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1. Rush Hour (1998)
PG-13 | 98 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A loyal and dedicated Hong Kong Inspector teams up with a reckless and loudmouthed L.A.P.D. detective to rescue the Chinese Consul's kidnapped daughter, while trying to arrest a dangerous crime lord along the way.
Director: Brett Ratner | Stars: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Ken Leung, Tom Wilkinson
Votes: 294,911 | Gross: $141.15M
2. Decision to Leave (2022)
Not Rated | 139 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A detective investigating a man's death in the mountains meets the dead man's mysterious wife in the course of his dogged sleuthing.
Director: Park Chan-wook | Stars: Park Hae-il, Tang Wei, Lee Jung-hyun, Go Kyung-pyo
Votes: 55,331
3. Shanghai Noon (2000)
PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A Chinese man travels to the Wild West to rescue a kidnapped Princess. After teaming up with a train robber, the unlikely duo takes on a Chinese traitor and his corrupt boss.
Director: Tom Dey | Stars: Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Lucy Liu, Brandon Merrill
Votes: 135,284 | Gross: $56.94M
4. Rush Hour 3 (2007)
PG-13 | 91 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
After an attempted assassination on Ambassador Han, Lee and Carter head to Paris to protect a French woman with knowledge of the Triads' secret leaders.
Director: Brett Ratner | Stars: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Max von Sydow, Hiroyuki Sanada
Votes: 183,412 | Gross: $140.13M
5. The Way of the Dragon (1972)
R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A man visits his relatives at their restaurant in Italy and has to help them defend against brutal gangsters harassing them.
Director: Bruce Lee | Stars: Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, Nora Miao, Ping-Ou Wei
Votes: 41,078 | Gross: $4.06M
6. The Half of It (I) (2020)
PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Drama
When smart but cash-strapped teen Ellie Chu agrees to write a love letter for a jock, she doesn't expect to become his friend - or fall for his crush.
Director: Alice Wu | Stars: Leah Lewis, Daniel Diemer, Alexxis Lemire, Wolfgang Novogratz
Votes: 43,296
7. Rumble in the Bronx (1995)
R | 87 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A young man visiting and helping his uncle in New York City finds himself forced to fight a street gang and the mob with his martial art skills.
Director: Stanley Tong | Stars: Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Françoise Yip, Bill Tung
Votes: 46,027 | Gross: $32.39M
8. The Bar (2017)
102 min | Thriller
In bustling downtown Madrid, a loud gunshot and two mysterious deaths trap a motley assortment of common urbanites in a decrepit central bar, while paranoia and suspicion force the terrified regulars to turn on each other.
Director: Álex de la Iglesia | Stars: Blanca Suárez, Mario Casas, Carmen Machi, Secun de la Rosa
Votes: 28,915
9. Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018)
R | 104 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
An illustrious British boarding school becomes a bloody battleground when a mysterious sinkhole appears at a nearby fracking site, unleashing unspeakable horror.
Director: Crispian Mills | Stars: Jassa Ahluwalia, Asa Butterfield, Jamie Blackley, Finn Cole
Votes: 16,302 | Gross: $0.00M
10. The 10th Victim (1965)
Not Rated | 92 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
In a future where a human vs. human "Big Hunt" is used as an alternative to war, a veteran huntress' plan to kill a "victim" for a major TV sponsorship deal is compounded by romance.
Director: Elio Petri | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli, Salvo Randone
Votes: 5,004
11. The Corruptor (1999)
R | 110 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
With the aid from a New York City policeman, a top immigrant cop tries to stop drug-trafficking and corruption by immigrant Chinese Triads, but things get complicated when the Triads try to bribe the policeman.
Director: James Foley | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Mark Wahlberg, Ric Young, Paul Ben-Victor
Votes: 19,152 | Gross: $15.16M
12. Summer Palace (2006)
Unrated | 158 min | Drama, Romance
Yu Hong leaves her home village and starts university in Beijing, where she develops a consuming and compulsive relationship with another student. The student riots from 1989 then ensue and take a toll on their lives.
Director: Ye Lou | Stars: Lei Hao, Xiaodong Guo, Xueyun Bai, Lin Cui
Votes: 4,320 | Gross: $0.06M
13. Goldstone (2016)
R | 110 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
Indigenous detective Jay Swan arrives in the town of Goldstone to search for a missing person, and his simple duty becomes complicated when he uncovers a web of crime and corruption.
