The best Stephen Chow’s action movies

Stephen Chow

Stephen Chow

22/06/1962 (61 años)
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Stephen Chow’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 Stephen Chow.
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Shaolin Soccer

Shaolin Soccer
7.3/10
A young Shaolin follower reunites with his discouraged brothers to form a soccer team using their martial art skills to their advantage.

Kung Fu Hustle

Kung Fu Hustle
7.7/10
It's the 1940s, and the notorious Axe Gang terrorizes Shanghai. Small-time criminals Sing and Bone hope to join, but they only manage to make lots of very dangerous enemies. Fortunately for them, kung fu masters and hidden strength can be found in unlikely places. Now they just have to take on the entire Axe Gang.

Gorgeous

Gorgeous
6/10
When Ah Bu, a girl from a small fishing town in Taiwan, finds a glass bottle with a romantic message, she travels to Hong Kong to find her prince charming. As it turns out, her prince charming, Albert, happens to be gay. But all is not lost when Ah Bu meets the dashing Chi Wu. Meanwhile, Ah Bu's boyfriend from Taiwan comes looking for her, as the action and romance follow Ah Bu back to Taiwan.

Crazy Safari

Crazy Safari
5.4/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 05/07/1991
  • Character: Narrator (voice)
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".

Royal Tramp 2

Royal Tramp 2
7/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 24/09/1992
  • Character: Wei Siu Bo / Wilson Bond
Following on from the Royal Tramp I, after discovering that the Empress is actually Lone-er, a member of the St Dragon Sect, and that she imprisoned the real empress. Lone-er is bent on eliminating the person who disclosed her true identity, Wilson Bond. But more complications ensues when Lone-er is assigned to protect the Prince, whose servant is none other than Wilson Bond.

King of Beggars

King of Beggars
6.8/10
  • Genre: ActionComedyDrama
  • Release: 17/12/1992
  • Character: So Cha Ha Yee Chan / Tsan, So Hat Ngai
The illiterate General of Canton, General So, advocates a lazy, happy lifestyle of sex and money. His spoiled and also illiterate son, Chan (Stephen Chow), is his most faithful disciple. For the love of a woman, Chan attends the national exams for Martial Arts Scholar in Peking. Chan is victorious on the physical test, but before he is to be crowned, he is found to have cheated on the written exam. The Emperor sentences Chan to be a beggar. Initially Chan is unable cope with his new role, but with some mystic help, he takes on the position as King of the Beggars Association. Leading this motley crew into battle against an evil warlord in the Emperor's entourage, Chan rescues the Emperor, and gains respect for the beggars.

Justice, My Foot!

Justice, My Foot!
6.8/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 02/07/1992
  • Character: Sung Sai-Kit / Sung Shih-Chieh
An unscrupulous lawyer with an equally eccentric kung-fu sidekick wife tries to bring justice to the court.

From Beijing with Love

From Beijing with Love
7.1/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 13/10/1994
  • Character: Ling Ling Chai / Chat
After a giant dinosaur skull is stolen, the head of the Chinese secret police decides to assign the case to the force's most incompetent reject: a rural butcher who stands around all day drinking martinis (shaken, not stirred). With a trunkload of insanely useless gadgets and a contact who constantly tries to kill him, the young agent must locate the skull and find out just what is going on here.

Forbidden City Cop

Forbidden City Cop
6.9/10
Set in Imperial China, Stephen Chiau plays Ling Ling Fat, one of the elite Emperor's guards in the Forbidden City. However unlike his colleagues he doesn't know anything about Kung Fu or other martial-arts, but instead uses his time to make futuristic inventions. So when the emperor is kidnapped and the world most beautiful geisha comes to town Fat has to use his brain to get things done.

Fight Back to School 2

Fight Back to School 2
6.6/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 09/04/1992
  • Character: Chow Sing Sing
Star Chow (Stephen Chow) is an officer in the Royal Hong Kong Police's elite Special Duties Unit (SDU). During a meeting with his senior officer, Inspector Yip (Deanie Ip), Star jokingly suggests he wishes to be reassigned to the traffic unit. Star immediately finds himself demoted to Constable engaging in traffic duty on the streets of Hong Kong. After being made the scapegoat for a failed high school terrorist investigation, Star hastily resigns from the police. He decides to enroll at the high school to launch his own private investigation. But Star realises the investigation won't be easy when he discovers that the bumbling, incompetent CID detective Tat (Ng Man Tat) is also undercover at the high school.

