The following is a list of mainland Chinese films first released in year 2005. There were 260 Chinese feature films produced of which 43 were screened in China in 2005.[1]
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| About Love | Romance | Chinese-Japanese-Taiwanese co-production | ||
| Beautiful Men | Documentary | |||
| Before Born | Drama | |||
| Before the Flood | Documentary | |||
| China Flower | Drama | |||
| Dam Street | Liu Yi | Drama | ||
| Eat Hot Tofu Slowly | Comedy | |||
| The Ghost Inside | Horror | |||
| Gimme Kudos | Comedy | |||
| Grain in Ear | Drama | |||
| Huayao Bride in Shangrila | Romance | |||
| Mongolian Ping Pong | Family | |||
| My Fair Son | Yu Bo Junrui Wang Weiming Wang Guifeng Wang Ziqiang Li | LGBT-themed drama | ||
| On the Mountain of Tai Hang | War | 2005 Golden Rooster for Best Film | ||
| One Foot off the Ground | Comedy | |||
| Oxhide | Drama | 2005 Dragons and Tigers Award winner | ||
| Peacock | Drama | Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Berlin International Film Festival | ||
| Perpetual Motion | Drama | |||
| The Promise | Fantasy/Wuxia | |||
| Rainbow | Period drama | |||
| Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles | Drama | |||
| Season of the Horse | Drama | |||
| Shanghai Dreams | Drama | Prix du Jury winner at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival | ||
| Stolen Life | Drama | |||
| Sunflower | Drama | |||
| Taking Father Home | Xu Yan | Drama | ||
| A Time to Love | Romance | |||
| Waiting Alone | Xia Yu, Gong Beibi, Li Bingbing | Romantic comedy | ||
| You and Me | Drama | |||