Brigitte Lin

Brigitte Lin

Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia (Chinese: 林青霞; pinyin: Lín Qīngxiá; born 3 November 1954) is a Taiwanese actress. She was a popular actress, regarded as an icon of Chinese cinema, who acted in both Taiwanese and Hong Kong films. She retired in 1994, although she had a minor role in the 1998 film Bishonen. She was born in Taipei, and was "discovered" in 1972 by a film producer, and first appeared in many Taiwanese romance films based on the novels of Chiung Yao. Her movie debut is in Chuangwai. She later switched over to making movies in Hong Kong. At the height of her popularity she was arguably one of the most sought-after actresses in the Chinese film industry. She starred in more than 100 movies. In Hong Kong movies, Lin made a career of playing transgender roles: in Peking Opera Blues she plays a tomboy who dresses in male Western clothes; in New Dragon Gate Inn she is a woman who dresses as a man, and in Swordsman II and III she plays a male character who castrates himself for power and so is now slowly turning into a woman. She had a good working relationship with Tsui Hark, acting in many of the films he directed (like Peking Opera Blues) and produced (Swordsman II). She married businessman Michael Ying in 1994 and left the film industry. She has two daughters, born in 1997 and 2001. She made her first public appearance since her marriage at a screening of Ashes of Time Redux at the 2008 New York Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brigitte Lin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Brigitte Lin
  • Popularity: 19.376
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1954-11-03
  • Place of Birth: Taipei, Taiwan
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  • Also Known As: Venus Lin, Lam Ching-Ha, Lin Ching-Ha, Lin Ching-Tsia, Lam Cheng-Ha, Lin Chin-Hsia, 林青霞, Lin Ching Hsia, 임청하, หลินชิงเสีย, Lâm Thanh Hà, Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia, Brigette Lin, Bridget Lin, Ling Ching-Tsia, Lin Ching-shya, Lin Cheng-hsia, ブリジット・リン, Lín Qīngxiá
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Brigitte Lin Movies

  • 1994
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    Chungking Express

    Chungking Express

    8 1994 HD

    Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a...

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  • 1993
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    The Bride with White Hair 2

    The Bride with White Hair 2

    5.8 1993 HD

    For ten years, Cho has been in the snow of Mount Shin Fung waiting for a rare flower to blossom that will cure his wife who, back in Chung Yuan, is...

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  • 1985
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    Police Story

    Police Story

    7.5 1985 HD

    Officer Chan Ka Kui manages to put a major Hong Kong drug dealer behind the bars practically alone, after a shooting and an impressive chase inside a...

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  • 1992
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    Dragon Inn

    Dragon Inn

    7.2 1992 HD

    During the Ming Dynasty, Tsao Siu-yan, a power-crazed eunuch who rules his desert region of China as if he were the Emperor, ruthlessly thwarts plots...

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  • 1994
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    Ashes of Time

    Ashes of Time

    7.1 1994 HD

    Ouyang Feng is a heartbroken and cynical man who spends his days in the desert, connecting expert swordsmen with those seeking revenge and willing to...

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  • 1983
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    Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain

    Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain

    6.7 1983 HD

    In the fifth century, constant civil war scars western China. To escape death, Ti, a young scout, jumps through a crevice in the Zu mountains where...

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  • 1983
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    Fantasy Mission Force

    Fantasy Mission Force

    4.74 1983 HD

    A force of loners and fighters is put together to try and rescue the generals and save the war effort with the promise of gold and pardons of past...

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  • 1994
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    The Maidens of Heavenly Mountains

    The Maidens of Heavenly Mountains

    5.2 1994 HD

    Legend has it that in a faraway place beyond the edge of the earth, there exists a broken-hearted man with infinite power. Abandoned by his loved...

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  • 1977
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    The Dream of the Red Chamber

    The Dream of the Red Chamber

    6.3 1977 HD

    Pao-yu is in love with his cousin, Lin Tai-yu, but his family has other marital plans for him that will leave both broken-hearted.

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  • 1986
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    Peking Opera Blues

    Peking Opera Blues

    7 1986 HD

    In 1913 Beijing, three fierce women—disguised rebel Tsao Wan, jewel-seeking Sheung Hung, and opera heiress Pat Neil—embark on a daring...

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  • 1993
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    Swordsman III: The East Is Red

    Swordsman III: The East Is Red

    6.1 1993 HD

    A royal official accompanies a Portuguese warship to the Black Cliffs to see the site of the defeat of the evil Invincible Asia, who attained...

