Qin Hailu

Acting

Qin Hailu

Born 1978-08-11 · Yingkou, Liaoning, China

Actress Qin Hailu (Chinese: 秦海璐, born 11 August 1978) is a graduate of the Chinese Central Drama School; there she attended classes with fellow actress Zhang Ziyi. In 2000 she was awarded Best Actress at the 6th Hong Kong Film Awards and was nominated at the 57th Cannes Film Festival for her role in Fruit Chan's movie Durian Durian. Since then, the relatively unknown actress, who had never appeared in any other film or television productions, began gaining a reputation. On today's People, we look at the career of rising star Qin Hailu.

Acting credits

The House That Never Dies poster
4.6

Story based on the legendary mansion at No. 81 on Chaoyangmennei Street in Beijing, which local legend says is haunted by the ghost of a Kuomintang official's wife, who committed suicide in the home around the time of the Cultural Revolution. The film follows Xu Ruoqing a woman whose presence in the notorious mansion draws up the spirits that have taken residence there.

The House That Never Dies

2014

It's OK poster
6.5

Daughter Xu Ke wants to have surgery to remove the polyp from her uterus during the vacation, while her mother Hu Chunrong also plans to run away from home to escape the long-standing problems in her marriage. As the two, who both love and hurt each other, resolve to face their respective predicaments, they unexpectedly find forgiveness for each other’s fragility and imperfection in a sudden, unforeseen moment.

It's OK

2026

Cliff Walkers poster
6.7

In the puppet state of Manchukuo in the 1930s, four Communist party special agents, after returning to China, embark on a secret mission. Sold out by a traitor, the team find themselves surrounded by threats on all sides.

Cliff Walkers

2021

Wo Hu poster
5.7

The Hong Kong Police placed 1000 undercover officers in the various Triad groups in their efforts to bring down the criminal organization in Hong Kong. After one undercover officer's identity is discovered and he is killed, the pressure is put on one gang, suspicious of each other and everyone around them. Betrayal, deceit and murder bring this group of 'brothers' into a collision with the law, and each other.

Wo Hu

2006

The Crossing II poster
5.3

A story of three couples and their intertwining love stories set in 1940s Taiwan and Shanghai, centered around the 1949 sinking of Taiping.

The Crossing II

2015

Love Battlefield poster
6.3

The story of a couple who break up one morning and proceed to find their love tested in unexpected and violent ways.

Love Battlefield

2004

A Simple Life poster
7.5

After suffering a stroke, an altruistic maid announces that she wants to quit her job and move into an old people's home.

A Simple Life

2012

Impermanence poster
5.2

Fate brings together three fascinating lost souls – a monk with a sack of money, an innkeeper with an uneasy conscience, and a father who’s lost his son – in young Chinese director Zeng Zeng’s mysterious tale of guilt, punishment and ambiguous redemption.

Impermanence

2018

The Crossing I poster
5.5

At the end of the World War II and the middle of the Chinese Revolution, three couples from different backgrounds with different nationalities flee from China to the island of Taiwan.

The Crossing I

2014

The Pluto Moment poster
6.2

Loosely based on The Tale of Darkness, a traditional song of mourning, the film follows Wang Zhun, a director in search of inspiration for his new script, as he embarks on an unpredictable trek across China’s remote Shennongjia mountains in Hubei province with an urbane producer, Ding Hongmei; a young actor named Bai; and his loyal photographer, Du Chun. The journey delivers a relentless series of unexpected physical hardships and subtle emotional ebbs and flows on the protagonists.

The Pluto Moment

2018

Kang Zhan Zhong De Wen Yi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kang Zhan Zhong De Wen Yi

2024

Durian Durian poster
6.8

The first half of this film portrays the experiences of a young northern mainland Chinese woman (Fan) temporarily working as a sex worker in Hong Kong. After her 3-month visa expires, the second half of the film focuses on Yan's return to her family and her ex-fiancé in Northeast China and the ways that she invests the money that she has earned.

Durian Durian

2000

After This Our Exile poster
5.7

After his mother flees the family home, a son turns to thieving in order to support his father, an abusive sort who is addicted to gambling.

