Chinese Movie Database Blog

This gallery will have posters of 1970’s Hong Kong movies.

A new yearly film production list is available. You can access the list from each film title page, by clicking the production year. Films are listed in 5 separate categories:
Feature/fiction film (feature-length fictional film), also including musical, Chinese opera film, stage performance recorded on film;
Short fictional film;
Documentary, including documentary, docudram, short documentary, newsreel, educational film […]

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A new page has been added to list the Chinese language film production year by year. This includes all spoken Chinese languages, from Mandarin/Putonghua to several dialects, as well as early silent films. This is a list of feature length fictional films. Not included are TV programmes, short films, documentaries, newsreels, and animated films.
Since this […]

A new page, Movies in Festivals, is created to update the movies currently being shown in the festivals around the world. The Recent Movies page now will update movies on general release. Please write to info@dianying.com if you have additional information.

An earthquake in the Pacific could affect Chinese Movie Database’s visit number, and that’s what just has happened. Most of the visitors of Chinese Movie Database come from Asia, while the server of dianying.com is located in the US. An earthquake that struck off Taiwan’s southern coast, although did not claim many lives, damaged the submarine telecommunication […]

Chinese Movie Database has been moved to a new server, which boasts dual Xeon 2.8GHz and 4GB memory. The server need upgrading because the old one could no longer cop with the heavy load. The system and software of the new server is very similar to the old one, so I expected a smooth transfer. […]

Chinese Movie Database is the database of mainly Chinese language movies. The Database include 1) movies whose main dialogue is in standardised spoken Chinese (mandarin or putonghua) or regional dialects (e.g. Cantonese), 2) early (1910-1930’s) silent movies made by Chinese filmmakers, 3) movies not in Chinese but set in China, or are closely related to Chinese society, […]