10 More Best Hong Kong Movies

By Vlad Zakh · September 9, 2026

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Beyond John Woo and Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong’s crime cinema kept producing tightly wound, morally murky triad dramas throughout the 2000s that rarely made it to Western audiences at the time.

Bullet in the Head (1990) 01

Bullet in the Head (1990)

IMDb ★ 7.6

Three childhood friends' business trip to Vietnam collapses into war profiteering and betrayal.

Police Story 2 (1988) 02

Police Story 2 (1988)

IMDb ★ 7.0

Jackie Chan's detective is targeted by the same crime boss he put away in the first film.

Drug War (2012) 03

Drug War (2012)

IMDb ★ 7.2

A captured drug manufacturer works with police to bring down his own former network.

Mad Detective (2007) 04

Mad Detective (2007)

IMDb ★ 7.0

A detective who can literally see people's inner personalities investigates a missing colleague's gun.

Vengeance (2009) 05

Vengeance (2009)

IMDb ★ 6.7

A retired French hitman helps his daughter avenge her murdered family in Macau.

The Mission (1999) 06

The Mission (1999)

IMDb ★ 7.2

Five bodyguards protecting a triad boss slowly bond despite their contrasting styles and old rivalries.

Exiled (2006) 07

Exiled (2006)

IMDb ★ 7.1

Old friends turned hitmen are ordered to kill one of their own, and hesitate.

PTU (2003) 08

PTU (2003)

IMDb ★ 7.2

A police unit spends one long night helping a colleague quietly recover his lost service pistol.

Election 2 (2006) 09

Election 2 (2006)

IMDb ★ 7.2

The triad's new chairman discovers the position comes with obligations he never expected.

Election (2005) 10

Election (2005)

IMDb ★ 7.4

Two triad factions maneuver to control who becomes their organization's next chairman.

Vlad Zakh

Vlad Zakh

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Founder of Movieix, built to fix a specific annoyance: most recommendation sites are just algorithm-driven noise. Our lists are researched and organized by who's in a film, where it's from, and the mood you're actually in tonight.