Ringo Lam Movies
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1. Esprit D'amour (1983)
98 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A young woman has a tragic accident, slipping on a skateboard and falling off the roof of a tall building. Koo Chi Ming, an insurance investigator, is sent to determine whether the girl's ... See full summary »
Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Alan Tam, Shu-Chun Ni, Philip Chan, Pik-Wan Tang
Votes: 205
2. The Other Side of Gentleman (1984)
93 min | Comedy
A group of concerned community leaders, business men, teachers, and religious officials commission a task force to try and understand why the youth of the nation are so lazy, irresponsible,... See full summary »
Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Brigitte Lin, Alan Tam, Chi-Fai Chan, Chuen Chan
Votes: 76
3. Cupid One (1985)
95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Sally Yeh is a socialite who accidentally stows away on board "Cupid One", a small boat making a ten day trip to Thailand.
Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Sally Yeh, Mark Cheng, Yin Cheung Joh, Erik Ka-Kei Chan
Votes: 61
4. Mad Mission 4: You Never Die Twice (1986)
86 min | Action, Comedy
Baldy and King Kong shuttle between New Zealand and Hong Kong to recover a hi-tech prism that can impart superhuman powers
Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Samuel Hui, Karl Maka, Sylvia Chang, Sally Yeh
Votes: 878
5. City on Fire (1987)
R | 101 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An undercover cop infiltrates a gang of thieves who plan to rob a jewelry store.
Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Yueh Sun, Danny Lee, Carrie Ng
Votes: 7,260
6. Prison on Fire (1987)
R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Inside a Chinese prison two inmates form a friendship and face the difficulty of life on the inside.
Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Ka-Kui Ho, Roy Cheung
Votes: 3,263
7. School on Fire (1988)
101 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A young schoolgirl gets involved in the triads of Hong Kong after a classmate is killed in a fight.
Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Fennie Yuen, Roy Cheung, Damian Lau, Lai-Yui Lee
Votes: 698
8. Wild Search (1989)
98 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The police are staking out a Hong Kong flat, waiting to catch some major gun dealers. While the suppliers are conducting their deal, they move in. Both buyers are killed in the gunfire, but... See full summary »
Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Cherie Chung, Roy Cheung, Paul Chun
Votes: 789
9. Undeclared War (1990)
R | 107 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A Hong Kong Special Branch cop and a CIA agent reluctantly team up to bring down a major international terrorist.
Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Danny Lee, Olivia Hussey, Peter Liapis, Rosamund Kwan
Votes: 387
10. Touch and Go (1991)
97 min | Action, Drama
A clumsy, easy-going but tough restaurant chef witnesses a murder of a cop. This leads him to a world of trouble, as the killer seeks to silence him. Luckily, the vengeful partner of the dead cop is there to help him.
Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Billy Chow, Shui-Wah Fok, Robert Hung, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung
Votes: 256
11. Prison on Fire II (1991)
TV-MA | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Ching escapes from prison to see his young son, who he has been put in an orphanage. And that puts him in great danger.
Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Sung-Young Chen, Elvis Tsui, Kwong-Leung Wong
Votes: 1,388
12. Twin Dragons (1992)
PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Comedy
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.
Directors: Ringo Lam, Hark Tsui | Stars: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Teddy Robin Kwan, James Wong
Votes: 12,745 | Gross: $8.33M
It's all pretty dumb, but if you're in the mood for this sort of thing, you won't have a bad time.
13. Full Contact (1992)
R | 99 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Two disreputable friends get tied in with a group of criminals who turn out to be excessively violent and deceptive.
Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Simon Yam, Ann Bridgewater, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong
Votes: 4,832
Clearly this is a movie made in a world where the "MPAA" holds no sway; the violence is intensely brutal. In a good way, though.
