The best Jia Zhangke films
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: Xiao Wu (1998) · Platform (2000) · Still Life (2006). (Updated May 14, 2025.)
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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Top 11
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1
Xiao Wu (1998)
A pickpocket in Fenyang; Jia's debut.
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2
Platform (2000)
Youth in a county-town performing troupe in the 1980s.
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3
Still Life (2006)
Displacement and searching around the Three Gorges; Golden Lion in Venice.
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4
A Touch of Sin (2013)
Four stories of violence; Best Screenplay at Cannes.
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5
Unknown Pleasures (2002)
Two aimless young men in Datong.
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6
Ash Is Purest White (2018)
Seventeen years of Qiao and Bin in the underworld.
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7
The World (2004)
Workers at Beijing's World Park.
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8
Mountains May Depart (2015)
A woman and her son across three eras.
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9
24 City (2008)
An oral history of a Chengdu military factory.
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10
I Wish I Knew (2010)
Shanghai residents' spoken memories.
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11
Caught by the Tides (2024)
Zhao Tao across more than twenty years of China.
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12
Dong (2006)
A documentary on painter Liu Xiaodong at the Three Gorges and in Bangkok.
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