Genre - Drama
2 Become 1. A sensitive look at breast cancer. Though, I don't really recall Hong Kong movies ever being particularly insensitive about the topic. This is unusual, as Hong Kong movies typically have a cruel, schoolyard sense of humor about personal illness and... » MORE
20:30:40. The title refers to the amount of years that seems to pass while waiting for the movie to end. Basically the same story as Sex and the Beauties, only instead of thinking it's a comedy, this movie thinks it's an... » MORE
A1. No, it's not about a steak sauce. A-1 I imagine refers to the front page of the newspaper: section A, page 1. Ling (Angelica Lee Sinje) is a fashion reporter, Kevin (Edison Chen) her photographer. She wants to quit her... » MORE
Amar. Ahhh, the idyllic village life! Sweet, childish milkmaid Sonia (Nimmi) wakes up with pleasure and takes care of the animals, joyful yet lamenting that her stepmother always beats her -- she even dreams of beating her while she sleeps! ("That's... » MORE
Awaargi. Azaad (Anil Kapoor) is a petty thug a "goonda", his dad, head of a gang. But then he rescues Seema (Meenakshi), a village girl, from the local pimp and promises to make her a singing superstar. She loves him gratefully,... » MORE
Below the Lion Rock: Road. Grandma checks in to a women's rehab clinic to kick the opium habit, but her daughter Chui Fong (Carol DoDo Cheng) still puffs her life away, mainly because it is so dreary, and because her husband ran off after hearing... » MORE
Cafe Shop. Tsui Kam Kong is a fun Hong Kong actor who has been around for ages, playing masculine, bald, and mustached types for as long as I can remember. Whether engaged in wild, over-the-top wire fu or wild, over-the-top flying mad... » MORE
Cherie. Utterly charming romantic comedy showcasing one of the most popular stars of the early eighties, Cherie Cheung. I've never really gotten the appeal too much, but here she radiantly beautiful and puts in a good performance as well, so consider... » MORE
China's Next Top Princess. The title promised a sort of parody of the "Next Top Model"-type reality TV shows, a thin subject for parody as the reality shows themselves are already parodies of themselves. It doesn't matter, anyway, as the movie itself is totally... » MORE
Cocktail. Candy (Candy Lo) owns the bar "Half-Mortal" (or Heaven/Hell, depending on whether you believe the subtitles or read the sign out front). Her employees, Stella (Race Wong) and Paul (Endy Chow), serve drinks at the bar to a seemingly... » MORE
Cohabitation. A contemporary social drama about lovers (Lin Chen-Chi and Tsung Hua) who live together before getting married. Scandalous! Or presumably, it was more so at the time. He's a writer of fiction columns in the newspaper, she ran away from... » MORE
Confession of Pain. The Writing and Directing team of the famous INFERNAL AFFAIRS trilogy (Andrew Lau, Alan Mak, and Felix Chong) reunite for another tale of police treachery and two men at odds with each other, one trying to find the truth, the... » MORE
Deadly Past. Deadly boring. A woman kills her rich husband and sets up her former lover, just out of jail, to take the rap. When someone who saw her kill (Ben Ng) tries to blackmail her, he sets in motion events that... » MORE
Devdas (1955). "She chose the path of matrimony, and I, of destruction! And a never-ending drama began!" This, in the words of our somber, melancholy, moping, alcoholic protagonist, Devdas, neatly sums up the movie which bears his name. Devdas (Dilip Kumar) is... » MORE
Dil Se. Amar (Shahrukh Khan), a reporter for All India radio, goes on assignment to Kashmir, and on the way falls in love with Meghna (Manisha Koirala), a girl who refuses to open up and rebuffs all his efforts, and may be... » MORE
Dream and Desire. A shot on video production set in Sai Kung, set at the same waterfront restaurant that has been home to a great many low budget productions already in recent years, including Cop Unbowed, Love is Butterfly, and who knows what... » MORE
Forever and Ever. What the ---? A Hong Kong movie which approaches the topic of AIDS with sensitivity and sincerity? Well I never thought I'd see the day. Chris Lee plays Fu, a young man with hemophilia who gets a transfusion of AIDS-infected... » MORE
Forever Yours. The star crossed romance of Yu LiYing (Grace Chang), an office worker at the local bottling plant, and Weiming (Kelly Lai Chen), an independently wealthy young man who likes Bonsai, has TB, and is likely to die in a few... » MORE