Director: Ivan Sen | Stars: Aaron Pedersen, Alex Russell, Jacki Weaver, David Wenham
Votes: 6,248 | Gross: $0.09M
14. Love at Second Sight (2019)
117 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A man tries to make his wife fall in love with him again, after waking up in an alternate reality where she never knew him.
Director: Hugo Gélin | Stars: François Civil, Joséphine Japy, Benjamin Lavernhe, Camille Lellouche
Votes: 6,040
15. The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales (2017)
G | 83 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Whoever thinks that the countryside is calm and peaceful is mistaken. In it we find especially agitated animals, a Fox that thinks it's a chicken, a Rabbit that acts like a stork, and a Duck who wants to replace Father Christmas. If you want to take a vacation, keep driving past this place.
Directors: Patrick Imbert, Benjamin Renner | Stars: Guillaume Darnault, Damien Witecka, Kamel Abdessadok, Antoine Schoumsky
Votes: 3,691 | Gross: $0.04M
16. The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977)
PG | 85 min | Adventure, Comedy, War
An aging Sir Hector Geste (Trevor Howard) takes a young greedy wife who's after his famed Blue Water sapphire, but his sons hide the gem and join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa.
Director: Marty Feldman | Stars: Marty Feldman, Ann-Margret, Michael York, Peter Ustinov
Votes: 2,630
17. Pale Flower (1964)
Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Crime
A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.
Director: Masahiro Shinoda | Stars: Ryô Ikebe, Mariko Kaga, Takashi Fujiki, Naoki Sugiura
Votes: 4,395
18. Master Cheng (2019)
114 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Following the death of his wife, professional chef Cheng travels with his young son to a remote village in Finland to connect with an old Finnish friend he once met in Shanghai.
Director: Mika Kaurismäki | Stars: Pak Hon Chu, Anna-Maija Tuokko, Lucas Hsuan, Kari Väänänen
Votes: 2,960
19. Chinese Take-Away (2011)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Drama
A well-ordered hardware store owner in Buenos Aires will see his life turn upside down when he helps a stranded Chinese man who doesn't speak a word of Spanish find his uncle in the bustling city. But can this coexistence bear fruit?
Director: Sebastián Borensztein | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Ignacio Huang, Carolina Hsu, Muriel Santa Ana
Votes: 19,539
20. Playing Beatie Bow (1986)
Not Rated | 93 min | Family, Fantasy, Mystery
A discontented Sydney teenager travels back in time to 1873, whilst watching an old fashioned children's game.
Director: Donald Crombie | Stars: Imogen Annesley, Peter Phelps, Mouche Phillips, Nikki Coghill
Votes: 352
21. Lilting (2014)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Romance
A young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his 4-year male lover, who grieve but don't speak a lick of each other's language.
Director: Hong Khaou | Stars: Pei-Pei Cheng, Ben Whishaw, Andrew Leung, Peter Bowles
Votes: 6,578 | Gross: $0.02M
22. What Time Is It There? (2001)
Not Rated | 116 min | Drama, Romance
A watch salesman meets a young woman soon leaving for Paris and becomes infatuated, so he begins to change all the clocks in Taipei to Paris time.
Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Yi-ching Lu, Miao Tien
Votes: 5,324 | Gross: $0.19M
23. The Home Song Stories (2007)
103 min | Drama
A man remembers his childhood and his mother, a Chinese night club singer who struggled to survive in Australia with her two children.
Director: Tony Ayres | Stars: Joan Chen, Yuwu Qi, Joel Lok, Irene Chen
Votes: 923
24. Historias lamentables (2020)
126 min | Comedy
An anthology of four stories about very miserable people.
