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Plot Summary:
When Aryong, the daughter of a triad boss from Hong Kong is accused of killing the boss of a competing triad, she is goes into hiding in Korea. Upon arriving, she is guided by a nimble but loyal Gi-chul and his motley crew, who are assigned to protect her until her return.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China, South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, realistic, stylized, crime drama
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Dreadnaught (1981)
Plot Summary:
A short-tempered, violent criminal named "White Tiger" is on the run from the police and joins a theater troupe for disguise, killing anyone who angers him or who suspects his identity. One person he unsuccessfully tries to kill several times is a cowardly laundry man named "Mousy" who manages to escape mostly by running and hiding. When a very close friend of Mousy's is killed by the White Tiger, Mousy overcomes his cowardliness enough to seek revenge. Spectacular martial arts and acrobatics highlight the film, including a well choreographed fight between two pairs of men in dragon costume.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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God of Gamblers II (1990)
Plot Summary:
Wong Jing's sequel to All for the Winner and spin-off to God of Gamblers finds Chow Sing Cho looking up to Michael "Dagger" Chan in order to become Ko Chun's next disciple, but the two must put aside their differences when they discover that a gang boss is bent on ruining the God of Gamblers' name.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, slapstick
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Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan (1972)
Plot Summary:
18 year old Ainu (Lily Ho) is kidnapped and sold to a brothel. Her good looks and wild personality make her very popular with the lustful clients, but also draws the lesbian attentions of brothel madam Betty Tei Pei. Betty teaches Ainu the ways of lust and the ways of kung fu, and Ainu becomes more and more similar to her captor. But rage at her treatment is still burning inside her.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 810
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: epic, tense, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, surreal, stylized, sexual
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Top Squad (1988)
Plot Summary:
The film revolves around a crack squad of female police officers who have to deal with harassment and a lack of respect from their male colleagues, personal issues as well as some serious criminals.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 656
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, slapstick
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Seoul Raiders (2005)
Plot Summary:
In this sequel to "Tokyo Raiders", wisecracking, kung-fu-fighting spy/private eye Lam jets off to Seoul.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Comedy, Action
Country: South Korea, Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, semi serious, realistic, tense
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Legendary Weapons of China (1982)
Plot Summary:
Legendary Weapons of China is a martial arts fantasy film taking place during the late Qing Dynasty when Empress Dowager Cixi dispatches her agents to various factions of the Boxer Rebellion in order find supernatural martial artists that are invulnerable to western bullets. When one of the leaders of these groups disbands his forces, assassins from the remaining factions are sent out to kill him.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, semi serious
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My Wife Is a Gangster (2001)
Plot Summary:
Eunjin who is a living legend among the gangsters dominates the male-centered underworld wielding only a pair of her trademark blades. One day, Eun-jin finds her sister from whom she was separated at an orphanage during childhood, and her sister tells Eun-jin that her last dying wish is to see that Eun-jin gets married.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, humorous, semi serious, romantic comedy, realistic, stylized, crying, weeping
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My Wife Is a Gangster 2 (2003)
Plot Summary:
Former Scissor Gang leader Eun-jin (Shin Eun-kyung), who now suffers from amnesia, nevertheless defends Jae-cheol (Jun Gyu Park), a restaurateur who employs her, from a gangster who wants his business.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, exciting, crime drama
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Race Gurram (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ram and Lakshman a.k.a Lucky are brothers. Ram is a sincere guy who grows up to become an honest cop. Lucky is a happy-go-lucky guy who enjoys life. Ram and Lucky have a tom and jerry kind of fight going on. Siva Reddy is a factionist who wants to become a politician. Ram gathers evidence against Siva Reddy and Lucky unintentionally intercepts them. The rest of the story is all about the race between Lucky and Siva Reddy.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 163 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, tense, light, captivating, realistic
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Legend of the Wolf (1997)
Plot Summary:
Wolf (Donnie Yen) is a war veteran who recounts the tale of his legendary youth to a young upstart killer (Edmond Leung). Flashback to a post-World War 2 time when the young Wolf (Yen) is wandering the Chinese countryside in search of his missing memories. He only knows to meet someone at an abandoned temple. He ends up hooking up with a local villager (Dayo Wong), who intends to guide the Wolf to his destination. On the way, they find Wai-Yee (Carmen Lee), who’s been waiting for Wolf for quite some time. However, Wolf still can’t remember anything, until the bad guys (led by Ben Lam) come to find him, and they bear the terrible secret of the Wolf's past.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 746
