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Cantonese crime films from the 1990s
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Fallen Angels
An indifferent hitman, his infatuated business partner and an ex-convict search for love and meaning as their lives cross paths in Hong Kong.
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Hard Boiled
A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who's working as a gangster hitman. They use all means o
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Operation Condor
Hired by a Spanish baron, Hong Kong treasure hunter Jackie, a.k.a. "Asian Hawk" and his entourage seek WWII Nazi gold buried in the Sahara Desert.
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Days of Being Wild
Yuddy, a Hong Kong playboy known for breaking girls' hearts, tries to find solace and truth after discovering the woman who raised him isn't his mother.
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Bullet in the Head
Three childhood friends from the slums of Hong Kong flee to war-time Saigon after accidentally murdering a gang leader, but their troubles only escalate.
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Rumble in the Bronx
Keong comes from Hong Kong to visit New York for his uncle's wedding. His uncle runs a market in the Bronx and Keong offers to help out while Uncle is on his honeymoon. During his stay in the Bronx, Keong befriends a neighbor kid and beats
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Iron Monkey
In this Hong Kong variation of Robin Hood, corrupt officials of a Chinese village are robbed by a masked bandit known as "Iron Monkey", named after a benevolent deity. When all else fails, the Governor forces a traveling physician into find
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Police Story 3: Super Cop
A Hong Kong detective teams up with his female Red Chinese counterpart to stop a Chinese drug czar.
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The Mission
Triad boss Lung, who has just escaped being killed in an assassination attempt hires the killers Curtis, James, Mike, Roy and Shin for his protection.
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Made in Hong Kong
After his father abandons the family, Autumn Moon drops out of high school and becomes a debt collector for the Triads. On his rounds, he meets and falls in love with Ping, a daughter of one of the Triads' clients. She is suffering from a f
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Running Out of Time
Police inspector and excellent hostage negotiator Ho Sheung-Sang finds himself in over his head when he is pulled into a 72 hour game by a cancer suffering criminal out for vengeance on Hong Kong's organized crime syndicates.
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Twin Dragons
Identical twins are separated at birth, one becoming a streetwise mechanic, and the other an acclaimed classical concert conductor. Finally meeting in adulthood, they're mistaken for the other and entangled in each other's worlds.
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Fight Back to School
Chow Sing Sing is about to be kicked out of the Royal Hong Kong Police's elite Special Duties Unit. But a senior officer decides to give him one last chance: Star must go undercover as a student at the Edinburgh High School in Hong Kong to
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Crime Story
A special agent is assigned to protect a wealthy business magnate. However, when the businessman is kidnapped in a daring ambush, he teams up with a seasoned detective to crack the case. But soon he discovers the case isn't that simple.
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Once a Thief
Three orphans grow up to become art thieves under the tutelage of a crime boss. Romance complicates matters when the trio are double-crossed.
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A Moment of Romance
After a young Triad member takes an upper-class girl hostage during his escape from a jewelry heist, the two find themselves falling in love, in spite of the repercussions caused by their forbidden relationship.
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Mr. Nice Guy
A Chinese chef accidentally gets involved with a news reporter who filmed a drug bust that went awry and is now being chased by gangs who are trying to get the video tape.
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The Enforcer
An undercover cop struggling to provide for his son and ailing wife, must infiltrate a ruthless gang. But things turn sour when another cop blows his cover and he quickly finds himself battling for his life and the lives of his family.
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Full Contact
In an effort to get his buddy out of a gambling debt, Jeff agrees to join forces with Judge in a weapons heist. The job goes bad and Judge betrays Jeff. Jeff plots the ultimate revenge on Judge and his followers and it is a question of whet
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Fight Back to School 2
Star Chow, an officer in the elite police unit, resigns when he is made a scapegoat for a botched investigation. He goes undercover at a school to complete the case and realizes a bumbling detective is also undercover as a student.
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Police Story 4: First Strike
Hong Kong cop Chan Ka-Kui returns, working with Interpol to track down and arrest an illegal weapons dealer. Chan later realizes that things are not as simple as they appear and soon finds himself to be a pawn of an organization posing as Russian intelligence.
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Justice, My Foot!
An unscrupulous lawyer with an equally eccentric kung-fu sidekick wife tries to bring justice to the court.
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A Hero Never Dies
Jack and Martin are gunmen who work for two rival kingpins. Jack and Martin have been fighting on their bosses behalf for close to a year. When a truce is made both Jack and Martin are cut loose. The two men then decide to join forces and t
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Prison on Fire II
The rivalry between two Chinese prison factions heats up as a seasoned inmate forms an alliance that could cost him more than his freedom.
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Full Alert
A police inspector becomes obsessed with apprehending a criminal planning a major heist at the Hong Kong Jockey Club in the weeks leading up to Hong Kong's return to China.
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To Be Number One
The story of Ho, a Chinese peasant/slave worker who escapes to Hong Kong and becomes one of the most feared gang bosses in Hong Kong.
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Tiger Cage II
An ex-cop and divorce lawyer team up with a gangster to clear their names after getting involved in a dirty money scheme led by a vicious money launderer, who plans to expand his business and wipe out anyone who stands in his way.
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When Fortune Smiles
A daughter inherits a massive amount of fortune from his deceased father and it enrages her brother and her nephew, who then try to steal some of it from her.
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Outlaw Brothers
Frankie Chan and Max Mok are high-class car thieves whose sticky fingers get them in trouble with some gangsters, and then some really nasty gangsters. Tough policewoman Yukari Oshima wants to put the thieves behind bars, but realizes that
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Dreaming the Reality
An expert assassin - trained since childhood to be the perfect killer - loses her memory during a mission in Thailand, and ends up in the care of a wry ex-policewoman and her boxing cohort. The equally lethal sister of the assassin pursues her, uncertain of her intentions and whether to kill her.
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Victim
A computer engineer is kidnapped and tortured. Since then, his girlfriend senses he's no longer the same person, and becomes convinced that something supernatural is corrupting his soul. The cop assigned to the case is also determined to get to the bottom of the case. The truth is more frightening than either had anticipated.
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Lee Rock II
Lee Rock is now the most powerful person in the police force, but he chooses to retreat, because he knows the rules of the power struggle.
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No Risk, No Gain
As an advisor to a reknown U.S. casino and a prominent gambler, "Supreme" Ray has encountered many adventurous challenges in his career. When "Tiger Eye" Chiang challenges Ray to a gambling contest with him in Macau, Ray's adventures begins
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Run and Kill
A family man attempts to undo the deadly contract he made with a stranger during an evening of drunken depression.
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Fight Back to School 3
Chow Sing Sing returns, only this time he doesn’t go back to school. Instead, Chow goes undercover as the husband of a wealthy socialite, which doesn’t sit well with his fiancée, who tries to convince Chow to quit working as undercover.
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The Last Blood
Lui Tai, an Interpol agent, is assigned to protect the Daka Lama, a famous religious leader who's targeted for death by a militant Japanese terrorist group. When the Daka Lama is injured, Lui Tai embarks on a quest to find a suitable bloo
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She Shoots Straight
Hong Kong police officer Mina Kao marries Huang Tsung-Pao, who is a member of a law enforcement dynasty. His father and his many sisters are also officers, and the eldest sister Chia-Ling is one of the highest ranking women in the police de
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Skinny Tiger, Fatty Dragon
Fatty and Baldy, a pair of undercover detectives, infiltrate a Triad drug syndicate but are put on a leave of absence after apprehending the kingpin, Tak, in the middle of the police commander's wedding. They return to find that Tak has bee
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Kawashima Yoshiko
A fictionalized account of the life and death of Kawashima Yoshiko, the last princess of Manchuria and a spy for the Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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Young and Dangerous 3
This time taking on the rival Tung Sing triad, who is attempting to usurp Hung Hing influence in Hong Kong by having Tung Sing member Crow frame Ho Nam for the murder of Hung Hing Chairman Chiang Tin Sang. On the plus side, Chicken finds a
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Casino Tycoon
Set in World War II, Casino Tycoon chronicles the story of Benny, a young graduate, who flees Hong-Kong during the Japanese invasion and heads for gambling haven Macau. Once in Macau, he impresses a local business man who has ties to organi
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Truant Heroes
Undercover cop, Kin, infiltrates a Hong Kong school to root out an underworld presence. Things get tricky when he falls for a charming teacher, adding a romantic twist to the fight against organized crime within the school's vibrant walls.
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The Suspect
Don Lee, a reformed ex-assassin, refuses to assassinate a politician for his former boss. His best friend Max commits the hit and frames Don, forcing him on the run from both police and criminals to clear his name.
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Front Page
Hui, an owner of a Hong Kong tabloid magazine company hires martial artist Bill Lee to help him get a good headliner for a magazine story to, hopefully, save his failing business.
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Lucky Encounter
Two inventors encounter a friendly little ghost, and stumble onto a plot to capture the ghost's uncle who was responsible for his untimely death. However, the inventors are warned by a spiritual master that humans and ghosts cannot co-exist
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The Log
New Year's Eve of 1997, Hong Kong is almost in hand to China and the service routine is shaken by a number of events that threaten to get out of hand: a cop accidentally kills an old woman kidnapped by a thug during a tense action and is arrested facing general disbelief. A cadet committing the same offense is acquitted and instead celebrated as a hero by the citizens, but flooding of guilt. A senior police officer on the other hand is going to be left by his wife in vain that claims more attention and time he has never failed to give her. The three destinies cross when the third of them takes hostage during the New Year, the new man in the woman.
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Curry & Pepper
Two best friends and cop partners become the subject of a beautiful news reporter's documentary. The two soon find themselves competing for screen time as well as the love of the reporter while after a murderous arms dealer.
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Beast Cops
Tung is a street cop in Hong Kong who's friends with a Triad named Fai. Fai hires a hit man to murder a business rival; the hit goes wrong and Fai, implicated in the incident, goes on the run.
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The Magnificent Scoundrels
Valentino is a mediocre con artist who crosses paths with Kwan, a fellow con artist. Together, they impersonate various people and create numerous schemes to make money. Meanwhile, gangsters are making a scheme of their own.
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Island of Greed
A gutsy police detecive and his team of cops probe into the widespread illegal dealings of a criminal mastermind who schemes to redeem himself by running for government office in taiwan.
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The Longest Summer
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.
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Ebola Syndrome
A violent fugitive on the run from the law makes his way from Hong Kong to South Africa, where he discovers that he's immune to the Ebola virus, and later returns home to spread the deadly disease.
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Undeclared War
A Hong Kong Special Branch cop and a CIA agent reluctantly team up to bring down a major international terrorist.
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Tiger on the Beat 2
Lam, a middle-aged cop on the verge of retirement, is asked by his sister to find his nephew, Buffalo, a suitable wife, but Buffalo already has designs on an escort, who becomes the target of a drug smuggling syndicate after she witnesses a murder.
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Vendetta
A robber is arrested and his two siblings are shot dead by a cop. Same day, the cop's wife gives birth to twins. The babies have birthmarks on their foreheads, which just like the wounds on the two dead robbers.
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Young and Dangerous 5
Although Chicken does not make an appearance, Chan Ho Nam finds a new love interest in the form of Mei Ling. Meanwhile, Tung Sing returns to cause trouble again for Hung Hing, in the form of new leader Szeto Ho Nam.
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Expect the Unexpected
Bumbling mainland crooks mess up a jewelry heist. Two cops serious Ken and jokey Sam investigate but mix up these amateurs with dangerous mainland robbers in the neighborhood.
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Sea Wolves
Madam Yeung is assigned to investigate a serial murder in a Philippine cargo ship anchored in Hong Kong.
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Black Cat II
Scientists install a micro chip, called Black Cat, inside the brain of a violence prone girl named Catherine in an attempt to refine and control her fits of rage. Their plan is to turn her into the perfect government secret agent "killing m
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Mission of Condor
A beautiful detective is assigned to bring down a gang of drug traffickers.
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The Red Wolf
A group of terrorists murder the captain of a cruise ship and take everyone hostage. Their plan is to steal the uranium being stored in the ship's safe. It's up to a security officer and a pickpocketing cocktail waitress to stop them.
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What a Hero!
Yuen Tak Wah (Andy Lau) has been practicing Taekwondo since he was a kid and becomes an expert at it with his best trick being the 720 Degree Whirlwind Kick. Wah later becomes a cop and uses his good skills to contribute in cracking cases w
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The Odd One Dies
Mo applies to become a hit-man to pay off all his debt. But just before he starts working, he wins loads of money from gambling and decides to hire a woman to replace him.
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Shanghai Shanghai
Little Tiger ventures from the sticks to the big city in search of his cop brother Big Tiger, an honest cop working in a corrupt system. Surmising that life in the police force was not his cup of tea, Little Tiger joins the Swallow Acrobatic Troop, which he excels in because of his kung-fu prowess. When a band of thugs from Chin Hung-yun's group attacks the troop, Little Tiger not only handily fights them back but also infiltrates their organization to destroy them from the inside. Meanwhile, Big Tiger's old flame Mary returns from America to join the revolutionaries. Big Tiger soon finds himself torn between his love of this girl and his orders to arrest all revolutionaries.
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Angel Terminators 2
When teens help a friend who's been forced into prostitution they upset some very dangerous people. With the help of a renegade cop a bloody war ensues with tragic consequences.
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Bullets Over Summer
Plainclothes policemen Brian and Mike use an elderly woman's apartment for surveillance, hoping to catch a fugitive gangster. They develop a warm relationship with their hostess, whom they call "granny." Meanwhile, each man develops a romantic relationship: Brian with a strange wandering teenage girl, and Mike with a pregnant woman at the dry cleaning shop. When the gangster returns to his flat, Brian and Mike are forced into an explosive confrontation.
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High Voltage
Donnie Yen is back with a vengeance in this electric action thriller. The star of Fist of Fury, Hero and Highlander goes up against Hong Kong's deadliest gangsters in a no holds barred duel to the death. Donnie Yen has proven to be one of martial arts most reliable and dedicated martial arts stars. Through the years he's been the lead in his own films, as well as co-starring with the modern legends such as Jet Li and Jackie Chan.
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Look Out, Officer!
After police officer Piao is murdered, his soul cannot be at rest for his murder has been written off as a suicide. Therefore the heavens send him back to Earth as a spirit to find his 'savior' who will help him clear his name. Hsing, a roo
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Tri-Star
A priest hears a prostitute's confession, a tale which has a 200,000 HK$ debt as its centerpiece. The prostitute accidentally leaves behind an envelope with her address in the confessional. Concealing his true occupation, the priest rents a
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An Eye for an Eye
When Fung's cop boyfriend Tats puts her supposedly reformed triad father behind bars, her daughter Fung aims to rid the organization of it's dirty ties, but one of Fung's father chief goons, Cheong, plans for a very hostile takeover.
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Lee Rock
Lee Rock starts his career in the Hong Kong police force as an incorruptible officer. However, he becomes desperate for money and slowly starts to dive into corruption.
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Purple Storm
Khmer Rouge terrorist Kieron Chow and his unit arrive in Hong Kong for their latest mission. Todd, Chow's son and fiercely loyal right-hand man, sustains a serious head wound. Now a total amnesiac, Todd wakes from a coma to find he's been given a new life, one that may be the death of him. With the help of psychiatrist Shirley Kwan, anti-terrorist officer Mark Chan tries to convince Todd that he is actually an undercover cop sent to infiltrate Chow's group. As fragments of his shattered memory return, Todd is forced to choose between his dark past and this one shot at redemption
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All of a Sudden
An erotic mystery in which two couples engage in multiple layers of passion, betrayal and murder.
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The Untold Story
Macau cops begin to suspect a man running a pork buns restaurant of murder, after tracing the origin of a case full of chopped up human remains that washed ashore, which leads them to him.
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Loving You
A man re-evaluates his life after being given a second chance. When seedy cop Liu Chen-hai is shot, he is forced to do some soul-searching about his old life.
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The Royal Scoundrel
Beach Boy is a maverick cop whose unorthodox and incompetent ways are frowned upon by his uptight superiors. His inept partner Mr. Chow isn't much help, and is more concerned with taking care of his many, many children. On a routine stakeout, Beach Boy and Mr. Chow rescue a lovely Mainland girl named Ah Yuk, who was previously abused by her criminal uncle.
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Shanghai Grand
Hui Man Keung is washed up on a beach near Shanghai. He is taken in by Ding Lik, a kindly beggar who is in love with Fung Ching Ching, the daughter of a prominent gangster. It isn't long before Ding Lik rises through the underworld ranks to
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Body Weapon
While investigating murder cases involving masked rapists, Officer Ling herself is raped and her husband murdered by the suspects, on their wedding night. Rather than relying on her fellow police officers to solve her case, Ling chooses to
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Queen of Underworld
Popular Hong Kong actress Amy Yip plays Sister Har -- a seminal figure in 1960s and '70s Hong Kong nightlife -- in this biographical film that follows the scenester's rise and fall from the upper echelons of society to the glamour and exces
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The Legendary Tai Fei
Tai Fei discovers he has a son, and soon realizes that he is a triad member involved in the Tung Sing gang which deals in narcotics.
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Young and Dangerous: The Prequel
Showcasing the earlier years of Chan Ho Nam and Chicken, this prequel tells of their time during their willingness to follow Hung Hing's Uncle Bee.
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Hunting List
Chu Chi Kit returns to HK from Taiwan after many years in hiding, and immediately resumes his relationship with old flame May and rejoins his old friend Cramp in a drug operation. But times are different, and their big boss Lui now cares mo
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Zodiac Killers
Hong Kong student Ben Lee becomes friends with his mainland Chinese classmate Chang Chih while studying abroad in Japan. Ben is unmotivated to study and only cares about money and on the other hand, whenever Chih encounters a Chinese person, he would ask whereabouts of his childhood sweetheart. Ming is also from Hong Kong and in order to elevate his social status, he becomes involved with a bar hostess and owner Yuriko, hoping to become Yakuza leader Yamada Ishikawa's brother in-law.
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Robotrix
When evil inventor Ryuichi Yamamoto transfers his mind into that of a powerful cyborg, he becomes a murderer and rapist. But when one of his victims, Police officer Selina Lam becomes super robot Eve-R27, she teams up with android sidekick
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Tiger Cage III
Police officers John and James investigate the case of Lee, a businessman. They seek help of Suki, a friend who double-crosses them and the two officers regroup after a setback to solve the case.
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Peace Hotel
After his wife's murder, Ping sets up a Peace Hotel to act as a sanctuary for anyone who needs protecting. One day, a mysterious woman shows up who seeks shelter from a gang hunting her. Vowing to never turn anyone away, Ping must decide wh
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Daughter of Darkness 2
Another gruesome case involving a woman who's a sole survivor of a brutal massacre. A local constable questions the woman about her whereabouts and what might have happened the night before. As he gets the young woman to talk, she spins a t
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Black Cat
Catherine is a violent and disturbed young lady who is shot down by the government in one of her escapades. She wakes up in a training facility and is taught to use weapons, combat, and is put through heavy endurance training. When she is d
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The Untold Story 2
An unhappily married couple invite the wife's beautiful cousin, who has survived a horrifying experience in Mainland China, to live with them. She has her own special way of overcoming hardship and becomes the master of the human barbecue.
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Cash on Delivery
Retired gigolo Simon is engaged in antique trading and brokerage. His cousin Mike is a new gigolo who got into trouble and was caught in a lawsuit. Simon encountered Assistant Prosecutor Sandy in court. Eventually they fall in love with ea
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The Tricky Master
Undercover cop Leung Foon is having trouble taking down the illegal trading operation headed by crime boss Ferrari. So to accomplish his mission, he asks for help from the renowned Master Wong, an expert in gambling tricks.
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Horrible High Heels
Someone has been skinning dead bodies and using their hide to make shoes. All of a sudden, a shoe factory whose business has been on the low side for some time improves tremendously.
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Naked Killer
A young woman is trained by a professional assassin to become her partner in crime.
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Dr. Lamb
An abnormal taxi driver lusts for blood every rainy night, and several young women are killed as a result. The murderer, Laiu, likes to take photos of the victims dismembered bodies as mementos. Inspector Lee is called onto the case in this
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Raped by an Angel
A lawyer is obsessed by a TV advertisement's two models, Yau Yuk Nam and Chu Kit Man. He schemes an elaborate plot to sexually assault Chu and get away with it. With the help of a philanthropic triad boss, Yau uses her body to lure him into
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Will of Iron
Maggie came back to Hong Kong and gathered her grandmother back to Vancouver for good. She took this opportunity to bunch up with her boyfriend Michael, best friends Jackie and his wife Carol. Although Michael convinced her that the couple had moved to Macau, incidentally they met each other on the street. Maggie couldn't believe her own bare eyes that Jackie was already addicted to cocaine. And the most absurd fact that Michael was the drug dealer himself. Jackie owed the mob a great deal of money; and one of the gangster, Chau Sung was determined to force Jackie to the corner.
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Those Were the Days...
A gangster gets mixed up with drugs after witnessing a friend killed during a gang fight.
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Red Fists
Siu is a competent, intelligent, smart Hong Kong detective. The case of money smuggling and counterfeiting between Mainland China, Hong Kong and neighboring countries has always happened. Investigator Wong who works under the gang, together with Siu, decide to join forces to end them all.
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Thunder Cop
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.