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1. Ten Dark Women (1961)

103 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A man has a wife and nine girlfriends, all ten of whom are fed up with his shameless polygamy and plot to kill him. However, this is easier said than done.

Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Fujiko Yamamoto, Mariko Miyagi, Tamao Nakamura, Kyôko Kishida

Votes: 259

2. Samurai Rebellion (1967)

Not Rated | 128 min | Drama

90 Metascore

The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to get her back.

Director: Masaki Kobayashi | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Gô Katô, Tatsuyoshi Ehara

Votes: 14,095

3. Early Spring (1956)

145 min | Drama

84 Metascore

A young man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital romance.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Chikage Awashima, Ryô Ikebe, Teiji Takahashi, Keiko Kishi

Votes: 3,729

4. Parasite (2019)

R | 132 min | Drama, Thriller

97 Metascore

Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly-formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.

Director: Bong Joon Ho | Stars: Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-sik

Votes: 959,580 | Gross: $53.37M

5. Meoto zenzai (1955)

121 min | Drama

Despite paternal disapproval, the heir of a wealthy family embarks on a relationship with a Geisha.

Director: Shirô Toyoda | Stars: Hisaya Morishige, Chikage Awashima, Yôko Tsukasa, Haruo Tanaka

Votes: 122

6. Human Desire (1954)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance

A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in an affair with a co-worker's wife following a murder on a train where they meet.

Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Edgar Buchanan

Votes: 6,346

7. Rosita (1923)

Passed | 90 min | Romance, Comedy

Rosita, a peasant singer in Seville, captures the attention of the King.

Directors: Ernst Lubitsch, Raoul Walsh | Stars: Mary Pickford, Holbrook Blinn, Irene Rich, George Walsh

Votes: 475

8. Forbidden City Cop (1996)

89 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy

An imperial agent gets ridiculed for his various inventions, until his supportive wife encourages him to attend a conference, which's actually a trap to kill all the doctors serving the emperor, where his crazy inventions come in handy.

Directors: Stephen Chow, Vincent Kok | Stars: Stephen Chow, Carina Lau, Carman Lee, Tat-Ming Cheung

Votes: 4,642

9. Thus Another Day (1959)

74 min | Drama, Romance

A young wife looses patience with her career-minded husband and returns to her parents' home while an unpaid mortgage forces the couple to rent out their home for the summer to the husband's boss.

Director: Keisuke Kinoshita | Stars: Teiji Takahashi, Yoshiko Kuga, Kanzaburô Nakamura, Shûji Sano

Votes: 114

10. The Ballad of Narayama (1983)

Not Rated | 130 min | Drama

In a poor 19th century rural Japanese village, everyone who reaches the age of 70 has to climb a nearby mountain to die. An elderly woman is reaching close to her cut-off age during her last days with her family.

Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Tonpei Hidari, Aki Takejô

Votes: 9,133

11. Our Marriage (1962)

67 min | Drama, Romance

Two sisters living in poverty reach the age where they start to attract marriage proposals. They must decided between marrying for love or money.

Director: Masahiro Shinoda | Stars: Chieko Baishô, Shin'ichirô Mikami, Noriko Maki, Isao Kimura

Votes: 148

12. Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983)

Unrated | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

A Chinese soldier in an ancient civil war flees the battlefield and gets caught up in a fantastical quest to save the world from evil.

Director: Hark Tsui | Stars: Biao Yuen, Hoi Mang, Adam Cheng, Brigitte Lin

Votes: 3,054

13. Yôtô monogatari: hana no Yoshiwara hyakunin-giri (1960)

109 min | Action, Fantasy

A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring birthmark on his face. Even the courtesans in ... See full summary »

Director: Tomu Uchida | Stars: Chiezô Kataoka, Yaeko Mizutani, Isao Kimura, Akiko Santô

Votes: 315

14. Joint Security Area (2000)

Not Rated | 110 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

58 Metascore

After a shooting incident at the North-South Korean border DMZ leaves two North Korean soldiers dead, a neutral Swiss and Swedish team investigates what actually happened.

