Last Updated on May 28, 2022 by China Underground
Chinese movies 2018. 2018 was characterized by many actions, thriller, fantasy, and animation films.
Action films and comedies, which are always very successful in China, were not lacking.
The most popular and interesting Chinese movies of 2018, from indie films and documentaries (Dead Souls, Xiao Mei) to box-office blockbusters (Operation Red Sea, Detective Chinatown 2, Dying To Survive, etc).
We have put together a list of the Best Chinese movies of 2018 (so far) to help you easily choose which Chinese films to watch.
Related: Best New Chinese Movies to Watch in 2017
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Chinese action movies in 2018. Action, Adventure, War
Big Brother
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A soldier-turned-high school teacher uses unusual methods to reach a class of poor students while dealing with a greedy entrepreneur and his gang of fighters as well as the government.
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Europe Raiders
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The third film in the Jingle Ma-directed franchise, following “Tokyo Raiders” from 2000 and “Seoul Raiders” from 2005.
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Golden Job
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The gang is back together! First look at the action-pack trailer of GOLDEN JOB, starring Ekin Cheng, Jordan Chan, Michael Tse, Chin Ka-Lok, Jerry Lamb, and Eric Tsang!
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Operation Red Sea
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The film is loosely based on the evacuation of the 225 foreign nationals and almost 600 Chinese citizens from Yemen’s southern port of Aden during the 2015 Yemeni Civil War.
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Shadow
by Zhang Yimou
The film, presented at the Shanghai Film Festival, is set during China’s Three Kingdoms era (AD 220–280). The story of a great king and his people, who will be expelled from their homeland and will aspire to claim it.
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The Bombing aka Air Strike
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An American pilot is sent to a Chinese province to teach a crew of would-be pilots how to fly war planes against the Japanese during World War II. A movie dedicated to the flying tigers.
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, ,The Island
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A cataclysmic event causes a man, who dreams of winning the lottery, to become stranded on an island with his co-workers.
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Chinese Animation movies 2018
Flavors of Youth
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Three different stories of youth are set in different cities in China. 1 Shanghai Love. 2 Sunny Breakfast. 3 Small Fashion Show.
On Happiness Road
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Chi earned her American dream after persevering with her studies in Taiwan. Following her grandmother’s death, Chi returns to her family on Happiness Road, where she begins to feel nostalgic about her childhood and starts to contemplate the meaning of “life” and “home”.
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The Wind Guardians
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A young man who lives in Xiaoyanggang dreams of martyrdom, but he is blind and can only sneak into the market by swindling. One day, Rakshasa attacked Xiaoyanggang, and his mother, who was dependent on him, suddenly disappeared.
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Chinese Thriller Movies 2018: Crime, Thriller, Mystery
A Better Tomorrow 2018
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A former smuggler attempts to start his life anew and repair his relationship with his estranged brother after his release from prison.
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A or B
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A young business elite Xiaonian Zhong was imprisoned in a house! Every day, a mysterious man will reveal one of his darkest secrets to the world. At the same time, his wife, friends, and business partners were all dragged into this incident one after another. Being imprisoned, how will Zhong combat this challenging situation?
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Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings
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Dee, the detective serving Chinese empress Wu Zetian, is called upon to investigate a series of strange events in Loyang, including the appearance of mysterious warriors wearing Chiyou ghost masks, foxes that speak human language, and the pillar sculptures in the palace coming alive.
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L Storm
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L Storm is a Hong Kong action crime thriller film directed by David Lam. William Luk and Lau Po-keung are respectively investigating a corruption and money laundering case involving Customs officer Tik Wai-kit, but are unable to find any clues.
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Lobster Cop
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Four police officers open up a lobster restaurant as a cover in order to catch a notorious drug dealer, only to find their secret recipe is more popular than they expect.
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Long Day’s Journey into Night
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A man went back to Guizhou, and found the tracks of a mysterious woman. He recalls the summer he spent with her twenty years ago.
