Movies like 2002

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2002 (2001)
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2002 (2001)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In Hong Kong, the special force of the police known as 2002 is composed of the twenty-two year-old cop Chiu and his ghost partner and they fight against supernatural phenomena under the guidance of the mystic Paper Chan. When his partner reincarnates, the rookie policeman Fung applies for the position; but Paper Chan explains Chiu that the team is to be formed by a man and a spirit, and Chiu has a death star on his hand that dooms his friends to die. Meanwhile, Chiu falls in love for Nurse Danielle, but he avoids her to protect her life against the fate of the death star. When the fiend Water Ghost possesses Fung seeking revenge against Chiu, he has to battle against the evil spirit trying to protect also his friend.
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, suspense, dark
Plot: afterlife, ghost, special agent, reincarnation, martial arts, supernatural, good versus evil, battles, fall in love, vengeance, rivalry, danger, introspection, destiny, curses spells and rituals, fight club, wizards and magicians, supernatural ability, supernatural romance, love, police, hospital, sword, buddhism, taxi ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: china, hong kong
Keyword: compilation

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Most similar movies to 2002

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, humorous, exciting and stylized films with plots about rivalry, martial arts, supernatural, danger, heroes, escapades and supernatural ability mostly in Comedy, Action and Fantasy genres. Some movies like 2002: A Chinese Ghost Story III (1991), New Mr. Vampire 2 (1989), A Chinese Ghost Story II (1990), Shaolin vs. Evil Dead (2004), Mr. Vampire (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Chinese Ghost Story III (1991)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Having slept for a century, the monstrous Tree Devil is now awaken and starts finding lost souls again. One stormy night, a wise High Priest and his student Fong pass by the Orchid Temple and realize that it is haunted. Fong encounters two evil ...
Style: semi serious, exciting, atmospheric, tense, stylized
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: ghost, medieval, martial arts, kung fu, macabre, wuxia, vampire, fate, hiking, debt, temple, storm ...
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
New Mr. Vampire 2 (1989)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Lam Ching-Ying returns as the famous "Vampire Buster," this time starring as the One-Eyebrown Priest. To save the village from paranormal menaces, he deals with and battles a host of mysterious creatures including: a little mischievous ...
Style: scenic, gothic, scary, exciting, offbeat ...
Plot: vampire, martial arts, ghost, village, clergy, master warrior, escapades, danger, heroes, good versus evil, supernatural ability, imaginary ...
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
A Chinese Ghost Story II (1990)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Several years after his beloved Nieh has gone, Ning is innocently put into jail. Luckily, he meets a scholar, Elder Chu Kot, in the prison who finally helps him escape. Ning then meets a young witty monk Autumn. They become friends and live in an ...
Style: exciting, atmospheric, stylized, inspirational, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, ghost, medieval, wuxia, supernatural, monster, martial artist, humour, vampire, escape, minister, rebel ...
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Shaolin vs. Evil Dead (2004)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The plot thickens as heroes Pak and Ha discover the evil Dr. Magma's plan to reanimate the dead and take on the master-fighting Shaolin monks.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, scary ...
Plot: kung fu, vampire, master warrior, vengeance, imaginary, supernatural, martial arts, ghost, uninhibited rivalry, danger, good versus evil, battles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Mr. Vampire (1985)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The planned reburial of a village elder goes awry as the corpse resurrects into a hopping, bloodthirsty vampire, threatening mankind. Therefore, a Taoist Priest and his two disciples attempt to stop the terror.
Style: scary, humorous, exciting, semi serious, slapstick ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vampire, ghost, zombie, martial arts, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, clergy, danger, heroic mission, supernatural power, undead, badass ...
Time: 80s
Place: hong kong, asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
The White Dragon (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In this swordfighting comedy, a young noblewoman falls in love with a prince of the Imperial House. By accident, she acquires the martial arts skills of the White Dragon. New in her power, she learns that there are definite advantages in performing ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: martial arts, tragic hero, good versus evil, heroic mission, love affair, intrigue, fall in love, rivalry, escapades, daring rescue, danger, medieval ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Don't Open Your Eyes (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The Tao of ghostbusting; religion and policing. On January 2, 2006, three fateful things happen to Sergeant Yiu, a lackluster Hong Kong cop: he shoots a notorious criminal who vows to haunt him, his aunt dies and passes to him the ability to see ...
Style: exciting, rough, suspenseful, captivating, scary ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, amateur detective, rivalry, injustice, law enforcement, supernatural ability, danger, martial arts, afterlife, murder, battles ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 3.3
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Cadaverella (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Cinder knew her life was over when her father came home from a business trip with a new wife and her 2 daughters when she was only 6. When her father dies soon afterwards, she pretty much has to care for herself, as her stepmother whittles away her ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
Plot: danger, vigilantism, race against time, vengeance, escapades, good versus evil, rivalry, psychopath, reincarnation, parents and children, afterlife, tragic hero ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Wu yen (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Lost in the woods, the Emperor Qi (Anita Mui) stumbles across local chief Wu Yen (Sammi Cheng), his predestined bride, only to accidentally free a promiscuous fox fairy (Cecilia Cheung) who promptly falls in love with both of them, changing between ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, fairy tale
Plot: love affair, tragic love, love triangle, bounty hunter, martial arts, destiny, fall in love, state affairs, battles, marriage of convenience, unfulfillment, farce ...
