| 电影 | diàn yǐng | movie / film / CL:部[bu4],片[pian4],幕[mu4],場|场[chang3] |   |
| 影片 | yǐng piàn | film / movie / CL:部[bu4] | |
| 片子 | piān zi | film / movie / film reel / phonograph record / X-ray image | |
| 影 |  yǐng | picture / image / film / movie / photograph / reflection / shadow / trace | |
| 最佳 | zuì jiā | optimum / optimal / peak / best (athlete, movie etc) | |
| 镜头 | jìng tóu | camera lens / camera shot (in a movie etc) / scene | |
| 主演 | zhǔ yǎn | to act the leading role (in a movie or a play) / to star / lead actor | |
| 好看 | hǎo kàn | good-looking / nice-looking / good (of a movie, book, TV show etc) / embarrassed / humiliated | |
| 大片 | dà piàn | wide expanse / large area / vast stretch / extending widely / blockbuster movie | |
| 影院 | yǐng yuàn | cinema / movie theater | |
| 剧本 | jù běn | script for play, opera, movie etc / screenplay / scenario | |
| 片名 | piān míng | movie title | |
| 对白 | duì bái | dialogue (in a movie or a play) | |
| 片中 | piàn zhōng | in the movie | |
| 动作片 | dòng zuò piàn | action movie / CL:部[bu4] | |
| 电影院 | diàn yǐng yuàn | cinema / movie theater / CL:家[jia1],座[zuo4] | |
| 悬念 | xuán niàn | suspense in a movie, play etc / concern for sb's welfare | |
| 插曲 | chā qǔ | music played during a movie, play etc / incidental music / music played in a theatrical interlude / (fig.) incident / episode | |
| 影迷 | yǐng mí | film enthusiast / movie fan / CL:個|个[ge4] | |
| 首映 | shǒu yìng | to premiere (a movie or TV show) / premiere (of a movie) / first-run (movie) / to greet (the eye) before anything else (e.g. when entering a room) | |
| 恐怖片 | kǒng bù piàn | horror movie / CL:部[bu4] | |
| 配乐 | pèi yuè | to create music for a movie or stage production / to dub music onto a soundtrack / incidental music / soundtrack music | |
| 银幕 | yín mù | movie screen | |
| 三级片 | sān jí piàn | third category movie (containing sexual or violent content) | |
| 拍戏 | pāi xì | to shoot a movie | |
| 当红 | dāng hóng | currently popular (of movie stars, singers etc) | |
| 开拍 | kāi pāi | to begin shooting (a movie, a scene of a movie etc) / to start the bidding (auction) / to start a trading session (stock market) | |
| 高潮迭起 | gāo cháo dié qǐ | each new high point replaced by another / (of a movie etc) one climax after another | |
| 摄影机 | shè yǐng jī | camera / movie camera | |
| 场次 | chǎng cì | the number of showings of a movie, play etc / screening / performance | |
| 拍电影 | pāi diàn yǐng | to make a movie | |
| 最佳影片 | zuì jiā yǐng piàn | best movie (in film awards) | |
| 卖座 | mài zuò | (of a movie, show etc) to attract large audiences | |
| 戏份 | xì fèn | scene (in a movie etc) / one's part in a movie or play / (archaic) actor's payment | |
| 片酬 | piàn chóu | remuneration for playing a role in a movie or television drama | |
| 电影演员 | diàn yǐng yǎn yuán | movie actor / movie actress | |
| 彩蛋 | cǎi dàn | painted eggshell / Easter egg / (media) Easter egg (hidden feature in software or a movie etc) / post-credits scene | |
| 恐怖电影 | kǒng bù diàn yǐng | horror movie | |
| 音乐之声 | Yīn yuè zhī shēng | The Sound of Music, Broadway musical (1959) and Academy Award-winning movie (1965) | |
| 床戏 | chuáng xì | sex scene (in a movie etc) | |
| 首映式 | shǒu yìng shì | premiere of a movie | |
| 片尾 | piàn wěi | end credits (of a movie etc) / ending (of a movie etc) | |
| 影剧院 | yǐng jù yuàn | cinema / movie theater | |
| 科幻电影 | kē huàn diàn yǐng | science fiction movie | |
| 开演 | kāi yǎn | (of a play, movie etc) to begin | |
| 片约 | piàn yuē | movie contract | |
| 卓别林 | Zhuó bié lín | Charlie Chaplin (1899-1977), English movie actor and director | |
| 春蚕 | Chūn cán | Silkworms in Spring (1933), Chinese silent movie in socialist realist style, based on novel by Mao Dun 茅盾[Mao2 Dun4] | |
| 封禁 | fēng jìn | to ban (narcotics, a movie etc) / to block (a road etc) / (Internet) to block (a user) | |
| 黄片 | huáng piàn | adult movie / pornographic movie | |
| 后感 | hòu gǎn | afterthought / reflection after an event / a review (of a movie etc) | |
| 灾难片 | zāi nàn piàn | disaster movie | |
| 武打片 | wǔ dǎ piàn | action movie / kungfu movie | |
