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1. The Last Samurai (2003)
R | 154 min | Action, Drama
Nathan Algren, a US army veteran, is hired by the Japanese emperor to train his army in the modern warfare techniques. Nathan finds himself trapped in a struggle between two eras and two worlds.
Director: Edward Zwick | Stars: Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Billy Connolly, William Atherton
Votes: 471,192 | Gross: $111.11M
2. 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
R | 122 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who's awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher.
Director: James Mangold | Stars: Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Ben Foster, Logan Lerman
Votes: 331,115 | Gross: $53.61M
3. Empire of the Sun (1987)
PG | 153 min | Drama, War
A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers
Votes: 134,321 | Gross: $22.24M
4. Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
R | 99 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
In Shanghai, China in the 1940s, a wannabe gangster aspires to join the notorious "Axe Gang" while residents of a housing complex exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf.
Director: Stephen Chow | Stars: Stephen Chow, Wah Yuen, Qiu Yuen, Siu-Lung Leung
Votes: 150,871 | Gross: $17.11M
5. Ip Man (2008)
R | 106 min | Action, Biography, Drama
During the Japanese invasion of China, a wealthy martial artist is forced to leave his home when his city is occupied. With little means of providing for themselves, Ip Man and the remaining members of the city must find a way to survive.
Director: Wilson Yip | Stars: Donnie Yen, Simon Yam, Siu-Wong Fan, Ka-Tung Lam
Votes: 233,612
6. Garden State (2004)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A quietly troubled young man returns home for his mother's funeral after being estranged from his family for a decade.
Director: Zach Braff | Stars: Zach Braff, Peter Sarsgaard, Natalie Portman, Ian Holm
Votes: 223,203 | Gross: $26.78M
7. The Sand Pebbles (1966)
PG-13 | 182 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In 1926, a U.S. Naval engineer gets assigned to a gunboat on a rescue mission in war-torn China.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen
Votes: 16,432
9. Red Dust (1932)
Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The owner of a rubber plantation becomes involved with the new wife of one of his employees.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gene Raymond, Mary Astor
Votes: 4,932 | Gross: $1.70M
10. 7 Women (1965)
Passed | 87 min | Drama
In 1935 China, seven dedicated missionary women try to protect themselves from the advances of a barbaric Mongolian warlord and his cut-throat gang of warriors.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Anne Bancroft, Sue Lyon, Margaret Leighton, Flora Robson
Votes: 2,664
11. The Final Master (2015)
Not Rated | 109 min | Action, Drama
A Wing Chun master has to defeat 8 martial arts schools to open his own school, yet he has become a chess piece to the local power dynamics.
Director: Haofeng Xu | Stars: Fan Liao, Jia Song, Wenli Jiang, Shih-Chieh King
Votes: 2,832
12. Kilukkam (1991)
155 min | Comedy
A tourist guide in Ooty shelters a mentally unstable woman in return for the reward offered by her relatives. Later, he comes to know that she is in danger from her relatives.
Director: Priyadarshan | Stars: Mohanlal, Jagathy Sreekumar, Revathi, Kollam Thulasi
Votes: 4,614
13. Gunda (1998)
Not Rated | 129 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
When a coolie's family is murdered by a group of gangsters and politicians, he swears revenge on them.
Director: Kanti Shah | Stars: Mithun Chakraborty, Mukesh Rishi, Mohan Joshi, Shakti Kapoor
Votes: 10,940
14. Jodi No. 1 (2001)
Not Rated | 180 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Partners in crime Jai and Veeru set their next target on a rich businessman, Rai Bahadur. Things turn hilarious when both of them fall for his daughters.
Director: David Dhawan | Stars: Sanjay Dutt, Govinda, Twinkle Khanna, Monica Bedi
Votes: 2,705 | Gross: $0.08M
15. Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1990)
115 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Canadian surgeon Dr. Norman Bethune (Donald Sutherland) journeys 1,500 miles into China to reach Mao Zedong's eighth route Army in the Wu Tai mountains where he will build hospitals, ... See full summary »
Director: Phillip Borsos | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Helen Mirren, Helen Shaver, Colm Feore
Votes: 414
16. Loha (1997)
Not Rated | 160 min | Action
Compelled to take the law into his own hands; Arjun from the Indian army is court-marshal and jailed. Years later; after his release from jail, he takes to alcohol in a big way and comes ... See full summary »
Director: Kanti Shah | Stars: Dharmendra, Mithun Chakraborty, Govinda, Manisha Koirala
Votes: 603
17. Muskurahat (1992)
135 min | Comedy, Drama
Retired Justice Gopichand Verma lives alone in scenic Ooty away from his family.Two friends Pritam works as a guide and Jaggan as photographer .Pritam comes across a beautiful Nandini ... See full summary »
Director: Priyadarshan | Stars: Jay Mehta, Revathi, Annu Kapoor, Jagdeep
Votes: 361
18. Coolie No. 1 (1991)
146 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A matchmaker takes revenge on a rich man for being insulted by posing a poor coolie as a multimillionaire and marrying him to the rich man's daughter.
