Catfish In Black Bean Sauce
Release year: 2000
Country: USA

Harold and Dolores Williams are a middle-aged, African-American couple who, twenty-some years ago, adopted two orphaned Vietnamese kids. Despite their tumultuous early years, Mai and Dwayne are now generally well-adjusted young adults, with Mai being married to Vinh and Dwayne hoping to propose to his nurse girlfriend, Nina.
The happily family scene is disrupted, however, when Mai announces that she's located their biological mother, Thanh, and is bringing her over to the States. While Mai is happy to have her real mother back in her life, Dolores is hurt by the woman's presence as is Dwayne who must put up with this stranger living with him and his roommate, Michael, who's dating Samantha, a male transvestite. With Thanh's presence putting a strain on the many relationships within the Williams clan, Dwayne must figure out his true cultural identity, whether he can accept his biological mother into his life, and how all of that affects his engagement to Nina.

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Cheap Killers
Release year:
Country: Hong Kong

This is one of the most outrageous Hong Kong movies of recent years - in fact it is Wong Jing at his best! Mega violent, mega emotional story of two friends and their troubles with gangs, women and each other. Sonny Chan, Alex Fong, Kathy Chow and Stephen Fung. Oh, and add to the mix that Alex Fong's character is desperately in love with Sonny Chan's!

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Cheerleader Queens
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Country: Thailand

Four ladyboys, Mod, Som, Kam-pang and Wa-wa, move from a rural town in the north to attend school in Bangkok. There, at St. Mary's High School, they try to join the school cheerleading team. But the cheerleaders don't like their sexuality or the fact that they came from up country and don't accept them. So the 'boys' try to join the rugby team instead, but the team members feel uncomfortable about having sexually ambivalent men on their side. However, when the four ladyboys score some much-needed tries during an important match, the team accepts them and they become friends. One day, Teoy, theirhometown ladyboy friend, comes to Bangkok with the idea of forming a cheerleading team, which they name 'the Queens'. From the start, a series of misfortunes befalls them. First,they can't find enough members to form the team. Then, they can't find any sponsors. Worst of all, right before the national cheerleading contest, two of the team members get injured while practicing. Will they get through to the finals? Will they win and become accepted by the public and most of all by the judges who are prejudiced against their sexuality? 'Cheerleader Queens' is a hilarious romp about a group of so-called Thai ladyboys who try their best to be accepted through their love of cheerleading. This heartwarming film is ultimately about the value of friendship, sexual tolerance and team spirit to achieve their goals.

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Cold War
Release year:
Country: Hong Kong

Suave assassin Ka Chu is hired to eliminate Liang Yung but accidentally kills the man's gay twin brother instead. Accompanied by his partner, Maria, next journeys to Seoul to take out Taiwanese weapons smuggler/drug dealer Chue Chung. With the help of his younger brother, Yung, Chue and his Tien Yee gang have become the most powerful gangsters in South East Asia. Chue possesses such influence in fact, that the South Korean authorities have been unable to make any charges against him stick.

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Crazy
Release year: 1999
Country: Hong Kong

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