Movies and TV shows set in hong kong – page 3
Best films
New films
List of movies set in hong kong
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Billy Wong is a New York City cop whose partner is gunned down during a robbery. Billy and his new partner, Danny Garoni, are working security at a fashion show when a wealthy man's daughter, Laura Shapiro, is kidnapped. The Federal authorities ...
Style:
perverse, retro, crime drama, action adventure, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, buddy cop, crime boss, hand to hand combat, kidnapping, rescue, shootout, blood, two man army, drug lord, violence, hostage ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Place:
hong kong, new york, asia, usa, china ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A corrupt businessman commits a murder and the only witness is the girlfriend of another businessman with close connections to the Chinese government, so a bodyguard from Beijing is dispatched to help two Hong Kong cops protect the witness.
Style:
cult classic, scenic, romantic, fast, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, martial arts, bodyguard, hired killer, witness, chinese army, professional killer, wuxia, kung fu, chase, businessman, unrequited love ...
Time:
90s
Place:
hong kong, china, asia, beijing china
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, History
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
An illegal immigrant from Mainland China sneaks into the corrupt British-colonized Hong Kong in 1963, transforming himself into a ruthless drug lord.
Style:
perverse, suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
triad, organized crime, martial arts, police corruption, police officer, police shootout, police officer killed, escapades, rivalry, tough guy, drug dealing, murder ...
Time:
70s, 60s
Place:
hong kong, bangkok thailand, china, thailand
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The Hong Kong police is hunting a counterfeiting gang led by a mastermind code-named "Painter" (Chow Yun-fat). The gang possesses exceptional counterfeiting skills which makes it difficult to distinguish the authenticity of its counterfeit ...
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, exciting, psychological ...
Plot:
counterfeit money, painting, gang, arrest, police, undercover agent, gang leader, investigation, heist, rivalry, danger, escapades ...
Place:
hong kong, china, vancouver
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A Hong Kong detective suffers a fatal accident involving a mysterious medallion and is transformed into an immortal warrior with superhuman powers.
Style:
entertaining, humorous, stylized, semi serious, action packed ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, interpol, superhuman powers, tough cop, warrior, chase, locket, lone hero, police detective, kung fu, wuxia, immortality ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s
Place:
hong kong, ireland, dublin ireland, asia, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young woman is trained by a martial arts specialist to become a professional assassin.
Style:
erotic, sexy, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, martial arts, one woman army, sexual obsession, female assassin, yakuza, girl fight, contract killer, femme fatale, serial killer, caught having sex, murder ...
Time:
90s
Place:
hong kong, china, asia, japan
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A night like any other in the streets of Hong Kong: in the midst of the tangle of night-owls, cars and vendors, a group of passengers climbs aboard a minibus that is to take them from Mongkok to Tai Po. The group is as diverse as the city: there’s ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, tense, twisted, surreal ...
Plot:
dark humor, survival, parallel world, danger, apocalypse, human nature, chaos, rivalry, society, new world order, bus, asian ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, china, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A young Cambodian man who has been trained to fight for money in his country is hired to kill someone in Hong Kong. He performs the hit and then flees from Hong Kong police, who are wrestling with internal problems of a model cop and his son, who is ...
Style:
suspenseful, semi serious, tense, suspense, exciting ...
Plot:
hitman, chase, martial arts, vengeance, law enforcement, on the run, danger, good versus evil, life is a bitch, heroic bloodshed, violence, triad ...
Place:
hong kong, china, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The story of a couple (Niki Chow and Eason Chan) who break up one morning and proceed to find their love tested in unexpected and violent ways.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
love affair, vigilantism, gang, kidnapping, missing child, master criminal, rescue, vengeance, criminal heroes, hostage, gangster, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Thriller
Country: France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Spain, UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Kline, a former Los Angeles police officer turned private detective, is hired by a powerful pharmaceutical conglomerate boss to investigate in Asia the disappearance of his only son, Shitao, whom he has not seen in person since the boy was ten. Now ...
