The 40 most popular hong kong mystery movies, ranked. Click any film for ratings, reviews, trailers, and where to watch.


Raging Fire
2021 · 2h 5m · CN
Cheung Sung-bong is a highly respected cop with a long history of success in dangerous cases. However, his past soon comes back to haunt him when a former protégé resurfaces, seeking revenge.


Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings
2018 · 2h 12m · CN
Dee, the detective serving Chinese empress Wu Zetian, is called upon to investigate a series of strange events in Loyang, including the appearance of mysterious warriors wearing Chiyou ghost masks, foxes that speak human language and the pillar sculptures in the palace coming alive.


Project Gutenberg
2018 · 2h 10m · CN
The Hong Kong police is hunting a counterfeiting gang led by a mastermind code-named "Painter" . The gang possesses exceptional counterfeiting skills which makes it difficult to distinguish the authenticity of its counterfeit currency. The scope of their criminal activities extends globally and greatly attracts the attention of the police. In order to crack the true identity of "Painter", the police recruits a painter named Lee Man to assist in solving the case.


Fight Back to School 3
1993 · 1h 29m · HK
Chow Sing Sing returns, only this time he doesn’t go back to school. Instead, Chow goes undercover as the husband of a wealthy socialite, which doesn’t sit well with his fiancée, who tries to convince Chow to quit working as undercover.


Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
2010 · 2h 3m · CN
When the future empress Wu Zetian's two courtiers die in a mysterious fire, she gets Di Renjie, a former detective and rebel, released from prison to solve the mystery of the fire.


The Five Venoms
1978 · 1h 41m · HK
A dying master sends his last student to check up on five former pupils, who each know a special style of kung-fu.


Fight Back to School
1991 · 1h 40m · HK
Chow Sing Sing is about to be kicked out of the Royal Hong Kong Police's elite Special Duties Unit. But a senior officer decides to give him one last chance: Star must go undercover as a student at the Edinburgh High School in Hong Kong to recover the senior officer's missing revolver.


Three
2002 · 2h 9m · HK
An anthology consisting of three horror shorts from different Asian directors: Memories by Kim Jee-woon, The Wheel by Nonzee Nimibutr, and Going Home by Peter Chan.


Rouge
1987 · 1h 36m · HK
Amid the opulent teahouses of 1930s Hong Kong, a humble courtesan and the wayward scion of a wealthy family fall in love and embrace death by suicide pact. Fifty years later, her ghost returns to find him, drawing a young contemporary couple into her quest to rekindle a passion that may be as illusory as time itself.


The Peeping
2002 · 1h 33m · HK
Private detective Calvin is hired to tape the sex life of a female politician Kwai Fung Ming, but falls for her instead. He decides to help her counter-attack Law Sau Nam, who is the mastermind to discredit Kwai. Unexpectedly, Law is only one of the tools in this war.


Strawberry Cliff
2011 · 1h 45m · HK
Kate has a rare gift: she can tell when people will die, down to the minute, just by looking at them. She encounters Jason, and is able to see that he will die within hours. Upon her notifying him of his ill-fate, Jason promises that if he discovers an "afterlife," he'll send Kate a message after his death. That night, as Kate predicted, Jason dies under mysterious circumstances leading Kate to an unexpected journey to find truth about life, death, and most important of all, love.


The Great Magician
2011 · 2h 8m · CN
In the years after the Revolution, China broken up into fiefdoms held by warlords, who are busy fighting each other. One warlord has imprisoned a girl and wants her to be his seventh wife, but he's too honorable to force her. The local revolutionaries wants to kill him and bring back the republic. But when a stranger returns from abroad with mastery of magic to recover the girl he loved, who is tricking whom and who will win at the end?


Evil Instinct
1996 · 1h 35m · HK
Penny and Wendy originally are co-workers and best friends until Wendy is promoted. Penny feels that she is getting old and can't compete with Wendy, she leaves Hong Kong, takes snake blood to cleanse herself, and then returns to Hong Kong for revenge.


Detective vs. Sleuths
2022 · 1h 41m · HK
A disgraced ex-police chief battles hallucinations and vigilante killers, risking his sanity to uncover a shocking truth about justice gone wrong.


