Bringemovies
← Browse Movies
Most People Live in China
TITLE DETAILS

Most People Live in China

2002-06-07 · 83 min · ★ 5.9

Comedy · Drama

A movie inspired by eight Norwegian political parties, written by six writers and directed by nine directors: a man gets a nasty surprise skinny dipping, a cow eats a cell phone, a lesbian couple loses a child, a blind girl sells dubious lottery tickets, a boy falls in love, a man picks up a hitchhiker, three girls get help from a man in pajamas, and nine old men find a young girl stuck in a swamp.

Open detail page

Trailers are previews, not full movies.

No authorized playback source configured. Use the legal watch options below.

Production details

Directors
Sara Johnsen, Magnus Martens, Hans Petter Moland, Terje Rangnes, Ingebjørg Torgersen, Thomas Robsahm, Arild Fröhlich, Morten Tyldum, Martin Asphaug
Production companies
Motlys
Countries
Norway
Status
Released

Top Cast

Trond HøvikTrond HøvikLasse
Marit Pia JacobsenMarianne
Sven NordinSven NordinMarius (segment "Dressmann")
Siv KlynderudSiv KlynderudCecilie (segment "Dressmann")
Kim HaugenKim HaugenDoctor (segment "Dressmann")
Kristin SkogheimKristin SkogheimMarion (segment "Heimat")
Gjertrud JyngeGjertrud JyngeLine (segment "Grenseløs kjærlighet")
Ågot SendstadÅgot SendstadToril (segment "Grenseløs kjærlighet")
Ingar Helge GimleIngar Helge GimlePolice (segment "Grenseløs kjærlighet")
Ingrid Jørgensen DraglandIngrid Jørgensen DraglandMona (segment "Den lille bedriften")
Kirsti StubøKirsti StubøAnnette (segment "Den lille bedriften")
Nils SlettaNils SlettaAlbert (segment "Den lille bedriften")
Inger TeienInger TeienWoman (segment "Redd barna")
Edward SchultheissEdward SchultheissFinn (segment "Pokemon Power")
Sampda SharmaSampda SharmaGunn (segment "Pokemon Power")
Sverre Anker OusdalSverre Anker OusdalMartin (segment "Passasjerene")
Elin SognElin SognYoung woman (segment "De beste går først")
Henrik MestadHenrik MestadTankmann 1 (segment "Lasses drøm")
Bjarte HjelmelandBjarte HjelmelandTankmann 2 (segment "Lasses drøm")
Jan Gunnar RøiseJan Gunnar RøiseFarmer (segment "Heimat")

Title information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.

Where to watch

Availability provided by JustWatch via TMDb. Offers can change. Provider links are listed on TMDb; full playback requires a separately authorized source.

Availability not listed for this country.

Recommendations

Chloe and Theo
★ 5.9
Chloe and Theo2015Comedy · Drama

A young woman, Chloe, living by her wits on the streets of New York City, has a chance meeting with a wise Inuit Eskimo, Theo, who was sent to New York by his elders to provide a message to the people of the world – We either change our destructive was or be destroyed by them. Chloe, who has been searching for something to believe in, becomes inspired by Theo and , with the help of a kind lawyer, Monica, the three of them present Theo’s story to the United Nations in hopes of creating a better future for all of us.

Don't Think Twice
★ 6.4
Don't Think Twice2016Comedy · Drama

An improv group deals with several crises, including the loss of their lease and one member hitting the big time.

Roll Bounce
★ 6.9
Roll Bounce2005Comedy · Drama

In the summer of 1978, a teenager and his group of friends face new challenges when their neighborhood roller-skating rink closes, forcing them to visit a different rink.

Madea Goes to Jail - The Play
★ 7.6
Madea Goes to Jail - The Play2006Comedy · Drama

Madea returns in another hilarious story in which she gets sent to the big house. But regardless of the circumstances, she gives her trademark advice and wisdom to her friends and family as they learn the importance of letting go, moving on, and forgiveness.

Afterlife of the Party
★ 6.7
Afterlife of the Party2021Comedy · Drama

A social butterfly who dies during her birthday week is given a second chance to right her wrongs on Earth.