Director: Park Chan-wook | Stars: Lee Yeong-ae, Lee Byung-hun, Song Kang-ho, Kim Tae-woo

Votes: 34,210

15. Running Out of Time (1999)

Not Rated | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Police inspector and excellent hostage negotiator Ho Sheung-Sang finds himself in over his head when he is pulled into a 72 hour game by a cancer-suffering criminal out for vengeance on Hong Kong's organized crime Syndicates.

Director: Johnnie To | Stars: Andy Lau, Ching Wan Lau, YoYo Mung, Waise Lee

Votes: 6,544

16. Spring Dreams (1960)

103 min | Comedy

A homeless man falls ill near a wealthy family's home, who take him in and find themselves dealing with his visiting friends.

Director: Keisuke Kinoshita | Stars: Mariko Okada, Yoshiko Kuga, Eitarô Ozawa, Michiko Araki

Votes: 157

17. The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (1945)

Not Rated | 59 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

A Japanese general and his men disguise themselves as monks in order to pass an enemy border patrol.

Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Denjirô Ôkôchi, Susumu Fujita, Ken'ichi Enomoto, Masayuki Mori

Votes: 4,367

18. Wheels on Meals (1984)

TV-14 | 100 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Two Chinese friends, who operate a food truck in Barcelona, Spain, use their martial arts expertise to help their private investigator friend protect the pickpocket Sylvia, who's been targeted by a ruthless gang.

Director: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung | Stars: Jackie Chan, Biao Yuen, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Benny Urquidez

Votes: 15,183

19. Death Duel (1977)

90 min | Drama, Action

The Third Master (Erh Tung Sheng, aka Derek Yee, in the role that launched his career) is considered to be the greatest sword master of the day. His displays of skill and strength bring ... See full summary »

Director: Yuen Chor | Stars: Tung-Shing Yee, On-On Yu, Ping Chen, Yun Ling

Votes: 625

20. Love, Thy Name Be Sorrow (1962)

109 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

In the reign of the Emperor Suzaku (930- 946 A.D.), various mishaps happen after a strange white rainbow in appearance in the sky over Kyoto. The Emperor orders a famous astronomer, ... See full summary »

Director: Tomu Uchida | Stars: Hashizô Ôkawa, Michiko Saga, Ryûnosuke Tsukigata, Jun Usami

Votes: 454

21. The Web of Death (1976)

R | 91 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

Thanks to such filmmakers as choreographers Tang Chia and Yuen Cheung-yan (brother of Matrix master Yuen Woo-ping), this battle between Scorpion, Snake, and Centipede sects to create the "... See full summary »

Director: Yuen Chor | Stars: Hua Yueh, Lieh Lo, Li Ching, Feng Ku

Votes: 390

22. Chop Socky: Cinema Hong Kong (2003 TV Movie)

55 min | Documentary, Action

A look at the martial arts and kung fu cinema of Hong Kong.

Director: Ian Taylor | Stars: Jackie Chan, Pei-Pei Cheng, David Chiang, Yuen Chor

Votes: 198

23. Five Fingers of Death (1972)

R | 104 min | Action, Drama, Romance

As two martial arts schools prepare for an important tournament, one school's master is a dishonorable man, and to ensure his son wins the title, he hires three Japanese samurais, who target the rival school's best fighter.

Director: Chang-hwa Jeong | Stars: Lieh Lo, Ping Wang, Hsiung Chao, Chin-Feng Wang

Votes: 4,010

25. The Boxer from Shantung (1972)

Unrated | 134 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Leaving the poverty of his life in Shantung to seek fortune in Shanghai, The Boxer is instead drawn into a world of corruption, gang warfare and evil... Where his only protection is his famed fighting technique.

Directors: Cheh Chang, Hsueh-Li Pao | Stars: Kuan Tai Chen, Li Ching, David Chiang, Mario Milano

Votes: 1,485

26. Wu lin feng yun (1970)

78 min | Action, Adventure

Three sisters unite with a cousin to avenge their father who was killed by a group of noblemen with ties to a criminal gang.

