mdblist.com logo The Best Fruit Chan Directed Movies


Ratings
Between
and
Between
and
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Additional filters
m
Lists, Streaming Services, Cast and more
Create List (25 items)

Login to create Trakt list


poster
Kanopy
83
72
7.5
/3392/
76
/98/
75
/118/
4.1
/18295/
100
/11/
91
/50/

Made in Hong Kong (1997)
Hong Kong 1997, where young people dream of love and death, suicide and murder. Moon is a cynical young debt collector, smitten by Ping, a young woman dying of kidney disease. A suicide note from a student they don't know ends up intertwining their fates.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
71
6.9
/21702/
69
/504/
67
/394/
3.5
/20713/
83
/60/
77
/15577/
66
/22/

Three... Extremes (2004)
Features an anthology centred on the experiences of a witch doctor, a film-maker and a disgruntled extra determined to take revenge on him, and a novelist as well as her twin sister.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
68
66
6.7
/11028/
66
/366/
67
/249/
3.5
/20514/
70
/491/

Dumplings (2004)
Aunt Mei's famous homemade dumplings provide amazing age-defying qualities popular with middle-aged women. But her latest customer, a fading actress, is determined to find out what the secret ingredient is.
poster
64
58
6.3
/5710/
65
/205/
68
/173/
3.2
/4121/
61
/6099/

Heart of Dragon (1985)
A policeman forsakes his dream of world travel to care for a mentally impaired brother, who is later kidnapped by gangsters.
poster
49
35
5.5
/1877/
52
/87/
58
/70/
3.0
/2035/
25
/24/

The Midnight After (2014)
On a night just like any other, a minibus full of passengers drives through a tunnel and arrives in another dimension; the eclectic group of passengers seek refuge in a deserted cafe and make a horrific discovery.
poster
74
31
6.9
/785/
79
/13/
70
/24/
3.6
/807/
81
/23/

Hollywood Hong Kong (2002)
A prostitute named Tong Tong enters the life of a man who runs a barbecue pork restaurant and quickly begins to ruin his life, as well as the life of his two rotund sons, and a local gangster.
poster
72
28
7.1
/849/
69
/16/
67
/26/
3.7
/979/
83
/12/

Durian Durian (2000)
The first half of this film portrays the experiences of a young northern mainland Chinese woman (Fan) temporarily working as a sex worker in Hong Kong. After her 3-month visa expires, the second half of the film focuses on Yan's return to her family and her ex-fiancé in Northeast China and the ways that she invests the money that she has earned.
poster
71
24
7.5
/716/
64
/12/
72
/17/
3.9
/925/
69
/11/

Little Cheung (1999)
In 1997, Little Cheung is a street-wise nine-year-old boy living in a bustling neighbourhood of Hong Kong, just before the reunification with China.
poster
59
21
5.6
/653/
56
/29/
51
/25/
3.0
/879/
40
/5/
92
/1/

Three Husbands (2018)
A wondrous sex worker plies her trade while living on a boat in Hong Kong. With a superhuman libido and three loving husbands, she doggedly devotes herself to her work. Using sex to satirize the era, this film brims with intense desire.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
47
21
4.3
/1640/
48
/53/
46
/33/
2.6
/475/

The Invincible Dragon (2019)
The undercover agent with dragon tattoo Kowloon continually helped the police to solve mysterious cases, which made him known as a rising star. However, his impulsive personality dragged him into endless troubles. He got himself into fights with the Macau detective, as well as an American Army veteran Alexander who has a secret linkage to Kowloon’s background…
poster
68
19
7.2
/531/
55
/7/
64
/16/
3.9
/911/
75
/4/

The Longest Summer (1998)
It is July 1st of 1997, and Hong Kong is bright in celebration. The United Kingdom handover of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China leaves Ga Yin, and his fellow soldiers without work. Which leads them to find employment and money any way they can get it. Without much success, Ga Yin decides to join his brother Ga Suen in the triad gang world.
poster
34
16
3.1
/1810/
47
/62/
36
/54/
2.5
/464/
6
/67/

Don't Look Up (2009)
While filming in Transylvania, a crew unearths celluloid images of a woman’s murder and unleashes the wrath of evil spirits.
poster
52
15
5.6
/723/
58
/41/
56
/21/
3.1
/415/
29
/10/

Tales from the Dark 1 (2013)
In the first of a two-part film project, three short stories from acclaimed Hong Kong writer Lilian Lee are adapted for the big screen in this horror anthology.
poster
?
5.6
/38/
100
/1/

