Favorite Film With Beijing as a Backdrop
The Beijing 2022: XXIV Olympic Winter Games (2022) were held in Beijing, China from 04 February 2022 to 20 February 2022. Worldwide, people visited Beijing over this two-week period through the power of television. Beijing has served as the backdrop or been an essential plot element in thousands of movies, making it a very familiar destination for many viewers. Source: Wikipedia - Category:Films set in Beijing
Which of these select movies that use Beijing, China (aka Peking) as a significant plot element or backdrop is your favorite Beijingese film?
Discuss the topic here.
Which of these select movies that use Beijing, China (aka Peking) as a significant plot element or backdrop is your favorite Beijingese film?
Discuss the topic here.
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- RegistaBernardo BertolucciStelleJohn LoneJoan ChenPeter O'TooleLa storia dell'ultimo imperatore della Cina.
- RegistaHarald ZwartStelleJackie ChanJaden SmithTaraji P. HensonIl lavoro fa sì che una madre single si trasferisca in Cina con il suo giovane figlio; nella sua nuova casa, il ragazzo abbraccia il kung fu, insegnatogli da un maestro.
- RegistaAng LeeStelleChow Yun-FatMichelle YeohZiyi ZhangIn una terra di infinita bellezza e di leggende, una spada antichissima e preziosa fa incrociare i destini di un guerriero, della donna che lo ama, di un fuorilegge e di una principessa destinata a diventare un guerriero.
- RegistaDavid CronenbergStelleJeremy IronsJohn LoneBarbara SukowaNella Cina degli anni '60, il diplomatico francese Rene Gallimard si innamora di una cantante d'opera, Song Liling, ma Song non è affatto quello che pensa Gallimard.
- RegistaKaige ChenStelleLeslie CheungFengyi ZhangGong LiDue ragazzi si incontrano in una scuola di formazione lirica a Pechino nel 1924. La loro amicizia che ne deriverà durerà quasi 70 anni e durerà alcuni dei periodi più difficili nella storia della Cina.
- RegistiNicholas RayGuy GreenAndrew MartonStelleCharlton HestonAva GardnerDavid NivenDurante la rivolta dei Boxer di inizio '900, le ambasciate dei principali paesi europei si trovano circondate; un maggiore dei marine e un ambasciatore inglese preparano un piano per resistere all'assalto fino all'arrivo dei rinforzi.
- RegistaXiaoshuai WangStelleLin CuiXun ZhouBin LiA seventeen-year-old country boy working in Beijing as a courier has his bicycle stolen, and finds it with a schoolboy his age.
- RegistaRobert LongoStelleKeanu ReevesDolph LundgrenDina MeyerUn corriere di dati, che trasporta un pacchetto di dati nella sua testa, deve consegnarlo prima di morire o di essere ucciso dallo Yakuza.
- RegistaZhuangzhuang TianStelleTian YiWenyao ZhangXiaoman ChenThe lives of a Beijing family throughout the 1950s and 1960s, as they experience the impact of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution.
- RegistaJon AvnetStelleRichard GereBai LingBradley WhitfordUn avvocato americano per affari in Cina viene arrestato ingiustamente e processato per omicidio e un'avvocatessa del paese è l'unica chiave per dimostrare la sua innocenza.
- RegistaYang ZhangStelleJiayi DuZheng FangBing HeA young wealthy businessman's icy attitude toward his working-class background is about to thaw as he is forced to reconnect with his elderly father and mentally challenged younger brother, who together run a public bathhouse.
- RegistiArchie MayoJohn CromwellStelleGary CooperSigrid GurieBasil RathboneAdventurer Marco Polo travels to China, where he finds the Emperor Kublai Khan, court intrigue, danger, and unexpected love.
- RegistaKaige ChenStelleYun TangPeiqi LiuHong ChenA violin prodigy and his father travel to Beijing, where the father seeks the means to his son's success while the son struggles to accept the path laid before him.
- RegistaKeanu ReevesStelleHu ChenKeanu ReevesKaren MokLe abilità senza pari di un giovane maestro di tai chi lo portano verso un club di combattenti segreto.
- RegistiKaige ChenGuan HuHao NingStelleHuang BoQianyuan WangHao OuAn anthology film consist of 7 short stories directed by several different directors, which are based on 7 moments since the founding of the People's Republic of China.
- RegistaJosef von SternbergStelleMarlene DietrichClive BrookAnna May WongUna donna riscopre un ex amante durante un pericoloso viaggio in treno per Shanghai.
- RegistaHark TsuiStelleBrigitte LinSally YehCherie ChungThe movie is set in chaotic 1920's China, when warlords fought each other for power while Sun Yat-Sen's underground movement tried to establish a democratic republic. The movie tells the story of three young women and two young men who are thrown together. One young woman grabs a box of jewels during the looting when one warlord takes Peking. A deserting soldier joins her, but the jewels end up at the Peking Opera. Here we meet the daughter of the head of the troupe, who dreams of being an actress. But even female roles are played by men in the opera. Soon, the daughter of the currently ruling warlord and a male agent of the democratic underground are involved.
- RegistaSheng DingStelleJackie ChanYe LiuTian JingA man looking for the release of a long-time prisoner takes a police officer, his daughter, and a group of strangers hostage.
- RegistaYe LouStelleLei HaoXiaodong GuoXueyun BaiYu Hong leaves her home village and starts university in Beijing, where she develops a consuming and compulsive relationship with another student. The student riots from 1989 then ensue and take a toll on their lives.
- RegistaFrant GwoStelleJing WuMan-Tat NgZhi WangPer salvare l'umanità gli scienziati costruiscono giganteschi propulsori planetari per portare la Terra verso un nuovo sistema stellare. Il viaggio presenta dei pericoli inaspettati e i giovani devono lottare duramente per salvare tutti.
- RegistaBrad AndersonStelleWoody HarrelsonEmily MortimerBen KingsleyUn viaggio in treno transiberiano dalla Cina a Mosca diventa un'emozionante caccia all'inganno e all'omicidio quando due americani incontrano una misteriosa coppia di compagni di viaggio.
- RegistaWen JiangStelleYu XiaWei ChenShaobo DaiBeijing, 1970s. Now that the CR has driven most adults to the provinces, 14-year-old Monkey and his pals have free reign over the city. They hang around, get up to no good, and discover that unsolvable mystery referred to as "girls."
- RegistaXiaogang FengStelleDonald SutherlandRosamund KwanPaul MazurskyYankie director Don Tyler faces mounting insecurity and declining health while on location in Beijing, so his assistant hires down-and-out camerman YoYo to take the reins. Scrambling, studio boss sells the sagging picture to a Japanese media company. But YoYo is determined to upstage the whole production by granting the director's wish to have a grand "comedy funeral". To raise the money for it, he auctions off advertising and sponsorships for the funeral to companies around the world. But wait...is Don getting better?
- RegistaGuan HuStelleXiaogang FengHanyu ZhangQing XuA well-respected man residing in what's left of Old Beijing attempts to exonerate his son from his wrongdoings with his own methods and beliefs.
- RegistaHark TsuiStelleJet LiRosamund KwanMok Siu-ChungMaster Wong and his disciples enroll in the 'Dancing Lion Competition' to stop an assassination plot and to battle an arrogant, deceitful opponent.