11. City of Life and Death ( Nanjing! Nanjing! )
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Chuan Lu
Actors: Ye Liu, Yuanyuan Gao, Hideo Nakaizumi, John Paisley, Yiyan Jiang, Di Yao
Plot: Chuan Lu's look in the 1937 invasion of Nanking by Japanese forces and the atrocities that followed.
12. Infernal Affairs ( Mou gaan dou )
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wai-keung Lau
Actors: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Eric Tsang, Andy Lau, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Edison Chen, Kelly Chen
Plot: A mole is suspected to be the cause of a group of police officers not being able to catch a crime lord.
13. Way of the Dragon, The ( Meng long guo jiang )
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Bruce Lee
Actors: Bruce Lee, Nora Miao, Chuck Norris, Ping-Ao Wei, Chung-Hsin Huang, Robert Wall
Plot: Bruce Lee's character is sent to protect a man and his restaurant in Rome. As he shows his skill to the rest of the team, the mafia try to kill him. With little success, they bring in the ultimate fighter, Chuck Norris!
14. Jet Li's: Fearless ( Huo Yuan Jia )
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ronny Yu
Actors: Jet Li, Yong Dong, Betty Sun, Nathan Jones, Shido Nakamura, Hee Ching Paw
Plot: A Chinese Martial Arts Master goes through a personal journey and learns that he has the power to unit a country.
15. 2046
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kar Wai Wong
Actors: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Li Gong, Faye Wong, Ziyi Zhang, Maggie Cheung, Takuya Kimura
16. Drunken Master ( Jui kuen )
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Woo-ping Yuen
Actors: Jackie Chan, Siu Tien Yuen, Jang Lee Hwang, Ging Man Fung, Shun-Yee Yuen, Hsia Hsu
Plot: An undisciplined boy must learn Drunken Fist Kung Fu in order to stop an assassin.
17. Vive L'Amour ( Ai qing wan sui )
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ming-liang Tsai
Actors: Chao-jung Chen, Kang-sheng Lee, Kuei-Mei Yang
Plot: A look into the lives of three people who share (partially unknowingly) the same apartment: Mei, the real estate agent who uses the room for her trysts, her current lover Ah-jung and Hsiao-ang, who takes a key and uses the place as his own retreat.
18. Farewell My Concubine ( Ba wang bie ji )
Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kaige Chen
Actors: Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Li Gong, Qi Lu, Da Ying, You Ge
Plot: Two Beijing Opera stage brothers fight over the same woman as we witness China's late-twentieth century political history in a parallel story.
19. Red Cliff ( Chi bi )
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Woo
Actors: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Fengyi Zhang, Chen Chang, Wei Zhao, Jun Hu
20. Happy Together ( Chun gwong cha sit )
Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kar Wai Wong
Actors: Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Chen Chang, Gregory Dayton
Plot: Yiu-Fai and Po-Wing arrive in Argentina via Hong Kong on holiday but their relationship his a rocky stretch and the two men part. While Yiu-Fai finds success and maybe even a new relationship, Po-Wing's life spirals ever downward.
