Movies: Cora Miao

  • 1986
    Terrorizers

    Terrorizers (1986)

    Terrorizers

    7.41986HD

    An uncompromising look into urban life from the eyes of a voyeuristic photographer, a rebellious teenager, and a married couple teetering on the edge of adultery....

    Terrorizers
  • 1982
    Boat People

    Boat People (1982)

    Boat People

    7.61982HD

    A Japanese photojournalist revisits Vietnam after the liberation to document the nation, and begins following and documenting the young children from a poor Vietnamese family....

    Boat People
  • 1985
    Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart

    Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart (1985)

    Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart

    61985HD

    San Francisco's Richmond District. A widow welcomes the Chinese New Year. 62 years old, she wants to make a trip to China to pay last respects to her ancestors. A fortune teller has told her this is the year she'll die, and a daughter, Geraldine, rem...

    Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart
  • 1986
    Passion

    Passion (1986)

    Passion

    6.51986HD

    Sylvia and Cora Miao play two widowed mothers, best friends and confidants who spend their days reminiscing about times past. Over the course of a lazy weekend afternoon, the two women conjure memories of Cora's husband, his life, his death, and his ...

    Passion
  • 1989
    Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive

    Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive (1989)

    Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive

    5.11989HD

    A man is hired by a group of people he believes to be gangsters to escort a briefcase from America to Hong Kong. When he arrives, however, his contact is nowhere to be found. With no further instructions, he decides to take in the sights of Hong Kong...

    Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive
  • 1981
    The Story of Woo Viet

    The Story of Woo Viet (1981)

    The Story of Woo Viet

    6.31981HD

    Wu Viet is a Vietnamese refugee who wants to leave his country behind and start over in the United States. First, he must make his way to Hong Kong, but as he passes through Thailand, he meets a beautiful woman who travels with him. Wu and his new lo...

    The Story of Woo Viet
  • 1984
    Love in a Fallen City

    Love in a Fallen City (1984)

    Love in a Fallen City

    61984HD

    Taking place in 1941, Love in a Fallen City centers on Pai, a young woman who has been ostracized by her family for divorcing her rich husband. A local match-maker, Mrs. Hsu, takes pity on Pai and decides to bring her to Hong Kong, under the guise of...

    Love in a Fallen City
  • 1989
    Eat a Bowl of Tea

    Eat a Bowl of Tea (1989)

    Eat a Bowl of Tea

    5.71989HD

    An American-Chinese man brings over his wife from China to America, but the challenges of making a living and adjusting to a new life, plus the attentions of a gambler threaten their marriage....

    Eat a Bowl of Tea
  • 1985
    Women

    Women (1985)

    Women

    6.81985HD

    Liang Pao-erh joins the carefree Spinsters' Club when she discovers her husband is having an affair. Despite the seemingly happy front that her sisters put on, beneath it all, each of them secretly yearns for a man in her life....

    Women
  • 1979
    The Money Trip

    The Money Trip (1979)

    The Money Trip

    41979HD

    Money Trip is a Hong Kong Comedy starring Kent Cheng....

    The Money Trip
  • 1989
    Running Mate

    Running Mate (1989)

    Running Mate

    01989HD

    Running Mate is a Hong Kong Comedy directed by Stanley Ko Moon-Kai and starring Alex Man....

    Running Mate
  • 1988
    Dim Sum Take-Out

    Dim Sum Take-Out (1988)

    Dim Sum Take-Out

    6.51988HD

    Dim Sum Take-Out shows how the heterogeneity and complexity of Asian American experiences can be erased. It was literally cut together from film that was shot for Dim Sum, which was conceived as a film about the ways in which five women of the Chines...

    Dim Sum Take-Out
  • 1988
    The Other ½ & the Other ½

    The Other ½ & the Other ½ (1988)

    The Other ½ & the Other ½

    81988HD

    Clara Law's debut feature deals with her common theme of emigration as two people, man and woman, from separate couples, have to room together while their spouses are in America to finalize the Canadian citizenship process....

    The Other ½ & the Other ½
  • 1980
    Joy to the World

    Joy to the World (1980)

    Joy to the World

    61980HD

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    Joy to the World
  • 1990
    Goodbye Hero

    Goodbye Hero (1990)

    Goodbye Hero

    01990HD

    Frustration and recovery of a stunt man after his partner's accident....

    Goodbye Hero
  • 1978
    ICAC: Black and White

    ICAC: Black and White (1978)

    ICAC: Black and White

    01978HD

    The fifth episode of Ann Hui and Yim Ho’s “ICAC” Series (1978) around bribery and corruption...

    ICAC: Black and White
  • 1979
    Itchy Fingers

    Itchy Fingers (1979)

    Itchy Fingers

    6.31979HD

    Biggie (Roy Chiao) and Tiny (Richard Ng) grow up together. They fight all the time. Biggie is a detective and Tiny is a thief. Biggie has the satisfaction of catching Tiny and putting him behind bars. When Tiny is released, he is approached by Daigau...

    Itchy Fingers
  • 1990
    Dancing Bull

    Dancing Bull (1990)

    Dancing Bull

    01990HD

    In this story, a dancer with one of the more conservative Chinese troupes is increasingly frustrated with their stodgy repertoire, and she and her photographer boyfriend want to start a new, more innovative company. They go to the moneymen and eventu...

    Dancing Bull
  • 1988
    Carry on Dancing

    Carry on Dancing (1988)

    Carry on Dancing

    01988HD

    Cheung Sheung and Tze Ngor are twin sisters. Tze Ngor is a lunatic and stays in a mental hospital. But out of a madcap incident, Cheung Sheung is "cheated" into the hospital, exchanging identity with her insane sister. The mad house is lived by all k...

    Carry on Dancing
  • 1977
    Fortune Hunter's Plot

    Fortune Hunter's Plot (1977)

    Fortune Hunter's Plot

    01977HD

    When Fu suffers a heart attack, his relatives hover around him hoping to get a slice of his great wealth. But despite his illness, the old man clings stubbornly to life. So greedy family members plan to murder him, intending to make nurse Daisy a sca...

    Fortune Hunter's Plot