From 1905 to 1948, Chinese movies were divided into three types in terms of their ideological content.

Family Ethics and Social Problems, Anti-War and Anti-Imperialist Films, and Real Life Films.1905 to 1948, Chinese outstanding films can be categorized into the following three types:

1. Family Ethics and Social Problems, China's first short feature film, A Difficult Husband, A Difficult Wife, is a family ethics film. One of the most influential family ethical dramas at that time was "The Orphan Saves His Ancestors".

2. Anti-imperialist and anti-war films. From September 1931 to July 1937, the early stage of China's anti-Japanese war, the masterpieces of this period were "The Great Road" and "Children of the Wind and Cloud".

3, reflecting the reality of life, these films will be the lens on the real life of the ordinary people, ordinary life, through the daily life of the true description, show human nature and human feelings, to reveal the complex inner world of the characters, in the art of distinctive, to achieve the development of Chinese film for more than 40 years of the peak of the art. A representative example is "Spring in a Small Town" directed by Fei Mu, which vividly expresses the human emotions, ethics, national psychology and behavior of Chinese intellectuals.