It Runs in the Family
★ 6.0
It Runs in the Family2003Comedy · Drama

This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile

The Good Half
★ 6.2
The Good Half2024Comedy · Drama

Renn Wheeland returns home to Cleveland for his mother's funeral. Once there, he forges new relationships while healing old ones, before confronting his problems and trying to face his grief.

Woman Times Seven
★ 6.3
Woman Times Seven1967Comedy · Drama

Seven mini-stories of adultery: a widow misbehaves at her husband's funeral, a wife turns to streetwalking for revenge, a prudish girl surprises, a neglected wife vies for her husband's attention, a fight over a dress, a death pact, and a detective revealed as a jealous husband's spy.

Best Man Down
★ 6.6
Best Man Down2012Comedy · Drama

A newlywed couple cancels their honeymoon and returns to the snowy Midwest to make the funeral arrangements for their best man, who died unexpectedly after their ceremony.

Free Rein: The Twelve Neighs of Christmas
★ 6.7
Free Rein: The Twelve Neighs of Christmas2018Comedy · Drama

As Bright Fields preps for its Mistletoe Ball, a broken ornament leads Zoe to a family secret, while Gaby finds herself at the mercy of new boss Mia.

The Trip to Italy
★ 6.4
The Trip to Italy2014Comedy · Drama

Years after their successful restaurant review tour of Northern England, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are commissioned for a new tour in Italy.

Wild Oats
★ 6.1
Wild Oats2016Comedy · Drama

Everything changes for Eva when she receives an insurance settlement check accidentally made out for $5,000,000 instead of the expected $50,000. She and her best friend take the money and head out for the adventure of a lifetime.

Chang Can Dunk
★ 6.7
Chang Can Dunk2023Comedy · Drama

Chang, a 16-year-old, Asian American, bets the high school basketball star that he can dunk by Homecoming. The bet leads 5' 8" Chang on a quest to learn to dunk—not only to impress his crush, Kristy, but to gain the respect of his high school peers too. But before he can rise up and truly throw one down, he'll have to reexamine everything he knows about himself, his friendships and his family.

Better Living Through Chemistry
★ 5.9
Better Living Through Chemistry2014Comedy · Drama

A straight-laced pharmacist's uneventful life spirals out of control when he starts an affair with a trophy wife customer who takes him on a joyride involving sex, drugs and possibly murder.

A Thousand Words
★ 6.1
A Thousand Words2012Comedy · Drama

Jack McCall is a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru Dr. Sinja for his own selfish purposes. But Dr. Sinja is on to him, and Jack’s life comes unglued after a magical Bodhi tree mysteriously appears in his backyard. With every word Jack speaks, a leaf falls from the tree and he realizes that when the last leaf falls, both he and the tree are toast. Words have never failed Jack McCall, but now he’s got to stop talking and conjure up some outrageous ways to communicate or he’s a goner.

Fun with Dick and Jane
★ 6.6
Fun with Dick and Jane1977Comedy

When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.

Jonathan
★ 5.9
Jonathan2018Drama

Jonathan is a young man with a strange condition that only his brother understands. But when he begins to yearn for a different life, their unique bond becomes increasingly tested.

The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
★ 6.9
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case1930Comedy

The boys think their days of fishing to feed themselves have come to an end, when Stan's rich uncle Ebenezer dies leaving a large estate. But they soon learn that Ebenezer was murdered and all the relatives, including Stan, are suspects.

Dear Eleanor
★ 5.9
Dear Eleanor2016Comedy · Drama

Two teenage girls travel across the U.S. in 1962, during the chaos of the Cuban missile crisis, in search of Eleanor Roosevelt.

Foster
★ 6.7
Foster2011Comedy · Drama

Looking to adopt a child and unable to conceive a child of their own, the Morrisons' lives are turned upside down when a seven-year-old boy unexpectedly shows up on their doorstep.

Similar titles

The Acid House
★ 6.3
The Acid House1998Comedy · Drama

A surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of the chemical generation, casting a dark and unholy light into the hidden corners of the human psyche.

