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Joan Chen
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Joan Chen - what members say
review by from London
Flawed, frustrating, occasionally brilliant thriller 22 May 2004
review by A customer from GLASGOW
TOP MOVIE !!! 21 June 2005
review by SAI81 from Tonbridge, Kent
Saving Face 19 March 2007
Joan Chen - filmography
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1911 Revolution
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Simon Dutton, Jackie Chan, Bingbing Li
Director: Jackie Chan, Li Zhang
Certificate: 
At the beginning of the 20th century, China is in a state of crisis. The country is split into warring factions, the citizens are starving, and recent political reforms have made matters worse, not better. The ruling Qing Dynasty, led by a seven-year-old emperor and his ruthless mother, Empress ..read more »
 
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from 317 members
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1911 Revolution - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Jackie Chan, Bingbing Li, Winston Chao
Director: Jackie Chan, Li Zhang
Certificate:
At the beginning of the 20th century, China is in a state of crisis. The country is split into warring factions, the citizens are starving, and recent political reforms have made matters worse, not better. The ruling Qing Dynasty, led by a seven-year-old emperor and his ruthless mother, Empress ..read more »
52%
from 294 members
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The Home Song Stories
(2010)
Starring: Joan Chen, Yuwu Qi, Joel Lok
Director: Tony Ayres
Certificate: 
Rose, a Shanhainese songstress singing at nightclubs in Hong Kong during the 60's, marries an Australian sailor and migrates with her young son and daughter to Melbourne. Her past filled with lost innocence, she begins a cycle of dependence and desperation to create a family for herself and her ..read more »
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from 1 member
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Mao's Last Dancer
(2009)
Starring: Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Joan Chen
Director: Bruce Beresford
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A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to ..read more »
79%
from 28 members
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Hollywood Chinese
(2008)
Starring: Turhan Bey, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin
Director: Arthur Dong
Certificate:
Hollywood Chinese is a captivating look at cinema history through the lens of the Chinese American experience. Directed by triple Sundance award-winning filmmaker, Arthur Dong, this documentary is a voyage through a century of cinematic delights, intrigues and treasures. It weaves together a ..read more »
30%
from 5 members
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24 City
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Joan Chen, Tao Zhao, Liping Lu
Director: Jia Zhangke
Certificate: 
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"24 City" tells the story of three women's lives in the process of China's urbanisation in 1958.
60%
from 251 members
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Lust, Caution
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Joan Chen, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Tang Wei
Director: Ang Lee
Certificate: 
An espionage thriller set in WWII-era Shanghai, in which a young woman, Wang Jiazhi (Tang Wei), gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with a powerful political figure, Mr. Yee (Tony Leung).
67%
from 20,169 members
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Saving Face
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Jin Wang, Lynn Chen, Joan Chen
Director: Alice Wu
Certificate:
Heartwarming romantic comedy about family, tradition, and changing times. Michelle Krusiec play Wilhelmina, a doctor in a Manhattan hospital who returns to Flushing's Chinatown every Friday night to participate in her extended family's weekly dance mixer. While her mother (Joan Chen) and the other ..read more »
61%
from 2,907 members
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Autumn in New York
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Sherry Stringfield, Winona Ryder, Jill Hennessy
Director: Joan Chen
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Celebrating her birthday at a top Manhattan restaurant, twenty-one-year-old milliner Charlotte (Winona Ryder) has a chance meeting with middle-aged celebrity chef Will (Richard Gere). Will later asks Charlotte to attend a charity ball with him, but once they have slept together he is unsure whether ..read more »
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from 2,295 members
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What's Cooking?
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Joan Chen, Julianna Margulies, Mercedes Ruehl
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Certificate: 
Watch now: Unavailable
What happens when families come together for Thanksgiving? Almost anything! Sit back, relax and enjoy this generous and charming tale of four very different families, as they cook up some tasty holiday surprises; love, betrayal and even a few outrageous secrets! And, ultimately, discover the ..read more »
63%
from 402 members
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Purple Storm
(1999)
Starring: Joan Chen, Kwok-Leung Gan, Daniel Wu
Director: Teddy Chan
Certificate:
Khmer Rouge terrorist Todd Chou (Daniel Wu) receives a serious head wound while on a mission in Hong Kong, which leaves him suffering from amnesia. Anti-terrorist unit head Ma Lie (Chow Wah-kin) enlists psychiatrist Shirley Kwan (Joan Chen) to convince Todd that he is in fact an undercover cop, and ..read more »
53%
from 284 members
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Wild Side
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Christopher Walken, Joan Chen, Steven Bauer
Director: Donald Cammell
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Working as a high class prostitute to supplement her income, loan officer Alex Lee (Anne Heche) has paid sex with racketeer Bruno Buckingham (Christopher Walken). Alex is then raped by Bruno's chauffeur, Tony (Steven Bauer), who proceeds to reveal that he is an undercover cop, and asks Alex to help ..read more »
48%
from 839 members
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The Hunted
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: John Lone, Joan Chen, Christopher Lambert
Director: J.F. Lawton
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American businessman Paul Racine (Christopher Lambert) is in Japan with his companion (Joan Chen) when they become the targets of the murderous Kinjo (John Lone). Kinjo orders Racine's death, forcing the businessman to join up with a Samurai warrior who has a score to settle. An age old battle is ..read more »
58%
from 551 members
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Judge Dredd
(1995)
Starring: Diane Lane, Rob Schneider, Joanna Miles
Director: Danny Cannon
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Judge Dredd (Sylvester Stallone) - the most feared policeman in Mega City One - finds himself on the wrong side of the law when he is framed by those inside the Great Hall of Justice. He must try to clear his name and wipe out the corruption in the city, with the help of a small time criminal, ..read more »
57%
from 10,347 members
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Heaven And Earth
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Debbie Reynolds, Joan Chen, Tommy Lee Jones
Director: Oliver Stone
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The final installment in director Oliver Stone's Vietnam trilogy traces the impact of the war on the life of a young Vietnamese woman. Le Ly (Hiep Thi Le) lives in a village in the Central Highlands, following the traditions that have been in her family for countless generations, but after being ..read more »
64%
from 855 members
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Turtle Beach
(1992)
Starring: Greta Scacchi, Joan Chen, Jack Thompson
Director: Stephen Wallace
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In this grim docu-drama an Australian photojournalist leaves her children to cover the story of Vietnamese boat people in a Malaysian refugee camp. There she becomes friends with a Vietnamese streetwalker who has married a diplomat and together they try to do something about shocking conditions ..read more »
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from 1 member
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Wedlock
(1990)
Starring: Rutger Hauer, James Remar, Rutger Haue
Director: Lewis Teague
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Electronics whizz Rutger Hauer is persuaded to pull off a jewellery heist by his girlfriend. She promptly double-crosses him, shoots him and runs off with the third team member. Hauer survives and is sent to a high security prison where all the inmates wear collars containing explosives. All the ..read more »
62%
from 1,310 member
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The Last Emperor
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning epic about the last imperial ruler of China. In 1908 the three-year-old Pu Yi is made Lord of Ten Thousand Years, but is soon forced to abdicate. He is, however, kept on as a symbolic figure and educated by an English tutor (Peter O'Toole) until he is thrown out ..read more »
69%
from 8,221 members
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The Last Emperor - Blu-ray
(1987)
Starring: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning epic about the last imperial ruler of China. In 1908 the three-year-old Pu Yi is made Lord of Ten Thousand Years, but is soon forced to abdicate. He is, however, kept on as a symbolic figure and educated by an English tutor (Peter O'Toole) until he is thrown out ..read more »
73%
from 397 members
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Tai-Pan
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Bryan Brown, John Stanton, Tim Guinee
Director: Daryl Duke
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
An adaptation of the James Clavell novel that focuses on the buccaneering nature of Western merchants who were drawn to China by the wealth of silk, jade and opium. China was an unknown land, closed to the western world until the mid 1800s, when its borders were opened. The story follows the ..read more »
52%
from 224 members
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... obsession as the stakes for both characters are raised. Meanwhile Bruno's wife(Joan Chen) and chauffeur(Steven Bauer) are also making plans for Bruno.
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