Director: K. Raghavendra Rao | Stars: Venkatesh Daggubati, Tabu, Babu Mohan, Mohan Babu
Votes: 733
19. Ujala (1959)
TV-14 | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An impoverished male turns to crime, kills someone, tries to make a honest living but ends up becoming a suspect for theft.
Director: Naresh Saigal | Stars: Mala Sinha, Shammi Kapoor, Raaj Kumar, Leela Chitnis
Votes: 88
20. The Chinese Exclusion Act (2017)
TV-PG | 114 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here to become U.S. citizens.
Directors: Ric Burns, Li-Shin Yu | Stars: Hoon Lee, Mae Ngai, Jean Pfaelzer, David Lei
Votes: 104
21. Passage from Hong Kong (1941)
Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Set in Hong Kong on the eve of the Japanese invasion and a version of "The Second Floor Mystery (1930)", Jeff Hunter (Douglas Kennedy), a writer of pulp thrillers, tries to woo a reluctant ... See full summary »
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Lucile Fairbanks, Douglas Kennedy, Paul Cavanagh, Richard Ainley
Votes: 61
22. On the Border (1930)
Passed | 46 min | Drama, Family, Western
Farrell is taking advantage of the proximity of the rancho of Don Jose to the Mexican border by smuggling Chinese across the line into the United States. Dave, a border patrol officer ... See full summary »
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Rin Tin Tin, Armida, John Litel, Philo McCullough
Votes: 22
23. Jungle Menace (1937)
Passed | 308 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
In the Asian province of Seemang where the Bay of Bengal meets the jungle, Chandler Elliott (John St. Polis) owns a large and prosperous rubber plantation. His attractive daughter, Dorothy (... See full summary »
Directors: Harry L. Fraser, George Melford | Stars: Frank Buck, Sasha Siemel, Reginald Denny, Esther Ralston
Votes: 45
24. The Blonde from Singapore (1941)
Passed | 69 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
A couple of adventurous pilots-turned-pearl-divers encounter a helpless woman whose missionary parents have died. They entrust their cache of pearls to her, but discover that she is actually not what she claims.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Florence Rice, Leif Erickson, Gordon Jones, Don Beddoe
Votes: 40
25. Kriss (1931)
Passed | 48 min | Fantasy, Romance
The story of two young men, one a prince of royal Bali-blood and the other defined as a coolie, and they are both in love with Dasnee, a slave girl possessing the sensuous charms for which ... See full summary »
Directors: Armand Denis, Andre Roosevelt
Votes: 16
26. Happy-Go-Lucky (1936)
Passed | 69 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A singer (Venable) believes her marine pilot husband, accused of treason, has died in the Pacific. She finds a man who looks exactly like her husband dancing in a club act. Realizing it is ... See full summary »
Director: Aubrey Scotto | Stars: Phil Regan, Evelyn Venable, Jed Prouty, William Newell
Votes: 84
27. Outlaws of the Orient (1937)
Approved | 61 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Johnny Eaton, trouble-shooter for an American oil company drilling in China, leaves his bride-to-be to head for the Orient and straighten out problems at the inland-concession site his ... See full summary »
Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack | Stars: Jack Holt, Mae Clarke, Harold Huber, Ray Walker
Votes: 29
28. Drame à la Nanda Devi (1951)
57 min | Documentary, Adventure
Director: Jean-Jacques Languepin | Stars: Roger Duplat, Gilbert Vignes, Alain Barbezat, Louis Dubost
29. Believe It or Not (Second Series) #12 (1932)
TV-G | 8 min | Short
During Robert L. Ripley's absence on a world tour, 'Leo Donnelly' narrates scenes of oddities in the Philippines, Japan, Luxembourg and other places.
Stars: Leo Donnelly, Robert L. Ripley, James E. Marvin
Votes: 25
31.
26 Men (1957–1959)
Episode:
Destination Nowhere
(1957)
26 min | Western
The Rangers set out to stop a smuggling ring that's bringing Chinese immigrants across the Colorado River.
Director: Reg Browne | Stars: Tristram Coffin, Kelo Henderson, Lane Bradford, Joe Angel
32.
Cimarron City (1958–1960)
Episode:
Chinese Invasion
(1959)
Approved | 60 min | Western
Cimarron City's businessman band together to build a railroad spur to the main track, but have only 90 days to do it or a neighboring town will be awarded the contract. The general ... See full summary »
Director: Justus Addiss | Stars: George Montgomery, John Smith, John McIntire, Dan Blocker
Votes: 15
33.
Kung Fu (1972–1975)
Episode:
The Garments of Rage
(1974)
TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Disciple opposes master when Caine takes a stand against a renegade Shaolin priest terrorizing a railroad company in America to avenge his nephew's death.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: David Carradine, James Shigeta, James Olson, Philip Ahn
Votes: 86
34.
Kung Fu (1972–1975)
Episode:
The Way of Violence Has No Mind
(1974)
TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Caine, pitted against a Chinese Robin Hood, teaches a boy that only the heart can truly conquer.
Director: Lee Philips | Stars: David Carradine, Gary Merrill, Ron Soble, Robert Ito
Votes: 102