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- In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.
- Two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.
- A defense officer, Nameless, was summoned by the King of Qin regarding his success of terminating three warriors.
- A virtuous Hong Kong Police Officer must clear his good name when the drug lord he is after frames him for the murder of a dirty cop.
- Several women enter a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years, after the author has lost the woman he considers his one true love.
- A man tries to find out who his real mother is after the woman who raised him tells him the truth.
- A Hong Kong detective teams up with his female Red Chinese counterpart to stop a Chinese drug czar.
- While one tough woman with an invisible robe has stolen 18 babies for her powerful master, two other tough women and the cops try to stop her.
- A Hong Kong actress, Maggie Cheung playing a fictional version of herself, is cast in France to star in a remake of Les vampires (1915), but petty intrigues and clashing egos plague the production.
- The Hong Kong supercop must stop a group of blackmailing bombers, while the villains of Police Story (1985) are out for revenge.
- Two Chinese-mainlanders living in Hong Kong form a close friendship. Over the years this grows into love, but there are obstacles.
- A broken-hearted hit man moves to the desert where he finds skilled swordsmen to carry out his contract killings.
- Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.
- Identical twins are separated at birth, one becoming a streetwise mechanic, and the other an acclaimed classical concert conductor. Finally meeting in adulthood, they each become mistaken for the other and entangled in each other's world.
- Set some time after the original 'Heroic Trio' the city has been devastated by nuclear attack. An evil deformed villain controls the city's scarce water supply, exerting influence over both a popular leader and a militarist colonel. The trio of Chat the Thief catcher, Ching and Wonder Woman (along with her young daughter) have to avert a military takeover and find clean headwaters to save the city.
- Dragon is now transferred to be the police head of Sai Wan district, and has to contend with a gangster kingpin, anti-Manchu revolutionaries, some runaway pirates, Manchu Loyalists and a corrupt Police Superintendent.
- A comprehensive history of the medium and art of motion pictures.
- An adventurer who's been inflicted with a deadly curse during a previous expedition in Thailand goes back to battle an evil sorcerer and his tribal army and deadly creatures.
- Two people have a chance encounter in a convenience store.
- During the Ming Dynasty, Tsao Siu-yan, a power-crazed eunuch who rules his desert region of China as if he were the Emperor, ruthlessly thwarts plots against him and sets a trap for one of this enemies at the Dragon Gate Inn.
- The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of China.
- After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to regain custody of her son.
- A parody of Louis Cha's renowned novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes. The story begins with the Queen of Golden Wheel Kingdom and having an affair with her cousin West Poison, both of whom are planning to take over the Kingdom. The 3rd Princess discovered their treason but she was defeated by West Poison. She flees and sought for her master's help. He spoke of a powerful secret martial arts manual hidden in the mountains, which if she could retrieve and learn, she would be able to defeat West Poison. But things get complicated along the way when West Poison beat her to it and stole the secret manual away. She soon gathers an alliance to challenge West Poison's exponentially increased new power.
- Containing never-before-seen materials, including deleted scenes, behind-the-scene footage and selected narration by Wong Kar Wai, ONE-TENTH OF A MILLIMETER APART chronicles the tales behind featured shots and scenes that narrowly missed out on the final cuts of ASHES OF TIME (1994), CHUNGKING EXPRESS (1994), FALLEN ANGELS (1995), HAPPY TOGETHER (1997), IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (2000), 2046 (2004), MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS (2007) and THE GRANDMASTER (2013).
- Two snake spirits become human and learn about love and suffering. A monk discovers his own weaknesses and finds that morality is not as simple as he had thought.
- Award-winning drama deals with the many in Mailand China who dream of emigration to the U.S. Set primarily in New York City, the film follows Zhou who follows his wife's journey to America - and the tough surprises in store for him in the "Promised Land."
- Three very different Asian women forge a friendship in New York.
- A frozen Ming Dynasty royal guard and the equally frigid rapist-killer he's tracking are thawed out in modern-day Hong Kong.
- Biopic of 1930s Chinese actress Lingyu Ruan.
