Best Hong Kong Movies – page 3

From Beijing with Love (1994)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 84 min.
Story: After a giant dinosaur skull is stolen, the head of the Chinese secret police decides to assign the case to the force's most incompetent reject: a rural butcher who stands around all day drinking martinis (shaken, not stirred). With a trunkload ...
Style: spoof, slapstick, parody, fast, not serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: james bond spoof, spy spoof, spy, asian, secret agent, butcher, yakuza, agent, fight club, fight, espionage, undercover ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: hong kong, china, asia, beijing china
Is relevant?
 6.6
 8K
So Close (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A conflict of interest between two high-kicking assassin sisters is complicated as they're pursued by the criminals who hired them and an equally high-kicking female cop.
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, exciting, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night
Plot: hitman, one woman army, martial arts, female assassin, chase, tough girl, female martial artist, hacker, violence, kung fu, female secret agent, vengeance ...
Time: year 2002, 80s
Place: china, hong kong, asia
Is relevant?
 6.9
 32K
The Big Boss (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Chen is a city boy who moves with his cousins to work at an ice factory. He does this with a family promise never to get involved in any fight. However, when members of his family begin disappearing after meeting the management of the factory, the ...
Style: grindhouse, harsh, brutal, emotional, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, revenge, master warrior, factory, smuggling, drug, fight scenes, drug smuggling, chinese immigrant, fight, factory worker ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: china, east asia, asia, thailand, tokyo ...
Is relevant?
 6.7
 8K
Crime Story (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A special agent assigned to protect a wealthy business magnate. However, when the businessman is kidnapped in a daring ambush, he teams up with a seasoned detective to crack the case. But soon he discovers the case isn't that simple.
Style: serious, exciting, suspense, disturbing, entertaining ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kidnapping, police corruption, police investigation, kung fu, corruption, rescue, heroes, undercover, investigation, rivalry, chases and races ...
Time: 90s
Place: hong kong, asia, taiwan, california, china
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Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (1978)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Everyone abuses and humiliates a downtrodden orphan (Chan) until he befriends an old man, who turns out to be the last master of the "snake fist" fighting style. Jackie becomes the old man's student and finds himself in battle with ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, grindhouse, cult classic, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, martial artist, kung fu, hand to hand combat, wuxia, vengeance, fight, heroes, master warrior, mentor, shaolin, kung fu master ...
Time: year 2016
Place: china, asia, japan, new jersey, hong kong ...
Is relevant?
 6.3
 11K
Thunderbolt (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In order to release his kidnapped sister, sports car mechanic Jackie Chan has to beat a super-criminal street racer.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, realistic, semi serious, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: car chase, martial arts, auto mechanic, kidnapping, police, racing, auto racing, master criminal, police investigation, vengeance, partners against crime, car ...
Time: 90s
Place: china, hong kong, asia, japan, tokyo
Is relevant?
The Young Master (1980)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Youthful martial arts master Lung is searching for his missing brother, when he is mistaken for a criminal on the run. He must prove his innocence by solving the case himself, while local lawmen and merciless mercenaries are hot on his trail.
Style: humorous, stylized, light, tense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, kung fu master, wuxia, on the run, one against many, mentor, lone hero, chase, nothing goes right, contests and competitions, school ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: china, japan, hong kong, tokyo
Is relevant?
 6.0
 13K
Black Mask (1996)
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
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Bullets Over Summer (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Plainclothes policemen Brian and Mike use an elderly woman's apartment for surveillance, hoping to catch a fugitive gangster. They develop a warm relationship with their hostess, whom they call "granny." Meanwhile, each man develops a ...
Style: realistic, serious, stylized, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: buddy cop, surveillance, gangster, pregnancy, undercover cop, partner, friends, law enforcement, gang, partners against crime, single parent, tough law enforcer ...
Time: 90s
Place: hong kong, asia
Is relevant?
 6.7
 4K
Yes, Madam! (1985)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Asprin (Mang Hoi) and Strepsil (John Shum), two petty thieves who inadvertently become involved in a murder case when they steal items belonging to a murdered man. The man had hidden an important microfilm in his passport, which the thieves pass ...
Style: stylized, suspense, rough, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, female martial artist, kung fu, gangster, police investigation, police corruption, police detective, women, espionage, fish out of water, master criminal, dishonesty ...
Time: 80s
Place: hong kong, scotland yard, asia, scotland
Is relevant?
 6.2
 72K
TMNT (2007)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After the defeat of their old arch nemesis, The Shredder, the Turtles have grown apart as a family. Struggling to keep them together, their rat sensei, Splinter, becomes worried when strange things begin to brew in New York City.
