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101. A Better Tomorrow (1986)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Lung Ti, Leslie Cheung, Chow Yun-Fat, Emily Chu
Votes: 25,474
102. 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: 11,321
103. Zuotian (2001)
R | 112 min | Biography, Drama, Music
An actor becomes increasingly introverted and psychotic and his entire family attempts to intervene.
Director: Yang Zhang | Stars: Xiuling Chai, Fengsen Jia, Hongsheng Jia, Tong Wang
Votes: 800 | Gross: $0.02M
104. Kong que (2005)
136 min | Drama
China in the late 1970s and early 1980s: the life of an ordinary working family as seen through its three siblings.
Director: Changwei Gu | Stars: Jing An, Li Feng, Changwei Gu, Meiying Huang
Votes: 1,125
105. Sunflower (2005)
129 min | Drama, Romance
Relationship between father and son on a background of Maoist regime in China in the mid-20th century. The father, a painter by profession, interned in a labor camp for "re-education" and ... See full summary »
Director: Yang Zhang | Stars: Joan Chen, Zhang Fan, Ge Gao, Bin Li
Votes: 726 | Gross: $0.02M
106. Mad Detective (2007)
Not Rated | 89 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
A rookie cop teams up with a former detective with a supernatural gift to hunt down a serial killer.
Directors: Johnnie To, Ka-Fai Wai | Stars: Ching Wan Lau, Andy On, Ka-Tung Lam, Kelly Lin
Votes: 8,131 | Gross: $0.00M
107. Angels Wear White (2017)
TV-14 | 107 min | Drama
In a small seaside town, two schoolgirls are sexually assaulted by a middle-aged man in a motel. Mia, a teenager who was working on reception that night, is the only witness. For fear of losing her job, she chooses to keep silence.
Director: Vivian Qu | Stars: Vicky Chen, Meijun Zhou, Ke Shi, Le Geng
Votes: 2,492
108. Love Education (2017)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, Music
A dying old lady reminisces about her happier moments. Her daughter, Hui Ying, decides to move her father's grave from his hometown to beside her mother's grave. However, his first wife, ... See full summary »
Director: Sylvia Chang | Stars: Sylvia Chang, Zhuangzhuang Tian, Yueting Lang, Ningfeng Song
Votes: 1,022
109. Youth (2017)
Not Rated | 135 min | Drama, Romance, War
A look at the lives of members of a Military Cultural Troupe in the 1970s.
Director: Xiaogang Feng | Stars: Xuan Huang, Miao Miao, Caiyu Yang, Elane Zhong
Votes: 3,476 | Gross: $1.89M
110. Full Contact (1992)
R | 99 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Two disreputable friends get tied in with a group of criminals who turn out to be excessively violent and deceptive.
Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Simon Yam, Ann Bridgewater, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong
Votes: 4,835
111. The Killer (1989)
R | 111 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A disillusioned assassin accepts one last hit in hopes of using his earnings to restore vision to a singer he accidentally blinded.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Danny Lee, Sally Yeh, Kong Chu
Votes: 51,092
112. Drug War (2012)
R | 107 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A drug cartel boss who is arrested in a raid is coerced into betraying his former accomplices as part of an undercover operation.
Director: Johnnie To | Stars: Louis Koo, Honglei Sun, Yi Huang, Michelle Ye
Votes: 10,863 | Gross: $0.13M
113. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006)
115 min | Drama, Romance
A day laborer is badly beaten, and a young man nurses him back to health.
Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Norman Atun, Pearlly Chua
Votes: 2,417 | Gross: $0.02M
114. Yi Yi (2000)
Not Rated | 173 min | Drama, Romance
Each member of a middle-class Taipei family seeks to reconcile past and present relationships within their daily lives.
Director: Edward Yang | Stars: Nien-Jen Wu, Elaine Jin, Issei Ogata, Kelly Lee
Votes: 28,433 | Gross: $1.14M
115. Mahjong (1996)
121 min | Comedy, Drama
When a well known businessman goes missing, owing $100m to Taipei's underworld, two hoods decide to follow his son, the leader of a youth gang. A small group of trendy foreigners gets caught up in the action.
Director: Edward Yang | Stars: Tsung Sheng Tang, Chang Chen, Lawrence Ko, Chi-tsan Wang
Votes: 1,649
116. Yellow Earth (1984)
TV-PG | 89 min | Drama, History, Music
A communist soldier travels to Shanbei to collect folk songs for propaganda while visiting a poor peasant family, giving hope to the teenage daughter in escaping an arranged marriage.
Director: Kaige Chen | Stars: Xueqi Wang, Bai Xue, Quiang Liu, Tuo Tan
Votes: 2,573
117. Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014)
Not Rated | 110 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
An ex cop and his ex partner decide to follow up on investigation of a series of murders that ended their careers and shamed them, when identical murders begin again.
Director: Yi'nan Diao | Stars: Fan Liao, Gwei Lun-Mei, Xuebing Wang, Jingchun Wang
Votes: 9,581
118. The Emperor's Shadow (1996)
130 min | Drama, History
Epic drama about China's first emperor (221 BC) who struggles to make his childhood best friend, now China's greatest composer, succumb to his will and compose a grand anthem to his exploits.
Director: Xiaowen Zhou | Stars: Wen Jiang, You Ge, Qing Xu, Chung Chang
Votes: 722 | Gross: $0.07M
119. Ermo (1994)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Drama
A woman gets obsessed with buying a television for her family.
Director: Xiaowen Zhou | Stars: Liya Ai, Peiqi Liu, Zhijun Ge, Haiyan Zhang
Votes: 462 | Gross: $0.06M
120. Qingchun wu hui (1991)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama
Zheng Jianong, a bulldozer driver, has been suffering from illness for years and his wife leaves him
Director: Xiaowen Zhou | Stars: Lan Shi, Fengyi Zhang, Yunlong Liu, Liping Lü
Votes: 20
121. Big Fish & Begonia (2016)
PG-13 | 100 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
A 16-year-old girl travels to the human world in the form of a dolphin and forms a connection with a human boy.
Directors: Xuan Liang, Chun Zhang | Stars: Guanlin Ji, Shangqing Su, Timmy Xu, Shulan Pan
Votes: 6,773
122. Temptress Moon (1996)
R | 130 min | Drama, Romance
Not far from Shanghai, in a country town stands the palatial home of the Pang family. Old Master Pang is an addict who brings up his beautiful daughter Ruyi on opium smoke. Her older ... See full summary »
Director: Kaige Chen | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Gong Li, Kevin Lin, Saifei He
Votes: 2,040 | Gross: $1.08M
123. The Hole (1998)
95 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical
While never-ending rain and a strange disease spread by cockroaches ravage Taiwan, a plumber makes a hole between two apartments and the inhabitants of each form a unique connection, enacted in musical numbers.
Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Stars: Kuei-Mei Yang, Kang-sheng Lee, Miao Tien, Hui-Chin Lin
Votes: 4,408
124. Center Stage (1991)
126 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Biopic of 1930s Chinese actress Lingyu Ruan.
Director: Stanley Kwan | Stars: Maggie Cheung, Han Chin, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Carina Lau
Votes: 2,724
125. Red Rose White Rose (1994)
110 min | Drama
Chronicles the love life of a man, Zhenbao. He has a steamy fling with the wife of a friend, the saucy and exciting Red Rose. Even though he feels happy with her, he knows he will not end ... See full summary »
Director: Stanley Kwan | Stars: Joan Chen, Veronica Yip, Winston Chao, Zhao Chang
Votes: 328
126. Operation Red Sea (2018)
TV-MA | 142 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
PLA Navy Marine Corps launch a hostage rescue operation in the fictional Republic of Ihwea and undergo a fierce battle with rebellions and terrorism.
Director: Dante Lam | Stars: Yi Zhang, Johnny Huang, Hai-Qing, Jiang Du
Votes: 7,950 | Gross: $1.54M
127. Wrath of Silence (2017)
Not Rated | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young boy tends sheep on a hillside in Northern China goes missing. His mute father looks for him with a special way of solving problems: Fisticuffs.
Director: Yukun Xin | Stars: Wu Jiang, Yang Song, Wenkang Yuan, Hu An
Votes: 2,226
128. An Elephant Sitting Still (2018)
230 min | Crime, Drama
Four people in a Chinese city live through a complicated day as their lives intersect.
Director: Bo Hu | Stars: Yu Zhang, Yuchang Peng, Uvin Wang, Zi Xi
Votes: 8,007 | Gross: $0.03M
129. Matrimony (2007)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A woman finds the key to a room in the attic that her husband forbids her from entering. When she opens the door, she is confronted with the haunting existence of the woman her husband refuses to forget.
Director: Hua-Tao Teng | Stars: Leon Lai, Rene Liu, Bingbing Fan, Songzi Xu
Votes: 366
130. The Opium War (1997)
153 min | Drama, History, War
Qing official Lin Zexu burns the opium of British traders in a bid to end the opium trade. Incensed by his actions, the British traders appeal to their government, leading to the First Opium War and the eventual cessation of Hong Kong.
Director: Jin Xie | Stars: Guoan Bao, Liankun Lin, Sihung Lung, Debra Beaumont
Votes: 599
131. Yes, Madam! (1985)
TV-MA | 93 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Two unlucky thieves break into a just murdered man's hotel room and steal his passport with a hidden microfilm wanted by a triad boss. Two hard kicking women cops from HK and UK get the case.
