John Woo — Director (42)
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All the Invisible Children (2005)
Les enfants invisibles TMDB
Mehdi Charef / Emir Kusturica … actor: Adama Bila / Elysée Rouamba …
other title: Les enfants invisibles / Alle Kinder dieser Welt …
Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist.
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Silent Night (2023)
Silent Night
John Woo actor: Joel Kinnaman / Kid Cudi …
other title: Silent Night - Il silenzio della vendetta / Silent Night: Vingança Silenciosa …
A tormented father witnesses his young son die when caught in a gang's crossfire on Christmas Eve. While recovering from a wound that costs him his voice, he makes vengeance his life's mission and embarks on a punishing training regimen in order to avenge his son's death.
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The Young Dragons (1975)
鐵漢柔情
John Woo actor: 冯克安 / 刘江 …
other title: 铁汉柔情 / 鐵漢柔情 …
Powerful mobster Leung, protected by the dangerous Huan Fai, sells 200 Japanese weapons and ammo to a Chinese gang. He uses smuggler Luy Fu to bring the weapons but small-time thief Kim and his gang heist the shipment and dump the cargo into the sea. Meanwhile, Kim befriends Fan Ming, an undercover police office from Shanghai investigating Leung's crimes.
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The Dragon Tamers (1975)
女子跆拳群英會
John Woo actor: James Tien Chun / Carter Huang Chia-Ta …
other title: Le Maître de Taekwondo / 女子跆拳群英會
Carter Wong plays a young chinese martial arts student who travels to Korea to learn Taekwondo. Soon he comes up against a vicious gang who want all the local martial arts schools to join their evil association. But before he can defeat the bad guys, he has to learn to master his own strong desire to fight.
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Princess Chang Ping (1976)
帝女花
John Woo actor: 龙剑笙 / 梅雪诗 …
other title: 帝女花 / Princesse Chang Ping …
A beautiful Cantonese opera about the forbidden love between a princess and a scholar. The backdrop is Ming dynasty China and the two would rather die than be apart.
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Red Cliff (2008)
赤壁
★ 5.9 7 ratings
John Woo actor: Song Jia / Hu Jun …
other title: La battaglia dei tre regni - Parte 1 / The Battle Of Red Cliff …
In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was to declare war on the kingdoms of Xu in the west and East Wu in the south. Thus began a military campaign of unprecedented scale. Left with no other hope for survival, the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu formed an unlikely alliance.
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The Killer (1989)
喋血雙雄
★ 8.5 13 ratings
John Woo actor: Chow Yun-Fat / Danny Lee Sau-Yin …
other title: O Assassino / The Killer (El asesino) …
Mob assassin Jeffrey is no ordinary hired gun; the best in his business, he views his chosen profession as a calling rather than simply a job. So, when beautiful nightclub chanteuse Jennie is blinded in the crossfire of his most recent hit, Jeffrey chooses to retire after one last job to pay for his unintended victim's sight-restoring operation. But when Jeffrey is double-crossed, he reluctantly joins forces with a rogue policeman to make things right.
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Hard Boiled (1992)
辣手神探
★ 7.8 13 ratings
John Woo actor: Chow Yun-Fat / Tony Leung Chiu-wai …
other title: Fervura Máxima / À toute épreuve …
A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who's working as a gangster hitman. They use all means of excessive force to find them.
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Paycheck (2003)
Paycheck
John Woo actor: Ben Affleck / Uma Thurman …
other title: Pago para Esquecer / Paycheck - Die Abrechnung …
Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he's told he isn't getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious envelope. In it are clues he must piece together to find out why he wasn't paid – and why he's now in hot water.
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Broken Arrow (1996)
Broken Arrow
John Woo actor: John Travolta / Christian Slater …
other title: Nome in codice: Broken Arrow / Operação Flecha Quebrada …
When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads — and Deakins's co-pilot, Riley Hale, is the military's only hope for getting them back. Traversing the deserted canyons of Utah, Hale teams with park ranger Terry Carmichael to put Deakins back in his box.
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Mission: Impossible II (2000)
Mission: Impossible II
★ 5.9 16 ratings
John Woo actor: Tom Cruise / Dougray Scott …
other title: Mission: Impossible 2 / Missão - Impossível 2 …
With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former IMF agent from unleashing a genetically engineered biological weapon called Chimera. This mission, should Hunt choose to accept it, plunges him into the center of an international crisis of terrifying magnitude.
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Face/Off (1997)
Face/Off
★ 7.2 16 ratings
John Woo actor: John Travolta / Nicolas Cage …
other title: Face/Off - Due facce di un assassino / A Outra Face …
In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns sour when the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge.