John Woo films, ranked by your taste
Director and actor · 16 films on Boxlist
Known for Hard Boiled, Face/Off and A Better Tomorrow.
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Hard Boiled
1992 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDBA cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who's working as a gangster hitman. They use all means...
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A Better Tomorrow
1986 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDBA reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.
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Bullet in the Head
1990 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDBWhen three close friends escape from Hong Kong to war-time Saigon to start a criminal's life, they all go through a harrowing experience which totally shatters their lives and their friendship forever.
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Twin Dragons
1992 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDBTwins, separated at birth, end up as a Hong Kong gangster and a New York concert pianist. When the pianist travels to Hong Kong for a concert, the two inevitably get mistaken for each other.
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Directed by John Woo
Hard Boiled
1992 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDBA cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who's working as a gangster hitman. They use all means...
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Face/Off
1997 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDBSean Archer, a very tough, rugged FBI Agent. Who is still grieving for his dead son Michael. Archer believes that his son's killer is his sworn enemy, a very powerful criminal, Castor Troy. One day, Archer has finally cornered Castor...
Where to watch:Rent or buyA Better Tomorrow
1986 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDBA reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.
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1990 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDBWhen three close friends escape from Hong Kong to war-time Saigon to start a criminal's life, they all go through a harrowing experience which totally shatters their lives and their friendship forever.
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Red Cliff
2008 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDBIn 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was to declare war on the kingdoms of Xu in the west and East Wu in the south. Thus began a...
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A Better Tomorrow II
1987 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDBA restauranteur teams up with a police officer and his ex-con brother to avenge the death of a friend's daughter.
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The Killer
2024 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDBZee is a feared contract killer known as "the Queen of the Dead," but when she refuses to murder a young blind woman, she finds herself hunted both by criminal colleagues and a determined police detective.
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Mission: Impossible II
2000 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDBWith computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former IMF agent from unleashing a genetically engineered biological weapon called Chimera...
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Red Cliff Part II
2009 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDBThe battle of Red Cliff continues and the alliance between Xu and East Wu is fracturing. With Cao Cao's massive forces on their doorstep, will the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu survive?
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Hard Target
1993 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDBWhen a woman's father goes missing, she enlists a local to aid in her search. The pair soon discover that her father has died at the hands of a wealthy sportsman who hunts homeless men as a form of recreation.
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Manhunt
2017 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDBAccused of a murder he didn't commit, a prosecutor sets out on a mission to clear his name.
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Silent Night
2023 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDBA tormented father witnesses his young son die when caught in a gang's crossfire on Christmas Eve. While recovering from a wound that costs him his voice, he makes vengeance his life's mission and embarks on a punishing training regimen in...
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Broken Arrow
1996 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDBWhen rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads -- and Deakins's co-pilot, Riley Hale, is the military's only hope for getting them...
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Windtalkers
2002 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDBJoe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.
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Paycheck
2003 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDBMichael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year...
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