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Hong Kong drama film.

Young widow Li Jingqin is struggling to put her son Du Shaoxiong through school with her meagre income. Bullied by the landlady, Du spends his days wandering the streets where he is lured by a gang to commit crimes. Fortunately, Du has a heart of gold.

Hong Kong drama.

Huangmei Opera movies like The Pearl Phoenix are unique to 1960's Hong Kong culture, a product of the Swinging Sixties but considerably more in touch with their Chinese roots. This one is complete with a gender-bending tale where the male lead is played by female and the female lead poses as a man, plus movie queen Li Ching and the singing voices of Ivy Ling Po and Jing Ting. Sit back and enjoy!

1990 Hong Kong Film Award winner of Best Picture.

Adapted from one of China's most well-known fairy tales, the Goddess of Mount Hua falls in love with a young mortal scholar Liu Yanchang and gives birth to a baby son, Chenxiang. When Chenxiang grows up, he seeks to unravel the mystery surrounding his mother whom he has never met.

An HK police officer sends his son to America to protect him from the influence of the HK triads. However, his son becomes enmired in Chinatown triad dealings in America and returns to Hong Kong as a marked and wanted man.

In a world where only the abuser and the abused exist, suffering and torture are the only outcomes amid the silent cries. 10 year-old Minnie, kidnapped six years ago, is not the only victim. The kidnapper Ha abducts little girls for their youth and immaculate skin in order to create his “masterpiece”. After six years, spared her life, Minnie is all obedience to Ha, even wishing to be part of the sadistic killer’s tour de force. Unfortunately, she is not the perfect collection for him. To Minnie, Ha has become her lifeline, shelter and everything. When the line between the perpetrator and victim blurs, who takes ownership and control over the destiny of the other?

Lawman Gong Tianlong captures vicious thief and murderer Guan Yunfei but an ambush by hired men sees the thief set free and Tianlong's whole family murdered. Left to die himself but rescued by Ling Tzu, Yunfei's son frames Tianlong's and throws him away to rot in jail. All while Yunfei betrays an accomplice of his but ends up blind in the ensuing fight. Cut to 15 years later with Tianlong desiring revenge, Yunfei has developed into a skilled, blind swordsman and into the two's rivalry enters innocent family...

The story about a couple who fall in love. The woman finds out later that she has cancer.

Zhou Heung Kong (Anthony Wong) runs the film projector in a Hong Kong cinema and staunchly embraces a left-wing viewpoint. Dedicated to his work, he screens movies over the course of decades, while also witnessing turbulent events of the times, including riots and other indicators of social change.

He Ming-Zhu (Chen Ping) seeks revenge againts a gambling syndicate (led by Wang Hsieh) who forced her father's suicide.

In 1966, like in The Love Eterne, Ling Bo took up the male lead in Forever and Ever, despite Shaw Brothers' earlier plan of having her as the female lead. Facing opposition from fans, they finally arranged for her to star as a male student named Xiaowen. Wicked rich man Liu, portrayed by Lo Wei, the director of this film, wants Xiaowen to marry his daughter (Lin Yu) who is suffering from leprosy, thinking that marriage will take away her disease. Although Xiaowen discovers Liu's plan, he is still in love with her and hopes that a miracle will cure her disease...

“I want to marry myself!” To plan for a solo wedding, to marry myself, to declare my forever love for myself to the world! Attractive comedienne Ping vows to become a viral Youtuber. She concocts a plan to put on a show of marrying herself in what was meant to secure both money and likes! However, the scam ultimately ended up in the discovery of her true self in this coming-of-age fairy tale comedy. To love others, I must love myself. Simple enough, right? But who am I? In a pageant of love, four contest as lovers, each one goodhearted in their own right. Does Ping want all four or none at all? By marrying herself, can she figure out who she really is? And who she really loves? Ping will tell it all on the day of the solo wedding… In this satire of marriage and the individual self, nothing is left untouched: women, men, organised religion, homosexuality, the filthy rich, not to mention ye good old mother! Love yourself in Say I do to me, won’t you?

Wrongfully imprisoned in a brutal multinational prison, a Hong Kong businessman must escape the sadistic warden's torture to survive.

"Family" (1953), which launched the Union Film legacy, "Spring" (1953) and "Autumn" (1954) are adaptations of Ba Jin's highly regarded novel "Torrent Trilogy". In "Family", director Ng Wui skilfully condenses the voluminous first part of the novel into an emotionally powerful and intellectually focused story of youngsters struggling to survive oppression and repression in a feudalistic family. This well-received film quickly established the company's reputation.

