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.

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.

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.

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

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……

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.

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.

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".

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……

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.

Located somewhere in Beijing, the editorial department of "Guide to the Human World" brings together six intellectuals with distinct personalities. These colleagues encounter all kinds of people amid Reform and Opening-up, with many situations unfolding around them.

This series is hailed as China's first television sitcom.

2001 film by Feng Xiaogang

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.