Asia Weekly Magazine's 100 Greatest Chinese Films of the 20th Century (1999)
- Labourer's Love (1923)
- Little Toys (1933)
- Spring Silkworms (1933)
- Twin Sisters (1933)
- The Goddess (1934)
- Song of the Fisherman (1934)
- The Big Road (1934)
- Crossroads (1937)
- Song at Midnight (1937)
- Street Angel (1937)
- Orphan Island Paradise (1938)
- A Spring River Flows East (1947)
- Eight Thousand Li of Cloud and Moon (1947)
- Long Live the Mistress! (1947)
- Spring in a Small Town (1948)
- Myriad of Lights (1948)
- An Orphan on the Streets (1949)
- Crows and Sparrows (1949)
- Tears over the Pearl River (1949)
- Sorrows of the Forbidden City (1949)
- This Life of Mine (1950)
- The Life of Wu Xun (1950)
- The Dividing Wall (1953)
- Spoiling the Wedding Day (1953)
- In the Face of Demolition (1954)
- Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai (1954)
- New Year's Sacrifice (1956)
- Our Sister Hedy (1958)
- Mambo Girl (1958)
- Feast of a Rich Family (1959)
- Lin Zexu (1959)
- The Lin Family Shop (1959)
- The Wild, Wild Rose (1960)
- Third Sister Liu (1960)
- Uproar in Heaven (1961)
- All These Pitiable Parents (1961)
- Red Detachment of Women (1961)
- Naval Battle of 1894 (1963)
- The House of Seventy-Two Tenants (1963)
- Early Spring in February (1963)
- Tibetan Serf Emancipation (1963)
- Beautiful Duckling (11964)
- Stage Sisters (1965)
- One-Armed Swordsman (1967)
- The Dawn (11967)
- Dragon Gate Inn (1967)
- The Winter (11969)
- A Touch of Zen (1970)
- Home, Sweet Home (1970)
- The Arch (1970)
- Fist of Fury (1972)
- China Behind (1974)
- Martyrs (1974)
- The Private Eyes (1976)
- 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978)
- The Secret (1979)
- The Butterfly Murders (1979)
- The Legend of Tianyun Mountain (1980)
- Man on the Brink (1981)
- Father and Son (1981)
- The Corner Forsaken by Love (1981)
- In Our Time (1982)
- Boat People (1982)
- My Memories of Old Beijing (1982)
- Project A (1982)
- Ah Ying (1983)
- One and Eight (1983)
- Growing Up (1983)
- Sandwich Man (1983)
- Summer at Grandpa's (1984)
- Lao Mo's Second Spring (1984)
- Homecoming (1984)
- Long Arm of the Law (1984)
- Yellow Earth (1984)
- The Time to Live and the Time to Die (1985)
- The Black Cannon Incident (11985)
- In the Wild Mountain (1985)
- A Better Tomorrow (1986)
- Terrorizer (1986)
- Horse Thief (1986)
- The Old Well (1987)
- Red Sorghum (1987)
- A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)
- City on Fire (1987)
- As Tears Go By (1988)
- Rouge (1988)
- A City of Sadness (1989)
- The Swordsman in Double Flag Town (1991)
- Actress (1991)
- A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
- Pushing Hands (1991)
- The Story of Qiu Ju (1992)
- Farewell My Concubine (1993)
- The Wedding Banquet (1993)
- For Fun (1993)
- Back to Back, Face to Face (1994)
- In the Heat of the Sun (1994)
- Chungking Express (1994)
- Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996)
- Made in Hong Kong (1997)