Chinese Box (1997)
Drama | Romance
The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of China.
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Li Gong, Maggie Cheung, Michael Hui, Rubén Blades, Jared Harris
Director: Wayne Wang
The Moon Warriors / Jin san chuen suet (1992)
Action | Adventure | Romance
A simple fisherman helps a fugitive King in a fight, and offers him refuge in a hideout near his fishing village. When the King's group is attacked by his usurper brother, the fisherman is sent to find the King's betrothed, the daughter of the Emperor, and bring her back. On the journey love blossoms between the fisherman and the Emperor's daughter. Meanwhile the King's beautiful advisor seems to be in love with him, despite the fact that she is a traitor sent to kill him by the evil brother.
Starring: Andy Lau, Anita Mui, Maggie Cheung, Kenny Bee, Kelvin Wong, Yi Chang, Kar Lok Chin
Director: Sammo Hung
The Trough / Dai ngat cou (2018)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
An undercover police officer's identity is exposed when he takes on a child abduction case.
Starring: Nick Cheung, Jinglei Xu, Jiong He, Nan Yu, Kiu Wai Miu, Wah Yuen, Maggie Cheung
Director: Nick Cheung
Double Causes Troubles / Sun yung seung mui mak (1989)
Comedy | Crime
Nurse Liang Shanbo and Actress Zhu Yingtai are mismatched cousins who just inherited a rental home from their late relative. When they moved in, they discover that a room has been rented out to a man named Ben, who turns out to be a criminal gangster. One night, when Ben returns home, bloodied and injured, he collapses into Yingtai's arms and whispers a code in her ear before he dies. Not knowing what the code leads to, Yingtai and Shanbo are later visited by a man claiming to be Ben's brother who wants to solve the case. In the meantime, gangsters believed to be involved with Ben's murder want to retrieve the code from the girls, whom they think were told by Ben what it actually unlocks.
Starring: Carol Cheng, Maggie Cheung, Wilson Lam, Pak-Cheung Chan
Director: Jing Wong
Irma Vep (1996)
Comedy | Drama
A Chinese movie actress, in France to star in a remake of "Les Vampires", finds petty intrigues and clashing egos on the set.
Starring: Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard, Bulle Ogier, Lou Castel, Arsinée Khanjian
Director: Olivier Assayas
Last Romance / Golden Years / Liu jin sui yue (1988)
Romance
Nancy and So So, two girls of the same age but different personalities, are the best of friends. As their high school days come to an end, circumstances set them on starkly different paths. So So drops out of school and becomes a night club hostess, capturing the hearts of rich men with her beauty and wit. Sun completes her university degree and becomes a successful designer. Meeting again after five years, the two girls have grown and changed, but what doesn't change is their enduring friendship and complicated love for the same man.
Starring: Cherie Chung, Maggie Cheung, Shingo Tsurumi
Director: Yonfan
Days of Being Wild / Ah Fei's Story / Ah fei zing zyun (1990)
Crime | Drama | Romance
A man tries to find out who his real mother is after the woman who raised him tells him the truth.
Starring: Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau, Carina Lau, Jacky Cheung, Rebecca Pan, Tony Leung
Director: Kar-Wai Wong
The Mad Monk / Chai gong (1993)
Comedy | Drama
Internationally proclaimed comic genius Stephen Chow must change the lives of radiant prostitute Maggie Cheung Man-yuk, filthy beggar Anthony Wong, and a killer in this heavenly comedy directed by masterful new wave filmmaker Johnnie To.
Starring: Stephen Chow, Maggie Cheung, Anthony Wong, Man-Tat Ng, Anita Mui
Director: Siu-Tung Ching, Johnnie To
Comrades: Almost a Love Story / Tian mi mi (1996)
Drama | Romance
Two Chinese-mainlanders living in Hong Kong form a close friendship. Over the years this grows into love, but there are obstacles.
