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7.8
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77
/248/
3.8
/5964/
87
/163/

A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella (1995)
This sequel to "Pandora's Box" continues director Jeffrey Lau's adaptation of the Buddhism saga "Journey to the West". Stranded five centuries in the past, Joker Monkey King must battle a variety of monsters, seductive women and super-powered villains to save the dying Pak Jing-Jing.
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77
62
7.5
/9257/
76
/353/
75
/290/
3.6
/7073/
88
/8/

A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box (1995)
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.
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70
58
6.8
/3007/
70
/119/
68
/99/
3.4
/2300/
78
/44/

All for the Winner (1990)
Sing, a dumb, lovable mainlander with supernatural powers comes to China to visit his uncle Tat. When it's revealed that Sing can see through objects, Tat employs him as "The Saint of Gamblers," and proceeds to set him loose in the gambling world.
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Kanopy
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58
7.0
/3533/
77
/137/
69
/112/
3.5
/3797/
80
/5/
62
/22/

The Eagle Shooting Heroes (1993)
A power struggle between the Queen's treasonous lover and a princess occurs amid musical numbers, slapstick battles, and martial arts acrobatics.
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Kanopy
69
55
7.0
/2745/
65
/62/
68
/51/
3.6
/2256/
72
/2586/

Chinese Odyssey 2002 (2002)
Two pairs of siblings are destined for each other, but fate throws countless obstacles in the path. When the young Emperor and his sister contrive to leave the palace, they meet the loves of their lives in the town of Meilong.
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68
54
6.8
/3115/
70
/145/
68
/95/
3.5
/3003/
68
/24/

Out of the Dark (1995)
After being haunted by evil spirits inside a residential building, a security guard seeks help from a mysterious exorcist, who turns out to be an escaped mental patient.
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63
29
6.0
/801/
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/28/
65
/26/
3.3
/476/
63
/918/

Saviour of the Soul (1991)
A woman blinds a martial arts master and his pupil vows revenge on her. She is forced to abandon her loved ones without explanation in order to protect them from her ill-intentioned pursuer.
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28
3.6
/648/
47
/47/
62
/16/
2.8
/258/
87
/163/

A Chinese Odyssey Part Three (2016)
The third chapter of the cult-classic fantasy saga: A Chinese Odyssey. At the end of 'A Chinese Odyssey 2', Zixia managed to see in advance the outcome of the battle. Now, in order to prevent the unfortunate tragedy, she travels back to the past and make sure that Monkey does not fall in love with her. Monkey is then reincarnated and continues to wait for Bak Jing-jing.
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24
4.9
/1174/
54
/39/
51
/33/
3.1
/337/
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/52/

A Chinese Tall Story (2005)
The young monk Taka and his three disciples are captured by a demonic tree. Taka manages to escape thanks to the magic stick of Monkey King and decided to go free his companions. En route, he encounters a strange ally called Meiyan, a girl who is half-human and half monster. As Taka and his new friend set off on a fantastic adventure they will face many hardships and battles and may very well decide the fate of humanity and the entire universe...
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6.1
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/27/
56
/25/
3.3
/572/

The Haunted Cop Shop (1987)
The police station used to be the army club during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. Many Japanese officers committed hara kiri there on V-J Day. The old building thus became a ghost house. Petty thief Ming is detained in the basement. It is the Ghost Festival when ghosts are allowed one night's leave. The Colonel shows up and bites Ming, who becomes a vampire.
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Amazon Prime Video
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18
4.9
/636/
59
/81/
56
/104/
2.9
/260/
33
/1/

Kung Fu League (2018)
A poor comic book artist summons four legendary Kung Fu masters to learn the highest level of martial arts and help him get his girl.
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17
6.3
/438/
56
/14/
55
/19/
31
/26/
54
/8/

Second Time Around (2002)
A young man goes to Las Vegas with his best friend to prove he can win big bucks. When he loses all of the money, he and his friend get help from a young woman who tells the man the story of some special stones that are part of a legend involving time travel and parallel universes. When the trio get in a car accident, the young gambler is the only survivor. Pursued by a female detective, the two accidentally end up back in time on Christmas Day, where the gambler decides to make the wrong things right, and he also ends up falling in love with the detective.
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15
4.6
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52
/39/
46
/27/
2.8
/272/

Just Another Pandora's Box (2010)
Qing Ye Se only knows how to be a thief, but he runs into major trouble when he accidentally steals the heart of Rose, an immortal fairy. During a chaotic chase, Qing gets ahold of the Pandora's Box, sending them both back in time to the Three Kingdoms era. Mistaken as a general, Qing is thrown right into the middle of the Battle of Red Cliff. Meanwhile, Rose continues to devise new ways to earn Qing's affection, even if it means having to be someone else.
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14
6.5
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70
/23/
62
/17/
3.4
/345/

The Legendary La Rose Noire (1992)
A poet named Butterfly and her friend Kuen visit a stranger's mansion to return some possessions that were unintentionally taken. At the house, they stumbled upon an illegal weapons trade that ultimately went bad. To evade the police from interrogations, the two innocent witnesses wiped away their fingerprints and left a note that stated that the crimes were committed by "The Black Rose," who is known to be a fictional hero in a 1965 movie. However, a recovered fingerprint caused Kuen to be the prime suspect, and the apprentices of the Black Rose, apparently a real hero whose legacy was portrayed in the 1965 movie, attempt to seek the truth in the matter by confronting Butterfly.
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5.7
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/19/
3.2
/286/

The Top Bet (1991)
Sing and Mei are two siblings with special powers which the former uses to gamble. When both are unavailable, a gangster hires Fanny, a con artist, to compete in a gambling competition.
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/15/
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/19/
3.3
/253/
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/8/

Treasure Hunt (1994)
A C.I.A. agent is assigned to go to Beijing to look for a hidden "treasure," which turns out to be a woman who has supernatural powers, and is the National Treasure of China.
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/3/

Assassins and the Missing Gold (2018)
Not much is known about the plot at the moment. Stay tuned for more details.
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/19/
80
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The Legend of Nezha (2018)
Nezha gets into trouble and implicates his parents who are punished by the heavens along with him. He bravely steps up and admits his fault, which touches the heavens, and his effort comes to fruition. The family of three finally reunites in the end.
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5.3
/78/
25
/2/
40
/4/

Operation Pink Squad (1988)
The Pink Squad is comprised of four strong, tough women (Sandra Ng, Ann Bridgewater, Suki Kwan in her film debut, and Elsie Chan) who do their police work efficiently and successfully. As a result, their chauvinistic superiors in the police department are always scheming to try and get them fired.
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5.7
/75/
20
/1/
100
/1/

Black Rose II (1997)
Heroine Black Rose disappeared from the world 30 years ago. Actually she was rejected by the man she loves, Lui Kei, and thus trapped him in a house. 30 years later, Black Rose meets a young man Ah Mo. The girl he loves Tic Tac is kidnapped by the evil Suen Mui Tong (Sour Plum Soup), so he asks Black Rose to help. Lui Kei while trying to talk Black Rose into saving Tic Tac finally falls in love with her. Suen Mui Tong discovers Black Rose is still alive, which brings up the history of hate between Black Rose and her mother...
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6.3
/209/
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/4/
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3.3
/221/

Operation Pink Squad II (1989)
A police sting takes place in a haunted apartment building. The sting goes bad when a wicked female ghost crashes the party.
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3.8
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/13/
34
/8/

East Meets West (2011)
Tens of millennia ago, eight gods who ceaselessly fought each other were exiled to earth. For generations, they have been reincarnated as mere mortals, and they won't be allowed back to heaven until they've learned to coexist in harmony. Then in today's Hong Kong, a mortuary beautician and her has-been singer dad are chased for a huge sum of money they don't owe. Turns out her materialistic stepmom has taken a tycoon's advance payment on the false promise of organizing a concert that she can't deliver. The family is therefore forced to go on the run, and along the way they meet an assortment of quirky people, including a mute baker, a kung fu cab driver, an aspiring musician and her crafty sidekick. Through a series of comic misadventures, the seven of them come to realize that they used to be gods and have a mission in this life, but...who is the eighth god that has yet to rejoin them?
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/10/
3.3
/202/

Mortuary Blues (1990)
On a remote island off Hong Kong, its rich and happy inhabitants are celebrating an annual ritual by staging an operatic show. The island is not productive but its people are rich. No wonder police chief Yuan Kuei becomes suspicious. He thinks he is sitting on top of a narcotics ring. His two men are ordered to watch closely movement of the opera people. Little does the chief know that actually the islanders are living off the loot their ancestors made by raiding a government gold galleon some centuries ago. They buried much of the treasure and a dormant vampire under a pagoda......
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3.7
/49/
30
/2/
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/5/

