Top Chinese Movies


The Top Chinese Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Chinese List". Lists are calculated daily.

11. Infernal Affairs ( Mou gaan dou )

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wai-keung Lau
Actors: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Eric Tsang, Andy Lau, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang
Plot: A mole is suspected to be the cause of a group of police officers not being able to catch a crime lord.

12. Way of the Dragon, The ( Meng long guo jiang )

Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Bruce Lee
Actors: Bruce Lee, Nora Miao, Chuck Norris, Ping-Ao Wei
Plot: Bruce Lee's character is sent to protect a man and his restaurant in Rome. As he shows his skill to the rest of the team, the mafia try to kill him. With little success, they bring in the ultimate fighter, Chuck Norris!

13. Jet Li's: Fearless ( Huo Yuan Jia )

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ronny Yu
Actors: Jet Li, Yong Dong, Betty Sun, Nathan Jones
Plot: A Chinese Martial Arts Master goes through a personal journey and learns that he has the power to unit a country.

14. 2046

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kar Wai Wong
Actors: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Li Gong, Faye Wong, Ziyi Zhang

15. Drunken Master ( Jui kuen )

Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Woo-ping Yuen
Actors: Jackie Chan, Siu Tien Yuen, Jang Lee Hwang, Ging Man Fung
Plot: An undisciplined boy must learn Drunken Fist Kung Fu in order to stop an assassin.

16. Vive L'Amour ( Ai qing wan sui )

Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ming-liang Tsai
Actors: Chao-jung Chen, Kang-sheng Lee, Kuei-Mei Yang
Plot: A look into the lives of three people who share (partially unknowingly) the same apartment: Mei, the real estate agent who uses the room for her trysts, her current lover Ah-jung and Hsiao-ang, who takes a key and uses the place as his own retreat.

17. Red Cliff ( Chi bi )

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Woo
Actors: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Fengyi Zhang, Chen Chang

18. Happy Together ( Chun gwong cha sit )

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kar Wai Wong
Actors: Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Chen Chang, Gregory Dayton
Plot: Yiu-Fai and Po-Wing arrive in Argentina via Hong Kong on holiday but their relationship his a rocky stretch and the two men part. While Yiu-Fai finds success and maybe even a new relationship, Po-Wing's life spirals ever downward.

19. Ju Dou

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Fengliang Yang, Yimou Zhang
Actors: Li Gong, Baotian Li, Wei Li, Zhang Yi
Plot: A woman contends with her brutal, infertile husband - owner of a local dye mill in rural China. When she conceives a male child by her husband's nephew, she is forced to raise the boy and convince her husband it is his while keeping the real parentage a secret.

20. Hard Boiled ( Lat sau san taam )

Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Woo
Actors: Yun-Fat Chow, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Teresa Mo, Philip Chan
Plot: As the mob smuggles guns into China, a daring raid leaves an ace detective without his partner. While the smugglers fight internally over territory, the detective works with an insider to bring down the entire operation.

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