Best Hong Kong Movies – page 4
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
This long-awaited biopic provides a vivid account of the remarkable life of Anita Mui in and behind the limelight, chronicling her journey from a child performer to becoming one of world's most recognized music icons.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot:
musician, pop star, personal growth, music industry, musician's life, historical figure, rising to stardom, music, lifestyle, celebrity, price of fame, friendship ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 2000s, 70s
Place:
hong kong, japan
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A paralysed and hopeless Hong Kong man meets his new Filipino carer, who has put her dream on hold and come to the city to earn a living. These two strangers live under the same roof through different seasons. As they learn more about each other, ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot:
illness, handicapped, wheelchair bound, self discovery, man in a wheelchair, paralysis, disability, paraplegic, care, physical disability, introspection, quadriplegic ...
Place:
china, hong kong, the philippines
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two melancholy Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant he frequents.
Style:
art house, atmospheric, cult classic, visual, visually stunning ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
loneliness, multiple storylines, food, serendipity, femme fatale, love story, relationships, fall in love, breakup, amor, drug smuggling, police officer ...
Time:
90s, year 1994, 20th century
Place:
hong kong, china, california, asia, taiwan ...
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29K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA, China, Hong Kong
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, period piece, inspirational ...
Plot:
court, racism, lawyer, courtroom, injustice, african american, racial segregation, african american protagonist, racial discrimination, trial, jury, justice ...
Time:
1940s, year 2017, 2010s, year 1954, year 1967
Place:
new york, connecticut, maryland, philadelphia, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An absentee father and his bipolar son are forced to live together as they struggle with a recent family tragedy. The tension and anxiety boil as they live and try to cope in a tiny apartment. As time passes, they realize their shared pain is not ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
mental disorder, father son relationship, mentally unstable, mental illness, mental patient, family problems, father son estrangement, estrangement, mental health, trauma, depression, repeated scene ...
Place:
hong kong, china
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When a meteor carrying a destructive plant strikes the world, a suicide squad is given hours to save their post-apocalyptic city from total collapse.
Style:
futuristic, suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
alien life-form, alien creature, soldier, alien invasion, battles, military, alien contact, fight, threat, dystopian future, warrior, alien encounter ...
Time:
near future
Place:
china, hong kong
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada, Hong Kong
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind off the family's dire ...
Style:
sentimental, thought provoking, emotional, sad, psychological ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family conflict, funeral, painting, hospital, pride, regret, father daughter relationship, mountain, biopic, female protagonist, writers ...
Time:
year 2017, year 1964, year 1989
Place:
west virginia, nebraska, new york, manhattan new york city, utah ...
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Genre: Action
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In feudal China, a blacksmith who makes weapons for a small village is put in the position where he must defend himself and his fellow villagers.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, cult classic, bloody, epic ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, sword fight, female martial artist, fight, gang war, blacksmith, lone hero, weapons, master warrior, revenge, betrayal ...
Time:
15th century, year 2012, 19th century, 2010s
Place:
china, asia, ancient china, seattle, hong kong
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada, Hong Kong
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
After suffering a family tragedy, Mack Phillips spirals into a deep depression causing him to question his innermost beliefs. Facing a crisis of faith, he receives a mysterious letter urging him to an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. ...
Style:
christian film, spiritual, philosophical, psychedelic, inspirational ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
christian, god, forgiveness, guilt, depression, jesus, death of daughter, a vision, missing child, hate, death of child, faith ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
oregon, tibet
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750K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile ...
Style:
romantic, touching, sentimental, sad, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night, teens, family outing
Plot:
music, jazz, dancing, love, musician, audition, bigger dreams, jazz club, love story, destiny, traffic jam, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 2016, year 2015, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, paris france, california
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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
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
One day Pak, a taxi driver who refuses to retire, meets Hoi, a retired single father, in a park. Although both are secretly gay, they are proud of the families they have created through hard work and determination. Yet in that brief initial ...
Style:
captivating, queer cinema
Plot:
gay interest, lgbt, closeted homosexual, gay, gay relationship, lgbtq, closeted gay, gay asian, family relations, elderly lovers, elderly man, couple relations ...
Place:
hong kong
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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
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Told through the eyes of sticky-fingered eight-year-old boy Big Ears, Echoes of the Rainbow takes place in a close-knit grassroots community in 1960s Hong Kong. Big Ears' mother and father run the neighborhood shoe store, and his older brother ...
Style:
sincere, sentimental, realistic, serious, sad ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
social differences, family relations, life is a bitch, society, rise and fall, lifestyle, family business, money problems, family problems, family life, social problems, youth ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
china, asia, hong kong
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Canada, USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
Style:
touching, emotional, scenic, captivating, costume drama ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
infidelity, loveless marriage, love story, love and romance, cheating wife, couple relations, extramarital affair, couples, marriage, cholera, adultery, unfaithful wife ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, year 2006, 19th century, 50s
Place:
china, shanghai, africa, london, asia ...
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385K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, UK, Spain
Duration: 172 min.
Story:
A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. ...
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, futuristic, spiritual, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
destiny, dystopia, reincarnation, life & death, multiple storylines, life philosophy, clone, homosexual, distopia, post apocalypse, karma, tribe ...
Time:
future, year 1936, distant future, year 1975, near future ...
Place:
seoul, san francisco, belgium, persia, berlin germany ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Set in the 1980s, troubled youth Chan Lok-kwun accidentally enters the Walled City, discovers the order amidst its chaos, and learns important life lessons along the way. In the Walled City, he becomes close friends with Shin, Twelfth Master and AV. ...