- Lesile is a young guy that uses the MTR everyday, and one day, he sees a beautiful lady (Maggie Cheung) on the train and likes her immediately. On the other hand, he also knows a tomboy (Anita Mui) on the train too (and she likes him too!). Then, with side-kicks like Chan and others the chase of love in the MTR system begins.
- May Yip and Yao are both orphans and have been friends since youth, but they're torn apart when the leader of the 8 Hundred Dragons Kung Fu cult abducts Yao and erases his memory.
- The Soong family was a political dynasty in China that reached the highest levels of power. This film follows the lives of the three Soong daughters, who were educated in America and returned to China. Ai-ling (the oldest) married a wealthy and powerful businessman. Ching-ling married Sun Yat-sen, the revolutionary founder of modern China. Mei-ling (the youngest) married Chiang Kai-shek, China's leader during World War II. The sisters captured the world's fascination for their brilliant marriages and their strong influence on their nation.
- Moments Within Moments is an experimental silent film made entirely of archival films by seventy famous actresses from different countries.
- A romantic Chinese New Year comedy about the three Shang brothers. Eldest brother Shang Moon is a philandering businessman who treats his hideous yet hard-working wife like dirt. Middle brother Shang Foon is a disc jockey/playboy who tries to score with as many girls as possible. Youngest brother Shang So is an obviously gay dance instructor. Moon soon gets the tables turned on him as his wife leaves to become a glamorous karaoke hostess, and Foon gets into a bizarre relationship with a fan so obsessed with movies that she constantly acts out characters on dates, until he suddenly becomes temporarily mentally ill. And So is continually at odds with obvious butch lesbian family cousin. Hilarity ensues.
- While working at a family friend's business, a penniless orphan draws the attention of a corrupt competitor and is torn between divided loyalties.
- After the Sino-Japanese War, Kwei Dz, one of the family members of Japanese soldiers accepted a Chinese officer's proposal and remained in China. Later they had a daughter named Ann. The officer went to Hong Kong to work, leaving Kwei Dz and Ann in Macao. Kwei Dz, unable to communicate with her in-laws, much less accept their ways, became remorseful. Yet the worst problem she had was that Ann did not accept her as a mother. After Ann got a Master Degree in UK she went back to Hong Kong. Kwei Dz had been feeling very homesick for her mother country and decided to take Ann and return to Japan. In Japan, Ann began to understand her mother's pain because she did not understand Japan or the Japanese. Later a telegram from Canton arrived saying that Ann's grandfather had had a stroke. Upon seeing her to grandfather, Ann realized that, in spite of his now frail body, a body once tortured by Red Guards, he was so hopeful for China's future. Ann saw that China was now trying to find its own way in the midst of its self-inflicted turmoil.
- Internationally proclaimed comic genius Stephen Chow must change the lives of radiant prostitute Maggie Cheung Man-yuk, filthy beggar Anthony Wong, and a killer in this heavenly comedy directed by masterful new wave filmmaker Johnnie To.
- A festival for international movies, which give each year the Palme d'Or.
- A simple fisherman helps a fugitive King in a fight, and offers him refuge in a hideout near his fishing village. When the King's group is attacked by his usurper brother, the fisherman is sent to find the King's betrothed, the daughter of the Emperor, and bring her back. On the journey love blossoms between the fisherman and the Emperor's daughter. Meanwhile the King's beautiful advisor seems to be in love with him, despite the fact that she is a traitor sent to kill him by the evil brother.
- The BBC's flagship cinema review television programme featuring reviews of new releases, news items and interviews. The title of the programme changes each year to incorporate the year of broadcast.
- A talented lady novelist falls in love with a Chinese traitor working with the Japanese during the WWII.
- The César is the national film prize of France. He is named after the French sculptor César Baldaccini.
