Raise the Red Lantern

Dà hóng denglong gaogao guà is a movie starring Gong Li, Jingwu Ma, and Saifei He. A young woman becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy lord, and must learn to live with the strict rules and tensions within the household.
In 1920s China, a nineteen year old Songlian is forced to marry the much older lord of a powerful family and compete with his three wives for his attention, slowly uncovering the dark truths that lie within their gilded cage.