# The best Gong Li films

From Red Sorghum to Saturday Fiction: Gong Li's classics, compiled from Douban ratings and recommendations on Zhihu and Qidian.

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- Sep 10, 2024 · showrunner_curious
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## Top 10

1. **Farewell My Concubine (1993)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Juxian, in Chen Kaige's Palme d'Or winner.
2. **To Live (1994)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jiazhen, opposite Ge You, through decades of a family's fate.
3. **Raise the Red Lantern (1991)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Songlian, the fourth wife in a great household.
4. **Red Sorghum (1987)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Her breakthrough, winner of the Golden Bear in Berlin.
5. **The Story of Qiu Ju (1992)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A peasant woman who won't stop seeking justice; best actress in Venice.
6. **Ju Dou (1990)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A forbidden love in a dye mill.
7. **Coming Home (2014)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A wife with amnesia waiting for her husband to return.
8. **2046 (2004)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A gambler named Su Li-zhen, for Wong Kar-wai.
9. **Shanghai Triad (1995)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Xiao Jinbao, a nightclub singer in 1930s Shanghai.
10. **Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The empress in a palace of intrigue.
11. **Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The geisha Hatsumomo in the Hollywood film.
12. **Temptress Moon (1996)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Chen Kaige's tale of love and revenge in 1920s China.
13. **Breaking the Silence (2000)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A mother raising her deaf son alone.
14. **Saturday Fiction (2019)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — An actress-spy for Lou Ye.

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