Director: Feng Yueh | Stars: Pei-Pei Shu, Yi Chang, Chia Essie Lin, Hung-Lieh Chen

Votes: 66

27. Five Shaolin Masters (1974)

R | 109 min | Action, Drama

Five students escape from the destruction of their beloved Shaolin Temple...now each must take revenge and train in their own seperate fighting styles...they will become The Five Shaolin Masters!!

Director: Cheh Chang | Stars: David Chiang, Lung Ti, Sheng Fu, Kuan-Chun Chi

Votes: 1,430

29. Shaolin Temple (1976)

Not Rated | 126 min | Action

The Shaolin Temple is the last place to resist defeat by the Manchu Dynasty, mostly because of their unique fighting style. Men from far and wide come to wait outside the temple, hoping ... See full summary »

Directors: Cheh Chang, Wu Ma | Stars: Sheng Fu, Kuan-Chun Chi, Lung Ti, David Chiang

Votes: 1,378

30. Challenge of the Masters (1976)

R | 97 min | Action, Drama

Teenager Wong Fei-hung is sent to train in the art of hung gar kung fu from his father's teacher, Luk Ah-choy. With training complete, Wong must fight an assassin and regain the honor of his school.

Director: Chia-Liang Liu | Stars: Chia-Hui Liu, Kuan Tai Chen, Yue Wong, Lily Li

Votes: 831

31. My Heart Is That Eternal Rose (1989)

90 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Two lovers are willing to do anything to reunite after criminals separate them.

Director: Patrick Tam | Stars: Kenny Bee, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Joey Wang, Michael Wai-Man Chan

Votes: 620

32. Executioners from Shaolin (1977)

R | 100 min | Action, Drama

Hong Hsi-Kuan devotes years to mastering Tiger style Kung Fu in order to defeat the evil priest Pai Mei. His wife, who is an expert in Crane style Kung Fu, has a feeling training in only one style won't be enough.

Director: Chia-Liang Liu | Stars: Kuan Tai Chen, Lieh Lo, Yue Wong, Lily Li

Votes: 1,893

33. Buddha's Palm (1982)

93 min | Action, Fantasy

The Buddha's Palm, a technique by which an ordinary hand is transformed into a formidable force. Ku, a blind recluse living in a cave, knows its secret, which proves to be as much a blessing as a curse as it attracts all manner of mayhem.

Director: Taylor Wong | Stars: Tung-Shing Yee, On-On Yu, Kara Wai, Alex Man

Votes: 389

34. Chinatown Kid (1977)

R | 115 min | Action, Drama

After getting in trouble with local gangs, a young man (Fu Sheng) flees to San Francisco, where the same gangs are still causing problems. He becomes a part of a rival gang, and eventually ... See full summary »

Director: Cheh Chang | Stars: Sheng Fu, Shirley Yu, Susan Yam-Yam Shaw, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok

Votes: 538

35. The Seventh Curse (1986)

83 min | Action, Horror

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.

Director: Ngai Choi Lam | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Siu-Ho Chin, Maggie Cheung, Ken Boyle

Votes: 1,764

36. Five Deadly Venoms (1978)

R | 101 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

The sixth and final pupil of a dying martial arts teacher is instructed to find the teacher's five former pupils and defeat any evil ones that are among them.

Director: Cheh Chang | Stars: Sheng Chiang, Chien Sun, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Meng Lo

Votes: 7,980

37. Kung Fu Stuntmen (2020)

92 min | Documentary

The documentary gathers several best Chinese Kung Fu masters living in film industry, gives a full display of Hong Kong Kung Fu people in more than sixty years and shows their derring-do lives.

Director: Junzi Wei | Stars: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Donnie Yen, Hark Tsui, Andrew Lau

Votes: 296

38. Spooky, Spooky (1988)

95 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Years ago, a village head in the Hong Kong countryside executed a man for committing adultery by drowning him in the ocean. His mistress, in attempts to flee the village, dies when she ... See full summary »

Directors: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Wei Don Lo | Stars: Alfred Cheung, Wu Ma, Joyce Godenzi, Fat Chung

Votes: 132

39. The Prodigal Son (1981)

R | 100 min | Action, Comedy

A young man discovers that his reputation as a fearsome martial artist is manufactured by his rich father, after meeting a real martial arts master, who's also a master thespian, and is determined to apprentice under him to learn kung fu.

