Movies by Director - Zhang Yimou (32 [Missing: 6]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| Red Sorghum [Hong gao liang]When a leprous winery owner in 1930s China dies a few days after his arranged marriage, his young widow is forced to run the winery to make a living while contending with bandits, her drunkard lover, and the invading Japanese army. | 1988 | Yimou Zhang | Drama,History,Romance | 7.4 (8.8K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Codename Cougar [Dai hao mei zhou bao]Aircraft hijacking with Chinese special forces rescue. Gong Li as a heroic stewardess. | 1989 | Fengliang Yang, Yimou Zhang | Drama,Thriller | 4.1 (262 votes) | 76 | 20220315 |
| Ju DouA 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. | 1990 | Yimou Zhang, Fengliang Yang | Drama,Romance | 7.7 (8.2K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Raise the Red LanternA young woman becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy lord, and must learn to live with the strict rules and tensions within the household. | 1991 | Yimou Zhang | Drama,Romance | 8.1 (31.7K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Story of Qiu Ju, The [Qiu Ju da guan si]A peasant woman seeks justice after the headman of her village has kicked her husband in the groin. | 1992 | Yimou Zhang | Comedy,Drama | 7.6 (5.9K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| To LiveAfter Fugui and Jiazhen lose their personal fortunes, they raise a family and survive difficult cultural changes during 1940s to 1970s China. | 1994 | Yimou Zhang | Drama,War | 8.3 (17.5K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| Shanghai Triad [Yao a yao, yao dao wai po qiao]A provincial boy related to a Shanghai crime family is recruited by his uncle into cosmopolitan Shanghai in the 1930s to be a servant to a ganglord's mistress. | 1995 | Yimou Zhang | Crime,Drama,History | 7.1 (5.7K votes) | 108 | 20220731 |
| Keep Cool [You hua hao hao shuo]A spurned lover seeks a rich man for revenge. A random onlooker -- who witnessed the public assault committed by the rich man against the lover -- seeks for monetary compensation for his smashed computer. The lover's and the onlooker | 1997 | Yimou Zhang | Comedy | 7.2 (1.9K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Not One Less [Yi ge dou bu neng shao]In a remote mountain village, the teacher must leave for a month, and the mayor can find only a 13-year old girl, Wei Minzhi, to substitute. The teacher leaves one stick of chalk for each day and promises her an extra 10 yuan if ther | 1999 | Yimou Zhang | Drama | 7.7 (8.7K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Road Home, The [Wo de fu qin mu qin]Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback. | 1999 | Yimou Zhang | Drama,Romance | 7.8 (13K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Hero [Ying.xiong]A defense officer, Nameless, was summoned by the King of Qin regarding his success of terminating three warriors. | 2002 | Yimou Zhang | Action,Adventure,Drama | 7.9 (179.1K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Happy Times [Xing fu shi guang]Zhao is an aging bachelor who hasn't been lucky in love. Thinking he has finally met the woman of his dreams, Zhao leads her to believe he is wealthy and agrees to a wedding far beyond his means. Zhao's best friend Li hatches the ide | 2000 | Yimou Zhang | Comedy,Drama,Romance | 7.3 (4K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| House of Flying DaggersA romantic police captain breaks a beautiful member of a rebel group out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem. | 2004 | Yimou Zhang | Action,Adventure,Drama | 7.5 (110.8K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles [Qian li zou dan qi]A Japanese father travels to China's Yunnan province in the place of his ailing son to film a folk-opera singer. | 2005 | Yimou Zhang | Drama | 7.3 (5.3K votes) | 107 | 20220731 |
| Curse Of The Golden Flower, TheDuring China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself. | 2006 | Yimou Zhang | Action,Drama,Romance | 7.0 (43.7K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Under The Light [Jian ru pan shi]An urban crime drama film which will cover topics from anti-corruption to anti-crime. | 2023 | Yimou Zhang | Crime,Drama,Thriller | 6.2 (291 votes) | 127 | 20231207 |
| Cliff Walkers [Xuan ya zhi shang]In the puppet state of Manchukuo in the 1930s, four Communist party special agents, after returning to China, embark on a secret mission. Sold out by a traitor, the team find themselves surrounded by threats on all sides. | 2021 | Zhuang Jie Qiong, Yimou Zhang | Crime,Drama,Thriller | 6.5 (2.8K votes) | 120 | 20231120 |
| Snipers [Ju ji shou]The story of sharpshooter Zhang Taofang, a young army recruit who at age 22 sets a record during the Korean War by reportedly killing or wounding 214 American soldiers with 435 shots in just 32 days. | 2022 | Mo Zhang, Yimou Zhang | Action,Drama,War | 6.3 (1.2K votes) | 96 | 20231116 |
| The Parsifal MosaicNA | TBA | | Drama,Mystery,Thriller | | | Not Available |
| Flowers of War, TheAn American finds refuge during the 1937 Japanese invasion of Nanking in a church with a group of women. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety. | 2011 | Yimou Zhang | Drama,History,Romance | 7.6 (51.8K votes) | 146 | 20211228 |
| Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop, A [San qiang pai an jing qi]The owner of a Chinese noodle shop's scheme to murder his adulterous wife and her lover goes awry. | 2009 | Yimou Zhang | Comedy,Drama | 5.7 (3.2K votes) | 95 | 20220414 |
| Under the Hawthorn Tree [Shan zha shu zhi lian]Romance sparks between a young woman and a young man from different economic backgrounds during China's Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and '70s. | 2010 | Yimou Zhang | Drama,Romance | 7.1 (3.2K votes) | 114 | 20220315 |
| QuasimodoNA | TBA | | Drama | | | Not Available |
| Xuan ya zhi shang 2NA | TBA | | Thriller | | | Not Available |
| Great Wall, TheIn ancient China, a group of European mercenaries encounters a secret army that maintains and defends the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures. | 2016 | Yimou Zhang | Action,Adventure,Fantasy | 5.9 (131.1K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Full River Red [Manjianghong]A pawn tries to get rid of a traitorous minister, Qin Hui, when he leads an army to the border for talks with a Jurchen mission. | 2023 | Yimou Zhang | Comedy,Drama,History | 6.5 (2.7K votes) | 159 | 20231115 |
| Article 20NA | 2024 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
| Coming HomeLu 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 recognizes | 2014 | Yimou Zhang | Drama,Romance | 7.2 (6K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| The Three-Body ProblemNA | TBA | | Sci-Fi | | | Not Available |
| Stories Through 180 LensesNA | 2014 | | Documentary,Short | | | Not Available |
| Shadow [Ying]In a Chinese royal court, an army commander secretly trains a "shadow" to retake a city against the wishes of the king. | 2018 | Yimou Zhang | Action,Adventure,Fantasy | 7.0 (14.9K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| One Second [Yi miao zhong]A movie fan in a remote farmland strikes a relationship with a homeless female vagabond. | 2020 | Yimou Zhang | Comedy,Drama,History | 7.1 (2.6K votes) | 104 | 20231016 |