Ringo Lam Filmography

In Hell

Crew: Director

Actors: Marnie Alton, Billy Rieck, Malakai Davidson, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lawrence Taylor

Synopsis: When Kyle LeBlanc (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is prosecuted for killing the man who murdered his wife, he is sent to the most notoriously violent prison in Eastern Europe, where brutality is an understatement. Guards force the prisoners into death matches for their own personal profit, and the already Read More

Looking for Mr. Perfect

Crew: Director

Actors: Shu Qi, Andy On, Simon Yam, Isabel Chan, Chapman To

Synopsis: A spirited female detective who never had time for love realizes just how complicated romance can be after meeting Prince Charming while vacationing in Malaysia with her best friend. Grace is completely dedicated to her job, and as a result she's never had the time to seek out the man of her Read More

Replicant

Crew: Director

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michael Rooker, Catherine Dent, Ian Robison

Synopsis: This $17 million direct-to-video production by Hong Kong director Ringo Lam is the story of a fire-obsessed serial killer (Jean-Claude Van Damme) and the recently retired cop (Michael Rooker) intent on stopping him. After finding his hair follicle at a crime scene, a secret government agency Read More

Simon Sez

Crew: Producer

Actors: Dennis Rodman, Dane Cook, Natalia Cigliuti, Filip Nikolic, John Pinette, Jerome Pradon, Ricky Harris

Synopsis: Former basketball star Dennis Rodman stars in this action-and-espionage thriller as Simon, an Interpol agent called into action when the daughter of a close friend is abducted. In order to track down the kidnappers, Simon seeks the assistance of a pair of monks (John Pinette and Ricky Harris) who Read More

Twin Dragons

Crew: Director

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

Victim

Crew: Director

Actors: Lau Ching-Wan, Amy Kwok

Synopsis: Master Hong Kong director Ringo Lam spins this wild genre-bending flick that is equal parts psychodrama, action thriller, caper movie, and ghost story. The film opens with computer designer Ma (Lau Ching-wan) getting kidnapped in a parking structure. His girlfriend Amy Fu (Amy Kwok) informs the Read More

Suspect

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A hit man fears that he may be going back to jail for a crime he didn't commit in this action thriller from Hong Kong. Hired killer Don Lee (Eric Moo) has just been released from prison after serving 12 years for murder. Two of Don's old friends, Max (Louis Koo) and Chan (Simon Yam) offer him a Read More

Ko Dou Gai Bei

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Lau Ching-Wan, Francis Ng, Blacky Ko, Amanda Lee, Monica Chan

Synopsis: After his Hollywood debut (Maximum Risk), Hong Kong director Ringo Lam returned to his homeland for the 34-day shoot of this $13 million action pic. After cops find a corpse and bomb chemicals, Inspector Pao (Lau Ching-wan) arrests suspect Mak Kwan (Francis Ng), hoping his girlfriend will lead Read More

Maximum Risk

Crew: Director

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Natasha Henstridge, Zach Grenier, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Stéphane Audran, Paul Ben-Victor, Frank Senger

Synopsis: Alain Moreau (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a French cop whose colleagues make a startling discovery -- a man named Mikhail, who was killed in a high-speed chase with police, looks exactly like him. Curious about the stranger with his face, Alain is told by his mother Chantal (Stephane Audran) that Read More

The Adventurers

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Andy Lau

Synopsis: Following up on his two-fisted Hong Kong action thriller Full Contact, ace director Ringo Lam spins this hard-boiled revenge drama. After the murder of his parents and only sister at the hands of the villianous gun-running billionaire Ray Lui (Paul Chun Pui) in 1975, crack jet pilot Yan (Andy Lau Read More

Burning Paradise

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Tsui Hark produces and Ringo Lam directs this bleak kung-fu action thriller. Qing dynasty era martial arts heroes Fong Sai Yuk (Willie Chi Tian-sheng) and Hung Hei-kwun (Yang Sheng) are students at the Shaolin temple when the government decides that the celebrated monastery is a threat to imperial Read More

