The following is a list of mainland Chinese films first released in year 2018.
Box office
These are the top 10 grossing Chinese films that were released in China in 2018:
| Rank | Title | Gross (in USD) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Operation Red Sea | $579,200,000 |
| 2 | Detective Chinatown 2 | $563,900,000 |
| 3 | Dying to Survive | $438,400,000 |
| 4 | Monster Hunt 2 | $370,300,000 |
| 5 | Hello Mr. Billionaire | $363,000,000 |
| 6 | Us and Them | $225,500,000 |
| 7 | The Island | $192,700,000 |
| 8 | Project Gutenberg | $181,400,000 |
| 9 | The Meg | $149,100,000 |
| 10 | How Long Will I Love U | $127,000,000 |
Films released
January–March
| Opening | Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J A N U A R Y | 5 | Come On Teacher | Wu Shengji | Mike He, Elanne Kwong, Liu Yu | Drama | ||
| Wait for Him | |||||||
| Wo Lai Guo | Zhou Mo | Wang Yang, Feng Mingchao, Sun Yingfei | Drama / Romance | ||||
| 12 | Da Han | Drama / War | |||||
| Forever Young | Li Fangfang | Zhang Ziyi, Huang Xiaoming, Chang Chen, Wang Leehom, Chen Chusheng | Drama / Romance / War | ||||
| Have a Nice Day | Liu Jian | Liu Jian | Animation | Entered into the 67th Berlin International Film Festival | |||
| Keep Calm and Be a Superstar | Vincent Kok | Eason Chan, Li Ronghao, Li Yitong | Comedy / Action | ||||
| Loops | Ye Xiaozhou | Ouyang Jia, Gao Xiang, Lei Nuoer | Sci-fi / Horror | ||||
| Untouchable Love | Drama / Romance | ||||||
| 15 | Red Moon of Wuling Folk Songs | Drama | |||||
| 16 | The Class of One | Drama / Children | |||||
| Hidden Peril | Drama | ||||||
| My Running Shadow | Fang Gangliang | Zhang Jingchu, Long Pinxu, Li Zhaofeng | Drama / Family / Children | Entered into the 2013 Shanghai International Film Festival | |||
| 18 | A Better Tomorrow 2018 | Ding Sheng | Wang Kai, Ma Tianyu, Darren Wang, Yu Ailei, Lam Suet | Drama / Action | |||
| 19 | The Drifting Red Balloon | Zheng Laizhi | Tan Youming, Shi Yufei, Zhao Hanyingzi | Drama / Comedy / Romance | |||
| Guardians of the Tomb | Kimble Rendall | Li Bingbing, Kellan Lutz, Wu Chun, Kelsey Grammer, Stef Dawson | Action / Adventure | Mainland-Australia co-production | |||
| 20 | The Song of the Angels | Drama | |||||
| 23 | Wait Here | Guo Yilin | Bowie Lam, Maria Makarenko, Jonathan Kos-Read | Comedy / Romance / Adventure | Entered into the 2017 Golden Maple Leaf Canadian Film Festival | ||
| 25 | A Loner | Xing Xiao | Zhu Xijuan, Guo Zhi, Zhang Tong | Drama | Entered into the 2017 Shanghai International Film Festival | ||
| 26 | Super Four | Comedy | |||||
| The 5th Dimension | Suspense / Horror | ||||||
| The Waxing Moon | Drama / Family | ||||||
| 27 | Piggy Bingbing | Comedy | |||||
| 30 | The Drifting Red Balloon | Zheng Laizhi | Tan Youming, Shi Yufei, Zhao Hanyingzi | Drama / Comedy / Romance | |||
| F E B R U A R Y | 1 | The Girl From Future | Wu Qin | Wang Anqi, Wang Chen, Gao Han | Romance / Fantasy | ||
| 2 | Bad Daddy | Drama | |||||
| Blind Way | Li Yang | Li Yang, Du Hanmeng, Yu Yue | Drama / Crime | Entered into the 2017 Beijing International Film Festival | |||
| Don't Know Why I Like You | Drama / Family | ||||||
| Find My Way Home | Family / Children | ||||||
| The Ladybug | Animation / Family / Adventure | ||||||
| No Money | Comedy | ||||||
| Till the End of the World | Wu Youyin | Mark Chao, Yang Zishan | Romance / Adventure | ||||
| 3 | Me and the Traitor, Dad | Drama / Children / Sports | |||||
| 6 | On the Way | Drama / Romance / Western | |||||
| 9 | The Chaser | Zhang Fan | Song Yang, Chunyu Shanshan, Andrew Lin | Suspense / Horror | |||
| Master Returns | Li Chengru | Li Chengru, Wang Ji, Zhang Tong | Comedy | ||||
| Miss Puff | Zhang Xinyi | Zhang Xinyi, Wang Yuexin, Tan Weiwei | Drama / Romance | ||||
| Panda Stone Fantasy Travel | Children / Fantasy / Adventure | ||||||
