# The best Jia Zhangke films

From Xiao Wu to Caught by the Tides: Jia Zhangke's films by Douban rating and critics' esteem (Douban, Sohu, Digitaling).

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- May 14, 2025 · 马佳琪
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## Top 11

1. **Xiao Wu (1998)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A pickpocket in Fenyang; Jia's debut.
2. **Platform (2000)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Youth in a county-town performing troupe in the 1980s.
3. **Still Life (2006)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Displacement and searching around the Three Gorges; Golden Lion in Venice.
4. **A Touch of Sin (2013)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Four stories of violence; Best Screenplay at Cannes.
5. **Unknown Pleasures (2002)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Two aimless young men in Datong.
6. **Ash Is Purest White (2018)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Seventeen years of Qiao and Bin in the underworld.
7. **The World (2004)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Workers at Beijing's World Park.
8. **Mountains May Depart (2015)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A woman and her son across three eras.
9. **24 City (2008)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — An oral history of a Chengdu military factory.
10. **I Wish I Knew (2010)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Shanghai residents' spoken memories.
11. **Caught by the Tides (2024)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Zhao Tao across more than twenty years of China.
12. **Dong (2006)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A documentary on painter Liu Xiaodong at the Three Gorges and in Bangkok.

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