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Plot Summary:
Those Were the Days... is a 2000 Hong Kong film directed by Raymond Yip. The film is a spin-off/prequel of the Young and Dangerous film series, as it follows the life of Chicken Chiu (Jordan Chan) before he joined the triads with the boss Chan Ho Nam (Ekin Cheng).
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: crime drama
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My Hero (1990)
Plot Summary:
Sing loves to read cartoons and often daydreams of becoming a tycoon and celebrity. By accident, he becomes a follower of Wai, a gang leader, and makes a friend of Wai's adopted son, Chun. The series of successes made by Sing and Chun breed contempt in Wai's heart. Wai plans to get rid of them so as to pave the way for his son to succeed to his own business. Still, his son kills him.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: crime drama, hood, comic
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Colour of the Loyalty (2005)
Plot Summary:
As befits a full-blooded Jiang Hu (underworld) antic, COTL takes place over the course of a short, frenetic period, feeling to all intents and purposes like one night. It encompasses plenty of gore and cadavers (unless you get the sanitized, inferior mainland version), relying to a large extent on so-called triad codes of honor and organizational culture. At its core resides old boss Dragon Brother, done by Eric Tsang in a repast from his barrage of comical roles and commercial endorsements. The head wants to retire, leading to chaos in gangland as everybody else desires his position and accumulated fortune. Following his fateful announcement, two rival Mafioso's become potential enemies as Dragon Brother and concubine (Suki Kwan) aim to leave Hong Kong in order to start a new life in Europe.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: crime drama
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China White (1989)
Plot Summary:
In Amsterdam - in the time before the legalisation of some drugs and the following growth of competition on the market - takes place a war between the Italian and Chinese mafia because of the control of the heroin market.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Action, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: heroic, crime drama
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Thunder Cop (1996)
Plot Summary:
Cop action movie clumsily inter-cut with slapstick. Dumb cop befriends triad guy who wants to go straight but is being set up by his unscrupulous drug dealing colleagues.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
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Goodbye, Mr. Cool (2001)
Plot Summary:
Ekin Cheng stars in this gritty triad action drama as Dragon, a talented former hitman who has reformed and is now a waiter at a blue collar cafe. However, when his ex-girlfriend becomes the queen of the Underworld, she becomes determined to entice him back to a life of crime. Resistant at first, Dragon gets pulled back into the crime world as a violent gang war erupts.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: crime drama
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Chevrolet (1997)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Javier Maqua.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: social
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Boxer from Shantung (1972)
Plot Summary:
Leaving the poverty of his life in Shantung to seek fortune in Shanghai, The Boxer is instead drawn into a world of corruption, gang warfare and evil... Where his only protection is his famed fighting technique.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Flaming Brothers (1987)
Plot Summary:
An early movie of Chow Yun-Fat. The story is about two brothers going into opposite directions in life. One leaves the triads to become an honest citizen, the other stays triads member. But in the end both hold together. A typical HK movie storylin in the 1980s.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 664
Genere: Action, Crime, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: heroic, crime drama, cult classic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco
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My Heart Is That Eternal Rose (1989)
Plot Summary:
The triangular relationship between Lap (Joey Wang). Rick (Kenny Bee) and Cheung (Tony Leung) is the backbone of this film. Lap's father was once a triad; he retired and opened a bar near seashore. Rick worked there and was a couple with Lap. Force by an old partner, Lap's father assisted in trafficking of his father, Lap became the mistress of Godfather Shen. Cheung was her driver and loved her deeply. Six years later, Rick became a professional assassinator and returned to Hong Kong for a job. he met Lap, and Lap decided to leave Godfather Shen. Of course Godfather Shen wouldn't let his woman get away from him. Cheung helped them to exile. Lap, Rick and Cheung united to confront Godfather shen and his follwers. A bloody gun battle begin. Could every one survive at the end?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: heroic, crime drama
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Young and Dangerous (1996)
Plot Summary:
Nam opens a bar in Wanchai and continues his rise in Hong Kong's Hung Hing gang. His best friend, Chicken, needs to lie low, so he's sent to Taiwan to work for Lui, leader of the San Luen gang; there, he falls for the aging Lui's mistress, Ting Yiu. When Chicken returns to Hong Kong, he finds Nam in a struggle with long time rival, Fai Fat. Then, Lui shows up, demanding that Hung Hing sell him a half interest in their new Macau casino. When Chiang, the Hung Hing boss, wants to think about it, Lui threatens war, Chicken must choose sides, and Ting Yui sets up a meeting. Chicken's affections, Fai and Nam's rivalry, Lui's greed, and Ting's intentions are on a collision course.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: neo noir, heroic, crime drama, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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A Moment of Romance (1990)
