The commercial market abroad for serious Chinese movies is quite limited.

Despite this, the theatre attracted crowds with its offering of Chinese movies.

The audience seemed impatient with the private screening, made necessary by the censorship imposed on Chinese movies.

"Only after the news hour, they switch the TV on again to view Chinese movies."

Residents can walk to services and other activities and to a small library in the church's basement that is well stocked with Chinese movies.

In 1970, the institution transformed the building into a cinema showing Chinese movies.

Most Chinese movies, for example, do not record sound at the same time they film.

Like most Chinese movies these days, it was a dud.

The reason is simple: most Chinese movies are terrible.

Tong then promoted the film all over the world and proved again that a Chinese movie could create good box office records in foreign countries.