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1. Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
R | 139 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A middle-aged Chinese immigrant is swept up into an insane adventure in which she alone can save existence by exploring other universes and connecting with the lives she could have led.
Directors: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert | Stars: Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ke Huy Quan
Votes: 532,363 | Gross: $72.86M
2. The Breaking Point (1950)
Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An otherwise moral captain of a charter boat becomes financially strapped and is drawn into illegal activities in order to keep up payments on his boat.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter, Juano Hernandez
Votes: 4,380
3. The Foreigner (I) (2017)
R | 113 min | Action, Thriller
A humble businessman with a buried past seeks justice when his daughter is killed in an act of terrorism. A cat-and-mouse conflict ensues with a government official, whose past may hold clues to the killers' identities.
Director: Martin Campbell | Stars: Katie Leung, Jackie Chan, Rufus Jones, Mark Tandy
Votes: 123,247 | Gross: $34.39M
4. Shanghai Noon (2000)
PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A Chinese man travels to the Wild West to rescue a kidnapped Princess. After teaming up with a train robber, the unlikely duo takes on a Chinese traitor and his corrupt boss.
Director: Tom Dey | Stars: Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Lucy Liu, Brandon Merrill
Votes: 135,183 | Gross: $56.94M
5. Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)
R | 127 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
With personal crises and age weighing in on them, LAPD officers Riggs and Murtaugh must contend with deadly Chinese triads that are trying to free their former leaders out of prison and onto American soil.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo
Votes: 172,184 | Gross: $130.44M
6. Shanghai Knights (2003)
PG-13 | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When a Chinese rebel murders Chon's estranged father and escapes to England, Chon and Roy make their way to London with revenge on their minds.
Director: David Dobkin | Stars: Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Fann Wong, Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Votes: 112,501 | Gross: $60.48M
7. Year of the Dragon (1985)
R | 134 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A police detective cracks down on organized crime in Chinatown after the murders of Triad and Mafia leaders.
Director: Michael Cimino | Stars: Mickey Rourke, John Lone, Ariane, Leonard Termo
Votes: 17,638 | Gross: $18.70M
8. The Half of It (I) (2020)
PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Drama
When smart but cash-strapped teen Ellie Chu agrees to write a love letter for a jock, she doesn't expect to become his friend - or fall for his crush.
Director: Alice Wu | Stars: Leah Lewis, Daniel Diemer, Alexxis Lemire, Wolfgang Novogratz
Votes: 43,229
9. First Cow (2019)
PG-13 | 122 min | Drama, Western
A skilled cook has traveled west and joined a group of fur trappers in Oregon, though he only finds true connection with a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune. Soon the two collaborate on a successful business.
Director: Kelly Reichardt | Stars: Alia Shawkat, John Magaro, Dylan Smith, Ryan Findley
Votes: 21,941
10. Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993)
PG-13 | 120 min | Action, Biography, Drama
A fictionalized account of the life of the martial arts superstar.
Director: Rob Cohen | Stars: Jason Scott Lee, Lauren Holly, Robert Wagner, Michael Learned
Votes: 32,864 | Gross: $35.11M
11. The Second Civil War (1997 TV Movie)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama
A simple immigration issue spins wildly out of control for those involved, ranging from the President of the United States, to a news producer.
Director: Joe Dante | Stars: Beau Bridges, Joanna Cassidy, Phil Hartman, James Earl Jones
Votes: 2,264
12. King of California (2007)
PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Drama
An unstable dad who after getting out of a mental institution tries to convince his daughter that there's Spanish gold buried somewhere under suburbia.
Director: M. Cahill | Stars: Michael Douglas, Evan Rachel Wood, Willis Burks II, Laura Kachergus
Votes: 23,659 | Gross: $0.26M
13. Ned Kelly (2003)
R | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
An innocent man becomes one of the most wanted criminals the world has ever known.
Director: Gregor Jordan | Stars: Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush, Naomi Watts
Votes: 28,087 | Gross: $0.07M
14. Premium Rush (2012)
PG-13 | 91 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
In Manhattan, a bike messenger picks up an envelope that attracts the interest of a dirty cop, who pursues the cyclist throughout the city.
Director: David Koepp | Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Shannon, Dania Ramirez, Sean Kennedy
Votes: 118,458 | Gross: $20.28M
15. Broken Blossoms or the Yellow Man and the Girl (1919)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance
A frail waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp, Arthur Howard
Votes: 11,059
16. Seis Manos (2019– )
TV-MA | 27 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Orphans raised by a martial arts master are plunged into a mystery involving demonic powers, drug cartels, ancient rituals and blood sacrifice.
Stars: Danny Trejo, Mike Colter, Aislinn Derbez, Vic Chao
Votes: 1,933
17. Carry on Regardless (1961)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy
The Helping Hands agency employs some very strange people to perform some very strange jobs. Even the simplest of tasks get bungled by the incompetent but lovable staff.
Directors: Gerald Thomas, Ralph Thomas | Stars: Sidney James, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims
Votes: 2,496
18. L'idole (2002)
110 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Samantha Lang | Stars: Leelee Sobieski, James Hong, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Jalil Lespert
Votes: 616
19. Roommates (1995)
PG | 108 min | Comedy, Drama
An elderly yet young-at-heart man moves in with his grandson and both their lives turn upside-down.
Director: Peter Yates | Stars: Peter Falk, D.B. Sweeney, Julianne Moore, Ellen Burstyn
Votes: 1,998 | Gross: $12.10M
20. China 9, Liberty 37 (1978)
R | 102 min | Romance, Western
The railroad hires a condemned killer to murder an uncooperative rancher but the assassin fails to deliver, prompting the railroad men to go after him instead.
Directors: Monte Hellman, Tony Brandt | Stars: Jenny Agutter, Warren Oates, Fabio Testi, Sam Peckinpah
Votes: 1,409
21. Chinaman's Chance: America's Other Slaves (2008)
90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
1870's America. A Chinese immigrant falsely accused of murdering a white woman is viciously hunted down; he'll have to prove his innocence in a time when people of color had "no legal rights" and could be bought and sold for a profit.
Directors: Aki Aleong, Geqi Li | Stars: Reggie Lee, Timothy Bottoms, Jason Connery, Coolio
Votes: 204
22. Chan Is Missing (1982)
Not Rated | 76 min | Drama, Mystery
Two cab drivers search San Francisco's Chinatown for the mysterious Chan, who disappeared with their $4000.
Director: Wayne Wang | Stars: Wood Moy, Marc Hayashi, Laureen Chew, Peter Wang
Votes: 1,853
23. Ánimas (2018)
TV-MA | 83 min | Horror, Thriller
This time, horror comes fron the other side.
Directors: Laura Alvea, José Ortuño | Stars: Ángela Molina, Chacha Huang, Iván Pellicer, Luis Bermejo
Votes: 1,517
24. Appare-Ranman! (2020)
TV-14 | Animation, Adventure, History
In the late 19th century, two Japanese, an inventor and a samurai guard, get stranded in America. They enter a cross-country race from Los Angeles to New York to earn money to get home.
Stars: Aoi Yûki, Natsuki Hanae, Takahiro Sakurai, Sora Amamiya
Votes: 470
25. The Mysterious Mr. Wong (1934)
Approved | 63 min | Mystery
Mr. Wong stops at nothing to gain the possession of 12 coins of Confucius, which will bring him great power.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford, Arline Judge, E. Alyn Warren
Votes: 875
26. The Jade Pendant (2017)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, History, Western
A tragic love story set against the 1871 lynching of 18 Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles.
Director: Po-Chih Leong | Stars: Godfrey Gao, Clara Lee, Tzi Ma, Mark Boone Junior
Votes: 314
27. Grow Your Own (2007)
Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy
An English community gets testy when a refuge family is granted a plot of land on which to grow vegetables.