21 Grams
★ 7.3
21 Grams2003Drama

Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of two girls; and Jack Jordan, a born-again ex-con, are brought together by a terrible accident that changes their lives.

Magnolia
★ 7.7
Magnolia1999Drama

On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one story.

Pulp Fiction
★ 8.5
Pulp Fiction1994Comedy

A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.

Short Cuts
★ 7.2
Short Cuts1993Comedy · Drama

Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the hospital, the boy's grandfather tells his son, Howard, about his past affairs. Meanwhile, a baker starts harassing the family when they fail to pick up the boy's birthday cake.

Love Actually
★ 7.1
Love Actually2003Comedy · Drama

Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.

Amores Perros
★ 7.7
Amores Perros2000Drama

A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man.

Bad Education
★ 7.4
Bad Education2004Drama

When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and present, the script follows a transvestite performer who reconnects with a grade school sweetheart. Spurred on by this chance encounter, the character reflects on her childhood sexual victimization and the trauma of closeting her sexual orientation.

Four Rooms
★ 5.9
Four Rooms1995Comedy

It's Ted the Bellhop's first night on the job...and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to place him in some outrageous predicaments. It seems that this evening's room service is serving up one unbelievable happening after another.

Dolls
★ 7.5
Dolls2002Drama

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto and Sawako, a young couple whose relationship is about to be broken apart by the former's parents, who have insisted their son take part in an arranged marriage to his boss' daughter.

Nashville
★ 7.3
Nashville1975Comedy · Drama

The intersecting stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress—and their connection through the music business in Nashville, Tennessee.

The Holiday
★ 7.1
The Holiday2006Comedy

Two women, one American and one British, swap homes at Christmastime following bad breakups. Each woman finds romance with a local man but realizes that the imminent return home may end the relationship.

Crash
★ 7.2
Crash2005Drama

In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a pair of carjackers and a Korean couple converge during a 36-hour period.

Random
★ 7.0
Random2025Drama

The story takes place on Valentine's Day in no man's land, one of the craziest days of the century, when everything is turned upside down, the turn of seemingly random events slowly connecting together.

Poster unavailable
★ 6.0
Figurky ze šmantů1988Drama

Three short stories about the people and folk around the shaft.

Human Traffic
★ 6.8
Human Traffic1999Comedy · Drama

For Jip, Lulu, Koop, Nina, and Moff, the dead-end jobs they endure during the week just kill the time until Friday night. That's when they cut very loose and get on the rollercoaster ride that takes them right through to Monday morning.

Gags the Clown
★ 6.3
Gags the Clown2019Comedy

It's been eight days since the clown first showed up in Green Bay, WI. Now, over the course of one night, four different groups of people cross paths with the clown everyone calls "Gags" and his true intentions are finally revealed.

Let It Snow
★ 6.1
Let It Snow2019Comedy

In a small town on Christmas Eve, a snowstorm brings together a group of young people. They soon find their friendships and love lives colliding, and come Christmas morning, nothing will be the same.

If These Walls Could Talk 2
★ 6.5
If These Walls Could Talk 22000Drama

The stories of three lesbian couples -- who live in the same house at different periods of time -- who are at a crossroads in their lives. In 1961, Edith loses her lover, Abby, to a stroke. Linda and Amy struggle with feminist issues in 1972. And, in 2000, Kal and Fran try to have a baby with the help of sperm donor.

Life in a Metro
★ 6.5
Life in a Metro2007Drama

A group of Mumbai up-and-comers search for love and struggle for success in this ensemble drama that centers on an eager young call centre executive.

Your favorites

Recently viewed

Watch

Choose an authorized server.

Full video from an operator-configured authorized source. Official trailers use a separate player. If a server fails, retry or select another authorized server.

Legal watch options

Official trailer

Trailer preview only. Press Play to start.

Privacy choices

Favorites stay in your browser. Movie images load from TMDb. YouTube trailers contact YouTube only after you allow external media and choose a trailer. Advertising consent, if ads are enabled, is managed separately by the operator’s certified CMP.

Privacy policy

After allowing external media, choose the trailer button to load its player.