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  • 1992
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    The Legend of the Swordsman

    The Legend of the Swordsman

    6.5 1992 HD

    Ling Wu Chung decides to hide from the chaotic world. Before leaving, he visits his friends, a tribe of snake-wielding women warriors. However, he...

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  • 1994
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    Deadful Melody

    Deadful Melody

    5.8 1994 HD

    A young security man must prove himself worthy by defending the one object wanted by all the masters of the Martial Arts world - the Magic Lyre!

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  • 1993
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    The Bride with White Hair

    The Bride with White Hair

    6.4 1993 HD

    The sensitive swordsman Cho Yi-Hang is tired of his life. He is the unwilling successor to the Wu-Tang clan throne and the unsure commander of the...

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  • 2001
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    Peony Pavilion

    Peony Pavilion

    6.7 2001 HD

    In 1930s Suzhou, the fifth wife of an opium-addicted aristocrat, her husband's female cousin, and a handsome instructor develop an intense...

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  • 1992
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    Royal Tramp 2

    Royal Tramp 2

    7 1992 HD

    Following on from the Royal Tramp I, after discovering that the Empress is actually Lone-er, a member of the St Dragon Sect, and that she imprisoned...

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  • 1976
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    The Beauty with Two Faces

    The Beauty with Two Faces

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1983
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    All the Wrong Spies

    All the Wrong Spies

    6.9 1983 HD

    In Hong Kong, Circa 1940s, World War II, private detective Yoyo and friend Inspector Teddy Robin join a resistance group during the Japanese...

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  • 1983
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    Seven Black Heroines

    Seven Black Heroines

    5.7 1983 HD

    A group of women with various criminal skills are thrown into prison during World War 2. They escape and proceed to head off to destroy a chemical...

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  • 1982
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    Pink Force Commando

    Pink Force Commando

    4 1982 HD

    In a world where cowboys coexist with Chinese thugs, Arab swordsmen, Nazi troops, Klansmen and spandex-bearing superheroines. Brigette Lin is the...

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  • 1994
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    The Three Swordsmen

    The Three Swordsmen

    5.6 1994 HD

    Samurai and Smiling Sam are two famous martial arts masters in Central China. On the night before the big martial arts competition, someone murders...

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  • 1984
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    The Other Side of Gentleman

    The Other Side of Gentleman

    5 1984 HD

    As part of a sociology experiment, Brigitte Lin tries to get lower-class playboy Alan Tam to fall in love with her. Not only does he fall for her,...

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  • 1994
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    Fire Dragon

    Fire Dragon

    6.4 1994 HD

    Rebel fighter Yuen Ming (Max Mok) must protect an important letter with content that can expose the corrupt Chinese government. Sent to retrieve the...

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  • 1981
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    Love Massacre

    Love Massacre

    6.1 1981 HD

    The boyfriend of a young co-ed turns into a demented stalker after his sister's suicide.

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  • 1992
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    Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land

    Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land

    7.8 1992 HD

    Two drama companies happened to share one auditorium for rehearsal. Friction was inevitable. One of them played 'Peach Blossom', a comedy in medieval...

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  • 1989
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    Web of Deception

    Web of Deception

    6.2 1989 HD

    Jane is unknowingly being blackmailed by her co-worker May. When May's roommate Queenie needs a large amount of money to bail her twin sister out,...

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  • 1986
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    Dream Lovers

    Dream Lovers

    6.5 1986 HD

    Musician Song Yu and jewellery designer Yuet-heung, who barely know each other, meet in their dreams before finally uniting in person.

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  • 1988
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    Starry Is the Night

    Starry Is the Night

    6 1988 HD

    As Cai Mei, a single 40 year old woman and a social worker starts a relationship with a teen-ager Tian-Ah, she remembers her relationship when she...

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  • 1993
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    The Black Panther Warriors

    The Black Panther Warriors

    5.9 1993 HD

    A group of specialists are recruited to steal from a police station.

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  • 2021
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    One-Tenth of a Millimeter Apart

    One-Tenth of a Millimeter Apart

    7 2021 HD

    Tracing the beginnings of Jet Tone Films, which was founded in 1991 by Wong Kar Wai for the production of Ashes of Time (1994), the film features...

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  • 1990
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    Red Dust

    Red Dust

    6.8 1990 HD

    Stretching across the canvas of the Sino-Japanese War of the 30s, the subsequent Japanese surrender in 1945, and the onslaught of Communism, this...