God of Gamblers II

God of Gamblers II
6.8/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 13/12/1990
  • Character: Chow Sing Cho
Wong Jing's sequel to All for the Winner and spin-off to God of Gamblers finds Chow Sing Cho looking up to Michael "Dagger" Chan in order to become Ko Chun's next disciple, but the two must put aside their differences when they discover that a gang boss is bent on ruining the God of Gamblers' name.

Fight Back to School

Fight Back to School
7.1/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 18/07/1991
  • Character: Star Chow
Star Chow is about to be kicked out of the Royal Hong Kong Police's elite Special Duties Unit (SDU). But a senior officer decides to give him one last chance: Star must go undercover as a student at the Edinburgh High School in Hong Kong to recover the senior officer's missing revolver.

The Unmatchable Match

The Unmatchable Match
6.2/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 11/05/1990
  • Character: Cheung Lon / Cockroach
Chow is an undercover cop who must befriend former triad kingpin Chan Wai-Man to investigate a brutal diamond heist. It turns out that Chan is innocent of the theft, but not of the fencing of the stolen goods

God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai

God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai
6.6/10
After the events in God of Gamblers II, Tai-Kun who lost his ESP powers has regained the abilities again and seeks revenge against Sing, the Saint of Gamblers. When Tai-Kun, aided by his fellow disciples, exerts ESP powers under full force against Sing who is doing likewise to them, the spacetime becomes distorted and sends Tai-Kun and Sing to Shanghai in 1937. Meeting his own grandfather Chow Tai Fook and the benign millionaire Ding Lik, Sing must deal with Ding Lik's foes and the Japanese military forces, with his "mistaken" crush on one of a pair of twin sisters, find out who defeated the French "God of Gamblers", Pierre Cashon, in that era (the mysterious "Comment allez-vous"), and finally find out how to travel back to Hong Kong in 1991.

Dragon Fight

Dragon Fight
5.9/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 01/09/1989
  • Character: Andy Yau
Jimmy and Tiger are members of the Chinese national wushu team. The two are in Los Angeles to perform exhibitions. However, for Tiger, he plans to defect to L.A. to make a name for himself. When Jimmy learns of Tigers plan to defect, an attempt to stop him fails and Jimmy ends up missing his flight to China. Now a fish out of water, Jimmy's only hope is Andy, a wisecracking youngster in L.A. Meanwhile, Tiger works for a mafia boss. When Tiger loses a fortune in cocaine in a detergent box that Andy accidentally took, Andy and Jimmy soon have no choice but to face the wrath of Tiger and his men. Their only ally is Penny, the girlfriend of Tiger's boss. Two men who were once best friends have now become bitter enemies.

Love on Delivery

Love on Delivery
6.8/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 04/02/1994
  • Character: Ho Kam An
Ho Kam-An is a lovestruck dim sum delivery boy who falls for a beautiful judo student. After being humiliated by her boyfriend, Ho Kam-An seeks the services of an aging master who teaches him a half-assed style of kung fu, "Karate Kid"-style.

Curry and Pepper

Curry and Pepper
6.5/10
Two cops--both best friends and partners--both become the subject of a beautiful news reporter's documentary. The two soon find themselves competing for screen time as well as the love of the reporter while after a murderous arms dealer.

The Mad Monk

The Mad Monk
6.2/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 29/07/1993
  • Character: Dragon Fighter Lo Han
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!!!

All for the Winner

All for the Winner
6.8/10
Sing, a dumb, lovable mainlander with supernatural powers comes to China to visit his uncle Tat. When it's revealed that Sing can see through objects, Tat employs him as "The Saint of Gamblers," and proceeds to set him loose in the gambling world.

Fist of Fury 1991

Fist of Fury 1991
6.5/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 23/03/1991
  • Character: Lau Ching / Saint of Gamblers
Amusing homage to Bruce Lee's martial arts classic featuring a young Stephen Chow. The story is about Sing (Stephen Chow), a Mainlander who came to Hong Kong (doesn’t it sound familiar?) to find his cousin. He meets up with Siu (Kenny Bee) and hook up with various kung fu schools, in the hope of winning a $10 million dollar prize from a fighting competition.

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