Watching movies is one of every person’s favorite ways to pass the time. It honestly doesn’t matter what language the movie is in as long as it hits a sentiment, it will be remembered. Follow this list to know some of China’s highest-grossing movies ever!
1. Wolf Warrior 2
Total earning - 5.68781 billion RMB
Release year - 2017
Synopsis - Len Fang is the fiercest special forces operative that China has. When living his life peacefully on the sea, he comes across some sadistic mercenaries disrupting civilian life nearby. Len Fang takes it up to himself as a soldier, to protect the people and deal with the ruthless gangs.
2. Hi, Mom
Total earning - 5.40825 billion RMB
Release year - 2021
Synopsis - Jia Xioling finds herself randomly transported back to 1981 after her mother was severely injured due to a car accident in 2001. Xiaoling feels like she hadn’t been the best daughter in the future, and that she could have made her mother’s life much better. So, the young girl decides to befriend her mother in the past and tries to do all she can to give her mother the happiness she should have had.
3. Ne Zha
Total earning - 5.03502 billion RMB
Release year - 2019
Synopsis - Long ago, the demon orb and the spirit pearl were the same. Back then, it was known as the Chaos Pearl, and its powers were limitless. Fearing the possibility that the pearl could land in the wrong hands, the primeval god, Yuanshi split the Chaos Pearl into two and gave them to one of his disciples, Taiyi, to protect them. Somehow due to the mischievous plot of Shen, the child of Lady and Lord Yin, Ne Zha ends up with the demon orb. Only time will tell whether Ne Zha will be able to handle the immense power of the orb, or will he ends up submitting to it.
4. The Wandering Earth
Total earning - 4.68674 billion RMB
Release year - 2019
Synopsis - In the future, life is impossibly tough. The sun is near the explosion and the people need to find a way to continue living and avoid being destroyed. To do this, the United Earth Government built 10,000 propulsion engines. They use rocks from mountains as fuel and attempt to use Jupiter and its gravitational pull to catapult out of the solar system.
5. Detective Chinatown 3
Total earning - 4.52153 billion RMB
Release year - 2021
Synopsis - After cracking cases in Bangkok and New York, Tan Ren and Qin Feng are called to solve another mysterious crime in Tokyo. The two detectives have to work together with their rival, Hiroshi Noda, and the top-ranked Thai investigator. Tony to decipher the case.
6. Operation Red Sea
Total earning - 3.65079 billion RMB
Release year - 2018
Synopsis - A team of eight Chinese Navy elite special forces is tasked with safely evacuating Chinese and foreign civilians out of a warzone. The movie is roughly based on the real-life evacuation of Chinese and foreign nationals out of Yemen during the Yemen Civil War in 2015.
7. The Mermaid
Total earning - 3.39211 billion RMB
Release year - 2016
Synopsis - Liu Xuan is a business tycoon who made money off of sonar technology that consequentially kills all sea life nearby. To prevent any more of the sea from dying at the hands of this man, the mermaid Shan is assigned to use Liu Xuan’s weakness for ladies and seduce him. Shan’s ultimate goal is to avenge her brethren by killing Liu Xuan, but things take a turn for the wild when Shan and Liu Xuan end up falling in love.
8. The Eight Hundred
Total earning - 3.10232 billion RMB
Release year - 2020
Synopsis - During the war against the Japanese to reclaim their homeland, 800 Chinese soldiers get trapped in a warehouse, and the only way to survive is to wage war against the Japanese army surrounding them. The movie recites the four-day defense of the Shang Warehouse in 1973 by a group of fearless Chinese soldiers. This incident was a crucial conflict in the Battle of Shanghai and the beginning of the War of Resistance.
9. The Captain
Total earning - 2.91229 billion RMB
Release year - 2019
Synopsis - Captain Liu Chuanjian and his crew take off with 119 passengers on the 14th of May, 2018. At 32 thousand feet, somehow, one of the windows in the cockpit blows out, causing the entire flight to depressurize. Throughout the flight, people are passing out, getting worried and agitated, or just trying their best to keep their cool. All the while, captain Liu Chaunjian tries to find a way to safely land the flight, with minimum damage. Based on the story of Liu Chaunjian, a captain under Sichuan Airlines, who successfully brought 119 passengers home after the windshield cracked and ultimately broke off on its way from Chongqing to Lhasa in 2018.
10. Monster Hunt
Total earning - 2.44142 billion RMB
Release year - 2015
Synopsis - Monsters and humans don’t see eye to eye, and so the Monster Hunt Bureau, banishes all monsters to the forest. Wuba, a monster is born to a human father and the monster Queen. Soon after his birth, Wuba starts getting targetted by humans and monsters alike, and it is then up to his human father to keep him safe.
