May 16, 2002
116 min
Full-HD

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)

During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor's beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.

Category

Drama

Country

China France

Companies

Les Films de la Suane Le Film StudioCanal France 3 Cinéma

Zhou Xun

Little Seamstress

Chen Kun

Luo Min

Liu Ye

Ma Jianling

Wang Shuangbao

Head of the Village

Cong Zhijun

Old Tailor

Wang Hongwei

Four Eyes

Xiao Xiong

Mother of Four Eyes

Zuohui Tang

Old Mill Worker

Recommended For You

Drama
2023
Movie

Sight

Sight

6.4
2023

Ming Wang is an impoverished Chinese prodigy who flees Communist China to become a pioneering eye surgeon in America. When tasked with restoring the sight of an orphan in India, who was blinded by her stepmother, Wang must confront the trauma of living through the violent uprising in his youth, the Cultural Revolution.

Drama
2020
Movie

One Second

One Second

7.3
2020

A movie fan escapes from a labour camp during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and strikes up a relationship with a homeless female vagabond.

Drama
1998
Movie

Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

7.2
1998

Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.

Drama
2011
Movie

Buddha Mountain

Buddha Mountain

6.9
2011

In Chengdu, China, a retired female opera singer named Master Chang takes in a trio of young tenants into her boarding home. The tenants include a rock singer and a college student who has run away from home.

Drama
2024
Movie

Black Dog

Black Dog

7.1
2024

On the edge of the Gobi desert in Northwest China, Lang returns to his hometown after being released from jail. While working for the local dog patrol team to clear the town of stray dogs before the Olympic Games, he strikes up an unlikely connection with a black dog. These two lonely souls embark on a journey together.

Drama
1960
Movie

The Young One

The Young One

6.9
1960

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.

Drama
2020
Movie

Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains

Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains

7.3
2020

In the Chinese town of Fuyang, four brothers go about their day-to-day lives, their destinies shaped by love and challenges.

Drama
2015
Movie

Deep in the Heart

Deep in the Heart

7.7
2015

An unrecognizable, charred corpse discovered in a remote mountain village in China connects three local stories.

Drama
2019
Movie

So Long, My Son

So Long, My Son

7.7
2019

Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.

Drama
2020
Movie

Tigertail

Tigertail

6.7
2020

A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.

Drama
2013
Movie

American Dreams in China

American Dreams in China

6.8
2013

Three Chinese friends build a successful English language school to help Chinese teenagers fulfil their dreams.

Drama
2025
Movie

Train Dreams

Train Dreams

7.3
2025

A logger leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental change in early 20th-century America.

Drama
1970
Movie

Zabriskie Point

Zabriskie Point

7
1970

Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot, accidentally encounter each other in Death Valley and soon begin an unrestrained romance.

Drama
2017
Movie

Wonderstruck

Wonderstruck

6.1
2017

The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.

Drama
2017
Movie

Youth

Youth

7.3
2017

A group of performing art troupe members each face their own trials and tribulations in Chengdu; from escaping a family scandal to dealing with unrequited love, each experiences rejection that shapes their lives.

Drama
2002
Movie

Together

Together

6.9
2002

When a violin prodigy Xiaochun and his father head to Beijing seeking fame and fortune, they soon discover a fierce world of cutthroat ambition. But when Xiaochun is "adopted" by a famous music tutor, success finally seems within reach - until a shocking discovery begins to unravel his entire world, and the boy must make the most difficult choice of his life. Can he achieve the fame his father had always hoped for without losing the extraordinary passion that sets him apart?

Drama
2025
Movie

Caught by the Tides

Caught by the Tides

6.8
2025

Years after her boyfriend left her for the big city and promised to bring her there after he’s settled down, a Chinese woman sets out on a journey to be reunited with him.

Drama
2013
Movie

Salomé

Salomé

6.2
2013

After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé comes before her king with an unreasonable demand. Beguiled by John the Baptist, and then scorned for the sake of his god, lascivious Salomé—encouraged by her mother, the vindictive, Herodias—commands that John be executed and his head delivered on a silver platter.