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- A young Shaolin follower reunites with his discouraged brothers to form a soccer team using their martial art skills to their advantage.
- In 1937, a Chinese martial artist returns to Shanghai to find his teacher dead and his school harassed by the Japanese.
- Corrupt tycoon kills witness to a crime. Only the girlfriend of a businessman with Chinese govt. ties saw it. Beijing bodyguard helps Hong Kong police protect her. But he and the witness develop feelings, complicating matters.
- Following an ambush in his visit to America, Wong Fei-hung becomes separated from his fellow travelers and suffers memory loss.
- A bar girl hires a struggling actor to give her acting lessons so that she can feign a greater interest in her customers. The longer they work together, the more they find they have in common.
- Policemen Brian and Mike use an elderly woman's apartment for surveillance, hoping to catch a fugitive gangster. They develop a warm relationship with their hostess. Meanwhile, each man develops a romantic relationship.
- The Cantonese hero Fong Sai Yuk becomes involved in the secret brotherhood "The Red Flower", who are trying to overthrow the Manchurian emperor and re-establishing the Ming dynasty. The social upheaval is combined with Sai Yuk's personal moral conflict about how to conform to the rigid regime of the brotherhood and on top of that sort out his difficult love life, saddled with two presumptive wives.
- A group of young shoppers and employees must band together when a zombie outbreak over runs their Hong Kong shopping center in the middle of the shopping day.
- Martial artists join Red Lotus Flower Society to overthrow evil emperor. Governor hunts society members. Kung fu practitioner falls for merchant's daughter amid kung fu contest for her hand. Gender role reversal comedy ensues.
- Four men (including a millionaire businessman trying to escape from the stress of his work) running a struggling sushi restaurant in Hong Kong follow a group of beauty-contest entrants to Thailand in the hopes of winning their hearts. The four misfits must convince the beauties of their worth as dates while fending off a gang of tough rivals. Will they succeed, or will they return home alone and broken-hearted?
- Two lovers are willing to do anything to reunite after criminals separate them.
- Two prostitutes recall the circumstances the brought them to the brothel.
- "Lucky" Coffee Shop is well known for its egg tarts and tea. Waiter Sui, named as Prince Egg Tart, attracts lots of girls but only loves Candy. He and his friends, Nam, and Fok, all have love problems. At the same time, the coffee shop may collapse since the landlord is increasing the rent tremendously.
- Director Eric Kot discusses the process of developing a love story, playing with various probabilities, and highlighting character feelings. These monologues are intercut with dramatizations of his evolving narrative.
- A patriotic Chinese cop is reposted to fictional East European country Lavernia as punishment for ignoring orders during a plane hijack operation. There he encounters his ex-girlfriend, who fled to Lavernia after Tiananmen Square. Their paths soon tangle with the charismatic but evil leader of the Japanese cult Aum Shinryuu.
- Police Inspector Pao is trying to catch Mak Kwan, a gang member who is first arrested, but then escapes from the prison. By chance, Pao realizes that the target of Kwan's gang is the H. K. Jockey Club.
- A mermaid pursues a teacher by attending school.
- Hoping to run a restaurant, a father and daughter must contend with the restaurant's chef, who owes many debts.
- Island of Greed is a 1997 Hong Kong action crime thriller film directed by Michael Mak and starring Andy Lau and Tony Leung Ka-fai. The film is set and filmed in Taiwan and deals with corruption in the Government of the Republic of China.
- Richard Norton plays a Bushido-trained ex-Navy SEAL named Connors (he was in 'Nam) who ends up in the far east after investigating the whereabouts of an ancient Japanese ceremonial sword. Connors is left wondering whether the trip was such a good idea when Japanese gangsters start hassling him and his team of guerrilla fighters.
- May Lin is a loudmouthed and boastful hooker, whose life dramatically changes when her room-mate Nana is nearly beaten to death by a masked client, then killed in hospital. A bunch of gun-toting goons (sporting sunglasses and suits) chase May. She goes into hiding, then contacts Prosecutor Yin Li Shin, who believes her innocent. Yin sends his niece, hot-kicking policewoman Nancy Cheng, to arrest and protect May. Nancy takes a bullet protecting May, and they gradually become friends. Later, May sees political candidate Kao Tien Chin and identifies him as Nana's masked assailant. But how to prove his guilt?
- Two Hong Kong men must find a way to deal with their love lives: One with a much younger girlfriend and is admired by his co-worker, and one who is married to two hilarious, dictatorial and stubborn women.
- A police officer tracks down a murderous criminal gang with the help of the ghost of his former partner, who was shot by the same group.
- After stumbling across a mob hit, a man must run for his life, trying to stay ahead of vicious mercenaries after the $1 million bounty placed on his head.
- Chinese ex-pat returns to his home town in China after a long absence in New York.
- Xie Fei, the salesperson of the jewelry store, has saved his personal diamonds for many years. He intended to sell them for marriage with his girlfriend Tingting, but unfortunately he was robbed. Tingting's father canceled the marriage after knowing it. Xie's friend Sheng often borrows money from Xie, and the owner of the jewelry store is his uncle. Due to a debt of high interest, both of them were in trouble. One day, they accidentally found that someone wanted to rob jewelry. It turned out that the boss and the insurance broker conspired to defraud 70% of the insurance money. This money was originally due to Xie. Xie was furious and set up a plan to end the bet.
- A Kung Fu master battles Bruka the evil snake queen with her army of snakes and savage little people.
- Ma is kidnapped and tortured. Since then, his girlfriend Amy senses he's no longer the same person, and becomes convinced that something supernatural is corrupting his soul. Policeman Pit is determined to get to the bottom of the case.
- The story of some Chinese reformers who escape from the Qing army and later battle the foreign expeditionary force during the Boxer Rebellion.
- A class with a bunch of mischievous students has a new teacher coming to educate them. Nevertheless, the new teacher educates the class with much highly praised innovative methods and entirely accepted by the students. Soon after, the school has a new strategy in reformation...
- Easygoing Cheung is a car magazine writer by day, and street racer by night.
- A group of police friends are investigating a suspicious fellow officer who might be involved in drugs and prostitution.
- Hong Kong architect invests in his business in China. On her way home one stormy night, his beautiful secretary, was raped by her drunken boss. Later, she was persuaded to be his mistress and live together in his villa.
- In Thailand in the 1950s, Detective Au Wei is shot to death by Cha Tin-Hung in a raid because of Cha's involvement with black market diamonds and jewelery. Wei's daughter Chun Chun swears revenge, helped by Wei's friend Yeh Tai-kor, a professional con-man.
- Magy falls in love with a man she meets at the beach, while best friend Lily struggles with the fact that her single father has begun to show interest in another woman.
- A fellow member in a martial arts school murders Indra's teacher and Yanti's father. But Indra and Yanti are told not to take revenge as their skills are still inferior. Indra and Yanti then move to the city. Here, Indra accidentally becomes a member of a syndicate and he earns a good living from it but his heart is not at peace. He intends to quit but then Yanti and her child are murdered by a member of the cobra syndicate. So he destroys the syndicate's headquarters and faces the man who killed his teacher, the syndicate's leader. Even though his skill is inferior, he manages to win in the end.
- An aspiring singer, assisted by his fat buddy, tries to climb the ladder of fame. Trouble is, the fat buddy finds the audience likes him better.
- When a very successful CEO is fired for refusing to take bribes from his recently appointed corrupt boss, he finds himself homeless, as well as jobless, and finds himself reduced to begging on the streets in order to survive. But upon meeting a beautiful, young woman, his lust for life returns, inspiring him to go out and regain all that was once his, with revenge on his former employer at the top of his list