Four Darling Daughters. Four daughters live with their dad in miniskirted splendor. They wait on him hand and foot, he manages a piano company, and the girls play together as a band. Yueh-Hua (Josephine Siao) is the oldest daughter, and the least liked... » MORE
From the Queen to the Chief Executive. Under British rule, minorities convicted of committing crimes punishable by the death penalty if they were older were sometimes detained "by the Queen's pleasure," without ever actually being sentenced. Now, on the eve of the handover, a dedicated lawyer and... » MORE
Funeral March. Yee (Charlene Choi) has cancer and is going to die. She visits Duan, a funeral director (Eason Chan) to plan her funeral beforehand. As these "terminal illness romances" go, they naturally fall in love. This one mixes up the genre... » MORE
Generation Gap. David Chiang, Agnes Chan, and Ti Lung get together for some serious angst in this film about the "generation gap" -- a title which I suppose must pertain to the empty space between the ears of almost every character in... » MORE
Glass Tears. A remarkable film about the grandfather of a runaway girl, enlisted by the girl's parents to help track her down. He falls in with the girl's friend, named P, who is a brash, stubborn, independent herself. Together they try to... » MORE
Goddess of Mercy. Yang Rui (Liu Yunlong) is a Beijing businessman and womanizing pig who tries to nail the plain-looking but attractive An Xin (Vicki Zhao) on a bet from a friend. Instead, he falls in love with her. She keeps her distance,... » MORE
Her Tender Heart. Peiying (Lucilla You Min) was brought up by her father Li Boming (Wang Yin) in a modest household. She is excited that her auntie, Mrs. Zeng (Wang Lai) is coming to visit for two weeks, from Italy where she lives.... » MORE
Her Tender Love. What looks to be another lighthearted family drama of the common type ends up pushed way up to the boundaries, the sort of family you might see on the Jerry Springer show. First, there's dad -- he's rich. His son... » MORE
Hollywood Hong Kong. A young prostitute who dreams of Hollywood visits a soon to be demolished shanty town and teaches its inhabitants about love, happiness, and especially, amputation. Ensnared by her charm are an enterprising young pimp (Wong Yau Nam) and the obscenely... » MORE
July Rhapsody. Jackie Cheung is a dissatisfied poetry teacher, Anita Mui his tired wife, and Karena Lam the student that he feels pulled towards despite the fact that she would unravel the life he has lived so far. A life mostly of... » MORE
Kid, The. A 10-year-old Bruce Lee stars as Kid Cheung, an orphan boy who sells comics in a little stall in the slums to survive. He takes care of two still younger kids, and the three are looked after in turn by... » MORE
Kung Fu Master is my Grandma!. Isadora Chan is a troubled girl who was sent to a juvenile home after fighting some guy. While incarcerated, her mother died, leaving her in the care of her grandmother (Helena Law Lan), whom she hates. She's mean, and she... » MORE
Kyon Ki...it's Fate. Anand (Salman Khan) committed murder but was declared insane and placed in an asylum, where psychologist Dr. Sunil (Jackie Shroff) and Tanvi (Kareena Kapoor) look after him. Anand is a endearingly cute, simpleminded madman, and as it turns out, his... » MORE
Lan Yu. A gay couple meet, separate, then meet again in this slice of life drama from director Stanley Kwan. Chen Handong (Hu Jun), a successful Beijing businessman, meets the not yet in college Lan Yu (Liu Ye) and they build a... » MORE
Life Express. A poor kid named Luk Fei (Liu Ci-Hang) is admitted to hospital with hemophilia while doctors (Richie Jen and Ruby Lin) scramble to find a bone marrow transplant, but the donor match that shows up is from a hardened criminal... » MORE
Lost and Found. Kelly Chen is the daughter of a rich shipping magnate, who finds out she has leukemia. She tries getting a job at the shipyards, where she meets a handsome and kind scotsman, improbably played by Michael Wong, of all people.... » MORE
Love Battlefield. Director Soi Cheang has made a name for himself in Hong Kong of late by delivering quality horror films that feel at least a somewhat original and that are well crafted. He has taken his craft to the next level... » MORE
