Movies: Chinatown

An opium smuggler is marked for murder in this story of the Chinese Mafia....

In Chinatown, merciless gang goes on nightly rampages of theft and destruction. Merchant Frank Lee has no way of fighting back - until he's undead, murdered by the gangsters...but he returns to life transformed into a "Kyonshi" - Chinese version of a...

A young fox unexpectedly finds himself in San Francisco, where, after many misadventures, he is befriended by a boy in Chinatown. The boy helps the Humane Society take the fox back to the wilds....

Forever, Chinatown is a story of unknown, self-taught 81-year-old artist Frank Wong who has spent the past four decades recreating his fading memories by building romantic, extraordinarily detailed miniature models of the San Francisco Chinatown room...

Private detective Donegal Dawn is summoned by the police commissioner to solve the reasons for a crime wave in Chinatown....

Dinty is a newsboy whose fight to care for his ailing mother leads him into conflicts with the other boys on the street and then with drug smugglers in Chinatown....

Chronicling the events surrounding the protests generated by the proposed redevelopment of an empty lot at 105 Keefer St., located at the heart of Vancouver's Chinatown....

A portrait of a Vietnamese-Canadian family opening up a restaurant and cocktail bar in Calgary's Chinatown, amid the COVID-19 pandemic....

When a young woman trades away her nightmares for a gift from a stranger, her dreams and reality begin to merge....

Ronny Chieng and David Fung try and put together a charity event for a struggling restaurant in Chinatown that has deep ties to the community. First they need to raise their clout....

The story focus on Caridad and Georgina, who had learned the art of Cantonese Opera in Havana as a young age and performed as divas for over a decade before their lives were changed by Fidel Castro's revolution....

A black sheep attempts to eulogize her mother with a story about pigeons....

Joe just wants to be a cowboy. But no one takes him seriously, especially his father....

A sect of the Triads controls the streets of Chinatown led by tough fighter Yong. But things get complicated when Lily, the adopted sister of Triads boss Eric, arrives on the scene. Yong is torn between his love for Lily and his commitment to uphold ...

Sundance award-winning director Julia Kwan’s documentary Everything Will Be captures the subtle nuances of a culturally diverse neighbourhood—Vancouver’s once thriving Chinatown—in the midst of transformation. The community’s oldest and newest member...

Previously a central part of communal life, the movie palaces of New York’s Chinatown are now extinct. This documentary short takes us inside the title theater located on the Bowery, as it’s about to close its doors, with its caretakers ruefully look...

I. Noah Heap, after giving a number of the race track patrons some poor tips, is chased by the copper, Welland Strong, who is ever on his trail. Noah's attempts to panhandle the crowd are also thwarted by the ever watchful Strong, who seizes and thro...

Chinatown has had a big hit in 2020 with many business closing down, community members getting harassed and attacked by hate crimes. Yet the community perseveres as the artist continues to work. Henry Chang, born and raised in Chinatown, continues to...

A dog falls in love with Chinatown, but begins to believe he is on the menu....

The series’ latest Harald Vogl feature (from 1984) completes the filmmaker’s gradual movement away from narrative toward a vérité-style essay film. Gone are the post-punk streets of the East Village, replaced with on-the-ground footage of antiwar pro...