Rewatched (2022)

Set in World War II, Casino Tycoon chronicles the story of Benny, a young graduate played by Andy Lau, who flees Hong-Kong during the Japanese invasion and heads for gambling haven Macau. Once in Macau, he impresses a local business man who has ties to organised crime, he slowly builds his way up in the ranks of the Macau underworld which ultimately leads to trouble.

Sex and Zen II follows the lustful progress of a wealthy Squire Sai Moon Kin (Elvis Tsui) who has one obsession: which is to bed more women than any other man in history. However, although he is proud of his own sexual prowess, he is extremely strict with his own daughter (Loletta Lee). When she is sent away to study, he has her disguised as a man and fitted with a special chastity device to protect her from men like himself. However, gender was not something that could be interchangeable. For example, she was unable to participate in the school's informal 'swordplay' contest, where male students really got to test each others' manhood and 'shoot their shot' so to speak.

Valentino is a mediocre con artist who crosses paths with Kwan, a fellow con artist. Together, they impersonate various people and create numerous schemes to make money. Meanwhile, gangsters are making a scheme of their own.

A police officer is brought out of suspended animation in prison to pursue an old ultra-violent nemesis who is loose in a non-violent future society.

Travelling to Russian battlefields and using original telegrams and official documents, David Reynolds reassesses Stalin's role in the struggle between Germany and Russia in WWII.

This film focuses on the disciple of the God of Gamblers, Zhou Sing Tso, also known as the "Saint of Gamblers". A group of people with telekinetic powers matching his attack him and his uncle, accidentally sending him to the year 1937, in Shanghai. This is a year crucial in Sing's family history, and he must use his powers to play a part that has irrevocable effects on his present and future while trying to find a way back to home, the year 1991.

Winston Smith (John Hurt), a bureaucratic flunky living in the sterile totalitarian state of Oceania, breaks the law by daring to fall in love with Ministry of Truth worker Julia (Suzanna Hamilton). Attempting to escape, Winston and Julia are tracked down by the Thought Police. Both must be "re-educated" into loving the State -- and by extension, the shadowy dictator Big Brother.

Taeko and Mokichi Satake are a childless married couple living in Tokyo. Their rocky relationship is strained by the wife’s urban sophistication bumping up against the husband’s small-town simplicity. However, their angst is disrupted by their headstrong, modern niece – who’s using her unhappy aunt and uncle as an excuse to keep her from being bound to married life. Another delicate domestic tale from Yasujiro Ozu, The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice delves into post-war domesticity with wry, tender humour and a sensitive heart.

Controversal spoof of current affairs television, and the role of celebrity in the UK. A series of six episodes aired on Channel 4 in 1997, and a further episode in 2001. The series was created and presented by Chris Morris, written by Morris, David Quantick, Peter Baynham, Jane Bussmann, Arthur Mathews, Graham Linehan and Charlie Brooker and directed by Michael Cumming.

In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia (Krystyna Janda) decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends. The next morning, she awakes to find that, for reasons unknown to her, she has been jailed as a political prisoner. As prison officials interrogate, torture and humiliate her, she fights for survival and to maintain her innocence by refusing to sign a false confession. As her years of imprisonment pass, her relationship with her captors grows more complicated.

Renowned Russian poet, Andrei Gorkachov, and his translator embark on a journey to find out more about the life of Russian composer Pavel Sosnovsky. Along the way, they try to understand the composer's mysterious ways.

In the last days of the Shogunate, a resourceful grifter seeks to outwit competing prostitutes, rebellious samurai and other inhabitants of a brothel in order to survive the hardened times.

Smooth-talking advertising executive Nick Marshall's life changes when an accident gives him the ability to hear what women are thinking.

A dissenting juror in a murder trial slowly manages to convince the others that the case is not as obviously clear as it seemed in court.

Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils is a 1982 Hong Kong's TVB television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils. The 50-episode-long series is divided into two parts, with their Chinese titles as 天龍八部之六脈神劍 for 30 episodes and 天龍八部之虛竹傳奇 for 20 episodes respectively.

Thriller based on a true story, starring Ann Dowd and Dreama Walker. A man claiming to be a police officer calls a diner and asks the manager to assist in detaining a female employee who is accused of theft. But his instructions on how to deal with the suspect become increasingly heavy-handed.