Director: Richard Laxton | Stars: Benedict Wong, Eddie Marsan, Omid Djalili, Alan Williams
Votes: 712
28. Real Time (2008)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
Andy, a hyperactive compulsive gambler, has just been given one hour to live before a hit eliminates him for overdue gambling debts. With the deadline looming, Andy chooses to spend his last hour in more than one unusual way.
Director: Randall Cole | Stars: Randy Quaid, Jay Baruchel, Jayne Eastwood, Lucy Filippone
Votes: 2,515
29. Night Ride (2019)
95 min | Drama
One night, Naomie, a stripper and bewitching call girl, gets into Jin's cab. Intrigued by Jin's muteness, she asks him to become her official taxi. As the nights go by, a beautiful but dangerous love story develops between them.
Director: Frédéric Farrucci | Stars: Guang Huo, Camélia Jordana, Xun Liang, Xiaoxing Cheng
Votes: 459
30. Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (2016)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary
A small financial institution called Abacus becomes the only company criminally indicted in the wake of the United States' 2008 mortgage crisis.
Director: Steve James | Stars: Thomas Sung, Hwei Lin Sung, Cyrus Vance Jr., Matt Taibbi
Votes: 2,940 | Gross: $0.10M
31. Panic (I) (2014)
TV-MA | 85 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A troubled journalist is drawn into London's underworld when his beautiful neighbour is kidnapped.
Director: Sean Spencer | Stars: David Gyasi, Pippa Nixon, Jason Wong, Yennis Cheung
Votes: 112
32. Sex: My British Job (2013)
Not Rated | 63 min | Documentary
Nick Broomfield met Hsiao Hung Pai, a journalist who was working for the Guardian, when making his feature film 'Ghosts' (about the Morecambe Bay Chinese Cockle Pickers ). As an experiment ... See full summary »
Director: Nick Broomfield | Stars: Nick Broomfield, Hsiao-Hung Pai
Votes: 419
33. 12 Storeys (1997)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
Goofy middle-aged Ah Gu is not happy with his money-obsessed bride Lily, who only wants to go out.
Director: Eric Khoo | Stars: Jack Neo, Peter Boon Koh, Yi Fong Quan, May Yee Lum
Votes: 246
34. Little Wenzhou (2009 TV Movie)
94 min | Comedy, Romance
In France, an illegal immigrant in the Lille area, a young Chinese woman tries to pay back her smuggler by working as a manicurist.
Director: Sarah Lévy | Stars: Hang Yin, Hélène Patarot, Marisa Commandeur, Boramy Tioulong
Votes: 21
35. Little Bear and the Master (2008)
Not Rated | 87 min | Adventure, Family, Western
A family martial arts film in which Native American Ute traditions come face-to-face with their ancestor's Asian traditions. When Jung Lee shows up on the Ute reservation, he seems out of ... See full summary »
Director: Fred Dresch | Stars: Julian Lee, Bill Allard, Sabra Barton, Christoph Clark
Votes: 21
36. Ruk tee ror koi (2009)
113 min | Drama, Romance
Sangchan is a girl working in a factory who falls in love with an attractive guy named Rawee. As Rawee has to go study abroad, he keeps a promise of coming back to see Sangchan on October, ... See full summary »
Director: Somkait Vituranich | Stars: Ratchawin Wongviriya, Pitsanu Nimsakul, Tanawat Wattanaputi
Votes: 96
37. Black Lips (2018)
15 min | Short, Drama
A Chinese immigrant in Australia lives a solitary life of routine, but an unexpected journey leads to a new understanding of himself.
Director: Adrian Chiarella | Stars: Bryn Chapman Parish, Jason Chong, Adam Marks, Quentin Yung
Votes: 30
38. Flower Drum Song
Musical | Announced
A reimagining of Broadway musical of the same name, based on Chin Yang Lee's 1957 novel.