Style:
absurd
Plot:
kite, friendship, kung fu, martial arts, master, motorcycle, chase, gang, flashback, refugee, hair salon, mahjong ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place:
hong kong, asia
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
Soon after Japan relinquishes control of Taiwan in 1945, the Lin brothers face hardships from the changing culture. Bar owner Wen-heung (Chen Sown-yung), the eldest brother, falls foul of local gangsters, Wen-sun disappears, and Wen-leung, scarred ...
Style:
realistic, sad, saga, black and white, slow cinema ...
Plot:
mute or deaf, family relations, black market, political unrest, family life, family in danger, siblings relations, family tradition, wartime life, family problems, life is a bitch, state affairs ...
Time:
1940s, year 1989, year 1948, 20th century, year 1945 ...
Place:
taiwan, china, taipei
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
An ex-mercenary known for finding missing children is hired by a mixed martial arts fighter whose daughter has been kidnapped.
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, tough guy, child in peril, martial arts, danger, tough heroes, daring rescue, missing child, organized crime, father son relationship, police detective, murder ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa, eastern europe
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12K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Amanda and her daughter live a quiet life on an American farm, but when the remains of her estranged mother arrive from Korea, Amanda becomes haunted by the fear of turning into her own mother.
Style:
suspense, slasher, psychological, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
immigrant, parent child relationship, dysfunctional family, mother and daughter, family problems, parents and children, family relations, ghost, old woman, orchard, paranoia, burial ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
To big brother Dai (Dayo Wong), nothing is more satisfying than dining with his two younger half-siblings (Louis Cheung Kai Chung and Peter Chan Charm Man). But when his old flame (Stephy Tang) shows up as his brother’s girlfriend, kitchen ...
Style:
captivating, entertaining, semi serious
Plot:
relationship problems, family relations, brother brother relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, relationships, male female relationship, ex couple relations, ex boyfriend, love affair, ex girlfriend, couple relations, family dinner ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The first independent film to emerge from the former British colony since the changeover to China in 1997, Made in Hong Kong is an intoxicating drama about teenage alienation.
Style:
art house, crime drama, cult classic, brutal, neo noir ...
Plot:
sexualized violence, triad, chinese mafia, losing-it hero, criminal, male rape victim, love letter, street crime, troubled, organized crime, alienation, architecture ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1996
Place:
china, hong kong, asia
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Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada, Mexico, Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large in the small town of Mill Valley for generations. It's in a mansion that young Sarah Bellows turns her tortured life and horrible secrets into a series of scary stories. These terrifying tales ...
Style:
scary, enigmatic, spooky, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, kids, horror for children, adult
Plot:
urban legend, halloween, small town, teenager, haunted, old dark house, haunted house, monster, scarecrow, ghost, fear, supernatural ...
Time:
year 1968, 20th century, 60s, year 2019, 2010s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Hong Kong, Canada, India
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.
Style:
futuristic, philosophical, cerebral, suspense, visually stunning ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens
Plot:
cyberpunk, cyborgs, artificial intelligence, female protagonist, robot, technology, distopia, hacker, dystopia, tough girl, androids, chase ...
Time:
future, year 2017, near future, 2010s, year 2011
Place:
tokyo, japan
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104K
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Canada, China, Hong Kong
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
The story of the soldiers and aviators who helped turn the tide of the Second World War during the iconic Battle of Midway in June 1942.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, exciting, scary, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
naval battle, war, world war two, warship, aerial combat, sea battle, air battle, fighter plane, aircraft carrier, fighter pilot, navy, u.s. military ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942, year 2019, 1930s, year 1941 ...
Place:
pearl harbor, pacific ocean, tokyo, washington d.c., honolulu hawaii ...
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81K
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Huo Yuan Jia became the most famous martial arts fighter in all of China at the turn of the 20th Century. Huo faced personal tragedy but ultimately fought his way out of darkness, defining the true spirit of martial arts and also inspiring his ...
Style:
inspirational, intense, captivating, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, wuxia, master warrior, redemption, qing dynasty, childhood, medieval, friendship, mentor, biopic, exile ...
Time:
year 2006, ancient times, 1800s, 1910s, 19th century ...
Place:
asia, china, japan, shanghai, east asia ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Lok is a recovering schizophrenic who yearns for love. One day, he encounters the young and beautiful Yan and quickly falls in love with her. The pair develops a relationship that is beyond their wildest dreams.
Style:
thrilling, psychological, banned
Plot:
schizophrenia, male female relationship, love story, relationships, problem, illness, love affair, fall in love, secret, paranoid schizophrenia, couple relations, relationship problems ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Way We Are is a respectful, unglamorous, and serenely charming portrait of regular people and a Hong Kong town that normally gets a bad rap. It may put you to sleep, but the visit and Ann Hui's quiet touch are exceptionally worthwhile.
Style:
touching, emotional, psychological, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, working class, single parent, society, family problems, unfulfillment, poverty, supermarket, little boy, boy, loss of daughter, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Jimmy is a mild mannered advertising executive in his twenties. While smoking in an alley packed with booming loudmouth co-workers and sharing explicit gossips and horror stories, he befriends a misfit cosmetics salesgirl Cherie who also likes to ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, semi serious, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
rules and policies, love and romance, workplace, lifestyle, wooing, workplace romance, couples, misfit, love, asian prostitute, social misfits, advertising ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, china, asia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Asian Hawk (Jackie Chan) leads a mercenary team to recover several lost artifacts from the Old Summer Palace, the bronze heads of the 12 Chinese Zodiac animals which were sacked by the French and British armies from the imperial Summer Palace in ...
Style:
humorous, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, action packed ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
artifact, martial arts, treasure hunt, adventurer, kung fu, hopes, treasure, gadget, relic, imaginary, ancient mystery, tombs and skeletons ...
Time:
year 2012, 1850s, 21st century
Place:
china, paris france
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