The best Lam Ching-Ying’s movies

Lam Ching-Ying

Lam Ching-Ying

27/12/1952- 08/11/1997
We present our ranking of the best Lam Ching-Ying’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Lam Ching-Ying.
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The Big Boss

The Big Boss
6.9/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 03/10/1971
  • Character: Ah Yen
Chen is a city boy who moves with his cousins to work at an ice factory. He does this with a family promise never to get involved in any fight. However, when members of his family begin disappearing after meeting the management of the factory, the resulting mystery and pressures force him to break that vow and take on the villainy of the Big Boss.

Enter the Dragon

Enter the Dragon
7.6/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 17/08/1973
A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover.

Fist of Fury

Fist of Fury
7.2/10
Chen Zhen returns to the international compound of China only to learn of his beloved teacher's death. This is compounded by the continual racist harassment by the Japanese population in the area. Unlike his friends, he confronts it head on with his mastery of martial arts while investigating his teacher's murder.

The Way of the Dragon

The Way of the Dragon
7.2/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 01/06/1972
  • Character: Thug (uncredited)
Tang Lung arrives in Rome to help his cousins in the restaurant business. They are being pressured to sell their property to the syndicate, who will stop at nothing to get what they want. When Tang arrives he poses a new threat to the syndicate, and they are unable to defeat him. The syndicate boss hires the best Japanese and European martial artists to fight Tang, but he easily finishes them off.

Game of Death

Game of Death
5.9/10
A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.

My Lucky Stars

My Lucky Stars
6.3/10
Two Hong-Kong cops are sent to Tokyo to catch an ex-cop who stole a large amount of money in diamonds. After one is captured by the Ninja-gang protecting the rogue cop, the other one gets his old Orphanage gang, dubbed the "Five Lucky Stars," to help him. They don't like this much, but they do it.

Winners & Sinners

Winners & Sinners
6.6/10
Five friends are released from prison and do their best to stay out trouble. While trying to mind their own business (and run their 5-Star Cleaning Service), they are caught up in a war between rival Triad gangs fighting for control of the counterfeit currency market.

Eastern Condors

Eastern Condors
7.1/10
  • Genre: ActionWar
  • Release: 09/07/1987
  • Character: Lieutenant
A motley group of Chinese prisoners held in the US is sent on a covert mission with the promise of a pardon: to go deep into Vietnam and destroy a secret depot of missiles that the US left behind during the pull-out.

Crazy Safari

Crazy Safari
5.3/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 05/07/1991
  • Character: Taoist priest
Two guys, one of them a magician, are transporting an ancient chinese vampire who can only be controlled by a series of yellow tapes, and is the ancestor of the other guy. On the way, while flying over Africa, their plane stalls. And of all places, where do they land? That's right, in the village of the tribe of "The Gods Must Be Crazy".

Mr. Vampire

Mr. Vampire
7.3/10
The planned reburial of a village elder goes awry as the corpse resurrects into a hopping, bloodthirsty vampire, threatening mankind. Therefore, a Taoist Priest and his two disciples attempt to stop the terror.

Heart of Dragon

Heart of Dragon
6.3/10
A policeman forsakes his dream of world travel to care for a mentally impaired brother, who is later kidnapped by gangsters.

The Magnificent Butcher

The Magnificent Butcher
7.2/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 19/12/1979
  • Character: Fan Man
A plump butcher student of 'Wong Fei Hung', Lam Sai-Wing (Sammo) gets into trouble with a rival kung-fu school known as 'Five Dragons'. He is accused of raping the Head of that school's goddaughter and killing his son. Now Ko, the Head of Five Dragons, wants revenge.

Warriors Two

Warriors Two
7.2/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 28/12/1978
  • Character: Thunder's men/Leung's student
In an attempt to save his village from being taken over by brutes, Wah is beaten to a pulp and his mother brutally murdered. Determined to take revenge, Wah learns the art of Wing Chun and enters into a showdown with the nasty villains.

Encounter of the Spooky Kind

Encounter of the Spooky Kind
7/10
Sammo is Courageous Cheung, a pedicab driver in a rural community who is known around town as the man who fears nothing. Well, this is proved false before the opening credits finish when he endures a particularly frightening nightmare of flesh-eating zombies. But, that's just the beginning of his run-ins with the supernatural...

Vampire Vs Vampire

Vampire Vs Vampire
6.1/10
Lam Ching-Ying returns as the famous "Vampire Buster," this time starring as the One-Eyebrown Priest. To save the village from paranormal menaces, he deals with and battles a host of mysterious creatures including: a little mischievous Chinese vampire; a lustful female ghost; the spirit of a woman murdered by a club owner and a European vampire and his blood-sucking pet bats.

The Millionaires' Express

The Millionaires' Express
6.9/10
What happens when a glamorous express, with high government officials, wealthy merchants, concubines and a gang of brigands on board, speeds towards the small town of Hanshui, where escaping bank robbers, corrupt officials, and gamblers await? Well, let's just say the Titanic had a smoother maiden voyage.

Mr. Vampire III

Mr. Vampire III
6.7/10
The Vampire Master joins forces with another fellow priest (with his two pet "ghosts" along for the ride) to defeat an evil witch and her henchman, whose goals are to defeat the human race. The priests must also overcome the odds of the separation between humans and ghosts.

The 14 Amazons

The 14 Amazons
6.5/10
The Yang family, men and women, have served their country loyally for generations. During the war General Yang is ambushed and killed. His widow and the entire family set out to avenge his death and defend the country.

Swordsman

Swordsman
6.8/10
When a scroll containing valuable martial arts secrets is stolen from the Emperor, an army detachment is sent to recover it. It is based on the novel The Smiling, Proud Wanderer by Jinyong.

The Prodigal Son

The Prodigal Son
7.3/10
A rich man's son (Yuen Biao) believes himself to be the best kung fu fighter in Canton. Unfortunately, his father, anxious for his son's safety, bribes all his opponents to lose. After a humiliating defeat at the hands of an actor in a traveling theatre company, the son resolves to find a better teacher. Furious kung fu battles and slapstick comedy.

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