Style: 3d animation, intense, computer animated, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: superhero, ninja turtle, ninja, monster, martial arts, mutant animal, comic book, good versus evil, save the world, danger, heroic mission, sibling relationship ...
Time: year 2007, year 2016, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place: new york, central america, usa, latin america
Is relevant?
 6.1
 5K
High Risk (1995)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story: After failing to save his wife from 'The Doctor', Kit Li is working as a bodyguard and secret stunt double for the cowardly martial arts film star Frankie Lane. Frankie attends an exhibition of the crown jewels of Russia at a Hong Kong ...
Style: realistic, exciting, suspenseful, humorous, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: martial arts, hostage, terrorism, heroes, danger, daring rescue, race against time, showbiz, hand to hand combat, fistfight, master warrior, police officer ...
Time: 90s
Place: hong kong, asia
Is relevant?
 6.5
 147K
Nerve (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Industrious high school senior, Vee Delmonico, has had it with living life on the sidelines. When pressured by friends to join the popular online game Nerve, Vee decides to sign up for just one dare in what seems like harmless fun. But as she finds ...
Style: suspense, exciting, teen, romantic, entertaining ...
Audience: girls' night, family friendly, teens, teen drama
Plot: teenager, game, internet, hacker, danger, technology, heroine, hacking, moral dilemma, friendship, teenage boy, teenage girl ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, year 2017
Place: new york, seattle
Is relevant?
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Hong Kong
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In a time when monsters walk the Earth, humanity’s fight for its future sets Godzilla and Kong on a collision course that will see the two most powerful forces of nature on the planet clash in a spectacular battle for the ages. As Monarch embarks ...
Style: suspense, tense, exciting, suspenseful, perverse ...
Audience: adult
Plot: godzilla, giant monster, king kong, kaiju, giant ape, giant animal, creature, monster, monster versus monster, giant creature, dinosaur, giant lizard ...
Time: jurassic, 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: hong kong, las vegas, usa, tokyo, japan ...
Is relevant?
 5.5
 9K
Naked Weapon (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A mysterious woman, known as Madame M, kidnaps forty pre-teen girls and transports them to a remote island to train them as the most deadly assassins. CIA operative Jack Chen follows the case for 6 years with no leads, but when a series of ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, rough, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, female assassin, female killer, woman kills a man, female martial artist, contract killer, one woman army, yakuza, rape and revenge, assassination, terrorism, tough heroes ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
Place: hong kong, japan, the philippines, tokyo, china ...
Is relevant?
 7.7
 530K
Sicario (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico, Hong Kong
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A young female FBI agent joins a secret CIA operation to take down a Mexican cartel boss, a job that ends up pushing her ethical and moral values to the limit.
Style: realistic, brutal, harsh, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: revenge, cia, drug cartel, drug smuggling, hitman, brutality, fbi, fbi agent, black ops, cia agent, vigilantism, murder ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, year 2015, 21st century
Place: mexico, usa, texas, tucson arizona, arizona ...
Is relevant?
 5.9
 3K
Naked Killer (1992)
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?
Shinjuku Incident (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Iron Zhao aka Steelhead, a truck repairman from China's Northeast, and settles down as an illegal immigrant in Tokyo. After a series of run-ins with the Yakuza, he rises to power as the Don of Chinese illegal immigrants. However, things get out ...
Style: tense, serious, rough, realistic, bloody ...
Plot: gang war, yakuza, gratitude, criminal syndicate, gang, immigrant, vengeance, danger, rivalry, drug lord, martial arts, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship ...
Place: japan, china, tokyo, asia, mount fuji ...
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The Turtles and the Shredder battle once again, this time for the last cannister of the ooze that created the Turtles, which Shredder wants to create an army of new mutants.
Style: humorous, entertaining, semi serious, light, stylized ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot: martial arts, superhero, ninja, ninja turtle, vigilante, anthropomorphic animal, comic book, mentor, talking animal, good versus evil, fight, antidote ...
Time: 90s, year 1991, 80s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
Is relevant?
 7.5
 27K
Fist of Legend (1994)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Chen Zhen, a Chinese engineering student in Kyoto, who braves the insults and abuse of his Japanse fellow students for his local love Mitsuko Yamada, daughter of the director, returns in 1937 to his native Shangai, under Japanse protectorate -in ...
Style: intense, harsh, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, violence, fight scenes, kung fu master, martial artist, sword fight, vengeance, brutality, wuxia, visceral, samurai ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: china, asia, hong kong, japan, tokyo
Is relevant?
The Legend Is Born: Ip Man (2010)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Featuring some of the most spectacular, innovative and explosive martial arts ever staged, The Legend Is Born is the remarkable true story of the early life of Ip Man, the formidable kung fu genius who would become Bruce Lee's mentor.Beginning ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, sentimental, heroic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, wing chun, master warrior, medieval, kung fu, tai chi, fight, training, teacher, ambition, social differences, talented ...
