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Plot Summary:
A kind-hearted fisherman, content with simple life, is reluctantly drawn into helping a noble emperor regain his throne from his evil brother.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: stylized, semi serious
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Handsome Siblings (1992)
Plot Summary:
One hundred seventy years ago, a wise monk made a section of land known as the Villians Valley, a sanctuary. Anyone who came to the valley was considered protected and safe from the law. The proclamation also stated that they should have a chance at repentance. The Master of Eva Palace, who is now master of the martial arts world, holds no regard for the ancient laws and enters the valley in search of the 10 Untouchable Villians because she has a warrant of justice to destroy them. The remaining 8 villians were actually the 10 Untouchable Heroes until they were framed by two of their own members, The Twin Villians, and used as scapegoats.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scenic
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Duel of the Iron Fist (1971)
Plot Summary:
Tan Jen-chieh’s life spins out of control when he’s forced into exile to clear his name following the murder of his adopted father. He’s hunted in the streets. His lover, Butterfly, turns to prostitution. And his father’s likely killer – a smooth operator known as the Rambler – is always lingering nearby. But before Tan and the Rambler can slit each other’s throats, they learn they’ve been double-crossed and go two against everyone in a rage of double-edged vengeance.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 578
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: bloody, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Swordsman III: The East Is Red (1993)
Plot Summary:
A royal official accompanies a Portuguese warship to the Black Cliffs to see the site of the defeat of the evil Invincible Asia, who attained supernatural abilities by following the sacred scroll and castrating himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious
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Five Fingers of Death (1972)
Plot Summary:
A young boxer joins a martial arts school to increase his skill so he can enter a martial arts competition. he leaves the school when he hears that a local gangster is terrorizing the town. he comes to the aid of a young singer and brings on the wrath of the local gang. he eventually enters the martial arts competition after learning iron palm technique and takes out all competition.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, serious, realistic, stylized, psychotronic, campy, cult film
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The Bride with White Hair 2 (1993)
Plot Summary:
For ten years, Cho has been in the snow of Mount Shin Fung waiting for a rare flower to blossom that will cure his wife who, back in Chung Yuan, is slowly killing all of the members of the Eight Big Clans. Something Cho did to her early in their marriage has turned her hair white and driven her mad. Cho's nephew, Kit, marries Lyre; they are deeply in love. On their wedding night, Ni-Chang, the bride with white hair, kidnaps Lyre and takes her to her harem of fighting women to indoctrinate her against Kit. Kit tries to lead a rescue party, but they are up against formidable opponents. Can Cho come in time with the blossom to soften Ni-Chang's heart?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Butterfly Lovers (2008)
Plot Summary:
This movie is based on the Butterfly Lovers, or Liang Zhu, a Chinese legend about the tragic romance between two lovers, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. Retelling the Wuxia version of the story, it was filmed in Shanghai in 2008. The story features Taiwanese popstar Wu Chun as Liang Shanbo and Hong Kong Twins popstar Charlene Choi as Zhu Yingtai.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Action, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, atmospheric, epic, serious, stylized
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The Twins Effect (2003)
Plot Summary:
An evil Duke attempts to kill and collect the blood of a royal family of European vampires in order to become all powerful. The only surviving member of the family travels to Hong Kong, only to complicate his struggle by falling in love with a mortal girl who just happens to have a vampire hunter for a brother.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, semi serious, humorous, underground film, fast
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The Bride with White Hair (1993)
Plot Summary:
The sensitive swordsman Cho Yi-Hang is tired of his life. He is the unwilling successor to the Wu-Tang clan throne and the unsure commander of the clan's forces in a war against foreign tribes and an evil cult. One day, he meets the beautiful Lien, a killer for the evil cult who is equally unsatisfied with her situation, but their love angers both the Wu-Tang clan and the evil cult.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspenseful, surreal, scary, exciting, serious, stylized, epic, splatter
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Beyond Hypothermia (1996)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious and highly successful hitwoman in Hong Kong is paid to assassinate top-level crime bosses. After beginning a relationship with a noodle vendor, she decides to travel to South Korea to complete one last job. Unfortunately, the dead man's bodyguard is out for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, serious, stylized, neo noir, crime drama
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The Iceman Cometh (1989)
Plot Summary:
During the Ming dynasty, Yuen Biao is a royal guard charged to capture a dangerous criminal. The battle which opposes them will make them fall into ice. Three centuries later, nowdays, the archaeologists give them again the life. Only a black jade Buddha and a temporal wheel would be able to make them return in their time. The battle would start again.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: slapstick, humorous, semi serious, slapstick comedy
