

In the midst of an inclement summer, Tavo works as a pool in a country town in the Buenos Aires suburbs, forming a silent part of a landscape and a community that keeps him at bay for class reasons.

Drama
1984
Movie

Yellow Earth

Yellow Earth

7.3
1984

During WWII, a member of Mao Zedong's communist army is sent to a rural area of China to collect the region's folk songs for propagandistic purposes.

Drama
1994
Movie

To Live

To Live

8
1994

Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry. Addicted to gambling, Fugui loses everything. In the years that follow he is pressed into both the nationalist and communist armies, while Jiazhen is forced into menial work.

Comedy
2008
Movie

Achilles and the Tortoise

Achilles and the Tortoise

7
2008

Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks.