IMDb, full name Internet Movie Database.
Globally, the most used score for movies is the IMDb score.
IMDb selected the ten highest-rated Chinese films of the 2011-2021 decade.
The list may differ from what you expected.
Know you're curious, ok, 3, 2, 1, start.
10th: "Burst into Silence" (2018)
Starring: Song Yang, Jiang Wu, Yuan Wenkang, Tan Zhuo, Wang Zichen
IMDb score: 7.1 (Douban score: 8.2)
The film was released at the time of the hollywood blockbuster "Ready Player One", and the film's final box office was only 54 million.
But the film's strong reputation has triggered the audience to tap Amway.
Ten years later, the film's rating on Douban has not dropped but has risen, from the initial 8.0 to 8.2.
Xin Yukun, who has only made two feature films, has made the suspense genre films that Are most lacking in China.
Three classes, three lives, because of a search notice, each other's fate is linked.
Xin Yukun buried countless metaphors in this movie.
Bottomless caves reflect human nature;
The sheep in the restaurant reflect the living conditions of the people at the bottom;
The dark ending is very depressing, but it is the closest to the reality of social truth.
The wicked do not necessarily have bad rewards, and the good people do not necessarily end well.
In reality, many low-level people like the protagonist Zhang Baomin, even if there is a sad explosion like a flash crash in their hearts, they can't shout out anything, only silent.
9th Wuxia (2011)
Starring: Zhen Zidan, Jin Chengwu, Tang Wei, Wang Yu, Hui Yinghong
IMDb score: 7.1 (Douban score: 6.7)
A martial arts movie that doesn't look like a martial artist.
Under the lens of Chen Kexin, the great hero did not serve the country and the people, did not have arrogance, only the struggle of ordinary people.
Such a sentence can be a good summary of this "Wuxia":
The gods in your eyes, but the vague passers-by. In your eyes, martial arts are just struggles.
Many people will think that the style of this movie is messy, the front and back look and feel is very fragmented, the rhythm of the literary drama is delayed, and the martial arts drama is not smooth enough.
I thought that in the end, the boss would be defeated by the male protagonist Zhen Zidan like other traditional martial arts films, who knew that the boss was killed by thunder.
But this is not "the heavenly path has reincarnation, the heavens bypass whom", but the technical house saved the world.
We all guessed the beginning correctly, but we couldn't guess the ending.
8th: The Return (2014)
Starring: Chen Daoming, Gong Li, Zhang Huiwen, Guo Tao, Liu Peiqi
IMDb score: 7.2 (Douban score: 8.0)
It is really unexpected that the subject of national amnesia can pass the examination.
Spielberg "cried for an hour" didn't lie.
As soon as Chen Daoming appeared, he was Lu Yanzhi, Gong Li gave the most touching performance from the film to the present, and Zhang Yimou found the most balanced point between business and art.
Can't compare "Homecoming" with "Alive", this movie should correspond to "My Father and Mother".
Their backgrounds are all historical mistakes that have changed the trajectory of love.
"My Father and Mother" is about a long chase, and "Homecoming" is about a long wait.
Such pure and great love only existed in that era, and it is precisely because we lack it that it is so moving.
7th: Donkey Got Water (2016)
Starring: Ren Suxi, Dali, Liu Shuailiang, Pei Kuishan, Aruna
IMDb score: 7.4 (Douban score: 8.3)
Douban label labeling this movie as "comedy" is the biggest misunderstanding of it.
The second half of the film is a miserable mess.
Black humor and absurd country magic realism.
Broken schools, principals who seek perfection, men with good moral character, women who are unruly, young people who seem to be full of blood but collapse under authority in an instant, and a coppersmith who has a little knowledge and is treacherous...
The tone of the whole movie is very loose, the paragraph is very meaty, the road is very wild, and the story has the flavor of Maupassant.
Adapted from a play, the story is much smarter than "Charlotte Troubles".
It is women who lament that are oppressed, and it is women who are happy to be awakened.
Whoever wants to say that Chinese cinema has no hope, please throw this "Donkey Got Water" in the face.
6th Place: The Great Buddha Plus (2017)
Starring: Zhuang Yizeng, Chen Zhusheng, Zhang Shaohuai, Chen Yiwen
IMDb score: 7.6 (Douban score: 8.7)
The scale and irony are so great that they are rare in today's Chinese films.
The film became the biggest winner of the Five Awards for Best Feature Film at the Taipei Film Awards.
Driving recorder, everyone is not unfamiliar, the picture rushes to the outside of the car, but the record is the sound inside the car.
In this film, the cause of all events lies in this dashcam.
This dashcam is like an eye, through which the audience sees an absurd world full of rich and poor differentiation, class solidification, political and business collusion, religious beliefs, and gender relations.
You'll never know what kind of secrets are hidden under the skin of others.
Just like you wouldn't know that a bodhisattva worshipped by thousands of people has a dead body in his belly, nor do you know that a garbage collector is a big uncle whose house is full of dolls.
The world of the poor is black and white, and the world of the rich is always color.
A sad human comedy.
5th Place: The Thirteen Nobles of Jinling (2011)
Starring: Christian Bell, Ni Ni, Zhang Xinyi, Huang Tianyuan, Han Xiting
IMDb score: 7.6 (Douban score: 8.2)
Zhang Yimou's best work since "Hero".
The Story of Nanjing from a new perspective, but the entry point chosen is small.