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  • 1976
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    Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

    Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

    1 1976 HD

    Taiwanese movie

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  • 1987
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    Lady in Black

    Lady in Black

    8 1987 HD

    Kin Seng (Leung Ka Fai) falls into big debts in the gambling house. He persuades his loving wife, May (Lin Ching Hsia), to embezzle a huge sum from...

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  • 1993
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    Boys Are Easy

    Boys Are Easy

    6.7 1993 HD

    A man wants to see his three daughters get married.

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  • 1986
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    True Colours

    True Colours

    7.1 1986 HD

    Lung and Wong are buddies in their ferocious youth. Lung fled from his motherland to escape a death penalty. Lung returns after five years and runs...

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  • 1993
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    The Eagle Shooting Heroes

    The Eagle Shooting Heroes

    6.9 1993 HD

    A power struggle between the Queen's treasonous lover and a princess occurs amid musical numbers, slapstick battles, and martial arts acrobatics.

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  • 1992
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    Handsome Siblings

    Handsome Siblings

    6.3 1992 HD

    One hundred seventy years ago, a wise monk made a section of land known as the Villians Valley, a sanctuary. Anyone who came to the valley was...

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  • 1983
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    Fire Dragon

    Fire Dragon

    5.6 1983 HD

    A Team of Prisoners, famous thieves and great fighters are assembled by a shadowy government agency to steal a top-secret file. Their destination...

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  • 1975
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    The Forest of Forever

    The Forest of Forever

    1 1975 HD

    Among lofty mountains and valley, a family’s business successor, Luo Ya-nan, meets an engineer, Lu Chang-jong.

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  • 1983
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    Black and White

    Black and White

    1 1983 HD

    Taiwanese war film.

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  • 1976
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    Different Love

    Different Love

    1 1976 HD

    Brigitte Lin is Sung Hsiao Yu, a young girl in love with Wen Hsing Yu (Charlie Chin), a botanist who's trying to cross-fertilize flowers to create a...

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  • 1974
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    Ghost of the Mirror

    Ghost of the Mirror

    7 1974 HD

    Adapted from a Tang Dynasty fantasy tale, Sung Chuen-sau used the story of a scholar meeting a female ghost at night, but emphasised neither the...

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  • 1973
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    Outside the Window

    Outside the Window

    6 1973 HD

    Brigitte Lin's debut film is a melodrama in which her character gets involved in a socially unacceptable relationship and then forced into marriage.

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  • 1974
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    Gone with the Cloud

    Gone with the Cloud

    1 1974 HD

    After the death of her parents, a young woman (Tang Bao Yun) is forced to work as a barmaid to support the education of her younger brother (Liu Chia...

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  • 1974
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    Moon River

    Moon River

    5 1974 HD

    Romantic film starring Brigitte Lin.

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  • 1976
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    Forever My Love

    Forever My Love

    1 1976 HD

    Alan Tang plays an engineering student in Taipei, Taiwan who meets and falls in love with another college student played by Brigitte Lin. Tang is the...

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  • 1976
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    My Funny Intern

    My Funny Intern

    1 1976 HD

    Alan Tang plays a famous soccer coach who comes down with the flu. He goes to a clinic for help and meets Brigitte Lin who is a doctor. He is...

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  • 1981
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    The Women Soldiers

    The Women Soldiers

    1 1981 HD

    Four girls graduate from high school with the hope of joining the army, even though that may clash with their parents' wishes...

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  • 1987
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    The Thirty Million Dollar Rush

    The Thirty Million Dollar Rush

    6.9 1987 HD

    Treasury employee Fatty (Eric Tsang) discovered that bags of used 30 million in Hong Kong Dollars have not been incinerated due to a system error;...

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  • 1975
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    Misty Drizzle

    Misty Drizzle

    1 1975 HD

    A divorced entrepreneur (Yueh Yang) and his handsome partner (Charlie Chin) both fall for the beautiful company secretary (Brigitte Lin)...

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  • 1975
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    Little Sister-in-law

    Little Sister-in-law

    1 1975 HD

    Mr. and Mrs. Ho are longing for a grandson. Their son, Ho Chieh and daughter-in-law, Wan Ping, come home from abroad. Wan Ching, the little...

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  • 1978
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    Love of the White Snake

    Love of the White Snake

    8 1978 HD

    This early Brigitte Lin film is based on the same Chinese folk tale that Tsui Hark later used as his source for The Green Snake. It is the story of...

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  • 1976
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    Come Fly with Me

    Come Fly with Me

    1 1976 HD

    Charlie Chin is Cheng Chieh, an engineer obsessed with flying. Brigitte Lin is Liu Yen-mei, a rich girl who has to choose between Chieh and a rich...

