Ye Lou

An epic tale of doomed passion, mistaken identity and the terrible personal cost of political resistance. (Palm Pictures)

Marda (Jia), a motorcycle courier becomes obsessed with a beautiful young girl named Moudan (Zhou), whom he falls in love with only to lose her in a botched kidnap attempt to gain money from her wealthy father. Moudan jumps into the murky waters of the Suzhou River and becomes lost forever. Marda is sentenced for three years, but upon his return he meets MeiMei (Zhou), an identical look-alike whom he suspects is actually Moudan, or is she? (Strand Releasing)

Country girl Yu Hong leaves her village, her family and her lover to study in Beijing. At university, she discovers an intense world of sexual freedom and forbidden pleasure. Enraptured, compulsive, she falls madly in love with fellow student Zhou Wei... (imdb)

The film follows a young man, A Xi who is recently released from prison. Once released, he seeks out his old girlfriend Li Xin who has since begun a relationship with La La a young musician. As the two men vie for her attention... (Freebase)

A wife discovers her husband is having an affair with another man. (imdb)

Hua is a young teacher from Beijing. She is fluent in French and has just arrived in Paris. Mathieu is a French worker in constructions, the child of Paris suburbs. They meet by chance and begin a smoldering, intense, passionate affair. (slantmagazine.com)

Lu Jie has no idea her husband Yongzhao is leading a double life, until the day she sees him entering a hotel with a young woman. Her world crumbles - and it's just the beginning. A few hours later, the young woman dies beneath the wheels of a car. The police officer in charge of the case refuses to believe her death was accidental... (cannes)

A drama centered around the employees of a Nanjing massage parlor who share a common trait: they are all blind. (imdb)

A very personal portrait by Lou Ye, of his own city of Shanghai, he heads into the city with his video camera. A city that is subject to great changes thanks to its economic openness to the West, but where the past is still tangibly and visibly present. (imdb)

This movie is not so much about making an obvious political statement such as social criticism or introspection on the dross of the traditional culture, this movie is rather a realistic depiction of the new difficulties people faced in the new era in China, namely, the rapid changing and highly competitive capitalism, and how people choose to face such difficulties. (imdb)

The Chief of Construction Committee leaps to his death from a tall building. Yang Jiadong, a rookie cop begins investigating it. Forced out of his job and to the safety of Hong Kong, he endeavors to discover the truth. (imdb)

Yu Jin is working undercover gathering intelligence for the Allies.

When the pandemic confines Lou Ye and his crew to their hotel near Wuhan, their film grows into a gripping record of creative process in times of crisis. Liberally mixing fact and fiction, An Unfinished Film traces a recalcitrant film intent on evading its maker. What happens when a film starts eating itself? In 2019, Lou Ye set out with his usual collaborators to complete an unfinished feature from ten years before. But when Covid-19 confined the crew to their hotel, the process of finalisin