China Box Office 2021
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1. The Battle at Lake Changjin (2021)
Not Rated | 176 min | Action, Drama, History
In the fierce battlefield in the midst of the harsh weather conditions, Wu Qian Li and Wu Wan Li, two brothers soldier including the brave Chinese soldiers must fight together and find a way to cope with the invasion of US forces.
Directors: Kaige Chen, Dante Lam, Hark Tsui, Jianxin Huang, Haiqiang Ning, Ju-chun Park | Stars: Jing Wu, Jackson Yee, Yihong Duan, Yawen Zhu
Votes: 4,122 | Gross: $0.34M
3. Detective Chinatown 3 (2021)
R | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A major crime occurs in Tokyo when detectives Tang Ren and Qin Feng are invited to investigate the crime. A battle between the strongest detectives in Asia is about to break out with bursts of laughter.
Director: Sicheng Chen | Stars: Baoqiang Wang, Haoran Liu, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Tony Jaa
Votes: 2,620
4. My Country, My Parents (2021)
Not Rated | 157 min | Drama
Included as the third installment of "National Day Celebration" trilogy with My People, My Country (2019) and My People, My Homeland (2020), My Country, My Parents focuses on four Chinese ... See full summary »
Directors: Teng Shen, Jing Wu, Zheng Xu, Ziyi Zhang | Stars: Jing Wu, Ziyi Zhang, Zheng Xu, Teng Shen
Votes: 564 | Gross: $0.18M
5. Raging Fire (2021)
Not Rated | 126 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Bong is a hardline cop with a long history of success, but his past comes back to haunt him when a sting is attacked by a group led by his former protégé, a man set on destroying everyone who ever wronged him.
Directors: Benny Chan, Shane Comley-White | Stars: Donnie Yen, Nicholas Tse, Lan Qin, Angus Yeung
Votes: 5,958 | Gross: $0.39M
6. Cliff Walkers (2021)
120 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
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.
Directors: Zhuang Jie Qiong, Yimou Zhang | Stars: Hewei Yu, Yi Zhang, Hailu Qin, Haocun Liu
Votes: 3,004 | Gross: $0.15M
7. Fireflies in the Sun (2021)
118 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Lin Rilang (Xiao Yang), his wife Aling (Janice Man), and his son Xiao Chong lived a poor but happy life until his son Xiao Chong had an accident and urgently needed treatment. After many ... See full summary »
Director: Mo Dai | Stars: Yang Xiao, Simon Yam, Janice Man, Yusi Chen
Votes: 436
8. A Writer's Odyssey (2021)
130 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Six years after the abduction of his daughter, a man is hired to kill the author of a fantasy novel, but the world of the novel seems to intersect with reality.
Directors: Yang Lu, Zhuang Jie Qiong | Stars: Jiayin Lei, Mi Yang, Zijian Dong, Shengdi Wang
Votes: 4,220 | Gross: $0.16M
9. Embrace Again (2021)
125 min | Drama, Romance
The love stories of ordinary people during the COVID-19 lockdown in Wuhan, from January to March 2020.
Director: Xiaolu Xue | Stars: Huang Bo, Ling Jia, Yilong Zhu, Fan Xu
Votes: 168
10. Be Somebody (2021)
123 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A group of filmmakers are gathered in a dark and windy night for preparation of shooting a film based on a sensational murder case. It's unrealized that they are placed in the real crime scene and the true murderer is among them.
Director: Xunzimo Liu | Stars: Zheng Yin, Jiajia Deng, Entai Yu, Haoyu Yang
Votes: 1,786
11. Sister (2021)
127 min | Drama
A girl who has lost her parents is facing the issue of pursuing an independent life or raising her younger brother.
Director: Ruoxin Yin | Stars: Zifeng Zhang, Yaoyuan Jin, Yang Xiao, Yuanyuan Zhu
Votes: 503
12. End Game (2021)
119 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
When an assassin loses his memory, an unsuccessful actor exchanges identities with him.
Director: Xiaozhi Rao | Stars: Andy Lau, Yang Xiao, Regina Wan, Yi Cheng
Votes: 1,036 | Gross: $0.02M
13. My Love (2021)
115 min | Comedy, Romance
During high school, Zhou Xiaoqi fell in love with You Yongci at first sight, but he watched over her secretly and the girl left without saying goodbye. Now it is 15 years later and he still pines for her.
Director: Tian Han | Stars: Greg Han Hsu, Ruonan Zhang, Guansen Ding, Zidong Yan
Votes: 497 | Gross: $0.09M
14. G Storm (2021)
93 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Follows an investigator as he prevents a terrorist attack during a symposium held by Hong Kong's Independent Commission Against Corruption. He later finds it has links to human trafficking in Thailand.