Plot Summary:
A story of a bank heist that almost ended in disaster (for the robbers) until their getaway driver Wah Dee (Andy Lau) took a young woman Jo Jo(Jacklyn Wu) hostage. After preventing her from getting killed by his accomplices, both began a forbidden relationship causing mayhem and chaos for their friends and family.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: neo noir, heroic, crime drama, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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As Tears Go By (1988)
Plot Summary:
Two parallel stories of Wah caught in the mist of a love affair with his beloved cousin, Ngor and his relationship with his triad brother, Fly, who seems to never fall out of trouble.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: neo noir, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, crime drama, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, black comedy
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Golden Job (2018)
Plot Summary:
A group of former mercenaries reunite to plan an epic heist: boosting a truck full of medicine held by a foreign intelligence agency to supply a refugee camp in need. But when they find the truck is actually filled with stolen gold, the band of brothers realize they’ve been double-crossed by one of their own - and putting the situation right will be all out war.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing, epic, exciting
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Born to Be King (2000)
Plot Summary:
Triad member Chicken is designated by Taiwan's San Luen Gang to marry Nanako, the daughter of the fifth generation leader of the Yamada Gang in Japan. Later, the leader of the triad group gets murdered. Actually, all the San Luen Gang members suspect Chicken attacked their leader Liu, in order to make a chance for him to rule the Gang and thus have adopted an extremely hostile attitude towards him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 769
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, crime drama, realistic
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Shinjuku Incident (2009)
Plot Summary:
Iron Zhao aka Steelhead, a truck repairman from China's Northeast, and settles down as an illegal immigrant in Tokyo. After a series of run-ins with the Yakuza, he rises to power as the Don of Chinese illegal immigrants. However, things get out of control when he's foolish enough to believe in clean getaways in a world that offers none, and soon comes to seal his own fate.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, neo noir, bloody, crime drama, cult classic, bleak, gloomy
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Revenge of the Green Dragons (2014)
Plot Summary:
A true immigrant story set against the vibrant backdrop of Flushing, N.Y. in the 1980s and 1990s.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, crime drama, action adventure, surprise ending, twist ending, crying
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Young and Dangerous: Portland Street Blues (1998)
Plot Summary:
This spin-off movie provides a different contrast to the familiar Young and Dangerous films with greater character development. This time, the story's focus is on a female character - Sister 13 (Sandra Ng) of the "Hung Hing" triad. In a triad underworld dominated by men, the film tells the story of how she faces trials and tribulations of rising to become the branch leader of Portland Street. The story shows the reasons she became a lesbian. The film also gives more details about the "Tung Sing" triad, and how the relationship between Sister 13 and Ben Hon develops.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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All in the Game (2011)
Plot Summary:
When East Baltimore drug King Pin, Ontario Banks (Nelson Irizarry) decides he wants total control of the entire city-wide drug trade, he enlists the help of his closest friends, Lucky (Micaiah Jones), Vince (Chris Clanton) and Littles (Kelvin Page), and his crew to take it all, one body at a time. Even if it means one of his own people. A war will rage in between Ontario, and Italian Drug cartel leader Michael Caprisci (Mike McMullin) on who will hold the crown.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, crime drama, rough, bleak, suspenseful
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A Hero Never Dies (1998)
Plot Summary:
Jack and Martin are members of rival Chinese triads in the middle of a gang war. Both of their gang leaders like to get advice from a fortune teller living in Thailand. On one such trip, Martin's gang ambushes Jack's at a Thai hotel. There is a spectacular shootout, in which both Martin and Jack are severely wounded. The leader of Jack's gang was at the hotel, unlike Martin's, and escapes. Afterwards, both gang leaders, Mr. Fong of Martin's and Mr. Yam of Jack's, go to a general and make peace. Meanwhile, both Jack and Martin are hospitalized. Martin's legs are amputated, and his girlfriend whores herself in order to get them back into Hong Kong.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: heroic, neo noir, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, fairy tale
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The Last Tycoon (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set in Shanghais Gangster era of the early 1900s, THE LAST TYCOON tells the tale of CHENG (Chow Yun-Fat), a young man who is set up by the chief of police (Sammo Hung) and must leave the life he knows and QIU (Monica Mok), the woman he loves, to start again. After escaping prison CHENG quickly and violently moves his way up the ladder of Shanghais criminal underworld to become on the most powerful mob bosses in Shanghais history. But fame and notoriety take their toll when CHENG finds himself stuck between the looming Japanese army and the scheming local secret service. Matters are only made worse when he bumps into the love of his life QIU, along with her writer husband. Will love re-kindle in the dusk of an era?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, retro, heroic, crime drama, rough, realistic