| Wild Kids | Comedy / Children | ||||||
| 14 | Love One Way Train | Romance | |||||
| 16 | Boonie Bears: The Big Shrink | Ding Liang Lin Huida | Zhang Wei, Zhang Bingjun, Tan Xiao | Comedy / Animation / Adventure | |||
| Detective Chinatown 2 | Chen Sicheng | Wang Baoqiang, Liu Haoran, Xiao Yang, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Shang Yuxian | Comedy / Action / Suspense | ||||
| The Faces of My Gene | Guo Degang | Yue Yunpeng, Wu Jing, Wu Xiubo, Jing Boran, Lin Chi-ling | Comedy / Fantasy | ||||
| The Monkey King 3 | Cheang Pou-soi | Aaron Kwok, Feng Shaofeng, Zhao Liying, Xiaoshenyang, Him Law | Comedy / Romance / Fantasy | Mainland-Hong Kong co-production | |||
| Monster Hunt 2 | Raman Hui | Tony Leung, Bai Baihe, Jing Boran, Li Yuchun, Tony Yang | Comedy / Fantasy | Mainland-Hong Kong co-production | |||
| Operation Red Sea | Dante Lam | Zhang Yi, Huang Jingyu, Hai Qing, Du Jiang, Jiang Luxia | Drama / Action | Mainland-Hong Kong co-production | |||
| 17 | After the STA | Li Jinlin | Li Shihong, Guan Feiyang, Chen Jiaming | Drama / Children | |||
| 20 | Fat and Fame | Comedy | |||||
| M A R C H | 1 | Go Sister | Wang Zheng | Feng Mingchao, Zhao Duona, Chen Meixing | Comedy | ||
| 2 | A Mysterious Tribe in China | Drama / Romance | |||||
| Amazing China | Documentary | ||||||
| Girls 2 | Wong Chun-chun | Fiona Sit, Ivy Chen, Janine Chang, Mike Tyson, Wang Shuilin | Drama / Comedy | Mainland-Hong Kong co-production | |||
| Love Only | Chen Sixing | Seungri, Bea Hayden, Michelle Bai, Li Xiaonan, Lee Hyun-jae | Comedy / Romance / Science fiction | ||||
| 7 | To Us, From Us | Lanxin Yu | Yanxi Ke, Hai Qin, Jingwen Xiong | High School/Drama | Mainland | ||
| 8 | Crazy Bull | Drama / Comedy | Mainland-Hong Kong co-production | ||||
| Marriage Rings | Zuo Weichen | Yang Ziyan, Steven Ma | Drama / Romance | ||||
| 9 | Duck Duck Goose | Comedy / Animation / Family / Adventure | Mainland-United States co-production | ||||
| Soul Pawn Shop | Liu Heyao | Qiao Qiao, Jiang Fangting, Cao Weiyu | Romance / Science fiction / Suspense | ||||
| 16 | Battle of Hip Hopera | Drama / Romance / Song and Dance | Mainland-Taiwan co-production | ||||
| Linglong Wells | Suspense / Thriller | ||||||
| 23 | 24 Seconds | Ji Gang | Huang Junjie, Wei Wanqiu, Yan Luhan | Romance / Sports | |||
| The Bystander | Shen Rong | Li Yanan, Yuan Lingyan, Yu Fei, Hong Soo-ah | Suspense / Thriller | ||||
| Shed Skin Papa | Roy Szeto | Francis Ng, Louis Koo | Drama / Comedy / Fantasy | Mainland-Hong Kong co-production | |||
| 29 | Excellent Doctor from Hejian | Drama / Biography / History / Costume | |||||
| Nice to Meet You | Gu Changwei | White. K, Lyric Lan, Zhang Haiyu | Drama / Comedy / Romance | ||||
| 30 | Dating Master | Tian Chao | Chen Sicheng, Ni Hongjie, Chie Tanaka | Comedy / Romance | |||
| Defying Chase | Li Bingyuan | Li Bingyuan, David Belle, Li Binglei | Comedy / Action | ||||
| Really? | Liu Yiwei | Xiaoshenyang, Ivy Chen, Wu Yue | Comedy / Action / Suspense | ||||
| 31 | The Rented Wife | Comedy / Romance | |||||
April–June
| Opening | Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A P R I L | 4 | Knife in the Clear Water | Wang Xuebo | Yang Shengcang | Drama | Entered into the 21st Busan International Film Festival | |
| Nuts | Li Xin Li Yang | Zhang Ruoyun, Ma Sichun, Li Xian | Comedy / Romance | ||||
| Wrath of Silence | Xin Yukun | Song Yang, Jiang Wu, Yuan Wenkang | Drama / Suspense / Crime | Entered into the 2017 FIRST International Film Festival | |||
| 5 | Cats and Peachtopia | Gary Wang | Li Yufeng, Yang Yanze, Wakin Chau | Animation / Family / Adventure | |||
| 13 | After Driving Youth | Drama / Romance | |||||
| Justice in Northwest | Huang Huang | Simon Yam, Yu Nan, Samuel Pang, Jack Kao | Drama / Crime | ||||
| Looking for Rohmer | Wang Chao | Han Geng, Jérémie Elkaïm, Jian Renzi | Drama / Romance | Mainland-France co-production | |||
