Zhang Xian

Xiaoya grew up in a single-parent family, the lack of affection and friendship, made the city girl fall in love with then-boyfriend Wang Hao. On a weekend, Xiaoya, Wang Hao and Jianwen, Mary and several friends of the club resolve to camp on the road encounter a stranger, what appeared to be a camp becomes a terror when Wang Hao mysteriously disappears.

For 10 years, Ani, a young wife and mother, has sported the same hair style. She has a humdrum life and a platonic relationship with young Mr. Ahua, her hairdresser. She leaves home after he loses his job. There is love and new beginnings.

Zhang Ziyi plays the youngest of three generations of women who leads lives in Shanghai. Joan Chen plays the great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother. The film recounts this family, the mistakes they make, and a cycle that the granddaughter breaks out of.

The true story of a band of laid-off workers from state-owned companies who set out to risk their own fortunes in the private sector and then find out that success ain't what it used to be. After getting laid-off from a state-owned shipbuilder, a middle-aged worker uses all of his savings, borrows some money, and then convinces a group of friends who are in similar circumstances, to join him in an apartment decoration/construction business in Shanghai.

Ever-changing life in a busy modern metropolis brings both ecstasy and sorrow: One night, 24-year-old A Rong by chance helps A Min, a beautiful woman, defending her from group of harassers on the street. A Rong takes A Min sleep in his house, while he himself goes to a friend's house to sleep on the sofa. The next morning, A Rong arrives home to find A Min gone; he does everything he can to find her and ask her to marry him.

The upsurge of going abroad has brought a large number of "left behind". Nai Qing is a "left behind lady" whose husband is far away in San Francisco.

A cruel, shameless man who defrauds money, kills his own wife and is sentenced to death seems to come back to haunt his troubled daughter.

A portrait of a woman, more intelligent and more ambitious than her husband, who must fight to break with village morality by choosing to have an abortion.

Xiao Xiao is sold into arranged marriage with a 2 year old boy, who she must raise as his nanny until he is old enough to marry her. She is expected to honour tradition and to toe the line so far as social proprieties are concerned, but the young girl rebels against the edicts of her elders until at 16, she falls in love with another man.