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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

Summary: Four teenage mutant ninja turtles emerge from the shadows to protect New York City from a gang of criminal ninjas.

Release Date: March 30, 1990

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Director: Steve Barron

Writers: Kevin Eastman

, Peter Laird

, Bobby Herbeck

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: PG

Production: 888 Productions, Golden Harvest Company, Image Comics, Mirage Studios, New Line Cinema, Northshore Investments Ltd.

Distributor: Family Home Entertainment (FHE), Image Entertainment, International Video Entertainment (IVE), Live Entertainment, Avid Home Entertainment, Fox Network, New Line Home Video, Sirius Publishing, New Line Home Entertainment, MGM Worldwide Television, Warner Home Video

Countries: Hong Kong, United States

Language: English

Franchise: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Movie budget: $ 13,500,000

Domestic: $ 135,384,756

International: $ 66,700,000

Shaolin Soccer (2001)

Summary: A young Shaolin follower reunites with his discouraged brothers to form a soccer team using their martial art skills to their advantage.

Release Date: July 05, 2001

Genres: Action, Comedy, Fantasy

Director: Stephen Chow

Writers: Stephen Chow

, Kan-Cheung Tsang

, Min-Hun Fung

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Star Overseas, Universe Entertainment

Distributor: Miramax Family Films, Miramax, The Criterion Channel

Countries: Hong Kong, China

Language: Chinese

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 489,600

International: $ 42,287,160

The Killer (1989)

Summary: A disillusioned assassin accepts one last hit in hopes of using his earnings to restore vision to a singer he accidentally blinded.

Genres: Action, Crime, Drama

Director: John Woo

Writer: John Woo

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: R

Production: Film Workshop, Golden Princess Film Production Limited, Long Shong Pictures, Magnum Films, Media Asia Group

Distributor: Circle Films, Buena Vista Home Video, Dragon Dynasty, Fox Lorber, HBO Max, Miramax, STAR TV Filmed Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Vivendi Entertainment

Country: Hong Kong

Language: Chinese

A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)

Summary: After a string of bad luck, a debt collector has no other choice than to spend the night in a haunted temple, where he encounters a ravishing female ghost and later battles to save her soul from the control of a wicked tree demon.

Release Date: July 18, 1987

Genres: Action, Fantasy, Horror

Director: Siu-Tung Ching

Writers: Songling Pu

, Kai-Chi Yuen

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Golden Harvest Company, Cinema City Film Productions, Film Workshop

Country: Hong Kong

Language: Cantonese

Movie budget: $ 5,600,000

Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (1978)

Summary: An orphan who has been raised at a kung fu school, where he is treated as little more than a dogsbody and practice target for the students, has a life-changing experience after helping an old peripatetic beggar.

Genres: Action, Comedy

Director: Woo-Ping Yuen

Writers: Chi Yuan Hsi

, Huo An Hsi

, Lung Hsiao

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Seasonal Film Corporation

Country: Hong Kong

Language: Cantonese

Encounter of the Spooky Kind (1980)

Summary: A rickshaw driver's wife and his rich client are secret lovers, and they decide to get rid of him without being implicated, so they hire a powerful sorcerer to kill him, but the sorcerer's colleague intervenes to protect him.

Release Date: December 24, 1980

Genres: Action, Comedy, Fantasy

Director: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung

Writers: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung

, Ying Wong

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: R

Production: Bo Ho Film Company Ltd., Golden Harvest Company, Paragon Films Ltd.

Distributor: Tai Seng Video Marketing, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Country: Hong Kong

Language: Cantonese

Master of the Flying Guillotine (1976)

Summary: After his students are killed by the One Armed Boxer, a vengeful and blind Kung Fu expert travels to a village where a martial arts contest is being held and vows to behead every one armed man he comes across.

Genres: Action, Drama, Fantasy

Director: Jimmy Wang Yu

Writer: Jimmy Wang Yu

Runtime: 1 h 21 min

MPAA: R

Production: First Films Organisation

Distributor: Seymour Borde & Associates, Cinema Epoch, Pathfinder Pictures, Phaedra Cinema

Countries: Hong Kong, Taiwan

Language: Chinese

Domestic: $ 21,779

Midway (2019)

Summary: The story of the Battle of Midway, told by the leaders and the sailors who fought it.

Release Date: November 08, 2019

Genres: Action, Drama, History

Director: Roland Emmerich

Writer: Wes Tooke

Runtime: 2 h 18 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Summit Entertainment, Centropolis Entertainment, Bona Film Group, RuYi Media, Starlight Culture Entertainment

Distributor: Lionsgate

Countries: United States, Canada, China, Hong Kong

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 100,000,000

Domestic: $ 56,846,802

International: $ 70,574,059

La La Land (2016)

Summary: While navigating their careers in Los Angeles, a pianist and an actress fall in love while attempting to reconcile their aspirations for the future.

Release Date: December 25, 2016

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Music

Director: Damien Chazelle

Writer: Damien Chazelle

Runtime: 2 h 08 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Summit Entertainment, Black Label Media, TIK Films, Marc Platt Productions

Distributor: Lionsgate

Countries: United States, Hong Kong

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 151,101,803

International: $ 320,875,533

Production: Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Huayi Brothers Media, Taihe Film Investment Co. Ltd., Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Beijing Film Studio, China Film Group Corporation (CFGC), The Fourth Production Company Film Group, Star Overseas, China Film Co-Production Corporation, Columbia Pictures

Kung Fu Hustle (2004)

Summary: In Shanghai, China in the 1940s, a wannabe gangster aspires to join the notorious "Axe Gang" while residents of a housing complex exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf.

