HKFAs Top 100 Chinese Motion Pictures

In 2005, the Hong Kong Film Awards unveiled a list of the Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures (which, in fact, includes 103 films) to celebrate a century of Chinese cinema. The list was selected by a panel of 101 filmmakers, critics and scholars. You can see the list and regional breakdown below.

Mainland China: 24 films
Hong Kong: 61 films
Taiwan: 16 films
Co-productions: 2

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1. Spring in a Small Town

Chinese Movie - 1948
2. A Better Tomorrow

Hong Kong Movie - 1986
3. Days of Being Wild

Hong Kong Movie - 1990
4. Yellow Earth

Chinese Movie - 1984
5. A City of Sadness

Taiwanese Movie - 1989
6. Long Arm of the Law

Hong Kong Movie - 1984
7. Dragon Gate Inn

Taiwanese Movie - 1967
8. Boat People

Hong Kong Movie - 1982
9. A Touch of Zen

Taiwanese Movie - 1971
10. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Chinese Movie - 2000
11. Street Angel

Chinese Movie - 1937
12. A Brighter Summer Day

Taiwanese Movie - 1991
13. The Private Eyes

Hong Kong Movie - 1976
14. The Mission

Hong Kong Movie - 1999
15. One-Armed Swordsman

Hong Kong Movie - 1967
16. Fist of Fury

Hong Kong Movie - 1972
17. In the Heat of the Sun

Chinese Movie - 1994
18. In the Face of Demolition

Hong Kong Movie - 1953
19. A Chinese Odyssey: Pandora's Box

Hong Kong Movie - 1995
20. Rouge

Hong Kong Movie - 1988
21. Chungking Express

Hong Kong Movie - 1994
22. Homecoming

Hong Kong Movie - 1984
23. The Time to Live and the Time to Die

Taiwanese Movie - 1985
24. Red Sorghum

Chinese Movie - 1987
25. Father and Son

Hong Kong Movie - 1981
26. The Spring River Flows East

Chinese Movie - 1947
27. Comrades: Almost a Love Story

Hong Kong Movie - 1996
28. The Goddess

Chinese Movie - 1934
29. The Big Road

Chinese Movie - 1935
30. Infernal Affairs

Hong Kong Movie - 2002
31. Drunken Master

Hong Kong Movie - 1978
32. The Butterfly Murders

Hong Kong Movie - 1979
33. Ashes of Time

Hong Kong Movie - 1994
34. Made in Hong Kong

Hong Kong Movie - 1997
35. Sorrows of the Forbidden City

Chinese Movie - 1948
36. The Love Eterne

Hong Kong Movie - 1963
37. Story of a Discharged Prisoner

Hong Kong Movie - 1967
38. Zu Warriors

Hong Kong Movie - 2001
39. The Terrorizers

Taiwanese Movie - 1986
40. The Killer

Hong Kong Movie - 1989
41. Once upon a Time in China

Hong Kong Movie - 1991
42. Center Stage

Hong Kong Movie - 1991
43. The Story of Qiu Ju

Chinese Movie - 1992
44. The Kingdom and the Beauty

Hong Kong Movie - 1959
45. The Winter

Taiwanese Movie - 1969
46. An Autumn’s Tale

Hong Kong Movie - 1987
47. A Chinese Ghost Story 1

Hong Kong Movie - 1987
48. The Purple Hairpin

Hong Kong Movie - 1959
49. The Orphan

Hong Kong Movie - 1960
50. Stage Sisters

Chinese Movie - 1965
51. City on Fire

Hong Kong Movie - 1987
52. Farewell My Concubine

Chinese Movie - 1993
53. The Arch

Hong Kong Movie - 1968
54. Yi Yi

Taiwanese Movie - 2000
55. Cold Nights

Hong Kong Movie - 1955
56. At Dawn

Taiwanese Movie - 1968
57. Raining in the Mountain

Hong Kong Movie - 1979
58. Police Story

Hong Kong Movie - 1985
59. C'est La Vie, Mon Cheri

Hong Kong Movie - 1994
60. The Wedding Banquet

Taiwanese Movie - 1993
61. Platform

Chinese Movie - 2000
62. The Wild, Wild Rose

Hong Kong Movie - 1960
63. The Great Devotion

Hong Kong Movie - 1960
64. My Intimate Partner

Hong Kong Movie - 1960
65. Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind

Hong Kong Movie - 1980
66. Ah Ying

Hong Kong Movie - 1983
67. Durian Durian

Hong Kong Movie - 2000
68. Little Toys

Chinese Movie - 1933
69. Sorrows and Joys of a Middle-Aged Man

Chinese Movie - 1949
70. The House of 72 Tenants

Hong Kong Movie - 1973
71. Nomad

Hong Kong Movie - 1982
72. Dust in the Wind

Taiwanese Movie - 1986
73. 92 Legendary La Rose Noire

Hong Kong Movie - 1992
74. Shaolin Soccer

Hong Kong Movie - 2001
75. Song at Midnight

Chinese Movie - 1937
76. China Behind

Hong Kong Movie - 1974
77. The Spooky Bunch

Hong Kong Movie - 1980
78. Taipei Story

Taiwanese Movie - 1985
79. The Secret

Hong Kong Movie - 1979
80. The Blue Kite

Chinese Movie - 1993
81. Mambo Girl

Hong Kong Movie - 1957
82. Feast of a Rich Family

Hong Kong Movie - 1959
83. Execution in Autumn

Taiwanese Movie - 1972
84. Hibiscus Town

Chinese Movie - 1987
85. God of Gamblers

Hong Kong Movie - 1989
86. As Tears Go By

Hong Kong Movie - 1988
87. This Life of Mine

Chinese Movie - 1950
88. Happy Together

Hong Kong Movie - 1997
89. In the Mood for Love

Hong Kong Movie - 2000
90. Myriad of Lights

Chinese Movie - 1959
91. Festival Moon

Hong Kong Movie - 1953
92. Parents' Hearts

Hong Kong Movie - 1955
93. Lin Zexu

Chinese Movie - 1959
94. Dream of the Red Chamber

Hong Kong Movie - 1962
95. Health Warning

Hong Kong Movie - 1983
96. Shanghai Blues

Hong Kong Movie - 1984
97. The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter

Hong Kong Movie - 1984
98. The Black Cannon Incident

Chinese Movie - 1985
99. Rebels of the Neon God

Taiwanese Movie - 1992
100. The Puppetmaster

Taiwanese Movie - 1993

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