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Rich and Famous (1987)
Plot Summary:
To pay off his debt as a gambler, a man drags his sister and step-brother into a life of crime and a violent war between rival gang lords.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 749
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: heroic, crime drama, cult classic, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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China Girl (1987)
Plot Summary:
Teenage lovers Tony (Richard Panebianco) and Tyan-Hwa (Sari Chang) tip the balance of power in New York's Little Italy and Chinatown.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, crime drama, independent film, serious, realistic, tear jerker, tragic ending, modern day adaptation, tearjerker
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Footpath (2003)
Plot Summary:
Footpath is a Hindi crime thriller film directed by Vikram Bhatt and released in 2003. The film stars Aftab Shivdasani, Rahul Dev, Bipasha Basu and marked the debut of Emraan Hashmi. The film failed to do well at the box office. This film is inspired by the Hollywood flick State of Grace. Arjun Singh (Aftab Shivdasani) and the Srivastav brothers, Raghu (Emraan Hashmi) and Shekhar (Rahul Dev), are neighbors in a gangster-prone area in Bombay. When Arjun's union leader father is killed, the brothers urge him to avenge his death. They get a sword and find the killers - and kill them. Arjun is the prime suspect in this homicide and the brothers get him to run to Delhi, where he begins a new life as a Real Estate Agent, Mohan Kumar Sharma.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 966
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 164 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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A Dirty Carnival (2006)
Plot Summary:
Byung-du is a 29-year-old career criminal, working for the middle-rank enforcer Sang-chul. Burdened with a terminally ill mother and taking care of younger siblings, Byung-du is feeling financial pressure as a substitute patriarch. When the big boss President Hwang is cornered by a corrupt prosecutor, Byung-du volunteers for a whack job and wins the big man's trust.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, captivating, suspenseful, tense, bleak, realistic, neo noir, sincere, suspense
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Wo Hu (2006)
Plot Summary:
The Hong Kong Police placed 1000 undercover officers in the various Triad groups in their efforts to bring down the criminal organization in Hong Kong. After one undercover officer's identity is discovered and he is killed, the pressure is put on one gang, suspicious of each other and everyone around them. Betrayal, deceit and murder bring this group of 'brothers' into a collision with the law, and each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, heroic, crime drama, exciting, rough, serious, realistic
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Beast Cops (1998)
Plot Summary:
Ruthlessly realistic, and vivid and unremitting in its uncompromising brutality and honesty, Beast Cops is a visceral and hard-hitting exploration of the dichotomous existence of two cops charged with upholding the law, while balancing on a moral knife-edge. Compelling and controversial, with a breakout performance of startling intensity from leading man Anthony Wong, this raw and enticing action-thriller has mesmerized audiences worldwide with its disturbing examination of the subjective and marginal morality, which inhabits the uncertain and ambiguous world of law enforcement.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: neo noir, heroic, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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Colour of the Truth (2003)
Plot Summary:
A man becomes a cop in order to take down the police superintendent who may have killed his father, and that of a vengeful Triad boss.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Trivisa (2016)
Plot Summary:
The film is set in Hong Kong before its handover to China in 1997, when the city’s booming economy inadvertently attracts three infamous criminals from Mainland China to cross the border and make their fortune in Hong Kong. Although unknown to one another, their notoriety has bred the rumor that the triumvirate will join forces to stage a shocking heist together, so much so that the criminals themselves get wind of it and are tempted to do just that.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, heroic, crime thriller
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Hot Blooded (2022)
Plot Summary:
Kuam is a shabby port town in the shadow of stunning port city of Busan. Hee-su is a third-rate gangster who has been acting like a hotel manager under Don Son for 20 years. Seemingly out of nowhere, Yong-kang, who fled the country as a murder suspect, returns home and begins causing trouble all over town, which only adds pressure to Hee-su.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing
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Baseline (2010)
Plot Summary:
The Baseline is the centre of the East London grime club scene and the queue regularly stretches around the block. Danny works on the door - breaking up fights and managing drunk kids. However, when he rescues Terry, the club owner and local gang leader, from a hitman, Danny is suddenly plunged deep into an underworld he had tried so hard to avoid. Danny is promoted to manager, but only on the condition that he turns a blind eye to the shady goings on both on and off the dance-floor. Danny and his girlfriend Jessica dream of setting up their own club, but Danny is forced to make the ultimate sacrifice when he has to choose between loyalty, morality and his own dreams of escape.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense, rough, realistic