Double Vision
2002 · 1h 52m · HK
An FBI Agent pairs with a troubled Taiwan cop to hunt for a serial killer who's embedding a mysterious fungus in the brains of victims.


Port of Call
2015 · 1h 38m · HK
Based on a real murder case where a dismembered corpse of a murdered 16-year-old prostitute girl was found in Hong Kong in 2008.


The Bullet Vanishes
2012 · 1h 48m · CN
One rainy night in an arms factory near Shanghai, a young female worker accused of stealing a box of bullets from the ruthless Boss Ding is violently killed in a game of Russian roulette. Half a month later, a series of inexplicable deaths takes place in the factory, where the victims are shot but no bullets are found. Rumors of a deadly curse begin to spread in the factory, terrorizing the workers there. So, eccentric police inspector Song Donglu and his hot-blooded, gunslinging partner Guo Zhui are sent in to investigate the mystery of the phantom bullets...


Blind Detective
2013 · 2h 9m · CN
A brilliant detective is forced into early retirement after losing eyesight. Making ends meet by solving cold cases for reward money, he teams up with a rookie lady inspector to solve a case from her personal past.


Helios
2015 · 1h 58m · HK
Wanted criminal "Helios" and his assistant stole a quantity of uranium and plan to produce weapons of mass destruction. They are planning to trade with a terrorist organization in Hong Kong. Chief Inspector Lee Yinming and Inspector Fan Kaming lead the Counter Terrorism Response Unit of the Hong Kong Police Force. Along with a Chinese senior official, a physics professor, and two South Korean weapon experts, they hope to defuse a crisis sufficient to destroy the world.


Bodies at Rest
2019 · 1h 33m · CN
Working in the morgue, a hardworking forensics expert and his assistant are suddenly accosted by masked intruders who demand access to a body involved in a recent crime.


Triple Tap
2010 · 1h 57m · CN
Champion competitive marksman Ken comes across an armored van robbery. He sees a policeman held hostage and shoots and kills four of the robbers. One of the robbers escapes and the policeman survives. The case is handled by Jerry Chang, whom Ken knows from having recently beaten him in a shooting match. Ken is found not guilty in court. Soon after, Ken is attacked by the escaped robber Pang Tao. Their confrontation reveals a very different background story and brings about a myriad of lies and traps and changes in relationships as Jerry and Ken try to outsmart each other.


G Affairs
2018 · 1h 45m · HK
When a human head is discovered, the paths of a female student, a cellist, an autistic teenager, a police officer, a prostitute, a teacher and a dog are found to be serendipitously entwined. Who caused the death? What is the motive? Where is the body? Attempts to answer these questions lead to keywords starting with the letter "G". As the case is peeled back layer by layer, the complexity and desperation of the people living in Hong Kong today are slowly uncovered, and a suspenseful multifarious Hong Kong story is revealed.


Clans of Intrigue
1977 · 1h 35m · HK
Chu Liuxiang is having drinks with his friend, Monk Wuhua. Gong Nanyan of the Holy Water Palace suddenly appears and accuses Chu of having stolen the palace's Heaven's One Holy Water and committed a series of murders. She agrees to give Chu a month's time to clear his name, or else the mistress of the palace will kill him. Chu's curiosity and eagerness to prove his innocence spur him to investigate the case.


Revenge: A Love Story
2010 · 1h 30m · HK
A serial murderer has brutally killed several policemen and their pregnant wives. After a quick investigation, the murderer is revealed to be Kit, whom the case's detective-in-charge knows from a previous case. Once upon a time, Kit was an innocent boy in a rural village who also has a crush on naïve high school student Wing. After the death of Wing's grandmother, Kit rescues Wing from a foster care facility, and the two quickly fall in love. However, their romance ends prematurely when a local policeman arrests them. The events that follow lay the seeds for Kit's terrifying path to vengeance.


Inner Senses
2002 · 1h 40m · CN
This is the story of Yan, a young woman haunted by fleeting images of what she believes to be dead people. Told that it is all in her mind by her psychologist Jim, Yan still cannot find any other explanations for her visions. Soon, her suspicions are confirmed when Jim begins seeing the same things she does and the two begin to unravel a mystery that leads to a forgotten past


The Viral Factor
2012 · 2h 2m · HK
Agent Jon contemplates leaving the force until he learns his brother is working as a mercenary for a former colleague who betrayed their team.


