The 5 best Chinese movies to watch on Netflix right now

A Sun is a melodrama that tells the story of two sons. A-Hao, a top student poised to attend the med school of his choice, and A-Ho, a rebellious kid whose involvement with a bad crowd lands him in a juvenile detention centre. However, despite being portrayed as the ideal child, A-Hao, too, has some dark secrets that he keeps from everyone. Eventually that darkness leads to devastating consequences for his family, who are then forced to go through several trials before they see some hope.

China's third highest-grossing film of all time, The Wandering Earth is loosely based on a novella by China's first Hugo Award winner, Liu Cixin. It's 2061 and the sun is dying, so the world unites to propel Earth to the nearest solar system by using enormous thrusters. In the meantime, people live in underground cities to survive the centuries-long voyage. When a gravitational spike on Jupiter disables many of the planet's thrusters and threatens to pull Earth into its orbit, a rescue mission team sets out to repair the giant engines and save the human race. 

This film chronicles three incidents in protagonist Zhang Dong Ling's life in three eras, three seasons and three nights, but all in the same city in a non-chronological structure. The first part shows a dystopian vision of 2049, the second a film noir focusing on Zhang's life as a rookie police officer and the third a melodrama about his teenage encounter with a gangster boss. 

This rom-com follows the relationship between Lu Jin, a wealthy CEO of a company specialising in hotel acquisitions, and Gu Shengnan, an eccentric sous-chef at the Rosebud Hotel. Lu is unsatisfied with everything he encounters when he first arrives until he tastes Gu's near-perfect meal. Although the two meet under rocky circumstances with plenty of wacky shenanigans along the way, their mutual love for delicacies ultimately brings them together.