Start-Up

Start-Up 2019

6.91

Two boys are becoming real adults during a turbulent time as they experience a world that doesn't go their way.

2019

The Wedding Banquet

The Wedding Banquet 1993

7.20

A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to keep his parents off his back and to get the woman a green card. Chaos follows when his parents arrive in New York for the wedding.

1993

Waiting for Guffman

Waiting for Guffman 1996

7.03

Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town musical production go overboard when they learn that Broadway theater agent Mort Guffman will be in attendance.

1996

Questa notte è ancora nostra

Questa notte è ancora nostra 2008

5.50

When a producer refuses to cut Massimo and his band a record unless they hire an "ethnic" singer to spice up the act, he tries to seduce Jing, a Chinese girl with a beautiful voice disinterested in both him and rock, to get her on board. She pretends to cave in in order to escape an arranged marriage, but in the weeks preceding the concert the two begin to grow closer, complicating the secretly fake nature of their relationship.

2008

Booty Call

Booty Call 1997

5.26

Rushon is sexually pent-up and ready to take thing things to the next level with his girlfriend, Nikki. But when he calls for a date, she asks to make it a double — bringing along her brash friend, Lysterine, whom Rushon sets up with his lewd buddy, Bunz. Things go better than expected. As the evening transitions from the restaurant to the bedroom, the two men go on a madcap search for what will surely make the night complete: condoms.

1997

A Christmas Story

A Christmas Story 1983

7.26

The comic mishaps and adventures of a young boy named Ralph, trying to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect Christmas gift for the 1940s.

1983

Crime at the Chinese Restaurant

Crime at the Chinese Restaurant 1981

5.80

The officer Nico Giraldi investigates a homicide which has taken place in a Chinese restaurant in Rome. His wife and his son are kidnappeded by the murderer in the course of the inquiry. In the end the case is worked out.

1981

Sidekicks

Sidekicks 1992

5.23

An otherwise rejected or ignored boy creates a fantasy pal from his martial arts movie hero.

1992

Clean

Clean 2004

6.40

After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to regain custody of her son.

2004

Protection Detail

Protection Detail 2022

5.30

Three bodyguards are hired to protect an aging Triad kingpin during a gang war in San Francisco's Chinatown.

2022

Legendary Place

Legendary Place 2018

1

Legendary Place is a Chinese restaurant with a perfect delivery record. Can Arnold and Mel uphold their dad’s legend before an evil inspector shuts it down?

2018

Kiss of the Rabbit God

Kiss of the Rabbit God 2019

7.00

A Chinese restaurant worker falls in love with an 18th century Qing dynasty god.

2019

The Chinese Wall

The Chinese Wall 2002

1

A lonely middle-aged woman dines alone in a Chinese restaurant on her birthday. She pays close attention to the other patrons, imagining their relationships and personal situations. She remembers her past lovers and child, and broods on her bitter sense of loss and loneliness. In an unthinking moment, she announces to the waitress that it is her birthday, and the entire social dynamic in the restaurant is altered. An intensely moving, bittersweet and realistic look at emotional loss and disconnection.

2002

Kowloon Castaway

Kowloon Castaway 2002

2.00

A lonely detectorist’s search for love brings him to a tiki bar. Set partly in the iconic Kowloon Restaurant in Saugus, Massachusetts, Kowloon Castaway is a fun look at love in the modern world.

2002

Lucky Fish

Lucky Fish 2022

8.00

Two Asian-American teenagers meet in the bathroom of a Chinese restaurant while having dinner with their families.

2022

May God Bless America

May God Bless America 2006

5.30

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, six people become suspicious about a stranger in their neighborhood.

2006

First, We Eat

First, We Eat 2021

1

An observational portrait of the California Chinese community through the eyes of a Chinese restaurant in Monterey Park and an LA-based recent graduate trying to navigate the difficulties of the Covid-19 pandemic.

2021

Strange Gamble

Strange Gamble 1948

1

Hoppy and his pals arrive in a remote town to investigate the counterfeiting of both U.S. and Mexican money; his only clues are the name "Mordigan" and a drawing of a comet. He quickly finds out that Mordigan is the town "boss"; but what or who is "the comet", and why are Mordigan and his henchmen intent on persecuting a young woman, her drunken brother, and her deathly ill sister-in-law who've also just arrived in town?

1948