Director: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung | Stars: Biao Yuen, Ching-Ying Lam, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Frankie Chan

Votes: 3,537

40. Lover's Tear (1992)

97 min | Action, Drama

A cop in the Hong Kong anti-smuggling unit goes to mainland China to retrieve some confiscated contraband. His real objective, though, is to arrest the boss of the smuggling ring. His goal ... See full summary »

Director: Chi Leung 'Jacob' Cheung | Stars: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Nina Li Chi, Ching-Ying Lam, Collin Chou

Votes: 50

41. The Heike Story (2021)

TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Drama, History

A psychic orphan is taken in by the powerful Taira Clan. Unfortunately, what she predicts is a future filled with violence and civil war.

Stars: Aoi Yûki, Nazeeh Tarsha, Takahiro Sakurai, Alicyn Packard

Votes: 481

42. Future Cops (1993)

Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Ryu, Dhalsim and Vega are sent out to stop M. Bison. They befriend a teenage school student and seek out Bison. Bison sends out his own soliders, Ken and Sagat.

Director: Jing Wong | Stars: Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Aaron Kwok, Chingmy Yau

Votes: 1,499

43. Tiger on Beat (1988)

TV-MA | 93 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A seasoned cop and his rookie partner are a pair of mismatched partners in this Hong Kong action-comedy in the style of 'Lethal Weapon'. The wacky twosome are up in arms as they try to solve the murder of a heroin trafficker.

Director: Chia-Liang Liu | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Nina Li Chi, Conan Lee, Norman Chu

Votes: 2,056

44. Raining in the Mountain (1979)

120 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In Ming Dynasty China, the abbot of the San Pao Buddhist monastery must choose a successor. Among the high dignitaries invited, there are some who are after the priceless parchment kept in the temple: the Mahayana Sutras.

Director: King Hu | Stars: Feng Hsu, Yueh Sun, Lin Tung, Feng Tien

Votes: 1,497

45. Zegen (1987)

124 min | Comedy

A Japanese immigrant in 1901 Hong Kong wishes to become a simple shopkeeper. Fate soon intervenes, allowing him to mix adventure and fervent patriotism with greed.

Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Ken Ogata, Mitsuko Baishô, Chun-Hsiung Ko, Norihei Miki

Votes: 450

46. Tricky Brains (1991)

Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Romance

A trickster-for-hire, known as the Tricky Expert, is hired to ruin the lives of a father and son by making them think that he's a part of the family.

Director: Jing Wong | Stars: Stephen Chow, Andy Lau, Rosamund Kwan, Chingmy Yau

Votes: 2,960

47. The Sword of Many Lovers (1993)

111 min | Action, Drama

A swordsman learns about love and life when he falls for one woman and another girl falls for him. Meanwhile, he and the one he is in love with must fight an evil warlord bent on corruption.

Director: Man Kit Poon | Stars: Leon Lai, Sharla Cheung, Michelle Reis, Elvis Tsui

Votes: 126

48. The Red Angel (1966)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Romance, War

During the Sino-Japanese War, a young army nurse gives sympathy to her patients and falls in love with an impotent doctor who's addicted to morphine.

Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Shinsuke Ashida, Yûsuke Kawazu, Ranko Akagi

Votes: 1,887

49. Shi er jin qian biao (1969)

84 min | Action, Adventure

An escort team was on a perilous journey to transport some gold. When they were ambushed by a gang of thieves and their gold shipment was robbed, a formidable student of the escort agency set off to the bandits' hideout.

Director: Teng-Hung Hsu | Stars: Lieh Lo, Li Ching, Feng Tien, Wen Ching Cheng

Votes: 69

50. Dragon Inn (1992)

88 min | Action, Thriller

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.

Directors: Raymond Lee, Siu-Tung Ching, Hark Tsui | Stars: Tony Ka Fai Leung, Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung, Donnie Yen

Votes: 4,839

52. Ashes of Time (1994)

R | 100 min | Action, Drama

69 Metascore

A broken-hearted hit man moves to the desert where he finds skilled swordsmen to carry out his contract killings.

Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung, Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai

Votes: 16,966 | Gross: $0.17M

53. The Lovers (1994)

107 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, parents dress a pretty girl like a boy, so she may be educated in a local boarding school. There, she falls in love with a poor, but industrious young man. However, their short love affair ends in disaster.

Director: Hark Tsui | Stars: Nicky Wu, Charlie Yeung, Carrie Ng, Elvis Tsui

Votes: 1,009

54. Seven Swords (2005)

Not Rated | 153 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Seven warriors come together to protect a village from a diabolical General.

Director: Hark Tsui | Stars: Leon Lai, Donnie Yen, Charlie Yeung, Honglei Sun

Votes: 9,917

55. The Swordsman (1990)

TV-14 | 118 min | Action, History

A kung-fu manual known as the sacred scroll is stolen from the Emperor's library. An army detachment is sent to recover it. Meanwhile, a young swordsman and his fellow disciple are accidentally drawn into the chaos.

Directors: Siu-Tung Ching, King Hu, Raymond Lee, Hark Tsui, Ann Hui, Yeung-Wah Kam | Stars: Samuel Hui, Cecilia Yip, Jacky Cheung, Sharla Cheung

Votes: 2,575

56. We're Going to Eat You (1980)

Unrated | 90 min | Action, Comedy, Horror

A secret agent investigates a village that is populated by crazed, inbred cannibals.

Director: Hark Tsui | Stars: Norman Chu, Eddy Ko, Melvin Wong, Michelle Yim

Votes: 1,022

57. Peking Opera Blues (1986)

TV-14 | 104 min | Comedy, Action

The movie is set in chaotic 1920's China, when warlords fought each other for power while Sun Yat-Sen's underground movement tried to establish a democratic republic. The movie tells the ... See full summary »

Director: Hark Tsui | Stars: Brigitte Lin, Sally Yeh, Cherie Chung, Mark Cheng

Votes: 2,660

58. Shanghai Blues (1984)

103 min | Comedy, Romance

In 1937 Shanghai, a soon-to-depart soldier meets a young woman under a bridge during a Japanese air raid. They vow to meet after the war ends, but they don't each other's name or face. Ten ... See full summary »

Director: Hark Tsui | Stars: Kenny Bee, Sylvia Chang, Sally Yeh, Ken Boyle

Votes: 497

59. A Terra-Cotta Warrior (1989)

145 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

China 2.200 years ago. It's the time of the Qin dynasty. The emperor seeks immortality by busily letting his alchemists search for a formula and building the famous terracotta army from the... See full summary »

Director: Siu-Tung Ching | Stars: Yimou Zhang, Gong Li, Tian-Ming Wu, Rongguang Yu

Votes: 1,086

60. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

PG-13 | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

94 Metascore

A young Chinese warrior steals a sword from a famed swordsman and then escapes into a world of romantic adventure with a mysterious man in the frontier of the nation.

Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang, Chang Chen

Votes: 281,633 | Gross: $128.08M

61. Tai Chi II (1996)

R | 96 min | Action, Comedy, Romance

A young Tai Chi master fights Opium smugglers with the aid of his powerful braid while wooing a girl.

Directors: Hsin-Yen Chang, Woo-Ping Yuen | Stars: Jing Wu, Christy Chung, Mark Cheng, Billy Chow

Votes: 761

62. Legendary Weapons of China (1982)

R | 109 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

A band of killers from an ailing kung fu and magic society are sent on a manhunt for a former member of the society, whose bad mouthing threatens its existence.

