Gong Li

Married couple Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in mid-20th century mainland China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry.

Dir. Zhang Yimou · With Ge You, Gong Li, Niu Ben

In 1920s China, 19-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced to compete with his three wives for the privileges gained.

Dir. Zhang Yimou · With Gong Li, He Saifei, Cao Cuifen

In an epic tale of theater, gender, love and class, two Beijing opera actors navigate political turmoil as their friendship evolves over decades.

Dir. Chen Kaige · With Leslie Cheung, Zhang Fengyi, Gong Li

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

Dir. Rob Marshall · With Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh

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.

Dir. Zhang Yimou · With Gong Li, Liu Peiqi, Liuchun Yang

A scholar in search of true love. Disguising himself as a houseboy, he indentures himself to a rich family in order to pursue the ravishing servant girl who has stolen his heart.

Dir. Lee Lik-Chi · With Stephen Chow, Gong Li, Natalis Chan Pak-Cheung

During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself.

Dir. Zhang Yimou · With Chow Yun-Fat, Gong Li, Jay Chou

Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.

Dir. Wong Kar-Wai · With Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Gong Li, Faye Wong

When the Emperor of China issues a decree that one man per family must serve in the Imperial Chinese Army to defend the country from Huns, Hua Mulan, the eldest daughter of an honored warrior, steps in to take the place of her ailing father. She is spirited, determined and quick on her feet. Disguised as a man by the name of Hua Jun, she is tested every step of the way and must harness her innermost strength and embrace her true potential.

Dir. Niki Caro · With Liu Yifei, Donnie Yen, Gong Li

Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer remembers him.

Dir. Zhang Yimou · With Gong Li, Chen Daoming, Zhang Huiwen

Tianqing falls in love with Ju Dou, his uncle's wife who is tortured for being childless. However, after they have an affair, they discover that his uncle is impotent and try to conceal the truth.

Dir. Zhang Yimou · With Gong Li, Li Wei, Li Baotian

An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed by Jiu'er. When the Japanese invaders subject the area to their rule and cut down the sorghum to make way for a road, the community rises up and resists as the sorghum grows anew.

Dir. Zhang Yimou · With Gong Li, Jiang Wen, Teng Rujun

Shanghai, China, 1930. When young Shuisheng arrives from the countryside, his uncle Liushu puts him at the service of Bijou, the mistress of Laoda, supreme boss of the Tang Triad, constantly threatened by his enemies, both those he knows and those lurking in the shadows.

Dir. Zhang Yimou · With Gong Li, Li Baotian, Sun Chun

Taking place 500 years after the Havoc in Heaven, the Tang Priest is appointed by Buddha to go to the West to fetch the sacred scriptures, only to accidentally free the Monkey King. With Lady White aiming to break up the team assembled to defeat her, the Monkey King must fight in order to save his world!

Dir. Soi Cheang · With Aaron Kwok Fu-Shing, Gong Li, William Feng

A case involving drug lords and murder in South Florida takes a personal turn for undercover detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Unorthodox Crockett gets involved romantically with the Chinese-Cuban wife of a trafficker of arms and drugs, while Tubbs deals with an assault on those he loves.

Dir. Michael Mann · With Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Naomie Harris

The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he witnesses the repulsive lengths to which hungry soldiers will go to satiate themselves, through his sojourn in France, where as a medical student he hones his appetite for the kill.

Dir. Peter Webber · With Gaspard Ulliel, Aaran Thomas, Gong Li

An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.

Dir. Mikael Håfström · With John Cusack, Gong Li, Chow Yun-Fat

A three-part anthology about love and sexuality: a menage-a-trois between a couple and a young woman on the coast of Tuscany; an advertising executive under enormous pressure at work, who, during visits to his psychiatrist, is pulled to delve into the possible reasons why his stress seems to manifest itself in a recurring erotic dream; a story of unrequited love about a beautiful, 1960s high-end call girl in an impossible affair with her young tailor.

Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, Wong Kar-Wai · With Gong Li, Chang Chen, Tien Feng