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The Leakers
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The film centers around a Malaysian pharmaceutical company using a new virus to generate an epidemic. A secret organization, known as “The Leaker”, discloses this information.
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Xiao Mei
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A film about the tormenting presence of absence. A young shop girl named Xiao Mei suddenly vanishes from her usual existence, without explanation or trace. Has she dissolved, or perhaps redeemed herself somehow?
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Chinese Comedy Movies 2018: Family, Comedy & Romance
21 Carats
by He Nian
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A story of laughter and romance between two polar opposites as a penny-pincher crosses paths with a spendthrift.
Detective Chinatown 2
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Driven by the desire for a huge reward, Tang Ren tricked Qin Feng to New York, to attend the World Detective Contest. Later on, behind the crazy competition, Qin and Tang discovered the real hidden facts of this contest.
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Forever Young
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Four youths in Republican-era China experience various struggles as they seek to find their ideal self. From World War to revolution and ultimately rebirth, Forever Young is the story of four generations spanning a hundred years of modern Chinese history.
Go Brother!
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Shi Miao hates her brother Shi Fen. So, she makes a birthday wish: She wants her brother gone. However, she did not expect the wish to come true.
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Hello Mr. Billionaire
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A pathetic minor league Soccer Goalkeeper was given a task – to spend 1 Billion in thirty days, if successful he will get 30 Billion.
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Chinese Documentary Movies 2018
Amazing China
by Tie Wei
Amazing China is a super-patriotic propaganda documentary commissioned by Xi Jinping. It’s worth watching only to have a glimpse of Xi Jinping’s China.
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Dead Souls
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In Gansu Province, northwest China, lie the remains of countless prisoners abandoned in the Gobi Desert sixty years ago. Designated as “ultra-rightists” in the Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist campaign of 1957, they starved to death in the Jiabiangou and Mingshui reeducation camps.
Chinese Drama Movies 2018
Ash Is Purest White
by Jia Zhangke
In 2001, in the impoverished Chinese industrial city of Datong, a young dancer named Qiao falls in love with Bin, a local mobster. During a fight between rival gangs, Qiao fires a shot to protect Bin and subsequently gets sentenced to five years in prison.
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An Elephant Sitting Still
by Hu Bo
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In the northern Chinese city of Manzhouli, they say there is an elephant that simply sits and ignores the world. Manzhouli becomes an obsession for the protagonists of this film, a longed-for escape from the downward spiral in which they find themselves.
Dying to Survive
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A story on how a small drug store owner became the exclusive selling agent of a cheap Indian generic drug against Chronic Granulocytic Leukemia in China. The film is based on the real-life story of a Chinese leukemia patient who smuggled cheap but unproven cancer medicine from India for 1,000 Chinese cancer sufferers in 2004.
Girls Always Happy
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Wu is in her mid-twenties and lives with her mother in a traditional one-story house in one of Beijing’s hutongs. Both consider themselves to be writers, but success has so far eluded them.
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Chinese Scifi Movies 2018: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror
Asura
by Peng Zhang
An epic fantasy loosely based on Buddhist mythology, it is set in the mythical realm of Asura — the dimension of pure desire which is threatened by a coup from a lower heavenly kingdom. Asura is China’s most expensive film, but it is also China’s biggest box office flop.
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Monster Hunt 2
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The sequel to Monster Hunt. Set in a world where monsters and humans co-exist, the franchise tells the story of Wuba, a baby monster born to be king.
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The Monkey King 3 – Kingdom of Women
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The film is the third installment of the Monkey King franchise, after The Monkey King (2014) and The Monkey King 2 (2016). As Tang Sanzang and his three proteges head into the all-female territory in the Xi Liang nation known as Women’s Country, they meet the ruler of the country.
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The Widowed Witch
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A complete re-edit of the award-winning Chinese film SHAMAN that wryly details the life of an unfortunate woman who suddenly seems to possess magical powers.
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