The Darker the Lake
2022 · 1h 40m · HK
When strange, supernatural murders suddenly become the talk a peaceful town, two detectives must solve a deadly game, but will the myth of this game reveal secrets too close to home.


A Witness Out of the Blue
2019 · 1h 44m · CN
In this classic whodunit, a police detective must rely on the only witness - a parrot, to catch the killer of an armed robber.


Unidentified Murder
2026 · 1h 26m · HK
Alien Alert!!! An influencer couple staged a harmless prank in pursuit of clicks and likes. Little do they know, their little escapade has gone out of control and spiraled into a real tragedy. A series of accidents, followed by blackmails and Extraterrestrial Encounters somehow echo and unveil the myth of a myterious child disappearnace 25 years ago! A group of five, a chain of bizzare events, layers of schemes and plot twists. It's all-you-can-experience in One Crazy Night!


The Midnight After
2014 · 2h 4m · HK
On a night just like any other, a minibus full of passengers drives through a tunnel and arrives in another dimension; the eclectic group of passengers seek refuge in a deserted cafe and make a horrific discovery.


The Silent War
2012 · 2h · HK
An espionage thriller set in the 1950s and adapted from the novel "Year Suan/Plot Against" by May Jia. Tony Leung Chiu Wai plays a blind man who works for a piano tuner. He is recruited for a spy mission because of his exceptional hearing.


Man on the Edge
2022 · 1h 53m · CN
As Hong Kong teeters on the brink of change, an undercover cop risks everything to expose corruption and take down a powerful triad gang before the 1997 handover.


Casino Tycoon II
1992 · 1h 54m · HK
It is 20 years on and Ho Hsin is now the proud and powerful owner of a chain of casinos in Macau. Unfortunately, he is also the target of many enemies, some of whom are in dangerously close proximity to him. But Ho has faced adversity before and is not about to just roll over and die.


Perfect Exchange
1993 · 1h 45m · HK
Mindy Chan (Andy Lau) is a top-notched gambler/swindler. His girlfriend Lily (Christy Chung) and friend Ah Chi are card dealers at the casino where bad guy Lau and his mistress Mona (Anita Lee) frequent. Chor Hung (Tony Leung Ka-Fai), a play on the Chinese name for famed retired actress Cherie Chung, is a senior security guard at the local prison. During a card game, Ah Chi and Mindy swindle millions of dollars from Lau, but they are caught. Lau makes a deal with Mindy - in exchange for Ah Chi (who had been kidnapped), Mindy needs to go to prison and find out where a guy named Robinson (Kwan Hoi-San) has hidden $3 billion dollars worth of bonds.


Death Notice
2023 · 1h 40m · CN
A vigilante serial killer in Hong Kong leaves ominous death notices, prompting the police to launch a special task force to uncover a hidden conspiracy.


The Sleep Curse
2017 · 1h 42m · HK
In 1990, Neurologist Lam Sik Ka and his former flame suffer from the generational sleep curse that rooted in their both families war engagement during World War Two. Lam tries to save her flame from the grudge.


A Guilty Conscience
2023 · 2h 13m · HK
After his negligence causes an innocent woman to go to jail, a lawyer and his colleagues work to clear her name.


Mad Fate
2023 · 1h 48m · HK
A fortune teller fails to help a prostitute who is facing a deadly calamity. When he meets a young boss of a tea restaurant, he predicts that his bloodthirsty tendencies will lead him to a prison sentence for murder.


The Haunting Shadow
1962 · 1h 39m · HK
HK mystery film.


The Vanished Murderer
2015 · 2h · CN
In 1932, a prisoner escapes from a women's prison in northern China. Inspector Song Donglu is summoned to investigate the escape.
Hong Kong cinema's 1980s and 90s peak produced the most influential action filmmaking of the era — John Woo's gunplay ballets, Jackie Chan's stunt comedy, and the wire-work that Hollywood promptly absorbed. Wong Kar-wai's films run on a completely different and equally exported register.
Mystery films are structured around withheld information, trusting the audience to work alongside the investigator. The genre ranges from cozy whodunits to bleak, unresolved character studies.