| Love Trip | Xu Bin | Zhang Yishan, Ding Ding, Zhu Yongteng | Drama / Romance / Adventure | ||||
| Mid-Night | Wang Jinger | Chen Meixing, Zhou Gengyu, Wang Zihang | Suspense / Thriller | ||||
| 18 | The Coin | Comedy | |||||
| 19 | No.1 Villa | Drama / Suspense | |||||
| Song of Canal Head | Drama | ||||||
| 20 | 21 Karat | He Nian | Guo Jingfei, Dilraba Dilmurat, Dong Chengpeng | Comedy / Romance | |||
| Beyond the Mountains | Documentary | ||||||
| Dude's Manual | Kevin Ko | Dong Zijian, Elane Zhong, Jessie Li | Comedy / Romance | Entered into the 2018 Beijing International Film Festival | |||
| The Frozen Maze | Suspense / Thriller | ||||||
| Path to the Dream | Drama / Action | ||||||
| Sasha | Dong Chunze | Jiang Tao, Qian Dongni, Jun Sheng | Drama / Comedy / Romance | ||||
| The Taste of Rice Flower | Drama | Entered into the 74th Venice International Film Festival | |||||
| 27 | Snowfall | Drama | |||||
| 28 | A or B | Ren Pengyuan | Xu Zheng, Wang Likun, Wang Yanhui | Drama / Suspense / Crime | Entered into the 8th Beijing International Film Festival | ||
| Genghis Khan | Hasi Chaolu | William Chan, Lin Yun, Hu Jun | Fantasy / Adventure | ||||
| Midnight XII | Horror / Terror | ||||||
| Tomorrow Is Another Day | Chan Tai-lee | Teresa Mo, Ling Man-lung, Ray Lui | Drama | Mainland-Hong Kong co-production | |||
| The Trough | Nick Cheung | Nick Cheung, Xu Jinglei, He Jiong, Yu Nan, Michael Miu | Drama / Action / Suspense / Crime | Mainland-Hong Kong co-production | |||
| Us and Them | Rene Liu | Jing Boran, Zhou Dongyu, Tian Zhuangzhuang | Drama / Romance | ||||
| 29 | Screaming Live | Comedy | |||||
| M A Y | 4 | Hong Kong Rescue | Liu Yijun | Cheng Taishen, Yan Bingyan, Anson Leung | Drama / Action / Suspense / Adventure | ||
| 11 | The Dream | Drama | |||||
| I Am Your Mom | Zhang Xiao | Yan Ni, Zou Yuanqing, Wu Ruofu | Drama / Comedy | ||||
| House No.7 | Comedy / Suspense / Thriller | ||||||
| Search for Goddess the Fairy Beauty | Romance / Suspense | ||||||
| You'll Never Walk Alone | Drama | ||||||
| 12 | Dear I Will Marry to Others | Qin Jie | Bao Jianfeng, Qi Yandi, Xu Yihan | Romance / Disaster | |||
| Princess and the Kingdom | Animation / Family / Adventure | ||||||
| 13 | The Parents in the World | Drama | |||||
| 16 | Travel For Love | Drama / Romance | |||||
| 17 | Walking Past the Future | Li Ruijun | Yang Zishan, Yin Fang, Li Qinqin | Drama | Mainland-Hong Kong co-production | ||
| 18 | Catch The King | Drama / Action | |||||
| How Long Will I Love U | Su Lun | Lei Jiayin, Tong Liya, Zhang Yi | Comedy / Fantasy | ||||
| The High Heels | Drama | ||||||
| The Lost Land | Drama / Comedy | ||||||
| 25 | A Spicy Detective | Sun Duo | Sun Xiaoxiao, Yu Weiwei, Sun Dandan | Drama / Adventure | |||
| Conspiracy | Suspense / Crime | ||||||
| End of Summer | Zhou Quan | Zhang Songwen, Tan Zhuo, Gu Bao-ming | Drama / Family | Entered into the 22nd Busan International Film Festival | |||
| Fate Express | Li Fei | Zhao Bingrui, Lü Xiaolin, Yu Ailei | Drama / Comedy / Crime | Entered into the 2015 First Youth Film Festival | |||
| The Secret Board | Comedy / Suspense / Costume | ||||||
| 26 | Counterespionage | Drama / Suspense / War | |||||
| 29 | Eternal Love | Drama / Romance | |||||
| To My 19-Year-Old | Huang Chao-liang | Austin Lin, Shi Anni, Wang Qian | Drama / Romance | Mainland-Hong Kong co-production | |||
| J U N E | 1 | Damnation | Suspense / Thriller | ||||
| Happy Little Submarine: 20000 Leagues Under the Sea | Animation / Fantasy / Adventure | ||||||
| Journey to the Snowing Mountains | Drama | ||||||
| Magic Mirror 2 | Animation / Family / Adventure | ||||||
| 4 | Blue Goldfish | Tang Mingzhi | Ken Chu, Leni Lan, Qiufeng Qumuguhuo | Romance / Adventure | |||
| 6 | Underset | Drama / Suspense | |||||
| 8 | A Paper Marriage | Drama / Romance | |||||