Release Date: April 22, 2005

Genres: Action, Comedy, Fantasy

Director: Stephen Chow

Writers: Stephen Chow

, Kan-Cheung Tsang

, Xin Huo

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: R

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: Hong Kong, China, United States

Language: Chinese

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 17,108,591

International: $ 87,773,854

Man Behind the Sun (1988)

Summary: Japanese troops round up Chinese and Russian prisoners of war and take them to unit 731, where they're horribly tortured and experimented on to test new biological weapons.

Release Date: December 01, 1988

Genres: Drama, History, Horror

Director: Tun-Fei Mou

Writers: Mei Liu

, Wen Yuan Mou

, Dun Jing Teng

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Sil-Metropole Organisation

Distributor: Cinefear, Dead Alive Productions, Massacre Video, World Video & Supply Inc.

Country: Hong Kong

Language: Chinese

The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974)

Summary: While lecturing in China, Professor Lawrence Van Helsing agrees to help eight kung fu-trained siblings reclaim their ancestral mountain village, now the domain of seven powerful vampires and their army of undead slaves.

Genres: Action, Horror

Directors: Roy Ward Baker

, Cheh Chang

Writers: Don Houghton

, Bram Stoker

Runtime: 1 h 29 min

MPAA: R

Production: Hammer Films, Shaw Brothers

Distributor: Warner Bros. Television, American Video, Electric Video (EVI), Genesis Home Video, Media Home Entertainment, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Something Weird Video (SWV), Millennium Entertainment, Scream Factory, BuckRay TV

Countries: United Kingdom, Hong Kong

Language: English

Better Days (2019)

Summary: While she copes the the pressures of her final examinations, a bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants.

Release Date: October 25, 2019

Genres: Crime, Drama, Romance

Director: Derek Tsang

Writers: Wing-Sum Lam

, Yuan Li

, Yimeng Xu

Runtime: 2 h 15 min

Production: Tianijn Xiron Entertainment, We Pictures, Shooting Pictures, He Nan Dian Ying Dian Shi Zhi Zuo Ji Tuan, China Wit Media

Countries: China, Hong Kong

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,921,657

International: $ 223,997,141

Journey to the West (2013)

Summary: Tang Sanzang, an aspiring Buddhist hero tries to protect a village from three demons. He develops complex feelings for Miss Duan, the demon hunter who repeatedly helps him, and finally quests to meet the legendary Monkey King.

Release Date: February 07, 2013

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Directors: Stephen Chow

, Chi-Kin Kwok

Writers: Stephen Chow

, Chi-Kin Kwok

, Xin Huo

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Bingo Movie Development, Film Workshop, Huayi Brothers Media, China Film Group Corporation (CFGC), Village Roadshow Pictures Asia, Chinavision Media Group, Edko Films

Distributor: Magnet Releasing

Countries: China, Hong Kong

Language: Chinese

Domestic: $ 18,058

International: $ 205,619,125

Blade Runner (1982)

Summary: A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.

Release Date: June 25, 1982

Genres: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

Director: Ridley Scott

Writers: Hampton Fancher

, David Webb Peoples

, Philip K. Dick

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: R

Production: The Ladd Company, Shaw Brothers, Warner Bros., Ridley Scott Productions

Distributor: Embassy Home Entertainment, CBS, Embassy Television, The Criterion Collection, Columbia TriStar Home Video, New Line Home Video, Warner Home Video, Nelson Entertainment

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Franchise: Blade Runner

Movie budget: $ 28,000,000

Domestic: $ 32,914,489

International: $ 8,792,853

No Retreat, No Surrender (1985)

Summary: Jason, a Bruce Lee fan, sees his karate instructor/dad beaten by martial art thugs. They move to Seattle where, after humiliations, he trains with Bruce Lee's ghost so he can defend himself and others against thugs.

Release Date: May 02, 1986

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Director: Corey Yuen

Writers: See-Yuen Ng

, Corey Yuen

, Keith W. Strandberg

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Seasonal Film Corporation, New World Pictures

Distributor: Starmaker Entertainment, Kino Lorber, Anchor Bay Entertainment

Countries: Hong Kong, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 4,662,137

Rumble in the Bronx (1995)

Summary: A young man visiting and helping his uncle in New York City finds himself forced to fight a street gang and the mob with his martial art skills.

Release Date: February 23, 1996

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Director: Stanley Tong

Writers: Edward Tang

, Fibe Ma

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

MPAA: R

Production: Golden Harvest Company, Golden Way Films Ltd., Maple Ridge Films

Distributor: Fox Network, Miramax, New Line Home Video, TBS Superstation, TNT, Turner Home Entertainment

Country: Hong Kong

Language: Chinese

Movie budget: $ 7,500,000

Domestic: $ 32,392,047

Shanghai Noon (2000)

Summary: A Chinese man travels to the Wild West to rescue a kidnapped Princess. After teaming up with a train robber, the unlikely duo takes on a Chinese traitor and his corrupt boss.

Release Date: May 26, 2000

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Director: Tom Dey

Writers: Miles Millar

, Alfred Gough

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Touchstone Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, Roger Birnbaum Productions

Distributor: Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Touchstone Home Entertainment, Touchstone Home Video, CBS

Countries: United States, Hong Kong

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 55,000,000

Domestic: $ 56,937,502

International: $ 42,336,965