Director: Chia-Liang Liu | Stars: Chia-Liang Liu, Chia-Yung Liu, Kara Wai, Hou Hsiao

Votes: 1,851

63. Aloners (2021)

91 min | Drama

72 Metascore

A solitary woman re-evaluates her isolated existence after her neighbor dies alone in his apartment.

Director: Hong Seong-eun | Stars: Jung Da-eun, Seo Hyun-woo, Park Jeong-hak, Gong Seung-Yeon

Votes: 2,688

64. Life Is But a Dream (2022)

22 min | Short

After his casket is stolen and prepared for a recently deceased warrior, a dead man's spirit battles the soul of the dead warrior for ownership of the casket.

Director: Park Chan-wook | Stars: Park Jeong-min, Kim Ok-bin, Yoo Hae-jin, Woo Sang-ki

Votes: 316

65. Burning Ambition (1989)

104 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A triad family fractures when the patriarch promotes a younger family member against his council's wishes. The advisers murder the patriarch, and the fractured family tries to survive the bloodshed.

Director: Frankie Chan | Stars: Eddy Ko, Kara Wai, Simon Yam, Yukari Ôshima

Votes: 117

66. The Ghost Snatchers (1986)

89 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

A dinner party at a Hong Kong high-rise goes awry when party guest Judy Hsu (Shu-Yuan Hsu) becomes a victim of poltergeists and, as a result, her spirit returns to carry out the sinister ... See full summary »

Director: Ngai Choi Lam | Stars: Joey Wang, Shu-Yuan Hsu, Joyce Godenzi, Jing Wong

Votes: 146

67. Ambitious Kung Fu Girl (1981)

95 min | Action, Adventure

Spoiled Yuen Si Si, the daughter of an affluent merchant, lives her life dreaming of meeting her idol, the heroic Qin Ge. When her father decides to marry her off, she runs away in search of Qin Ge, with her fiancee in pursuit.

Director: Chun-Ku Lu | Stars: Kuan Tai Chen, Michelle Yim, Tak Yuen, Hsiu-Chun Lin

Votes: 101

68. On the Run (1988)

R | 88 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

When his wife, also working for the the police, but in a different department, is being brutally murdered, a police officer begins to investigate the case on his own. Soon he has the ... See full summary »

Director: Alfred Cheung | Stars: Biao Yuen, Patricia Ha, Charlie Chin, Lieh Lo

Votes: 622

69. Call of Heroes (2016)

Not Rated | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A group of villagers must stand up to a warlord's psychopath son, who is protected by a Commander with proficient martial arts skills as well as a small army.

Director: Benny Chan | Stars: Ching Wan Lau, Eddie Peng, Louis Koo, Jing Wu

Votes: 2,565

70. The Emperor's Shadow (1996)

130 min | Drama, History

Epic drama about China's first emperor (221 BC) who struggles to make his childhood best friend, now China's greatest composer, succumb to his will and compose a grand anthem to his exploits.

Director: Xiaowen Zhou | Stars: Wen Jiang, You Ge, Qing Xu, Chung Chang

Votes: 722 | Gross: $0.07M

71. The White Dragon (2004)

PG-13 | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A teenage girl is given the martial arts skills of The White Dragon. When she discovers that the famed assassin, Chicken Feathers, is planning to kill her beloved prince, she seeks to prevent him.

Director: Wilson Yip | Stars: Francis Ng, Andy On, Lei Liu, Cecilia Cheung

Votes: 1,155

72. Fish Story (2009)

113 min | Action, Comedy, Music

Several seemingly unrelated but surprisingly intertwined tales reveal how a Japanese band that independently invented punk rock in 1975 is, 37 years later, connected to a comet that is about to destroy the world.

Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura | Stars: Atsushi Itô, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Noriko Eguchi, Hidekazu Mashima

Votes: 3,434

74. The Sorcerer and the White Snake (2011)

PG-13 | 102 min | Action, Fantasy, Romance

41 Metascore

A master monk tries to protect a naive young physician from a thousand-year-old snake demon. A contest of psychic powers results in mayhem.