Director: Corey Yuen | Stars: Michelle Yeoh, Cynthia Rothrock, John Sham, Hoi Mang
Votes: 2,940
132. Legend of the Demon Cat (2017)
TV-14 | 129 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
When a demon cat appears and breaks the peace of Chang'an City, causing a series of strange events, poet Bai Letian and monk Kukai join hands to investigate the death of the emperor's concubine by following the trail left by the cat.
Director: Kaige Chen | Stars: Xuan Huang, Shôta Sometani, Yuqi Zhang, Hao Qin
Votes: 3,047
133. China Cry: A True Story (1990)
PG-13 | 101 min | Biography, Drama, History
This is the true story of Sung Neng Yee, now known as Nora Lam, who fled from Communist China to Hong Kong for her palpably real Christian faith.
Director: James F. Collier | Stars: Julia Nickson, France Nuyen, James Shigeta, Russell Wong
Votes: 568 | Gross: $4.21M
134. Election (2005)
Unrated | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Rival gang leaders are locked in a struggle to become the new chairman of Hong Kong's Triad society.
Director: Johnnie To | Stars: Louis Koo, Suet Lam, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Eddie Cheung
Votes: 11,377
136. Red River Valley (1997)
115 min | Drama, History, Romance
At the turn of the century, a young Chinese girl escapes from a religious sacrifice, and is rescued by an honorable Tibetan herdsman. The two fall in love, but problems arise when she is ... See full summary »
Director: Xiaoning Feng | Stars: Jing Ning, Bing Shao, Zhen Ying, Paul Kersey
Votes: 379
137. Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018)
Not Rated | 138 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A man went back to Guizhou, found the tracks of a mysterious woman. He recalls the summer he spent with her twenty years ago.
Director: Bi Gan | Stars: Tang Wei, Jue Huang, Sylvia Chang, Hong-Chi Lee
Votes: 9,415 | Gross: $0.50M
138. Jiang hu er nü (2018)
Not Rated | 136 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A story of violent love within a time frame spanning from 2001 to 2017.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Tao Zhao, Fan Liao, Zheng Xu, Casper Liang
Votes: 10,619 | Gross: $0.42M
139. Postmen in the Mountains (1999)
Unrated | 93 min | Drama
A father, a retiring mailman, walks his son over his job in the mountainous regions of Hunan province.
Director: Jianqi Huo | Stars: Rujun Teng, Ye Liu, Hao Chen, Hao Dang
Votes: 1,791 | Gross: $0.20M
140. Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983)
Unrated | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A Chinese soldier in an ancient civil war flees the battlefield and gets caught up in a fantastical quest to save the world from evil.
Director: Hark Tsui | Stars: Biao Yuen, Hoi Mang, Adam Cheng, Brigitte Lin
Votes: 3,055
141. A Borrowed Life (1994)
167 min | Drama
Autobiographical story about the life of a poor family in the Taiwanese countryside during the 1940s and 1950s as the Japanese rule of the island ends and nationalist forces of Kwomintang arrive when the Communists take the mainland.
Director: Nien-Jen Wu | Stars: Akio Chen, Shu-Fang Chen, Jun Fu, Yung-Feng Lee
Votes: 333
142. The Horse Thief (1986)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama
A Tibetan man struggles to provide for his family.
Directors: Zhuangzhuang Tian, Peicheng Pan | Stars: Rigzin Tseshang, Jiji Dan, Daiba, Drashi
Votes: 1,554
143. Ninja in the Dragon's Den (1982)
95 min | Action, Comedy
Two rival warriors, a Japanese and a Chinese, are forced to work together after their master has been killed by a mighty enemy.
Director: Corey Yuen | Stars: Hiroyuki Sanada, Conan Lee, Jeong-lee Hwang, Kaname Tsushima
Votes: 2,048
144. The River (1997)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Romance
A young man develops severe neck pain after swimming in a polluted river; his dysfunctional parents are unable to provide any relief for him or themselves.
Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Stars: Miao Tien, Kang-sheng Lee, Yi-ching Lu, Ann Hui
Votes: 3,332
145. Rebels of the Neon God (1992)
Not Rated | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Within the urban gloom of Taipei, four youths face alienation, loneliness, and moments of existential crisis amidst a series of minor crimes.
Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Stars: Wang Yu-wen, Chen Chao-jung, Kang-sheng Lee, Jen Chang-bin
Votes: 5,538 | Gross: $0.03M
146. Stray Dogs (2013)
Not Rated | 138 min | Drama
An alcoholic man and his two young children barely survive in Taipei. They cross path with a lonely grocery clerk who might help them make a better life.
Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Kuei-Mei Yang, Yi-ching Lu, Shiang-chyi Chen
Votes: 3,097
147. Days (2020)
Unrated | 127 min | Drama
Kang lives alone in a big house, Non in a small apartment in town. They meet, and then part, their days flowing on as before.
Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Anong Houngheuangsy
Votes: 1,910
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