Journalist Sara has just spent four months completing an in-depth investigation piece. Her editor-in-chief, afraid of offending powerful politicians and business moguls, refuses to run it. Sara’s boyfriend, who works for the same magazine, chooses not to warn her and even sides with the editor-in-chief. In just one moment, Sara is turned off by her work, her love relationship, and even about life.At this low point in her life, Sara exiles herself to Chiang Mai, Thailand. One evening, while at a bar, Sara meets child prostitute Dok-My. During her time getting to know Dok-My and through the process of rescuing her, Sara becomes haunted by the memories of her own past…

1998 film by Joan Chen

Two disaffected, unemployed Chinese youth drift through life on the streets of their industrial town, their paths crossing with that of a local young singer and dancer working for a liquor company as a spokesmodel.

2013 film by Jia Zhangke

A corrupt magistrate subjects a innocent young bride to inconceivable physical punishments after convicting her of killing her husband.

2001 film by Takashi Miike

1999 film

2006 film directed by Lou Ye

故事发生在1989年的北京，郭松刚刚大学毕业，前途尚且处于一片混沌之中，带着这样的迷惘，他被分配到一间工厂里成为了工人，这让郭松感到十分沮丧。郭松和女友晓青住在一起，一片小小的天地容纳着两个人的喜怒哀乐，然而，郭松内心里那日益巨大的空洞让他无法忽视，跟随着飘渺的诗句，他的灵魂渐行渐远。
那一年，除了郭松外，似乎所有的人都面临着人生的选择。大学老师放弃了教书下海从商，从此脑海里只剩下金钱和利益。小四试图无视内心里对于父母的愧疚之情，放弃一切，一心想要出国镀金。冬天还未真正来临，关于夏天的回忆却已经渐渐淡去。

A struggling, recently unemployed young factory worker returns to his family's laundrette, where he 'borrows' a police officer's shirt and begins successfully impersonating an officer of the law.

In the Shandong province, an old farmer woman falls. That is enough for her children to sign her up in a nursing home. Nevertheless, places are rare and the poor ill woman is forced to live at her unwelcoming children’s, waiting for a bed to be freed.

A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one nearby town. She starts investigating and soon exposes a monumental cover-up.

因一场意外，俐俐（冯波 饰）身受重伤，手术过后更成了没有意识的植物人。虽然经过很长一段时间奇迹般苏醒，但是却全然忘记自己的身份和来历。
偶然机缘，她邂逅了报社记者刘聪（李乃文 饰），两人相知相恋，俐俐也进入了药品生产巨头方臣药业供职，一切似乎重新开始。为了追查一起医疗事故，刘聪不断跟进，进而得知那个可爱的女孩小芸很有可能因为使用了方臣生产的麻醉剂而成为了植物人。他的深入调查引起轩然大波，也令方臣坐立不安，急于除之而后快。另一方面，为了协助调查而不断从公司获取资料的俐俐也引起高层的主意，安全和事业危在旦夕。在这一过程中，她也渐渐找到自己失落已久的身份……

A girl who has lost her parents due to a tragic car crash is facing the issue of pursuing an independent life of raising her younger brother that she barely likes…

2020 film by Huang Hsin-yao

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

1999 film by Zhang Yang

老左（黄秋生 饰）是香港老一代彻头彻尾的左派，他哼唱《歌唱祖国》、《智取老虎山》，高举为人民服务的伟大旗帜。他一生最大的愿望就是能到北京天安门去看看。
老左一生全心全意为人民服务，完全没有把心放到自己的小家上，令儿子左忠（郑中基 饰）心生不满。左忠有一个青梅竹马的女友陆敏（莫文蔚 饰），陆敏高中毕业后去了国外留学，左忠不想一辈子和老左一样背着“左”的包袱，利用内地改革开放的机会，展开了内地冒险式淘金之旅。
左忠和陆敏在1997年回归后最终满身伤痕回到香港，老左的一生最终将如何落幕？

2019 Chinese film by Lina Yang

1982年，隆冬时节，苍茫大地，人们在渴望春天的到来（包产到户）。
王支书要村里恢复演出老戏。“戏篓子”路老鹤，安排杨志刚演男主角，女儿路小芬不情愿。女儿的意中是奎疯子的儿子王树满。
在奎疯子眼里，花生是他的“图腾”。有人偷了九亩半的花生，急得他满街乱转。他发现，不止一人拿着花生去路老鹤家……
人见人怕的奎疯子，却对路小芬言听计从。整日像个孩子跟在小芬身后走动。
这晚，队部秘密开会，整出一份分地计划。不想，计划还没捂热乎就被杨志刚连夜从抽屉里偷了出来，公布于众。王支书被打了个措手不及。
奎疯子和霸占了十年的“九亩半”成了“分地”的焦点。
“唱戏”“分地”交织中，牵出一段历史悲剧。
电影《村戏》剧本改编自《贾大山小说精品集》中的前半部“梦庄生态”部分，主要是《村戏》、《花生》和《老路》等三篇。