Jackie Chan
Director, Actor
- Golden Lotus (Jin ping shuang yan) (1974)
- Dir. Han Hsiang Li
Feat. Yang Chun, Hu Jien, Tien Ni…
- Now rather obscure erotica from the Shaw Brothers, adapting the classic Chinese novel about a 'Casanova' of the Sung Dynasty and various intertwined…
- Shaolin Wooden Men (1976)
- Feat. Jackie Chan
- Jackie Chan cut his teeth on these cheap fist–and–feet–fests. More intentionally serious than his later star–turns, but…
- Hand Of Death (Shao Lin men) (1976)
- Dir. John Woo
Feat. Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Biao Yuen
- Fairly standard HK action fare with a young Shaolin martial–artist given the difficult task of avenging the death of a member of his order.…
- Drunken Master (1978)
- Dir. Yuen Woo Ping
Feat. Jackie Chan
- The martial arts comedy that put Jackie Chan on the map tells the tale of a disobedient son learning the art of Drunken Fist Kung Fu in order to stop…
- Young Master, The (Shi di chu ma) (1980)
- Dir. Jackie Chan
Feat. Jackie Chan, Biao Yuen
- A fine early action–comedy from the phenomenal Jackie Chan, here trying to lure a wayward fellow student back to the 'right' side of martial…
- Battle Creek Brawl (Big Brawl, The) (1980)
- Dir. Robert Clouse
Feat. Jackie Chan, Jose Ferrer
- Jackie Chan goes up against a merciless giant man named Kiss when he finds himself caught up in the middle of a giant small town brawl in Battle…
- Cannonball Run (1981)
- Dir. Hal Needham
Feat. Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett…
- Packed with an absurd combination of stars, this trans–continental car race yarn is largely a vehicle for Burt Reynolds wisecracks and some…
- Dragon Lord (Long xiao ye) (1982)
- Dir. Jackie Chan
Feat. Jackie Chan, Wai-Man Chan
- Chiefly of interest to Chan–completists, this wraps a threadbare plot about stolen Chinese artifacts around some admittedly spectacular…
- Project A ('A' gai waak) (1983)
- Dir. Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung
Feat. Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Biao Yuen
- A famous peak period work from martial art maestro Jackie Chan in turn of the century Hong Kong, with Chan in pursuit of vicious buccaneers. Famous…
- Wheels on Meals (1984)
- Dir. Sammo Hung
Feat. Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Biao Yuen
- The kung–fu trio of Chan, Hung and Biao travel, to Spain for this rambunctious minor classic, in a tale about food–vendors helping out a…
- Police Story (1985)
- Dir. Jackie Chan
Feat. Jackie Chan, Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung
- The incomparable Jackie Chan – a mix of Bruce Lee and Buster Keaton – is in prime form here, weaving his brand of sly Asian humour into a series…
- Heart of the Dragon (Long de xin) (1985)
- Dir. Sammo Hung, Fruit Chan
Feat. Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Emily Chu
- Uncharacteristically serious Chan–Hung drama follows police detective Chan's difficulties in caring for his mentally disabled, child–like…
- Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Stars (1985)
- Dir. Sammo Hung
Feat. Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan, Biao Yuen…
- Action comedy from prolific Hong Kong actor–director–producer Sammo Hung about a group of petty crims who are employed to assist the…
- Armour of God (1986)
- Dir. Jackie Chan
Feat. Jackie Chan
- Jackie Chan blows a bigger budget than usual for this crazy quest for some relics of a Crusader's armour in Eastern Europe. Drab stretches are…
- Police Story 2 (1988)
- Dir. Jackie Chan
Feat. Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung
- Jackie Chan directs this follow–up to his landmark hit, playing a demoted detective who must use his wiles to track down bomb–scare…
- Dragons Forever (1988)
- Dir. Sammo Hung, Corey Yuen
Feat. Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Biao Yuen