Love Trilogy. Three couples travel to Kunming in Yunnan province for various reasons; each representing a different stage in love. Each also represents a different market for the film, thus maximizing profitability. The old timers, married for seven years, are represented by... » MORE
Mago. She's the primal deity, the one, of the primordial goddess myth of Korea. Everyone wants a piece of her. Hey, leggo my Mago! She splits into twelve muses, naked women (don't ask, the whole story is told in hallucinogenic flashback... » MORE
May & August. The Rape of Nanking as seen through the eyes of two orphans, named May and August. The movie tries to do a lot on a small budget and comes off looking like a fairly decent Hallmark made for TV special.... » MORE
Midnight Fly. Anita Mui goes to Paris to get away from her philandering husband, and befriends a young Japanese girl who is in love with a married man. The two decide to extend their vacation and go to Morocco, and while there... » MORE
Money Kills. A group of dimly intelligent provincial types come across a dead body and a big bag of money, and decide to keep the bag of money. There's Ken Wong, the "smart" one, whose business has failed and sort of wants... » MORE
Mother India. A woman leads an utterly crappy and unrewarding life, toiling under the thumb of a cruel and petty moneylender in a village filled with illiterate peasants. It's like the Indian version of GONE WITH THE WIND, in which the we... » MORE
My Troublesome Buddy. Somehow I knew that if I just watched enough of these low-budget, digital video productions, that I would finally uncover the gem in the rough. Well, MY TROUBLESOME BUDDY might not be exactly a gem, but it certainly is a... » MORE
Night Club on Fire. It only takes about five minutes of watching this garbage that you wish the night club really does catch fire, killing everyone inside. Alas, no, instead it's a drama about the girls of Golden Pond nightclub, with hearts of gold... » MORE
Nomad. The story of a group of fun loving young Hong Kong people who fall in love, have sex, dream of better places, wear little clothing, and strive to live their lives their own way. That is, until some crazy Japanese... » MORE
One Night in Mongkok. One gang boss puts out a hit on another gang boss. Lai Fu (Daniel Wu), an empovershed mainlander they recruit for the job, arrives in Hong Kong while Officer Milo (Alex Fong) and his team (including Chin Kar-Lok and Ken... » MORE
Our Dream Car. A lovesong to capitalism, and the pinnacle of human desire: the car. It will spice up your life! Make you feel rich! Improve your sex life! Make you a movie star! Yes, all this -- and more! -- can be... » MORE
Prison on Fire - Preacher. Utilizing the same three prison sets used in TROUBLESOME NIGHT 17 (a cafeteria that doubles as a visiting room, solitary cells, and a group cell), B&S CREATIVE FILM WORKS whips off another shot on video cheapie leaning on the PRISON... » MORE
Prison on Fire: Life Sentence. Of all the B&S Film Workshop franchises, the PRISON ON FIRE films are consistently the best. This one is about a man who gets life in prison because he stood up to the small time hoods who were threatening his... » MORE
Public Toilet. Let's face it: Anyone who has seen a sufficient quantity of Hong Kong movies over a period of time will come to notice an almost overeager tendency of those films to display characters in various states and whenever possible discharging... » MORE
Pure and the Evil, The. The story of two friends: May (Tai Liang-chun), aka "the pure", a good girl with rich parents and all the social advantages; and Rose (Chen Pei-hsi), aka "the evil", a girl with divorced parents who grew up taken care of... » MORE
Runaway Pistol. The premise of RUNAWAY PISTOL -- an entire movie from the point of view of a gun, as it moves from owner to owner -- is high concept and one might think almost doomed to stupidity. Several American movies have... » MORE
Secret Drawing, The. When Comrade Li Hua arrives in town to attend a party meeting, he is distracted at the train platform by an old lady, falling. He sets down his satchel to assist, but it was all a carefully orchestrated plot to... » MORE
Secret Pursuit, The. Qiandao Lake. Xiuxiu's brother is killed by gangsters, his last words, "Yellow Ribbon." Meanwhile Mailong (Peter Ho Yun-tung) is a photographer working for Jimi (Tiffany Lee)'s Bridal Shop. He feels an ominous conspiracy creeping all around him. A sense of... » MORE
Sexy Playgirls. "My sister is dying of leukemia" is an odd way to start a film about sexy playgirls. In fact one might be forgiven for thinking that there has been some mixup at the plant; the wrong title pressed on to... » MORE
Shaheed. The film begins with a small disclaimer: "Every care has been taken in this film to present the heroic struggle and personality of the famous revolutionary Shaheed Bhagat Singh and other leaders of the moment associated with him like Chandra... » MORE
Stowaway. A group of illegal immigrants try to make the journey from China to England and go through sheer hell to do it. I can only imagine it isn't always this hard to smuggle people into the west, otherwise there'd be... » MORE
Time 4 Hope. The next time I see an autobiographical movie of someone's life, I sincerely hope they are either more interesting or just lie a lot. As it stands, this is the story of Yuen Kai-Chi, (played by Nick Cheung) an unlikable... » MORE
Tragic Room, A. OK, so you murdered your husband in cold blood. Stabbed him repeatedly. So what? You did what you had to to protect your sister. He was no good. But after being in jail for three years, you could probably start... » MORE
Two Individual Package Women. I miss Sharla Cheung Man, heroine of early nineties Stephen Chow films and one of my (admittedly many) international cinema crushes. She still works, though regular Hong Kong moviegoers would hardly know it. So it is with some pleasure that... » MORE
Upkar. Manoj Kumar wrote, directed, and starred in a series of films about a character named Bharat, a true Hindustani patriot. The movies don't feature the same character, mind you, just the same name and the same spirit, transplanted in space... » MORE
Wild Ones, The. After getting mocked in Toronto for being a Chinese social worker trying to help Canadian youth, of whom she is told she knows nothing about, Sandy (Olivia Cheng) returns to Hong Kong and gets a job at a girls' home... » MORE
Yaadgar. In his patriotic films, Manoj Kumar has always walked that fine line between righteousness and being a self-righteous prick. He firmly camps in the latter category here, as Bhanu, a representative of the working class who spends his free time... » MORE
2 Become 1. A sensitive look at breast cancer. Though, I don't really recall Hong Kong movies ever being particularly insensitive about the topic. This is unusual, as Hong Kong movies typically have a cruel, schoolyard sense of humor about personal illness and... » MORE
20:30:40. The title refers to the amount of years that seems to pass while waiting for the movie to end. Basically the same story as Sex and the Beauties, only instead of thinking it's a comedy, this movie thinks it's an... » MORE
A1. No, it's not about a steak sauce. A-1 I imagine refers to the front page of the newspaper: section A, page 1. Ling (Angelica Lee Sinje) is a fashion reporter, Kevin (Edison Chen) her photographer. She wants to quit her... » MORE
Amar. Ahhh, the idyllic village life! Sweet, childish milkmaid Sonia (Nimmi) wakes up with pleasure and takes care of the animals, joyful yet lamenting that her stepmother always beats her -- she even dreams of beating her while she sleeps! ("That's... » MORE
Awaargi. Azaad (Anil Kapoor) is a petty thug a "goonda", his dad, head of a gang. But then he rescues Seema (Meenakshi), a village girl, from the local pimp and promises to make her a singing superstar. She loves him gratefully,... » MORE
Below the Lion Rock: Road. Grandma checks in to a women's rehab clinic to kick the opium habit, but her daughter Chui Fong (Carol DoDo Cheng) still puffs her life away, mainly because it is so dreary, and because her husband ran off after hearing... » MORE
Cafe Shop. Tsui Kam Kong is a fun Hong Kong actor who has been around for ages, playing masculine, bald, and mustached types for as long as I can remember. Whether engaged in wild, over-the-top wire fu or wild, over-the-top flying mad... » MORE
Cherie. Utterly charming romantic comedy showcasing one of the most popular stars of the early eighties, Cherie Cheung. I've never really gotten the appeal too much, but here she radiantly beautiful and puts in a good performance as well, so consider... » MORE
China's Next Top Princess. The title promised a sort of parody of the "Next Top Model"-type reality TV shows, a thin subject for parody as the reality shows themselves are already parodies of themselves. It doesn't matter, anyway, as the movie itself is totally... » MORE
Cocktail. Candy (Candy Lo) owns the bar "Half-Mortal" (or Heaven/Hell, depending on whether you believe the subtitles or read the sign out front). Her employees, Stella (Race Wong) and Paul (Endy Chow), serve drinks at the bar to a seemingly... » MORE
Cohabitation. A contemporary social drama about lovers (Lin Chen-Chi and Tsung Hua) who live together before getting married. Scandalous! Or presumably, it was more so at the time. He's a writer of fiction columns in the newspaper, she ran away from... » MORE
Confession of Pain. The Writing and Directing team of the famous INFERNAL AFFAIRS trilogy (Andrew Lau, Alan Mak, and Felix Chong) reunite for another tale of police treachery and two men at odds with each other, one trying to find the truth, the... » MORE
Deadly Past. Deadly boring. A woman kills her rich husband and sets up her former lover, just out of jail, to take the rap. When someone who saw her kill (Ben Ng) tries to blackmail her, he sets in motion events that... » MORE
Devdas (1955). "She chose the path of matrimony, and I, of destruction! And a never-ending drama began!" This, in the words of our somber, melancholy, moping, alcoholic protagonist, Devdas, neatly sums up the movie which bears his name. Devdas (Dilip Kumar) is... » MORE
Dil Se. Amar (Shahrukh Khan), a reporter for All India radio, goes on assignment to Kashmir, and on the way falls in love with Meghna (Manisha Koirala), a girl who refuses to open up and rebuffs all his efforts, and may be... » MORE
Dream and Desire. A shot on video production set in Sai Kung, set at the same waterfront restaurant that has been home to a great many low budget productions already in recent years, including Cop Unbowed, Love is Butterfly, and who knows what... » MORE
Forever and Ever. What the ---? A Hong Kong movie which approaches the topic of AIDS with sensitivity and sincerity? Well I never thought I'd see the day. Chris Lee plays Fu, a young man with hemophilia who gets a transfusion of AIDS-infected... » MORE
Forever Yours. The star crossed romance of Yu LiYing (Grace Chang), an office worker at the local bottling plant, and Weiming (Kelly Lai Chen), an independently wealthy young man who likes Bonsai, has TB, and is likely to die in a few... » MORE
Four Darling Daughters. Four daughters live with their dad in miniskirted splendor. They wait on him hand and foot, he manages a piano company, and the girls play together as a band. Yueh-Hua (Josephine Siao) is the oldest daughter, and the least liked... » MORE
From the Queen to the Chief Executive. Under British rule, minorities convicted of committing crimes punishable by the death penalty if they were older were sometimes detained "by the Queen's pleasure," without ever actually being sentenced. Now, on the eve of the handover, a dedicated lawyer and... » MORE
Funeral March. Yee (Charlene Choi) has cancer and is going to die. She visits Duan, a funeral director (Eason Chan) to plan her funeral beforehand. As these "terminal illness romances" go, they naturally fall in love. This one mixes up the genre... » MORE
Generation Gap. David Chiang, Agnes Chan, and Ti Lung get together for some serious angst in this film about the "generation gap" -- a title which I suppose must pertain to the empty space between the ears of almost every character in... » MORE
Glass Tears. A remarkable film about the grandfather of a runaway girl, enlisted by the girl's parents to help track her down. He falls in with the girl's friend, named P, who is a brash, stubborn, independent herself. Together they try to... » MORE
Goddess of Mercy. Yang Rui (Liu Yunlong) is a Beijing businessman and womanizing pig who tries to nail the plain-looking but attractive An Xin (Vicki Zhao) on a bet from a friend. Instead, he falls in love with her. She keeps her distance,... » MORE
Her Tender Heart. Peiying (Lucilla You Min) was brought up by her father Li Boming (Wang Yin) in a modest household. She is excited that her auntie, Mrs. Zeng (Wang Lai) is coming to visit for two weeks, from Italy where she lives.... » MORE
Her Tender Love. What looks to be another lighthearted family drama of the common type ends up pushed way up to the boundaries, the sort of family you might see on the Jerry Springer show. First, there's dad -- he's rich. His son... » MORE