After This Our Exile

2006

Call For Love poster
5.7

After being married for seven years, Xu Lang, a white collar office manager, has started to get tired of the same routine in his marriage. After asking his wife for a divorce, he is given a magical cell phone by an angel. The cell phone allows him to have romantic encounters with different women. After various dates and courtships with 12 beautiful women, he still cannot meet the right one. He attempts to mend things over with his wife, only to find that his ex-wife has met another man and found happiness. The movie ends with Xu meeting his old love interest from 15 years ago, suggesting a new relationship between them.

Call For Love

2007

A Tale of Three Cities poster
6.7

A former spy in the Chinese Nationalist Party falls for an opium-dealing widow, as China is ravaged by war and revolution.

A Tale of Three Cities

2015

Aspirin poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Aspirin

2006

Return Ticket poster
6.8

All the way, Cao Li has come alone. From Fuyang to Shenzhen. From Shenzhen to Shanghai. From Shanghai to home? Leaving hometown is her choice, the choice out of no choice. Returning home is her dream, the dream getting blinded by the neon lights in the city.--

Return Ticket

2011

Hide and Seek poster
6.0

A man lives in a lovely apartment with his wife and 2 children. He is obsessed with cleanliness, has strange dreams and struggles with a mystery in his past. He goes to a bad part of town hunting for a long lost brother, leaving his wife and children in their car. As he tries to get cooperation from neighbors, the wife finds her children are missing. A stranger wearing a dark motorcycle helmet appears, frightening her. As the story unfolds this stranger follows them becoming more and more threatening.

Hide and Seek

2016

Loving Him poster
10.0

Doc is an intern who has been invited by the United Nations' Children Fund, along with his fellow interns, to a deserted area in Sichuan to run physicals for poor children. There, Doc meets a teacher named Lu. Although Lu is from a different world, she firmly believes that Doc is her hero, but she also knows that he has been diagnosed with blood cancer and will die soon. As Doc prepares for his own death, Lu takes care of him the best she can, and perhaps fall in love with him before he dies.

Loving Him

2002

The Tipping Point poster
4.2

A female college student falls from a building in a bizarre manner. Cheng Rui, the deputy captain of the Criminal Investigation Detachment who has just been transferred to the post, is assigned by the deputy director Du Yulin to investigate the hidden story behind the case.

The Tipping Point

2022

Say Yes poster
5.6

Huang Da is a down on his luck ordinary guy who has desperate for love and tries to propose to a beautiful young cellist. His attempts to propose are complicated by a rich, charming and handsome rival who is determined to win the girl’s hand at all costs. Can Huang Da with his heart of gold triumph in love over a man who has everything he does not?

Say Yes

2013

Chicken Poets poster
6.9

Yun Fei, a young poet, seeks the advice of an old university friend who lives in the Beijing suburbs, discovering that his friend has gone into business breeding black chickens. Discouraged about his future as a poet, Yun Fei starts a relationship with a colorblind young girl who encourages him to persevere. But even this new relationship is not enough to inspire him to write. It’s at this point that he buys a pirated record whose magical powers bring him the success he’s longed for. However, sudden fame does not seem to solve everything. The first film of Beijing theatre director Meng Jing Hui, Chicken Poets is an insightful and poetic look at materialism and the younger generation in China.

Chicken Poets

2002

Young Style poster
6.5

A story of a high school boy as he processes the loss of his first love and learns to experience high school over again. For 3 years of high school, JU Ran has silently had a love for a young girl in his class. At the end of his senior year, as the college entrance examination looms overhead, JU Ran's situation changes, and he is given the chance to repeat his senior year. Through this year, he studies again for the examination, and has a second chance at his high school experience. JU Ran's tale is that of growing up, and a caution to take joy in every moment, because even second chances are not perfect.

Young Style

2013

Hidden Heroes poster
4.6

Office Yohji Ho meets a female android who comes from the future, in a drug raid. The android's mission is to ensure the death of Yohji...

Hidden Heroes

2004

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