Maggie Cheung Filmography

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Actors: Maggie Cheung, Nick Nolte, Béatrice Dalle, Jeanne Balibar, Don McKellar

Synopsis: A woman throws herself into a last-ditch struggle to conquer her demons in this gritty drama from director Olivier Assayas. Lee Hauser (James Johnston) is a faded rock star who lives with his wife, Emily Wang (Maggie Cheung), the former host of a European music video show, in a small town in Read More

Days of Being Wild

Actors: Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau

Synopsis: Following up on his debut As Tears Go By, master filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai directs this dark, brooding tale about identity and unrequited love. Set in 1960, the film center of the young, boyishly handsome Yuddy (Leslie Cheung), who learns from the drunken ex-prostitute who raised him that she is not Read More

Hero

Actors: Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Maggie Cheung, Chen Daoming, Zhang Ziyi

Synopsis: Hero is two-time Academy Award nominee Zhang Yimou's directorial attempt at exploring the concept of a Chinese hero. During the peak of their Warring States period, China was divided into seven kingdoms all fighting for supremacy. Most determined to dominate China was the kingdom of Qin, whose Read More

In The Mood For Love

Actors: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Maggie Cheung, Lai Chin, Rebecca Pan

Synopsis: For his first film since the 1997 Hong Kong handover, auteur filmmaker Wong Kar-wai directs this moody period drama about unrequited love that, like his earlier work, swoons with romantic melancholy. Set in a Shanghaiese enclave in Hong Kong in 1962, the film centers on two young couples who rent Read More

Yijian Zhongqing

Actors: Maggie Cheung, Valerie Chow, Eric Kot, Leon Lai

Synopsis: One of Asia's most popular screen stars, Maggie Cheung stars in this romance about two Chinese 30-somethings living in California. Ellen (Cheung) is a single mother who works as a cabby; Mike (Cantonese pop star Leon Lai) is a computer genius who owns a struggling dot com. The two exchange glances Read More

Twin Dragons

Actors: Teddy Robin, Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Nina Li Chi, Anthony Chan, Philip Chan

Synopsis: International action star Jackie Chan stars opposite knockabout comedy sensation Jackie Chan in this story about identical twins separated in childhood who are unexpectedly reunited years later. While on the run from a Hong Kong hospital, an escaped convict takes an infant hostage, leaving the Read More

Chinese Box

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Gong Li, Maggie Cheung, Michael Hui, Rubén Blades

Synopsis: Hong Kong emigrant Wayne Wang directed and co-wrote (with Paul Theroux, Jean-Claude Carriere and Larry Gross) this story set in "the Pearl of the Orient" as the British government prepared to hand over the city to China in 1997. John (Jeremy Irons) is an English journalist who has lived in the Read More

Comrades, Almost a Love Story

Synopsis: Destiny brings two people together, but they aren't sure if they're meant to be friends or lovers in this romantic comedy-drama. In 1986, Xiaojun (Leon Lai) arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, full of dreams about life in the big city and determined to make enough money to send for his Read More

The Soong Sisters

Synopsis: "Once upon a time in distant China, there were three sisters. One loved money, one loved power, and one loved her country." So opens this historical, melodramatic chronicle of the influential lives of three daughters from one of pre-Communist China's wealthiest families. Two of the Soong sisters Read More

Irma Vep

Actors: Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard, Antoine Basler

Synopsis: Written and directed by Olivier Assayas, Irma Vep tells the story of has-been French filmmaker René Vidal (Jean-Pierre Léaud). In an attempt to reinvigorate his career, Vidal decides to remake Les Vampires, the classic silent serial featuring the adventures of jewel thief Irma Vep. Playing Read More

Ashes of Time

Actors: Brigitte Lin, Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Jacky Cheung

Synopsis:
Master Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-wai directed this lyrical, dream-like martial arts epic. A famously troubled shoot, the film took two years and 40 million dollars to produce (a shocking sum for a national cinema populated with low-budget quickies) and features a virtual who's-who of the Read More

