Dan Zhao

Two sisters having fled from the war in northeast China come to Shanghai looking for a better life. Xiao Yun (Zhao Huishen) is forced into prostitution while her younger sister Xiao Hong (Zhou Xuan) becomes a singer and dancer at a local brothel... (IMDB Comments)

A film about the 1940 Opium War where the rebelled against British rule.

The life of four students in Shanghai that had recently finished university

A Nationalist official takes over a house from its owner who has been relocated to a small room. He and two other tenants must deal with the various whims of this man.

It deals with a true story of a figure in Chinese history, Wu Xun, who spent years collecting money as a beggar to eventually found a school for indigent children free of charge. (wikipedia.org)