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- A disillusioned assassin accepts one last hit in hopes of using his earnings to restore vision to a singer he accidentally blinded.
- A martial artist/doctor steals from the corrupt authorities as a masked thief to give to the poor while another martial artist/doctor is forced to hunt him down. But a major threat unites them as a powerful and traitorous shaolin monk takes over the authorities.
- The Russians and the Hong Kong authorities are after a mysterious rock discovered in Athens, Greece, which holds strange powers.
- A kung-fu manual known as the sacred scroll is stolen from the Emperor's library. An army detachment is sent to recover it. Meanwhile, a young swordsman and his fellow disciple are accidentally drawn into the chaos.
- A royal official accompanies a Portuguese warship to the Black Cliffs to see the site of the defeat of the evil Invincible Asia, who attained supernatural abilities by following the sacred scroll and castrating himself. The official discovers that the Portuguese are actually after the sacred scroll, and then finds Invincible Asia him/herself, who is not actually dead. Invincible Asia seeks to destroy all the imposters or 'false Invincible Asias' who have assumed his/her place leading cults, whilst the Portuguese, a mysterious Japanese warlord and others search for Invincible Asia and the Sacred Scroll.
- Ling Wu Chung decides to hide from the chaotic world. Before leaving, he visits his friends, a tribe of snake-wielding women warriors. However, he finds that the tribe have been attacked, and their leader Yam Ying Ying has been abducted.
- A corrupt cop named Sam handles negotiations between two Triad leaders who plan to join forces. However, he meets a suspicious bald man named Tony, who keeps following him around and disrupting his personal business.
- Miss Ng and Kong operate a whorehouse. Kong's apprentice Yat fails to get along with Ching due to a misinterpretation among them. Fortunately, the perception of a murderous rapist assists to deal with the misunderstanding between them.
- A triad family fractures when the patriarch promotes a younger family member against his council's wishes. The advisers murder the patriarch, and the fractured family tries to survive the bloodshed.
- A group of inept Mainland criminals botch a jewelry store robbery. The cops, led by the straight-laced Ken and the wise-cracking Sam, begin to investigate the case and quickly confuse the jewel thieves with a group of hard-ass Mainland robbers staying in the same area.
- In December 1937, during the Second Japanese-Sino War, a Chinese doctor, his Japanese pregnant wife, their teenage daughter and their young son travel from Shanghai to Nanjing seeking shelter in the Capital during the Japanese invasion. The family faces the Rape of Nanking by the Imperial Japanese Army, with rapes, mass murder of prisoners of war and civilians including women, children and elders, and disrespect of international conventions.
- Jack and Martin are members of rival Chinese triads in the middle of a gang war. Both of their gang leaders like to get advice from a fortune teller living in Thailand. On one such trip, Martin's gang ambushes Jack's at a Thai hotel. There is a spectacular shootout, in which both Martin and Jack are severely wounded. The leader of Jack's gang was at the hotel, unlike Martin's, and escapes. Afterwards, both gang leaders, Mr. Fong of Martin's and Mr. Yam of Jack's, go to a general and make peace. Meanwhile, both Jack and Martin are hospitalized. Martin's legs are amputated, and his girlfriend whores herself in order to get them back into Hong Kong...
- On his way to a congress of kung fu masters, an initiate falls from a high cliff, only to be rescued by lovely Tien Lam (Anita Mui), who rides a huge (and sorry-looking) crane. The rest of the movie features a battle between warring martial arts factions, an equally fierce rivalry between the two daughters of the Crane Master, the accidental empowerment of an unprincipled master after having eaten half of a secret scroll, a battle with an immense tortoise whose spleeny vapors save a group of poisoned swordsmen, lots of great aerial fights against nearly invincible villains, and the usual blood spurting from assorted mouths.
- Three women traveling from Hong Kong to Thailand for vacation are thrown into a camp-like prison in the forest on the grounds that they are drug courier.
- Sammo Hung plays a cop on the trail of drug dealers. Customs officer Yuen Biao is investigating the same gang. Sammo's new partner is eager-beaver Takeshi Kaneshiro. Despite each having their own ideas on how best to proceed, they are teamed together and must put aside their differences in order to crack the case. Romance, plot twists, comedic asides, and, of course, plenty of fights bring the film to a climatic and bruising conclusion.
- The history begins in a small small village. The son lives with the father, and the daughter with mother, their parents constantly are at enmity and clash, bringing the matter to fights.
- A young rebel falls for the sister of a local kickboxing champion. In order to stay out of jail, he is advised by his parole officer to begin training in the art of kickboxing. His romance with the girl blossoms but comes to a crashing halt when he is forced to face her brother in the ring. When the brother is accidentally killed, the romance ends and the young kickboxer participates in illegal street fights. When the kickboxer has a shot at the Golden Belt against the Japanese champ, he soon learns that this may be the final fight of his life.
