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Plot Summary:
Sammo is Courageous Cheung, a pedicab driver in a rural community who is known around town as the man who fears nothing. Well, this is proved false before the opening credits finish when he endures a particularly frightening nightmare of flesh-eating zombies. But, that's just the beginning of his run-ins with the supernatural.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: horror comedy, tense, atmospheric, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, weird
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Shaolin vs. Evil Dead: Ultimate Power (2007)
Plot Summary:
Sequel to Shaolin vs. Evil Dead.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, weird
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Death Karate in Torremolinos (2003)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Malvedades intends to bring back Jocántaro, a Beast of the Apocalypse. To do this, he uses underwater ninja zombies to kidnap five women who had recently lost their virginity for human sacrifices. Jess, a Catholic surfer who has commited to remain chaste until he's 24, tries to rescue his girlfriend, one of the kidnapped girls, along with his friends.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, scary, captivating, horror comedy, psychedelic, splatter, independent film, campy
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Mr. Vampire II (1986)
Plot Summary:
Modern grave robbing "archeologists" find perfectly preserved specimens from the past of a man, a woman, and their child. Unbeknownst to the scientist and his two bumbling assistants, these are vampires immobilized only by the paper spells pasted on their foreheads. While transporting the child to a buyer, its spell blows off and the vampire child escapes and befriends some local children. Eventually, the parent vampires are also awakened and escape, but by now the local herbalist is on their trail to destroy them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 852
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: horror comedy, scary, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Kung Fu Zombie (1981)
Plot Summary:
A criminal comes to town in order to kill Billy Chong over a past dispute. But instead of getting his own hands dirty, he hires a Taoist wizard to animate some zombies to do the job for him. The plan goes horribly awry, and the bad guy ends up getting killed in his own trap. This pisses off the villain's spirit and he forces the priest to reincarnate him - only they can't find a suitable body. Meanwhile, an undead fiend of sorts comes to town to kill Billy's father over some other past dispute. This is where all of Billy's kung fu training comes in handy, and he manages to kill the attacker. With this, the other bad guy finally has a body to use, but the reincarnation goes wrong and the corpse is reborn as a vampire.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 501
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: horror comedy, psychotronic, weird
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Encounter of the Spooky Kind II (1989)
Plot Summary:
Impoverished teahouse worker (and martial-arts student) Abao is engaged to his boss' daughter, Little Chu, and fights to protect her from the lecherous advances of the wealthy but repulsive Master Shi. The two men's romantic rivalry escalates into full-scale supernatural warfare after Shi enlists the aid of a wicked sorcerer, and Abao encounters a benevolent female ghost.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: eighties
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New Mr. Vampire 2 (1989)
Plot Summary:
Lam Ching-Ying returns as the famous "Vampire Buster," this time starring as the One-Eyebrown Priest. To save the village from paranormal menaces, he deals with and battles a host of mysterious creatures including: a little mischievous Chinese vampire; a lustful female ghost; the spirit of a woman murdered by a club owner and a European vampire and his blood-sucking pet bats.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 532
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scenic, scary, exciting, atmospheric, offbeat, gothic, humorous, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious
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Iron Fingers of Death (1982)
Plot Summary:
Two princes are seperated by birth. One is raised by the Prime Minister. The other is raised by three mad Shaolin Monks. They both learn kung-fu. When they are 23, they meet and combine there forces to defeat the evil 9th Prince.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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My Lucky Stars 2: Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Stars (1985)
Plot Summary:
The third installment in the Lucky Stars series, following Winners and Sinners (1983) and My Lucky Stars (1985)... The team are released from prison to play detective in order to stop a ruthless gang from ruining their reputations, taking their lives, and that of a key witness in an upcoming trial. They must battle their way through and with the help of Muscles, take down the bad guys.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: cult classic, action adventure, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, slapstick, detective
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The Prodigal Son (1981)
Plot Summary:
A rich man's son (Yuen Biao) believes himself to be the best kung fu fighter in Canton. Unfortunately, his father, anxious for his son's safety, bribes all his opponents to lose. After a humiliating defeat at the hands of an actor in a traveling theatre company, the son resolves to find a better teacher. Furious kung fu battles and slapstick comedy.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: cult classic, serious, cult film
