Zi'en Cui Movies

A voyage through modern day Beijing in the taxi of the womanising Dezi. His aimless drifting between destinations and women is much like Beijing's...

A film about Chinese underground filmmakers who were the first to express their truthful and realistic views on China from 1989 until today. It is...

Xiao Bo lives in a world where the lines defining men from women are constantly dissolving. He kneels at the deathbed of his father who has become a...

A Christian virgin tries to save gay male prostitutes when his brother becomes one.

Early film by Cui Zi’en.

When young art student Ray moves in with his estranged businessman father after years of separation, the two tentatively begin to reconcile their...

Shanghai was once called the "Paris of the East," but changes come with time and social tumult. Now, amid crumbling buildings, crushing poverty and...

Xiao Bo arrives in Beijing, gets a job at a boutique, and is invited to stay with his lady boss, Ah Qing, and her husband, Kang. Knowing that Xiao Bo...

Set against the backdrop of the contemporary black market for pirated DVDs in Beijing, Pirated Copy is a character-driven drama about the passion two...

Chinese filmmaker Cui Zi’en directs this gay-themed sci-fi drama about Xiao Bo, a bisexual man who discovers a stranger by the roadside, naked...

Brotherly love goes too far when Feng gets his twin sister pregnant while both of them are still in high school, creating a problem that's bigger...

A candid peek into the culture of male sex workers in Beijing.

A documentary pastiche about living in contemporary China, constituted by images of immigrant workers’ on-street KTV singing; open-air...

Shitou is Nuonuo’s girl friend. They have always loved each other. Nuonuo is the little sister of Mingming, who also fell in love with Shitou...

Two brothers are the focus of this film. The older brother has a mental disability and the younger brother has AIDS. Since their parents abandoned...

A film about queer and religion

A young man wandering naked along a seemingly endless country road claims that he's an alien. So do the three other young men (also naked) who join...

The Yuanhai Migrants Children’s School, which serves children of migrant laborers in Beijing, is shut down by city officials for reasons never...