A sweet inn-keeper's daughter falls in love with a woodcutter, but witnesses the woodcutter's brother raping her sister. Tragically, the sister commits suicide in shame, and the rapists turn his attentions to the witness, leading to more danger than most romantic dramas can handle.

Inspired by his father's love of martial arts and its secrets, Siu Dung is determined to study and become a master. His protective mother disapproves, so he learns to excel at the academics she admires instead -- but he just can't shake his dream. He eventually starts boxing, learning the skills he needs from an esteemed master. Directed by Man Kei Chin, this actioner stars Biao Yuen, YoYo Mung and Bingbing Li.

A young boy must learn Kung-Fu like his father while helping keep the "secret manual" out of the wrong hands.

Bruce Li plays a young kung fu expert (and waiter) who is trying to live peacefully in San Francisco with his marital arts-challenged friend. But they run afoul of some American thugs, and the fight is on...right!

A group of Chinese bandits battle the occupying Japanese army, traitors, and their own pasts in this Shaw Brothers/Taiwanese co-production.

Dr. Ho decides to move to a backward island off the coast of Taiwan to look for his missing father. He meets nurse Ya Lan (Cheng Pei-Pei) who falls in love with him. But dastardly doings are afoot as Dr. Ho's enemies plot against him.

The Shen couple had six children. For years Mr Shen had been the only one to support the family. One day, Mr Shen was on a crashed plane in Singapore and everyone believed he had died. Mrs Shen then went to Singapore to prepare for his funeral and the eldest daughter took charge of the family. However, the brothers and sisters would never listen to their eldest sister. The second brother was extremely bad-tempered and always beat the others up when they did not listen to him. The fourth sister was extremely gluttonous who would never help with any housework. The eldest sister was annoyed and could do nothing.

A cunning tale of deception, seduction, and revenge unfolds as Ping, a hardened former beauty, orchestrates an elaborate scheme to ruin wealthy playboys who once wronged her. Recruiting a group of young women, she trains them to entrap elite men in a web of desire and manipulation. As alliances shift and emotions complicate the plan, one woman begins to question the cost of vengeance when genuine love enters the equation.

The Private Eye is a Crime movie starring Charlie Chin

Two 16-year-old girls, Qian and Vicky, are torn between the lines of friendship and romance, unsure where they truly stand, as they rehearse for a love drama in summer holiday. Before the school starts, the secret kissing plot is exposed and their show is banned. Yet, it unfolds Qian’s courage that she decides to make a bold move on the first school day.

Charles Heung plays an escaped rapist on the run from the authorities. During his escape he is helped by a rich, blind woman (Chen Chen) and becomes involved in a dangerous plot involving a precious diamond.

Not seen in Hong Kong for many years, A Strange Woman was Li Pingqian's first film at Great Wall Film Studio. Adapted from the play La Tosca by French playwright Victorien Sardou, opera star Xiao Xiangshui (Bai Guang) helps her lover, a revolutionary, to escape from warlords. She finesses with both the head of the secret service (Yan Jun) and her lover's wife, but things do not turn out as planned. Li changed his usual pace to encompass a more conventional and dramatic film plot. Bold and flirtatious in her role, Bai Guang is equally over the top in appearance as Yan Jun. The tension in winning the heroine over drives the plot more than the themes of patriotism and loyalty in love.

A dramatized version of events during the SARS crisis in Hong Kong

Su Fen, a young and frail girl, looked forward to her wedding with her fiancé, Li Kuo-liang. The happy couple's bliss was cut short when war broke out. Kuo-liang was summoned to fight at the front lines. In his absence, Su Fen discovered she had tuberculosis.

Lam Siu-ming cannot afford tuition and quitted school. His teacher Ms. Chui intercedes with the principal in vain. She quits. Chui became an orphanage director. She suffers from the orphans’ mischief, but she treats them with love and honesty instead of punishing them. She gets recognition from kids and colleagues. Siu-ming is expelled. He dares not go home and lives on pickpocketing with street boys. Chui learns that Siu-ming is missing and looks for him. Siu-ming feels ashamed and avoids her. Chui finds Siu-ming and takes him and the street boys to the orphanage, yet they cannot be disciplined and escape. Little Bully runs after them, but is beaten down on the railway. Siu-ming's legs are cut off by the train when he tries to save Little Bully. The escaped kids regret for this. Chui's cousin wants her to go abroad together, but at the farewell party, he is moved by the orphans, so he does not force the plan, and decides to stay behind to serve the kids.

