Released Date:
1985-11-30
Languages:
Cantonese, English
Countries:
Hong Kong
Runtime:
93 min
Rated:
TV-MA
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (775 Reviews)
Director:
Corey YuenAsprin (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 onto a forger friend Panadol (Tsui Hark). Inspector Ng (Michelle Yeoh) is assigned to the case, along with Inspector Morris (Cynthia Rothrock) from Scotland Yard. The investigation leads the cops to the bumbling crooks and soon they are on Triad leader Tin's (James Tien) tail, he will stop at nothing to get the incriminating film back and with his hitman and bodyguard (Dick Wei) at his side, he proves too much for the inspectors to catch using legal means, in frustration they give up their badges and go after Tin alone.
Released Date:
1996-07-26
Languages:
Cantonese, English, Mandarin, Malay, Thai
Countries:
Hong Kong
Runtime:
91 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (13727 Reviews)
Director:
Stanley TongEdward Tang (characters)
Edward Tang
Fibe Ma
Lee Wai Yee
A Hong Kong police officer, Ka Kui is sent undercover to mainland China to break up a drug smuggling ring. After breaking the brother of the drug lord out of prison, he and another agent (a beautiful communist policewoman) are taken to Hong Kong to work for the syndicate. The wife of the crime boss has been arrested in Malaysia for drug trafficking and is soon to be executed. However, she is the only person who knows the account number of a secret Swiss bank account containing millions in drug money. While the two officers are in Malaysia preparing for the jail break, Ka Kui accidentally runs into his girlfriend May, who has traveled there from Hong Kong. Soon his cover is blown, the criminals kidnap his girlfriend and he is forced to help them pull off the jail break.
Released Date:
1993-11-18
Languages:
Cantonese, English
Countries:
Hong Kong
Runtime:
96 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (7221 Reviews)
Director:
Woo-Ping YuenDavid B. Baron (english adaptation)
Jack Maeby (english adaptation)
Scott Smith (english dialogue)
Michael Sorich (english adaptation)
Kwong Kim Yip (screenplay)
Jet Li was a monk in Shaolin. In a friendly competition for a higher place in Shaolin, his childhood friend almost kills a fellow student for using a concealed weapon (which cannot be used in the competition). He and his friend got kicked out of the Shaolin. They met rebellions at that time of China. His friend betrayed Jet Li and his rebellion friends for money from the China government. Jet Li went crazy and discovered the art of Tai Chi at the recover period. Revenge seem to the only thing he is going to do.
Released Date:
1997-12-19
Languages:
English, German, Danish, Mandarin, Cantonese
Countries:
UK, USA
Runtime:
119 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (137426 Reviews)
Director:
Roger SpottiswoodeAgent James Bond 007 is on a mission which includes a media tycoon, his former lover and a Chinese agent. Elliot Carver wants to complete his global media empire, but in order for this to work, he must achieve broadcasting rights in China. Carver wants to start up World War III by starting a confrontation over British and Chinese waters. Bond gains the help of Wai Lin on his quest to stop him, but how will Bond feel when he meets up with his former lover, who is now Carver's wife.
Released Date:
2001-01-12
Languages:
Mandarin
Countries:
Taiwan, Hong Kong, USA, China
Runtime:
120 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.9 (205400 Reviews)
Director:
Ang LeeDu Lu Wang (book)
Hui-Ling Wang (screenplay)
James Schamus (screenplay)
Kuo Jung Tsai (screenplay)
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is a timeless story that takes place in QING China when miracles were credible and spirits and gods were present in man's world. It is not unbelievable that zen warriors float through the air, skim the water and battle in trees and on rooftops. Pain, revenge and duty are the stuff that bind us in this world and are the main plot line of the movie, but in the afterlife love and faith linger on.
Released Date:
2003-03-01
Languages:
English, Mandarin
Countries:
China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan
Runtime:
103 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
4.6 (1446 Reviews)
Director:
Peter PauJulien Carbon
Thomas Chung (story)
Laurent Courtiaud
Peter Pau (story)
Michelle Yeoh (story)
J.D. Zeik
A sister and brother, the last heirs of a family of acrobats, are called upon by a Buddhist monk sect to retrieve an artifact that their ancestors have protected throughout the ages.
Released Date:
2008-08-29
Languages:
English, Russian
Countries:
France
Runtime:
90 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
5.6 (77447 Reviews)
Director:
Mathieu KassovitzMaurice G. Dantec (novel)
Mathieu Kassovitz (screenplay)
èric Besnard (scenario and dialogue)
Joseph Simas (screenplay)
In a near future, the mercenary Toorop is hired by the powerful criminal Gorsky to take a woman named Aurora from a Noelite Convent in Central Asia to New York. In return, he will receive a large amount of money and a clear passport. Toorop joins Aurora and her guardian Sister Rebeka as they cross the dangerous Russian landscape chased by mercenaries that also want Aurora. On their journey, Toorop discovers that Aurora has special abilities and once in New York, they see on the news that the Noelite Convent has just been bombed. When Aurora discloses that she is a virgin and pregnant with twins, Toorop realizes that there is something sinister behind his mission and that he and Sister Rebeka are not part of Gorsky's plans.
Released Date:
2007-07-27
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK, USA
Runtime:
107 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (175576 Reviews)
Director:
Danny Boyle50 years into the future, the Sun begins to die, and Earth is dying as a result. A team of astronauts are sent to revive the Sun - but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind's last hope.
Released Date:
2008-06-13
Languages:
English, Japanese, Mandarin
Countries:
Australia, China, Germany, USA
Runtime:
125 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (7673 Reviews)
Director:
Roger SpottiswoodeJane Hawksley
James MacManus
People thrown into an unexpected and desperate situation discover their capacity for love and responsibility. A young Englishman, George Hogg, comes to lead sixty orphaned boys on a journey of over 500 perilous miles across the snow-bound Liu Pan Shan mountains to safety on the edge of the Mongolian desert. And how, in doing so, he comes to understand the meaning of courage. During his journey, Hogg learns to rely on the support of Chen, the leader of a Chinese communist partisan group who becomes his closest friend. He soon finds himself falling in love with Lee, a recklessly brave Australian nurse whom war has turned into an unsentimental healer on horseback. Along the way Hogg befriends Madame Wang, an aristocratic survivor who has also been displaced by war, who helps the young Englishman, his friends and their sixty war orphans make their way across mountain and desert regions to a place of safety near the western end of the Great Wall of China.
Released Date:
2010-09-28
Languages:
Mandarin, English
Countries:
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Runtime:
117 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (5661 Reviews)
Director:
Chao-Bin SuGenres:
ActionSet in ancient China, Zeng Jing is a skilled assassin who finds herself in possession of a mystical Buddhist monk's remains. She begins a quest to return the remains to its rightful resting place, and thus places herself in mortal danger because a team of assassins is in a deadly pursuit to possess the remains which holds an ancient power-wielding secret.
Released Date:
2011-11-30
Languages:
English, Burmese
Countries:
France, UK
Runtime:
132 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (7873 Reviews)
Director:
Luc BessonTHE LADY is an epic love story about how an extraordinary couple and family sacrifice their happiness at great human cost for a higher cause. This is the story of Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband, Michael Aris. Despite distance, long separations, and a dangerously hostile regime, their love endures until the very end. A story of devotion and human understanding set against a background of political turmoil which continues today. THE LADY also is the story of the peaceful quest of the woman who is at the core of Burma's democracy movement.
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