- Final martial–arts rumble for the 'three brothers' team of Chan, Hung and Biao (see PROJECT–A), here playing three spokes in a nefarious…
- Canton Godfather, The (Miracles; Mr. Canton and Lady Rose) (1989)
- Dir. Jackie Chan
Feat. Jackie Chan, Anita Mui
- Though light on martial arts, this lavish period production is generally considered Jackie Chan's most accomplished movie. At once inspired by THE…
- Police Story 3 (Supercop) (1992)
- Dir. Stanley Tong
Feat. Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh
- Jackie Chan returns as death–defying maverick cop Ka Kui, while Michelle Yeoh offers some savvy sidekick. From the director of Jackie's first…
- Crime Story (1993)
- Dir. Kirk Wong
Feat. Jackie Chan
- A serious Jackie Chan movie for which he even nabbed a HK oscar! Based on a true story involving police corruption and a kidnapping ring, the…
- Drunken Master II (Legend of Drunken Master) (1994)
- Dir. Lau Kar Leung
Feat. Jackie Chan
- Jackie Chan gets comic mileage with the dubious idea that he can only tap into his martial art prowess while pissed as a newt. Jackie continues to…
- City Hunter (1994)
- Dir. Wong Jing
Feat. Jackie Chan, Chingmy Yau, Joey Wong
- Jackie Chan is the popular Japanese comic book character Ryu Saeba: part detective, part mercenary, all womanizer – is contracted to return the…
- Rumble in the Bronx (1996)
- Dir. Stanley Tong
Feat. Jackie Chan, Anita Mui
- Jackie Chan's Hollywood breakthrough combines unrelenting Chan–style martial arts with big–budget stuntwork. Unabashedly cheesy yet…
- First Strike (1996)
- Dir. Stanley Tong
Feat. Jackie Chan, Jackson Liu, Annie Wu
- Jackie Chan is back to further embarrass the Yankee action–pretenders. Some mumbo–jumbo about stolen Ukrainian warheads provides an…
- Top Fighter (1996)
- Dir. Toby Russell
Feat. Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Jean-Claude Van Damme
- An extensive, action–packed look at martial art stars 'exploring the psychology of the combatant and how each has perfected his craft'.
- Jackie Chan - My Story (1996)
- Feat. Jackie Chan
- An authorised biography of the incomparable one–man movie–machine from Hong Kong. Banal presentation is compensated by clips from all his…
- Rush Hour (1998)
- Dir. Brett Ratner
Feat. Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker
- Crackerjack no–brainer puts an East–West spin on the odd–couple–buddy–cop formula with Chinaman Jackie Chan (modest,…
- Who Am I? (1998)
- Dir. Jackie Chan, Bennie Chan
Feat. Jackie Chan
- A standard opening soon flowers into one of Jackie Chan's crazier flights of action–ballet, playing an amnesiac commando who can't work out why…
- Mr Nice Guy (1998)
- Dir. Sammo Hung
Feat. Jackie Chan
- Another comic hodgepodge starring the overworked Jackie Chan, filmed and set in Melbourne, Australia (as a budget consideration?)
An incriminating…
- Gorgeous (1999)
- Dir. Vincent Kok
Feat. Jackie Chan, Shu Qi, Tony Leung (Chiu-wai)…
- After his Hollywood junket, Jackie Chan returns to post–handover Hong Kong to play a dashing, embattled millionaire who falls…
- Shanghai Noon (2000)
- Dir. Tom Dey
Feat. Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Lucy Liu
- Jackie Chan pilots for this lightweight, crowd–pleasing throwback to the Wild West that adds his brand of naïve Eastern exotism to the ol'…
- Rush Hour 2 (2001)
- Dir. Brett Ratner
Feat. Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, John Lone
- Sturdy followup to the action–comedy pairing of Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, as LAPD cops on the trail of Triad boss John Lone, Chan’s…
- Tuxedo, The (2002)
- Dir. Kevin Donovan
Feat. Jackie Chan, Jennifer Love Hewitt
- Novelty Hollywood vehicle for Jackie Chan outfits the star as a chauffeur–turned–secret agent with an Inspector Gadget–type tuxedo…
- Flix Mix Ultimate Fights (2002)
- Feat. Jet Li, Jackie Chan, Wesley Snipes…
- An intense compilation of the most memorable and ambitious fight scenes from Hollywood and abroad.