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 6.2
 615
Treasure Hunt (1994)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A C.I.A. agent is assigned to go to Beijing to look for a hidden "treasure," which turns out to be a woman who has supernatural powers, and is the National Treasure of China.
Style: suspense, semi serious, stylized, humorous, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: supernatural, kung fu, treasure hunt, gunfight, treasure, treasure hunter, hunter, hand to hand combat, martial arts, cia, secret agent, special agent ...
Place: china, asia, hong kong, beijing china
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
 5.7
 885
Mr. Vampire II (1986)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Modern grave robbing "archeologists" find perfectly preserved specimens from the past of a man, a woman, and their child. Unbeknownst to the scientist and his two bumbling assistants, these are vampires immobilized only by the paper spells ...
Style: horror comedy, scary, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous ...
Plot: vampire, martial arts, escapades, danger, goofy hero, reluctant partners, chase, good versus evil, mad scientist, chases and races, imaginary, unlikely partners ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
A Chinese Tall Story (2005)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The young monk Taka and his three disciples are captured by a demonic tree. Taka manages to escape thanks to the magic stick of Monkey King and decided to go free his companions. En route, he encounters a strange ally called Meiyan, a girl who is ...
Style: serious, stylized, atmospheric, exciting, fast ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens
Plot: space and aliens, rescue, battles, true love, fall in love, obsessive quest, heroes, wizards and magicians, imaginary, rivalry, clergy, escapades ...
Place: himalaya
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
My Schoolmate the Barbarian (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A brainy private school student is transferred to a far less elite institution, where he must fend off classmates who settle scores with fistfights.
Style: disturbing, captivating, satirical, semi serious
Plot: school, teenager, rivalry, fight, militant, friendship, schoolboy, satire, teenage life, fistfight, school bully, martial arts ...
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
House of Fury (2005)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Teddy Yu is a former secret agent turned chiropractor who thought he left his past behind. He teaches martial arts to his two kids. However, his past catches up to him as a rogue agent demands to know the whereabouts of an agent known as Dragon. ...
Style: exciting, humorous, semi serious, light, cult classic ...
Plot: martial arts, young heroes, kung fu, secret agent, parents and children, daring rescue, heroes, danger, siblings relations, family relations, fight, wuxia ...
Place: asia, china, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 5.7
 536
My Lucky Star (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Yip is attractive but for some strange reason, no man has ever been interested in her. Yip meets Lai, a famous feng shui expert and she thinks that Lai can change her luck. But Duen, also a famous feng shui expert continually cast all kinds of ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, stylized ...
Audience: date night
Plot: looking for love, love affair, love triangle, workplace romance, couples, nothing goes right, curses spells and rituals, fall in love, horoscope, luck, down on your luck, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Spooky Encounters (1980)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Sammo is Courageous Cheung, a pedicab driver in a rural community who is known around town as the man who fears nothing. Well, this is proved false before the opening credits finish when he endures a particularly frightening nightmare of ...
Style: horror comedy, semi serious, humorous, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, zombie, vampire, living dead, sorcery, wuxia, supernatural, black magic, terror, affair, fight ...
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box (1995)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Fantasy adventure about the arrival of Buddhism in China. When the Goddess of Happiness tosses the Longevity Monk and his disciples out of heaven (because the Monkey King tried to attain immortality), the Monkey King is reincarnated as the Joker. He ...
Style: stylized, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: martial arts, monkey king, wuxia, kung fu, true love, legends and myths, changing the past or future, reincarnation, giant spider, religions or cults, monk, love triangle ...
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman (2010)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: China, Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A tale of revenge, honor and greed follows a group of misfits that gets involved with a kitchen cleaver made from the top five swords of the martial arts world in this wild and brash action comedy.
Style: humorous, captivating, stylized, semi serious, exciting ...
Plot: martial arts, vengeance, imaginary, medieval, danger, master warrior, curses spells and rituals, uninhibited rivalry, food, wuxia, sword, butcher ...
Place: china, asia, ancient china
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Happy Magic (2011)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Nobody knows that Professor Hong Sum Kwai is actually the Water Magician, one of the five elemental wizards. One day, Hong accidentally loses his magical powers, which are transferred to his student Cheng Meisi. The girl happily uses the superhuman ...
