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1. That Day, on the Beach (1983)
Not Rated | 166 min | Drama
Two friends who haven't seen each other for thirteen years reunite. One is a successful concert pianist just back from a European tour and the other has just started a new business.
Director: Edward Yang | Stars: Sylvia Chang, Ming Hsu, Lieh Lee, David Mao
Votes: 1,462
2. My Wacky, Wacky World (1975)
121 min | Comedy, Drama
In the late Qing Dynasty, due to overseas invasion, the internal chaos of the Qing government became even more chaotic. Corruption and bribery among officials have also become common, and ... See full summary »
Director: Shan-Hsi Ting | Stars: Deborah Dik, James Wong, Lan Law, Helen Poon
Votes: 30
3. Tai shang tai xia (1983)
100 min | Drama
The story of two sisters working in a cabaret. These are difficult times and they decide to try their luck and go to perform in Taiwan.
Director: Ching-Chieh Lin | Stars: Hsiao Yen Chang, Sylvia Chang, Yuan Chang, Han Lung Chen
Votes: 17
4. Chuo tou zhuang yuan (1974)
109 min | Comedy
Wu Te-Chuan is a young man trying to make a living in an easy way. But now he is penniless and will being thrown out of his Macau hotel. The hotel maid Hsiao Yen is the only one to help him in the world.
Director: Wei Lo | Stars: Samuel Hui, Nora Miao, Angela Mao, Betty Ting Pei
Votes: 24
5. Drunken Master (1978)
PG-13 | 111 min | Action, Comedy
Wong Fei-Hung is a mischievous yet righteous young man, but after a series of incidents his frustrated father has him disciplined by a master of drunken martial arts.
Director: Woo-Ping Yuen | Stars: Jackie Chan, Siu-Tin Yuen, Jeong-lee Hwang, Dean Shek
Votes: 43,902
6. Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing? (1983)
100 min | Drama, Music
A poor army veteran in Taiwan adopts a daughter. She grows up and leaves him to enter show business. When she becomes famous she shuns her father and friends.
Director: Kan-Ping Yu | Stars: Linda Jui-Chi Liu, Yueh Sun, Shao-Kang Wu, Li-Chun Lee
Votes: 367
7. Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (1978)
PG | 90 min | Action, Comedy
An orphan who has been raised at a kung fu school, where he is treated as little more than a dogsbody and practice target for the students, has a life-changing experience after helping an old peripatetic beggar.
Director: Woo-Ping Yuen | Stars: Jackie Chan, Siu-Tin Yuen, Jeong-lee Hwang, Dean Shek
Votes: 12,893
8. 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: 2,661
9. The Black Tavern (1972)
87 min | Action
This sword-filled thriller centers on the title location-an inn where the down and dirty meet to plot nefarious doings.
Director: Wing-Cho Yip | Stars: Szu Shih, Li Tung, Feng Ku, Barry Chan
Votes: 217
10. A Better Tomorrow II (1987)
Not Rated | 105 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A restauranteur teams up with a police officer and his ex-con brother to avenge the death of a friend's daughter.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Chow Yun-Fat, Lung Ti, Dean Shek
Votes: 11,327
11. Warriors Two (1978)
R | 96 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
A bank cashier discovers a plot to kill the mayor. His attempt to warn the mayor is foiled, and he almost gets killed, but a mumbling Shaolin disciple rescues him and takes him to his master to teach him a formidable form of kung fu.
Director: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung | Stars: Ka-Yan Leung, Ho Wang, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Chia-Yung Liu
Votes: 1,575
12. Feng liu yun shi (1973)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
Tang Dynasty emperors, Ming Dynasty scholars, assorted fortunetellers, and several Buddhist monks figure in a trio of erotic and mystical Chinese legends.
Director: Han Hsiang Li | Stars: Hua Yueh, Ping Chen, Feng Ku, Chun Yang
Votes: 70
13. Can't Stop the War (1983)
Comedy, War
Director: Kan-Ping Yu | Stars: Eric Tsang, Yueh Sun, Ling-Ling Hsia, Hsi-tu Chen
Votes: 7
14. Odd Couple (1979)
Unrated | 97 min | Action, Adventure
The self proclaimed 'king of sabres', and 'king of spears', decide to settle whose weapon is better by each taking a student and training them in the use of their favorite weapon, and whoever students' comes out on top is the winner.