- Autobiographical story about the life of a poor family in the Taiwanese countryside during the 1940s and 1950s as the Japanese rule of the island ends and nationalist forces of Kwomintang arrive when the Communists take the mainland.
- Two drama companies happened to share one auditorium for rehearsal. Friction was inevitable. One of them played 'Peach Blossom', a comedy in medieval costume. Another played 'Secret Love', a sad story with contemporary setting. Though unreconciled in all aspects, they find themselves telling the same story: the story of Chinese people forced to leave home.
- When Red Dragon is send out to retrieve a letter incriminating her master, as he plots to overthrow the emperor, she meets swordsman Yuen, who got to the letter before her. Red Dragon eventually falls in love with Yuen and turns on her master.
- Playboy Hong Kong Barber Happy Chan opens a fashionable new salon, right next to an old-fashioned Shanhainese barber shop. Its owner, Chuk, is furious at this development and starts a quarrel with Chan and his colleagues during the opening ceremony of his new venture Chuk's pretty daughter, Ying, is forced to keep the peace. Chan and his friends all attempt to woo Ying, but end up getting drunk and falling asleep in her bedroom. Later, Ying discovers that she is pregnant but no one can remember which of the trio did the deed. Chan and his friends endeavor to do the right thing, banding together during her pregnancy until the true identity of the father can be determined. When the baby is born its discovered all the prospective fathers have the same blood type and confusion reigns anew.
- From an unhappy childhood experience, Law Ka Sing decisively hides his homosexual identity. Sing's partner of 8 years, young boyfriend Sunny is just the opposite, he has never minded publicly revealing his identity.
- Easygoing Cheung is a car magazine writer by day, and street racer by night.
- Anita Yuen plays Bo-bo, a middle-class housewife and parttime illustrator who's happily married to her cop husband, Alex (Alex Fong). Happily married, that is, until the evening he cancels her credit cards and moves in with his sultry new girlfriend, Belle, played by current super-babe Almen Wong.
- Adventures of a silent halting swordsman and a bright open-minded swordsman in a frontier town.
- Becoming governor, Sam the Iron Bridge is fighting to maintain the title bestowed upon him when the evil emperor decrees that the title is earned through competition in a deadly martial arts tournament which he wins.
- Iron Bridge San and Kuang battle the Evil White Lotus Cult until Kuang joins them out of fear, leaving San to fight alone. San must take vengeance on the cult for all the people it has killed and the damage it has done to society. With help from his new master San must face his toughest challenge, the bone crushing cult leader - Chan in a final show down!
- When a frumpy divorcee leaves her philandering spouse for the company of her best friend's classy stable of escorts, romantic misadventures begin.
- During a fierce war in ancient China, a princess and her two generals must escape from the Ha Hou rebels determined to bring the kingdom down. But when the princess meets an enemy prince, the two fall in love.
- A triad punk and a rich kid have to put their differences aside when they are both pursued by gangsters.
- A Li is a bank employee who has a stable life. He owes millions of dollars in debt when he mistakenly believes that his friend failed to invest. Ba Zhiming is nicknamed "Dad", but he always thinks that he can do everything in martial arts. So they decided to rob the bank and make all kinds of jokes.
- A ghost story about a little girl, Tintin Wang, watched over by a vengeful guardian angel who often takes the form of her doppelganger in protecting Tintin from all those who would do her harm.
- Third Master Sha is a descendant of a powerful gambling family who must battle Yam Tin Sau, the descendant of the rival gambling family to save his family's name.
- Cecil and her cousin owns a boutique. They find out that the boutique used to be a theater which burned down 30 years ago. Tao, one of the spirits, has to seek revenge on the person who caused the accident.
- Lau and Chow are roommates and they both dream to strike it rich at the races. They invent a device that allows them to eavesdrop on jockeys in training for tips. When they lost at the races, Lau's girlfriend threatens to leave, and Chow is stalked by the loan sharks. Will they bet it all on one last race?
- Ahda sells language tapes by day and attends cram school at night, but his real passion is to achieve the secret art of "vaulting" - defying gravity to leap impossible distances. Fired by the exploits of the legendary Red Lotus Society, Ahda is on a romantic quest for a master.
- Sam the Iron Bridge is now Governor of Canton who fights his rival Mu and as a married man attempts to bring peace to his married life.Helping his troops,the chain of events that follow makes Sam lose his wife,friends and a limb.
- The story of a female hired killer, who doesn't want to kill any more, so she hides out in a small seaside town outside of Hong Kong, where she falls in with this guy who runs a dumpling stand.