39. Combination Platter (1993)
Not Rated | 84 min | Drama
The story of one man desperately trying to obtain a green card by marrying an American woman.
Director: Tony Chan | Stars: Jeffrey Lau, Coleen O'Brien, Chit-Man Chan, Colin Mitchell
Votes: 167
40. She Walks (2015)
77 min | Drama
Lin Aiyu, an underground Chinese, prostitutes herself in the streets of Belleville. She lives with her daughter, from whom she hides her activity. Their life turns upside down when one evening, a stranger suddenly enters their home.
Director: Naël Marandin | Stars: Yannick Choirat, Lan Qiu, Louise Chen, Philippe Laudenbach
Votes: 51
41. American Dad
15 min | Short, Drama
Mason, a Taiwanese high school graduate, comes to visit his father's new family in the States and discovers his sexuality.
Director: Yu-Ming Cheng | Stars: David Alligood, Marbella Duricko, Quinn Knox, Chris Chih-Cheng Lee
43. A zöld sárkány gyermekei (2010)
89 min | Drama
Mate, a lonely, divorced real estate agent is put in charge by his boss to sell a suburban storage building. The storage is rented by the Chinese, who keep their semi-legal goods here ... See full summary »
Director: Bence Miklauzic | Stars: Zoltán Rátóti, Yu Debin, Eszter Bánfalvi, Ferenc Lengyel
Votes: 147
44. Two Nights (2006)
11 min | Short, Romance
Over two nights, a young Chinese immigrant has sexual encounters with two very different men. Consequently, he has to choose between the one he wants or the who wants him.
Director: Rolmar Baldonado | Stars: Ben Geurens, Paul W. He, Nicholas Papademetriou
Votes: 42
45. Beyond the Gardens' Wall (2011)
30 min | Documentary, Short
Beyond the Gardens' Wall tells the story of the immigrant Sikh and Chinese workers of Tod Inlet, B.C. and the impact of the harsh immigration restrictions on their lives. The families of ... See full summary »
Director: David R. Gray | Stars: Thierry Gondet, Peter J. Gray
46. Identity (2006)
83 min | Documentary
Documentary about 3 adult video performers, searching for their identities.
Director: Tetsuaki Matsue | Stars: Hiromi Aikawa, Anna, Jitta Hanaoka, Tetsuaki Matsue
Votes: 16
47. Angel Island Profiles: Tyrus Wong (2011)
6 min | Documentary, Short
Tyrus Wong, a 100 year-old retired artist, shares his journey to the United States to discover the truths about "Gold Mountain". At a young age Tyrus learned to paint and draw, when he ... See full summary »
Director: Jeffrey Gee Chin | Star: Tyrus Wong
48. The Four Immeasurables (2010)
7 min | Short, Drama
On a hot summer day, a Chinese calligrapher prepares to paint. As he does so, he begins to remember his past and the world that he was forced to abandon. Will he ever be able to keep alive the values of his own culture in an alien country?
Director: Keith Adam Johnson | Stars: Chi Lik Cheung, Warren Lee, Pearl Tan
49.
PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode:
Old Wounds
(1999)
TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A woman is somehow physically injured by the virtual reality space shooter game she's testing with its programmer. The team suspects that the game triggered suppressed traumatic memories of her life in communist China in 1989.
Director: Luc Chalifour | Stars: Matt Frewer, Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Colin Fox
Votes: 16
50.
Adam-12 (1968–1975)
Episode:
Mary Hong Loves Tommy Chen
(1972)
TV-PG | 25 min | Crime, Drama
Adam-12 arrives at a scene in Chinatown where a young man was beaten. He is an undercover officer working on Chinese gang problems. A young lady briefly appears but runs off before talking.... See full summary »
Director: James Neilson | Stars: Martin Milner, Kent McCord, Keye Luke, Virginia Ann Lee
Votes: 95