| Ding Shang Xiao Tou De Zei | Comedy / Action | ||||||
| Happiness is Coming | Comedy | ||||||
| Horror Bathroom | Horror / Terror | ||||||
| Karma | Drama | ||||||
| Lumiere Amoureuse | Wan Lifang Franchin Don | Samuel Mercer, Cyril Durel, Suzane Rault-balet, Michel Biel, Kimmy Tong | Romance / Fantasy | Mainland-France co-production | |||
| Love Originally | Drama / Romance | ||||||
| My Fading Childhood | Drama | ||||||
| The Universe of One’s Own | Yu Kang Huang Jianye | Liang En, Tu Yuwei, Zhang Jiaxi | Drama / Action | ||||
| 15 | Blood 13 | Candy Li | Huang Lu, Xie Gang, Qian Bo | Drama / Suspense / Crime | |||
| The Cage of Time | Action / Romance / Suspense | ||||||
| The Family | Romance / Music / Drama | ||||||
| Meng Chong Guo Jiang | Xiaoshenyang | Xiaoshenyang, Pan Binlong, Vivian Sung | Comedy / Action | ||||
| My Kitchen Lover | Yu Junhao | Kim Ki-bum, Xu Shendong, Yuen Wah | Comedy / Fantasy | ||||
| This Year In Crazy | Ding Shijun | Richard Ng, Mimi Chu, Phong Tran | Drama / Comedy | ||||
| 16 | A Genius Professor | Comedy / Romance | |||||
| Foodiverse | Animation | ||||||
| 21 | Hello My Dog | Guo Dalei | Hao Lei, Liu Shuailiang, Pei Kuishan | Drama / Comedy | |||
| 22 | The Burns of Sin | Sun Jie | Johnny Zhang, Shi Yuqing, John Do | Drama / Suspense / Crime | |||
| Deadly Treasure | Feng Tiecheng | Yu Guoer, Wang Ke | Action / Romance / Adventure | ||||
| Lobster Cop | Li Xinyun | Wang Qianyuan, Yuan Shanshan, Liu Hua | Comedy / Action / Crime | ||||
| The Secret of Immortal Code | Li Wei Zhang Nan | Liang Jing, Zhao Lixin, Landy Li | Suspense / Thriller | ||||
| 26 | How Far Tomorrow | Drama | |||||
| Malan Flower Blooms | Drama | ||||||
| 29 | Animal World | Han Yan | Li Yifeng, Michael Douglas, Zhou Dongyu | Drama / Action / Adventure | Entered into the 21st Shanghai International Film Festival | ||
| Escape Plan 2: Hades | Steven C. Miller | Sylvester Stallone, Huang Xiaoming, Dave Bautista | Action / Thriller | Mainland-United States co-production | |||
| Master of Oil Painting | Horror / Terror | ||||||
| Prince Vendetta | Comedy / Costume | ||||||
| True Love | Comedy / Romance | ||||||
| Underground Snatch | Drama / Comedy | ||||||
| The Unrepentant Youth | Drama / Comedy | ||||||
| 30 | Happy Planet: Tale of Boy 36 | Science Fiction / Children | |||||
July–September
| Opening | Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J U L Y | 2 | Soul Redemption | Romance / Suspense | ||||
| 6 | The Burns of Sin | Drama / Suspense / Crime | |||||
| Dying to Survive | Wen Muye | Xu Zheng, Wang Chuanjun, Zhang Yu, Tan Zhuo, Yang Xinming | Drama / Comedy | ||||
| New Happy Dad and Son 3: Adventure in Russia | Family / Children / Fantasy / Adventure | ||||||
| Think Carefully | Horror / Terror | ||||||
| 8 | The Red Shield Pioneer | Biography | |||||
| 12 | When Galsang Flowers Blood | Jiang Dawei | Zheng Lan, Dong Changjian, Yan Xu | Drama / Comedy / Romance | |||
| 13 | Asura | Zhang Peng | Leo Wu, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Carina Lau | Action / Romance / Fantasy | |||
| The Beautiful Lie | Children | ||||||
| Hailongtun Tusi Fortress | Documentary | ||||||
| Hidden Man | Jiang Wen | Eddie Peng, Liao Fan, Jiang Wen, Zhou Yun, Xu Qing | Drama / Comedy / Action | ||||
| Love of God | Music / Fantasy | ||||||
| The Marionettes | Drama / Suspense | ||||||
| 14 | Monkey King Reloaded | Comedy / Animation / Adventure | Mainland-Hong Kong co-production | ||||
| 19 | No Choice | Gao Jianguo | Fang Chengsong | Drama | |||
| 20 | Beaties Battle | Drama / Comedy / Romance | |||||
| Chan Ke Nan Sheng | Drama / Romance | ||||||
| House of The Rising Sons | Anthony Chan | Carlos Chan, Yu Tan, Jonathan Wong | Drama / Comedy | Mainland-Hong Kong co-production | |||
| The Widowed Witch | Cai Chengjie | Tiffany Tian, Wen Xinyu | Drama | Entered into the 2017 FIRST International Film Festival | |||
