01 Wong Kar-wai's neon-drenched companion piece to Chungking Express, stranger and sadder.
10 Best Hong Kong Movies to Watch
By Vlad Zakh · October 6, 2025
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Hong Kong action cinema built the modern gunfight and the modern kung-fu movie before Hollywood ever caught up, and its arthouse side, led by Wong Kar-wai, was doing something completely different at the exact same time: slow, neon-lit stories about missed connections.
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02 The film that finally broke Jackie Chan into American theaters.
03 Wong Kar-wai's take on Ip Man's life, more meditative than a typical martial-arts biopic.
04 A young Jackie Chan learns an unorthodox, comic fighting style from a demanding old master.
05 Jackie Chan performing his own stunts at a level of danger that's hard to watch as pure entertainment.
06 A Wing Chun master's quiet dignity under Japanese occupation, told through devastating fight choreography.
07 The film that basically invented the modern Hong Kong gangster genre.
08 A cop inside a gang and a gangster inside the police, each hunting for the other's identity.
09 John Woo's gunfight choreography reached a peak here that action cinema is still chasing.
10 Two loosely connected stories of Hong Kong loneliness, shot with restless, jittery energy.
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