The best Leslie Cheung’s movies

Leslie Cheung

Leslie Cheung

12/09/1956- 01/04/2003
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Leslie Cheung’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Leslie Cheung.
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Days of Being Wild

Days of Being Wild
7.4/10
Yuddy, a Hong Kong playboy known for breaking girls' hearts, tries to find solace and the truth after discovering the woman who raised him isn't his mother.

Happy Together

Happy Together
7.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 30/05/1997
  • Character: Ho Po-wing
A gay couple takes a trip to Argentina in search of a new beginning but instead begins drifting even further apart.

Viva Erotica

Viva Erotica
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 28/11/1996
  • Character: Sing
Sing's last two films were flops, but he is given the helm on a Category III sex film and has to cope with a leading lady who won't do nude scenes, Triad backers, and a crumbling relationship with his girlfriend.

A Better Tomorrow II

A Better Tomorrow II
7.2/10
A restauranteur teams up with a police officer and his ex-con brother to avenge the death of a friend's daughter.

Ashes of Time

Ashes of Time
7/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 17/09/1994
  • Character: Ouyang Feng / Malicious West
Ouyang Feng is a heartbroken and cynical man who spends his days in the desert, connecting expert swordsmen with those seeking revenge and willing to pay for it. Throughout five seasons in exile, Ouyang spins tales of his clients' unrequited loves and unusual acts of bravery.

A Better Tomorrow

A Better Tomorrow
7.4/10
A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.

Farewell My Concubine

Farewell My Concubine
8.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/10/1993
  • Character: Xiaodouzi
Abandoned by his prostitute mother in 1920, Douzi was raised by a theater troupe. There he meets Shitou and over the following years the two develop an act entitled "Farewell My Concubine" that brings them fame and fortune. When Shitou marries Juxian, Douzi becomes jealous, the beginnings of the acting duo's explosive breakup and tragic fall take root.

A Chinese Ghost Story

A Chinese Ghost Story
7.4/10
  • Genre: ActionFantasy
  • Release: 18/07/1987
  • Character: Ling Choi Sin
Ning Tsai-Shen, a humble tax collector, arrives in a small town to carry out his work. No one is willing to give him shelter for the night, so he ends up in the haunted Lan Ro temple. There, he meets Taoist Swordsman Yen Che-Hsia, and the beautiful Nieh Hsiao-Tsing, with whom he falls in love.

A Chinese Ghost Story II

A Chinese Ghost Story II
6.9/10
Several years after his beloved Nieh has gone, Ning is innocently put into jail. Luckily, he meets a scholar, Elder Chu Kot, in the prison who finally helps him escape. Ning then meets a young witty monk Autumn. They become friends and live in an abandoned villa together. The villa is horrific, yet they choose to stay for a while. Later that night, some ghosts suddenly appear and attack; two parties fight heavily. But after clarifications, Ning and Autumn find that "the ghosts" are humans in disguise, who intend to save their leader from imprisonment but not hurting innocence. Among them, Ning finds someone who looks identical to Nieh, and considers she is the reincarnated Nieh. A real giant zombie has seen all these in behind and is ready to ambush...

The Eagle Shooting Heroes

The Eagle Shooting Heroes
7/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 05/02/1993
  • Character: Huang Yao Shih
A power struggle between the Queen’s treasonous lover and a princess occurs amid musical numbers, slapstick battles, and martial arts acrobatics.

Double Tap

Double Tap
6.6/10
Rick Pang (Leslie Cheung) is an IPSC champion who is also a gun expert who modifies his pistols to perfect his technique known as 'double tap', placing two shots in the same exact spot. In the 1996 IPSC Hong Kong shooting competition, he goes up against another experienced shooter named Miu (Alex Fong). Unfortunately, the competition was marred by a depressed stock trader, a friend of Miu, who lost much in the stock market and threatened the safety of the contest, wounding the IPSC supervisor, again one of Miu's friends. Rick was forced to kill him with his trademark double tap. Rick's experience from this encounter was strangely exciting to him and he discovers his lust for murdering others in cold blood.

Shanghai Grand

Shanghai Grand
6.6/10
Gangsters abound in this lively, romantic crime drama that is set in Shanghai during WW II. The tale of Taiwanese patriot Hsu Wen-Chiang begins as he is washed up on a beach near Shanghai. He is taken in by Ting Lik, a kindly beggar who is desperately in love with Feng Ching-Ching, the daughter of a prominent gangster. It isn't long before Ting Lik successfully rises through the underworld ranks to become one of the city's most powerful gangsters. Hsu is beside him all the way and uses his own power to get revenge against those who tried to have him killed much earlier. The film's later focus is on the exploits of Feng who long ago had a relationship with Hsu when he was on the lam in northern China. Back in the present, Hsu and Feng meet again by chance and they resume their affair until Hsu learns that Feng's father is one of his enemies and kills him. Poor Feng goes mad with grief. Ting finds out and swears revenge upon Hsu.

The Bride with White Hair

The Bride with White Hair
6.8/10
The sensitive swordsman Cho Yi-Hang is tired of his life. He is the unwilling successor to the Wu-Tang clan throne and the unsure commander of the clan's forces in a war against foreign tribes and an evil cult. One day, he meets the beautiful Lien, a killer for the evil cult who is equally unsatisfied with her situation, but their love angers both the Wu-Tang clan and the evil cult.

Tri-Star

Tri-Star
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/02/1996
  • Character: Father Zhong Guo Qiang
A new Year's comedy about a romance between priest Leslie Cheung and prostitute Anita Yeun.

Once a Thief

Once a Thief
6.7/10
Three art thieves try to re-steal a painting after their crime boss double-crosses them.

All's Well, Ends Well

All's Well, Ends Well
7.2/10
A romantic Chinese New Year comedy about the three Shang brothers. Eldest brother Shang Moon is a philandering businessman who treats his hideous yet hard-working wife like dirt. Middle brother Shang Foon is a disc jockey/playboy who tries to score with as many girls as possible. Youngest brother Shang So is an obviously gay dance instructor. Moon soon gets the tables turned on him as his wife leaves to become a glamorous karaoke hostess, and Foon gets into a bizarre relationship with a fan so obsessed with movies that she constantly acts out characters on dates, until he suddenly becomes temporarily mentally ill. And So is continually at odds with obvious butch lesbian family cousin. Hilarity ensues.

Rouge

Rouge
7.3/10
The ghost of a courtesan who died in 1934 returns to Hong Kong fifty-three years later, seeking to reunite with the man she loved.

The Chinese Feast

The Chinese Feast
6.7/10
Former member of a triad, Sun seeks to emigrate to Canada. He decides to become a great chef of chinese cooking and follows the teaching master Au.

The Banquet

The Banquet
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/11/1991
  • Character: Himself/Little B-head
Developer Tsang Siu-Chi (Eric Tsang) and his agent (Jacky Cheung) have bought two of a group of four properties. Rival developer, Boss Hung (Sammo Hung) has secured the other two properties. Both aim to buy all four so they can knock them down and build hotels.

Erotic Dream of the Red Chamber

Erotic Dream of the Red Chamber
4.9/10
  • Release: 19/01/1978
  • Character: Jia Baoyu
An original piece of Asian erotica comparable to the Euro softcore classics, Story of O, Emanuelle, and The Fruit is Ripe. Based on a Cantonese opera, this lavish production from the Shaw Brothers tells the story of 15 year old Pao-Yu and his preoccupation with bedding beautiful women.

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