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  • 1982
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    Phoenix the Raider

    Phoenix the Raider

    3 1982 HD

    A story of two friends on the opposite side of the law.

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  • 1977
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    There's No Place like Home

    There's No Place like Home

    1 1977 HD

    Taiwanese romance film released to commemorate the 9th anniversary of First Films' founding.

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  • 1976
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    The Autumn Love Song

    The Autumn Love Song

    1 1976 HD

    When a rich guy met a poor gal and fell in love, his authoritative father disapproved of their relationship owing to his girlfriend’s...

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  • 1974
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    The House for Love

    The House for Love

    1 1974 HD

    Lo Wen (Chin Han) is enamored of his college sweetheart Xiao Yu (Brigitte Lin), and the two wish to get married as soon as they possibly can. But Lo...

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  • 1982
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    The Switch

    The Switch

    5.5 1982 HD

    Taiwanese crime drama.

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  • 1975
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    Run Lover Run

    Run Lover Run

    1 1975 HD

    Brigitte Lin stars as a young girl on the cusp of becoming a woman...a problem for her mother, who thinks it's about time that her daughter got...

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  • 1978
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    Love's Many Faces

    Love's Many Faces

    1 1978 HD

    An unusual tale about the love between a female cat-burglar and a university student.

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  • 1980
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    The Marigolds

    The Marigolds

    1 1980 HD

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  • 1984
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    Be Careful Sweetheart

    Be Careful Sweetheart

    6.5 1984 HD

    Taiwanese martial arts drama starring Brigitte Lin.

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  • 1979
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    Return of Monsoon

    Return of Monsoon

    1 1979 HD

    Chia Yi is already engaged but she still feels lonely deep in her heart. She has a tough decision to make when her cousin confesses his admiration...

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  • 1987
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    Flag of Honor

    Flag of Honor

    1 1987 HD

    Hong Kong romance set in wartime

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  • 1977
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    Orchid in the Rain

    Orchid in the Rain

    1 1977 HD

    Love story about a man who falls for a cabaret hostess.

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  • 1979
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    By Love Obsessed

    By Love Obsessed

    1 1979 HD

    While taking pictures in a remote forest, a young photographer encounters a beautiful, mysterious girl. The photographer soon discovers that the girl...

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  • 1998
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    Bishonen

    Bishonen

    6.4 1998 HD

    Jet is a gay hustler who one night spots a young man walking with a woman, and falls for him instantly. He does some research, and discovers that the...

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  • 1985
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    Seven Foxes

    Seven Foxes

    1 1985 HD

    Billionaire Suen falls seriously ill, he hopes to find his only son who has been missing for twenty years to inherit his fortune. Meanwhile, he tells...

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  • 1983
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    The Four Sheepish Dummies

    The Four Sheepish Dummies

    1 1983 HD

    Taiwanese comedy.

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  • 1980
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    Poor Chasers

    Poor Chasers

    1 1980 HD

    Pairs of best college friends, Shen Jung (Brigitte Lin) and Li Lun-mei (Chelsia Chan); Chen Cheng-hsiung (Chin Han) and Fang Juei (Alan Tam) meet at...

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  • 1978
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    Morning Fog

    Morning Fog

    1 1978 HD

    In "Morning Fog", Brigitte Lin plays Tu Hsiao Meng, a spirited young woman who's had an unenviable life full of hard knocks. The daughter of a single...

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  • 1977
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    Love in My Heart

    Love in My Heart

    1 1977 HD

    Taiwanese romance film.

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  • 1982
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    Lily Under the Gun

    Lily Under the Gun

    1 1982 HD

    In a valiant attempt to rescue her younger brother, a young woman goes head to head with a group of ruthless gangsters.

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  • 1982
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    Burn Phoenix Burn

    Burn Phoenix Burn

    1 1982 HD

    A young lady sacrificed her first love when she discovered her boyfriend had a crush on her younger sister whom she was guilt-ridden of her loss of...

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  • 1975
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    Eight Hundred Heroes

    Eight Hundred Heroes

    6.6 1975 HD

    As battle rages in Shanghai, a single battalion of soldiers led by Xie Jinyuan is ordered to hold back the Japanese forces at the Sihang warehouse....

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  • 1975
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    The Unforgettable Character

    The Unforgettable Character

    5 1975 HD

    The Unforgettable Character is a 1975 Taiwanese romantic drama film directed by Chang Mei-chun and written by Chiung Yao.

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  • 1975
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    Hot Wave

    Hot Wave

    1 1975 HD

    A taiwanese romance set during the summer starring Brigitte Lin.

