# Hong Kong film classics you must see

From the 80s and 90s golden age to A Simple Life: essential Hong Kong films, based on the Hong Kong Film Critics Society's top ten, my-best critics' picks and the Hong Kong Film Awards winners.

- 10 votes · 14 items
- Jun 6, 2021 · respawn_hk
- https://even.best/en/l/4199/hong-kong-film-classics-you-must-see

## Top 10

1. **Infernal Affairs (2002)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Moles planted by the police and the triad in each other's ranks.
2. **A Better Tomorrow (1986)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — John Woo's heroic bloodshed, with Chow Yun-fat as Mark.
3. **Chungking Express (1994)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Two lovelorn cops, by Wong Kar-wai.
4. **A Simple Life (2011)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The last years of a maid who served one family for sixty years.
5. **The Killer (1989)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — A hitman and a cop who come to respect each other.
6. **A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A scholar and the ghost Nie Xiaoqian.
7. **Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Ten years of love between two mainland migrants in Hong Kong.
8. **An Autumn's Tale (1987)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A rough-edged guy and a young woman in New York's Chinatown.
9. **Ip Man (2008)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Wing Chun master Ip Man, starring Donnie Yen.
10. **God of Gamblers (1989)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Chow Yun-fat as the God of Gamblers.
11. **Happy Together (1997)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A couple adrift in Buenos Aires, by Wong Kar-wai.
12. **All's Well, Ends Well (1992)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The classic Lunar New Year comedy.
13. **C'est la vie, mon chéri (1993)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A musician and a sick young woman.
14. **Rouge (1987)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — A 1930s courtesan's ghost searches for her lover in the 1980s.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.