# The best Zhang Ziyi movies

From The Road Home and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to The Grandmaster and The Wasted Times: the films most often cited in Maigoo's Zhang Ziyi ranking and on Zhihu.

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- Jan 25, 2025 · Peng Guo
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## Top 10

1. **The Grandmaster (2013)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Wong Kar-wai: Gong Er; best actress at both the Golden Horse and the Hong Kong Film Awards.
2. **The Road Home (1999)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Zhang Yimou: a village girl falls for the new teacher; her breakthrough.
3. **Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Ang Lee: Jen Yu and the Green Destiny sword; Oscar for best foreign-language film.
4. **2046 (2004)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Wong Kar-wai: Chow Mo-wan and Bai Ling from the room next door.
5. **Jasmine Women (2004)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Hou Yong: three generations of women in Shanghai.
6. **Forever Enthralled (2008)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Chen Kaige: the life of the Peking opera master, with Leon Lai.
7. **House of Flying Daggers (2004)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Zhang Yimou: the blind dancer Mei and the bamboo-forest battles of the Flying Daggers.
8. **The Wasted Times (2016)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Cheng Er: gangland Shanghai in the 1930s.
9. **Love for Life (2011)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Gu Changwei: love in an AIDS-stricken village, with Aaron Kwok.
10. **Forever Young (2018)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Li Fangfang: Tsinghua students across a century.
11. **Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Rob Marshall: the geisha Sayuri, alongside Gong Li and Michelle Yeoh.

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