The best Maggie Cheung’s action movies

Maggie Cheung

Maggie Cheung

20/09/1964 (59 años)
Maggie Cheung Man yuk (born 20 September 1964) is a Hong Kong actress. Raised in England and Hong Kong, she has over 70 films to her credit since starting her career in 1983. Some of her most commercially successful work was in the action genre, but Cheung once said in an interview that of all the work she has done, the films that really meant something to her are Song of the Exile, Center Stage, Comrades: Almost a Love Story and In the Mood for Love. As Emily Wang in Clean, her last starring role to date, she became the first Asian actress to win a prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Cheung's native language is Cantonese, but she is multilingual, having learned to speak English, Mandarin and French.
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Police Story 2

Police Story 2
7.1/10
The Hong Kong super-cop must stop a group of blackmailing bombers at the same time that the villains of the first Police Story are out for revenge.

Police Story 3: Super Cop

Police Story 3: Super Cop
6.9/10
A Hong Kong detective teams up with his female Red Chinese counterpart to stop a Chinese drug czar.

Police Story

Police Story
7.5/10
Officer Chan Ka Kui manages to put a major Hong Kong drug dealer behind the bars practically alone, after a shooting and an impressive chase inside a slum. Now, he must protect the boss' secretary, Selina, who will testify against the gangster in court.

Hero

Hero
7.9/10
One man defeated three assassins who sought to murder the most powerful warlord in pre-unified China.

Project A: Part II

Project A: Part II
7/10
Dragon is now transferred to be the police head of Sai Wan district, and has to contend with a gangster kingpin, anti-Manchu revolutionaries, some runaway pirates, Manchu Loyalists and a corrupt police superintendent.

Ashes of Time

Ashes of Time
7/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 17/09/1994
  • Character: Feng's Sister-in-Law
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.

Twin Dragons

Twin Dragons
6.4/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 15/01/1992
  • Character: Barbara
Twins, separated at birth, end up as a Hong Kong gangster and a New York concert pianist. When the pianist travels to Hong Kong for a concert, the two inevitably get mistaken for each other.

Green Snake

Green Snake
7.2/10
A mischievous snake who assumes human form interferes with the romance between her reptilian sister and a hapless man.

The Heroic Trio

The Heroic Trio
6.5/10
Tung and Ching were both adopted by the same master. But later Ching was abducted by the eunuch-Chan. Ching grew up and became scientist Li's assistant and Tung married officer Lau. Chat had escaped from Chan at 15 and became a thief-catcher. During Chan's intrigue the trio united to become "The heroines of the East".

The Seventh Curse

The Seventh Curse
6.7/10
A young heroic cop in the jungle of Thailand attempts to rescue a beautiful girl from being sacrificed to the "Worm Tribe" she belongs to. As a result, the cop is damned with seven "Blood Curses" which burst through his leg periodically. When the seventh bursts, he will die, but Betsy, the beauty he saved stops the curse with an antidote that lasts only one year, so on the advice of Wisely (Chow yun Fat) he heads back to Thailand to find a permanent cure. Action ensues as the cop and cohorts battle the evil sorcerer of the Worm Tribe, a hideous bloodthirsty baby like creature and "Old Ancestor," a skeleton with glowing blue eyes that transforms into a monster that is a cross between Rodan and Alien.

Holy Weapon

Holy Weapon
5.8/10
  • Genre: ActionFantasy
  • Release: 03/06/1993
  • Character: Princess Tin Heung
During the Ming dynasty, Mo Kake takes an invincibility drink to defeat the best Japanese warrior, Super Sword. Three years later, the samurai returns, determined to take the power of 7 Maidens to defeat Mo Kake.

The Eagle Shooting Heroes

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

New Dragon Gate Inn

New Dragon Gate Inn
7.2/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 01/01/1992
  • Character: Jade
During the Ming Dynasty, Tsao Siu-yan, a power-crazed eunuch who rules his desert region of China as if he were the Emperor, ruthlessly thwarts plots against him and sets a trap for one of his enemies at the Dragon Gate Inn.

The Mad Monk

The Mad Monk
6.2/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 29/07/1993
  • Character: Nine Lives Whore
Stephen Chow plays an angel-type being in this movie, in where he bets the other people in Heaven that he can change the ways of 3 misguided souls and make them better people. Ressurected as a monk, he must stop a prostitute, a beggar, and an all around bad guy from being what they are (and have been for generations). To add to all of this, he must do this in 3 Heaven days!!!

The Iceman Cometh

The Iceman Cometh
6.6/10
During the Ming dynasty, Yuen Biao is a royal guard charged to capture a dangerous criminal. The battle which opposes them will make them fall into ice. Three centuries later, nowdays, the archaeologists give them again the life. Only a black jade Buddha and a temporal wheel would be able to make them return in their time. The battle would start again.

Moon Warriors

Moon Warriors
6.4/10
A kind-hearted fisherman, content with simple life, is reluctantly drawn into helping a noble emperor regain his throne from his evil brother.

Executioners

Executioners
5.8/10
Set some time after the The Heroic Trio (1993) the city has been devastated by nuclear attack. An evil deformed villain controls the city's scarce water supply, exerting influence over both a popular leader and a militarist colonel. The trio of Chat the Thief catcher, Ching and Wonder Woman (along with her young daughter) have to avert a military takeover and find clean headwaters to save the city.

The Dragon from Russia

The Dragon from Russia
5.5/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 03/08/1990
  • Character: May Yip
A former member of a band of criminals known as the 'Eight-Hundred Dragons' is living in fear in Manchuria as the clan does not allow people to leave alive. However, he is eventually tracked down, and kidnapped along with a young Manchurian, Yao - whose memory is erased so that he can be trained in martial arts. Yao's work as an assassin becomes more complicated, however, when he sees his old lover again and his real memories come flooding back.

Paper Marriage

Paper Marriage
6.2/10
An illegal immigrant in Hong Kong, unable to get a Green Card, is subjected to humiliation, and does odd things to survive - like taking part in a mud wrestling match.

The Bare-Footed Kid

The Bare-Footed Kid
6.4/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 03/04/1993
  • Character: Miss Ho
A poor barefoot young man from the country arrives in the city to start work with the friend of his dead father.

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