- Ella is a divorced Chinese American taxi driver who spends her days ferrying people around the roads of Sausalito, San Francisco. After work, she spends time with her 8-year old son, Scott. Ella meets Mike at Sky House, an infamous pick-up joint. Awkward strangers at first, they nonetheless find passion and what they want in each other. For Mike, it was but a one night stand amongst many, but it has affected Ella a great deal. Irritated at first, Mike cannot help but eventually be touched by Ella's sincerity. For a while, they spend happy times together. But when Mike's company is threatened, his attempts to save it by having an affair with a lady chairman. Not only are his efforts in vain, they also cause Ella to leave him. A year has passed and Ella has gone back to her old job. Mike, successful again with his new company, realizes that Ella is his only love. But a more mature Ella is now able to see her infatuation for what it is. It finally takes a near disaster to bring two people together.
- After getting shot by the cops, Fat Cat is thrown into an asylum, becoming the charge of social worker Bibi. After an accident, Fat Cat was left alone on the streets. He wanders onto an island and ends up with a gruff old man, Ng.
- The whole city is burning up during the hottest summer on record. Tempers flare, irrational feelings erupt and the impossible becomes possible. And in every corner of the city, love explodes like fireworks.
- An illegal immigrant in Canada does anything he can to survive, like taking part in a kickboxing match. When he comes into possession of stolen drug money, he and his new wife find themselves pursued by gangsters.
- Film with a weak plot about an businessman trying to clinch a deal for the reconstruction of Kuwait after the Gulf War from a Kuwaiti prince. The climax of the movie is a banquet/dinner at the end featuring cameos by several Hong Kong movie celebrities.
- Inspired by the drowning of 23 Chinese undocumented cockle pickers in Morecambe Bay (northwest England). Mazu, goddess of the sea, floats over the tragedy.
- Two best friends So-so and Nancy are love-struck by the same handsome Japanese boy who cannot fulfill both girls' destinies.
- A young, unsuccessful singer, after committing suicide, is to be reincarnated, this time into a musical family. Her spirit must get to the hospital where her future mother is currently ready to give birth to her, so that she can enter the womb and be born. Unfortunately, she misses her appointed birth time, twice, due to the accidental intervention of a young man, Mr. Hong. At first she is angry and makes life hard for him, but eventually they fall in love, although she can't stay around long as she has one last chance to be born.
- Wong, a mechanic who falls for a beautiful rich girl played by Maggie Cheung. When Wong finds out his friend also like her, he must fight him for her attention.
- Two feuding bounty-hunter families have to team up to track down a criminal couple.
- The story of Seven Maidens who are recruited to challenge the threat posed by a Japanese swordsman of supernatural power.
- Story of General Yang and his 7 sons and daughters in law. Treacherous plot destroyed them and they rise back to take justice for their family.
- This show is a series of documentaries focusing on the world of psychotronic movies. Episodes focus on the lives of such diverse filmakers as Hershell Gordon Lewis, Saim Raimi, Doris Wishman, Ed Wood Jr, and Tsui Hark. Weird movie genres, like Mexican wrestling movies and Hong Kong horror films, are also examined.
- The story follows Cheung Wai Kit as he joins the police cadet program to better himself for his family, most notably his estranged father. Aside from his family life, Wai Kit tries to pursue a relationship with his girlfriend.
- Siu-Fung (Lydia Sum), an owner of a pizzeria, unexpectedly succumbs to a heart attack. However, her spirit was unable to cross over to the other side, thus, she resurrects into the body of a young woman (Maggie Cheung). Afterward, she reunites with her family and tries to convince them that she is alive. Yet, the plot thickens when a woman, unrelated to the family and is physically identical to Siu-Fung, appears, and Siu-Fung's husband (Bill Tung) thinks that that woman is his wife.
- Playtime follows six characters: the Artist, the Hedge Fund Manager, the Auctioneer, the House Worker, the Art Dealer, and the Reporter, exploring how each is affected by capital and the global financial crisis.
- A depressing tale dealing with five women involved with prostitution and the effects it has on their love and family lives. High class or low class, each is just as sad.
- This documentary directed by Wong Kar-wai is about the making of his own film, "In the Mood for Love".