Full Contact

Crew: Director

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat

Synopsis: Another entry into the "cheer for the most likeable bad guy" series of Hong Kong action flicks, Full Contact tells the oft-told tale of betrayal and revenge, but serves it up as a potent cocktail of Western convention mixed with the trademarked Hong Kong style. When Jeff's (Hong Kong superstar Read More

Touch and Go

Crew: Director

Actors: Vincent Wan, Tommy Wong, Sammo Hung

Synopsis: After making a name for himself with the gritty action spectacular City on Fire, Ringo Lam returns to directing comedies with his film featuring Sammo Hung. When humble noodle stand owner Fat Goose (Hung) is the unfortunate witness to a mob hit, he is convinced by ambitious cop Pitt (Vincent Wan Yueng Read More

Undeclared War

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Hong Kong studio Cinema City tried to make a stab at the international markets with this spy drama helmed by cult action director Ringo Lam and featuring an international cast. The film opens with a comely terrorist named Rebecca (Olivia Hussey) dressed in black leather -- a member of the dreaded Read More

Prison on Fire II

Crew: Director

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat

Synopsis: Ringo Lam follow up on his smash-hit prison flick. In this go around, the Stanley prison is in the throes of an ugly turf war between native Hong Kong cons and Mainlanders. Chung (Chow Yun-fat) befriends Brother Dragon (Chen Sung-yung), the boss of the Mainland inmates, allowing him better Read More

Wild Search

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Cherie Chung, Lau Kong

Synopsis: Action flick auteur Ringo Lam directs this crime thriller loosely based on Peter Weir's 1985 classic Witness. Lau (Chow Yun-fat), along with his partner, Nam (Tommy Wong Kwang-leung), are investigating a band of gun runners when they get caught in a shoot out that kills their lead suspect and Read More

Eighth Happiness

Synopsis: Hong Kong filmmaker Johnny To directed this all-star holiday comedy, another in a string of popular Lunar New Year entertainments for actor/producer Raymond Wong, who engineered the similar All's Well, Ends Well series. As usual, the plot line is just an excuse for a series of amusing cameos and Read More

Prison on Fire

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung Kar-Fai, Roy Cheung

Synopsis: Ringo Lam delivers this two-fisted gritty thriller written by his brother Nam Yin. Timid Lo Ka-yiu (Tony Leung Kar-fai) is thrown in the clink for a three-year stint after being convicted of manslaughter. Possessing none of the requisite instincts to survive in a maximum-security prison, Lo looks Read More

City on Fire

Crew: Director, Producer, Screen Story

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Sun Yueh, Danny Lee, Carrie Ng, Roy Cheung

Synopsis: This tense Hong Kong crime thriller is known best as the film upon which Quentin Tarantino borrowed heavily for his 1992 debut, Reservoir Dogs. Those who criticized the American director for lack of originality have perhaps missed the point. In the highly commercialized, formulaic crime genre of Read More

You Never Die Twice

Crew: Director

Mad Mission, Part 4: You Never Die Twice

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sam Hui, Karl Maka, Sally Yeh, Ronald Lacey

Synopsis: Popular Hong Kong action filmmaker Ringo Lam (City on Fire and Replicant) reputedly directed this third of four official sequels to 1982's Aces Go Places only as a favor to star Karl Maka, and it shows. King Kong (Sam Hui) once again joins bald detective Albert Au (Maka) and his son Baldy Jr. as Read More

The Other Side of Gentleman

Crew: Director

Actors: Alan Tam Wing-lun, Lin Ching-Hsia

Synopsis: Before he became famous for directing gritty, two-fisted action flicks, Ringo Lam Ling-tung helmed this low-budget stalker drama. Alan Ng (Alan Tam Wing-lun), a lonely bar-hopper with absolutely zero luck with the ladies, thinks his luck has changed for the better when the stunningly beautiful Jo Read More

Esprit D'Amour

Crew: Director

Actors: Alan Tam, Ni Shu-chun

Synopsis: In this off-beat love story from a typical Hong Kong perspective, Alan Tam plays a young insurance investigator who almost runs over a beautiful woman while he is on his way to his engagement party. Rattled and at the same time fascinated by her beauty, she stays on his mind. The next day, he is Read More