Director: Javier Fesser | Stars: Pol López, Chani Martín, Laura Gómez-Lacueva, Janick
Votes: 1,921
25. Speaking of the Devil (1991)
95 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Bull Webster is a taxi driver with some work problems on his hands: the Spider Corporation, a giant financial holding company, has decided to buy out his taxi co-operative in order to make ... See full summary »
Director: Enzo Barboni | Stars: Bud Spencer, Carol Alt, Thierry Lhermitte, Sharon Madden
Votes: 1,371
26. The Clinic (1982)
93 min | Comedy
A series of humorous vignettes set in a clinic for venereal diseases. Although the film concentrates on relationships, it is also a source of instruction on safe sexual practices and STD (... See full summary »
Director: David Stevens | Stars: Chris Haywood, Simon Burke, Gerda Nicolson, Rona McLeod
Votes: 105
27. I Can Quit Whenever I Want (2019)
TV-MA | 98 min | Comedy
Three university teachers who have lost their jobs turn into drug dealers after one of them creates an experimental new pill.
Director: Carlos Therón | Stars: David Verdaguer, Ernesto Sevilla, Carlos Santos, Cristina Castaño
Votes: 1,941
28. Perfect Baby (2011)
92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A perfectionist poet falls for an energetic Chinese man who teaches her the importance of life's imperfections.
Director: Jing Wang | Stars: Chao Deng, Jane March, Jean-Baptiste Maunier, Chenxi Liu
Votes: 74
29. Ánimas (2018)
TV-MA | 83 min | Horror, Thriller
This time, horror comes fron the other side.
Directors: Laura Alvea, José Ortuño | Stars: Ángela Molina, Chacha Huang, Iván Pellicer, Luis Bermejo
Votes: 1,519
30. Flower (2011)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
A female Beijing student living in Paris accidentally meets a French construction worker. They have an intense relationship based on sexual attraction, mistrust, submissiveness and a ... See full summary »
Director: Ye Lou | Stars: Corinne Yam, Tahar Rahim, Jalil Lespert, Vincent Rottiers
Votes: 600
31. Da geht noch was (2013)
101 min | Comedy, Drama
When three generations of one family temporarily have to live together under one roof chaos ensues.
Director: Holger Haase | Stars: Florian David Fitz, Henry Hübchen, Marius V. Haas, Leslie Malton
Votes: 1,357
32. El mundo es nuestro (2012)
83 min | Comedy, Crime
Two thugs with no talent intend to follow in the footsteps of Dioni and plan a bank robbery. They end up becoming part of a massive media circus instead.
Director: Alfonso Sánchez | Stars: Alfonso Sánchez, Alberto López, Alfonso Valenzuela, Joserra Leza
Votes: 1,556
33. Bad Guys Always Die (2015)
110 min | Action, Comedy
A Chinese teacher in Busan awaits 3 of his friends to spend holidays together in Jeju Island, Korea. Secret gangsters, Sexy Korean woman, old policeman and pastors exist in their tour one ... See full summary »
Director: Hao Sun | Stars: Son Ye-jin, Chen Bo-lin, Park Chul-min, Wenbo Ding
Votes: 347
34. Cheng fa (1979)
93 min | Action, Adventure
Three strangers with exceptional fighting skills are hired by a retired Army general to combat his brother's mafia in the Dominican Republic.
Director: Yueh-Ting Men | Stars: Yasuaki Kurata, Kin-Kwan Poon, Tadashi Yamashita, Alan Colavito
Votes: 13
35. I Hate Actors (1986)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Hollywood in the 1940s. A tyrannical producer, a paranoid director, a starlet engaged twenty-four times, an actor who refuses to age - all against a backdrop of a series of murders.
Director: Gérard Krawczyk | Stars: Jean Poiret, Michel Blanc, Bernard Blier, Patrick Floersheim
Votes: 260
36. The Blonde from Peking (1967)
87 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
An amnesic young woman is found fainting on a bench. A tattoo identifies her as Erica Olsen, ex-companion of a Chinese scientist who holds atomic secrets.
Director: Nicolas Gessner | Stars: Claudio Brook, Mireille Darc, Françoise Brion, Jean-Jacques Delbo
Votes: 223
37. Night Ride (2019)
95 min | Drama
One night, Naomie, a stripper and bewitching call girl, gets into Jin's cab. Intrigued by Jin's muteness, she asks him to become her official taxi. As the nights go by, a beautiful but dangerous love story develops between them.