Director: David Lam | Stars: Louis Koo, Julian Cheung, Kevin Cheng, Jessica Hester Hsuan
Votes: 380
15. Green Snake (2021)
Not Rated | 131 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Animated adaptation of the classic Chinese folktale. Sequel to the 2019 film 'White Snake'.
Director: Amp Wong | Stars: Xiaoxi Tang, Zhang Fuzheng, Islam Abdelbadia, Zhongyang Baomu
Votes: 3,453
16. 1921 (2021)
138 min | Drama
The film will be about the establishment and creation of the Communist Party of China (CPC), which is now commonly known as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), 100 years ago.
Directors: Jianxin Huang, Dasheng Zheng | Stars: Xuan Huang, Ni Ni, Renjun Wang, Wenkang Yuan
Votes: 414
17. New Gods: Nezha Reborn (2021)
TV-14 | 118 min | Animation, Action, Fantasy
A normal young deliveryman Li Yunxiang, though coming from the slum area, is living a satisfying life but when the arrogant wealthy son of Boss beats him down, his deep anger turns into a blast of Truth Fire.
Director: Ji Zhao | Stars: Nicole Fong, Victoria Grace, Jason Ko, Dashiell McGaha-Schletter
Votes: 3,869
18. Schemes in Antiques (2021)
123 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Adapted from Ma Boyong's novel of the same name, the film tells the story of a series of adventures that occurred when the descendants of the five veins made a wish to find out the truth ... See full summary »
Director: Chi-Kin Kwok | Stars: Jiayin Lei, Xian Li, Zhilei Xin, You Ge
Votes: 406
19. Cloudy Mountain (2021)
114 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A father and son try to save a small town and its newly-built tunnel that is threatened by natural disasters.
Director: Li Jun | Stars: Yilong Zhu, Zhizhong Huang, Shu Chen, Junyan Jiao
Votes: 990
20. Break Through the Darkness (2021)
112 min | Drama
Special anti-crime team head Song leads a crew to break into front line, start with the investigation of a land acquisition case, breakthrough blocks one by one. They expose criminal ... See full summary »
Director: Yulai Lü | Stars: Wu Jiang, Songwen Zhang, Kim Scar, Qian Li
Votes: 213
21. Upcoming (2021)
115 min | Drama
Chen Chen, a high school student, finds the love affair of her mother just before the college entrance exam and gets depressed. After the unsuccessful exam, Chen gets acquainted with Zheng ... See full summary »
Director: Leste Chen | Stars: Zifeng Zhang, Lei Wu, Lei Hao, Feng Zu
Votes: 756
22. Love Will Tear Us Apart (2021)
105 min | Romance
Ten years ago, Lu Qinyang confessed his love for Ling Yiyao in front of the whole school. He promised to marry her in the future and never regret it.
Director: Sha Mo | Stars: Chuxiao Qu, Jingyi Zhang, Ning Sun, Jiayi Du
Votes: 334
23. B for Busy (2021)
112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A divorced, retired painting teacher from Shanghai falls in love with a woman who is also divorced. The involvement of his ex-wife and a student of his makes the whole thing complicated.
Director: Yihui Shao | Stars: Zheng Xu, Yili Ma, Yue Wu, Hongjie Ni
Votes: 1,665
24. I Am What I Am (2021)
104 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
A young Cantonese village boy must overcome self-doubt, ridicule and classism to realise his dream of competing in the Guangzhou Lion Dancing championship.
Director: Haipeng Sun | Stars: Xin Li, Yexiong Chen, Hao Guo, Meng Li
Votes: 1,444
25. Once Upon a Time in Hong Kong (2021)
105 min | Action, Crime, History
Set in 1973, Hong Kong. The Hong Kong governor sets up Independent Commission Against Corruption to investigate and arrest the corrupted chief Chinese inspector Tsui Lok, and gang boss Crippled Ho.
Directors: Woody Hui Yan, Jing Wong | Stars: Louis Koo, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Francis Ng, Ka-Tung Lam
Votes: 283
26. Men suo (2021)
105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Beautiful young girl Fang lives alone in a modern city. Someone violently pulls her door lock one night, and the security tells later that the monitor of her floor does no work. Sleeping Fang is vaguely aware of someone's sneak-in.
Director: Orkenbek Baysenbay | Stars: Baihe Bai, White-K, Chengcheng Fan, Cici Wang
Votes: 133
27. Lost and Found (2021)
103 min | Drama, Romance
Lu is a hotel lobby manager. Jiang is founder of a startup company. They are both outlanders struggling in the big city and meet in a marketing event. The two spend a New Year's Eve ... See full summary »
Director: Zhi Li | Stars: Xiaotong Mao, Le Yang, Qian Sun, Haiyu Zhang
Votes: 32
28. Da hong bao (2021)
122 min
A man hires an actress to join him in a fake marriage so that they can collect the money given to newlyweds as gifts during the wedding ceremony.
