China Synopsis
“Love. At any cost.”
Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.
Audience Engagement
1,342 audience reviews — more than 94% of China films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 86th percentile among China films.
Drama + Mystery in China
52 China titles in our catalog blend the Drama and Mystery genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding The Constant Gardener itself).
The 2004–2006 China Window
The Constant Gardener holds position #17 of 45 China films in the 2004–2006 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2000s China Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2000s in China, 142 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when The Constant Gardener premiered alongside 18 others.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 2h 9m runtime, production spent $194K per minute on screen and earned $639K per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 18 other China films in 2005.
The 127th China title from China we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1935).
Our China catalog contains 946 titles in total (747 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on The Constant Gardener, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- aids · 5
- diplomat · 4
- pharmaceutical industry · 2
- kenya · 2
- rwandan genocide · 1
- morgue · 1
- nairobi · 1
- politician · 23
- cancer · 12
- political thriller · 8
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #335 of 946 China films indexed here (65th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.3 points above the China average of 6.7/10.
Among China Drama productions specifically: #214 of 547 (top 39%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | China |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | China, Germany, United Kingdom, United States of America |
| Original Language | En |
| Spoken Languages | German, English, Italian, Swahili |
| Production Companies | Scion Films, Studio Babelsberg, Epsilon Motion Pictures, UK Film Council, Focus Features |
| Runtime | 2h 9m |
| Release Date | August 31, 2005 |
| IMDb | tt0387131 |