The Secrets of Wu Sin (1932)
Género : Crimen, Romance, Misterio
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 5M
Director : Richard Thorpe
Sinopsis
A murder mystery about the smuggling of illegal Chinese aliens into America through Chinatown.
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 the Triads' honor. He cannot run from destiny or hide from fate. And now, Chinatown will put Eric's honor and Yong's fighting skills to the test.
Nick Chen es uno de los primeros hijos de inmigrantes chinos que se convierte en agente de la policía de Nueva York. Su principal misión consiste en mantener la paz en el difícil barrio de Chinatown. A Chen se le asigna como nuevo compañero, el joven Danny Wallace, quien no tiene ni idea del delicado equilibrio de fuerzas que vive el barrio.
La vida de Vincent sólo volverá a tener sentido el día en que el asesino de su mujer sea detenido. Su vecina Alice, convencida de que puede devolverle la felicidad, decide inventar un culpable ficticio, para que Vincent pueda vengarse y dejar atrás su pasado.
Un asesino a sueldo chino, arrepentido por su pasado, se niega a trabajar para un mafioso que quiere que acabe con la vida de un detective. En consecuencia, el gángster le amenaza con acabar con la vida de su familia que vive en Beijing. Para impedirlo, y gracias a la ayuda de una joven, emprenderá una carrera contra reloj para tratar de salvar a sus seres queridos.
Stanley White (Rourke) es un veterano del Vietnam que, tras quince años en la policía, es destinado a Manhattan Sur, un distrito de Nueva York. Su cometido es acabar con las bandas juveniles que dominan la zona. Sus investigaciones lo conducen a la peligrosa mafia china, dirigida por Joey Tai (John Lone), y cuyos métodos para controlar el tráfico de drogas son extraordinariamente violentos. Acabar con el crimen organizado se convierte para White en una obsesión, pero su traumático pasado y su situación presente lo arrastran más allá de las órdenes recibidas.
A young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown from Hong Kong with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner, unaware he is involved with one of his singers.
Un anciano maestro de Tai Chi, ya retirado, viaja desde Taiwan hasta América para vivir con su hijo y su esposa americana. Pero la actitud de su nuera y las diferencias culturales dificultarán la convivencia.
A rotoscope-animated modern-day Cinderella story set in the underbelly of New York's Chinatown.
Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamonds stolen from a noted gem dealer. As it turns out, their plane crashes on the very estate of the dealer. Thinking the duo are police officers, the dealer offers his home for their convalescence from the accident. Meanwhile, the diamonds have been snatched by a kleptomaniac dog and buried on the estate. When the smugglers track down the pair, they try to convince the dealer that they are officials from an institution from which the two have escaped. Before long, the carnival fellows, the crooks, the gem dealer and his family, along with a platoon of cops, are tearing up the grounds to find where the dog has buried the diamonds.
Mucho tiempo después de su curso de Erasmus en España, Xavier está casado y tiene dos hijos, pero aun así sigue encontrando la vida muy complicada. Cuando su mujer se traslada a Nueva York por razones de trabajo, incapaz de soportar la situación, decide seguirla con los niños. Tercera entrega de la saga que comenzó con "Una casa de locos" y "Las muñecas rusas".
Government agent Dick Barton battles a ring of Nazi spies who are planning to poison the entire London water supply.
Joan Fry, a society woman, falls in love with Chuck Riley, the white-leader of a powerful gang in Chinatown, and he quickly drags her down into the depths with him. But seeing her so much in love with him causes him to realize he isl in love with her, and he determines to lift her up again. "Boston" Charley, the rival gang-leader, has other plans.
A dog falls in love with Chinatown, but begins to believe he is on the menu.
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 members offer their intimate perspectives on the shifting landscape as they reflect on change, memory and legacy. Night and day, a neon sign that reads "EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT" looms over Chinatown. Everything is going to be alright, indeed, but the big question is for whom?
When a young woman trades away her nightmares for a gift from a stranger, her dreams and reality begin to merge.
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 protests and visitors to the Vietnam Memorial in Washington DC, and observational scenes of union parades, marching bands, street dancers, and Chinatown residents back in Manhattan.
El maestro de Wing chun viaja a los Estados Unidos, donde uno de sus estudiantes ha molestado a la comunidad de artes marciales al abrir una escuela de Wing Chun.
In this special edition of Globe Trekker Chinatown, Lavinia Tan, Justine Shapiro and Megan McCormick travel worldwide to explore the magic and mystery of Chinatowns across the globe. Lavinia Tan begins the journey in Malaysia and Singapore where overseas traders led the earliest migrations of Chinese people. The journey continues from there to the United States, where Justine Shapiro visits San Francisco. Megan McCormick explores New York s Lower East Side, home to the largest Chinatown in the Western Hemisphere. After a short trip to London s Soho district, Lavinia Tan ends this journey with a visit to Hong Kong exploring the world famous film industry and the 21st century migration of Chinese back to their homeland.
La historia se centra en las hermanas Caridad Amaran y Georgina Wong Guitiérrez, dos niñas que aprendieron el arte de la Ópera Cantonesa en La Habana, en 1930, por su padre, un inmigrante chino cuya familia le prohibió actuar. Durante la década de 1940, las hermanas dieron giras por toda Cuba actuando como divas, antes que la revolución de Fidel Castro cambiase sus vidas.
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.