Chengdu, I Love You (2009)
A satirical comedy set during the 1976 earthquake of Tangshan, which then zips forward to 2009 offering a Matrix-like science fiction story of contemporary China.
poster
49
?
4.7
/212/
51
/22/
44
/5/
2.8
/305/

Tales from the Occult (2022)
Three short films about the hidden horrors that lurk behind the urban landscape of Hong Kong.
poster
?
6.2
/34/

The Abortionist (2019)
Teenager Kiki runs away from home, angry at her mother Jane's profession as a back-street abortionist. For her daughter's sake, Jane retires and finds religion, repenting her sins. Months later, Kiki faints on the street and wakes up in hospital with Jane by her side. The last hope for Kiki is that Jane can return to her former profession...
poster
?
4.8
/91/
76
/6/
53
/3/

Kill Time (2016)
After the death of her policeman father, Xiaomai begins to look over his old journals filled with notes about the cases he investigated over the years. The mention of a purple scarf in the notes particularly catches her attention, prompting her to purchase a similar scarf from a mysterious website that claims to sell everything, as long as one can pay the price. Soon after, Xiaomai's close friend is found dead, strangled by a purple scarf. All of this awakens Xiaomai's memories of her childhood sweetheart Qiushou, whose mother was also strangled to death with a purple scarf by an unknown killer. Xiaomai and Qiushou grew up together and fell in love, but he suddenly disappeared from her life 15 years ago without a word. She begins to believe that Qiushou has returned and may be seeking revenge.
poster
51
?
5.1
/184/
52
/17/
40
/8/
3.1
/409/

Coffin Homes (2021)
Soaring property prices drive dwellers to take every insane effort necessary to secure a cramped space, even if it means sharing the same roof with the dead.
poster
?
5.6
/45/
60
/5/
63
/3/

1:99 Shorts (2003)
Shorts made by 11 directors in order to fight against the SARS epidemy that occurred in China and Hong Kong in 2003. The shorts were produced by the Information Service Departement of the Government of HK SAR. The aim was to bring back confidence to the HK popuation. The running-time is 1 to 2 minutes for each short.12 Short films: 1-"Rhapsody", director: Johnny To and Wai Ka-fai; 2-"My Sow Is Not Feeling Well", director: Fruit Chan; 3-"Smile", director: Teddy Chen; 4-"Of a Cause" (Animation) director: Tsui Hark; 5-"Hong Kong - A Winner", director: Stephen Chow; 6-"Who's Miss Hong Kong?", director: Joe Ma; 7-"Family of Heroes", director: Alex Law and Mabel Cheung; 8-"Until Then", director: Gordon Chan and Dante Lam; 9- "McDull 1:99" director: Brian Tse; 10-"Spring, 2003", director: Peter Chan; 11-"A Glorious Future", director: Andrew Lau and Alan Mak; 12-"Making of 1:99", director: Wong Shou-Ping.
poster
54
?
5.5
/306/
57
/4/
52
/4/

Where is the bathroom? (2002)
In order to learn about his past, a Beijing man known as Dong-dong, who was born in a toilet, searches in the public toilets around the world.
poster
58
?
5.8
/154/
63
/12/
53
/13/

Finale in Blood (1993)
Cheng is an attention-seeking no-hoper who works at a radio station, announcing food prices. But when his path crosses with that of Fong Yan's ghost, the telling of her story helps Cheng become the star presenter of the nightly serial.
poster
?
4.1
/16/
15
/1/

Shining Moment (2017)
After being sidelined by the gymnastics team, Yu quits and reinvents himself as a Latin dance instructor. He assembles a group of children to compete in the Latin dance competition.
poster
?
6.2
/14/
35
/2/

Five Lonely Hearts (1992)
Five naive and lively girls, each with a lonely and throbbing heart, in this plain summer vacation, they encountered many exciting, ridiculous, bizarre and adventurous things...
poster
?
7.1
/24/

The Inspired Island: My City (2015)
Poet and author Xi Xi is one of Hong Kong's most treasured writers. Though also acclaimed in Taiwan and mainland China for seminal works like the essay Shops, her writings are firmly rooted in the spirit of Hong Kong. Leave it to Fruit Chan, another staunchly grassroots auteur, to make a documentary on Xi Xi's career. Chan sought out renowned critics and writers to discuss Xi Xi's works, starting with 1979's My City. He also juxtaposes photos of a changing Hong Kong with readings of her writings, and even playfully inserts characters from her stories into the film.
poster
?

Quattro Hong Kong (2010)
Four short films by four Hong Kong directors.


mdblist.com © 2020 | Contact | Reddit | Discord | API