If money can't buy happiness, can it at least buy control over others? Xiang is hard-working, running a small sesame oil business. Her husband is lazy and drinks; her son is blood simple. When Japanese investors provide capital to expand Xiang's business, she has the wealth to raise her social standing and buy a wife for her son, Dunzi. When money and a forceful personality fail to bend others to her will, including daughter-in-law Huanhuan, Xiang must find another way to tranquillity.

1992 film by Zhang Yimou

抗日战争时期，有一支由三教九流人员组成的杂牌部队，号称新编第三团，团长为原县长段仁义（雷恪生 饰）。为调教这群乌合之众，国民党方面派来两个职业军人，参谋长方向公（袁苑 饰）和谭参谋（谭增卫 饰），并配备报务员白洁芬（宫主 饰）随队与上级联系。由于部队人员组成乌七八糟，各种违纪现象层出不穷，经肃纪整治稍有起色。大敌当前，国军主力撤退，命令新三团留守抵抗，后果可想而知。敌强我弱，方向公急电上峰求援，上峰找借口不予理会，新三团只好孤军奋战，伤亡惨重。段仁义安排上面派来的三人撤走，不料途中遭督战队截杀，仅白洁芬只身逃回。段仁义宣布解散部队，让大家各自逃生，却遭同党伐异......

2015 film directed by Li Yu

Rival Chinese military strategists Sun Bin (Sun Honglei) and Pang Juan (Francis Ng) clash in this historic war adventure set during the Era of Warring States.

Wang Shuangli is Deputy Director of the local Cultural Centre, and hopes to be appointed Director. However Old Ma is brought in from the country and installed as Director. This starts a long train of events with Wang's cronies using the bureaucracy to try to oust the new director.

　　宋慈（何冰 饰）参加京试中了进士，预备返家完婚后随同科好友孟良臣（吴军 饰）赴边城。岂知，直至完婚那日，宋慈父亲宋巩依旧未归家。两位新人正拜堂之际，一辆马车却载回了父亲的遗体，宋巩一生从事刑狱审戡，从未出错，却因一次误判人命功亏一篑，这是以死谢罪，还留下遗书禁止宋门后代涉足刑狱。岂料，祸不单行，孟良臣在上任途中被谋杀的噩耗传回。在母亲的劝导下，宋慈动身边城，为挚友查明了案情，还它清白。由此，宋慈被破格提升为大理寺正六品主事，后又被任命外省提点刑狱。宋慈接连查明侦破了“太平县冤案”、“李府连环案”、“毛竹坞无头案”、“城南井尸案”、“遗扇嫁祸案”、“梁雨生命案”、“李玉姑失踪案”等一桩又一桩的悬案……

1999 film