《苏州河》是一部于1998年拍摄、2000年上映的爱情文艺电影，由娄烨执导，周迅、贾宏声等主演。

这部电影主要讲述了马达与纯真少女牡丹以及长相酷似牡丹的美人鱼表演者美美之间纠缠不清的爱情故事。影片于2000年9月7日在中国香港上映，同时获得了第29届鹿特丹国际电影节金虎奖和第15届巴黎国际电影节最佳影片奖，并被美国时代周刊评选为年度十佳电影之一。

然而，由于《苏州河》未经审查即参加国外电影节，受到中华人民共和国国家新闻出版广电总局的禁止，无法在中国内地公映。

故事发生在上海，一个普通的摄影师以拍摄他人为生。在他眼中，苏州河只是一条肮脏的河流，贯穿着上海，两岸发生着普通人截然不同的生活。有一天，一位酒吧老板找到他，要求拍摄一些特别的东西。经过老板的比划，他才明白原来是为了吸引顾客，拍摄酒吧内的美人鱼表演。摄影师逐渐熟悉了扮演美人鱼的女孩美美，并从她口中得知了马达和牡丹的故事。

马达是一名黑帮邮递员，骑着从盗贼那里购得的摩托车，将来源不明的物品从城市的一头送到另一头。一次，有人让他送一个名叫牡丹的小女孩，随后几次，马达与牡丹熟识，并陷入爱情之中。然而，马达很快卷入了一个绑架阴谋，绑架者企图勒索牡丹的父亲，以牡丹作为赎金。而绑架者竟然是马达的黑帮朋友，他们要求马达在送牡丹的路上趁机绑架她。马达内心不愿意，但又受到朋友们的压力，最终被迫答应。

"Suzhou River" is a romantic literary film filmed in 1998 and released in 2000, directed by Lou Ye , starring Zhou Xun, Jia Hongsheng and others.

This movie mainly tells about Ma Da and the innocent girl Peony and the girl who looks exactly like Peony. The tangled love story between mermaid performer Mimi. The film was screened in Hong Kong, China on September 7, 2000. At the same time, it won the Golden Tiger Award at the 29th Rotterdam International Film Festival and the Best Film Award at the 15th Paris International Film Festival, and was selected as one of the top ten films of the year by Time Magazine. one.

However, since "Suzhou Creek" participated in foreign film festivals without censorship, Prohibited by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television of the People's Republic of China, it cannot be released in mainland China.

The story happened in Shanghai, an ordinary photographer makes a living by photographing others. In his eyes, Suzhou Creek is just a dirty river that runs through Shanghai, and the lives of ordinary people are completely different on both sides. One day, a bar owner approached him and asked to shoot something special. After gestures from the boss, he realized that it was to attract customers and shoot the mermaid performance in the bar. The photographer gradually got acquainted with Meimei, the girl who played the mermaid, and learned the story of Ma Da and Peony from her mouth.

Motor is a gangster postman who rides a motorcycle bought from a thief Cars, transporting items of unknown origin from one end of the city to the other. Once, someone asked him to send a little girl named Peony, and several times later, Ma Da became acquainted with Peony and fell in love. However, Ma Da is soon involved in a kidnapping plot, and the kidnappers attempt to blackmail Mu Dan's father, offering Mu Dan as a ransom. The kidnappers turned out to be Ma Da's gangster friends, and they asked Ma Da to take the opportunity to kidnap her on the way to send Peony. Ma Da was unwilling in his heart, but was pressured by his friends, and was finally forced to agree.