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: bloody, scenic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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The Return of the God of Gamblers (1994)
Plot Summary:
Chow returns to play Ko Chun, a skilled gambler who now lives in retirement in France. Wu Xingguo plays an evil gangster who forces Ko out of retirement by killing his pregnant wife. Ko is forced to team up with a variety of other people to win out in the end. Wu Chien-lien plays Chow's romantic interest, Chingmy Yau plays a Taiwanese femme fatale, and Tony Leung provides much of the laughs.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: crime drama, slapstick, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, slapstick comedy
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Deadly Life of a Ninja (1983)
Plot Summary:
A businessman and his sister-in-law are targeted for assassination by a band of evil ninjas and their vicious leader (Yasuaki Kurata). The ninjas are committing bizarre murders all over the city, and the police can't seem to pick up their trail -- so they call in ninja hunter and Kendo master Mr. Chow (Kuan Tai Chen). To take down the silent killers, Mr. Chow will have to fight against incredible odds in this campy ninja classic.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Comedy, Action
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, exciting, humorous, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious
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Enter the Phoenix (2004)
Plot Summary:
Georgie Hung is handsome, stylish and charming but he hides a secret that his old-fashion father, Hung who is a Triad leader, can never forgive. He has been sent to Thailand since he was a child and never returned. After Hung's death, his right-hand Cheung intends to bring back Georgie to take over. However, Cheung finds Sam, Georgie's flat-mate, whom he mistakes for Geogie.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, exciting, realistic, fast, dark comedy, queer cinema
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Yes, Madam! (1985)
Plot Summary:
Asprin (Mang Hoi) and Strepsil (John Shum), two petty thieves who inadvertently become involved in a murder case when they steal items belonging to a murdered man. The man had hidden an important microfilm in his passport, which the thieves pass onto a forger friend Panadol (Tsui Hark). Inspector Ng (Michelle Yeoh) is assigned to the case, along with Inspector Morris (Cynthia Rothrock) from Scotland Yard! The investigation leads the cops to the bumbling crooks and soon they are on Triad leader Tin's (James Tien) tail, he will stop at nothing to get the incriminating film back and with his hitman and bodyguard (Dick Wei) at his side, he proves too much for the inspectors to catch using legal means, in frustration they give up their badges and go after Tin alone.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: stylized, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, crime drama, perverse, suspenseful, fast, independent film
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Twins Mission (2007)
Plot Summary:
Twins Mission is a 2007 Hong Kong martial arts-action-comedy film directed by action choreographer Kong Tao-Hoi and staring Gillian Chung, Charlene Choi and Sammo Hung among others. The film is a bit of a spoof of the popularity and success of the Twins and leaves the audience with a cliffhanger ending.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 738
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, rough, humorous, realistic, semi serious, fast
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No Blood No Tears (2002)
Plot Summary:
Gyung-sun is a washed-up cab driver who has been trying to go straight after years in trouble with the law after being a big-time safecracker. Soo-jin wants to be a famous singer, but lives the life of a trophy girlfriend to her vicious gangster boyfriend. An unlikely situation cause these two different women to meet where they plan a daring solution to both their problems that will escalate and threaten the wrath of many powerful and corrupt people around them.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 686
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, crime drama, exciting, neo noir, realistic
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The Spies (2012)
Plot Summary:
Kim, a North Korean spy, lives in South Korea for 22 years and is contacted unexpectedly by his superior. His team plans to complete an earlier mission and steal the target's large stockpile of cash.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, entertaining, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Bodyguard 2 (2007)
Plot Summary:
The best agent of Vieng, the country near the boundary of Thailand received the important mission that he had to catch two armed dealers who could be the dangerous for his country.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Thailand
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, exciting, humorous
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The Bodyguard (2004)
Plot Summary:
A professional bodyguard who failed to protect his Choti, most successful businessman, is fired by his employer's son. The son inherits his fathers company but is then targets by assassins who want to gain control of the estate. He is forced to hide out in the slums where a kind family looks after him and sparks up a relationship with their tomboy daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Thailand
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, realistic, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick, parody
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Challenge of the Masters (1976)
Plot Summary:
The Wong family kung fu school gets smacked around by a rival school. Wong Fei-hong gets fed up with the abuse and goes to learn from his fathers master. After one of the rival schools members kills some of the towns people Wong Fei-hong becomes enraged trains even more comes back and gets his revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 796
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, fast
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Martial Arts of Shaolin (1986)
Plot Summary:
Jet Li weasels out of the north Shaolin temple to assassinate a despotic ruler at the ruler's extravagant public birthday celebration. Two other men from the south Shaolin temple also set out to assassinate the ruler, but all three fail and are chased all over by soldiers. Meanwhile, one of the southerners turns out to be a cross-dressed woman, who is also discovered to wear a footbell to match Jet Li's, meaning they are somehow slated for an arranged marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, cult classic, cult film
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The Guillotines (2012)
Plot Summary:
During the Manchurian-ruled Qing Dynasty, Emperor Yong Zheng established a secret assassination squad known as the Guillotines to eliminate all who opposed him. Once heavily favored by the Emperor, the Guillotines are deemed expendable once Emperor Qian Long ascends to the throne and adopts Western ideas and technology. To consolidate his power under a new regime, the Emperor continues to use the Guillotines to persecute the conquered Han Chinese in a reign of terror and oppression. Written by Anynomous.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: China, Haiti, Hong Kong
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating
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Blades of Blood (2010)
Plot Summary:
In the 16th century in Chosun dynasty, HWANG Jung-hak and LEE Mong-hak create the “Grand Alliance” with the united dream of a better world. While the new leader LEE dreams of eradicating this world of all its corruption and becoming king himself, the legendary blind swordsman HWANG who had once been his comrade goes after him with the loss of his good friend at the hands of LEE. Just as the king abandoned his kingdom from Japanese invasion, the two come face-to-face inside the empty palace and begin their last battle they were destined to fight.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 834
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, serious, tense, epic, realistic, stylized
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Another Public Enemy (2005)
Plot Summary:
Things start to heat up when public prosecutor Kang takes on the case of Han Sang-woo, a former high school classmate and the future chairman of the Myung-Sun Foundation. Despite his innocent facade, Kang's old friend looks to be guilty of bribery, embezzlement, and even murder. But with Han always one step ahead of Kang, what can our hero do to bring this white collar "public enemy" to justice?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 674
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags: crime drama, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Bodyguard: A New Beginning (2008)
Plot Summary:
'A New Beginning' focuses around the story of Leung, the bodyguard of a Chinese Triad boss, Wong, to whom his loyalty is unrivaled. Living in Hong Kong, Wong requests that his bodyguard travel to the UK to protect a young British woman, whose true identity is known only by Wong himself. Even his own errant son, Yuen, is kept in the dark, which leads to a betrayal that threatens to destroy the family and all that his father has worked hard to protect.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, crime drama, rough, realistic
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The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman (2010)
Plot Summary:
A tale of revenge, honor and greed follows a group of misfits that gets involved with a kitchen cleaver made from the top five swords of the martial arts world in this wild and brash action comedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 708
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: China, Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, stylized, exciting, semi serious, epic, fast
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Gallants (2010)
Plot Summary:
Master Law awakes from a 30-year coma without memories, but his martial arts skills are intact. His renowned kung fu academy is now a teahouse, and greedy developers are trying to steamroll it to make way for condos.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 991
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, tense, light, offbeat, realistic, semi serious
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House of Fury (2005)
Plot Summary:
Teddy Yu is a former secret agent turned chiropractor who thought he left his past behind. He teaches martial arts to his two kids. However, his past catches up to him as a rogue agent demands to know the whereabouts of an agent known as Dragon. Now, father and children must team up to stop the rogue agent and his goons.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, light, cult classic, realistic, suspenseful
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Guns & Talks (2001)
Plot Summary:
Guns & Talks is a South Korean film released in 2001. Directed by Jang Jin, it is a comedy about two brothers and their two friends. These four form a group of assassins, who have attracted the attention of a couple of pesky detectives, Sergeant Kim and Inspector Cho.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, witty, cynical, black comedy, crime drama, realistic, semi serious
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Fool N Final (2007)
Plot Summary:
A bunch of misfits and gangsters embarks on a journey to find a lost and stolen diamond.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious