Traditional values and modern ideals clash when an old-fashioned father and his playboy son cannot see eye to eye in this honest look at the sometimes fragile father, son relationship
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Traditional values and modern ideals clash when an old-fashioned father and his playboy son cannot see eye to eye in this honest look at the sometimes fragile father, son relationship
Chung (Max Mok) and Peter (Chin Kar Lok) are two loyal friends who move from scrape to scrape with the latter often being saved by the former. When a loan shark (Shing Fui On) and his heavies start to put considerable pressure on Peter because of his copious debt, Chung devises a plan that puts the villains behind bars. This proves to be especially well-timed when Peter announces that he is getting married and Chung himself finds also falling in love. Unbeknownst to Chung though, his new love is in fact the daughter of a wealthy real-estate tycoon and all of his subsequent attempts to earn a living are all being orchestrated by his potential father-in-law. These tests are put into perspective when Chung's nemesis is freed from prison and immediately sets his sights on revenge...
In February 2019, the Hong Kong government proposed a bill that would have allowed the extradition of criminal suspects from Hong Kong to face trial in mainland China. The controversial bill sparked immediate outrage over widespread fear of arbitrary detention and politically motivated trials that would decimate Hong Kong’s autonomy under ‘one country, two systems.’ Protests escalated into epic pro-democracy demonstrations, in part led by young people connected via social media. COCKROACH, filmed during the height of the protests, captures the extraordinary intensity of an unprecedented era in Hong Kong’s history.
A triad punk and a rich kid have to put their differences aside when they are both pursued by gangsters.
Take Top is a Hong Kong Triad crime-movie starring Anthony Wong
Ga Yat Lung is a young warrior who meets and falls in love with Mung Suet, the day of her sacrifice to the Ghost King. Without her sacrifice all those living in the local village will be destroyed. Ga Yat Lung is helped by Ching, a Fox Demon, to attempt to save Mung Suet and her people.
Szeto Chun Yat, a young businessman, has recently returned to Hong Kong to open a branch of a Japanese company. To save money, he rents a flat to share with Carly, a lovely but unemployed fashion designer. The two hit it off as friends, and Szeto hires her to handle the cooking and cleaning while she looks for work. However, odd things begin to happen - Carly starts sleepwalking and speaking like a ghost. Does the house have a haunted history, or is Carly just playing a prank on Szeto?
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A Hongkong drama between David Lynch and a lipstick commercial...
Shing and Hsiong are competitive young men raised by the head of a powerful Triad group. Shing appears to have the winning edge; his gunfighting skills are unsurpassed earning him the nickname Golden Gun and the pretty daughter of the Triad boss appears to favour him more than eager brother Hsiong. But when Shing turns down his godfather’s appointment to head the triad group his luck runs out and he’s kicked out of the group and shunned by the family. Hsiong becomes the new boss and the pretty daughter marries him instead. Shing moves to Macau and becomes a common labourer and rooms with Carrie Ng and her small son. But Carrie’s kid brother is a bad egg who brings the world of crime back into Shing’s life. Then all hell breaks loose and everyone’s life is in jeopardy when traitors and double crossers rise up and take over.
While visiting Shanghai, handsome young developer Hong meets the beautiful Kwun. Together they embark on a search for his friends from home, a brother and sister, who have become the targets of a ruthless gang leader, Keung. Now embroiled in a brutal criminal war with gambling and a seductive nightclub singer at the center, the innocents must fight to survive as the stakes rise to include their own lives!
A young woman searches for information about her father who starred in the classic movie 'Days of Tomorrow', which she is helping to remake. She finds out about his restless youth, career in the 1970s Hong Kong film industry, and tragic love affair.
A young man marries into a very crazy and bizarre family full of Vampires. The eldest Vampires were married by Jesus Christ himself during the Roman Empire Era.
Hot-headed Hong Kong cop Ken Cheung (Julian Cheung) teams with die-hard Japanese Interpol agent Takami (Kenya Sawada) to stop a ruthless gang of Japanese terrorists. The crime fighters must race to find a hidden time bomb filled with noxious gas that threatens the city -- but first they'll have to survive attacks from vicious terrorist thugs. This action-packed adventure is a directorial debut for renowned action choreographer Bruce Law.
