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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 - 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 »

55%
from 101 members
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1911 Revolution
on DVD
(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 »

59%
from 128 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 »

60%
from 1 member
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Mao's Last Dancer
(2009)
Starring: Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Joan Chen
Director: Bruce Beresford
Certificate: 
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 24 members
Currently unavailable
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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
Currently unavailable
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24 City
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Joan Chen, Tao Zhao, Liping Lu
Director: Jia Zhangke
Certificate: 
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
"24 City" tells the story of three women's lives in the process of China's urbanisation in 1958.

60%
from 214 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 19,602 members
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Saving Face
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Michelle Krusiec, Joan Chen, Lynn Chen
Director: Alice Wu
Certificate: 
A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations..

61%
from 2,830 members
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What's Cooking?
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Joan Chen, Julianna Margulies, Mercedes Ruehl
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Certificate: 
Watch now: £2.49
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 378 members
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Autumn In New York
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Richard Gere, Winona Ryder, Elaine Stritch
Director: Joan Chen
Certificate: 
Following in a long tradition of Hollywood May-December romances, AUTUMN IN NEW YORK is the story of a pair who finds love when each least expects it. Will Keane (Richard Gere) is a successful restaurant owner and bachelor playboy with more "girlfriends" than he knows what to do with but no serious ..read more »

54%
from 2,022 members
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Purple Storm
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Daniel Wu, Kwok-Leung Gan, Emil Chau
Director: Teddy Chan
Certificate: 
PURPLE STORM stars Daniel Wu as an amnesiac who must choose between continuing a new life or returning to his dark past. Joan Chen plays a psychologist who attempts to help him. Produced by Jackie Chan, this action movie features blazing guns and stunning fight sequences.

53%
from 278 members
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Wild Side
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Christopher Walken, Joan Chen, Steven Bauer
Director: Donald Cammell
Certificate: 
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Anne Heche stars as Alex Lee, a loan officer who works as a high-class call girl by night, in this erotic thriller. When Alex is unwittingly caught up in a sting operation by the police, she is forced to agree to help catch a notorious underworld boss named Bruno (Walken) who had hired her one ..read more »

48%
from 785 members
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Judge Dredd
(1995)
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Jurgen Prochnow, Armand Assante
Director: Danny Cannon
Certificate: 
In the third millenium, all-powerful Judges keep the peace in Earth's giant Mega-Cities. Judge Dredd is framed by corrupt power-seekers and must fight for his life and for justice. Based on the futuristic, action-packed comic books by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra.

57%
from 10,085 members
Not currently released
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Heaven And Earth
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Joan Chen, Debbie Reynolds
Director: Oliver Stone
Certificate: 
The true story of Le Ly, a young girl living in Central Vietnam in the early 1950s. Raped by the Viet Cong and tortured by the South Vietnamese, she is eventually courted by a battle-scarred Marine and returns with him to America as his bride, anxious to put the past behind her.

63%
from 827 members
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Turtle Beach
(1992)
Starring: Greta Scacchi, Joan Chen, Jack Thompson
Director: Stephen Wallace
Certificate: 
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, Rutger Hauer, Mimi Rogers
Director: Lewis Teague
Certificate: 
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Frank Warren, an electronics expert, is imprisoned in an experimental 'high-tech' prison for being convicted of a diamond robbery. Here, inmates are secretly connected by collars which explode if separated by more than 100 yards...

63%
from 1,190 member
Not currently released
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Salute Of The Jugger
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Vincent D'Onofrio, Rutger Hauer, Rutger Hauer
Director: David Webb Peoples
Certificate: 
A future barren world destroyed by war is inhabited by settlers whose daily task is to survive a harsh world where food is scarce. The only pleasure in life is the Game in which opposing settlers put forward a team of gladiators to do battle.

67%
from 576 members
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The Last Emperor
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Certificate: 
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The Last Emperor is the true story of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, the last ruler of the Chinese Ching Dynasty. Told in flashback, the film covers the years 1908 to 1967. We first see the three-year-old Pu Yi being installed in the Forbidden City by ruthless, dying dowager Empress Tzu-Hsui (Lisa Lu). Though ..read more »

69%
from 8,018 members
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The Last Emperor - Blu-ray
(1987)
Starring: John Lone, Peter O'Toole, Joan Chen
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Certificate: 
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The story of Pu Yi, who ascended to the Imperial Throne in China at the age of three and became the country's last Emperor. Although it is 160 minutes long and shot with breathtaking scope and sumptuousness, Bernardo Bertolucci's film is a story about claustrophobia. Pu Yi is a prisoner in the ..read more »

73%
from 320 members
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Tai-Pan
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Bryan Brown, John Stanton, Joan Chen
Director: Daryl Duke
Certificate: 
Watch now: £2.49
This exotic drama tells of the founding of Hong Kong and the Western merchants who traded the South China Sea risking their lives to create magnificent dynasties. Based on James Clavell's bestseller and filmed in the Republic of China.

51%
from 209 members
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