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John Woo has 18 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 6 rank in the Top 10%, led by The Killer.
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Hard Boiled
1992 · Movie · Actor · Director · Writer
Top 4%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Killer
1989 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 4%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Bullet in the Head
1990 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 6%Prime Video · Included

Face/Off
1997 · Movie · Director
Top 8%Paramount+ · Included

Red Cliff
2008 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 17%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Reign of Assassins
2010 · Movie · Director
Top 22%Tubi · Free w/ ads

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.
Dir. John Woo · With Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang

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.
Dir. John Woo · With Chow Yun-Fat, Danny Lee Sau-Yin, Sally Yip Sin-Man

Three childhood friends from the slums of Hong Kong flee to war-time Saigon after accidentally murdering a gang leader, but their troubles only escalate.
Dir. John Woo · With Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Jacky Cheung Hok-Yau, Waise Lee Chi-Hung

A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.
Dir. John Woo · With Ti Lung, Chow Yun-Fat, Leslie Cheung

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.
Dir. John Woo · With John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen

The battle of Red Cliff continues and the alliance between Xu and East Wu is fracturing. With Cao Cao's massive forces on their doorstep, will the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu survive?
Dir. John Woo · With Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Fengyi

A restauranteur teams up with a police officer and his ex-con brother to avenge the death of a friend's daughter.
Dir. John Woo · With Ti Lung, Leslie Cheung, Dean Shek Tin

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.
Dir. John Woo · With Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Fengyi

Set in ancient China, Zeng Jing is a skilled assassin who finds herself in possession of a mystical Buddhist monk's remains. She begins a quest to return the remains to its rightful resting place, and thus places herself in mortal danger because a team of assassins is in a deadly pursuit to possess the remains which holds an ancient power-wielding secret.
Dir. Su Chaobin, John Woo · With Michelle Yeoh, Jung Woo-sung, Wang Xueqi

Three orphans grow up to become art thieves under the tutelage of a crime boss. Romance complicates matters when the trio are double-crossed.
Dir. John Woo · With Chow Yun-Fat, Leslie Cheung, Cherie Chung Cho-Hung

When a woman's father goes missing, she enlists a local to aid in her search. The pair soon discover that her father has died at the hands of a wealthy sportsman who hunts homeless men as a form of recreation.
Dir. John Woo · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Arnold Vosloo, Lance Henriksen

Zee is a feared contract killer known as "the Queen of the Dead," but when she refuses to murder a young blind woman, she finds herself hunted both by criminal colleagues and a determined police detective.
Dir. John Woo · With Nathalie Emmanuel, Omar Sy, Sam Worthington

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.
Dir. John Woo · With Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart, Uma Thurman

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.
Dir. John Woo · With Joel Kinnaman, Kid Cudi, Harold Torres

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.
Dir. John Woo · With John Travolta, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis

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.
Dir. John Woo · With Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandiwe Newton
Accused of a murder he didn't commit, a prosecutor sets out on a mission to clear his name.
Dir. John Woo · With Zhang Hanyu, Angeles Woo, Ha Ji-won

Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.
Dir. John Woo · With Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Peter Stormare