Both leads give performances that go beyond their usual range in a satire that’s sometimes diverting but ultimately toothless. Entertainment veteran Shirley Yung, who directs, should know better
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In 2019, Ching joined the Hong Kong protests and sought refuge in Taiwan after her brother Long was arrested. In the cold summer of 2024, she returned to Hong Kong to visit her mother and Long who was incarcerated, and proposed the idea of moving to Taiwan to live together.
Enjoy the timeless Canto-pop pieces in the Thank You Concert of Mark Lui, who single-handedly composed and produced many of Hong Kong's greatest hits in the past twenty years of his career. Held in July 2013 at the Hong Kong Coliseum, his all-star concert was supported by Leon Lai, Kelly Chen, Janice Vidal, Andy Hui, Miriam Yeung, Dicky Cheung, William So, Stephy Tang, JW, Aarif Lee, Rubberband, Candy Lo and more. You can revisit hits such as "Love Song," "Please Break Up with Me," "Please Teach Me How Not To Love Him," "Anniversary," "Heat and Shine" and "Big Story in a Small City" all in one go.
After spending ten years in prison Steven Cox has recently been released and his former colleagues will do anything to find out where he stashed his fortune. His former mistress now rules the underworld and she plays the various fractions against each other to maintain her power. One of the local drug lords has hired vampires to protect him and keep his drug smuggling business thriving. The vampires pop up around town as they, along with various other thugs, try to knock off Steven Cox and find the whereabouts to his gold. There is a stranger in town that dresses up like a space age super hero who aligns himself with Steven Cox as they take on together the corrupt underworld. A cut n paste movie that uses footage from The Stunning Gambling (Taiwan) and Giant of Casino (HK).
A musical about 3 sisters, singers and dancers, and their dad, a magician performing in nightclubs until they make their own life.
Shot at the same time as the inaugural chapter, The Story of Wong Fei-hung, Part Two is a continuation of the story. Solving the cliffhanger at the end of Part One and carrying on with a series of fights against a lineup of martial artists recruited by Master Wong's nemesis, Part Two culminates in a showdown with Grey Hair Fu, played by the great character actor Sek Kin, who is to appear as the archvillain in most of the following chapters, each time in a different guise.
Rural kung fu whiz Qiang travels to the big city to visit his friend Lung, who's taken up Xanda, a new martial art that fuses multiple styles. When Lung is grievously wounded by the Xanda champ, Qiang trains in the sport to seek revenge in the ring.
A collection of three short stories about supernatural activities at the workplace.
In a battle over a magical egg, Sandra Ng and her evil uncle accidentally turn a monkey into a human.
Lui is a powerful ex-minister who opposes the ambitious premier Hu Wei Yen. Lui is assassinated, so his daughter Lui Sin and an assorted band of people loyal to the emperor seeks revenge and justice. The premier made a mistake - he allowed a scroll of battle orders to fall into loyalist hands. Lui and Co learn this, and vow to take this proof of treason to the emperor.
Big Madam poisons her husband and throws her adopted sister into a snake pit where she has sex with the snakes and gives birth to the beautiful Snake Girl. When her son falls in love with Snake Girl, Big Madam tries to kill her.
A girl from war-devastated Hong Kong in 2005 returns to the present to destroy the man responsible for bombing himself and his VP boss at a foundation plant ceremony. It is prophesied that the aftermath of the bombing will lead to devastating wars in the future. With the man eliminated wars can be prevented, but the spirit of his great-grandfather wants to save him.
A man, unknowingly in possession of a cursed artifact, finds horrific things have begun to happen in his home, and it's up to his two childhood friends to find out why: a police inspector, and a professor with psychic abilities (due to being possessed by a cat spirit)
Yau, Yeung, and Wong are professionals who steal expensive cars, using technology so advanced that even the police cannot get any clues. A covert detective, Raymond, is assigned to investigate the case. He successfully wins the trust of Yau and also falls in love with his sister. Yau, Yeung and Wong have a conflict of interest, and as a result, their latest operation fails after police close in. During the raid, Raymond makes a terrible mistake...
Moon Lee plays a beautiful actress named Angel who is killed in a brutal fashion after she refuses the advances of a gangster. Twenty years later, a struggling young actor (Lau Chi-Wai) comes upon Angel's ghost, who teaches him some new moves which gain him the starring role in the local production, as well as the affection of one of the other stars of the show (Alvina Kong). In return, he and his uncle (Wu Ma) set out to help Angel gain her revenge on the gangster that took her life.
Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC) is a genetic disorder that causes noncancerous tumors to grow in different parts of the body. However, the Hong Kong government has been slow to allow treatment for the disease, especially in relaxing regulations for drugs that treat the tumors. Director Wong Siu-pong turns his camera on Hong Kong’s medical system with this heartrending documentary about a young TSC patient who also lost her mother to the disease.
A handsome hustler tricks a beautiful restauranteur into loaning him 2 million HK dollars. He then drugs her, brings her to an abandoned beach and kills her. After some teenagers discover the body, her spirit returns to take revenge on the man who wronged her by possessing the bodies of other girls.
Sisters moving from Hunan to Hong Kong in the 1990s are faced with an identity crisis, poverty, and their father's drug addiction.
Based on the novel A Mark Carved On Wood by Michio Tsuzuki. 20 years ago, Cheung was jailed for robbery and the money was missing. Then Cheung is released from prison, but is kidnapped and abducted back to the hill that he hid himself 20 years ago. Will the secret be exposed?
A group of people all looking for their perfect match.
A cop receives help from a vengeance-minded ghost in stopping a serial killer / rapist.
A young boy must learn Kung-Fu like his father while helping keep the "secret manual" out of the wrong hands.
Throughout Hong Kong’s history, Hongkongers have fought for freedom and democracy but have yet to succeed. In 2019, a controversial extradition bill was introduced that would allow Hongkongers to be tried in mainland China. This decision spurred massive protests, riots, and resistance against heavy-handed Chinese rule over the City-State. Award-winning director Kiwi Chow documents the events to tell the story of the movement, with both a macro view of its historical context and footage and interviews from protestors on the front lines.
Ricky and Fatso are friends in need. They are in dire need of money since they are only paid slave wages at the bottling factory. However, they become millionaires overnight after buying a winning lottery ticket. During one of their swingin' nights on the town, Ricky is suddenly attacked by an upset stomach; and in no time, a quack doctor diagnoses the seizure as terminal cancer. Ricky seriously considers suicide. But he is appalled by the drawbacks inherent in the available methods of doing himself in--primarily the pain! It is on a rooftop from which he is supposed to make a plunge that he saves a poor man from suicide by giving the latter all the money he has. In gratitude, the newly rich man promises to hire a killer to finish off his suffering benefactor...
Rapunzel: While attending the birthday celebration of the scion of some record company, an ex-hair model who aspires to make a comeback in the entertainment business gets her tresses burnt by a spoiled brat. She walks into a hair salon to salvage her sole pride and joy, only to meet her most macabre end. Cheshire Cat: A woman whose cat was gruesomely disemboweled in the street has since opened a feline rescue center. When a man who poses as an animal lover alerts her to a potential case of cat torture, she accompanies him to the scene, only to realize that he is the real perpetrator and his next target could be human. Tooth Fairy: A dental nurse befriends a chef in the street. When he visits her clinic to check on his teeth, he is tortured by the dentist who fancies her. The morning after, the dentist is found murdered in the clinic. All fingers point to the chef who happens to be mentally unstable. Little do the police know that the real culprit is still at large.
Casting a sword with one's bare hands may sound like a crazy idea to many in the high-tech, digital 21st Century, but not to Fung, a stock broker, who welcomes the assigned task that bears special meaning. When Fung is bequeathed a tattered notebook by his father Lang on his deathbed, his life is turned upside down. Tasked with a heavy undertaking, Fung has to think and look out of the box before rolling up his sleeves to forge the sword. Through the tedious process of annealing and tempering, grinding and cutting, he begins to contemplate the meaning of casting a sword, and of the elusive father and son relationship.
The story of "Sunset Paris" tells that Leslie Cheung, who plays Leslie, and Maggie Cheung, who plays Maggie, are a couple. Leslie gets an opportunity to study at the University of Paris, so he leaves Hong Kong to go abroad to pursue his ideals, but has to separate from his girlfriend Maggie for a short time. While living in Paris, Leslie meets a painter, Cherie, played by Cherie Chung, and develops a relationship with her. Things get complicated when Maggie comes to Paris on a visit and realizes that things are not the same...
Tim Wong's marriage is pretty shitty. His career-driven wife, Diana, is more interested in her TV script writing job than her husband. Tim suddenly finds himself involved in a torrid affair with an old girlfriend, sexy Siu-Man. Unfortunately for Tim, she has a very jealous boyfriend who is secretly a hit-man for the triad.
