Tony Leung Chiu-Wai films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 22 films on Boxlist

Known for In the Mood for Love, Hard Boiled and Chungking Express.

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Starring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

In the Mood for Love
2000 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-Wan (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) and Su Li-Zhen (Maggie Cheung Man Yuk) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate...
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Chungking Express
1994 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant he frequents.
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
2021 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.
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Infernal Affairs
2002 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their older counterparts, Chen Wing Yan and Inspector Lau Kin...
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Hard Boiled
1992 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
A 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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Happy Together
1997 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
A gay couple takes a trip to Argentina in search of a new beginning but instead begins drifting even further apart.
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Bullet in the Head
1990 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
When 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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Hero
2002 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
One man defeated three assassins who sought to murder the most powerful warlord in pre-unified China.
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Days of Being Wild
1990 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Yuddy, a Hong Kong playboy known for breaking girls' hearts, tries to find solace and the truth after discovering the woman who raised him isn't his mother.
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Red Cliff Part II
2009 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
The 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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2046
2004 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.
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Red Cliff
2008 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
In 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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Silent Friend
2026 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
On the grounds of a medieval German university town looms an imposing Ginkgo biloba, a tree whose longevity stands in marked contrast to three intimate, human-scaled stories. In 1908, the university’s first female student gains admission...
Lust, Caution
2007 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
During World War II, a secret agent must seduce then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling in love with the man she is assigned to kill.
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Ashes of Time
1994 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Ouyang Feng is a heartbroken and cynical man who spends his days in the desert, connecting expert swordsmen with those seeking revenge and willing to pay for it. Throughout five seasons in exile, Ouyang spins tales of his clients'...
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Infernal Affairs III
2003 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Infernal Affairs III is a 2003 Hong Kong crime thriller film directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak. It is the third installment in the Infernal Affairs film series, and is both a sequel and a semi-prequel to the original film, as it...
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The Grandmaster
2013 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Ip Man's peaceful life in Foshan changes after Gong Yutian seeks an heir for his family in Southern China. Ip Man then meets Gong Er who challenges him for the sake of regaining her family's honor. After the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ip...
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Hidden Blade
2023 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Follows the story of underground workers who risked their lives to send intelligence and defend the motherland, set after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor when the Wang Jingwei regime declared war on Britain and the U.S.
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Game of Death
1978 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.
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Gorgeous
1999 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
When Ah Bu, a girl from a small fishing town in Taiwan, finds a glass bottle with a romantic message, she travels to Hong Kong to find her prince charming. As it turns out, her prince charming, Albert, happens to be gay. But all is not...
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The Goldfinger
2023 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
In 1970s Hong Kong, the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) was formed to bring down the corruption syndicate led by British government officials. One of its top investigators is Senior Investigator Lau Kai-Yuen, who brought...
Fox Hunt
2025 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Based on true events. Dai Yichen, the Shanghai-based mastermind of a massive financial fraud who has been on the run for seven years, resurfaces in Paris. Chinese economic crime detective Ye Jun leads the "Fox Hunt Team" on a cross-border...

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