14. Burning Paradise (1994)
104 min | Adventure, Action, Fantasy
An exotic, legendary battle between the forces of good and evil comes to life as the celebrated disciples of the Shaolin Temple -- monks who practice a lethal and spiritual form of martial ... See full summary »
Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Willie Chi, John Ching, Yamson Domingo, Chun Lam
Votes: 930
15. The Adventurers (1995)
108 min | Action, Drama
Andy was a child when his parents murdered by a double agent in Vietnam, Ray Liu. Andy was raised by his dad's best friend. When he grown up, he became a pilot and Ray was a very powerful ... See full summary »
Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Andy Lau, Rosamund Kwan, Chien-Lien Wu, Ron Yuan
Votes: 462
16. Maximum Risk (1996)
R | 101 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
While seeking answers to the death of the twin brother he never knew he had, a French cop and his sibling's fiancee find themselves pursued by corrupt FBI agents and the Russian mafia.
Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Natasha Henstridge, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Zach Grenier
Votes: 23,958 | Gross: $14.50M
The chases are chaotic and cliched.
17. Full Alert (1997)
Not Rated | 98 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Police Inspector Pao is trying to catch Mak Kwan, a gang member who is first arrested, but then escapes from the prison. By chance, Pao realizes that the target of Kwan's gang is the H. K. Jockey Club.
Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Ching Wan Lau, Francis Ng, Amanda Lee, Monica Chan
Votes: 1,324
18. The Suspect (1998)
109 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Louis Koo plays an assassin who wants to go straight after getting out of prison, so he turns down a job from his former employer Simon Yam to kill a politician. Yam carries out the hit himself and manages to frame Koo for the crime.
Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Eric Moo, Simon Yam, Louis Koo, Julian Cheung
Votes: 281
19. Victim (1999)
104 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
Ma is kidnapped and tortured. Since then, his girlfriend Amy senses he's no longer the same person, and becomes convinced that something supernatural is corrupting his soul. Policeman Pit is determined to get to the bottom of the case.
Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Tony Ka Fai Leung, Ching Wan Lau, Amy Kwok, Emily Kwan
Votes: 738
20. Replicant (2001)
R | 100 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Scientists create a genetic clone of a serial killer in order to help catch the killer, teaming up with two cops.
Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michael Rooker, Catherine Dent, Brandon James Olson
Votes: 15,708
Slightly less awful than most of Van Damme's efforts.
21. Looking for Mister Perfect (2003)
101 min | Drama, Action, Comedy
A policewoman has always had the worst luck in love. On a trip to Malaysia, she finally meets the man of her dreams. However, her Perfect Man might not be all he appears to be.
Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Shu Qi, Andy On, Yat Ning Chan, Simon Yam
Votes: 250
22. In Hell (2003)
R | 98 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the wardens' entertainment.
Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lawrence Taylor, Lloyd Battista, Carlos Gómez
Votes: 21,485
23. Triangle (2007)
R | 93 min | Crime, Thriller
Told in three 30-minute segments, three friends seek out the buried treasure of a mysterious stranger.
Directors: Ringo Lam, Johnnie To, Hark Tsui | Stars: Louis Koo, Simon Yam, Honglei Sun, Ka-Tung Lam
Votes: 1,876
Semi-comic-action thriller Triangle teams three leading Hong Kong directors together with confusing results. For asian cinema aficionados only.
24. Wild City (2015)
Not Rated | 120 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A cop-turned-bar owner befriends a drunken woman and finds himself pursued by her former lover and the thugs he employs. The chase turns deadly when the bar owner's deadbeat brother and a suitcase full of cash enter the picture.
Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Louis Koo, Shawn Yue, Liya Tong, Hsiao-chuan Chang
Votes: 900
Respectable but average ...
25. Sky on Fire (2016)
Not Rated | 99 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A security guard becomes embroiled in a battle to protect stem cell research, which can potentially cure cancer, from falling into the wrong hands.
Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Daniel Wu, Ruoyun Zhang, Jingchu Zhang, Hsiao-chuan Chang
Votes: 407 | Gross: $0.08M
"Sky on Fire" is certainly an adrenaline dose, but hardly a remedy for the action blahs.
26. Septet: The Story of Hong Kong (2020)
113 min | Action, Drama, History
Seven of Hong Kong's leading filmmakers have come together to each direct a short film set in Hong Kong during one decade from the 1950s to the future.
Directors: Ann Hui, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Ringo Lam, Patrick Tam, Johnnie To, Hark Tsui, Woo-Ping Yuen | Stars: Lawrence Ah-Mon, Emotion Cheung, Tat-Ming Cheung, Ho-Cheong Chui
Votes: 510
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