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?
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.
Chungking Express
Two melancholy Hong Kong cops deal with heartbreak in parallel stories that drift through the neon-lit city like half-remembered dreams.
2046
A writer haunted by lost love retreats into his own futuristic fiction, blending past memories with imagined futures in a hypnotic, melancholic sequel.
Happy Together
Two gay Hong Kong men try to restart their volatile, passionate relationship while stranded far from home in Buenos Aires.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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