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Saviour of the Soul (1991)
Plot Summary:
A woman blinds a martial arts master and his pupil vows revenge on her. She is forced to abandon her loved ones without explanation in order to protect them from her ill-intentioned pursuer.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 757
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: futuristic, stylized, semi serious, fast
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The Blade (1995)
Plot Summary:
A young man adopted by a renowned swordsmith, discovers that his real father was killed by a powerful bandit called Lung. Leaving to seek revenge, he runs foul of a group of vicious desert scum, losing his right arm in the process. After being nursed back to health, he eventually learns to compensate for his loss and returns to confront the man who murdered his father.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: perverse, exciting, rough, epic, serious, suspenseful, stylized, cult film
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Butterfly and Sword (1993)
Plot Summary:
Dynamo Michelle Khan stars as a loyalist who attempts to keep the King's empire from being overthrown by a revolutionary group. Top fight action.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, stylized
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Tai-Chi Master (1993)
Plot Summary:
Falsely accused for cheating in a martial arts competition, two boyhood friends are banished from their Shaolin Temple and go their separate ways. As adults, they join opposing sides in a civil war. When one betrays the other, they settle their differences mano-a-mano.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: cult classic, exciting, serious, stylized, fast
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Ichi (2008)
Plot Summary:
Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and walking stick. She’s in search for the kind man that brought her up as a child, but because of her beauty she encounters problems every step of the way. Fortunately for Ichi, she is also a gifted swordswoman and carries a lethal blade within her walking stick.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, epic, suspenseful, scenic, period piece, cult classic, atmospheric, serious, realistic
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The Sorcerer and the White Snake (2011)
Plot Summary:
The Sorcerer and the White Snake is an ancient Chinese fable about a woman demon who falls in love with a mortal is brought to life through the latest advances in CGI and action techniques.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, stylized, exciting, romantic, epic, psychotronic
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The Magic Crane (1993)
Plot Summary:
On his way to a congress of kung fu masters, an initiate falls from a high cliff, only to be rescued by lovely Tien Lam (Anita Mui), who rides a huge (and sorry-looking) crane. The rest of the movie features a battle between warring martial arts factions, an equally fierce rivalry between the two daughters of the Crane Master, the accidental empowerment of an unprincipled master after having eaten half of a secret scroll, a battle with an immense tortoise whose spleeny vapors save a group of poisoned swordsmen, lots of great aerial fights against nearly invincible villains, and the usual blood spurting from assorted mouths.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Action, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, semi serious
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The Man with the Iron Fists (2012)
Plot Summary:
In feudal China, a blacksmith who makes weapons for a small village is put in the position where he must defend himself and his fellow villagers.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Action
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: stylized, exciting, suspenseful, bloody, cult classic, epic, romantic, retro, scenic, action packed
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Dragon Inn (1992)
Plot Summary:
During the Ming Dynasty, Tsao Sui Yan, the power-hungry and ruthless eunuch leader of East Chamber, craves his own kingdom. He intends on destroying the rebelling clans by using a traitorous secretary's children as bait. Ultimately, the two warring factions - the rebels led by Chow Wai-on and Mo-yan Yau, the East Chamber led by Tsao - end up in the rundown Dragon Inn right in the middle of the desert. Jade King, the beautiful owner and proprietor of Dragon Inn, hopes to cash in on the incident. But problems arise when Wai-on, desperate for the quickest route of escape, attempts to marry Jade in hopes of prying her for information; and the two clans go head-to-head in a no-holds barred finale battle.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, stylized, epic, cult classic
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The New Legend of Shaolin (1994)
Plot Summary:
A young father and his infant son are beset by forces of evil and corruption. They wander China, upholding their sense of honor and protecting the weak. When they are forced into combat, spectacular and hilarious fast-motion kung fu sequences follow. In the end, they must call on all of their abilities in a battle royale, to attempt to vanquish a supernatural man-monster or die trying.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, stylized, tense, suspense, suspenseful, cult classic, fast, cult film
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The Chinese Connection (1972)
Plot Summary:
Chen Zhen returns to the international compound of China only to learn of his beloved teacher's death. This is compounded by the continual racist harassment by the Japanese population in the area. Unlike his friends, he confronts it head on with his mastery of martial arts while investigating his teacher's murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, grindhouse, cult classic, stylized, harsh, psychological, retro
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Golden Swallow (1968)
Plot Summary:
