John Woo Movies
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1. The Young Dragons (1974)
95 min | Action
The powerful mobster Leung, who is protected by the dangerous and wicked Huan Fai, sells two hundred Japanese weapons and ammunition to a Chinese gang. He uses the smuggler Luy Fu to bring ... See full summary »
Director: John Woo | Stars: Ni Tien, Yung Henry Yu, Chin Hu, Chi-Ping Chang
Votes: 180
2. The Dragon Tamers (1975)
107 min | Action, Drama
A young Chinese martial arts student travels to Korea to learn Taekwondo. Soon he comes up against a vicious gang who want all the local martial arts schools to join their evil association.
Director: John Woo | Stars: James Tien, Carter Wong, Kim Chang-suk, Han Jae Ji
Votes: 146
3. Princess Chang Ping (1976)
102 min | Adventure, Romance, Drama
Love story of Princess Changping, the last princess of the Ming Dynasty in China.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Kim Sung Lung, Shuet Shi Mui, Xuelu Jiang, Sing-Po Leung
Votes: 112
4. The Hand of Death (1976)
R | 95 min | Action, Drama
A survivor of an attack on a rebel group opposing the Manchu invasion of China creates the Goose Fist fighting technique and tries for revenge on a traitor.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Tao-Liang Tan, James Tien, Jackie Chan, Ching Chu
Votes: 1,949
5. Money Crazy (1977)
92 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Ducky is hired by Rich Chen to transport the "diamonds" he stole from Uncle Pai Mary. Uncles Tough Guy and Mary would like to get the diamond from Ducky, so they volunteer to relieve Ducky of his responsibility.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Richard Ng, Ricky Hui, Angie Chiu, Ying Cheung
Votes: 169
6. Follow the Star (1978)
90 min | Action, Comedy
Miss Chen is a rich pop singer and her father is a former criminal.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Roy Chiao, Chi-Shen Chung, Rowena Cortes, Hark-On Fung
Votes: 72
7. Hello, Late Homecomers (1978)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
An omnibus of tales from the three directors, Sit, Maka and Woo. Each dealing with true love and romance. The third and the best one of the tales deals with a hen-pecked husband trying to ... See full summary »
Directors: Karl Maka, Louis Sit, John Woo | Stars: Ka Yik, Wei-Ying Chen, Angel Chan, Fu-Hsiung Cheng
Votes: 49
8. Last Hurrah for Chivalry (1979)
Not Rated | 106 min | Action, Drama
A son tries to avenge his father, and gets two sword fighters to help him.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Pai Wei, Damian Lau, Kong Lau, Chau-Wah Yim
Votes: 1,882
9. From Riches to Rags (1980)
101 min | Comedy, Action, Adventure
A doofus wins the lottery. He and his best friend live it up until a fortune teller tells him that he's going to die. So, the doofus goes to the doctor and after a mix-up his fears come ... See full summary »
Director: John Woo | Stars: Ricky Hui, Chi-Chi Chen, Ka Yik, Jing Tang
Votes: 148
10. Laughing Times (1981)
101 min | Comedy, Action, Drama
A homeless wanderer just happens across various articles of clothing that make him resemble Charlie Chaplin much to the amusement of passersby.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Dean Shek, Wai Wong, Karl Maka, Fei-Lung Chen
Votes: 119
11. To Hell with the Devil (1982)
88 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A shmo makes a deal with the devil so he can become a great Pop star just to impress his dream girl. After he makes the deal, a catholic priest hangs around him to try and convince him that... See full summary »
Director: John Woo | Stars: Pak-Cheung Chan, Paul Chun, Fat Chung, Stanley Sui-Fan Fung
Votes: 151
12. Plain Jane to the Rescue (1982)
86 min | Action, Comedy
Josephine Siao is hired by a C. E. O. To teach his father manners and how to act like a "gentleman" in public. A goofy slapstick comedy that also features Ricky Hui as Josephine's long suffering boyfriend. John Woo stars as himself.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Josephine Siao, Ricky Hui, Roman Tam, Lin-Lin Li
Votes: 148
13. The Time You Need a Friend (1985)
91 min | Drama
Two old vaudeville comedians who broke up many years ago over a woman are reunited to perform for a benefit show for sick children.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Yueh Sun, David Tao, Linda Jui-Chi Liu, Hsia Chiang
Votes: 81
14. Run Tiger, Run (1984)
91 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Two street urchins meet up with a sad and lonely rich kid. They become friends when the kid's shady uncle mistakes them for his nephews.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Teddy Robin Kwan, Bin Bin, Yin-Tze Pan, Hark Tsui
Votes: 116
15. A Better Tomorrow (1986)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Lung Ti, Leslie Cheung, Chow Yun-Fat, Emily Chu
Votes: 25,486
16. Heroes Shed No Tears (1984)
82 min | Action, Drama, War
The Thai government hires a group of Chinese mercenaries to capture a powerful drug lord from the Golden Triangle. The mercenaries manage to capture the drug lord, but soon find themselves ... See full summary »
Director: John Woo | Stars: Eddy Ko, Ching-Ying Lam, Philippe Loffredo, Cécile Le Bailly
Votes: 1,403
17. A Better Tomorrow II (1987)
Not Rated | 105 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A restauranteur teams up with a police officer and his ex-con brother to avenge the death of a friend's daughter.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Chow Yun-Fat, Lung Ti, Dean Shek
Votes: 11,326
Less cohesive than the first, but also more charged.
