Robert Lin
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Biography: ROBERT LIN is a Chinese-American actor/writer/filmmaker based in New York and Beijing. His major film acting credits include the starring role as Chairman Mao in Martin Scorsese directed Tibetan epic Kundun, which was nominated for four Academy Awards. He was also featured in 2003’s smash hit School of Rock (Paramount Pictures) with Jack Black, and appeared in Red Corner (MGM) with Richard Gere. Other film credits include Green Card Fever, Man of the Century, Lift to Hell, The Nightingale of Tibet, Iceberg and just releasedFront Cover, an American comedy.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Beijing, China
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In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese
Overview: In Search of Kundun, a “making-of” documentary that is so much more, follows Scorsese as he plans his epic film and shoots in Morocco, and continues on to an audience with the Dalai Lama himself in the foothills of the Himalayas. Edited from over a hundred hours of footage, the documentary captures Scorsese’s fervor as a filmmaker and a man, the modest yet charismatic Dalai Lama, and the plight of the exiled Tibetans. -Denver Film Society
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-07
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School of Rock
Overview: Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his students the finer points of rock 'n' roll. The school's hard-nosed principal is rightly suspicious of Finn's activities. But Finn's roommate remains in the dark about what he's doing.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-03
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Four Rivers Six Ranges: The Untold Story of Tibet
Overview: 4 Rivers 6 Ranges is based on the book “Flight at the Cuckoos Behest” by Dorjee Wangdi Dewatshang
Genres: History Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-02-01
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Kundun
Overview: The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escape from his native home, Tibet, when communist China invaded and enforced an oppressive regime upon the peaceful nation. The Dalai Lama escaped to India in 1959 and has been living in exile in Dharamsala ever since.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-25
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Red Corner
Overview: An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the country.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-30
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Baober in Love
Overview: Liu Zhi, a young man, depressed and trapped in a loveless marriage with a dominating girl, meets Baober (an ageless young girl) on a Beijing street one day. They fall in love and start to live a strange, mysterious life....
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2004-02-10
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Man of the Century
Overview: If ever a man seems lost in time, it would be Johnny Twennies, a newspaper writer who talks, walks and fights like he stepped out of the Jazz Age. When a pack of thugs threaten his life unless he plants a fake news story, Johnny proves he's got plenty of moxie -- and that some ideas, like chivalry and justice, never go out of style.
Genres: Romance Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-29
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Green Card Fever
Overview: The story of a young immigrant from India (Dasu) who overstays his US visa. As he is forced to make decisions about whom to trust, he naively relies on his new found friends in his land of dreams, and a comical and poignant sequence of adventures ensue.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-29
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Lift to Hell
Overview: A killing spree takes place in a northern China's hospital, an old elevator goes to the 18th floor - underground.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2013-02-21
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Waiting in Beijing
Overview: American George and Iraqi Nadia fall in love in Paris, but as the Iraq War threatens to erupt, the two are separated. When Nadia doesn't show up for a planned meeting at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, George is left waiting. Soon, Judy, a spirited Chinese national, begins helping George search for Nadia in this lush, sweeping drama based on actual events.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-01
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Shanghai Knights
Overview: When a Chinese rebel murders Chon's estranged father and escapes to England, Chon and Roy make their way to London with revenge on their minds.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-06
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Iceberg
Overview: Nova, a twenty-two year old drummer in a Beijing rock band, is going to America and falling in love for the first time.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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