Golden Swallow revolves around the further adventures of its title character. This time around, she is forced into violence when a figure from her mysterious past goes on a killing rampage while leaving evidence that holds her responsible. Golden Swallow also makes room for a love triangle involving a mad, but righteous, swordsman named Silver Roc and a gentle warrior named Golden Whip. The three team up to conquer the evil forces of the martial world, but their joint venture only lasts so long, due to the two men's egos. Ultimately, a duel to the death is planned between them, leaving Golden Swallow caught between two men, both of whom she admires.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 834
Genere: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, spaghetti western, cult film
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Kung Fu Jungle (2014)
Plot Summary:
A martial arts instructor working at a police academy gets imprisoned after killing a man by accident. But when a vicious killer starts targeting martial arts masters, the instructor offers to help the police in return for his freedom.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, rough, suspenseful, scenic, crime drama, perverse, cult classic, serious, realistic
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Reign of Assassins (2010)
Plot Summary:
Set in ancient China, Zeng Jing is a skilled assassin who finds herself in possession of a mystical Buddhist monk's remains. She begins a quest to return the remains to its rightful resting place, and thus places herself in mortal danger because a team of assassins is in a deadly pursuit to possess the remains which holds an ancient power-wielding secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspenseful, exciting, serious, captivating, stylized, fast
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14 Blades (2010)
Plot Summary:
Trained in clandestine combat from childhood, the Jinyiwei were masters of the 14 Blades; eight being for torture, five for killing, and the last blade reserved for suicide when a mission failed. An elite force of secret agents with a license to kill, the Jinyiwei devoted their lives and lethal prowess to the service of the Emperor alone. When the Imperial Court is taken over by evil eunuch Jia (Law Kar Ying), the best of the Jinyiwei, Qinglong (Donnie Yen) is assigned to steal a list identifying those still loyal to the Emperor. However unbeknownst to Qinglong, the Jinyiwei have fallen under the control of Jia, and during the mission Qinglong is betrayed and barely escapes with his life. Now as the most wanted man in the land, Qinglong must seek out and rally the loyalists to rise against Jia and restore the Emperor to power. In his way are the deadliest assassins in the land, his former brethren, the Jinyiwei.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, History, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China, Singapore
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, stylized, serious, epic
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The White Dragon (2004)
Plot Summary:
In this swordfighting comedy, a young noblewoman falls in love with a prince of the Imperial House. By accident, she acquires the martial arts skills of the White Dragon. New in her power, she learns that there are definite advantages in performing "good deeds" as the Little White Dragon.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, captivating
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Shanghai Grand (1996)
Plot Summary:
Gangsters abound in this lively, romantic crime drama that is set in Shanghai during WW II. The tale of Taiwanese patriot Hsu Wen-Chiang begins as he is washed up on a beach near Shanghai. He is taken in by Ting Lik, a kindly beggar who is desperately in love with Feng Ching-Ching, the daughter of a prominent gangster. It isn't long before Ting Lik successfully rises through the underworld ranks to become one of the city's most powerful gangsters. Hsu is beside him all the way and uses his own power to get revenge against those who tried to have him killed much earlier. The film's later focus is on the exploits of Feng who long ago had a relationship with Hsu when he was on the lam in northern China. Back in the present, Hsu and Feng meet again by chance and they resume their affair until Hsu learns that Feng's father is one of his enemies and kills him. Poor Feng goes mad with grief. Ting finds out and swears revenge upon Hsu.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 874
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: heroic, crime drama, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, gloomy
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Rich and Famous 2 (1987)
Plot Summary:
After being released from prison, Tang Kat-Yung exacts revenge on Li Ah Chai, in this sequel to Rich and Famous.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 673
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: heroic, crime drama, cult classic, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, stylized, nostalgic
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Ninja Assassin (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ninja Assassin follows Raizo, one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan, a secret society whose very existence is considered a myth. But haunted by the merciless execution of his friend by the Clan, Raizo breaks free from them and vanishes. Now he waits, preparing to exact his revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA, France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: brutal, bloody, exciting, action packed, suspenseful, rough, grindhouse, fast paced, stylized, epic
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House of Flying Daggers (2004)
Plot Summary:
In 9th century China, a corrupt government wages war against a rebel army called the Flying Daggers. A romantic warrior breaks a beautiful rebel out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 115000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: visually stunning, stylized, visual, exciting, epic, sexy, breathtaking, emotional, enigmatic, scenic