Style:
neo noir, atmospheric, serious, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, medieval, missing person, investigation, private detective, haunted by the past, murder, danger, warrior, moving, violent content, rock ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, the philippines, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The relationship between a middle-aged man (Andy Lau) and the elderly woman (Deanie Ip), who has been the family's helper for sixty years.
Style:
touching, serious, sentimental, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
maid, retirement home, family relations, social differences, society, master and servant, family life, producer, power relations, film producer, senior citizen, urban setting ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
hong kong, china, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
When Sid insults a powerful triad boss, his father sends him to Taiwan for safety. Bored and restless, he discovers a community of Zen drummers high in the hills, and joins up - a decision inspired by a pretty face that soon becomes a challenge.
Style:
contemplative, psychological, realistic, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
gangster, martial arts, self discovery, introspection, redemption, rivalry, hopes, drummer, training, business partner, chase, on the run ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, taiwan, china, asia
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
Genre: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A mysterious and highly successful hitwoman in Hong Kong is paid to assassinate top-level crime bosses. After beginning a relationship with a noodle vendor, she decides to travel to South Korea to complete one last job. Unfortunately, the dead ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, stylized, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
contract killer, female assassin, chase, assassination, heroic bloodshed, vengeance, gang, survival, betrayal, gory, frame up, criminal heroes ...
Time:
90s
Place:
hong kong, cambodia, korea, asia, seoul
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A French chef swears revenge after a violent attack on his daughter's family in Hong Kong, during which her husband and her two children are murdered. To help him find the killers, he hires three local hit-men working for the mafia.
Style:
neo noir, realistic, stylized, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, heroic bloodshed, hitman, vengeance, gangster, danger, murder, chef, professional killer, gunfight, violence, triad ...
Place:
hong kong, macau, china, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A cop, a lawyer, and an assassin cross paths after the murder of a federal witness and the kidnapping of a famous pop star.
Style:
neo noir, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, undercover, police investigation, partners against crime, dishonesty, law enforcement, heroes, police corruption, hitman, police detective, gangster, partner ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, china, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two police pursuit drivers, a hothead rookie and his long-suffering, almost-retired mentor, face off against an escape car driver from the latter's past.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
car chase, police detective, police investigation, law enforcement, uninhibited rivalry, law enforcer killer, car, police shootout, gunfight, fast car, racing, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, china, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The head of an elite Hong Kong surveillance unit (Simon Yam) keeps one eye on his rookie apprentice (Kate Tsui) and the other on a notorious criminal (Tony Leung Ka Fai) he suspects of masterminding a recent jewel heist in this tense thriller from ...
Style:
tense, serious, exciting, captivating, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover, master criminal, police detective, police investigation, fighting crime, found footage, law enforcement, heist, rivalry, working undercover, agent, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, china, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Four young officers of the Hong Kong Police are joined together to fight against organised crime using all possible means, even if this would lead them to break the law… Their first assignment is to eliminate a gang of criminals who have stolen a ...
Style:
exciting, stylized, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
undercover, female martial artist, police, tough cop, save the day, tough law enforcer, police investigation, partners against crime, martial arts, kung fu, swat team, guy ...
Time:
90s
Place:
hong kong, china, singapore, asia
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A criminal, a bank clerk and a police officer find their destinies entwined when a loan shark gets assaulted after having withdrawn $10 million from the bank in the midst of the world financial crisis.
Style:
tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
stock exchange, hitman, bank clerk, crime investigation, human nature, disorder, danger, life is a bitch, moral dilemma, honest law enforcer, financial ruin, financial problem ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, china, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Three cops team up to bring down a criminal gang of seven, who have their own hidden agenda.
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, chase, gang, car chase, hostage, vigilantism, partners against crime, tough law enforcer, law enforcement, fighting crime, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
hong kong, china, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The life story of a young man who has been pursuing an impossible love with his straight boyfriend and contemplating on the mortality of his loved ones.