A maverick cop has a marriage crisis. The couple encounter a crime when they go back to alma mater to attend a ceremony.

Chi Yuan and Tang Ke-hsin find an unexpected spark during a Christmas gathering, creating ripples of jealousy and heartache within the tightly knit circle of siblings Tu Chia-wen and Chia-ling. A hunting accident sends their lives into emotional freefall, separating lovers, straining family bonds, and pushing each character toward choices that echo for years to come. What begins as a tender love triangle spirals into a multigenerational saga of longing, regret, and redemption, culminating in both reunion and irreversible loss.

On a free day of school, a young girl joined her father and his colleague Ah Ching on the road to deliver goods to several companies. While eating the egg puffs she received at their first stop, she started questioning her dad about her mother in the car. At their next stop she secretly went back to the car to get more egg puffs, but ended up discovering her daddy’s secret.

Japanese horror starring Stephen Fung as a man who dies in a skiing accident, only for his best friend to marry his wife and inherit his fortune. Supernatural hijinks ensue.

It seems to be a simple story taking place at school, but it draws your whole attention to watch till the end of it. School teacher Luk is asked to bail his student Chan out, as Chan tries to climb up a flyover to put up a banner in a demonstration. The next day, some paparazzi rush to school to shoot Chan and ask for quotes. Unfortunately one of them slips and the media reports come out in a negative way. The school is highly alerted and Chan is suspended without investigation. The suspension, indeed, has nothing to do with teaching or guidance, but solely political correctness and administration issue.

Mrs. Wong knows her husband is carrying on an affair, but for the sake of their marriage and autistic son, she has chosen to silently endure. However, the mistress comes to disturb them, and in the end, Mr. Wong leaves home after a fight. Feeling at a loss and struggling to watch over her son by herself, Mrs. Wong begins to plot ways to take revenge against the mistress, but her plans get discovered by other housewives.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, an owner of a cleaning company meets a young mother and her daughter. Would their encounter save each other during the recession of Hong Kong's economy?

A Shaw Brothers drama starring Peter Chen Ho and Ding Ling. It was filmed on location in Malaysia.

Agnes and Qing are Hong Kong's representative rhythmic swimming athletes. They have swept the pairs event awards since childhood. Unexpectedly, an epidemic brought the world to a standstill and caused a sudden change in their relationship. Agnes found that she had different emotions and could not get rid of the desire for Qing's body. To escape her desire, she even had sex with her pursuer Amin. As her life becomes more chaotic, she is deprived of her qualifications for the main election. Watching Qing practice a pas de deux with others, Agnes becomes jealous and discovers that she not only did not love Amin, she didn't enjoy sex with him. Agnes returned to practice, hoping to regain her body pride, but without a swimming pool and close friends, she couldn't dance the pas de deux. When they were unable to jump down, Qing appeared like a gift, and the two climbed into the pool without water.

A story on how a policeman faces a mistake he made 20 years ago when investigating a crime-of-passion murder case.

In 1985, Cheung Yau-ming was one of five miscreants involved in the brutal murder of a white couple. As he was still a juvenile, the court ordered him to be "detained at Her Majesty's pleasure," a clause in British law allowing the government to imprison young offenders for an indefinite period. The film picks up in 1997, with Yau-ming (now 28) being paid a visit by a girl named Cheung Yue-ling. With only six months to go before the Handover, Yau-ming and 22 other prisoners hope to have their sentences determined soon, fearing what might happen should the decision about what to do with them become the province of incoming Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa.

The story depict the love between the musician, Kit and the mute girl, Snow. Although Snow cannot talk, she is a sunshine girl that lives her ordinary life happily with her fiancé. One morning, As Snow puts on her slippers; she pulls out her left foot and sees an engagement ring on the toe that corresponds to her ring finger. Kit asks her to marry him. A week before their wedding day, Snow gets into an accident and dies, but a sympathetic angel-in-training named Michael, who wears a bright orange shirt, brings her back to life and gives her three days for the wedding. The day before she has to leave Kit, Kit falls asleep while watching TV and Snow whispers into his ear: I love you so much. I want to be with you forever, but I must leave tomorrow night. A couple hours later, Kit wakes up and tells her that he had the strangest dream where she spoke with a husky and sexy voice, but she said she had to go somewhere and promises her that he'll be there with her, no matter what.

