I don't know if these are easy to understand (I watched them with subtitles), but here are some movies I enjoyed:
天下无贼 (A World Without Thieves) - Action/Drama
非诚勿扰 (If You Are the One) - Romantic Comedy
剑雨 (Reign of Assassins) - Action
卧虎藏龙 (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) - Action
人再囧途之泰囧 (Lost in Thailand) - Comedy
北京爱情故事 (Beijing Love Story) - Comedy
白日焰火 (Black Coal, Thin Ice) - Action/Thriller
斗牛 (Cow) - Comedy
心花路放 - Breakup Buddies - Romantic Comedy
I also really like 让子弹飞 (Let the Bullets Fly), an action/comedy, but I think it had a lot of Sichuan dialogue in it so wouldn't be easy to understand.
Great question, I am just starting to wean myself off of English subtitles myself, and the level of language difficulty definitely varies by movie.
The first show I could watch entirely without English subtitles was 情深深雨蒙蒙 - a little bit older (2001), but with a captivating storyline and lots of repetitions in the dialogue. Seeing that you are in the Philippines, I suspect you may have seen that one already, though, as "Romance in the Rain" ;-).
Movies are harder than TV-drama, I think, because the dialogue is by nature more compact and less repetitive. Among more recent movies, 消失的子弹 worked for me, also 画皮II or 大叔，我爱你. Others, like 寒战, left me dead in the water - too much fast paced dialogue (cool story, though - at least for the original, not the sequel which is a howling mess). Older movies (think 50s) on the other hand work surprisingly well - very clear pronunciation and standard speech (fewer colloquial expressions, puns etc. than in more modern movies). You can find them on Youtube, and if you are lucky they may even have Chinese subtitles (which is the combination that works best for me - visual and audio input in the same language). There is a lot of great Chinese films from the 80s/90s (think 英雄本色， 赌神， 唐柏虎点秋香) but in Cantonese, and I refuse to watch the dubbed versions :-). One day ... :-D
Apart from that I am curious what other recommendations will come up :-D.
Hi Robert,
Sorry, missed your earlier question. Depends on geography :-). Here in the US, Netflix has a ton of Chinese series on offer. A youtube search on "Chinese drama" should give you many results, as well - rather than recommending one (tastes vary), just see what you may like ;-). The richest source are the Chinese youtube equivalents, of course, like aiqiyi, youku, etc. but they are geo-blocked over here and may be painfully slow even where they are not (but worth a try: the amount of TV series on offer within China is truly staggering).
Have fun and good luck!