| 24 | Dan Jiang Kou Love | Comedy / Romance | |||||
| 25 | Trust Your Life With Me | Romance | |||||
| 26 | Nu Xiao Guai Tan | Horror | |||||
| 27 | Crystal Sky of Yesterday | Xi Chao | Romance / Animation | ||||
| Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings | Tsui Hark | Mark Chao, Feng Shaofeng, Lin Gengxin, Ethan Juan, Carina Lau, Ma Sichun | Action / Suspense / Costume | ||||
| Hello Mr. Billionaire | Yan Fei Peng Damo | Shen Teng, Vivian Sung, Zhang Yiming, Morning Chang, Chang Yuan | Comedy | ||||
| A U G U S T | 1 | Blood-Soaked Guang Chang | History / War | ||||
| 3 | Reborn | Li Hailong | Han Geng, Rhydian Vaughan, Li Yuan | Comedy / Action / Crime | |||
| Shen Mi Shi Jie Li Xian Ji 4 | Animation | ||||||
| Thirty That Year | Romance / Song and Dance | ||||||
| The Wind Guardians | Liu Kuo | Lu Zhixing, Yan Mengmeng, Chu Jun, Bian Jiang, Shan Xin | Animation / Fantasy | ||||
| 4 | Flavors of Youth | Li Haoling Yi Xiaoxing Yoshitaka Takeuchi | Ban Taito, Kotobuki Minako | Animation | Beijing Joy Pictures & CoMix Wave Films | ||
| 7 | Truth or Dare | Comedy / Romance | |||||
| 10 | Brave City | Comedy / Animation / Fantasy | |||||
| Feng Men Bi Xian | Horror | ||||||
| iPartment | Frank Wei | Chen He, Lou Yixiao, Deng Jiajia, Sun Yizhou, Li Jiahang | Comedy / Romance | Film version of iPartment series | |||
| The Island | Huang Bo | Huang Bo, Shu Qi, Wang Baoqiang, Zhang Yixing, Yu Hewei | Comedy | ||||
| The Meg | Jon Turteltaub | Jason Statham, Li Bingbing, Rainn Wilson | Action / Science Fiction / Thriller | Mainland-United States-Hong Kong co-production | |||
| 15 | Summer Flowers | Romance | |||||
| 17 | Doggy Man | Comedy / Romance / Fantasy | |||||
| Europe Raiders | Jingle Ma | Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Kris Wu, Tiffany Tang | Comedy / Action | Mainland-United Kingdom co-production | |||
| Go Brother! | Cheng Fenfen | Zhang Zifeng, Peng Yuchang, Zhao Jinmai | Comedy / Fantasy | ||||
| Kungfood | Action / Animation / Adventure | ||||||
| The Last Stickman of Chongqing | He Ku | Documentary | |||||
| Oolong Courtyard | Kevin Chu | Wang Ning, Kong Lianshun, Wang Zhi | Drama / Comedy / Action | ||||
| The Sun Star Brigade | Drama | ||||||
| 18 | Travel! Frog in the Shallow Well | Animation / Fantasy / Adventure | |||||
| 20 | Mr. Big | Documentary | Entered into the 2018 Beijing International Film Festival | ||||
| 21 | Summer Adventure: Hey Monster! | Drama / Children / Fantasy | |||||
| 22 | The Compact Density of Stone | Drama / Biography | |||||
| 24 | Big Brother | Kam Ka-wai | Donnie Yen, Joe Chen, Yu Kang | Comedy / Action | Mainland-Hong Kong co-production | ||
| The Bravest Escort Group | Action / Costume | ||||||
| The Faithful | Drama / Biography / History | Entered into the 2018 Shanghai International Film Festival | |||||
| Flowers in Full Bloom | Drama | ||||||
| Home Under the Sea | Comedy / Animation / Adventure | ||||||
| The Innocence of Childhood | Drama / Family / Children | ||||||
| Panic: Ghost Apartment | Suspense / Horror | ||||||
| Proud of Me | Lan Hongchun | Zheng Runqi, Li Shuhao, Chen Jinbiao | Drama / Comedy | ||||
| 25 | Zhu Xian | Horror | |||||
| 28 | Li Xuesheng | Drama / Biography | |||||
| Yao Gun Xiao Zi | Drama / Children | ||||||
| 30 | Cao Cao and Yang Xiu | Drama | Entered into the 2018 Shanghai International Film Festival | ||||
| 31 | Departures | Drama / Romance | |||||
| Hidden Land in Northern Tibet | Documentary | ||||||
| Inside the Boys | Horror | ||||||
| The King of Football | Animation / Family / Adventure / Sports | ||||||
| S E P T E M B E R | 3 | Goddesses in the Flames of War | Drama | Entered into the 2018 Shanghai International Film Festival | |||
| 7 | The Blizzard | Jiang Kaiyang | Nie Yuan, Tan Kai, Xu Lu | Drama / Suspense / Crime | |||