Starring: Maggie Cheung, Leon Lai, Eric Tsang, Christopher Doyle, Kristy Yang, Tung Cho Cheung
Director: Peter Chan
All's Well, Ends Well / Family Happiness / Ga yau hei si (1992)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
All that's well almost didn't end well for this all-star romantic comedy, as part of the negative was stolen by a triad and held for ransom prior to the film's release. It was recovered, however, and became a big hit with its terrific cast and breezy episodic story of a number of offbeat romances. Among the star-crossed lovers are Raymond Wong as an unhappy husband who cheats on his wife (Sandra Ng) with a beauty queen (Sheila Chan); a masculine lesbian biker (Teresa Mo) who finds happiness with the submissive Leslie Cheung; and a disc jockey (Stephen Chiau) in love with a movie-obsessed woman (Maggie Cheung) whose behavior changes with each film she sees. The film is heavy on raunchy bathroom humor, there's an obligatory karaoke scene (watch for director Clifton Ko as an irate patron), and numerous send-ups of everything from Pretty Woman to A Chinese Ghost Story. It began a tradition for writer-producer Raymond Wong (not directly involved with this film except as an actor), who delivered celebrity-studded sequels on New Year's every few years, despite the fact that not many viewers found them very funny. 1993's All's Well, Ends Well, Too was the next installment.
Starring: Stephen Chow, Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Sandra Kwan, Teresa Mo, Bak-Ming Wong
Director: Clifton Ko
The Romancing Star / Cheng chong chui lui chai (1987)
Comedy | Romance
Fred, foul-mouthed, together with his two close buddies, Silver and Tony, are working in a garage. Their boss, Ken, is harsh and dingy. However, a warm and close friendship has been established among the four. In order to recover the heartbreak of Fred, Ken suggested a tour to Penang to cheer up Fred. They came across two beautiful girls, Maggie and Agnes, strolling leisurely on the beach as if they were very weatlthy. Since then they decided on courtship…
Starring: Yun-Fat Chow, Eric Tsang, Maggie Cheung, Pak-Cheung Chan, Shui-Fan Fung
Director: Jing Wong
Clean (2004)
Drama | Music
London-based Emily Wang gained minor notoriety from her VJ-ing on cable television. She is now more renowned for being the longtime girlfriend and pseudo manager of rock musician Lee Hauser, who seems to be on the brink of stardom. Those that know the couple believe she is a bad influence on him, and is the reason why he is a junkie. After Lee dies from an accidental heroin overdose and Emily is imprisoned for six months on possession charges, she learns that the courts have awarded custody of their young adolescent son, Jay, to Lee's aging parents, Albrecht and Rosemary Hauser, who live in Vancouver. A concerned Albrecht asks that she not attempt to see Jay for at least two years while she cleans up her act so as to give Jay a fighting chance at a decent life. Emily initially agrees, knowing that she is in no position to look after Jay. To regain her life, she decides to move back to her old stomping grounds of Paris. As Emily tries mostly unsuccessfully to become clean while eking out a living doing what she wants to earn money, which is primarily still in the realm of rock music, Rosemary poisons Jay's mind about his mother. Caught in the middle is Albrecht, who, out of personal circumstance, wants Jay to eventually have a relationship with his mother if only because he knows that he and Rosemary will not be able to look after Jay until adulthood and that Emily is the only other family he has.
Starring: Maggie Cheung, Nick Nolte, Béatrice Dalle, Jeanne Balibar, Don McKellar
Director: Olivier Assayas
The Soong Sisters / Song jia huang chao (1997)
Drama | History | Romance
The Soong family was a political dynasty in China that reached the highest levels of power. This film follows the lives of the three Soong daughters, who were educated in America and returned to China. Ai-ling (the oldest) married a wealthy and powerful businessman. Ching-ling married Sun Yat-sen, the revolutionary founder of modern China. Mei-ling (the youngest) married Chiang Kai-shek, China's leader during World War II. The sisters captured the world's fascination for their brilliant marriages and their strong influence on their nation.
Starring: Maggie Cheung, Michelle Yeoh, Vivian Wu, Winston Chao, Hsing-kuo Wu, Zhenhua Niu, Elaine Jin, Wen Jiang
Director: Mabel Cheung
2046 (2004)
Drama | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
After the melancholy end of an extramarital liaison, newspaper writer Chow Mo-wan leaves Singapore and moves into an apartment in Hong Kong. He earns a living writing erotic science-fiction stories revolving around time travelers to the year 2046. His stories draw from his interactions with various women, including a vivacious call girl and the unstable daughter of his landlord.