Hollywood Hong Kong. A young prostitute who dreams of Hollywood visits a soon to be demolished shanty town and teaches its inhabitants about love, happiness, and especially, amputation. Ensnared by her charm are an enterprising young pimp (Wong Yau Nam) and the obscenely... » MORE
July Rhapsody. Jackie Cheung is a dissatisfied poetry teacher, Anita Mui his tired wife, and Karena Lam the student that he feels pulled towards despite the fact that she would unravel the life he has lived so far. A life mostly of... » MORE
Kid, The. A 10-year-old Bruce Lee stars as Kid Cheung, an orphan boy who sells comics in a little stall in the slums to survive. He takes care of two still younger kids, and the three are looked after in turn by... » MORE
Kung Fu Master is my Grandma!. Isadora Chan is a troubled girl who was sent to a juvenile home after fighting some guy. While incarcerated, her mother died, leaving her in the care of her grandmother (Helena Law Lan), whom she hates. She's mean, and she... » MORE
Kyon Ki...it's Fate. Anand (Salman Khan) committed murder but was declared insane and placed in an asylum, where psychologist Dr. Sunil (Jackie Shroff) and Tanvi (Kareena Kapoor) look after him. Anand is a endearingly cute, simpleminded madman, and as it turns out, his... » MORE
Lan Yu. A gay couple meet, separate, then meet again in this slice of life drama from director Stanley Kwan. Chen Handong (Hu Jun), a successful Beijing businessman, meets the not yet in college Lan Yu (Liu Ye) and they build a... » MORE
Life Express. A poor kid named Luk Fei (Liu Ci-Hang) is admitted to hospital with hemophilia while doctors (Richie Jen and Ruby Lin) scramble to find a bone marrow transplant, but the donor match that shows up is from a hardened criminal... » MORE
Lost and Found. Kelly Chen is the daughter of a rich shipping magnate, who finds out she has leukemia. She tries getting a job at the shipyards, where she meets a handsome and kind scotsman, improbably played by Michael Wong, of all people.... » MORE
Love Battlefield. Director Soi Cheang has made a name for himself in Hong Kong of late by delivering quality horror films that feel at least a somewhat original and that are well crafted. He has taken his craft to the next level... » MORE
Love Trilogy. Three couples travel to Kunming in Yunnan province for various reasons; each representing a different stage in love. Each also represents a different market for the film, thus maximizing profitability. The old timers, married for seven years, are represented by... » MORE
Mago. She's the primal deity, the one, of the primordial goddess myth of Korea. Everyone wants a piece of her. Hey, leggo my Mago! She splits into twelve muses, naked women (don't ask, the whole story is told in hallucinogenic flashback... » MORE
May & August. The Rape of Nanking as seen through the eyes of two orphans, named May and August. The movie tries to do a lot on a small budget and comes off looking like a fairly decent Hallmark made for TV special.... » MORE
Midnight Fly. Anita Mui goes to Paris to get away from her philandering husband, and befriends a young Japanese girl who is in love with a married man. The two decide to extend their vacation and go to Morocco, and while there... » MORE
Money Kills. A group of dimly intelligent provincial types come across a dead body and a big bag of money, and decide to keep the bag of money. There's Ken Wong, the "smart" one, whose business has failed and sort of wants... » MORE
Mother India. A woman leads an utterly crappy and unrewarding life, toiling under the thumb of a cruel and petty moneylender in a village filled with illiterate peasants. It's like the Indian version of GONE WITH THE WIND, in which the we... » MORE
My Troublesome Buddy. Somehow I knew that if I just watched enough of these low-budget, digital video productions, that I would finally uncover the gem in the rough. Well, MY TROUBLESOME BUDDY might not be exactly a gem, but it certainly is a... » MORE
Night Club on Fire. It only takes about five minutes of watching this garbage that you wish the night club really does catch fire, killing everyone inside. Alas, no, instead it's a drama about the girls of Golden Pond nightclub, with hearts of gold... » MORE
Nomad. The story of a group of fun loving young Hong Kong people who fall in love, have sex, dream of better places, wear little clothing, and strive to live their lives their own way. That is, until some crazy Japanese... » MORE
