Inside the Red Brick Wall chronicles the 13-day stand-off between police and anti-government protesters holed up in Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2019.

It’s been a very tough year for filmmakers and some have fared better than others. We rank all the Hong Kong films released in 2020.

Andy Lau stars in this drama by Little Big Master filmmaker Adrian Kwan as a choirmaster whipping misfits into shape for a singing contest. Sadly, it’s lazily written and filled with stereotypes.

Rather like buses, you wait ages for a decent Patrick Kong movie and two come along in the space of several months. His most mature film yet is a nuanced examination of doomed romantic relationships.

Michael Tse plays a policeman working undercover in a triad gang and Pakho Chau a triad mole in the police. If the set-up sounds familiar, it is. But you could have guessed that from the film’s title.

This omnibus comprises one non-fiction and three fictional stories. Written, produced and directed by husband and wife team Leung Ming-kai and Kate Reilly, the films are a quirky look at life in Hong Kong.

Winner of the best screenplay award at Venice last year, No 7 Cherry Lane from Hong Kong director Yonfan is not the provocative political message viewers might expect.

A love story that begins amid the 2014 ‘umbrella movement’ protests in Hong Kong and ends on the cusp of 2019’s anti-extradition violence, Apart feels like a time capsule from a different era.

Parasite was expected to clear up at the film awards, and surprised many when it only won four awards from 10 nominations. Wang Xiaoshuai was awarded best director for So Long, My Son and Lee Byung-hun and Zhou Dongyu won best actor and actress.

Jackie Chan’s latest vehicle is a mess: a terrible plot, worse dialogue and forgettable villains. The story takes place in various locations around the world and Chan’s younger co-stars take care of most of the action.

With his movie Better Days sweeping the board at the latest film awards, the Hong Kong filmmaker has surely shaken off his father Eric’s celebrity and can now bask in his own accomplishments. Right?

This comedy-drama about a loser who dies and enters a variety show competition in the afterworld doesn’t live up to its potential. Director Mark Lee concentrates on the characters’ backstories at the expense of the comedy.

Filmmaker Peter Chan sets out to deliver a nationalistic blockbuster that’s also a nuanced portrait of legendary China women’s volleyball coach Lang Ping, played by Gong Li. He doesn’t entirely succeed.

Debutant Hong Kong director’s film Hand Rolled Cigarette is among the leading contenders for honours at the 57th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei in November, which once again have no entries from China.

Film releases have been put on hold repeatedly in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, which saw cinemas ordered to shut down for months. That has forced a 12-month delay to the 40th Hong Kong Film Awards, due in 2021.

A Hong Kong migrant in California, played by Sammi Cheng, appears to have a peaceable marriage to a Chinese businessman until a neighbour from childhood, played by Charlene Choi, turns up and the facade well and truly cracks.

A woman whose husband cannot give her the child they yearn for adopts the baby of a schoolgirl. Six years later, the latter comes knocking at their door. Hiromi Nagasaku and Aju Makita impress in this drama by Naomi Kawase.

The actor and Canto-pop star plays a white-collar criminal who leads a group of homeless that sleep in a Hong Kong fast-food restaurant at night. But every cast member gets their moment to shine in a relentlessly bleak tale.

A mesmerising performance by Koji Yakusho as a Japanese yakuza gangster trying to find his way after serving a long prison term for murder anchors this sympathetic drama by Miwa Nishikawa.

Parasite continues its Asian domination with 10 nominations including best picture and best director. Close behind with seven nominations each are A Sun and Sol Long, My Son. Hong Kong film Better Days has received five nods.

Playing like a short story misguidedly stretched to a feature length film, A Choo follows one man (Kai Ko) as he tries to win the love of his childhood crush (Ariel Lin) – in a world where superheroes exist.

Chan grew up watching action films and earned his big break with the first feature film he directed. He went on to make three Jackie Chan vehicles and direct some of the best ever Hong Kong action films.

Big Bullet and The White Storm director Benny Chan, known for his action movies and for directing Jackie Chan mid-career, has died of cancer. We recall his five best movies.

In the Korean drama series It’s Okay to Not Be Okay, Kim Soo-hyun and Seo Ye-ji play a pair of star-crossed lovers who struggle to put their past traumas of parental abuse and murder behind them in Netflix’s fairy tale romance.

Less well known to the world’s film-goers than John Woo or Wong Kar-wai, Ann Hui, whose career began in the 1970s, has won best director at the Hong Kong Film Awards five times.

Kiwi Chow’s film is that rare thing – a nuanced romantic psychodrama made in Hong Kong. Starring Cecilia Choi, in her first Hong Kong film role, and Terrance Lau, in his first big-screen role, the film is best seen without knowing its story.

Anthony Wong and Karena Lam put in strong performances as a creepy insurance client and his visually impaired wife, in this grisly psychological thriller with a slasher film ending.

Story of a Hong Kong woman who has been dumped by her boyfriend and goes on a trip to Tokyo to get over it is a contender for worst Hong Kong film of the year.

Tang plays Fong, who works in a bridal gown shop and is gently falling out of love with her possessive man-child of a boyfriend. A blast from her past leads her to reconsider what happiness and personal liberty mean.

Actress Stephy Tang has seen her director on My Prince Edward, Norris Wong, grow in confidence as work on the film progressed. The pair, both women in their thirties, talk about its theme that pits marriage against personal liberty.