The Legend of the Condor Heroes is a Hong Kong wuxia television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel of the same title. It was first broadcast on TVB Jade in Hong Kong in 1983. The 59 episodes long series is divided into three parts. This 1983 version is considered by many to be a classic television adaptation of the novel and features the breakthrough role of Barbara Yung, who played Huang Rong.

The series became the highest rated series of that year with a high rating of 99%, The series averaged a rating of 71 points, and has become the most watched series in Hong Kong history so far.

The Return of the Condor Heroes is a Hong Kong wuxia television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel of the same title, produced by TVB and starring Andy Lau and Idy Chan. It was first broadcast on TVB Jade from 31 October 1983 to 6 January 1984 in Hong Kong. A total of 50 episodes were produced. The series averaged a rating of 62 points. It became the second most watched series in Hong Kong history. The serial was re-aired in 1988, 1990, 1997, 2013, and 2018 on TVB Jade.

Louis Cha stated that of all his works, this adaptation satisfied him the most.

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Romanian: 4 luni, 3 săptămâni și 2 zile) is a 2007 Romanian art film with drama and thriller elements, written and directed by Cristian Mungiu and starring Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, and Vlad Ivanov. The film is set in Communist Romania in the final years of the Nicolae Ceaușescu era. It tells the story of two students, roommates in a university dormitory, who try to procure an illegal abortion. Inspired by an anecdote from the period and the general social historic context, it depicts the loyalty of the two friends and the struggles they face.

Romanian Communist Party General Secretary Nicolae Ceaușescu enacted the abortion law Decree 770 in 1966 in order to increase the birth rates in the country. The law was not based on any religious opposition to abortion, but on the government's authority and control over its citizens.

During the years of Decree 770, the only available abortion methods, all illegal, could prove fatal to women, causing thousands of deaths. According to Mungiu's notes he shared with the press, the death toll was 500,000. Gradea cited a conservative 10,000 estimate.

Prison on Fire is a 1987 Hong Kong prison film directed by Ringo Lam and starring Chow Yun-fat and Tony Leung Ka-fai. Yiu (Tony Leung Ka Fai) is a young advertising executive in Hong Kong. One night, defending his father from attack, he accidentally shoves a street thug in front of a bus. Sentenced to three years in prison, Yiu is "fresh meat" for the hardened criminals and triad stooges, and is preyed upon by sadistic guard Scarface (Roy Cheung). Adapting to this new world, where mayhem and danger lurk around every corner, is no simple task for the newcomer. Fortunately, his acquaintance with the experienced inmate, Ah Jing (Chow Yun Fat), makes the path a lot easier for him. As a result, the two of them become companions in adversity inside a system where violence and cruelty are not only condoned but celebrated.

Presumed Innocent is a 1990 film, based on the 1987 novel of the same name by Scott Turow, about an assistant district attorney who is asked to lead the investigation into the murder of a colleague with which he had an affair. When he digs too deeply he finds himself framed for the murder.

Michael, Vito Corleone's son, attempts to expand his family's criminal empire. While he strikes a business deal with gangster Hyman Roth, he remains unaware of the lurking danger.

A hustler (Andy Lau) and his girlfriend (Joey Wang) try to take advantage of a legendary gambler (Chow Yun Fat) suffering from memory loss.

In a dystopic and crime-infested Detroit, a terminally injured policeman returns to the force as a potent cyborg haunted by submerged memories.

The Feud of Two Brothers is a 1986 TV drama series produced by Hong Kong Television Broadcasting Co Ltd., starring Alex Man and Carol Cheng, and co-starring Carina Lau, Lawrence Ng and Kathy Chow. The Singaporean media once selected it as among the top ten classic Chinese TV dramas in the 20th century out of its list of a hundred.

Alex Man caused a sensation in the Asian world with his superb acting skills in the show, and successfully broke through the stalemate of the sluggish ratings of many TVB TV productions at that time, thus establishing his status as the leading heavyweight actor of TVB from the late 1980s to the early 1990s.