Starring: Tony Leung, Li Gong, Ziyi Zhang, Faye Wong, Maggie Cheung, Takuya Kimura
Director: Kar Wai Wong
Ashes of Time Redux / Dung che sai duk (1994)
Action | Drama
Ouyang Feng has lived in the western desert for several years. He left his home on White Camel Mountain when the woman he loves chose to wed his elder brother rather than him. Instead of pursuing glory himself, he he becomes an agent representing other swordsmen and bounty hunters. When locals come to him for protection or with a wish to eliminate a person who has wronged them, he puts them in touch with a swordsman who can do the job for a fee.
Starring: Tony Leung, Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung, Leslie Cheung, Jacky Cheung
Director: Kar Wai Wong
Twin Dragons / Shuang long hui (1992)
Action | Comedy
On holidays in Hong Kong, Mrs Ma gives birth to identical twins. A criminal in the same hospital attempts to escape, taking one of the twins hostage. The child is lost during the confusion, and Mr and Mrs Ma return to New York with one child. Years later, John Ma is a famous conductor and pianist, unaware that his twin brother "Boomer" is a mechanic/race car driver/bodyguard in Hong Kong. When John travels to Hong Kong to give a concert, the twins get caught up in each other's business, about which they are anything but experts.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Nina Li Chi, Chi Leung, John Woo, Eric Tsang, Hark Tsui
Director: Ringo Lam, Hark Tsui
Police Story III / Police Story 3: Super Cop / Ging chat goo si 3: Chiu kup ging chat (1992)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
When a dangerous undercover mission is required to put a high-powered drug lord out of commission, the job goes to the one man fearless enough to take on the task of infiltrating the biggest crime and narcotics syndicate in the Pacific Rim–Detective Kevin Chan. Chan's assignment begins in a prison labor camp where he's sent to retrieve a gangster named Panther, who will lead Chan to Panther's older brother, Chaibat, a drug lord so mighty that the authorities believe his capture will cut the Southeast Asian drug trade in half. Chan learns he won't be solo on this mission when he's joined by his new boss (posing as his sister), Director Yang, who's as elegant as she is skilled in martial arts. In order to break up the syndicate the two detectives–working undercover as Fu Sheng and Hana–must fight Chaibat and his gang in a series of explosive battles in and on cars, motorcycles, and finally atop a moving train after Chan swings wildly from a helicopter among the skyscrapers of Kuala Lumpur.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Cheung, Kenneth Tsang, Wah Yuen, Bill Tung
Director: Stanley Tong
Police Story II / Ging chaat goo si juk jaap (1988)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
His personal war against crime has earned Kevin Chan a demotion from detective to traffic cop just as Hong Kong is hit with a wave of bomb scares. Chan unofficially follows up his own leads and tracks down the bombers, but not before his girlfriend is abducted.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Kwok-Hung Lam, Bill Tung
Director: Jackie Chan
Police Story / Ging chat goo si (1985)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
A police raid on a drug gang goes awry, and for detective Kevin Chan, nothing seems to go right from there. Even when the gang boss is brought to trial, he is acquitted when Kevin's evidence disappears from under his nose. His attempt to rescue a beautiful but reluctant key witness results in Kevin being wanted for murder and on the run from both the gang and his own squad. To bring the gang to justice he has to find the evidence and the witness–and stay alive long enough to convince his colleagues of his innocence.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Kwok-Hung Lam, Bill Tung
Director: Jackie Chan
Behind the Yellow Line / Yuen fan (1984)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
The Chinese title for this entertaining romantic drama is 'Destiny', which is fitting because it features remarkable new talent whose destiny was to become some of Hong Kong's most important filmmakers. There then 20-year-old Miss Hong Kong Pageant first runner-up Maggie Cheung. There's Leslie Cheung, before he became an award-winning singer/actor icon. There's Anita Mui ('The Chinese Madonna'), who won the Hong Kong Film Best Supporting Actress Award for her performance. And there's co-scripter Gordon Chan, destined to become a top writer/director.
Starring: Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Anita Mui, Anthony Chan
Director: Taylor Wong