Director: Chia-Yung Liu | Stars: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Ka-Yan Leung, Chia-Yung Liu, Lung Chan
Votes: 618
15. The Singing Killer (1970)
105 min | Action, Crime, Musical
David Chiang plays Johnny, a reformed criminal turned pop headliner at a hip club in Hong Kong. His past isn't exactly common knowledge, but it seems to have inspired some of his biggest ... See full summary »
Director: Cheh Chang | Stars: David Chiang, Ping Wang, Tina Chin-Fei, Lung Ti
Votes: 76
16. Niu gui she shen (1973)
Directors: Kang Cheng, Han Hsiang Li | Stars: Ching Lee, Kang Cheng, Di Chang, Wu Chi Liu
Votes: 31
17. Tong tian lao shu xia jiang nan (1978)
91 min | Action, Adventure
Director: Lei Pan | Stars: Barry Chan, Fu-Hsiung Cheng, Ming Chiang, Yu Hsu
Votes: 9
18. Dance of the Drunken Mantis (1979)
Not Rated | 94 min | Action, Comedy
Drunken Boxing master Beggar So must train his bumbling son in order to take on a rival Drunken Boxing master and his student.
Director: Woo-Ping Yuen | Stars: Siu-Tin Yuen, Jeong-lee Hwang, Linda Lin, Shun-Yee Yuen
Votes: 827
19. Blood Reincarnation (1974)
98 min | Horror
A horror anthology. In the first, a man and his pregnant wife help an old woman bury a covered pot in a field. Believing that the pot contains treasure, they kill the old woman, only to ... See full summary »
Director: Shan-Hsi Ting | Stars: Chun Yang, Bao-Yun Tang, Pei-Shan Chang, Lien-Kuei Chi
Votes: 45
20. Broken Oath (1977)
98 min | Action, Drama
Angry and aggressive orphan Lotus Lin gets raised as a Buddhist in a Shaolin temple after her mother dies in the wake of giving birth to her in prison. Consumed with rage, Lin gets expelled... See full summary »
Director: Chang-hwa Jeong | Stars: Angela Mao, Michael Wai-Man Chan, Siu-Lung Leung, Shan Kwan
Votes: 259
21. A Book of Heroes (1986)
81 min | Action, Comedy
When a crime lord moves in on Hong Kong territory, conflicts ensues. Soon a shipment of gold bars disappears, and many go for the gold. Three hot females use their skills to take down the ... See full summary »
Director: Yen-Ping Chu | Stars: Bin Bin, Chung-You Chang, Fu-Chi Chang, Shun Chao
Votes: 94
22. Why Me? (1985)
91 min | Drama
Fat Cat, a intellectually disabled man who endures the mistreatment of the local villagers. Koko, the idealistic social worker who tries to give Fat Cat a better life. Her battle against apathy on his behalf takes its toll on them both.
Director: Kent Cheng | Stars: Kent Cheng, Chow Yun-Fat, Olivia Cheng, Chiao Chiao
Votes: 159
23. Lady in Black (1987)
92 min | Drama, Thriller
On a trip to Thailand, Kin pushes his wife May into the ocean in order to get the insurance money to cover his gambling debts. However, May survives and heads back to Hong Kong to revenge.
Director: Chung Sun | Stars: Brigitte Lin, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Kit-Man Mak, Ching Yee Chong
Votes: 82
24. The Ring of Death (1980)
92 min | Action
A tale of an underdog mistreated by his family, given kung fu instruction from an unlikely source, and redeemed when he comes back to take on foreign champions in a tournament staged before an imperial audience.
Director: See-Yuen Ng | Stars: Cliff Lok, Jeong-lee Hwang, Kien Shih, Yeong-moon Kwon
Votes: 81
25. The Delinquent (1973)
R | 100 min | Drama, Action
A low budget kung fu movie - an ambitious martial arts student infiltrates a murderous gang in the hope of finding the man who killed his father.
Directors: Cheh Chang, Chih-Hung Kuei | Stars: Chung Wang, Lily Li, Betty Pei Ti, Ti Lu
Votes: 200
26. The Protectors (1975)
70 min | Action
Ling Xiao and Guan Wanglong are protectors of Zhongyuan Escort Agency. Both of them have powerful Kung-Fu and are resourceful, and are valued by the Agency master. Guan carries a torch for ... See full summary »
Director: Wu Ma | Stars: Lieh Lo, Ai-Hua Yang, Pei-Shan Chang, Shen Chan
Votes: 58
27. Pan ni (1973)
113 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Ling Xi is a young man from a wealthy, respectable family in a relationship with Cindy, an underaged singer who suffers physical abuse from her father.
Director: Cheh Chang | Stars: David Chiang, Agnes Chan, Lung Ti, Ti Lu
Votes: 61
28. Lin Chong ye ben (1972)
88 min | Action, Drama
The Sung Dynasty army's Chief Instructor is on a danger-fraught pilgrimage to the Tung Yueh Temple.
Director: Kang Cheng | Stars: Hua Yueh, Chin-Feng Wang, Mei Sheng Fan, Paul Chun
Votes: 55
29. The Fearless Hyena (1979)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Action
A young man whose sickly grandfather has taught him a secret form of Kung Fu, starts to make a living off of his unique fighting style, only to attract the attention of his grandfather's mortal enemy.
Director: Jackie Chan | Stars: Jackie Chan, James Tien, Dean Shek, Hui-Lou Chen
Votes: 5,406
30. Mad Mission (1982)
93 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A "James Bond" type burglar named King Kong (Sam Hui) tries to redeem himself and joins forces with Albert "Baldy" Au (Karl Maka), a bumbling police detective from the states, to try to ... See full summary »
Director: Eric Tsang | Stars: Samuel Hui, Karl Maka, Sylvia Chang, Dean Shek
Votes: 1,826
31. Iron Fisted Monk (1977)
R | 93 min | Action, Drama
A lowly restaurant worker aims to take revenge on the Manchurian thugs who killed his boss by joining a Shaolin temple under the advise from a monk who rescued him from certain death.
Director: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung | Stars: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Sing Chen, Hoi-Pang Lo, James Tien
Votes: 1,045
32. Mad Mission Part 2: Aces Go Places (1983)
100 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Black Gloves (Joe Dimmick), a European Assassin, is seeking to avenge his brother White Gloves' death against reformed criminal King Kong (Samuel Hui) and Detective Albert "Baldy" Au (Karl ... See full summary »
Director: Eric Tsang | Stars: Samuel Hui, Karl Maka, Sylvia Chang, Yasuaki Kurata
Votes: 1,322
33. A Family Affair (1984)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
To get their parents back together, two clever siblings team up with their grandpa in a series of mischievous antics.
Director: Dean Shek | Stars: Helen Chan, Olivia Cheng, Samuel Hui, Dean Shek
Votes: 90
34. Wang ming tu (1972)
77 min | Action, Adventure, Western
Siu and Ma are two bandits who ride from town to town robbing banks and killing anyone who tries to stop them. When a hold up goes wrong, Siu is caught, and soon realizes that Ma has kept the money and isn't coming to rescue him.
Director: Tseng-Chai Chang | Stars: Ching Lee, Lieh Lo, Feng Ku, Shao-Hung Chan
Votes: 62
35. Hun duan nai he tian (1966)
100 min | Musical
Li Hsiang-Chun stars as a poor beauty who is drugged, ravished, lied to, locked in a burning store room, left to drown and chased by sword-wielding ruffians.
Director: Li Kao | Stars: Ivy Ling Po, Hsiang Chun Li, Ming Lei, Hsiung Chao
Votes: 11
36. Killer Darts (1968)
87 min | Action, Drama
Liu Wen-lung's home is attacked by bandits led by Chou Chao. Liu's wife was killed, but his son Yu-long was saved by a faithful servant by hiding in a well.
Director: Meng-Hua Ho | Stars: Ping Chin, Hua Yueh, Shao-Hung Chan, Pei-Shan Chang
Votes: 112
37. Esprit D'amour (1983)
98 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A young woman has a tragic accident, slipping on a skateboard and falling off the roof of a tall building. Koo Chi Ming, an insurance investigator, is sent to determine whether the girl's ... See full summary »
Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Alan Tam, Shu-Chun Ni, Philip Chan, Pik-Wan Tang
Votes: 206
38. Bald-Headed Betty (1975)
90 min | Action, Drama
A young, innocent girl is forced into prostitution. Luckily for her, there is a kind man who tries to save her.