Having served thirteen years in jail for slaying a family in cold blood, prisoner Tse Man Mo (Adam Cheng) is finally proved innocent and released. With his freedom back, Mo comes face to face with the hard facts of life: his wife Cindy (Chan Sau Chu) is married to the inspector who framed him into prison; his daughter Tse Hoi Sum (Lee Lai Yui) has become a juvenile delinquent; and his son Tse Ping On (Roger Kwok) has become an outcast. And his greatest enemy, Luk Gwok Wing (Kenneth Tsang), the real murderer, has become an influential businessman. Mo swears to make Wing pay, but Wing is quicker to make his defense. He sends his men to rape Mo’s girlfriend, Chan Yuk Ying (Eugina Lau). Mo is thus more determined to make Wing suffer…

The Final Verdict was a welcome nugget of gold for TVB, who needed a hit during a time when the station had been mired in a sea of mediocrity since 1986. There was plenty of dramatic tension involved, and featured career-defining performances from Adam Cheng, Kenneth Tsang and Kwok Fung. It later became the highest-rated show for the tv channel in 1988.

"I drink too much, I smoke too much, I gamble too much. I am too much." So says criminal psychologist Eddie `Fitz' Fitzgerald (Robbie Coltrane), but in his self-analysis he left out "brilliant" and "cagey," two qualities he uses to aid the police in Manchester, England, profile and catch killers. His cerebral approach is supported by DS Jane Penhaligon (Geraldine Somerville), who also happens to be Fitz's love interest, and clashes with the old-style aggressive policing of DS Jimmy Beck (Lorcan Cranitch).

Ranma ½ is a 1989 anime adaptation of the popular Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi.

The story revolves around a very happy, playful and fun-loving 16-year-old boy named Ranma Saotome who was trained from early childhood in martial arts. As a result of an accident during a training journey, he is cursed to become a girl when splashed with cold water, but hot water will change him back into a boy.

Ranma ½ had a comedic formula and a gender-swapping main character, who often willfully changes into a girl to advance his goals. Other characters, howwever, who have acquired this unique ability to shapeshift tend to exploit it for otherwise nefarious ends.

The thought of human invisibility has intrigued man for centuries. Highly gifted scientist Sebastian Caine develops a serum that induces complete invisibility. His remarkable transformation results in unimaginable power that seems to suffocate his sense of morality and leads to a furious and frightening conclusion.

After pulling a bank heist in Mexico, the outlaw Rio (Marlon Brando) and his partner, Dad Longworth (Karl Malden), make a run for it, but Dad has bigger plans than freedom. He betrays Rio and absconds with the loot, and Rio ends up in prison. Years pass before Rio finally breaks free to enact his long-plotted revenge. Tracking Dad to California, Rio learns he's become a sheriff -- which is no deterrent -- but when Rio falls for Dad's stepdaughter, Louisa (Pina Pellicer), he has second thoughts.

Let two devil-may-care Frenchmen take you gently by the hand and lead you into a surreal alternative world of weird wonders, celebrity interviews, sexy supermodels – and more smut than you can shake a stick at! Hosted by everyone's favourite Gallic charmers, Antoine de Caunes and Jean-Paul Gaultier, Eurotrash reigned supreme for over a decade and still sends a shiver down the spines of prudes and people of a nervous disposition to this day!

The show celebrates the bold, the brazen and the gloriously gratuitous. Often featuring people in spaces where they are free to explore their inner kinks and fetishes, whilst also acknowledging that such delusions and fantasies are to be kept in check and not spilled out to cause trouble in the real world.

Planet of the Apes is a 1968 American science fiction film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and loosely based on the 1963 French novel La Planète des Singes by Pierre Boulle. Written by Michael Wilson and Rod Serling, it stars Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, James Daly and Linda Harrison. In the film, an astronaut crew crash-lands on a strange planet in the distant future. Although the planet appears desolate at first, the surviving crew members stumble upon a society in which apes have evolved into creatures with human-like intelligence and speech. The apes have assumed the role of the dominant species and humans are mute creatures wearing animal skins.

Nuns on the Run is a 1990 British comedy film starring Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane, also featuring Camille Coduri and Janet Suzman. The film was written and directed by Jonathan Lynn and produced by HandMade Films. Idle and Coltrane play small-time crooks who must hide in a convent to escape from the police and a mob of gangsters.

A Jewish father and his family are surrounded by Nazi death camps. Living in a hostile environment, he uses humour to shield his young son from the grim realities of the war.