First Shot

Synopsis: This Hong Kong actioner is basically a remake of Brian DePalma's 1987 The Untouchables. A tough cop is determined to bring down a powerful gangster but also has to fight corrupt elements both in the police department and the political establishment of the city. He is befriended by a federal agent (Maggie Cheung Read More

Moon Warriors

Actors: Kenny Bee, Anita Mui, Andy Lau

Synopsis: This Hong Kong kung fu adventure, directed by Sammo Hung, tells the story of Fei, a fisherman (Andy Lau), and Yen Ling, a prince (Kenny Bee). When Yen Ling is betrayed by his own brother, the two form a friendship. Fei is sent to retrieve the prince's fiancee, Yueh (Anita Mui), but falls in love Read More

Millionaire Cop

Actors: Ng Man Tat, Aaron Kwok, Deric Wan Siu-lun, Maggie Cheung, Chingmy Yau Suk-ching

Synopsis: Wong Jing produces and Cheung Kon-man directs this wacky cop comedy about mismatched partners Fish and Ball (Ng Man-tat and Aaron Kwok Fu-shing, respectively). While occupied with tracking down the thug who cut off Fish's hand, the two are assigned to go undercover and protect Jessy (Deric Wan Siu-lun Read More

Executioners

Actors: Anita Mui, Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Cheung

Synopsis: Johnny To and Ching Siu-tung co-directed this futuristic sequel to Heroic Trio set several years after a nuclear meltdown has contaminated the water supply with deadly radiation (a reference to the controversy over China's rather haphazard construction of the Dai Ah Bay plant near Hong Kong). Tung Read More

The Eagle Shooting Heroes: Dong Cheng Xi Jiu

Actors: Leslie Cheung, Jacky Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Synopsis: Jeff Lau Chun-wai spins this wild and woolly parody of Wong Kar-wai's martial arts epic Ashes of Time, which was actually produced by Wong himself and features many of the same cast members as Ashes. This loosely plotted film centers around the misdeeds of a pair of royals (Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Read More

Green Snake

Actors: Maggie Cheung, Joey Wong, Zhao Wenzhuo, Wu Hsing-Kuo, Ma Tsing-mou

Synopsis: Snakes and special effects abound as human and mythical worlds collide in this lavish variation of an old Chinese fable about a learned man who falls under the spell of two snake women. After 1,000 years of practice, White Snake is finally able to take on a completely human form. Hsu Hsien, the Read More

The Heroic Trio

Actors: Maggie Cheung, Michelle Yeoh, Anita Mui, Anthony Wong, Damian Lau

Synopsis: In this cartoonish live-action martial arts feature, three female super-heroes battle the forces of evil in the form of a woman who has hatched a plot to create China's next ruler. Over the years, she has stolen over a dozen children from their families. She hopes to raise them in a way that will Read More

Centre Stage

Actors: Maggie Cheung, Carina Lau

Synopsis: In the 1930s, in China, there was a woman film-actress who was tagged as "the Chinese Garbo." She was a wildly popular performer who made her first film at age 16 and died by her own hand at age 25. Ironically, she was famous for playing tragic heroines, and her own life mirrored the kinds of Read More

Police Story 3: Super Cop

Actors: Jackie Chan, Michelle Khan, Maggie Cheung, Tsang Kong, Yuen Wah

Synopsis: Even for viewers who can take or leave martial-arts films, the work of Jackie Chan bears special attention. Chan is quite simply the hardest-working movie star in the world, regularly participating in the sort of death-defying stuntwork which would make most American action heroes cringe in fear. Read More

Dragon Inn

Actors: Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin

Synopsis: Raymond Lee Wai-man remakes King Hu's 1966 masterpiece about revenge and intrigue between imperial eunuchs during the Ming Dynasty. At the film's outset, the villainous Eunuch Tsao (Donnie Yen Chi-tan) has assassinated one of his primary court rivals and is looking to take out his former rival's Read More

Song of the Exile

Actors: Maggie Cheung

Synopsis: Set in the early 1970s, Song of the Exile is the story of a Chinese/Japanese student who returns to her native Hong Kong after graduating from a university in London. Once she arrives back home, she and her family begins to fight, largely due to cultural and societal conflicts between her mother Read More

