China Synopsis
“Sometimes to find yourself you need to get a little lost.”
Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.
Audience Engagement
783 audience reviews — more than 93% of China films in our index.
Review volume (93th percentile) outruns trending popularity (64th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Adventure + Drama in China
64 China titles in our catalog blend the Adventure and Drama genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Hector and the Search for Happiness itself).
The 2013–2015 China Window
Hector and the Search for Happiness holds position #29 of 107 China films in the 2013–2015 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2010s China Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2010s in China, 515 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Hector and the Search for Happiness premiered alongside 36 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 36 other China films in 2014.
The 361st China title from China we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1935).
Our China catalog contains 946 titles in total (747 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Hector and the Search for Happiness, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- boyfriend girlfriend relationship · 5
- africa · 4
- office · 4
- routine · 3
- narration · 3
- college friends · 2
- pursuit · 1
- patients · 1
- organization · 1
- work routine · 1
- daily routine · 1
- simple life · 1
- ordinary · 1
- travel · 21
- psychiatrist · 9
- china · 127
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #462 of 946 China films indexed here (51st percentile by TMDB audience score).
Among China Adventure productions specifically: #80 of 178 (top 45%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | China |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | Canada, China, Germany, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States of America |
| Original Language | En |
| Spoken Languages | German, English, French |
| Production Companies | Screen Siren Pictures, Egoli Tossell Film, Relativity Media, Bankside Films, Erfftal Film- & Fernsehproduktion GmbH & Co. KG |
| Runtime | 1h 54m |
| Release Date | August 14, 2014 |
| IMDb | tt1626146 |