| The Dream of Nobody | Drama / Romance / Music / Crime | ||||||
| Grass Ring | Drama / Romance | ||||||
| The Kiss Addict | Li Yanning | Tan Zhuo, Chris Lee, Louis Sun | Drama / Romance | ||||
| Nightmare of Darkness | Suspense / Thriller / Horror | ||||||
| The Secret of the River | Drama / Romance | ||||||
| 10 | He is a Life Long Watcher | Drama | Entered into the 2012 Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival | ||||
| 12 | Winter in My Heart | Drama | Entered into the 2018 Shanghai International Film Festival | ||||
| 14 | The Road Not Taken | Tang Gaopeng | Wang Xuebing, Ma Yili, Zhu Gengyou | Drama / Crime | Entered into the 2018 Shanghai International Film Festival | ||
| 20 | I Am a Prosecutor | Drama | |||||
| 21 | Ash Is Purest White | Jia Zhangke | Zhao Tao, Liao Fan, Xu Zheng | Romance / Crime | Entered into the 2018 Cannes Film Festival | ||
| Blade of the Law | Action / Suspense / Crime | ||||||
| Chan Ke Nan Sheng | Drama / Romance | ||||||
| Cry Me a Sad River | Drama / Romance | ||||||
| The Express | Horror | ||||||
| Golden Job | Chin Ka-lok | Ekin Cheng, Jordan Chan, Michael Tse | Action / Crime | Mainland-Hong Kong co-production | |||
| Guan! Guan! Ospreys'Merily Call | Suspense / Adventure | ||||||
| How Willful of Grandpa & Grandson | Drama | ||||||
| Ice Cream Lover | Comedy / Romance | ||||||
| Imprisonment | Wu Qi | Wang Zhen, Pakho Chau, Robert Knepper | Suspense / Crime | ||||
| Lost Rainbow - The Return of Ancient Pendent | Drama | ||||||
| Love in Pavilion City | Action / Romance | ||||||
| Sky Rise | Drama | ||||||
| Super Master & Disciple | Comedy / Action / Romance | Mainland-Malaysia co-production | |||||
| 22 | Monkey Magic | Comedy / Animation / Adventure | |||||
| 30 | Fat Buddies | Bao Bei'er | Wen Zhang, Bao Bei'er, Guo Jingfei | Comedy / Action | |||
| Hello, Mrs. Money | Wu Yuhan | Huang Cailun, Allen, Song Yang | Comedy | ||||
| Legends of the Three Kingdoms | Action / Romance / Suspense / Fantasy | ||||||
| Project Gutenberg | Felix Chong | Chow Yun-fat, Aaron Kwok, Zhang Jingchu, Feng Wenjuan, Liu Kai-chi | Action / Crime | Mainland-Hong Kong co-production | |||
| Shadow | Zhang Yimou | Deng Chao, Sun Li, Zheng Kai, Wang Qianyuan, Wang Jingchun | Drama / Action / Costume | Entered into the 75th Venice International Film Festival | |||
| Two Little Pigs Braved Mysterious Island | Animation / Kids / Adventure | ||||||
| Year of the Dog | Liang Ting | Cheng Yi, Cui Yahan, Lam Suet | Comedy / Adventure | ||||
October–December
| Opening | Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| O C T O B E R | 1 | The Adventure of Afanti | Liu Wei | Hu Qian, Li Ye, Jiang Ke | Comedy / Animation | ||
| Legend of the Ancient Sword | Renny Harlin | Leehom Wang, Victoria Song, Godfrey Gao, Archie Kao, Karena Ng | Action / Fantasy / Costume | ||||
| 5 | Jia Zhuang Bu Zheng Jing | Drama / Comedy / Family / Children / Fantasy | |||||
| Lost, Found | Lu Yue | Yao Chen, Ma Yili, Yuan Wenkang | Drama | Entered into the 2018 Shanghai International Film Festival | |||
| 12 | Chinese Peacekeeping Forces | Drama / Action / War | Entered into the 2018 Shanghai International Film Festival | ||||
| Midnight Ghost | Suspense / Thriller / Horror | ||||||
| Zhang Yimou's "Shadow" | Wang Peng | Zhang Yimou, Zhao Xiaoding, Chen Minzheng | Documentary | ||||
| 13 | Dino King | Comedy / Animation / Adventure | |||||
| 15 | Departure Alone The Sea | Drama / Family | |||||
| 16 | Let's Go | Drama / Comedy / Romance | |||||
| 17 | Leather Shoes | Drama | |||||
| 19 | Baby | Liu Jie | Yang Mi, Guo Jingfei, Lee Hong-chi | Drama | Entered into the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival | ||
| Nightmare of Darkness | Suspense / Thriller / Horror | ||||||
| Sun Flower | Drama | Entered into the 2018 Shanghai International Film Festival | |||||