Director: Kelong Li | Stars: Bei'er Bao, Clara Lee
Votes: 58
29. Home Sweet Home (2021)
110 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A story that follows a family of four leading harmonious and contented lives. When a mysterious visitor starts residing in their basement, their lives are turned upside down as strange events begin to occur.
Director: Leste Chen | Stars: Aaron Kwok, Yihong Duan, Zifeng Zhang, Wei-Ning Hsu
Votes: 424
30. Wish Dragon (2021)
PG | 98 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Determined teen Din is longing to reconnect with his childhood best friend when he meets a wish-granting dragon who shows him the magic of possibilities.
Director: Chris Appelhans | Stars: Jimmy Wong, John Cho, Constance Wu, Natasha Liu Bordizzo
Votes: 33,512
31. The Day We Lit Up the Sky (2021)
108 min | Comedy, Music
The old dog (Peng Yuchang) who came to Hainan to re-study the classes again, he met a group of "salted fish teenagers" who attracted to each other by common tastes, and met a group of unusual "weed girls". Let's dance together this summer.
Directors: Han Yan, Yibai Zhang | Stars: Natalie Hsu, Yuxuan Hu, Jue Huang, Carman Lee
Votes: 59
32. All About My Mother (2021)
120 min | Drama
Peizhen Ji, the mother of Xiaomei Li, was the center of the entire family, who took care of everybody. Their seemingly perfect life was not what it looks like. Xiaomei Li worked in Beijing ... See full summary »
Director: Tianyu Zhao | Stars: Fan Xu, Jingyi Zhang, Yajun Xu, Xinyi Zhang
Votes: 67
33. Railway Heroes (2021)
124 min | Drama, History, War
The historical story of an enemy fighting the wits and courage of an extraordinary brave group of ordinary heroes known as the "Lunan Railway Brigade" who desperately fight to defend their homeland.
Director: Feng Yang | Stars: Hanyu Zhang, Wei Fan, Vision Wei, Ye Zhou
Votes: 358
34. Chao yue (2021)
98 min | Drama, Sport
Tianyi Wu, a young running champion, returns to his hometown, aiming to get off his chest the failure to surpass his former teammate, Chaoyue Hao. But he doesn't expect to see that Chaoyue's life is in shambles as well.
Director: Bowen Han | Stars: Cao Bingkun, Li Chen, Tiecheng Guo, Bowen Han
Votes: 57
35. Island Keeper (2021)
125 min | Biography, Drama
The film tells the touching experience of Wang Jicai and his wife who stayed on Kaishan Island in Jiangsu Province for 32 years defending the island and defending the country making the island their home.
Director: Li Chen | Stars: Ye Liu, Zhe Gong, Chuang Chen, Peng Chi
Votes: 73
36. The Pioneer (2021)
121 min | Drama, History
Set in April, 1927. The last days and hours of Dazhao Li, one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party, before he is executed by a warlord's team.
Director: Xu Zhanxiong | Stars: Songwen Zhang, Yifeng Li, Liya Tong, Taishen Cheng
Votes: 157
37. The Monkey King: Reborn (2021)
Not Rated | 95 min | Animation, Action, Fantasy
A long, long time ago, devils were rampant in East-land. Master Tang, who was second apprentice of Buddha Rulai in his previous life, swore to Leiyin Temple in West to fetch scriptures to purify East-land.
Director: Yunfei Wang | Stars: Yenni Ann, Xuecen Bai, Zhongyang Baomu, Jiang Bian
Votes: 559
38. The Soul (2021)
130 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The founder of a corporation developing a futuristic cancer treatment is brutally murdered, and a prosecutor sidelined by the illness asks to lead the case, assisted by his newly pregnant detective wife.
Director: Wei-Hao Cheng | Stars: Chang Chen, Janine Chun-Ning Chang, Anke Sun, Christopher Ming-Shun Lee
Votes: 3,377
39. Yang guang jie mei tao (2021)
118 min | Comedy
A group of seven friends from high school reunite after 24 years upon learning that their leader has been diagnosed with cancer.
Directors: Bei'er Bao, Li Nan | Stars: Xu Chen, Lele Dai, Xiaohan Jiang, Yixuan Jiang
Votes: 58
41. Extinct (2021)
TV-Y7 | 84 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Op and Ed accidentally time-travel from the Galapagos Islands in 1835 to present-day Shanghai. They make their way through the city in confusion and make the horrifying discovery that the species to which they belong became extinct shortly after.