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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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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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A Chinese Ghost Story II (1990)
Plot Summary:
Several years after his beloved Nieh has gone, Ning is innocently put into jail. Luckily, he meets a scholar, Elder Chu Kot, in the prison who finally helps him escape. Ning then meets a young witty monk Autumn. They become friends and live in an abandoned villa together. The villa is horrific, yet they choose to stay for a while. Later that night, some ghosts suddenly appear and attack; two parties fight heavily. But after clarifications, Ning and Autumn find that "the ghosts" are humans in disguise, who intend to save their leader from imprisonment but not hurting innocence. Among them, Ning finds someone who looks identical to Nieh, and considers she is the reincarnated Nieh. A real giant zombie has seen all these in behind and is ready to ambush.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, stylized, inspirational, serious, scary, tense, parody, thought provoking, breathtaking
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Shanghai Express (1986)
Plot Summary:
What happens when a glamorous express, with high government officials, wealthy merchants, concubines and a gang of brigands on board, speeds towards the small town of Hanshui, where escaping bank robbers, corrupt officials, and gamblers await? Well, let's just say the Titanic had a smoother maiden voyage.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Western
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: funny, slapstick, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, fast, spaghetti western, spoof, slapstick comedy
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Shaolin vs. Evil Dead (2004)
Plot Summary:
The plot thickens as heroes Pak and Ha discover the evil Dr. Magma's plan to reanimate the dead and take on the master-fighting Shaolin monks.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 399
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, serious, fast
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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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Winners & Sinners (1983)
Plot Summary:
Five friends are released from prison and do their best to stay out trouble. While trying to mind their own business (and run their 5-Star Cleaning Service), they are caught up in a war between rival Triad gangs fighting for control of the counterfeit currency market.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: action comedy, cult classic, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, fast, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Onmyoji: The Yin Yang Master (2001)
Plot Summary:
During a dark time in the Heian period, when evil forces threaten the kingdom, the emperor relies on the Onmyoji to keep the supernatural forces in line. But as political events become highly charged, friction within the order leads to betrayal. Now, Seimei (Mansai Nomura), a talented member of the clan, must face down his master, Doson (Hiroyuki Sanada), in the hopes of restoring peace to the kingdom.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful, epic, offbeat, serious, stylized, psychotronic
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A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)
Plot Summary:
Ning Tsai-Shen, a humble tax collector, arrives in a small town to carry out his work. No one is willing to give him shelter for the night, so he ends up in the haunted Lan Ro temple. There, he meets Taoist Swordsman Yen Che-Hsia, and the beautiful Nieh Hsiao-Tsing, with whom he falls in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, scary, talky, exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, stylized, surreal, inspirational
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Magic to Win (2011)
Plot Summary:
Nobody knows that Professor Hong Sum Kwai is actually the Water Magician, one of the five elemental wizards. One day, Hong accidentally loses his magical powers, which are transferred to his student Cheng Meisi. The girl happily uses the superhuman abilities she acquired by luck in life, at school, and on the volleyball court, but those powers also land her in trouble as a war of wizardry rages around her... Fire Magician Bi Yewu is desperate to turn back time to change a tragedy in the past, but to do so he needs to bring together the powers of all five elemental wizards. Wood Magician Gu Xinyue foresees catastrophe if time is warped, so he alerts the other wizards - including Earth Magician Ling Feng and Metal Magician Charlie - to join forces and prevent it from happening.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, stylized, semi serious
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Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983)
Plot Summary:
In the fifth century, constant civil war scars western China. To escape death, Ti, a young scout, jumps through a crevice in the Zu mountains where he meets and becomes the apprentice of Ting Yin, a spiritual man with great fighting powers. They encounter a monk, Hsiao Yu, also a great fighter and a good man, but unfriendly to Ting. Because Ting and Hsiao can't work together, it falls to Ti to team with Hsiao's acolyte Yi Chen: they have 49 days to travel far to claim two swords that are the only weapons that can defeat the Blood Demon, who has decided the wreak havoc on the world. They get help from Long Brows, Ting falls in love with a countess, and civil war still rages.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: cult classic, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, surreal, stylized, eighties, cult film
