The Hong Kong Second Wave

Zwei Nachbarn bauen eine enge Bindung zueinander auf, als beide ihre Ehepartner der Untreue verdächtigen. Sie kommen jedoch überein, ihre Beziehung platonisch zu halten, um nicht ähnliches Unrecht zu begehen.

Zwei melancholische Hongkonger Polizisten verlieben sich: einer mit einer mysteriösen weiblichen Unterweltfigur, der andere mit einem schönen und ätherischen Server in einem Late-Night-Restaurant, das er besucht.

Filmed in New York, story of naive young woman from Hong Kong who goes to New York to study. Street-wise cabbie cousin takes care of her in the big city.

In 1980s, a Chinese couple illegally immigrates to NYC seeking better life. After wife arrives first, husband follows a year later, struggling to find her amidst city's harsh realities - poverty, hardship and decay - that swallowed her.

Four young people spend their time living the wild life - until one of them is brutally murdered in a burglary.

Fleur is the blue angel in one of Hong Kong's "flower houses" - bordellos and night clubs of the 1930s. A detached and beautiful performer, she falls in love with Twelfth Master Chan, heir to a chain of pharmacies. They agree to a suicide pact. 50 years later, in modern Hong Kong, Fleur's ghost appears in Yuen's newspaper office, wanting to place an ad to find Chan, who never arrived in the afterlife. Yuen, and his equally bewildered girlfriend, An Chor, are captivated by Fleur and her story.

Autumn Moon (Sam Lee), a low-rent triad living in Hong Kong, struggles to find meaning in his hopelessly violent existence.

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.

Jun zieht von den ländlichen Regionen Chinas nach Hong Kong, um für seine geplante Hochzeit mit seiner Freundin Geld zu verdienen. Doch dann findet er eine neue Liebe.

The story about a young, unemployed man, who after being kicked out of his home is desperate enough to live anywhere. He is directed to Fatso, who owns a cage home establishment, and is given a living space.

Der mittelgroße Gangster Wah verliebt sich in seine schöne Cousine, muss aber auch weiterhin seinen unberechenbaren Partner und Freund Fly beschützen.

Ein Mann versucht herauszufinden, wer seine wirkliche Mutter ist, nachdem die Frau, die ihn aufgezogen hat, ihm die Wahrheit erzählt hat.

Biopic of 1930s Chinese actress Lingyu Ruan.

Stanley Kwan examines queer themes in Chinese film for this insightful documentary, produced for the British Film Institute's "Century of Cinema" series. Using film clips, personal recollections, and interviews with film luminaries (including Ang Lee, Tsui Hark, Chen Kaige and Leslie Cheung), Kwan demonstrates how Chinese cinema has challenged gender norms for years, while asserting his own sexuality in a poignant conversation with his mother.

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. His parents are always working at their restaurant, so Little Cheung becomes much closer to his grandmother and her Filipino maid Armi. Little Cheung befriends Fan, a girl his age who is an illegal immigrant from China. He splits his tips with her when she helps him deliver take-outs for his father. The pair have some amusing adventures, and delight in peeing in the drinks of a troublesome thug. Against his father's will, Little Cheung starts searching for his older brother, whom his father disowned because he became a gangster.

Hong Kong life from the perspective of a young northern mainland Chinese woman working as a prostitute in Hong Kong.

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.

The story of Dong Dong, the God of Public Toilets - so called because he was born and abandoned by his mother in a public toilet and later rescued out of the sewage by his grandmother.

A woman (Joey Wang) is cursed with beauty in China and becomes prey for men. Raped by the prefect of her ballet school and sent to work camp, she escapes to decadent Hong Kong by marrying a wealthy banker. She finds herself drawn to sadomasochistic affairs and in flashbacks discovers she is the reincarnation of a famous courtesan of ancient China.

Near the beginning of the Tang dynasty, in 7th century China, General Shi Yan-sheng is tricked into leaving the crown prince unguarded. The crown prince is murdered by one of his brothers who then becomes emperor. Shi retreats to a monastery, perhaps to hide, perhaps to plan a coup. When his loyal troops as well as the princess he desires are slain, he seeks refuge in a remote, abandoned monastery where an aged abbot schools him with practical, earthy teachings. The emperor's forces pursue Shi: first a woman, then a general seek to overpower him with lust and might. Over the course of the film, the reds of battle give way to blues of meditation.

Sam and Wing get together after falling in love, only to be followed by other love related complications.

Alan and Eric are childhood friends who are separated when Eric moves to America. They are reunited in Hong Kong when Eric finds Alan at the cafe where the latter is working as a waiter and singer. Together they forge a business which is destroyed in a storm. Meanwhile, both have met a lady named Olive, and both strive for her affection. In the end, Alan's rising singing career and Olive's tendency to favour Alan over Eric alienates all three of them. They are only reunited once again in San Francisco, where Alan discovers Eric is on his death-bed from illness, and they realise what real friendship is all about, and how Olive would only be happy if she and Alan got married.

Dieses in Hongkong angesiedelte Krimidrama verfolgt das Leben eines Auftragskillers, der hofft, aus dem Geschäft auszusteigen, und seiner schwer fassbaren Partnerin.

Ein Paar macht eine Reise nach Argentinien, aber beide Männer finden ihr Leben in entgegengesetzte Richtungen auseinander driften.

Nachdem ein Science-Fiction-Autor die Frau verloren hat, von der er glaubt, sie sei die einzige wahre Liebe seines Lebens gewesen, treten andere Frauen im Laufe mehrerer Jahre in das Leben des Schriftstellers.