Director: Siu-Tung Ching | Stars: Jet Li, Shengyi Huang, Raymond Lam, Charlene Choi

Votes: 8,978 | Gross: $0.02M

75. Twin Dragons (1992)

PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Comedy

54 Metascore

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: 12,758 | Gross: $8.33M

76. Maborosi (1995)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama

92 Metascore

A young woman's husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant.

Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Makiko Esumi, Takashi Naitô, Tadanobu Asano, Gohki Kashiyama

Votes: 7,329

77. Madame White Snake (1956)

103 min | Fantasy, Romance

Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form.

Director: Shirô Toyoda | Stars: Ryô Ikebe, Shirley Yamaguchi, Kaoru Yachigusa, Kichijirô Ueda

Votes: 129

78. Dragon Fight (1989)

96 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Two martial artist friends from China are performing a show in the States. Trouble starts when one of them decides to defect and stay in America.

Director: Billy Hin-Shing Tang | Stars: Jet Li, Nina Li Chi, Dick Wei, Stephen Chow

Votes: 1,115

79. The Bare-Footed Kid (1993)

R | 90 min | Action, Drama

While working at a family friend's business, a penniless orphan draws the attention of a corrupt competitor and is torn between divided loyalties.

Directors: Johnnie To, Patrick Leung, Johnny Mak | Stars: Aaron Kwok, Maggie Cheung, Lung Ti, Chien-Lien Wu

Votes: 965

80. The Stunt Woman (1996)

95 min | Action, Drama

A few years in the life of Ah Kam, starting with her joining action director Master Tung's team of regulars.

Director: Ann Hui | Stars: Michelle Yeoh, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Ken Lo, Hoi Mang

Votes: 484

81. Mirror (1975)

Not Rated | 107 min | Biography, Drama

82 Metascore

A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Margarita Terekhova, Filipp Yankovskiy, Ignat Daniltsev, Oleg Yankovskiy

Votes: 52,250 | Gross: $0.18M

82. Lee Rock (1991)

128 min | Crime, Drama

The first part of the Lee Rock trilogy which chronicles the rise and fall of the corrupt police force that Lee Rock becomes a part of. Rock enters Hong Kong as an immigrant from the ... See full summary »

Director: Lawrence Ah-Mon | Stars: Andy Lau, Sharla Cheung, Man-Tat Ng, Chingmy Yau

Votes: 865

83. Black Rain (1989)

Not Rated | 123 min | Drama, War

The story of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, based on Masuji Ibuse's novel.

Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Yoshiko Tanaka, Kazuo Kitamura, Etsuko Ichihara, Shôichi Ozawa

Votes: 3,962

84. Hero Beyond the Boundary of Time (1993)

94 min | Comedy, Fantasy

The emperor is dying and his trusted confidant travels through time to find the woman that is destined to save him, but the rebel Ng sends assassins to intercept, so he may take the throne.

Director: Blackie Shou-Liang Ko | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Dicky Cheung, Veronica Yip, Jacqueline Ng

Votes: 297

85. The Road Home (1999)

G | 89 min | Drama, Romance

71 Metascore

Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.

Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Ziyi Zhang, Honglei Sun, Hao Zheng, Yulian Zhao

Votes: 13,920 | Gross: $1.28M

86. They Live by Night (1948)

Passed | 95 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Romance

82 Metascore

An escaped convict injured during a robbery falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.

Director: Nicholas Ray | Stars: Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva, Jay C. Flippen

Votes: 9,355

87. PTU (2003)

R | 85 min | Action, Crime, Drama

When an obnoxious detective loses his gun to four young thugs, it's up to the P.T.U. (Police Tactical Unit) and their iron-willed leader to recover the weapon and clean up the mess before daybreak.

Director: Johnnie To | Stars: Simon Yam, Suet Lam, Ruby Wong, Maggie Siu

Votes: 5,156

88. Ex Machina (2014)

R | 108 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

78 Metascore

A young programmer is selected to participate in a ground-breaking experiment in synthetic intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a highly advanced humanoid A.I.

