Chinatown (1974), La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano (1998), The Cameraman (1928), Alice (1990), Big Trouble in Little China (1986), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976), Pi (1998), Big Trouble in Little China (1986) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Chinatown movies.
Storyline: In San Francisco, an immigrant widow welcomes the new year with some unhappiness: she's sixty-two now, she wants to make a trip to China to pay last respects to her ancestors, a fortune teller has told her this is the year she'll die, and a daughter, Geraldine, remains unmarried. Geraldine does have a boyfriend, but she's not sure she's ready for marriage, and, anyway, he lives in Los Angeles and Geraldine doesn't want to leave her mother alone in her declining years. Mrs. Tan's cheerful brother-in-law tries to help out. Is there any solution that will enable Mrs. Tan to hold onto her culturally influenced and deep-seated hopes, yet keep those hopes from suffocating Geraldine?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: mother, daughter, boyfriend, fortuneteller, love interest, tender, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: San Francisco Tong hatchet man Wong must execute his boyhood friend Sun. Sun knew his time was up and wrote out his will just prior to Wong showing up at his door. When Sun realizes Wong is there to kill me he tries to set his friend's mind at ease by telling him he is the beneficiary of all Sun's worldly possessions and convinces Wong to promise to take care of Sun's young daughter, Toya San who Sun has bequeathed to become his wife. Years later, when she becomes of age, she marries Wong, now a powerful figure, though she loves evil Harry. When Wong learns Toya will be happier with Harry he allows them to leave. Still later Wong learns that Harry has been deported and since Toya could not prove she was married to someone else she too was deported to China. When Wong learns of this, he goes after them.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: assassin, childhood friend, daughter, gangster, guard, fortuneteller, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Augustin Dos Santos is back. He still wants to be an actor and, this time, he moves to the Chinese borough in Paris because he has decided to play in kung-fu movies. But poor Augustin has a morbid fear of physical contacts, so he meets Ling, a nice Chinese doctor. This is the second chapter of Augustin's epic life...—Thierry Bézecourt <thbzcrt@worldnet.fr>
Plot Keywords: actor, martial artist, beautiful woman, friend, quirky, playful, paris ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Newspaper reporter "Torchy" Blaine and police detective Steve McBride are on the trail of an Oriental gang that has committed three murders. Also on hand is a fabricated Scotland Yard operative who is a phony, and has two others assisting him in an effort to throw the police department off the trail; they are trying to exhort $250,000 from a young rich man who is trying to marry a senator's daughter. A submarine gets involved.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: reporter, police detective, senator, doctor, captain, henchman, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When a chemical manufacturer is killed after asking detective James Wong to help him, Wong investigates this and two subsequent murders. He uncovers an international spy ring hoping to steal the formula for a poison gas being developed by the first victim's company.
Plot Keywords: private detective, police officer, factory owner, scientist, secretary, murder victim, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: John Lee is the best hitman money can buy. But when John refuses to kill because of the seven year-old son of his target, John's bosses send someone after John to kill him and then take his place in the ring of hitmen. John then teams up with Meg Coburn to help him escape these "Replacement Killers."
Plot Keywords: assassin, police officer, forger, crime boss, son, killer, frenetic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Nick Chen is one of New York City's most martial police officers and the first Chinese-born immigrant on the force. Chen's job is to keep the peace in Chinatown from a turf war that has broken out between the Triads and the ruthless, and dangerous Fukienese Dragons. Chen teams up with Danny Wallace, who is terribly unaware of this situation. When the Tongs boldly attempt to bribe Wallace, Chen is forced to keep his faithfulness.
Plot Keywords: police officer, gangster, martial artist, rookie, dark, brutal, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to scrawl "Captain J" on a sheet of paper. She proves to be Princess Lin Hwa, on a secret military mission for Chinese forces fighting the Japanese invasion. Mr. Wong finds two captains with the intial J in the case, neither being quite what he seems; there's fog on the waterfront and someone still has that poison-dart gun...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: private detective, princess, captain, reporter, police captain, bank president, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Rick has been given a new identity by the FBI for helping convict a drug dealing FBI agent. Fifteen years later his former fiance recognises him. Rick's FBI 'minder' has been replaced by a corrupt agent who helps the drug dealing FBI agent and his accomplice locate him. There are many subsequent chase scenes as Rick and girlfriend revisit his former haunts.
Plot Keywords: drug dealer, witness, ex-girlfriend, fbi agent, gas station attendant, hairdresser, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Harold Bledsoe, a botany student, is called back home to San Francisco, where his late father had been police chief, to help investigate a crime wave in Chinatown.—Herman Seifer <alagain@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: botanist, tomboy, police chief, sergeant, drug smuggler, leader, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This is the story of two New York divorce attorneys who are often competing against each other, but end up in a relationship nonetheless. When they get married, can they avoid the same issues at home that lead people to provide them business at work? One of the central cases in the story is the heavily-publicized divorce of a rock star from his wife...
Plot Keywords: divorce lawyer, celebrity, attorney, husband, designer, rock star, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sean Kane is forced to resign from the San Francisco Police Department's Narcotics Division when he goes berserk after his partner is murdered. He decides to fight alone and follows a trail of drug traffickers into unexpected high places.—Scott Lane <rslane@ix.netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: undercover cop, narcotics officer, informant, ringleader, boss, girlfriend, brash ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: REVENGE OF THE GREEN DRAGONS follows two immigrant brothers Sonny (Justin Chon) and Steven (Kevin Wu) who survive the impoverished despair of New York in the 1980s by joining Chinatown gang "The Green Dragons". The brothers quickly rise up the ranks, drawing the unwanted attention of hard-boiled city cops. After an ill- fated love affair pits Sonny against his own brother, he sets out for revenge on the very gang who made him who he is.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: orphan, emigrant, emotional, street, chinatown, revenge, best friends ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Fresh out of law school, Kevin Walker is recruited into the FBI and commissioned to root out communist subversives amongst the San Francisco Chinese community. He finds a loophole that will enable him to prosecute, but his loyalties become divided when he falls in love with Marilyn, a laundryman's daughter.—Jonathan Ridsdale <JR@kingston.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: fbi agent, worker, father, daughter, lover, profound, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Full of wry wit, Chronically Metropolitan, is a cynical family drama about a young writer, Fenton, who is forced home to help the family cope when his larger than life father, Christopher, gets into a car accident with a truck full of crabs.
Plot Keywords: novelist, young woman, sister, mother, drug dealer, best friend, emotional ...
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