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Andy Lau has 29 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by Infernal Affairs.
Recurring themes

The Awakener
2018
Thriller · Action

Anniyan
2005
Action · Drama

Race
2008
Drama · Action

SPL 2: A Time for Consequences
2015
Action · Crime

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
2016
Action · Thriller

Domino
2005
Action · Crime

Mesrine: Killer Instinct
2008
Drama · Action

14 Blades
2010
Drama · Action

Infernal Affairs
2002 · Movie · Actor
Top 5%Max · Included

The Wandering Earth II
2023 · Movie · Actor
Top 8%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

House of Flying Daggers
2004 · Movie · Actor
Top 10%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

A World Without Thieves
2004 · Movie · Actor
Top 14%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Shock Wave 2
2020 · Movie · Actor
Top 17%Prime Video · Included

Days of Being Wild
1990 · Movie · Actor
Top 20%Max · Included

Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their older counterparts, Chen Wing Yan and Inspector Lau Kin Ming, respectively, race against time to expose the mole within their midst.
Dir. Alan Mak Siu-Fai, Andrew Lau Wai-Keung · With Andy Lau, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang

Humans built huge engines on the surface of the earth to find a new home. But the road to the universe is perilous. In order to save earth, young people once again have to step forward to start a race against time for life and death.
Dir. Frant Gwo · With Wu Jing, Andy Lau, Li Xuejian

In 9th century China, a corrupt government wages war against a rebel army called the Flying Daggers. A romantic warrior breaks a beautiful rebel out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.
Dir. Zhang Yimou · With Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau, Zhang Ziyi

Ko Chun, a renowned gambler, loses his memory in an accident and starts behaving like a child. Little Knife, an amateur gambler, offers him shelter and realizes that he has a penchant for gambling.
Dir. Wong Jing · With Chow Yun-Fat, Andy Lau, Joey Wong
Office worker Truly Lin goes on a journey through her memories. 20 years ago, she had a crush on the most popular guy in school. Taiyu, a ruffian and a bully, is in love with the campus belle. Truly teams up with Taiyu to tear the golden couple apart and help each other to get the ones they love.
Dir. Frankie Chen · With Vivian Sung Yun-hua, Darren Wang, Dino Lee

A con-team couple head west after taking a city businessman for his BMW. But an encounter with a naive young carpenter traveling home with his life savings challenges their fate as thieves.
Dir. Feng Xiaogang · With Andy Lau, René Liu, Wang Baoqiang

After suffering life changing injuries in the line of duty, bomb disposal officer Fung turns his back on the police. But when a devastating series of bombings sweep Hong Kong, the police suspect their former ally may be involved after he is found unconscious at a crime scene. Now faced with memory loss and recalling only fragments of his former life, Fung sets out to uncover the truth and find out who he really is.
Dir. Herman Yau · With Andy Lau, Lau Ching-Wan, Ni Ni

Yuddy, a Hong Kong playboy known for breaking girls' hearts, tries to find solace and truth after discovering the woman who raised him isn't his mother.
Dir. Wong Kar-Wai · With Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau

After suffering a stroke, an altruistic maid announces that she wants to quit her job and move into an old people's home.
Dir. Ann Hui · With Andy Lau, Deanie Ip, Qin Hailu

An illegal immigrant from Mainland China sneaks into the corrupt British-colonized Hong Kong in 1963, transforming himself into a ruthless drug lord.
Dir. Wong Jing, Jason Kwan · With Donnie Yen, Andy Lau, Kent Cheng Jak-Si

China is plunged into strife as feuding warlords try to expand their power by warring over neighboring lands. Fuelled by his success on the battlefield, young and arrogant Hao Jie sneers at Shaolin's masters when he beats one of them in a duel. But the pride comes before a fall. When his own family is wiped out by a rival warlord, Hao is forced to take refuge with the monks. As the civil unrest spreads and the people suffer, Hao and the Shaolin masters are forced to take a fiery stand against the evil warlords. They launch a daring plan or rescue and escape.
Dir. Benny Chan · With Andy Lau, Nicholas Tse Ting-Fung, Fan Bingbing

Sing finds Michael "Dagger" Chan in order to become Ko Chun's next disciple, but the two must put aside their differences when they discover that a gang boss is bent on ruining the God of Gamblers' name.
Dir. Wong Jing · With Andy Lau, Stephen Chow, Charles Heung

The civil war in China has ruined many lives including General Pang's. A wounded General Pang is saved by a beautiful young woman along with two other men. Together they vow to eradicate the rebels.
Dir. Peter Chan Ho-Sun · With Jet Li, Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro

Police inspector and excellent hostage negotiator Ho Sheung-Sang finds himself in over his head when he is pulled into a 72 hour game by a cancer suffering criminal out for vengeance on Hong Kong's organized crime syndicates.
Dir. Johnnie To · With Lau Ching-Wan, Andy Lau, Yoyo Mung Ka-Wai

Professional assassin O has resided in an isolated world of killing and loneliness. But his life begins to change once he meets the innocent Chin; hired to clean O's apartment. However, soon the flamboyent and reckless Tok enters Chin's life with a mission to unveil O's identity and usurp his place as the number one sharp-shooting assassin in the game.
Dir. Johnnie To, Wai Ka-Fai · With Andy Lau, Takashi Sorimachi, Simon Yam

When a terrorist who specializes in explosives takes hold of an underground tunnel, he threatens to kill hostages if his demands are not met.
Dir. Herman Yau · With Andy Lau, Jiang Wu, Philip Keung Ho-Man

Five police officers in Hong Kong are kidnapped. The police commissioner is on a business trip overseas. Two vice commissioners, Sean Rau and M.B. Lee, then take over the case. The two vice commissioners are rivals who both vie for the police commissioner seat. At first, M.B. Lee takes the lead in the case, but comes to a dead end. Sean Lau then takes the lead, but he falls into a trap. Both men are then investigated by the ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption).
Dir. Sunny Luk Kim-Ching, Leung Lok-Man · With Aaron Kwok Fu-Shing, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Charlie Yeung Choi-Nei

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Prime Video · Included+4
When the future empress Wu Zetian's two courtiers die in a mysterious fire, she gets Di Renjie, a former detective and rebel, released from prison to solve the mystery of the fire.
Dir. Tsui Hark · With Andy Lau, Li Bingbing, Deng Chao

Triad gangster turned corrupt cop Lau Kin-ming goes to dangerous lengths to avoid detection.
Dir. Andrew Lau Wai-Keung, Alan Mak Siu-Fai · With Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Andy Lau, Leon Lai Ming

Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.
Dir. Wong Kar-Wai · With Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung, Jacky Cheung Hok-Yau

In 370 B.C, China was separated as seven nations and several other small tribes, one of these being the city state of Liang. The nation of Zhao is led by the terrifying Xiang Yangzhong who orders his troops to conquer the small city. Leaping to the defense of the people of Liang is 'Ge Li' from the Mo-Tsu tribe, their last hope from the terrors of Yangzhong's troops.
Dir. Jacob Cheung Chi-Leung · With Andy Lau, Ahn Sung-ki, Fan Bingbing

A special agent has for 8 years been deep undercover in Asia's lucrative organized crime trade as he plays protégé to one of the key players, Banker. Now, Nick has but he has started to feel loyalty to his new environment and to the money.
Dir. Derek Yee Tung-Sing · With Andy Lau, Daniel Wu, Louis Koo

Someone in a prison run by a corrupt warden fakes the deaths of convicts to later use them as expendable assassins. A police officer is sent into the prison to gather evidence of the corruption.
Dir. Kevin Chu · With Tony Leung Ka-fai, Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, Jackie Chan

A brilliant detective is forced into early retirement after losing eyesight. Making ends meet by solving cold cases for reward money, he teams up with a rookie lady inspector to solve a case from her personal past.
Dir. Johnnie To · With Andy Lau, Sammi Cheng Sau-Man, Guo Tao

The aging Zhao embarks on his final and greatest campaign, a road to adventure that will crown his name in glory for all time.
Dir. Daniel Lee · With Andy Lau, Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, Maggie Q

Hong Kong. When Cao Nan and his group of thieves rob an armored car in broad daylight, they don't hesitate to murder innocent people on the run. Lui Ming Chit, a veteran police inspector, is forced to use sinister tactics to catch them.
Dir. Alan Yuen Kam-Lun · With Andy Lau, Gordon Lam Ka-Tung, Yao Chen

Mr. Wu, a Hong Kong movie star, is kidnapped in Beijing by Zhang Hua's gang. The police quickly form a task force and begin the search, ignoring that detectives in charge have only twenty hours before the deadline.
Dir. Ding Sheng · With Andy Lau, Liu Ye, Wang Qianyuan
The world's top thieves join forces to pull off the heist of a lifetime. But when they find themselves pursued across Europe by a legendary French detective, they'll have to take their game to the next level.
Dir. Stephen Fung · With Andy Lau, Shu Qi, Zhang Jingchu

European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.
Dir. Zhang Yimou · With Matt Damon, Jing Tian, Willem Dafoe
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