Director: Frédéric Farrucci | Stars: Guang Huo, Camélia Jordana, Xun Liang, Xiaoxing Cheng
Votes: 459
38. Afternoon Off (1979 TV Movie)
63 min | Drama
Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. Told that a girl called Iris might be interested in him, on his afternoon off work he buys a box of chocolates and sets off to find her.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Henry Man, Benjamin Whitrow, Angela Morant, Pasquale Perrino
Votes: 62
39. Shiverstone Castle 2 (2017)
100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
The pupils of Castle Schreckenstein and Castle Rosenfels look for a solution to forestall the sale of Castle Schreckenstein due to debts.
Director: Ralf Huettner | Stars: Henning Baum, Alexander Beyer, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Caspar Kryzsch
Votes: 156
40. Julio, felices por siempre (2022)
92 min | Comedy, Romance
A young man frustrated with his life is employed as a tour guide in Colonia del Sacramento, where he meets an American woman who arrives by mistake. After an intense day together, she leaves and they start a troubled online relationship.
Director: Juan Manuel Solé | Stars: Gustavo Alonso, Rodrigo Barneche, Mauricio Bukstein, Daryna Butryk
Votes: 26
41. Soundless Wind Chime (2009)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Romance
Ricky leaves Hong Kong for Switzerland to look for the lost soul and the past of his deceased Swiss lover, Pascal. Ricky struggles with the confusion of memories, reality and illusion.
Director: Kit Hung | Stars: Yulai Lü, Bernhard Bulling, Marie Omlin, Gilles Tschudi
Votes: 885
42. Win Win (2013)
97 min | Comedy
A Swiss mayor and a Chinese watchmaker living in the Jura decide to organize the semi-finals of Miss China in Switzerland.
Director: Claudio Tonetti | Stars: Jean-Luc Couchard, Xiaoxing Cheng, Anne Comte, Guy Lecluyse
Votes: 46
43. Emptiness (2019)
94 min | Drama, Thriller
Lei and Wong clandestinely arrive to Ecuador, on their way to the port city of Guayaquil. From there Lei plans to continue her journey to New York, but Chang, a bipolar mobster will decide ... See full summary »
Director: Paúl Venegas | Stars: Jing Fu, Lidan Zhu, Day Min Meng, Ricardo Velasteguí
Votes: 52
44. Mach, Sebestová a kouzelné sluchátko (2001)
94 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
A live-action adaptation of the popular children's cartoon series about a couple of school kids who live through an incredible adventure thanks to a magic telephone receiver. In the feature... See full summary »
Director: Václav Vorlícek | Stars: Robert Hájek, Kristyna Kvetova, Stella Zázvorková, Iva Janzurová
Votes: 166
45. Little Wenzhou (2009 TV Movie)
94 min | Comedy, Romance
In France, an illegal immigrant in the Lille area, a young Chinese woman tries to pay back her smuggler by working as a manicurist.
Director: Sarah Lévy | Stars: Hang Yin, Hélène Patarot, Marisa Commandeur, Boramy Tioulong
Votes: 21
46. Yellow Fever (1998)
Unrated | 26 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Monty, a gay Chinese guy living in London, makes it a habit to date only white boys. When his handsome East Asian neighbor invites him over for dinner, Monty has to decide if he's an Anglophile or simply prejudiced.
Director: Ray Yeung | Stars: Adrian Pang, Gerald Chew, Ivan Heng, Gordon Yeung
Votes: 62
47. 13. revír (1946)
102 min | Crime, Drama
Inspector Cadek from the 13th police station should keep an eye on the released safe-cracker nicknamed The Cat. He rightly suspects that Cat will go and pick up his last loot which the ... See full summary »
Director: Martin Fric | Stars: Dana Medrická, Jaroslav Marvan, Ella Nollová, Vilém Pfeiffer
Votes: 99
48. But I'm a Creep (2013)
32 min | Short, Drama, Romance
Milena is a student of theater and dance. For making money, she poses for painting class in the school of Beaux Arts. She comes across a Chinese boy, Chang. Milena is interested to this ... See full summary »
Director: Xiao Wang | Stars: Martha Bella, Guan Chen, François Gardeil, Séréna Dessons
50. Two Nights (2006)
11 min | Short, Romance
Over two nights, a young Chinese immigrant has sexual encounters with two very different men. Consequently, he has to choose between the one he wants or the who wants him.
Director: Rolmar Baldonado | Stars: Ben Geurens, Paul W. He, Nicholas Papademetriou
Votes: 42