- Three flatmates share a luxury flat. A philandering hairdresser meets his match. A young stockbroker meets his boss's soon-to-be-ex-wife. A pregnant lady unsure over the identity of the baby's father.
- Chen Li is the son of an enormously wealthy Hong Kong businessman and is vacationing in Hawaii, experiencing typical girl problems.
- After seven years of marriage, a man begins to think about other women.
- Rose is living an idyllic life with her brother. They are so close that their bond has a subtle hint of incest. The bond is broken when her brother dies until she meets a guy who looks like her deceased brother.
- Maggie came back to Hong Kong and gathered her grandmother back to Vancouver for good. She took this opportunity to bunch up with her boyfriend Michael, best friends Jackie and his wife Carol. Although Michael convinced her that the couple had moved to Macau, incidentally they met each other on the street. Maggie couldn't believe her own bare eyes that Jackie was already addicted to cocaine. And the most absurd fact that Michael was the drug dealer himself. Jackie owed the mob a great deal of money; and one of the gangster, Chau Sung was determined to force Jackie to the corner.
- Augustin Dos Santos is back. He still wants to be an actor and, this time, he moves to the Chinese borough in Paris because he has decided to play in kung-fu movies. But poor Augustin has a morbid fear of physical contacts, so he meets Ling, a nice Chinese doctor. This is the second chapter of Augustin's epic life...
- A Cinderella story between a rich boy and a cosmetics salesgirl.
- Ever since he was a child, Lee Chi-kin has been determined to become a police officer, despite the fact that he comes from a family of criminals.
- A story combined by the lives of three night clubs girls in. Porsche is a once-famous aging night club girl; May is forced to work in a night club in order to pay her step-father's debt; and GiGi needs a huge amount of money in order to help her fiancé. They all know Night Club Girl is not a good reputation job, and they expect to start over again someday. However, it seems they cannot break the "curse" that "Bad girls never have fortune"
- Alan and Eric are childhood friends who are separated when Eric moves to America. They are reunited in Hong Kong when Eric finds Alan at the cafe where the latter is working as a waiter and singer. Together they forge a business which is destroyed in a storm. Meanwhile, both have met a lady named Olive, and both strive for her affection. In the end, Alan's rising singing career and Olive's tendency to favour Alan over Eric alienates all three of them. They are only reunited once again in San Francisco, where Alan discovers Eric is on his death-bed from illness, and they realise what real friendship is all about, and how Olive would only be happy if she and Alan got married.
- A man wants to see his three daughters get married. The eldest is a hard-nosed cop who needs a hard-nosed lover. The middle daughter is a wall flower who yearns for a gangster. The youngest daughter has a crush on a boy she can't completely trust.
- "Love Pain Killer" is a radio talk show host who proffers advice to the romantically downtrodden. In reality, he's a chauvinist piece of crap, but somehow he decides to take three hapless lovers under his wing.
- Jacky is a famous gigolo in the society. David is a policeman of anti-vice team who wants to wipe off Jacky's gigolo restaurant but fails every time. Fierce new police inspector Tammy catches the moment that Jacky leaves Hong Kong and demolishes the gigolo site drastically. Jacky comes back and wants to make Tammy pay back. He pretends to be a painter suffering incurable disease and cheats Tammy's affection. But quite unexpectedly the two fall in love.
- Traditionally, romantic comedies work hard to create "meet cute" situations where the featured couple first come together. Here Maggie Cheung and Roy Cheung "meet cute" when he, as a triad gangster, keeps her, as an insurance sales agent, from completing a sale to a hapless fellow who may not last long enough to make his first monthly payment. Maggie, however, does not appreciate Roy's interference; to placate her, he offers to buy a policy. In short order he is attacked by rivals and ends up, somewhat implausibly, in Maggie's care. The script by Chau Ting (later a co-writer of The Storm Riders and three Young and Dangerous films) tosses logic out the window, but fans of Maggie will no doubt enjoy her performance. Veronice Yip has a small yet indelible role as a friend of Maggie, and Michael Wong has a brief cameo.