Iceman Cometh

Synopsis: In this adventure story with a comic touch from Hong Kong, Ching (Yuen Biao) is a royal guard of the Ming Dynasty who must find and capture an old friend who has gone bad and is wanted for rape and murder. In the midst of a hard-fought battle in the snow, the two men are frozen, and they remain in Read More

Seung Sing Gusi

Actors: Alan Tam, Eric Tsang, Maggie Cheung, Barry Wong

Synopsis: Alan is a singer, as well as an actor, but his career has stalled in a nightclub by the sea, where he earns chump change for his efforts. He has an old buddy, Eric, who, when he pulls into town, easily persuades him to leave that job and join him in setting up a chicken farm. Their friendship is Read More

Will of Iron

Synopsis: David Chiang Da-wei spins this maudlin, maladroit crime drama. Jacky (Jacky Cheung) is a junkie cartoonist who owes an obscene amount of money to the mob. Jacky's buddy Michael (Michael Wong Man-tak) -- a drug dealer who is in league with the very thugs whom Jacky is in trouble with -- saves his Read More

Farewell China

Actors: Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Kar-Fai

Synopsis: Hong Kong filmmaker Clara Law directed this sensitive drama about a young woman named Li Hung (Maggie Cheung), who is granted a student visa after considerable difficulty and travels to America to continue her education. She doesn't have an easy time of it, as she makes plain in her letters to her Read More

The Dragon from Russia

Synopsis: Loosely based on Kazuo Koike's famous manga Crying Freeman, Clarence Fok Yiu-leung spins this wild and woolly gangster drama. The film centers around a ruthless band of criminals called "The Eight Hundred Dragons," who pitilessly track down and kill any defecting members. Snooker (Dean Shek Tien) Read More

A Fishy Story

Actors: Kenny Bee, Maggie Cheung, Josephine Koo, Anthony Chan, Carrie Ng

Synopsis: In 1969, while Hong Kong is undergoing its own localized chaos -- fallout from the Cultural Revolution on the Chinese mainland -- taxi driver Ah-chung is hard-pressed to juggle the two women in his life and his ambition to own his own cab. One of the women is a wealthy socialite who pays for his Read More

Gungun Hongchen

Actors: Chin Han, Maggie Cheung, Richard Ng, Josephine Koo

Synopsis: This love story spans many decades of modern Chinese history. In the beginning (1938), an independent-minded female writer (Lin Ching-hsia) strikes up an acquaintance and then a romance with a man who is collaborating with the Japanese (Chin Han). Despite warnings from friends that their romance Read More

A Better Tomorrow III

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Anita Mui, Tony Leung Kar-Fai, Shek Kin

Synopsis: Tsui Hark takes the reigns of this series following a much-publicized rift between himself and John Woo -- the director of the first two A Better Tomorrow films -- to direct this prequel based around Chow Yun-Fat's memorable Mark character. Set in 1974, Mark ventures to Saigon after his cousin Read More

Full Moon in New York

Actors: Siqin Gaowa, Sylvia Chang, Maggie Cheung

Synopsis: In this drama, three Chinese women with vastly different backgrounds get acquainted and become friends amid the social desolation of New York. Chao Hong (Sichingowa) is from mainland China, and has come to marry a Chinese man with American citizenship. Aside from the difficulties of being newly Read More

Paper Marriage

Synopsis: Alfred Cheung spins this madcap comedy about an embittered Canadian ex-boxer named Chien Pao (Sammo Hung), who is desperate to pay off a band of loan sharks. Desperate to come to Canada to be with her true love Peter, Jade Li (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) agrees to marry the pugilist for a price. Read More

Moon, Star and Sun

Synopsis: A quartet of women become cabaret hostesses in hopes of building a better future for themselves in this intensely personal drama from director Michael Mak. Despite the fact that she comes from a broken home, May (Maggie Cheung) cares deeply for her mother and takes the job in hopes that she can Read More

