红高粱：‘ Red Sorghum’ won the Golden Bear award tat the 1988 Berlin film festival circuit.
 大红灯笼高高挂： " Raise the Red Lantern" (1991) received a Best Foreign Film Oscar Nomination.
 活着： "To Live"  received the Grand Jury Prize.
 All three films featured actress Gong Li.
 山楂树： "Under the Hawthorn Tree" tells the love story of the son of a Communist Party official and the daughter of a jailed political outcast in 1970's China.