Director: Alex Garland | Stars: Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, Sonoya Mizuno

Votes: 589,585 | Gross: $25.44M

89. Tiger Cage (1988)

TV-MA | 92 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A team of cops get brutally exposed to violence after raiding a drug operation and discovering a link between few members of the police force and an American crime syndicate dealing with drug trafficking.

Director: Woo-Ping Yuen | Stars: Jacky Cheung, Carol 'Do Do' Cheng, Simon Yam, Man-Tat Ng

Votes: 1,168

90. Madame White Snake (1962)

95 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical

Huangmeixi tragic opera in which Bai Suzhen, and her younger sister, Qingqing are centuries old snake spirits who have trained to take on human form for a thousand years. Suzhen takes the ... See full summary »

Director: Feng Yueh | Stars: Dai Lin, Lei Zhao, Margaret Tu Chuan, Chih-Ching Yang

Votes: 51

91. Burst City (1982)

115 min | Action, Drama, Music

Punk rock gangs and music groups clash with one another and the brutal police force in a futuristic Tokyo setting.

Director: Gakuryû Ishii | Stars: Takanori Jinnai, Shinya Ohe, Yuto Iseta, Hitomi Tsurukawa

Votes: 898

92. Panda and the Magic Serpent (1958)

TV-Y7-FV | 79 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy

The adventures of a cute little panda, a dragon god and an evil serpent.

Director: Taiji Yabushita | Stars: Hisaya Morishige, Mariko Miyagi, Virginia Blackman, Lisa Lu

Votes: 599

93. Blind Beast (1969)

86 min | Drama, Horror

A blind sculpter and his mother kidnap a young model.

Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Eiji Funakoshi, Mako Midori, Noriko Sengoku

Votes: 3,905

94. The Mission (1999)

Not Rated | 84 min | Action

Triad boss Lung, who has just escaped being killed in an assassination, hires five killers for his protection. Their grown solidarity is under compulsion when Lung gives a special order.

Director: Johnnie To | Stars: Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Francis Ng, Jackie Chung-yin Lui, Roy Cheung

Votes: 6,143

95. Miracles: The Canton Godfather (1989)

PG-13 | 139 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A country boy becomes the head of a gang through the purchase of some lucky roses from an old lady. He and a singer at the gang's nightclub try to do a good deed for the old lady when her daughter comes to visit.

Director: Jackie Chan | Stars: Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Ah-Lei Gua, Chun-Hsiung Ko

Votes: 5,438

96. Ching fung dik sau (1985)

95 min | Action, Comedy, Romance

A young breakdancer experiences a series of complications involving a poor opera performer he befriends, his older sister and jealous cousin, a female student, two rivals, and a lunatic.

Director: Woo-Ping Yuen | Stars: Donnie Yen, Woo-Ping Yuen, Wan-Si Wong, May Mei-Mei Lo

Votes: 355

97. Equinox Flower (1958)

118 min | Comedy, Drama

83 Metascore

A businessman clashes with his elder daughter over her choice of a husband.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Shin Saburi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ineko Arima, Yoshiko Kuga

Votes: 4,855

98. Sha shou tian shi (1989)

91 min | Action, Thriller

Three female cops form a special unit and get their main witness out of the clutches of a gang. The witness holds the key to Chu Chung Sing, a gang-lord who runs a night-club. They will have to face a ruthless but sentimental killer.

Director: Chun-Ku Lu | Stars: Yuen Hung, An An, Kam Bun, Pui-Kei Chan

Votes: 202

99. Lost in Translation (2003)

R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama

91 Metascore

A faded movie star and a neglected young woman form an unlikely bond after crossing paths in Tokyo.

Director: Sofia Coppola | Stars: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris

Votes: 489,092 | Gross: $44.59M

100. A Taxing Woman (1987)

127 min | Comedy, Crime

If tax evasion is an art, wheeler-dealer Hideki Gondo is Rembrandt. And so, a determined taxing woman gets the tough assignment of trying to catch him.

Director: Jûzô Itami | Stars: Nobuko Miyamoto, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Masahiko Tsugawa, Yasuo Daichi

Votes: 2,245



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