China The Foreigner is a China–India co-production — one of only a handful of such cross-border film titles indexed here.
Synopsis
“Never push a good man too far”
Quan is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love – his teenage daughter – dies in an Irish Republican Army car bombing. His relentless search to find the terrorists leads to a cat-and-mouse conflict with a British government official whose own past may hold the clues to the identities of the elusive killers.
Audience Engagement
2,389 audience reviews — more than 97% of China films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 97th percentile among China films.
China × India Co-Production
Other China×India titles
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with The Foreigner. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From Sparkle Roll Media
Action + Thriller in China
49 China titles in our catalog blend the Action and Thriller genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding The Foreigner itself).
The 2016–2018 China Window
The Foreigner holds position #69 of 224 China films in the 2016–2018 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 The Foreigner premiered alongside 84 others.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 1h 53m runtime, production spent $310K per minute on screen and earned $1.3M per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 84 other China films in 2017.
The 542nd 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 Foreigner, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- ireland · 3
- ira (irish republican army) · 2
- united kingdom · 2
- england · 21
- london · 17
- bomb · 15
- based on novel or book · 288
- revenge · 210
- terrorism · 47
- death · 43
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #333 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 Action productions specifically: #81 of 319 (top 25%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | China |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | China, India, United Kingdom, United States of America |
| Original Language | En |
| Spoken Languages | Mandarin, English |
| Production Companies | Sparkle Roll Media, STX Films, Arthur Sarkissian Productions, The Entertainer Production Company, Orange Corp |
| Runtime | 1h 53m |
| Release Date | September 28, 2017 |
| IMDb | tt1615160 |
| Official Site | theforeignermovie.com |