18. The Killer (1989)
R | 111 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A disillusioned assassin accepts one last hit in hopes of using his earnings to restore vision to a singer he accidentally blinded.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Danny Lee, Sally Yeh, Kong Chu
Votes: 51,106
19. Just Heroes (1989)
97 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A respected and well liked gang-boss is betrayed and killed. One of his three adopted sons are to take his place. One of them is the traitor.
Directors: John Woo, Wu Ma | Stars: David Chiang, Danny Lee, Kuan Tai Chen, Niu Tien
Votes: 1,099
20. Bullet in the Head (1990)
Not Rated | 136 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When three close friends escape from Hong Kong to war-time Saigon to start a criminal's life, they all go through a harrowing experience which totally shatters their lives and their friendship forever.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Jacky Cheung, Waise Lee, Simon Yam
Votes: 11,668
21. Once a Thief (1991)
R | 108 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A romantic and action packed story of three best friends, a group of high end art thieves, who come into trouble when a love-triangle forms between them.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Chow Yun-Fat, Cherie Chung, Kong Chu
Votes: 7,295
22. Hard Boiled (1992)
R | 128 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A tough-as-nails cop teams up with an undercover agent to shut down a sinister mobster and his crew.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Teresa Mo, Philip Chan
Votes: 54,058
Choreographically stunning like most of Woo's work, especially before he headed West.
23. Hard Target (1993)
R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A woman hires a drifter as her guide through New Orleans in search of her missing father. In the process, they discover a deadly game of cat and mouse behind his disappearance.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen, Yancy Butler, Chuck Pfarrer
Votes: 56,322 | Gross: $32.59M
Hard Target gets a boost from John Woo's stylish direction, but at heart, it's still another silly, explosion-dependent action thriller in the Jean-Claude Van Damme oeuvre.
24. Broken Arrow (1996)
R | 108 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
Terrorists steal nuclear warheads from the U.S. military but don't count on a pilot and park ranger spoiling their plans.
Director: John Woo | Stars: John Travolta, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Delroy Lindo
Votes: 105,290 | Gross: $70.77M
Directed with the keen action instincts Woo brought to The Killer, Hard-Boiled and other cult causes from his career in Hong Kong.
25. Once a Thief (1996 TV Movie)
R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A couple working for the triad boss Tang decides to leave/flee the triad and Hong Kong. They meet again in Vancouver 1.5 years later fighting crime. She now has a fiance. The Tang triad comes to Vancouver to do weapons "business".
Director: John Woo | Stars: Sandrine Holt, Ivan Sergei, Nicholas Lea, Robert Ito
Votes: 1,799
26. Face/Off (1997)
R | 138 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
To foil a terrorist plot, FBI agent Sean Archer assumes the identity of the criminal Castor Troy who murdered his son through facial transplant surgery, but the crook wakes up prematurely and vows revenge.
Director: John Woo | Stars: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, Alessandro Nivola
Votes: 401,173 | Gross: $112.23M
John Travolta and Nicolas Cage play cat-and-mouse (and literally play each other) against a beautifully stylized backdrop of typically elegant, over-the-top John Woo violence.
27. Blackjack (1998 TV Movie)
R | 112 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Dolph Lundgren plays Jack Devlin, a U.S Marshal who protects high-profile clients when it comes to a matter of security.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Kate Vernon, Phillip MacKenzie, Kam Heskin
Votes: 4,520
28. Mission: Impossible II (2000)
PG-13 | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
IMF agent Ethan Hunt is sent to Sydney to find and destroy a genetically modified disease called "Chimera".
Director: John Woo | Stars: Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandiwe Newton, Ving Rhames
Votes: 377,952 | Gross: $215.41M
Your cranium may crave more substance, but your eyes will feast on the amazing action sequences.
29. Windtalkers (2002)
R | 134 min | Action, Drama, War
Two U.S. Marines in World War II are assigned to protect Navajo Marines, who use their native language as an unbreakable radio cypher.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Peter Stormare, Noah Emmerich
Votes: 73,689 | Gross: $40.91M
The action sequences are expertly staged. Windtalkers, however, sinks under too many clichés and only superficially touches upon the story of the code talkers.
30. Paycheck (2003)
PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
What seemed like a breezy idea that would net an engineer millions of dollars ends up leaving him on the run for his life and trying to piece together why he's being chased.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart, Uma Thurman, Michael C. Hall
Votes: 113,324 | Gross: $53.79M
Though Dick's short story has an intriguing premise, Woo reduces it to a lot of meaningless chases, shoot-outs, and explosions.
31. The Robinsons: Lost in Space (2004 TV Movie)
43 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Fifteen years after his daring raid turned the tide of an extraterrestrial invasion of the Earth, Col. John Robinson is retired from active service with grand ceremony. Hoping to repair ... See full summary »
Director: John Woo | Stars: Jayne Brook, Mike Erwin, Brad Johnson, Ryan Malgarini
Votes: 263
32. All the Invisible Children (2005)
124 min | Drama
Through the plights of seven different children, seven cruel destinies unfold, as the unknown innocents who share the same sensitivities and desires struggle for survival, understanding--and above all--love, in an apathetic grown-up world.
Directors: Mehdi Charef, Emir Kusturica, Spike Lee, Kátia Lund, Jordan Scott, Ridley Scott, Stefano Veneruso, John Woo | Stars: Adama Bila, Elysée Rouamba, Rodrigue Ouattara, Uros Milovanovic
Votes: 4,283
If All the Invisible Children proper has any lessons to impart, they revolve around the auteur theory
33. Red Cliff (2008)
R | 148 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The first chapter of a two-part story centered on a battle fought in China's Three Kingdoms period (220-280 A.D.).
Director: John Woo | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Fengyi Zhang, Chang Chen
Votes: 48,508 | Gross: $0.63M
Featuring some impressively grand battlefield action, John Woo returns to Asia and returns to form in the process for this lavish and slick historical epic.
34. Red Cliff II (2009)
142 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Second and final part of epic tale about a legendary battle that changed the course of China history.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Fengyi Zhang, Chang Chen
Votes: 25,359 | Gross: $0.63M
35. The Crossing (I) (2014)
129 min | Drama, History, Romance
In the midst of the Chinese Revolution during the late 1940s, couples flee to the island of Taiwan.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Ziyi Zhang, Song Hye-kyo, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Masami Nagasawa
Votes: 2,093
36. The Crossing 2 (2015)
131 min | Drama, History, Romance
A story of three couples and their intertwining love stories set in 1940s Taiwan and Shanghai, centered around the 1949 sinking of Taiping.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Ziyi Zhang, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Xiaoming Huang, Song Hye-kyo
Votes: 1,446
37. Manhunt (2017)
18+ | 106 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Accused of heinous crimes he didn't commit, a prosecutor sets out on a mission to clear his name.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Hanyu Zhang, Masaharu Fukuyama, Stephy Qi, Ha Ji-Won
Votes: 3,650
38. Septet: The Story of Hong Kong (2020)
113 min | Action, Drama, History
Seven of Hong Kong's leading filmmakers have come together to each direct a short film set in Hong Kong during one decade from the 1950s to the future.
Directors: Ann Hui, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Ringo Lam, Patrick Tam, Johnnie To, Hark Tsui, Woo-Ping Yuen | Stars: Lawrence Ah-Mon, Emotion Cheung, Tat-Ming Cheung, Ho-Cheong Chui
Votes: 512
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