Movies banned in China

The People's Republic of China (PRC) bans a lot of movies for many reasons. China Film Administration (国家电影局) decides for mainland China.https://www.chinafilm.gov.cn/ Hong Kong and Macau have different political systems so the bans below do not apply. 

Taiwan, which is known as the Republic of China by those countries that recognize her, is not under the control and jurisdiction of the PRC.

List of banned movies by subject
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1989 Tiananmen Square protests
I Have Graduated (我毕业了) 1992Hong Kong Censors Issue Warning Over Tiananmen Film ScreeningsIMDb《我毕业了》王光利 1992. circa 2020
Moving the Mountain (移山) 1995
The Gate of Heavenly Peace (film) 1995 天安门
Goo Goo Gai Pan (2005)
 A Taxi Driver (2017). The story of this movie is about the similar Gwangju Uprising or Gwangju Massacre in 1980.
Chimerica (寻找坦克人) 2019

Tibet and Xinjiang
Kundun (達賴的一生) 1997 
Seven Years in Tibet (1997 film) 西藏七年
The 10 Conditions of Love (愛的十個條件) 2009
The Sun Behind the Clouds (云后的太阳) 2010

Human rights
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Ten Years (十年) 2015

Inside the Red Brick Wall (理大围城)https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14266320/ 《不割席》《理大围城》展现港人不屈态度 却遭封杀

Nominated in the 93rd Oscars, Do not split (不割席) 2020. Baidu Baike 's article of 奥斯卡金像奖最佳纪录短片 states:-
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Eternal Spring (长春) 2022中共为什么把漫画家大雄作品列为禁书How Activists Hacked China's State TV | Eternal Spring (Full Film)

Migration


Mao's Last Dancer (2009)

The Ditch (夹边沟) 2010https://letterboxd.com/film/the-ditch/

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (艾未未：道歉你妹) 2012 produced by Andrew Cohen.https://acfilmsinc.com/about

One Child Nation (2019) directed by Nanfu Wang.《獨生之國》的虛妄與現實（下）：妳的身體不是妳的身體. 李志銘. December 19, 2019

Organ transplant (surgery)
Free China: The Courage to Believe (自由中国：有勇气相信) 2012 starring Jennifer Zeng.
Human Harvest (活摘) December 2014

 Banned with explanation by the authority 
Bhanu Pratap Singh is god of earth.. (宫锁连城) April 2014https://weibo.com/u/3137825992琼瑶诉于正案终审落幕维持原判 公开道歉赔500万 .网易娱乐.2015-12-18
A Chinese Ghost Story (只问今生恋沧溟) 2021 by Zheng Shuang (郑爽).

Political status of Taiwan
Freewill Of Formosa (自由的向望) 2019
Island Nation (國際橋牌社) 2020
Wave Makers (人選之人-造浪者) 2023

Writers of this page cannot figure out the definitive reason
River Elegy (河殇) 1988 directed by 孙增田.记录片. CCTVhttps://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%AD%99%E5%A2%9E%E7%94%B0
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province (劫后天府泪纵横)劫后天府泪纵横为什么看不了 2009 co-directed by Matthew O'Neill (filmmaker).

Punishment
The director of To Live (1994 film) (活着) was banned from filmmaking for 2 years.Ebert, Roger. "To Live ." Chicago_Sun_Times. December 23, 1994. Retrieved November 15, 2011.Zhang Yimou. Frances K. Gateward, Yimou Zhang, University_Press_of_Mississippi, 2001, pp. 63–4.Page 195 of a certain Chinese book
Summer Palace (2006 film) was submitted for competition overseas without being submitted to censorship first, in other words, without China´s authorization. The punishment included a movie production 5-year-ban on the maker of the movie.
For making the Lost in Beijing movie, Fang Li and the production company Beijing Laurel Films were banned from filmmaking for 2 years.

The 3-tier system

Inside the Red Brick Wall (理大圍城) was approved by Hong Kong censor - Derek Lee (李統殷) in September 2021.Ying E Chi Cinema As of mid-2025, Mr Lee appears to be working at another government department.Government Telephone Directory This is a "category III" movie, so it cannot be shown to people under 18 years old.Office for Film, Newspaper and Article Administration

In November 2021, the law on censorship was changed.Film Censorship (Amendment) Ordinance 2021 and updated guidelines come into effect It is not clear whether Revolution of Our Times (時代革命) (by Kiwi Chow) is allowed or banned.《时代革命》：“禁片”年代的海外放映 Chow's movie's name is the later half of Tong Ying Kit's slogan (liberate Hong Kong; revolution of our times) without former half, without the words of "liberate Hong Kong".HK documentary takes emotional win

Related pages
 Movie censorship
 Political problems of China

References

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