Director: Sum Cheung | Stars: Meg Lam, James Yi Lui, Liu-Mei Wen, Shek-Ching Law
Votes: 38
39. Merry Christmas (1984)
96 min | Comedy, Romance
A widower named Baldy longs for his lovely neighbor, but is unable to summon the courage to tell her until another man enters the picture and forces his hand.
Director: Clifton Ko | Stars: Karl Maka, Paula Tsui, Danny Bak-Keung Chan, Loletta Lee
Votes: 177
40. Mai fu (1973)
97 min | Action, Adventure
This movie sees Officer of the law Wan Chao-fan and his father being framed for a robbery they didn't commit. With only his father's sword at the scene and the man nowhere to be found, ... See full summary »
Director: Meng-Hua Ho | Stars: Ching Lee, Hsiung Chao, Chih-Ching Yang, Hsieh Wang
Votes: 160
41. Games Gamblers Play (1974)
Not Rated | 107 min | Comedy
A con man and a small time gambler team up to hustle their way to great fortune.
Director: Michael Hui | Stars: Samuel Hui, Michael Hui, Betty Ting Pei, Yau-Wai Lui
Votes: 259
42. All the Wrong Spies (1983)
102 min | Action, Comedy
A private detective gets mixed up with stolen Nazi atomic bomb formulas.
Director: Teddy Robin Kwan | Stars: George Lam, Brigitte Lin, Teddy Robin Kwan, Suk-Chi Chan
Votes: 191
43. Yin yang dao (1969)
87 min | Action
A kung fu knight walks the road to vengeance after the evil Ghost Gang kills his wife and son. The swordsman known as "Twin Blades" must take on a quartet of color-coded cutthroats to set things right.
Director: Ching Doe | Stars: Yun Ling, Li Ching, Hung-Lieh Chen, Ching Yu
Votes: 56
44. Gui liu xing (1971)
Action, Adventure
There was a civil strife in the court. In order to protect the king, some loyal ministers and the king hid in an old house. This old house was known as a haunted house; whoever lived in the house shall die for sure.
Director: Wei Lo | Stars: Nora Miao, Yin Tse, Wei Lo, Stanley Sui-Fan Fung
Votes: 36
45. The Villains (1973)
80 min | Adventure, Drama
Director: Yuen Chor | Stars: Hua Yueh, Szu Shih, Hung-Lieh Chen, Feng Chin
Votes: 12
46. No End of Surprises (1975)
90 min | Drama
The film consists of three stories: "All about Mahjong", "The Women Killer", and "The White Lie".
Director: Mu Chu | Stars: Jackie Chan, Li-Li Chen, Ke-Wei Cheng, Siu Ping Cheng
Votes: 116
47. Dirty Kung Fu (1978)
89 min | Action, Comedy
Gao Jai is a young man with minimal Kung Fu skills who spends his time spotting wanted criminals, then finding bounty hunters who fight the villains and claim the reward, in the hope of earning a percentage.
Director: Chia-Yung Liu | Stars: Yue Wong, Cecilia Wong, Karl Maka, Billy Chan
Votes: 59
48. The Last Message (1975)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy
Ah Tim (Michael Hui) is a handy man and Li (Samuel Hui) is a nurse in the Hang Seng Sanitarium. Together thez engage in dubious plots and exploits.
Director: Michael Hui | Stars: Michael Hui, Samuel Hui, Roy Chiao, Eileen Humphreys
Votes: 227
49. Cupid One (1985)
95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Sally Yeh is a socialite who accidentally stows away on board "Cupid One", a small boat making a ten day trip to Thailand.
Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Sally Yeh, Mark Cheng, Yin Cheung Joh, Erik Ka-Kei Chan
Votes: 61
50. Chun huo (1970)
92 min | Drama
The rebel son of a police-detective falls in love with the waitress of a night-club, with tragic consequences.
Director: Chen Lo | Stars: Jimmy Wang Yu, Margaret Hsing Hui, Feng Tien, Ching Lin
Votes: 24