Ultra serious Ko Lap and carefree Kung Kwan are expert assassins.It's love at first sight for Kwan when he runs into the lovely Bin Yee. And Ko Lap continues to hide his love for Sau Yu, agent for him and Kwan. Unkowingly, Ko Lap executes a contract on Yee's father.

Historical drama.

Fai is a 39-year old lighting electrician. Married with a 3-year old daughter, Fai is no longer in love with his wife who seems more capable and more the head of the family. 20 years ago, Fai just got into university and was dating Ming Mei, a banker's daughter who lived on Mid-Levels. A landslide took Ming Mei's life and afterwards Fai married Ming Mei's roommate. One stormy day a mystery old phone booth appears on the road where Fai is working. To his surprise, Fai dials through to Ming Mei from 20 years ago. Soon today's Fai is calling Ming Mei every stormy day and his younger self feels threatened by the strange caller. Realising his fault, Fai sets out to contact himself from 20 years ago to clear up the misunderstanding and maybe even save Ming Mei from the landslide and change the course of his eventual unhappy marriage.

Historical drama from Hong Kong directed by Leung Siu-Bo.

One sunny day during the summer holidays, two brothers have an extraordinary mission to fulfil. The mature elder brother finishes all the housework methodically while taking care of his little brother. His final task is to hang the blanket in the sun, and little brother insists on tagging along. They need to find an ideal location which is not easy as every spot is occupied on such a sunny day. Together they journey on and meet an assortment of characters and challenges.

Everyday, he battles the weather, the authorities, and a society that shows little concern for him. But like a reliable friend, you can count on this honest street vendor to be on that pedestrian bridge everyday, selling an old-school snack that few people eat and even fewer people appreciate. Like a forgotten endangered species struggling to survive in a modernized society, the vendor in the story is just one of the many street vendors in this city hoping that there's still room for a man trying to survive with a small cart.

A rare Buddhism-themed Hong Kong film, inspirational effort Only the Way from director Tang Tak Wing follows a wayward man whose life is transformed by Buddhist teachings. Starring Cheung Kwok Keung (The Pye-Dog) and 1980s and 90s action starlet Moon Lee, Only the Way reflects on life with sensitive insight and a gentle smile. Cheung Kwok Keung portrays a washed-out songwriter whose bad karma begins to catch up with him. His life goes into free fall as his girlfriend leaves him, his career goes downhill, and his mother (Siu Yam Yam, The Moss) passes away. All these setbacks make him live in even greater spite of the world until one day he encounters a Temple Street vendor (Tong Zhen) who introduces him to Buddhism.

Amid changing times, as friends and relatives are leaving the city one after the other, our once familiar neighbourhood is becoming foreign. Yeung Por Por has her luggage packed for the one-way flight out of the city with her son. During her final hours in Hong Kong, she goes to the Wan Chai seaside and is shocked to find a barricaded construction site. Following Rhea, her domestic helper to the latter’s Filipino community, Yeung Por Por realises what it means to be uprooted from one’s homeland. Subtly and wistfully, the film relates the difficulties and dilemmas of migration, closing with ‘You Said We’d Be Back’ by the folk-rock duo My Little Airport.

Tao Zutai, a bank employee, has five children. Tao's wife is addicted to gambling and spends too much and the eldest daughter Guiru is greedy for vanity. Tao is overjoyed when he is notified that he will be promoted to deputy manager.

Taiwan movie

Struggling to support a wife a son and his sick mother a kind-hearted man is forced to work the streets as a pickpocket.

After a family tragedy, Wing-Si is adopted by her estranged uncle and aunt. Soon, she starts experiencing eerie visions connected to her late father. When no one believes her, Wing-Si takes matters into her own hands, uncovering a dark family secret.

The socialite Pai Li-Lan's life is disrupted when she contracts tuberculosis.

A widow of four gave up two of her children to be raised by an uncle in Singapore. Many years later, just when the widow, now a house maid, is feeling contented by good news of her long gone son and daughter, she accidentally runs into his own son, now a lawyer, and ends up being looked down upon by him. It was a story about how traditional Chinese family and its value was impacted by the change of time. The movie depicted Macau in 1945 to Hong Kong in the mid-60s, moving from poverty after WWII to opulence. The human relationships became complicated and fragile. Many elements uniquely "Hong Kong", such as upper class Chinese, western religions, English speaking and a mixed-culture society are used to contrast the traditional, kind, enduring and forgiving love of a mother.