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Beijing Bicycle (2002)
7.3/10
Director: Wang Xiao-Shuai
Starring: Xun Zhou, Cui Lin, Li Bin
Director/co-scripter Wang Xiao-Shuai's Sino-flavoured take on De Sica's "The Bicycle Thief" follows a rural Chinese youth who comes to Beijing and lan... Read more
The Lady is the Boss (1983)
Director: Liu Chia-Liang
Starring: Liu Chia-Liang, Kara Hui, Chia Hui Gordon Liu, Hsiao Hou
Veteran director Liu Chia-Liang plays a martial arts teacher whose old-fashioned ways threaten to close down his school. He calls his daughter back f... Read more
Dragon from Russia (1990)
Director: Clarence Ford
Starring: Sam Hui, Maggie Cheung, Nina Li Chi, Carrie Ng, Yuen Tak
Based on the Legend of Crying Freeman, "Dragon from Russia" is a spectacular, visually flamboyant 'Manga in motion' concept adventure from the directo... Read more
Last Hero in China (1993)
6.8/10
Director: Wong Jing, Yuen Woo Ping
Starring: Jet Li, Chia Hui Gordon Liu, Man Cheung
Village girls have been mysteriously going missing. The elders request Wong Fei Hung (Jet Li) to investigate. Wong does not want to get involved, but,... Read more
Challenge of the Masters (1976)
6.9/10
Director: Liu Chia-Liang
Starring: Chia Hui Gordon Liu, Jimmy Wang Yu, Lily Li, Chen Kuan-tai
After ruining his school's attempt to win a "Pao" competition, a young Wong Fei-hung (Gordon Liu) is sent away with Master Luk Ah-choy (Chen Kuan-tai)... Read more
Dragon Lord ( aka Young Master in Love ) (1981)
7.9/10
Director: Jackie Chan
Starring: Jackie Chan, Chen Hui-min, Sidney Yim, Wong In-sik
Jackie Chan mixes comedy with remarkable martial arts expertise in this actioner that finds him an unwitting participant in a scheme to smuggle pricel... Read more
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978)
7.8/10
Director: Chi-Leung Law
Starring: Chia Hui Gordon Liu
A true milestone in martial arts movie history, this action-filled drama from director Lau Kar Leung ("Drunken Master II") stars Gordon Liu as a shall... Read more
My Young Auntie (1981)
7/10
Director: Liu Chia-Liang
Starring: Liu Chia-Liang, Kara Hui, Hsiao Hou, Lung Wei Wang, Chia Hui Gordon Liu
A triumph of kung fu comedy with a female lead who knows how to kick butt, this Shaw Brothers classic sees Kara Hui marrying the dying patriarch of a... Read more
Shower (1999)
7.5/10
Director: Zhang Yang
Starring: Zhu Xu, Pu Cun Xin, Jiang Wu
This acclaimed drama from Zhang Yang is set in and around a Beijing bathhouse run by its elderly owner and his slow witted son. The proprietor's older... Read more
Shadow Magic (1999)
7.2/10
Director: Ann Hu
Starring: Jared Harris, Xia Yu, Liu Pei Qui
Peking, 1902. Travelling English showman Jared Harris teams with photographer Xia Yu to bring the amazing new art form of motion pictures to remote vi... Read more
Heroes of the East (1979)
Director: Liu Chia-Liang
Starring: Chia Hui Gordon Liu, Yuka Mizuno
A Chinese man (Gordon Liu) marries a Japanese woman through an arranged marriage and manages to insult all of her Japanese martial arts family by issu... Read more
Shaolin Hand Lock (1978)
Director: Ho Meng-hua
Starring: David Chiang, Chen Hui-min, Lo Lieh, Ping Chen
Prominent kung-fu actor David Chiang teams up with award-winning screenwriter Ni Kuang to create a visual masterpiece full of exotic martial arts skil... Read more
A Chinese Ghost Story (2011)
5.7/10
Director: Wilson Yip
Starring: Elvis Tsui Kam Kong, Kara Hui, Louis Koo, Yifei Liu
A kinetic remake of the classic Hong Kong original. Whilst spending the night in a haunted house tax collector Ning meets and falls in love with Sian,... Read more
Legendary Weapons of China (1982)
7.2/10
Director: Liu Chia-Liang
Starring: Tiet Wo Chu, Liu Chia-Liang, Alexander Fu Sheng, Chia Hui Gordon Liu, Hsiao Hou
In the history of kung fu, dozens of weapons have been developed to meet practically any combat need. 18 primary weapons include basics like the staff... Read more
SPL ( Saat Po Long ) (2005)
7.1/10
Director: Wilson Yip
Starring: Donnie Yen, Sammo Hung, Simon Yam, Jacky Wu, Kai Chi Liu
Reviving Hong Kong cinema is this startlingly raw police actioner starring legend Sammo Hung as crime boss, Po, being hunted down by Detective Chan (S... Read more
The Sniper (2009)
5.6/10
Director: Dante Lam
Starring: Richie Ren, Edison Chen, Bowie Lam, Kai Chi Liu, Xiaoming Huang
Testosterone-soaked thriller from Hong Kong's Dante Lam, starring Edison Chen as a hot-headed cop recruited for an elite sniper team who find themselv... Read more
The Story of Qiu Ju (1992)
7.6/10
Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Gong Li, Lei Lao Sheng, Ge Zhi Jun, Lui Pei Qi
In this beautiful and humourous film from the acclaimed director of 'Raise the Red Lantern', a peasant woman takes on the Chinese legal system when he... Read more
Mr Vampire (1985)
7.6/10
Director: Ricky Lau
Starring: Ching-Ying Lam, Ricky Hui, Siu-hou Chin, Li Choi Fung
The first of a popular comedy/horror series featuring the Chinese version of a movie vampire, a more corpse-like creature than his Western counterpart... Read more
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 ( Blu-ray ) (2004)
8/10
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen, Chia Hui Gordon Liu,...
The Bride (Uma Thurman) had five on her list. Now there are three. O-Ren Ishii and Vernita Green were the first to fall, now The Bride is out to finis... Read more
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
8/10
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen, Chia Hui Gordon Liu,...
The Bride (Uma Thurman) had five on her list. Now there are three. O-Ren Ishii and Vernita Green were the first to fall, now The Bride is out to finis... Read more