Just Another Margin (2014)
Just Another Margin is a 2014 Chinese comedy film directed by Jeffrey Lau and starring Betty Sun, Ronald Cheng, Ekin Cheng and Alex Fong. The story centers on celestial beings who come down to earth affecting the people in unexpected ways.
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55
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5.5
/231/
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/7/
49
/14/

The Haunted Cop Shop II (1988)
Specially trained government troops are sent to clean out a city that is plagued by vampires, ghosts and cannibalistic zombies.
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46
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5.4
/155/
43
/6/
43
/3/

Thunder Cops II (1989)
A clumsy policewoman trains hard to avenge her father's death.
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48
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5.5
/108/
46
/6/
48
/4/

Carry On Hotel (1988)
Mr. Lau is a seedy detective who sets up cameras to record an illicit affair. Things go awry however when a hideously glam rock band checks into Lau’s room, and gets a free show via his hook-up. Meanwhile, silly thief Donald Ng uses ninjitsu to fool the locals while a womanizing tour guide gets stalked by not one, but two pretty women. And Buddy Cheung is a lowly mechanic at the hotel who lusts after gorgeous executive Sunflower. But his tomboy co-worker Boy George secretly pines for him.
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Amazon Prime Video
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6.0
/72/
32
/7/
30
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Lock Me Up, Tie Him Down (2014)
A housewife's, Tiffany, world is turned upside down by a stranger who breaks into her apartment and tells her that he abducted her husband of eight years while he was on a business trip in Hong Kong. Adding to the bizarreness of the situation, the kidnapper, who says his name is tells Tiffany that he doesn’t want any ransom money. Instead, to secure her husband’s freedom, she will have to take on the role of his wife for a week.
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44
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4.6
/161/
48
/6/
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The Fantastic Water Babes (2010)
Gil (Gillian Chung) is a girl who tries to take her own life after being dumped by her boyfriend for another girl, Brenda (Chrissie Chow). Gil gets rescued by a water deity, and believes she has received special powers. Even though she doesn't even know how to swim she enters the Fantastic Water Babes swimming competition, in an vengeful effort to compete against her romantic rival and her friends, and to get back her boyfriend. To master swimming she kidnaps swimming champion Kwok Chi Yuan (Alex Fong Lik Sun) to the island of Cheung Chau, to make him teach her and her friends how to swim.
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42
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3.1
/126/
44
/7/
52
/2/

Soccer Killer (2017)
In the Song Dynasty, a group of patriots play soccer against the traitor with a team of foreign enemies, royal pro-nobles, bandits, martial arts masters and embrace the country hatred to compete for the first time in the history of China International soccer match.
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?
6.6
/96/
80
/1/

Mahjong Dragon (1997)
North Quick Hands, a gambler, killed a gang in revenge for his friend, for which he was sentenced to prison. South Tin-lone waited for Quick Hand's release, so that he might be recruited into the gang. But Quick Hands refused. Meanwhile, Sau Tin, a Hong Kong policewoman addicted to gambling, went to Dongguan to seek a husband. She helped Quick Hands to leave China by arranging a fake marriage, as he promised to teach her some gambling tricks. South Tin-lone and his gang followed Quick Hands to Hong Kong and a series of fights ensued...
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45
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6.5
/139/
10
/1/
60
/2/

Days of Tomorrow (1993)
A young woman searches for information about her father who starred in the classic movie 'Days of Tomorrow', which she is helping to remake. She finds out about his restless youth, career in the 1970s Hong Kong film industry, and tragic love affair.
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50
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4.4
/557/
48
/19/
58
/15/

Metallic Attraction: Kungfu Cyborg (2009)
The film takes place in 2046. The Chinese government has created the first cybernetic organism, K1, programmed with sophisticated social conscience, ideal for police applications. Initially deployed in a remote village for testing, K1, is loved by the villagers, and performs all duties and expectations flawlessly, except one. Su Mei, a fellow police officer falls in love with K1, creating a problem as cyborgs are not programmed to feel such feelings. Meanwhile, another cyborg, K88, disappears after suffering a neural meltdown, and K1 is called in to hunt down the renegade robot....
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?

You'd Better Run (2017)
The film tells the story of the single-parent father Tianshan who wants to save his son with a congenital heart disease, Tian Youyou. When he was a "spider man", he accidentally saw Qi Jian who was taking a bath and witnessed a robbery and murder case. It happened that he was responsible for co-investigating Qi Jian of this murder case. He naturally pursued the Tianshan Mountains and then began a series of twists and turns.


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