In 2031, Qin retires alone on a small island, as his wife Xiaoxiao is away all year long. Fan, Qin's friend, designs an android identical to Xiaoxiao to keep Qin company.

2001 film by Feng Xiaogang

位于北京某处的《人间指南》编辑部，聚集着六位性格各异知识工作者。老年知识分子里：主编老陈（吕齐 饰）对待工作兢兢业业、认真负责；牛大姐（童正维 饰）快人快语、疾恶如仇；老刘（张瞳 饰）胆小怕事，体现着传统知识分子懦弱的一面；中年知识分子余德利（侯耀华 饰）善于接受新事物 ，聪明圆滑，带着点市井江湖的习气。青年一派，李冬宝（葛优 饰）想法前卫，正直善良，总想和机敏美丽的女同事戈玲（吕丽萍 饰）处处对象，无奈戈玲心高气傲，对待貌不惊人的冬宝不冷不热，若即若离。
因工作关系，编辑部的同仁经常接触社会各阶层的人物，光怪陆离，三教九流，改革开放大潮下的人生百态在小小的编辑部内一一呈现……
本片被称为中国第一部电视系列喜剧，由赵宝刚和金炎联合指导，马未都、王朔、冯小刚担任编剧。

A con-team couple head west after taking a city businessman for his BMW. But an encounter with a naive young carpenter traveling home with his life savings challenges their fate as thieves.

1990年前后，移民美国成为许多国人的梦想，艺术家尤甚。 北京的音乐家王起明（姜文 饰）与妻子郭燕（严晓频 饰）来到向往已久的美国不久，美好的梦想即遭遇打击。几番挣扎终没做成艺术家的王起明消沉了一段时间，经过奋斗成为了商人，并在短短几年积累了可观财富。但陡然回头，他发现得失实难计算：智慧与美貌并存的阿春（王姬 饰）虽然成了他的红颜知己，郭燕却也跑去了他生意上的最大竞争对手David（Robert Daly 饰）的身边。其后他把女儿宁宁（马晓晴 饰）也接到了美国，但宁宁完全无法理解他与郭燕的选择，更是将阿春视作仇敌，渐渐地，她开始以他与郭燕无法接受的美国式放纵来向他们报复……

The story of two Chinese immigrants' struggles in America. Yuan Liu has lived in LA for years. He has no stable job, no family and lives in a wagon. He seems content with his life until the day he meets Qing Li, a woman with the big "American dream".

Qin Fen, a funny, honest, single inventor, met a girl called Smiley, who was in agony of her boyfriend's betrayal. They traveled to Hokkaido, tried to help Smiley cure her pain in heart, and both of them gradually found their true love and life redemption during the journey.

A Sigh tells the story of an affair between a struggling Chinese screenwriter and his young female assistant, its effects on his marriage and the impact on the man himself.

男女主人公牟妮和李苗在大都市中相遇，曾经接受过高等教育，自命清高，满怀抱负的他们，不甘于生活在生活底层，为了改变命运实现其人生价值，他们寻找着通向富有的捷径。在这条道路上，他们行骗、被骗、挣扎、绝望，不惜付出尊严、情感乃至肉体的代价，与权倾一时的各色人物委屈周旋。月亮背面永远见不到阳光的黑暗之中，两个旺盛的生命之间亦真亦假的情感会走向何方……

Gu Yan and Lin Zhouyun become involved when their spouses are abroad.

The odd-couple courtship saga continues of wealthy, middle-aged retiree Qin Fen and serious-minded young air hostess Xiaoxiao. After an amusing prelude in which Qin presides over a lavish divorce ceremony for an amicably splitting married couple, he and Xiaoxiao decide to address their own relationship barriers — her youth and beauty, his cynical, childish sense of humor — by entering into a trial marriage while on a trip to the country's tropical southeast.

Black Girl is a deaf-mute prisoner. Prison guard Deng Hong found White Fox, a prisoner who understands sign language, to supervise her transformation. The two made money together after serving their sentences, met Deng outside the prison.

Father documents the tumultuous relationship between a widowed father, Ma Lisheng, and his school-age son, Ma Che. Though he works as a low-level party functionary during the day, he finds his greatest challenges in the raising of a son on his own. Alternating between trying to bond with his son (even getting drunk with him), and verbally accosting him, Ma is at a loss. One day the son decides that the best way for his father to stop harassing him, will be to find him a new wife, which he finds in the form of the mother of a school friend, Qing Huaiyuan.