One suspects writer-director Carol Lai may have harboured some Black Swan ambitions with a tale that also centers around a stage practitioner who embarks on an unwitting destructive journey when playing a role to die for. The Second Woman, whose Chinese title Romance Riddle may hold better clues as to how this film developed, being more of a guessing game that threw constant clues rather than a overly romantic film about twins falling in love with a man who decided it's perfectly OK to string both women along, until he discovers that this spells double trouble.
Simon Yam is the greatest and craziest illegal road racer in Hong Kong.
In a plot of pre-adolescent scope, investigative reporter Sylvia Cheng (Vivian Chow) jumps on the trail of a mysterious young hit-man hired by an evil politico. It's hard to imagine ultra-fem Vivian Chow painting her nails without wincing, much less tailing ruthless killers.
This light-hearted action comedy hybrid-where crooks and cops work together to make a better Hong Kong - was hailed for its British humor and Italian style as well as its unique Chinese flavor. In fact, the Hong Kong Movie New named it "one of the most hilarious comedies among the Mandarin productions in recent years." Enjoy the fast-moving and funny tale of a pretty pickpocket tangling with jewel heists, wallet snatchings, and a drug trafficking ring.
Theater enthusiast Sun (Anthony Chan) is so passionate about drama that he sells his home to stage Romeo and Juliet. The plays turns out to be a complete failure however - and is the last straw for his wife (Anita Mui), who quietly leaves him. Marriage isn't working out too well for his friend Wa (Kenny Bee) either: Fed up with a husband who spends too much time at work and not enough at home, Wa's wife (Pat Ha) suddenly leaves. Things finally look up for Sun when he produces a popular play starring rich girl Hung (Cherie Chung) and the two begin dating. But it turns out Wa also has his eyes on Hung...
A chance meeting with one of her brother's former schoolmates causes a terminally ill young woman to begin digging into her family's tragic past.
A documentary about Hong Kong cinema mythology via Julien Carbon and Laurent Courtiaud’s experience as screenwriters in the HK film industry, working for Wong Kar-wai, Tsui Hark, Daniel Lee and Johnnie To
A hitman Jack is slowly wandering into a red light district. As he walks through the alley, everyone avoid eye contact with him because of his extremely ugly face. Ting Ting is the only prostitute that did not reject him. Jack finds a scar on the stomach of Ting Ting which was wounded by a gunshot. Ting Ting on the other hand stares at the giant lump on Jack's face without showing any sign of fear. The two of them quickly form a bond and Jack could not bear to leave Ting Ting alone. He decides to take Ting Ting out of her miserable life at any cost. From then on, their lives turns out differently.
Zhang Shijie is an international spy, like James Bond, and has to seduce Julie Tan, the daughter of an organization’s leader in order to find their headquarters.
Former warden Tang is imprisoned for accepting bribes, while Jun who failed to escape from prison returns to prison to continue serving his sentence. Jun sees that Tang is familiar with the prison and lures him into cooperating in the breakout plan. The two hit it off, and even tried to create trouble and blame it on Big Roller. Jun soon discovers that Tang has other tricks, forcing him to team up again with Big Roller, Mak and new warden Ma to crack Tang`s conspiracy.
Troublesome Night series director Yip Wai Ying returns to the horror genre in the 2018 scarefest The Cursed. Surgeon Jia'er (Annie Liu, Hungry Ghost Ritual), who grew up in an orphanage, is surprised to one day receive news of a grandmother (Nina Paw, Show Me Your Love) who just passed away. The legal letter states that she has inherited her grandmother's mansion in Malaysia. Confused about this sudden revelation, Jia'er decides to go to Malaysia with her friends Jessica and Amy to find out the truth. Along the way, she re-encounters childhood friend Suwen (Wilfred Lau, The Leakers). While arranging her grandmother's matters, strange and terrifying things begin to happen, and Jia'er sets out to uncover the secret hidden in the mansion
The noble Ten Tigers, one woman and nine men, protect their Cantonese region the villainous Lord Yung and his underlings. When Yung kidnaps the wife of one of the Tiger's students, the Tigers disguise themselves as a Princess and her followers in an attempt to gain access to Yung's palace on his birthday.
Shows special features of various Chinese ethnic marriage customs.