- Shanghai Knights (2003)
- Dir. David Dobkin
Feat. Owen Wilson, Jackie Chan, Donnie Yen
- The successful teaming of Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson returns in a hyperreal 19th century world of Victorian threads, kung fu moves and offbeat, if…
- Accidental Spy, The (2003)
- Dir. Teddy Chen
Feat. Jackie Chan
- One of Jackie Chan's 'Off–Hollywood' productions, an international action adventure filmed on the cheap in Hong Kong. Contains lashings of…
- Medallion, The (2003)
- Dir. Gordon Chan Kar-Seung
Feat. Jackie Chan, Lee Evans, Claire Forlani…
- Jackie Chan's Hollywood serenade continues, here he plays a Hong Kong detective loaned to Interpol to track down a magical medallion that gives its…
- Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
- Dir. Frank Coraci
Feat. Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Jim Broadbent…
- Colourfully energetic version of Jules Verne's classic adventure, in which a casual bet sets three unusual companions on a race around the…
- New Police Story (2004)
- Dir. Benny Chan
Feat. Jackie Chan, Nicholas Tse, Daniel Wu
- A groundbreaking fourth (or possibly fifth) entry in Jackie Chan's martial arts series about the life of a reckless Hong Kong policeman, here…
- Myth, The (San Wa) (2005)
- Dir. Stanley Tong
Feat. Jackie Chan
- Alternating between past and present, Jackie Chan plays a warrior general during the Qing Dynasty and a modern day archaeologist respectively in this…
- Robin-B-Hood (Bo bui gai wak) (2006)
- Dir. Benny Chan
Feat. Jackie Chan, Louis Koo, Michael Hui…
- Chan hams it up in this big–budget action caper as a compulsive gambler who inadvertently ends up with a kidnapped baby as a means to pay off…
- Rush Hour 3 (2007)
- Dir. Brett Ratner
Feat. Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan
- Action pals Tucker and Chan are back for all–new buddy–cop Asian fusion antics – and are transplanted to gay Paris to fight the Triads.…
- Kung Fu Panda (2008)
- Dir. Mark Osborne, John Stevenson
Feat. Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie…
- Spot–on animation featuring a daydreaming panda called Po (Jack Black) that finds his portly middle and lazy ways getting in the way of his…
- Forbidden Kingdom, The (2008)
- Dir. Rob Minkoff
Feat. Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Michael Angarano
- Hokey martial arts vehicle for Hong Kong’s two biggest action stars, which finds an American teen transported back to ancient China in the throws…
- Shinjuku Incident (San suk si gin) (2009)
- Dir. Derek Yee
Feat. Jackie Chan, Naoto Takenaka, Daniel Wu
- Jackie Chan turns serious for this gritty, nocturnal gangland drama centered around a Chinese immigrant who is unintentionally drawn into Tokyo’s…
- Founding of a Republic, The (Jian guo da ye) (2009)
- Dir. Sanping Han, Jianxin Huang
Feat. Guoqiang Tang, Guoli Zhang, Qing Xu…
- The People’s Republic of China rolls out the big guns for this 60th anniversary epic, chronicling in big, sweeping gestures, the uprising of Mao…
- Little Big Soldier (2010)
- Dir. Sheng Ding
Feat. Jackie Chan, Lee-Hom Wang
- Charismatic anti–war comedy stars Jackie Chan as a lowly foot soldier who strikes it lucky when he captures a wanted enemy General (Wang).…
- Spy Next Door, The (2010)
- Dir. Brian Levant
Feat. Jackie Chan, Amber Valletta, Madeline Carroll…
- Cheesy chop–socky for the kids with Jackie Chan as an international spy who gets more than he bargained for while looking after three…
- Karate Kid, The (2010)
- Dir. Harald Zwart
Feat. Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan, Taraji P. Henson
- Solid remake of the '80s classic with Jaden Smith as the bullied teen learning to fight back with the help of Jackie Chan.
- Shaolin (2011)
- Dir. Benny Chan
Feat. Andy Lau, Nicholas Tse, Jackie Chan…
- Feuding warlords threaten to tear China apart and only a group of Shaolin monks stand in the way of annihilation.
- Kung Fu Panda 2: The Kaboom of Doom (2011)
- Dir. Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Feat. Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan…
- The portliest martial–arts panda is back in this beautifully rendered – if entirely unnecessary – sequel. This time around Po finds…
- Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)
- Dir. Alessandro Carloni, Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Feat. Jack Black, Bryan Cranston, Dustin Hoffman…
- Charming third outing in the animated franchise has Po and the gang fighting off against a supernatural being intent on destroying the Kung Fu…
- Foreigner, The (2017)
- Dir. Martin Campbell
Feat. Jackie Chan, Pierce Brosnan
- Jackie Chan plays a businessman with a mysterious past who seeks to avenge the murder of his daughter by an Irish paramilitary group. An…
- Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature (2017)
- Dir. Cal Brunker
Feat. Will Arnett, Maya Rudolph, Jackie Chan…
- Further adventures for Surly Squirrel and the gang, with an interesting subtext about the dangers of personal and governmental greed. When an evil…