- Tianxiang, a college graduate, was born in poverty. His father, Uncle Cai, supported Tianxiang and his young son and daughter by singing at the banyan head. Tianxiang didn't want his father to sing pornographic songs in the market to earn money, but he had to endure in the eyes of his colleagues. Tianxiang was steadfast and hardworking in his work, and had made contributions to the company with the help of his friend Dasha. At the same time, the big boss's sister Beatie was also interested in Tianxiang. When the relationship between them grew stronger, the big boss interrupted the marriage because of the low status of the Tianxiang's family. Tianxiang had to get emotional comfort from the neighboring dancer Zhou Feng. Tianxiang, who lost his job, joined the gang of gangsters and fought with Gao Laosen, another force. Gao Laosen and his gang killed Dasha and Zhou Feng. When Tianxiang took revenge on Gao Laosen, Uncle Cai stepped forward to save his son.
- During a period of widespread police corruption, Ti Lung is a stubborn cop who takes on both the mob and the political establishment.
- Naomi, a corporate heiress from Japan, vacations to Hong Kong with her two colleagues. Bored, she sneaks out to visit the city and befriends a local rock band and, appreciative of the company, later helps the members with their debit issues. Meanwhile, Naomi's colleagues received news that the big boss of their company succumbed to a heart attack and that Naomi must sign a document to prevent the company from being turned over to a corrupt executive. The colleagues try to locate Naomi, just as a relationship develops between her and the band leader.
- Kit accidentally stumbles upon a house after his motorbike went out of control, and a girl helps him on his feet, then disappears.
- Taxi driver Chang Hsin Lung (Alfred Cheung) is obsessed with TV news reporter Jenny Tung (Maggie Cheung). He attempts to gain her affection by assisting her in providing minor news events to cover, but is interfered by her arrogant lawyer boyfriend, John Liu (Lawrence Ng). He tells Lung that Tung is more interested in more major news stories. When a rash of murders plaques the city, Lung helps Tung cover the news but she is afraid that Lung might have committed the crimes.
- A crooked Hong Kong cop designs a bomb disguised in a soda can and sells it to two Japanese traffickers; however, the cop's associate steals the bomb, not wishing for it to be used for evil means. He hides the bomb before he is slain by the traffickers. The incident, afterward, brought together three witnesses mixed into the plot: a suave rock scientist, a wisecracking taxi driver and an overzealous biker. They must team up to locate the missing bomb before the dealers find it.
- In What a Hero, Andy Lau plays Hwa, a cop who is promoted from his hometown beat on Lantau Island to a prestigious assignment in the big city. However, upon his arrival, Hwa finds himself placed with a group of losers.
- A Fiction Writer and her sister travel to the country to work on a new novel. But, local thugs and a murder complicate matters.
- The turbulent life of Chu Hsiao-Min and her growth from girl to woman.
- Two squabbling cousins (Dodo Cheng, Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) find themselves in more trouble than they dare imagine when their tenant is killed. The gangsters are after them, the law is suspicious of them. Just what is everyone looking for?
- "Romeo and Juliet" in Hong Kong, except the widow Capulet is father Montague's childhood sweetheart. The young lovers try to reconcile their mothers with the help of the father, who is left with a bad taste in his mouth.
- Cantonese Pop Star Aaron Kwok stars as a police detective who must pose as the son of a millionaire to catch a kidnaping ring. Trouble starts when the policeman's girlfriend starts working for the businessman.
- Antonio Go is a piano tuner who works for a company specializing in higher-end pianos. He fantasizes about radio DJ So See-Dai.
- The movie takes a love story as its theme and tells the story of four girls' different love values.
- The movie follows director Zhang Yimou as he is preparing to make the movie Hero.
- In politically charged 1967 Hong Kong, an ambitious actress and an unlicensed taxi driver living in the same apartment building build a relationship that is constantly impacted by their individual goals and the heated times.
- An aspiring actress gets into hot water when the shoes she purchased for a party has a hidden diamond in it.
- George Lam is a famous conductor, Maggie Cheung an auto-mechanic; he rides a portable bicycle, she a motorcycle.