Before watching it, I thought it was "Nanjing Nanjing" + "Assembly Number", and after watching the movie, I had to praise this as China's "Pianist" + "Schindler's List".
I have to admire Zhang Yimou's poisonous casting vision.
At that time, he fell in love with Ni Ni at a glance, and he thought that Ni Ni was the "jade ink" in his heart.
Ni Ni, who has no acting experience, Zhang Yimou trained her for three years.
Only then did it have the surprise of the final jade ink debut.
4th Labyrinth of Hearts (2014)
Starring: Huo Weimin, Wang Xiaotian, Luo Yun, Yang Yuzhen, Sun Li
IMDb score: 7.7 (Douban score: 8.7)
This is the debut of Xin Yukun, the director of the aforementioned "Burst into Silence".
1.7 million costs, in exchange for 10.65 million box office. Become a success story of a small and broad commercial film.
More importantly, the reputation of "Labyrinth of Hearts" is also very good, ranking 170th in the Douban Movie Top 250, and the first domestic film rating in 2015.
A human test initiated by an unnamed corpse.
The non-linear narrative technique is naturally suitable for suspenseful films.
Every time you think you know the whole picture, the next second the movie tells you it's just the tip of the iceberg.
The plot of the film is so that any audience needs to think about it when watching it.
But it definitely doesn't make the audience feel that this is just a suspense for showmanship.
Everyone can understand the story that the movie is about to tell after watching it.
The world is not black and white, and good and evil are not necessarily distinct.
There are no good people in the absolute sense, and there are no bad people in the absolute sense.
More often, people are tempted on the edge of good and evil.
The film presents the complicated side of life and people's hearts in an absurd way, but this is only the tip of the iceberg...
3rd Place: "The Earth Is Long" (2019)
Starring: Wang Jingchun, Yong Mei, Qi Xi, Wang Yuan, Du Jiang
IMDb score: 7.7 (Douban score: 8.0)
The film took three hours to lay out a picture of contemporary China spanning more than three decades.
From the return of young people to the city, family planning, and the tide of layoffs to today, the experience of Yao Jun and Li Yun is a microcosm of the social changes in the past thirty years.
Frankly speaking, the lens language of "Long Days on Earth" is extremely simple and even simple.
The large distance shooting and the depiction of the character's facial close-up, coupled with the blank space in multiple scenes, often feels less like a movie, more like a documentary, and you and I in front of the screen seem to be bystanders in their experience.
The process of watching a movie is like reading a diary, one side is the past, the other side is the present, connected, is life.
Wang Jingchun's performance is "collected" throughout, calm enough and restrained, but it is also in this restraint that amazing emotional power is released.
Without too many words, the pain and grief are all in the eyes.
Wing Mei's performance echoes Wang Jingchun's performance, and on the screen they seem to be ordinary couples who have walked through decades.
Life itself is a long-lasting process.
In life, many problems do not necessarily have answers, and many difficulties may not be solved.
2nd Place: "The Elephant Sits on the Ground" (2018)
Starring: Peng Yuchang, Zhang Yu, Wang Yuwen, Li Congxi, Dong Xiangrong
IMDb score: 7.8 (Douban: 8.1)
Hu Bo put his own bitterness, sadness, despair and confusion into this nearly 4-hour debut, and the director's talent is beyond doubt.
The advantages and disadvantages of the film are obvious: the advantage is that the three story lines are smoothly advanced in the intersection, and the original intention of the group portrait portrayal is successfully realized; the disadvantage is that the pursuit of the sense of lens is too much, and the dialogue and performance have a tendency to zombify.
Unfortunately, this is also Hu Bo's last one.
In 2017, he ended his life with a rope.
In 2018, the film won the JM Award for Best Drama Film, The Best Adapted Screenplay, and was finally nominated for the Best New Director Award.
The film lasts 3 hours and 50 minutes, and Hu Bo did not agree to delete it at the time.
The producer stripped the director of the right of signature, and created his own work without his own name.
To get the copyright back, you need to pay 3.5 million yuan.
Two books a year, a total of 20,000 yuan of copyright fees, girlfriend also left him.
The movie didn't seem to bring him any joy.
This film has not been officially released in China so far, and we do not know why.
1st Place: I Am Not a Medicine God (2018)
Starring: Xu Zheng, Wang Chuanjun, Zhou Zhouwei, Tan Zhuo, Zhang Yu
IMDb score: 7.9 (Douban score: 9.0)
The film is based on the sensational "Lu Yong Case" of that year.
Newcomer director Wen Muye's first film reached the third place in the box office list of the year.
The audience's laughter, tears, and pain points were all firmly grasped by him.
Drugs are definitely a "non-sayable" in China, but this movie says what it can say, and it doesn't say what it can't say without leaking.
"There is only one disease in this world, the disease of poverty."
Pure, direct, powerful.
Xu Zheng successfully portrayed a small person with a complex personality and a legendary city.
What he embodies is the real state of existence of the current Chinese people:
There are weak hearts, there are old and young, dare not get sick, can't afford to be sick.
From selfishness at the beginning, to self-preservation in the middle of the way, to self-denial in the face of great right and wrong, to self-denial.
Xu Zheng digested the role perfectly.
In fact, in this world, there is no hero, just an ordinary person, who has done an extraordinary thing, so he has become a hero.
In either respect, "Medicine God" is to save the dignity of Chinese realism.
The best of the year in 2018, well deserved.