Style: humorous, stylized, exciting, semi serious
Plot: supernatural ability, heroes, rivalry, imaginary, wizards and magicians, supernatural power, college student, magic, supernatural, superpower, battles, fire ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Bride with White Hair (1993)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The sensitive swordsman Cho Yi-Hang is tired of his life. He is the unwilling successor to the Wu-Tang clan throne and the unsure commander of the clan's forces in a war against foreign tribes and an evil cult. One day, he meets the beautiful ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, surreal, exciting, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, wuxia, betrayal, kung fu, supernatural, love and romance, escapades, tragic hero, good versus evil, vengeance, female warrior, tragic love ...
Time: year 1993
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Sky High (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A serial-murderer is on the loose who just so happens to also be removing the hearts of his victims and taking them with him. His victims however, are not merely random humans as thought by the police. They are in fact, the past and present ...
Style: stylized, suspenseful, serious, suspense, detective
Plot: good versus evil, supernatural, investigation, danger, vengeance, ghost, obsession, destiny, murder, devil worship, afterlife, superhero ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Twins Effect (2003)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story: An evil Duke attempts to kill and collect the blood of a royal family of European vampires in order to become all powerful. The only surviving member of the family travels to Hong Kong, only to complicate his struggle by falling in love with a ...
Style: stylized, semi serious, exciting, humorous, underground film ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: vampire, martial arts, supernatural, fight, heroic mission, fall in love, twins, royal family, rivalry, tough girl, kickass women, sword ...
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Ning Tsai-Shen, a humble tax collector, arrives in a small town to carry out his work. No one is willing to give him shelter for the night, so he ends up in the haunted Lan Ro temple. There, he meets Taoist Swordsman Yen Che-Hsia, and the beautiful ...
Style: atmospheric, scary, talky, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ghost, supernatural, martial arts, sword fight, good versus evil, wuxia, monster, curses spells and rituals, kung fu, fall in love, danger, rescue ...
Time: year 1987
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Golden Monk (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The film tells the story of a monk who realizes he is the reincarnation of Golden Child / Taming Dragon Lohan who was cast down from heaven to experience life and death one hundred times as he broke a sacred rule by falling in love with another ...
Style: satirical, disturbing, semi serious, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: monk, reincarnation, buddhist monk, supernatural ability, martial arts, good versus evil, supernatural power, teamwork, love story, god, in love, battles ...
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Eternal Evil of Asia (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A fun-filled trip to Thailand turns out to be a deadly one for four best friends when they accidentally killed the sister of a local sorcerer. When one of them mysteriously died upon returning the remaining trio discovers that a curse has been cast ...
Style: erotic, horror comedy, scary, semi serious, sexual ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: supernatural, evil, sorcery, invisibility, ghost, rape, revenge, rape and revenge, best friend, wizards and magicians, gory, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 90s
Place: thailand, asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 4.6
 320
Armageddon (1997)
Genre: Fantasy, Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The world's ten most influential scientists are being mysteriously killed, one by one, spontaneously combusted, microwaved to death, or otherwise. Another scientist, software prodigy Dr. Ken, searches for clues to these bizarre happenings only ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, scary
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: ghost, violent content, save the world, prodigy, supernatural ability, rivalry, race against time, imaginary, danger, supernatural, chaos, secret movement ...
Place: china, prague, hong kong, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Death Karate in Torremolinos (2003)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Dr. Malvedades intends to bring back Jocántaro, a Beast of the Apocalypse. To do this, he uses underwater ninja zombies to kidnap five women who had recently lost their virginity for human sacrifices. Jess, a Catholic surfer who has commited to ...
Style: humorous, not serious, scary, captivating, horror comedy ...
Plot: save the world, good versus evil, rivalry, heroes, escapades, danger, rescue, supernatural, woman in danger, silly humor, master villain, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A car accident gives a spoiled, troubled young woman the ability to see ghosts, including one of a former classmate.
Style: emotional, sincere, sentimental, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: afterlife, ghost, unfulfilled love, friendship, supernatural, hopes, last wish, twists and turns, love and romance, obsessive quest, escapades, supernatural ability ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Swordsman III: The East Is Red (1993)
Genre: Action, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A royal official accompanies a Portuguese warship to the Black Cliffs to see the site of the defeat of the evil Invincible Asia, who attained supernatural abilities by following the sacred scroll and castrating himself.
Style: serious
Plot: martial arts, medieval, wuxia, swashbuckler, transgender, lgbt, gender bending, danger, ghost, master warrior, rivalry, vengeance ...
Place: asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
One Hell of a Guy (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When the Devil's favourite demon, Nick (Rob Lowe), is sent to corrupt the soul of Cassie Springer (Alexandra Powers), the last thing he expected was to fall in love. But Cassie's purity was enough to save the town of Fairfield from the ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, humorous
Audience: date night
Plot: reincarnation, afterlife, supernatural, opposites attract, love and romance, fall in love, couples, disorder, supernatural romance, strong female character, strong female lead, coffee shop ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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