This is not to brag. In my long movie-watching career, I have watched all the movies in the top 200 on IMDB, and I have also watched basically all the movies in the top 200 on Douban. Today, I have recalled all the movies I have watched, selected the best, and recommended the 10 most essential ones to you:

The serial numbers are in no particular order!

1. "Farewell My Concubine"

The film revolves around the joys and sorrows of two Peking opera actors for half a century, showing the thinking and understanding of traditional culture, people's living conditions and human nature. The film was released in mainland China and Hong Kong in 1993. Since then, it has been released in many countries and regions around the world and broke the box office record for mainland Chinese literary films in the United States.

"Farewell My Concubine" should be recognized as the highest-rated movie in China so far. My brother's magnificent performance has never been surpassed so far. Alas, beauties have always had a bad fate since ancient times, but I didn’t expect that it would also happen to Cheng Dieyi.

Whether it is the artistic value, the deep connotation, or the performance of the actors, "Farewell My Concubine" is a classic among classics. It’s about the people at the bottom, about the two sides of that era, the darkness, the oppression, the enemies of every tree and grass, and about the ideological form. Cheng Dieyi makes no distinction between human beings and actors. If you are not crazy, you will not survive. If you are not crazy, you will not survive. These six words do not refer to that era.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that the last ten minutes of the film really made me collapse, despair, and cry non-stop. In short, this is a rare masterpiece with the right time, place and people.

2. "Raise the Red Lantern"

"Raise the Red Lantern" revolves around feudal ethics and tells the story of several jealous concubines of a wealthy family during the Republic of China. A story that triggered a series of tragedies.

Although the main theme of the whole film is bright red, it gives people a very depressing feeling, showing the helplessness of women in ancient times, and their fate was in the hands of men. Director Zhang Yimou showed a very high level of grasp of color and plot in the whole drama. It is really awesome to be able to use such a festive color as bright red to show suppressed emotions!

3. "Red Sorghum"

"Red Sorghum" is adapted from "Red Sorghum Family" by Mo Yan, China's first Nobel Prize winner for literature. It is directed by Zheng Xiaolong and written by Zhou Xun and Zhu Yawen. Waiting for the starring role. The play tells the story of a modern legendary epic about love and hate, conquest and being conquered, written by Jiuer with his life in the vital land of Gaomi, Shandong Province in the early 1930s.

This is the famous work of the great director Zhang Yimou. It won the first international award for Chinese films in the new era - the Golden Bear Award, and also made the international superstar Gong Li famous. The biggest feature of the film is that it captures the heroic and cheerful side of the Chinese people, which is very different from the sad and heavy traditional style of mainland Chinese movies. Cinematographer Gu Changwei has outstanding performance in framing and use of color. The scene where the male and female protagonists are reunited in the sorghum field has the beauty of "the scene and the person are integrated" that is rare in Chinese movies, and it is very enjoyable to watch.

4. "In the Mood for Love"

"In the Mood for Love" is a romance film directed by Wong Kar-Wai and starring Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung. It was released in Hong Kong, China on September 29, 2000. The film is set in Hong Kong in the 1960s and tells the story of Su Lizhen and Chow Mo-wan, who began to contact each other and develop feelings for each other after discovering that their spouses were having extramarital affairs.

The classics of this drama lie in the national characteristics and the color of the times, which are reflected in the "Chinese-style" love in the drama and the clothes of the protagonist Maggie Cheung. The cheongsam, embroidered slippers and other props in the film have both national characteristics and symbolic meaning. It not only adds a national flavor to the film, but also increases the implicitness of the theme.

Wong Kar-Wai showed the complexity and subtlety of human nature through an ordinary story. Through the meticulous pursuit of scenes, props and costumes, the entire film fully expressed the style and style of that era.

5. "City of Sadness"

"City of Sadness" takes advantage of the "February 28th Incident" to depict the rise and fall of a large local family into a story about the changes of the times and personal relationships. A Taiwanese epic whose fate is closely linked. The whole film tells history without being perverse and violent in the network of multi-line narratives and relationships between many characters.

The classic of "Sad City" mainly lies in the shooting background, because the film shows the history of Taiwan that we do not understand in a sad and painful way, telling the world about Taiwan's tragedy and where it lies. . Integrate the dream of family and country into movies, and use movies to awaken the world.

In "City of Sadness", Hou Hsiao-hsien brought the independence and self-consciousness of Taiwanese filmmakers to a new level. Viewed from the perspective of family and country justice, this film is almost the highest peak of Taiwanese cinema.

6. "Westward Journey"

The "Westward Journey" series consists of two films, "Westward Journey: The Moonlight Box" and "Westward Journey: The Marriage of the Monkey King". A tragic and joyful love story spanning time and space.

The classic aspect of "Westward Journey" is the screenwriter's perspective. Created in the 1990s, "Westward Journey" adopted a parallel time and space story background that was rare at the time. The dual identity of the Supreme Treasure in the movie and time travel also created a lot of misunderstandings for the audience.

After many years, under the premise that "time travel" and "dual identity" have become commonplace, more viewers have realized that under the comedy and funny appearance of "Westward Journey", there are more hidden meanings. Rich growth, responsibility and other themes. This movie has become one of the must-see classics for many movie fans.

7. "A Havoc in Heaven"

"A Havoc in Heaven" uses mythology to express the protagonist Sun Wukong's story in a more concentrated and prominent way through the story of Sun Wukong causing trouble in the Dragon Palace and rebelling against the Heavenly Court. Legendary experience.

Although "Havoc in Heaven" is a very old cartoon, it is not inferior to the current animations at all. It vividly reproduces the Chinese mythical hero Sun Wukong on the screen. The film has strong colors, strange shapes, magnificent scenes, and ups and downs of the plot. It has a unique artistic color. This is why "Havoc in Heaven" can be called an immortal Chinese cartoon. The main reason for this work. As a classic Chinese cartoon that has influenced several generations, it is a monument in the history of Chinese animation.

8. "Infernal Affairs"

"Infernal Affairs" tells the story of two men with confused identities who are undercover agents of the police and the underworld. After a fierce battle, they are determined to To find your own story.

Needless to say, the wonderful idea of ??the screenwriter of this drama. The various accidental and inevitable plot settings are jaw-dropping. I thought that the story should be coming to an end after killing Han Shen, but I never expected to meet on a rooftop. It is the climax of the story, which has made the legend of police movies in the past twenty years, and it is a favorite. However, it is regrettable that twenty years have passed and we have not seen the revival of Hong Kong films.

The above is the introduction of the eight movies I recommend. They are all movies worth recommending!