| 床上戏 | chuáng shàng xì | sex scene (in a movie etc) | |
| 剧终 | jù zhōng | The End (appearing at the end of a movie etc) | |
| 倒叙 | dào xù | to flash back / flashback (in a novel, movie etc) | |
| 科教片 | kē jiào piàn | science education film / popular science movie | |
| 夏衍 | Xià Yǎn | Xia Yan (1900-1995), Chinese writer, playwright, socialist critic and movie pioneer | |
| 默片 | mò piàn | silent movie | |
| 邵逸夫 | Shào Yì fū | Run Run Shaw (1907-2014), Hong Kong movie and television tycoon | |
| 大敌当前 | dà dí dāng qián | facing a powerful enemy (idiom) / fig. confronting grave difficulties / Enemy at the Gates, 1991 movie by Jean-Jacques Annaud | |
| 巴山夜雨 | Bā shān yè yǔ | rain on Mt Ba (idiom) / lonely in a strange land / Evening Rain, 1980 movie about the Cultural Revolution | |
| 十面埋伏 | shí miàn mái fú | Ambush from Ten Sides (pipa solo piece) / House of Flying Daggers (2004 movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀|张艺谋[Zhang1 Yi4 mou2]) | |
| 卡美拉 | Kǎ měi lā | Gamera (Japanese ガメラ / Gamera), Japanese movie monster | |
| 陈凯歌 | Chén Kǎi gē | Chen Kaige (1952-), Chinese movie director | |
| 恰吉 | Qià jí | Chucky, murderous villain of the 1988 US horror movie "Child's Play" | |
| 徐克 | Xú Kè | Tsui Hark (1951-), Chinese movie director and producer | |
| 黑泽明 | Hēi zé Míng | Kurosawa Akira (1910-1998) Japanese movie director | |
| 姜文 | Jiāng Wén | Jiang Wen (1963-), sixth generation Chinese movie director | |
| 外国电影 | wài guó diàn yǐng | foreign film / foreign movie | |
| 宽影片 | kuān yǐng piàn | wide-screen movie | |
| 宽银幕电影 | kuān yín mù diàn yǐng | wide-screen movie | |
| 断背 | duàn bèi | homosexual (a reference to Brokeback Mountain 斷背山|断背山[Duan4 bei4 Shan1], a 2005 movie about a same-sex relationship) | |
| 枪版 | qiāng bǎn | amateur pirated DVD, made e.g. by shooting a running movie | |
| 求死愿望 | qiú sǐ yuàn wàng | death wish (translated from English) / Death wish, movie series with Charles Bronson is translated as 猛龍怪客|猛龙怪客[Meng3 long2 guai4 ke4] | |
| 派拉蒙影 | Pài lā měng yǐng | Paramount pictures (US movie company) | |
| 满城尽带黄金甲 | Mǎn chéng jìn dài huáng jīn jiǎ | Curse of the Golden Flower (2007), period drama movie by Zhang Yimou | |
| 演员阵容 | yǎn yuán zhèn róng | cast (of a movie etc) / lineup of performers / troupe | |
| 猛龙怪客 | Měng lóng guài kè | Death wish, movie series with Charles Bronson | |
| 开映 | kāi yìng | to start showing a movie | |
| 魔宫传奇 | Mó gōng Chuán qí | The Name of the Rose, 1986 movie based on the novel by Umberto Eco | |
| Ａ片 | A piàn | adult movie / pornography | |
| 摩斯拉 | Mó sī lā | Mothra (Japanese モスラ / Mosura), Japanese movie monster | |
| 罗生门 | luó shēng mén | Rashomon, Japanese novel and movie / (fig.) situation where conflicting interpretations of the same event obscure the truth / unsolvable case | |
| 大红灯笼高高挂 | Dà hóng Dēng lóng Gāo gāo Guà | Raise the Red Lantern (1991), movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀|张艺谋[Zhang1 Yi4 mou2] | |
| 拉顿 | Lā dùn | Rodan (Japanese ラドン / Radon), Japanese movie monster | |
| A片 | A piàn | adult movie / pornography | |
| 下片 | xià piàn | to stop screening a movie / to end the run of a movie | |
| 岛国动作片 | dǎo guó dòng zuò piàn | euphemism for Japanese porn movie | |
| 盗录 | dào lù | to pirate (an audio recording, movie etc) / to bootleg | |
| 从影 | cóng yǐng | to make movies / to be a movie actor (or actress) | |
| 派拉蒙影业 | Pài lā méng Yǐng yè | Paramount Pictures (US movie company) | |
| 探班 | tàn bān | to check on sb at his workplace / to come to a movie set to visit one of the actors | |
| 烂片 | làn piàn | dud movie | |
| 删剪 | shān jiǎn | to cut (from a movie etc) / to censor | |
| 二轮片 | èr lún piàn | second-run movie | |
| 复映片 | fù yìng piàn | second-run movie | |
| 映演 | yìng yǎn | to screen a movie (Tw) | |
| 领盒饭 | lǐng hé fàn | (coll.) (of an actor with a bit part) to receive a boxed meal when one's job is done (phrase used e.g. by movie viewers when a character dies) | |
| IP剧 | I P jù | screen adaptation (TV series or movie based on an online novel or video game etc) | |
