Drama
A young french man discovers a letter written in mandarin in an antique shop in France. After having it translated, he becomes captivated by its content and, on a whim, decides to travel to China to follow in the footsteps of the woman in the letter, to see what she experienced, her thoughts, her doubts, the things that shaped her, and what made her who she is.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Crosscurrent
Poetic Justice
The Journey
Red Corner
Shanghai Express
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
The Three from the Filling Station
A Lot Like Love
House of Flying Daggers
Not Without My Daughter
Everybody's Fine
She's Got No Name
Starman
Young Man on the Bar Masturbating with Rage and Nerve
Millennium Mambo
Blind Shaft
The Silence
Hotel Vladivostok
I-San Special
Kundun
SIMILAR MOVIES
Crosscurrent
IMDB 6.3 | Feb , 2016
A voyage between a woman searching for the meaning of life and a man holding a book of poems on the longest river of Mainland China.Poetic Justice
IMDB 6.8 | Jul , 1993
Still grieving after the murder of her boyfriend, hairdresser Justice writes poetry to deal with the pain of her loss. Unable to get to Oakland to attend a convention because of her broken-down car, Justice gets a lift with her friend, Iesha, and Iesha's postal worker boyfriend, Chicago. Along for the ride is Chicago's co-worker, Lucky, to whom Justice grows close after some initial problems. But is she ready to open her heart again?The Journey
IMDB 5.6 | Apr , 1992
A young man living in a cold southern village in South America, decides to start a trip looking for his father. By doing this he discovers unexpected facts about his Latin American essence.Red Corner
IMDB 6.3 | Oct , 1997
An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the country.Shanghai Express
IMDB 6.9 | Feb , 1932
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
IMDB 6.9 | May , 1919
The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.The Three from the Filling Station
IMDB 6.1 | Sep , 1930
Die Drei von der Tankstelle, meaning The Three from the Gas Station, was advertised as a German operetta when release and with it’s star studded cast would become the forerunner of Musical films. Even today the soundtrack of the comic harmonists is popular in Germany.A Lot Like Love
IMDB 6.8 | Apr , 2005
On a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Oliver and Emily make a connection, only to decide that they are poorly suited to be together. Over the next seven years, however, they are reunited time and time again, they go from being acquaintances to close friends to ... lovers?House of Flying Daggers
IMDB 7.3 | Aug , 2004
In 9th century China, a corrupt government wages war against a rebel army called the Flying Daggers. A romantic warrior breaks a beautiful rebel out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.Not Without My Daughter
IMDB 6.7 | Jan , 1991
An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.Everybody's Fine
IMDB 5.3 | Jan , 2016
When all four of his children cancel their yearly visits, a widower travels to the far corners of the country to see them and discovers the hidden sides of their lives.She's Got No Name
IMDB 4.7 | Jun , 2025
A bizarre case caused thousands of waves. There are different opinions on the truth. When the whole story of the case was gradually restored like pieces of a puzzle, people realized that the truth was not that important anymore.Starman
IMDB 6.9 | Dec , 1984
When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona, the government tries to stop them.Young Man on the Bar Masturbating with Rage and Nerve
IMDB 5.3 | Mar , 2015
Dance and prostitution play the same role for Cristhian’s body. Virtuosity, desire, technique, and sex intertwine, granting coherence to a way of life that offers many answers to few questions. A leitmotiv that reconciles opposites and contradictions. Answers that are sometimes painful, like all truths.Millennium Mambo
IMDB 7 | Oct , 2001
Vicky recalls her romances with her exes Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.Blind Shaft
IMDB 7.6 | Feb , 2003
Two Chinese miners, who make money by killing fellow miners and then extorting money from the mine owner to keep quiet about the "accident", happen upon their latest victim. But one of them begins to have second thoughts.The Silence
IMDB 7.5 | Sep , 1963
Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.Hotel Vladivostok
IMDB 0 | Aug , 2006
In a hotel overlooking the Sea of Japan, six disparate stories inter-connect giving time a shape, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another. Murder, sacrifice, betrayal, longing and regret weave into a tapestry of souls remembering and forgetting.I-San Special
IMDB 5 | Apr , 2002
The soundtrack to a radio soap opera set in a luxury hotel is acted out by characters who are riding a ramshackle bus from Bangkok to a small town in Thailand’s Northeast.Kundun
IMDB 6.8 | Dec , 1997
The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escape from his native home, Tibet, when communist China invaded and enforced an oppressive regime upon the peaceful nation. The Dalai Lama escaped to India in 1959 and has been living in exile in Dharamsala ever since.