Style:
erotic, philosophical, romantic, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
gay sex, gay love, gay romance, gay, unrequited love, gay lead character, homoeroticism, skinny dipping, romantic friendship, brother brother relationship, male nudity, countdown ...
Place:
hong kong, china, tel aviv israel, jerusalem, australia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Five shorts reveal a fictional Hong Kong in 2025, depicting a dystopian city where residents and activists face crackdowns under iron-fisted rule.
Style:
anthology, thought provoking, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
lifestyle, relationship problems, social injustice, social issues, society, slice of life, social problems, multiple storylines, politics, existentialism, dialogue, prophecy ...
Time:
future, near future, 2020s
Place:
hong kong, china
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Chui Chik tries to lead a quiet life as a librarian. However, he is really a former test subject for a highly secretive supersoldier project and the instructor of a special commando unit dubbed "701." The 701 squad is used for many ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, bloody, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, superhero, martial artist, vigilante, fistfight, kung fu master, wuxia, chinese mafia, heroes, one man army, police ...
Time:
90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place:
hong kong, china, asia, tokyo
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Horse thief Luk Ching-Yang and his wife Liu Lu-Yian. After Luk was betrayed by his brother Kiu Hung, Lu-Yian left him. They reunite 20 years later, along with Liu Lu-Yian's adopted daughter Liu Wan-Long and the young warrior Pak Suk-Fu, in ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, captivating, disturbing, action drama ...
Plot:
revenge, martial arts, betrayal, wuxia, vengeance, master warrior, traitor, fight, warrior, brother brother relationship, battles, kung fu ...
Place:
hong kong
Is relevant?
Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An ultraviolent cops vs. gangsters bloodbath leaves casualties on both sides. Twenty years later, surviving team member Madam Fong leads a new squad in pursuit of reckless young anarchists terrorizing Macao.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, tense, suspense, action thriller ...
Plot:
terrorist, police shootout, anarchist, gangster, terrorist group, woman with a gun, anarchism, fight, fight for supremacy, anarchy, revenge, bloodbath ...
Place:
hong kong, macau
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
After a powerful billionaire is murdered, his secret adoptive son must race to prove his legitimacy, find his father's killers and stop them from taking over his financial empire.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
millionaire, obsessive quest, murder, vengeance, intrigue, dishonesty, chases and races, danger, rivalry, workplace, uncover truth, corporate world ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
hong kong, europe, croatia
Is relevant?
725
Genre: Family
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The extended Cheng family, which, like Aberdeen harbor’s Chinese namesake, represents today’s Little Hong Kong and its myriad of contradictions between traditions and modernity; superstitions and materialism; family and individuality.
Style:
exciting, light, entertaining, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
family drama, superstition, husband and wife, husband wife relationship, unfaithful husband, doctor, family life, husband, male doctor, male female relationship, wife, family problems ...
Place:
hong kong
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Roast Pork joins the triad as a young man and ends up becoming a trusted lieutenant of boss Kerosene. However, his true passion is in his successful chain of restaurants, his loving wife, and his two children. So when Kerosene wants to promote his ...
Style:
humorous, rough, exciting, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
dishonesty, life turned upside down, blind ambition, prison, gang, university, gangster, working undercover, criminal heroes, disorder, friends, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, china
Is relevant?
730
Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Based on the Japanese Manga about Ryo Narushima, a talented, college-bound student who murders both of his parents in cold blood. He is sent to a reformatory where he trains in karate under Kenji Kurokawa, a man imprisoned after trying to ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kickboxer, prison, murder, obsessive quest, life is a bitch, prison life, starting over, gory, athlete's life, rivalry, sexual abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, china
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Evil voodoo-practicing serial killer Shadow gets executed for murdering pregnant women. Twenty years later the prison Shadow was put to death at has been turned into an experimental women's penitentiary. Tough and fiercely autonomous new inmate ...
Style:
rough, disturbing, bleak, scary, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, murder of a nude woman, lesbianism, women's prison, making love, blaxploitation, female pubic hair, supernatural, danger, violence spree, prison life, confined ...
Place:
hong kong, asia
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
