The following is a list of mainland Chinese films first released in year 2003.
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Tomorrow's Parties | Screened at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival | |||
| Blind Shaft | Li Yang | Drama/Thriller | Silver Bear winner at the Berlin International Film Festival | |
| Cala, My Dog! | Drama-Comedy | |||
| Cell Phone | Comedy | |||
| Drifters | Duan Long | Drama | Screened at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival | |
| The Foliage | Drama | |||
| Green Tea | Romantic drama | |||
| Jade Goddess of Mercy | Drama | Entered into the 26th Moscow International Film Festival | ||
| My Father and I | Drama | Actress Xu Jinglei's directorial debut. | ||
| Nuan | Romantic drama | 2003 Golden Rooster winner for best film | ||
| The Only Sons | Drama | |||
| Purple Butterfly | Drama | Entered into the 2003 Cannes Film Festival | ||
| Red Snow | Action/Thriller | |||
| San Yuan Li | Experimental Documentary | |||
| Tang Poetry | Drama | |||
| Documentary | Award winning 9-hour documentary in three 3-hour segments | |||
| Uniform | Drama | |||
| Warm Spring | Wulan Tana | Tian Chengren, Qi Ruyi Zhang Yan, Hao Yang Yu Weijie | Drama | Wulan Tana won the Golden Rooster Awards for Best Directorial Debut in 2003 |
| Warriors of Heaven and Earth | Historical/Action | |||
| Zhou Yu's Train | Sun Zhou | Drama | ||