| Super Model Fantasy | Frankie Chan | Patrick Tam, Jessey Meng, Kenneth Ma, Na Guangzi, Robin Luo | Action | ||||
| When Africa Meets You | Comedy / Action / Romance / Adventure | ||||||
| 26 | Ala Changso | Sonthar Gyal | Yungdrung Gyal, Nyima Sungsung, Sechok Gyal | Drama | Entered into the 2018 Shanghai International Film Festival | ||
| Crazy Little Thing | Kenji Wu | Kenji Wu, Zhou Yiran, Zhou Jianming | Comedy / Romance / Fantasy | ||||
| Crystal Sky of Yesterday | Xi Chao | Su Shangqing, Duan Yixuan, Wang Yibo | Romance / Animation | ||||
| Fake Lover | Comedy / Romance | ||||||
| Kung Fu League | Jeffrey Lau | Vincent Zhao, Andy On, Danny Chan Kwok-kwan | Drama / Action | ||||
| Lumière Amoureuse | Romance / Fantasy | Mainland-France co-production | |||||
| The Secret Between Us | |||||||
| Soul Contract | Horror | ||||||
| 27 | Adventure in Time and Space | Animation / Family / Adventure | |||||
| 31 | Endless Loop | Wen He | Nie Yuan, Ge Tian, John Do | Suspense / Crime | |||
| N O V E M B E R | 2 | Can't See Me Love You | Horror | ||||
| The Code on the Fingertips | Action / Suspense / Adventure | ||||||
| Iceman II | Raymond Yip | Donnie Yen, Huang Shengyi, Wang Baoqiang, Simon Yam, Yu Kang | Action / Fantasy | Mainland-Hong Kong co-production | |||
| Obstetric Boys | Drama / Romance | ||||||
| The Sun Star Brigade | Drama | ||||||
| Tai Xian Mo Zhou | Suspense / Horror | ||||||
| You Beautify My Life | Love / Music / Song and Dance | ||||||
| 3 | Eight Immortals | Animation | |||||
| 9 | Disturbed Souls on Campus | Horror | |||||
| Dream Breaker | Han Yan | Chen Duling, Song Weilong, Zhang Youhao | Action / Adventure | ||||
| In the Underground | Documentary | Entered into the 2015 Cinéma du Réel | |||||
| Last Letter | Shunji Iwai | Zhou Xun, Qin Hao, Du Jiang, Zhang Zifeng, Deng Enxi | Drama / Romance | ||||
| Legends of the Three Kingdoms | Lv Kejing | Ekin Cheng, Yu Rongguang, Michael Tse, Jia Qing, Jerry Lamb | Action / Romance / Suspense / Fantasy | ||||
| Say Goodbye to Single | Comedy / Romance | ||||||
| 10 | Dino King | Comedy / Animation / Adventure | |||||
| Pretty Princess | Animation / Children / Fantasy | ||||||
| 15 | Those Names Are Those Years | Drama | |||||
| 16 | A Cool Fish | Rao Xiaozhi | Chen Jianbin, Ren Suxi, Pan Binlong | Drama / Comedy | |||
| A Smile from the Mountain | Drama | ||||||
| Binding Desting | Suspense / Horror | ||||||
| Capriccio of Tracking Down the Treasure | Comedy / Action | ||||||
| Lost in Mobius | Suspense / Horror | ||||||
| Source of Dreams | Liu Ke | Julian Chen, Yan Danchen, Li Yu | Suspense / Horror | ||||
| 20 | Zhengzheng's World | Drama | |||||
| 21 | Talkshow Legend | Drama / Biography | |||||
| 22 | Destiny's Smile | Yang Datian | Henry Dong, Li Mincheng, Liu Yi | Drama / Romance | |||
| 23 | China Peacekeeping Forces | Ning Haiqiang | Xu Honghao, Yi Long, Peng Shiteng | Drama / Action / War | Entered into the 2018 Shanghai International Film Festival | ||
| The Express | Willie Ying | Leon Lee, Tang Jingmei, Shen Jianhong | Horror | ||||
| Grandma's Home | Drama / Family | ||||||
| Save My Dogs | Zhang Fan | Liang Zai, Xiao Jin, Liu Xiaoye | Drama / Romance / Adventure | ||||
| 24 | Super Kids' Attack | Comedy / Children | |||||
| 27 | Hello Life | Cheng Gong Ren Changzhen | Documentary | ||||
| 30 | Er Shi Sui | Drama | |||||
| Fake Partner | Lam Chi-chung Ke Dingtu | Lam Chi-chung, Ai Xiaoqi, Benny Chan | Comedy | ||||
| Fantastic Dream Trip | Comedy / Romance / Fantasy | ||||||
| Funeral Vigil | Horror | Entered into the 2017 Shanghai International Film Festival | |||||
| Please Remember Me | Drama | Entered into the 2017 Pingyao International Film Festival | |||||
| Route 33 | Comedy / Romance | ||||||
| Save Your Soul | Drama | ||||||
| Waiting for Me in Heaven | Romance / Disaster | ||||||