Time: 1940s, 2010s, 1920s, 1910s, 20th century ...
Place: china, asia
Is relevant?
 8.0
 242K
Ip Man (2008)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, War
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A semi-biographical account of Yip Man, the first martial arts master to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun. The film focuses on events surrounding Ip that took place in the city of Foshan between the 1930s to 1940s during the Second ...
Style: tense, captivating, heroic, epic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, adult
Plot: martial arts, wing chun, human spirit, master warrior, kung fu, warrior, courage, bravery, training, martial artist, fistfight, sino japanese war ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, 1940s, year 1937 ...
Place: china, east asia, seattle, asia, ancient china ...
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House of Flying Daggers (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In 9th century China, a corrupt government wages war against a rebel army called the Flying Daggers. A romantic warrior breaks a beautiful rebel out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.
Style: sexy, breathtaking, visually stunning, epic, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: martial arts, wuxia, sword fight, swords and armor, medieval, tragic love, warrior, fight, kung fu, emperor, tragic event, power of love ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, year 2004, 2000s, 9th century ...
Place: china, east asia, asia, ancient china, hong kong
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 8.5
 1.5M
The Departed (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 151 min.
Story: To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises ...
Style: twist ending, suspense, surprise ending, clever, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: mafia, police, undercover cop, twists and turns, mole, organized crime, working undercover, mobster, espionage, plot twist, undercover, irish mob ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: boston, massachusetts, america, persia, usa ...
Is relevant?
 7.3
 96K
Shaolin Soccer (2001)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sport
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A young Shaolin follower reunites with his discouraged brothers to form a soccer team using their martial art skills to their advantage.
Style: parody, sexy, humorous, feel good, witty ...
Audience: kids, teens, boys' night
Plot: soccer, martial arts, kung fu, underdog, football, silly humor, love story, fight scenes, shaolin, champion, wuxia, fight ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: china, east asia, asia, hong kong, tokyo ...
Is relevant?
Bullet in the Head (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 136 min.
Story: When three close friends escape from Hong Kong to war-time Saigon to start a criminal's life, they all go through a harrowing experience which totally shatters their lives and their friendship forever.
Style: suspense, cult classic, realistic, bleak, neo noir ...
Plot: vietnam war, friendship, heroic bloodshed, gunfight, betrayal, epic battle, kung fu, drug addiction, survival, triad, chinese mafia, shootout ...
Time: 20th century
Place: vietnam, saigon, china, hong kong, asia ...
Is relevant?
The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, China, Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King. With the lost relic in hand, the ...
Style: exciting, intense, semi serious, epic, action adventure ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, wuxia, sword fight, young heroes, monkey king, good versus evil, warrior, friendship, time travel, mentor, shaolin, prophecy ...
Time: year 2008, medieval times, middle ages, 21st century
Place: china, boston, asia, usa, hong kong
Is relevant?
 6.3
 225K
The Karate Kid (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA, China, Hong Kong
Duration: 140 min.
Story: 12-year-old Dre Parker could have been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother's latest career move has landed him in China. Dre immediately falls for his classmate Mei Ying but the cultural differences make such a friendship ...
Style: inspirational, feel good, sentimental, sincere, teen ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick, family friendly ...
Plot: teachers and students, boy, human spirit, contests and competitions, perseverance, bullying, martial arts, coming of age, coach, underdog, kung fu, friends ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place: china, beijing china, america, asia, detroit ...
Is relevant?
Shanghai Knights (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The dynamic duo of Chon Wang and Roy O'Bannon return for another crazy adventure. This time, they're in London to avenge the murder of Chon's father, but end up on an even bigger case. Chon's sister is there to do the same, but ...
Style: action comedy, entertaining, funny, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: family friendly, girls' night, teens, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, revenge, murder, buddies, vengeance, amateur detective, female martial artist, fight scenes, chase, good versus evil, creativity, runaway ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 2003, 1880s
Place: england, china, new york, nevada, europe ...
Is relevant?
 7.5
 116K
Ip Man 2 (2010)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Having defeated the best fighters of the Imperial Japanese army in occupied Shanghai, Ip Man and his family settle in post-war Hong Kong.Struggling to make a living, Master Ip opens a kung fu school to bring his celebrated art of Wing Chun to the ...
Style: heroic, exciting, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, wing chun, master warrior, warrior, contests and competitions, fight, fistfight, medieval, pride and honor, mentor, wuxia ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 1950s, 50s, 1940s ...
Place: hong kong, china, east asia, asia, tokyo ...
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