Chinatown Movies

Private detective Donegal Dawn is summoned by the police commissioner to solve the reasons for a crime wave in Chinatown.

When a young woman trades away her nightmares for a gift from a stranger, her dreams and reality begin to merge.

Feature version of the 1936 serial starring Bela Lugosi. A European importing firm resorts to devious extremes to run its Chinese competition out of...

Lost 1928 film by Benjamin Benjamin Christensen

Forever, Chinatown is a story of unknown, self-taught 81-year-old artist Frank Wong who has spent the past four decades recreating his fading...

A black sheep attempts to eulogize her mother with a story about pigeons.

Sundance award-winning director Julia Kwan’s documentary Everything Will Be captures the subtle nuances of a culturally diverse...

A young fox unexpectedly finds himself in San Francisco, where, after many misadventures, he is befriended by a boy in Chinatown. The boy helps the...

The story focus on Caridad and Georgina, who had learned the art of Cantonese Opera in Havana as a young age and performed as divas for over a decade...

A dog falls in love with Chinatown, but begins to believe he is on the menu.

The small but extremely profitable plot of land in Bangkok called Yaowarat has so far been protected peacefully by mafia godfather Tong, with the...

A portrait of a Vietnamese-Canadian family opening up a restaurant and cocktail bar in Calgary's Chinatown, amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Chronicling the events surrounding the protests generated by the proposed redevelopment of an empty lot at 105 Keefer St., located at the heart of...

The series’ latest Harald Vogl feature (from 1984) completes the filmmaker’s gradual movement away from narrative toward a...

Joe just wants to be a cowboy. But no one takes him seriously, especially his father.

In this special edition of Globe Trekker Chinatown, Lavinia Tan, Justine Shapiro and Megan McCormick travel worldwide to explore the magic and...

A Cantonese Neo-noir western set in New York City's Chinatown.

I. Noah Heap, after giving a number of the race track patrons some poor tips, is chased by the copper, Welland Strong, who is ever on his trail....

Previously a central part of communal life, the movie palaces of New York’s Chinatown are now extinct. This documentary short takes us inside...

Chinatown has had a big hit in 2020 with many business closing down, community members getting harassed and attacked by hate crimes. Yet the...