One Night in Mongkok. One gang boss puts out a hit on another gang boss. Lai Fu (Daniel Wu), an empovershed mainlander they recruit for the job, arrives in Hong Kong while Officer Milo (Alex Fong) and his team (including Chin Kar-Lok and Ken... » MORE
Our Dream Car. A lovesong to capitalism, and the pinnacle of human desire: the car. It will spice up your life! Make you feel rich! Improve your sex life! Make you a movie star! Yes, all this -- and more! -- can be... » MORE
Prison on Fire - Preacher. Utilizing the same three prison sets used in TROUBLESOME NIGHT 17 (a cafeteria that doubles as a visiting room, solitary cells, and a group cell), B&S CREATIVE FILM WORKS whips off another shot on video cheapie leaning on the PRISON... » MORE
Prison on Fire: Life Sentence. Of all the B&S Film Workshop franchises, the PRISON ON FIRE films are consistently the best. This one is about a man who gets life in prison because he stood up to the small time hoods who were threatening his... » MORE
Public Toilet. Let's face it: Anyone who has seen a sufficient quantity of Hong Kong movies over a period of time will come to notice an almost overeager tendency of those films to display characters in various states and whenever possible discharging... » MORE
Pure and the Evil, The. The story of two friends: May (Tai Liang-chun), aka "the pure", a good girl with rich parents and all the social advantages; and Rose (Chen Pei-hsi), aka "the evil", a girl with divorced parents who grew up taken care of... » MORE
Runaway Pistol. The premise of RUNAWAY PISTOL -- an entire movie from the point of view of a gun, as it moves from owner to owner -- is high concept and one might think almost doomed to stupidity. Several American movies have... » MORE
Secret Drawing, The. When Comrade Li Hua arrives in town to attend a party meeting, he is distracted at the train platform by an old lady, falling. He sets down his satchel to assist, but it was all a carefully orchestrated plot to... » MORE
Secret Pursuit, The. Qiandao Lake. Xiuxiu's brother is killed by gangsters, his last words, "Yellow Ribbon." Meanwhile Mailong (Peter Ho Yun-tung) is a photographer working for Jimi (Tiffany Lee)'s Bridal Shop. He feels an ominous conspiracy creeping all around him. A sense of... » MORE
Sexy Playgirls. "My sister is dying of leukemia" is an odd way to start a film about sexy playgirls. In fact one might be forgiven for thinking that there has been some mixup at the plant; the wrong title pressed on to... » MORE
Shaheed. The film begins with a small disclaimer: "Every care has been taken in this film to present the heroic struggle and personality of the famous revolutionary Shaheed Bhagat Singh and other leaders of the moment associated with him like Chandra... » MORE
Stowaway. A group of illegal immigrants try to make the journey from China to England and go through sheer hell to do it. I can only imagine it isn't always this hard to smuggle people into the west, otherwise there'd be... » MORE
Time 4 Hope. The next time I see an autobiographical movie of someone's life, I sincerely hope they are either more interesting or just lie a lot. As it stands, this is the story of Yuen Kai-Chi, (played by Nick Cheung) an unlikable... » MORE
Tragic Room, A. OK, so you murdered your husband in cold blood. Stabbed him repeatedly. So what? You did what you had to to protect your sister. He was no good. But after being in jail for three years, you could probably start... » MORE
Two Individual Package Women. I miss Sharla Cheung Man, heroine of early nineties Stephen Chow films and one of my (admittedly many) international cinema crushes. She still works, though regular Hong Kong moviegoers would hardly know it. So it is with some pleasure that... » MORE
Upkar. Manoj Kumar wrote, directed, and starred in a series of films about a character named Bharat, a true Hindustani patriot. The movies don't feature the same character, mind you, just the same name and the same spirit, transplanted in space... » MORE
Wild Ones, The. After getting mocked in Toronto for being a Chinese social worker trying to help Canadian youth, of whom she is told she knows nothing about, Sandy (Olivia Cheng) returns to Hong Kong and gets a job at a girls' home... » MORE
Yaadgar. In his patriotic films, Manoj Kumar has always walked that fine line between righteousness and being a self-righteous prick. He firmly camps in the latter category here, as Bhanu, a representative of the working class who spends his free time... » MORE