Joan Chen

Through unlikely bonds formed during night shifts at a local aquarium, Tova, an elderly widow, learns of a life-changing discovery that may bring her joy and wonder once again.

Dir. Olivia Newman · With Sally Field, Lewis Pullman, Colm Meaney

The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.

Dir. Mark Frost, David Lynch · With Kyle MacLachlan

This is the story of a puppy that touched hundreds of millions of people around the world. Hachiko is a cute Chinese pastoral dog. He met his destined owner Chen Jingxiu in the vast crowd and became a member of the Chen family. With the passage of time, the once beautiful home is no longer there, but Batong is still waiting where it is, and its fate is closely tied to its family.

Dir. Xu Ang · With Feng Xiaogang, Joan Chen, Bai Jugang

During World War II, a secret agent must seduce, then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling in love with the man she is assigned to kill.

Dir. Ang Lee · With Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Tang Wei, Joan Chen

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.

Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci · With John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole

A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.

Dir. Alice Wu · With Joan Chen, Michelle Krusiec, Lynn Chen

Li and his wife A Yu run a small business in Thailand and enjoy a happy home life with their two daughters. When their eldest daughter is violently assaulted, blackmailed and left traumatised by another student, her parents intervene, leading to a dead body which needs to be hidden, and every trace of the boy buried to cover up the accident.

Dir. Sam Quah · With Xiao Yang, Tan Zhuo, Joan Chen

In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can't teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.

Dir. Sean Wang · With Izaac Wang, Joan Chen, Shirley Chen

In a small Vietnamese village torn apart by war, a young woman faces unimaginable horrors before deciding to escape to the city. There, she encounters a compassionate Marine who offers her hope and a chance at a new life, igniting the possibility of a future together.

Dir. Oliver Stone · With Hiep Thi Le, Tommy Lee Jones, Joan Chen

At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he falls in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.

Dir. Bruce Beresford · With Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Joan Chen

Set in a futuristic world where the only sport that has survived in a wasted society is the brutal game known as jugging. Sallow, the leader of a rag-tag team, has played in the main Leagues before, but was cast out because of indiscretions with a lady. Now joined by a talented newcomer, Kidda, an ambitious young peasant girl, he and his team find they have one last chance for glory.

Dir. David Webb Peoples · With Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen, Vincent D'Onofrio

A male prison escapee heads for his hidden loot, electronically attached to a female prisoner.

Dir. Lewis Teague · With Rutger Hauer, Mimi Rogers, Joan Chen

Gen Z amateur sleuth and tech-savvy hacker Darby Hart and eight other guests are invited by a reclusive billionaire to participate in a retreat at a remote location. When one of the other guests is found dead, Darby must use her skills to prove it was murder before the killer takes another life.

Dir. Brit Marling, Zal Batmanglij · With Emma Corrin, Brit Marling, Harris Dickinson

Paul Racine, a high-powered American business executive in Japan, is catapulted into a maze of danger and intrigue after he and his sexy companion are the targets of assassins hired by the ruthless Kinjo. To survive, Racine must join forces with a powerful samurai and together they will fight the force of evil in an awesome battle rooted in centuries of brutal conflict.

Dir. J.F. Lawton · With Christopher Lambert, John Lone, Yoshio Harada

In a dystopian future where Judges maintain law and order by acting as judge, jury, and executioner, Dredd fights to prove his innocence after being falsely accused of murder.

Dir. Danny Cannon · With Sylvester Stallone, Diane Lane, Armand Assante

China's first President Sun Yat-Sen and military commander Huang Xing lead the revolutionary Wuchang Uprising in a bid to put an end to the reign of the Qing Dynasty.

Dir. Zhang Li, Jackie Chan, Tang Guoqiang, Tao Hai · With Jackie Chan, Li Bingbing, Joan Chen

Claire Clauster is the glue that holds her chaotic, lovable family together at the holidays. But this year, after planning a special outing for them, they make a crucial mistake and leave her home alone. Fed up and feeling under appreciated, she sets off on an impromptu adventure of her own. As her family scrambles to find her, Claire discovers the unexpected magic of a Christmas gone off-script.

Dir. Michael Showalter · With Michelle Pfeiffer, Denis Leary, Felicity Jones

A black ops assassin is forced to fight for her own survival after a job goes dangerously wrong.

Dir. Tate Taylor · With Jessica Chastain, John Malkovich, Common

Set in a world of greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue and rivalry, this lavish drama series follows explorer Marco Polo's adventures in the 13th century.

Dir. John Fusco · With Lorenzo Richelmy, Benedict Wong, Joan Chen

Will Keane, a Manhattan restaurateur, is content with his playboy lifestyle until he meets Charlotte Fielding, a free-spirited young woman. Together the pair pursue a passionate affair that forces them both to reevaluate what they want out of life, even as fate threatens to steal away their future.

Dir. Joan Chen · With Richard Gere, Winona Ryder, Anthony LaPaglia

Forrest Taft is an environmental agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis Oil's corrupt CEO is the kind of person who doesn't care whether or not oil spills into the ocean or onto the land—just as long as it's making money for him.

Dir. Steven Seagal · With Steven Seagal, Michael Caine, Joan Chen