| D E C E M B E R | 1 | Adventure in Time and Space | Animation / Family / Adventure | ||||
| Legend Second of the Tand Dynasty | Animation / Children | ||||||
| Life is a Belief | Xiao Han | Huang Zhongjian, Zhang Xuefei, A Hete | Documentary | ||||
| 6 | Hope of Road | Drama | |||||
| 7 | Better Man | Comedy / Romance | |||||
| Einstein and Einstein | Cao Baoping | Zhang Xueying, Guo Jinglin, Zhi Yitong | Drama / Family | Entered into the 2013 Chinese Youth Image Forum | |||
| Left Hand and Right Hand | Drama / Romance | ||||||
| Love Afterlife | Romance / Suspense | ||||||
| The Pluto Moment | Zhang Ming | Wang Xuebing, Liu Dan, Miya Muqi | Drama | Entered into the 2018 Cannes Film Festival | |||
| 8 | Prequel of Orijia | Horror | |||||
| 11 | Dawning | Xiong Wei | Rong Zishan, Guan Yajun, Ding Ning | Drama / Children / War | |||
| Who is the Bad Boy | Drama / Romance | ||||||
| 12 | Dr. Huang Danian | Drama / Biography | |||||
| The Photographer | Zhang Wei | Xie Gang, Liu Mu, Kang Lei | Drama / History | ||||
| 13 | Destiny and Dream | Drama / Romance | |||||
| 14 | The Best Us | Drama | |||||
| The First Time | Drama | ||||||
| The Golden Armed Brothers | Action / Romance / Martial Arts | ||||||
| Holding Hands | Drama | ||||||
| Painted Skin: The Double Mask | Horror | ||||||
| Running to the Spring | Drama | ||||||
| Second Child Coming | Drama / Comedy / Family | ||||||
| Stolen Fairytales | Comedy / Suspense | ||||||
| There Will Be Ample Time | Drama / Comedy | ||||||
| 15 | Kong Tian Zhan Dui Zhi Xing Shou Da Zhan | Animation / Adventure | |||||
| 17 | Blue Amber | Zhou Jie | Wang Zhen, Lu Yulai, Geng Le | Drama / Suspense | Entered into the 2018 Shanghai International Film Festival | ||
| 18 | Fighting Men of China | Liu Yadang | Zhao Lixin, Ling Xiaosu, Jevon Wang | Drama | |||
| 19 | Patrolman Baoyin | Drama | Entered into the 2018 Pingyao International Film Festival | ||||
| 20 | Spring Returns to My Homeland | Drama | |||||
| 21 | Airpocalypse | Xiao Yang | Xiao Yang, Du Juan, Chang Yuan | Drama / Comedy / Fantasy | |||
| At Two Thirty | Suspense / Thriller / Horror | ||||||
| Father and Hero | Action / Suspense / Crime | Entered into the Shanghai International Film Festival | |||||
| Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy | Yuen Woo-ping | Zhang Jin, Dave Bautista, Liu Yan, Michelle Yeoh, Tony Jaa | Action | Entered into the 23rd Busan International Film Festival | |||
| Reality TV Horror Incident | Thriller / Horror / Adventure | ||||||
| The Revenge of Phantom Knight | Drama / Suspense / Thriller | ||||||
| The Soul of Shui People in 1944 | Romance / War | ||||||
| Kung Fu Monster | Andrew Lau | Louis Koo, Chen Xuedong, Bea Hayden, Bao Bei'er, Wang Taili | Action / Fantasy / Martial Arts | Mainland-Hong Kong co-production | |||
| 22 | The Connection | Drama | |||||
| 25 | Romantic Crazy Double Seventh Day | Drama | |||||
| 27 | A Promise Over 65 Years | ||||||
| 28 | The Sun Star Brigade | Drama | |||||
| 29 | Kill Mobile | Yu Miao | Tong Dawei, Ma Li, Huo Siyan | Drama / Comedy | |||
| Midnight Ruins | Horror | ||||||
| Mojin: The Worm Valley | Fei Xing | Cai Heng, Gu Xuan, Yu Heng | Action / Fantasy / Adventure | ||||
| The Morning After | Luo Deng | Ge You, Yue Yunpeng, Du Chun | Comedy / Adventure | ||||
| 30 | Alibaba and The Three Golden Hair | Comedy / Animation / Adventure | |||||
| Battle of Tortoise and Rabbit | Comedy / Animation / Adventure | ||||||
| Police Car Union | Animation / Adventure | ||||||
| Two Little Pigs Braved Mysterious Island | Animation / Kids / Adventure | ||||||
| 31 | Long Day's Journey into Night | Bi Gan | Tang Wei, Huang Jue, Sylvia Chang | Drama / Suspense | Entered into the 2018 Cannes Film Festival | ||
See also
- List of Chinese films of 2017
- List of Chinese films of 2019
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