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The following is a list of mainland Chinese films first released in year 2001.
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The following is a list of mainland Chinese films first released in year 2001.
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| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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| All the Way | Shi Runjiu | Comedy | ||
| Beijing Bicycle [1] | Wang Xiaoshuai | Cui Lin, Li Bin | Drama | Banned in China, ban lifted 2004. [1] |
| Big Shot's Funeral | Feng Xiaogang | Donald Sutherland, Ge You, Rosamund Kwan | Comedy | |
| Bus 44 | Dayyan Eng | Gong Beibi | Short | |
| Butterfly Smile | He Jianjun | Ge You | Drama/Thriller | |
| Fish and Elephant [2] | Li Yu | LGBT/Drama/Romance | Considered the first Chinese film to address lesbian issues | |
| Go for Broke | Wang Guangli | Drama | ||
| Gone is the One Who Held Me Dearest in the World | Ma Liwen | Drama | ||
| In Public | Jia Zhangke | Short documentary | ||
| Lan Yu [3] | Stanley Kwan | Liu Ye, Hu Jun | LGBT/Drama | |
| The Marriage Certificate | Huang Jianxin | Feng Gong, Lü Liping Li Xiaoming | Comedy-Drama | |
| The Orphan of Anyang | Wang Chao | Sun Guilin Yue Senyi | Drama | Director Wang Chao's directorial debut |
| Purple Sunset | Feng Xiaoning | War | ||
| Quitting | Zhang Yang | Jia Hongsheng | Docudrama | |
| Seafood | Zhu Wen | Drama | ||
| The Treatment | Zheng Xiaolong | Drama | ||
| Weekend Plot | Zhang Ming | Drama | ||
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Still Life is a 2006 Chinese film directed by Jia Zhangke. Shot in the old village of Fengjie, a small town on the Yangtze River slowly being destroyed by the building of the Three Gorges Dam, Still Life tells the story of two people in search of their spouses. Still Life is a co-production of the Shanghai Film Studio and Xstream Pictures.
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Escort is a 2001 Chinese black comedy film directed by Qi Xing, starring Ge Zhijun and Li Zhanhe as two plainclothes police officers trying to escort an especially obedient criminal out of an impoverished and desolate area in Shaanxi. The film marks Qi's directorial debut.
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The Stormy Night is a 1925 Chinese drama film directed and written by novelist Zhu Shouju. Like most Chinese films from this period, it is a black-and-white silent film with both Chinese and English intertitles.
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