To celebrate a hundred years of Chinese cinema, the Hong Kong Film Awards put together a list of The Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures. As if to attempt to balance the short German list, this Top 100 actually includes 103 films. It's heavily biased towards Hong Kong movies, which is fine by me as I'm a confirmed fan of Cantonese cinema.
I found the list at a site called Monkey Peaches, which no longer exists, so here's an archived source at the Wayback Machine.
| # |
Title |
Year |
Director |
IMDb |
| 1 |
Springtime in a Small Town |
1948 |
Fei Mu |
IMDb |
| 2 |
A Better Tomorrow |
1986 |
John Woo |
IMDb |
| 3 |
Days of Being Wild |
1990 |
Wong Kar Wai |
IMDb |
| 4 |
Yellow Earth |
1985 |
Chen Kaige |
IMDb |
| 5 |
City of Sadness |
1989 |
Hou Hsiao Hsien |
IMDb |
| 6 |
Long Arm of the Law |
1984 |
Johnny Mak |
IMDb |
| 7 |
Dragon Inn |
1967 |
King Hu |
IMDb |
| 8 |
Boat People |
1982 |
Ann Hui |
IMDb |
| 9 |
A Touch of Zen |
1971 |
King Hu |
IMDb |
| 10 |
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
2000 |
Ang Lee |
IMDb |
| 11 |
Street Angel |
1937 |
Yuan Mu Jih |
IMDb |
| 12 |
A Brighter Summer Day |
1991 |
Edward Yang |
IMDb |
| 13 |
The Private Eyes |
1976 |
Michael Hui |
IMDb |
| 14 |
The Mission |
1999 |
Johnnie To |
IMDb |
| 15 |
The One-Armed Swordsman |
1967 |
Chang Cheh |
IMDb |
| 16 |
Fist of Fury |
1972 |
Lo Wei |
IMDb |
| 17 |
In the Heat of the Sun |
1994 |
Jiang Wen |
IMDb |
| 18 |
In the Face of Demolition |
1953 |
Li Tie |
IMDb |
| 19 |
A Chinese Odyssey |
1995 |
Jeffrey Lau |
IMDb |
| 20 |
The Arch |
1970 |
Tang Shu Shuen |
IMDb |
| 21 |
Rouge |
1988 |
Stanley Kwan |
IMDb |
| 22 |
Chungking Express |
1994 |
Wong Kar Wai |
IMDb |
| 23 |
Homecoming |
1984 |
Yim Ho |
IMDb |
| 24 |
The Time to Live and the Time to Die |
1985 |
Hou Hsiao Hsien |
IMDb |
| 25 |
Red Sorghum |
1987 |
Zhang Yimou |
IMDb |
| 26 |
Father and Son |
1981 |
Allen Fong |
IMDb |
| 27 |
The Spring River Flows East |
1947 |
Cai Chusheng |
IMDb |
| 28 |
Comrades: Almost a Love Story |
1996 |
Peter Chan |
IMDb |
| 29 |
The Goddess |
1934 |
Wu Yonggang |
IMDb |
| 30 |
The Highway |
1934 |
Sun Yu |
IMDb |
| 31 |
The Secret |
1979 |
Ann Hui |
IMDb |
| 32 |
Infernal Affairs |
2002 |
Lau Wai Keung & Mak Siu Fai |
IMDb |
| 33 |
Drunken Master |
1978 |
Yuen Wo Ping |
IMDb |
| 34 |
The Butterfly Murders |
1979 |
Tsui Hark |
IMDb |
| 35 |
Ashes of Time |
1994 |
Wong Kar Wai |
IMDb |
| 36 |
Made in Hong Kong |
1997 |
Fruit Chan |
IMDb |
| 37 |
Sorrows of the Forbidden City |
1948 |
Zhu Shilin |
IMDb |
| 38 |
Liang Shan-po and Chu Ying-t'ai |
1963 |
Li Han Hsiang |
IMDb |
| 39 |
The Story of a Discharged Prisoner |
1967 |
Lung Kong |
IMDb |
| 40 |
Zu Warriors |
1983 |
Tsui Hark |
IMDb |
| 41 |
The Terrorizer |
1986 |
Edward Yang |
IMDb |
| 42 |
The Killer |
1989 |
John Woo |
IMDb |
| 43 |
Once Upon a Time in China |
1991 |
Tsui Hark |
IMDb |
| 44 |
The Actress |
1992 |
Stanley Kwan |
IMDb |
| 45 |
Story of Qiu Ju |
1992 |
Zhang Yimou |
IMDb |
| 46 |
This Life of Mine |
1950 |
Shi Hui |
IMDb |
| 47 |
Kingdom and the Beauty |
1962 |
Li Han Hsiang |
IMDb |