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  • 1974
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    Girl Friend

    Girl Friend

    1 1974 HD

    An early Brigitte Lin Romance.

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  • 1974
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    Green Green Meadow

    Green Green Meadow

    1 1974 HD

    An early Brigitte Lin Romance.

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  • 1976
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    The Chasing Game

    The Chasing Game

    1 1976 HD

    Mandarin movie about the romance of an undergraduate with the prettiest girl on campus.

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  • 1979
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    The Wild Goose on the Wing

    The Wild Goose on the Wing

    1 1979 HD

    After studying drama in the UK, Tan-feng returns to Taiwan to investigate her sister's death. She suspects that her sister committed suicide because...

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  • 1978
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    The Misty Moon

    The Misty Moon

    1 1978 HD

    Brigitte Lin and Charlie Chin star in this Taiwanese drama about a kindergarten teacher who falls in love with a divorcee but leaves him because she...

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  • 1979
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    An Unforgettable Day

    An Unforgettable Day

    1 1979 HD

    Taiwanese romantic drama set in a mining town starring Brigitte Lin.

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  • 1983
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    Night Orchid

    Night Orchid

    1 1983 HD

    A secret society is out to ruin a nobleman’s reputation and destroy those closest to him while a swordsman returns to find himself embroiled in...

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  • 1977
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    Cloud of Romance

    Cloud of Romance

    5 1977 HD

    TUAN Wan-lu is a naïve and carefree young woman raised in the family of a professor and doted on by her protective older brother and childhood...

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  • 1978
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    Birds Are Singing Everywhere

    Birds Are Singing Everywhere

    1 1978 HD

    Taiwanese romance film.

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  • 1974
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    Love, Love, Love

    Love, Love, Love

    1 1974 HD

    Love, Love, Love is a Taiwanese film, released in 1974 by Central Motion Pictures Corporation and spoken in Mandarin. It stars Charlie Chin as Li...

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  • 1974
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    News Hen

    News Hen

    1 1974 HD

    An early romantic comedy starring Brigitte Lin.

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  • 1974
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    Long Way from Home

    Long Way from Home

    1 1974 HD

    A romantic melodrama starring Brigitte Lin.

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  • 1975
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    The Life God

    The Life God

    1 1975 HD

    Tells the story of "Bao sheng da di"--A marvelous man who wanted to become a doctor so that he could save his mother's life.

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  • 1975
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    He Loved Once Too Many

    He Loved Once Too Many

    1 1975 HD

    An early drama starring Brigitte Lin.

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  • 1975
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    True Love

    True Love

    1 1975 HD

    A romance.

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  • 1977
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    The Love Affair of Rainbow

    The Love Affair of Rainbow

    1 1977 HD

    The son of a wealthy man married a peasant’s daughter against his family’s objection . When he became a successful author, his wife felt...

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  • 1979
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    A Love Seed

    A Love Seed

    5 1979 HD

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  • 1979
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    Love Under a Rosy Sky

    Love Under a Rosy Sky

    1 1979 HD

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  • 1978
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    The Story of Green House

    The Story of Green House

    1 1978 HD

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  • 1980
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    Magnificent 72

    Magnificent 72

    1 1980 HD

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  • 1976
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    Love By Post

    Love By Post

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1992
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    Royal Tramp

    Royal Tramp

    7 1992 HD

    The story of Wilson Bond, a pimp who after saving Chan, the leader of the Heaven and Earth society, a revolutionary group, is made a member. After a...

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  • 1983
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    The Great Surprise

    The Great Surprise

    1 1983 HD

    Taiwanese comedy. A large diamond named "The Light of Shanghai" is given as a gift to the boss of Shanghai Beach, a local gang, and it triggers a...

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  • 1970
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    The Star

    The Star

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1979
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    Off to Success

    Off to Success

    1 1979 HD

    A group of youths undergo the hardships of military training.

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  • 2009
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    Ashes of Time Redux

    Ashes of Time Redux

    1 2009 HD

    From Director Wong Kar Wai comes the definitive version of Ashes of Time, an epic martial arts masterpiece of larger-than-life characters,...

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  • 1962
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    Golden Horse Awards

    Golden Horse Awards

    1 1962 HD

    The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (Chinese: 台北金馬影展; pinyin: Táiběi Jīnmǎ Yǐngzhǎn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī:...

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  • 1975
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    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    10 1975 HD

    Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre and broadcast from January 6, 1975...

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  • 1989
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    Celebrity Talk Show

    Celebrity Talk Show

    9 1989 HD

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