As Tears Go By

Actors: Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Maggie Cheung

Synopsis: Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-wai makes his feature film debut with this gritty romantic crime-drama inspired by Scorsese's Mean Streets. The film opens with young gangster Wah (Andy Lau) getting a visit for the day from his beautiful cousin Ah-Ngor (Maggie Cheung), who is coming into Kowloon from the Read More

Heartbeat 100

Actors: Lui Fong, Maggie Cheung, Bonnie Law, Mark Cheng

Synopsis: When a news writer begins digging into village affairs even more deeply than the police did, she runs afoul of a multiple murderer. She was only looking for some local color and inspiration and is accompanied by her sister and a friend known as "weeny eyes." ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

The Romancing Star

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Eric Tsang, Maggie Cheung, Chan Pak-cheung

Synopsis: One misunderstanding after another seems to plague the efforts of Fred, Silver, and Tony in this romantic comedy. Away on vacation, the three run into two beautiful young women named Agnes and Maggie who are strolling down the beach and, by all appearances, seem quite wealthy. All three men are Read More

Jackie Chan's Project A 2

Actors: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Rosamund Kwan, Carina Lau

Synopsis: This slapstick martial arts film is often regarded as superior to the original Project A. Dragon (Jackie Chan) runs against the pirates he defeated in the first film and also gets in trouble with corrupt cops, and a revolutionary group that includes popular Hong Kong actress Michelle Cheung. Many Read More

Police Story 2

Actors: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung

Synopsis: In this crime drama, set in Hong Kong, police officers begin a city-wide search for a psychotic killer. Along the way, they must also deal with their own personal and professional issues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Seventh Curse

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Andy Lau

Synopsis: What do a cannibalistic, flying-demon baby, a spine-sucking Worm-tribe god, a blood curse that can only be cured by eating a nipple, and Hong Kong superstar Chow Yun Fat have in common? If you guessed they are all elements of one of the most outrageous and bizarre Hong Kong films of the 1980s, you Read More

Rose

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Maggie Cheung

Synopsis: Yeung Fan writes and directs this melodrama about Rose (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk), a beautiful orphaned teenager who has boys pursuing her by the boatload. When she decides to study in France, her overly protective brother Charles (Chow Yun-fat) begs her to return to Hong Kong. Instead, she marries Read More

It's a Drink, It's a Bomb!

Actors: John Sham, Maggie Cheung

Synopsis: Sporting one of the most humorous titles around, this film -- directed by David Chung Chi-man -- is an unlikely sci-fi Christmas flick. The film opens with a nefarious band of Japanese criminals putting a powerful explosive that they swiped from a mad scientist and in a can of Sarsae cola. Of Read More

Girl With The Diamond Slipper

Actors: Maggie Cheung, Wang Yu, Wang Lung Wei

Synopsis: With a story as believable as a visit from the Tooth Fairy, this romantic comedy about a Cinderella-type woman (Maggie Cheung) and a slipper with a diamond is best suited to a young audience. After two thieves steal a valuable diamond from a dying tycoon, they run inside a store and hide it in a Read More

Police Story

Actors: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Cho Yuen, Bill Tung, Kenneth Tong

Synopsis: This was internationally famous Jackie Chan's breakthrough action film, the work that got him past the ethnic boundaries of Hong Kong and into competition at the New York Film Festival in 1986. It also got him into the hospital after performing a stunt in which he fell through a glass canopy Read More

Prince Charming

Actors: Kenny Bee, Cherie Chung, Maggie Cheung, Rosamund Kwan

Synopsis: Kenny Bee is a shy young man whose wealthy parents want him to marry, no matter what. Although he goes to Waikiki with his friend Lolantho (Chen Pai-chiang), neither manage to succeed with women and when they return home, the anxious parents now have another problem: someone is embezzling money Read More

Behind The Yellow Line

Actors: Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung

Synopsis: Burdened by wooden acting and a fragmented storyline, this romantic comedy set against the posh environment of an upper-class Hong Kong elite is about the love that blossoms between a bumbling young man (Leslie Chung) and an attractive woman he meets on the subway (Maggie Cheung). Both would-be Read More