Fresh from his smashing directorial debut comedy, “Let’s Make Laugh”, Alfred Cheung Kin-Ting returns to the screen with this seriocomic look at the clash of cultures which result when a Mainland Chinese peasant brings his family to Hong Kong. “Family Light Affair”, whose Chinese title literally translates as “City Lights”, is the director/writer’s warm-hearted memoir of street life in the early 1980s, featuring an eclectic cast of pop music and kung fu stars who shine in their poignant roles.
Category: Movies
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Yaadgaar
Rajunath, the lazy son of the village postman Shambunath, is a liar. He often plays pranks on the poor villagers. When his father succumbs to burns, he swears never to lie again.
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Mr. Virgin
When a young man ignores a feng shui master’s warning and decides to marry before turning 30, a series of mishaps begins to curse his life.
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Three Stooges Go Undercover
Two police officers and an informant go undercover to infiltrate a counterfeiting ring.
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Kai Kodukkum Kai
Veer marries a blind girl and is disowned by his brother. He rents a room and takes care of his wife. He decides to share the room with a handicapped youth who has a secret agenda of his own.
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Lights
A railway engineer tells the story of when he seduced a married woman whom he’d known since she was a schoolgirl, and how after convincing her he loved her he cruelly abandoned her.
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Scream for Help
A teenaged girl discovers that her stepfather is trying to murder her and her mother, but when she tells people, no one will believe her.
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First Cavalry
The movie takes us back to the times of the Civil War, when the young Soviet power was defended by the first heroes of this terrible internecine war. Red commanders Semyon Budyonny and Kliment Voroshilov managed to gather an entire army of “red cavalrymen” – thus began the history of the campaigns “through valleys and up hills” of the legendary First Cavalry Army.
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Love Leads the Way: A True Story
Based on the true story of Morris Frank and the first U.S. Seeing Eye Dog, Buddy.
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The Last Respectful Man
Teacher Fergany is assigned to supervise a school trip to the zoo in Cairo, during the trip a child disappears. He tries to search for her everywhere, to prevent renewed conflict between families in Upper Egypt.