China is also one of the worlds major film producers.
Form 1949 to 1966, it produced 630 feature films, or 30 to 40 each year. In this website, more than 150 titles have been selected, representing the best Chinese productions from all eras, starting with the first opera film in 1905 and including box office hits that premiered at the end of 1991 or early this year. The list includes all the major films that have won international or national awards in the past four decades as well as classics from the 1920s to 1940s. Individual Chinese film artists are also winning acclaim. In the synopses in the Movies section, we have indicated those titles that have won national film awards in the past decade.