Directors: David Silverman, Raymond S. Persi | Stars: Adam Devine, Rachel Bloom, Ken Jeong, Zazie Beetz
Votes: 3,420
42. The Eleventh Chapter (2019)
115 min | Comedy, Drama
A man must attempt to clear his name after a theatre puts on a play that accuses him of committing a 30-year-old murder.
Director: Jianbin Chen | Stars: Jianbin Chen, Xun Zhou, Leah Dou, Da Peng
Votes: 513
43. The Last Warrior (2021)
PG | 111 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
It tells the tale of a young girl named Jade and a terracotta warrior named Magnus who must team up to fight the creatures that keep attacking their Qin dynasty underground city, and who eventually fall in love.
Directors: Leon Ding, Yongchang Lin | Stars: Chris Boike, Olivia Seaton-Hill, Joseph S. Lambert, Paul 'Maxx' Rinehart
Votes: 323
44. Bu su lai ke (2021)
107 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In one night, in one room, three strangers-a thief, a retired policeman, and a delivery guy-are all present during the murder of the room's occupant. As the trio tries to figure out this ... See full summary »
Director: Xiang Liu | Stars: Wei Fan, Shawn Dou, Songwen Zhang, Zhu Zhu
Votes: 239
45. August Never Ends (2021)
95 min | Drama, Romance
Rebellious Weiyang(Elaine Zhong) and idealist 'princess' Xiao Qiao(Tan Song Yun) are best friends. Their world becomes complicated when Qiao's fiancee Chao Yan(Luo Jin) falls in love with Weiyang. Then Weiyang makes a surprising decision.
Director: Kai Li | Stars: Jin Luo, Songyun Tan, Elane Zhong
Votes: 66
46. Water Boys (2021)
111 min | Comedy, Sport
Five high students join the swim team by accident and find themselves in a situation where they have to complete a synchronized swimming performance.
Director: Haolin Song | Stars: Yunlai Xin, Xiangkun Feng, Xiaoqian Li, Junting Wu
Votes: 165
47. Love After Love (2020)
144 min | Drama
The film tells the story of a young girl who travels from Shanghai to Hong Kong in pursuit of education, but ends up working for her aunt seducing rich and powerful men.
Director: Ann Hui | Stars: Sichun Ma, Feihong Yu, Eddie Peng, Janine Chun-Ning Chang
Votes: 631
48. Are You Lonesome Tonight? (2021)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
On a dark night, Xueming hits a pedestrian with his car and flees the scene. Desperate to escape his feelings of guilt, he decides to approach the dead man's wife, Mrs Liang. Meanwhile, the... See full summary »
Director: Shipei Wen | Stars: Eddie Peng, Sylvia Chang, Yanhui Wang, Peiyao Jiang
Votes: 719
49. To Be with You (2021)
96 min | Drama, Romance
Zhou Zhou, a clever girl, falls in love with Qiu Fei, a gangster boy, during the military training in college.
Directors: Tzu-Ping Lin, Rui Sun | Stars: Keru Wang, Dongqin Liu, Zhener Wang, George Hu
Votes: 11
50. Pi Pi Lu yu Lu Xi Xi zhi Guan tou xiao ren (2021)
94 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Pipilu and Lu Xixi are twin brothers and sisters. Lu Xixi has excellent grades and Pipiru is naughty and playful. One day Lu Xixi found a strange can at home. In the can, five little people... See full summary »
Director: Fei Yu | Stars: Ying Liu, Yu Tian, Chundi Wen, Yuanjie Zheng
Votes: 44
51. Octonauts: The Ring of Fire (2021)
TV-Y | 72 min | Animation
The Octonauts create a Mantis Shrip Robot to save the oceanic creatures from a tsunami and volcanic eruptions in the Pacific Ring of Fire.
Directors: Blair Simmons, Qin Zhou | Stars: Teresa Gallagher, Simon Greenall, Michael Murphy, Paul Panting
Votes: 185
53. A Hustle Bustle New Year (2021)
99 min | Drama
Middle-aged screenwriter Wang Ziliang bears great pressure of career, family, and human relations. The biggest wish of his mother is having a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner with all her sons and daughters.
Director: Li Yin | Stars: Gang Wu, Yanshu Wu, Shan Jiang, Tao Guo
Votes: 16
54. Tiger Robbers (2021)
107 min | Drama
In order to rescue the tiger she regarded as her daughter, a woman cooperated with another female leader of a pet agency on an adventure.
Director: Yu Li | Stars: Sui-Man Chim, Li Fang, Li Ma, Yi Sha
Votes: 113
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