What is the best Wong Kar-wai movie of all time?

No one captures longing, memory, and the passage of time quite like Wong Kar-wai — his films feel less like stories and more like emotions you can live inside. Which one lingers with you most?

1

In the Mood for Love

Two neighbors in 1960s Hong Kong suspect their spouses are having an affair, and slowly fall into a restrained, aching almost-romance of their own.

2

Chungking Express

Two melancholy Hong Kong cops deal with heartbreak in parallel stories that drift through the neon-lit city like half-remembered dreams.

3

2046

A writer haunted by lost love retreats into his own futuristic fiction, blending past memories with imagined futures in a hypnotic, melancholic sequel.

4

Happy Together

Two gay Hong Kong men try to restart their volatile, passionate relationship while stranded far from home in Buenos Aires.

5

Days of Being Wild

A charismatic but emotionally distant young man drifts through 1960s Hong Kong, leaving a trail of women in love and a mystery about his own origins.

6

Fallen Angels

A hitman and his unseen female partner drift through the Hong Kong night in a spiritual companion piece to Chungking Express, shot in dizzying wide-angle.

7

The Grandmaster

The life of Ip Man, the legendary Wing Chun grandmaster and Bruce Lee's teacher, is explored through a series of elegiac, rain-soaked encounters.

8

Ashes of Time

A desert-dwelling swordsman acts as a broker for hired killers, recounting stories of love and regret in a fragmented, poetic wuxia unlike any other.

9

My Blueberry Nights

A heartbroken young woman embarks on a year-long road trip across America, meeting broken souls whose stories mirror her own search for connection.