| 48 |
Winter Warm |
1969 |
Li Han Hsiang |
IMDb |
| 49 |
An Autumn's Tale |
1987 |
Mabel Cheung |
IMDb |
| 50 |
A Chinese Ghost Story |
1987 |
Ching Siu Tung |
IMDb |
| 51 |
The Purple Hairpin |
1959 |
Li Tie |
IMDb |
| 52 |
The Orphan |
1960 |
Lee Sun Fung |
IMDb |
| 53 |
Two Stage Sisters |
1964 |
Xie Jin |
IMDb |
| 54 |
City on Fire |
1987 |
Ringo Lam |
IMDb |
| 55 |
Farewell My Concubine |
1993 |
Chen Kaige |
IMDb |
| 56 |
Yi Yi |
2000 |
Edward Yang |
IMDb |
| 57 |
Cold Nights |
1955 |
Lee Sun Fung |
IMDb |
| 58 |
At Dawn |
1967 |
Sung Tsun Shou |
IMDb |
| 59 |
Raining in the Mountain |
1979 |
King Hu |
IMDb |
| 60 |
Police Story |
1985 |
Jackie Chan |
IMDb |
| 61 |
C'est la Vie, Mon Cheri |
1993 |
Yee Tung Sheng |
IMDb |
| 62 |
The Wedding Banquet |
1993 |
Ang Lee |
IMDb |
| 63 |
The Platform |
2000 |
Jiang Zhangke |
IMDb |
| 64 |
The Wild, Wild Rose |
1960 |
Wang Tian Lin |
IMDb |
| 65 |
The Great Devotion |
1960 |
Chor Yuen |
IMDb |
| 66 |
My Intimate Partner |
1960 |
Kim Chun |
IMDb |
| 67 |
Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind |
1980 |
Tsui Hark |
IMDb |
| 68 |
Ah Ying |
1983 |
Allen Fong |
IMDb |
| 69 |
Durian Durian |
2000 |
Fruit Chan |
IMDb |
| 70 |
Little Toys |
1933 |
Sun Yu |
IMDb |
| 71 |
Happiness and Sadness of Middle Age |
1949 |
Sang Hu |
IMDb |
| 72 |
The House of 72 Tenants |
1973 |
Chor Yuen |
IMDb |
| 73 |
Nomad |
1982 |
Patrick Tam |
IMDb |
| 74 |
Dust in the Wind |
1987 |
Hou Hsiao Hsien |
IMDb |
| 75 |
92 Legendary La Rose Noire |
1992 |
Jeffrey Lau |
IMDb |
| 76 |
Shaolin Soccer |
2001 |
Stephen Chow |
IMDb |
| 77 |
Song at Midnight |
1937 |
Ma Xu Weibang |
IMDb |
| 78 |
China Behind |
1978 |
Tong Shu Shuen |
IMDb |
| 79 |
The Spooky Bunch |
1980 |
Ann Hui |
IMDb |
| 80 |
Taipei Story |
1985 |
Edward Yang |
IMDb |
| 81 |
The Blue Kite |
1993 |
Tian Zhuangzhuang |
IMDb |
| 82 |
Viva! My Wife |
1948 |
Sang Hu |
IMDb |
| 83 |
Mambo Girl |
1957 |
Yi Wen |
IMDb |
| 84 |
Feast of a Rich Family |
1959 |
Lee Sun Fung, Li Tie, Ng Wui & Lo Ji Hung |
IMDb |
| 85 |
Execution in Autumn |
1972 |
Lee Hsing |
IMDb |
| 86 |
Hibiscus Town |
1986 |
Xie Jin |
IMDb |
| 87 |
God of Gamblers |
1989 |
Wong Jing |
IMDb |
| 88 |
As Tears Go By |
1988 |
Wong Kar Wai |
IMDb |
| 89 |
Happy Together |
1997 |
Wong Kar Wai |
IMDb |
| 90 |
In the Mood for Love |
2000 |
Wong Kar Wai |
IMDb |
| 91 |
The Light of Ten Thousand Homes |
1948 |
Shen Fu |
IMDb |
| 92 |
Festival Moon |
1953 |
Zhu Shilin |
IMDb |
| 93 |
Hearts of Father and Mother |
1955 |
Kim Chun |
IMDb |
| 94 |
Lin Zexu |
1959 |
Zheng Junli & Cen Fan |
IMDb |
| 95 |
Dreams of the Red Chambers |
1962 |
Cen Fan |
IMDb |
| 96 |
Digital Master |
1983 |
Kirk Wong |
IMDb |
| 97 |
Shanghai Blues |
1984 |
Tsui Hark |
IMDb |
| 98 |
Eight Diagram Pole Fighter |
1984 |
Liu Chia Liang |
IMDb |
| 99 |
The Black Cannon Incident |
1986 |
Huang Jianxin |
IMDb |
| 100 |
Rebels of the Neon God |
1992 |
Tsai Ming Liang |
IMDb |
| 101 |
In the Hands of a Puppet Master |
1993 |
Hou Hsiao Hsien |
IMDb |
| 102 |
Summer Snow |
1995 |
Ann Hui |
IMDb |
| 103 |
Not One Less |
1999 |
Zhang Yimou |
IMDb |
