
The Painted Veil(2006)
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.



Andy Lau
Cai E

Chow Yun-Fat
Yuan Shikai

Nick Cheung Ka-Fai
Liang Qichao

Daniel Wu
Hu Shi

Tony Leung Ka-fai
Fan Yuanlian

Liu Ye
Mao Zedong

Chen Kun
Zhou Enlai

Chang Chen
Chiang Kai-shek

John Woo
Lin Sen

Li Qin
Yang Kaihui
Beginning of the Great Revival is a drama, action, history, war film released in 2011 exploring themes of 1920s, communist china. Directed by Han Sanping, it stars Andy Lau, Chow Yun-Fat, Nick Cheung Ka-Fai. A chronicle of the events that led to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Resistance leader Omar Mukhtar opposes Italian colonization before World War II. The brutal guerrilla war against Italian General Rodolfo Graziani and the Fascist forces of Benito Mussolini highlights the struggle for Libyan independence and the harsh tactics utilised by the colonisers.

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An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.

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