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A Chinese Ghost Story III (1991)
Plot Summary:
Having slept for a century, the monstrous Tree Devil is now awaken and starts finding lost souls again. One stormy night, a wise High Priest and his student Fong pass by the Orchid Temple and realize that it is haunted. Fong encounters two evil spirits, the seductive Lotus and her hated sister Butterfly in the temple. Although Fong knows his master wants to capture them, he finds himself being attracted by them so he sets them free. The monks stay at the temple has to be prolonged since Fong carelessly loses the valuable Gold Buddha. Later on, they come to a corrupt local town, while the High Priest meets Yin by chance and a series of misunderstandings evolve. Meanwhile, Fong encounters Lotus again and finds himself falling in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, atmospheric, stylized, semi serious, cult film
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Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (1978)
Plot Summary:
Everyone abuses and humiliates a downtrodden orphan (Chan) until he befriends an old man, who turns out to be the last master of the "snake fist" fighting style. Jackie becomes the old man's student and finds himself in battle with the master of the "eagle's claw" style, who has vowed to destroy the snake fist clan.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, grindhouse, fast paced, cult classic, exciting, realistic, fast, slapstick comedy, funny
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The Era of Vampires (2003)
Plot Summary:
In 17th century China, zombies and vampires roamed the lands, feeding on the unsuspecting. A group of martial artists / vampire hunters find themselves employed by a very rich - and very insane - old man who has kept everyone of his relatives preserved in wax and not buried. Apparently it is his family's tradition. So, having generations of potential zombies in your cellar may not be the smartest idea ever, but it takes two to tango. In this case, a thief wants the old-man's treasure and hires a zombie-wrangler to re-animate the waxed up relatives in order to sneak into the mansion and steal the treasure. It's up to the kung-fu fighting vampire hunters to save the day (or night).
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Hong Kong, Japan, Netherlands
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, scary, rough, suspenseful, suspense, serious, stylized, psychotronic
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The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974)
Plot Summary:
Professor Van Helsing had been asked to help against the tyranny of skeletal creatures that are responsible for terror and death amongst the peasants in rural China. He is the only person qualified to deal with the cause of these phenomena, for the undead are controlled by the most diabolical force of all.... Count Dracula. But he is not alone- to aid him comes a mystical brotherhood of seven martial arts warriors.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: UK, Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: semi serious, suspenseful, stylized, gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, captivating, perverse, offbeat, fast
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Mr. Vampire (1985)
Plot Summary:
The planned reburial of a village elder goes awry as the corpse resurrects into a hopping, bloodthirsty vampire, threatening mankind. Therefore, a Taoist Priest and his two disciples attempt to stop the terror.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, exciting, semi serious, slapstick, horror comedy, slapstick comedy, spooky, weird, corny
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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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A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box (1995)
Plot Summary:
Fantasy adventure about the arrival of Buddhism in China. When the Goddess of Happiness tosses the Longevity Monk and his disciples out of heaven (because the Monkey King tried to attain immortality), the Monkey King is reincarnated as the Joker. He now spends his time chasing two jealous women. When one of them is dying, the Joker goes back in time in an attempt to save her.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: stylized, exciting, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, spoof, parody, fun
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Return to the 36th Chamber (1980)
Plot Summary:
The workers of a dye factory have their pay cut by 20% when the factory owner brings in some Manchu thugs to try and increase production. Desperate to reclaim their full wages, the workers hire an actor to impersonate a priest and kung-fu expert from the temple of Shaolin. The factory owner proves the actor a fraud, and punishes all those involved. The young actor feels he has let the workers down, and promises to atone. He sets out for Shaolin, determined to be accepted as a kung-fu pupil at the elite temple.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, fast
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Woochi: The Demon Slayer (2009)
Plot Summary:
Spanning four centuries in Korea, this epic action-adventure concerns a powerful pipe and a trio of wizards who will do anything to protect it.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, History
Country: South Korea
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: epic, exciting, humorous, stylized, semi serious, offbeat
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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