Cinematography: Christopher Doyle

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Christopher Doyle. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


In the Mood for Love

2000 · Movie · 95 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Wong Kar-Wai

Cast Tony Leung Chiu-Wai · Maggie Cheung · Rebecca Pan · Siu Ping-Lam

Plot Two couples meet and live in a building mainly inhabited by the Shanghai community. The husband of one couple, Chau, meets the beautiful wife of the second couple, Li-chun. As...

Max

7.8

37K votes

7.8

37K votes

That Day, on the Beach

1983 · Movie · 166 min. · Taiwan

Direction Edward Yang

Cast Sylvia Chang · Terry Hu · David Mao · Li Lie

Plot Two friends who haven’t seen each other for thirteen years reunite. One is a successful concert pianist just back from a European tour and the other has just started a...

7.6

156 votes

7.6

156 votes

Chungking Express

1994 · Movie · 103 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Wong Kar-Wai

Cast Brigitte Lin · Takeshi Kaneshiro · Tony Leung Chiu-Wai · Faye Wong

Plot The loosely connected stories of a pair of Hong Kong cops who are dumped by their girlfriends. In the first segment, a young cop, known only by his badge number...

Max

7.6

12K votes

7.6

12K votes

Happy Together

1997 · Movie · 98 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Wong Kar-Wai

Cast Leslie Cheung · Tony Leung Chiu-Wai · Gregory Dayton · Chang Chen

Plot Yiu-Fai and Po-Wing arrive in Argentina from Hong Kong and take to the road for a holiday. Something is wrong and their relationship goes adrift. A disillusioned Yiu-Fai starts working...

Max

7.4

8K votes

7.4

8K votes

The Hand

2004 · Movie · 44 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Wong Kar-Wai

Cast Chang Chen · Gong Li · Tien Feng · Jianjun Zhou

Plot The Hand stars Gong Li as a 1960s high-end call girl in an impossible love affair with her tailor.

7.4

1K votes

7.4

1K votes

My Heart Is That Eternal Rose

1989 · Movie · 90 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Patrick Tam

Cast Kenny Bee · Joey Wong · Tony Leung Chiu-Wai · Cheung Tat-Ming

Plot A young couple separates under pressure from vicious Triad gangsters--she becomes a mobster's unwilling moll, and he travels abroad to work as an assassin. But their love stays strong, and...

7.4

45 votes

7.4

45 votes

Hero

2002 · Movie · 99 min. · China

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Jet Li · Tony Leung Chiu-Wai · Maggie Cheung · Zhang Ziyi

Plot 2003 Foreign Language Oscar nominee. At the height of China's Warring States period, the country was divided into seven kingdoms: Qin, Zhao, Han Wei, Yan, Chu and Qi. For years,...

7.3

34K votes

7.3

34K votes

Fallen Angels

1995 · Movie · 92 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Wong Kar-Wai

Cast Leon Lai · Michelle Reis · Takeshi Kaneshiro · Charlie Yeung

Plot Wong Kar-wai's Fallen Angels is a sequel of sorts to the director's "Chungking Express". The narrative intercuts two story lines. The first follows a hitman who finds that the assassin's...

Max

7.1

5K votes

7.1

5K votes

2046

2004 · Movie · 120 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Wong Kar-Wai

Cast Tony Leung Chiu-Wai · Zhang Ziyi · Faye Wong · Gong Li

Plot He was a writer. He thought he wrote about the future but it really was the past. In his novel, a mysterious train left for 2046 every once in a...

7.1

24K votes

7.1

24K votes

Days of Being Wild

1990 · Movie · 95 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Wong Kar-Wai

Cast Leslie Cheung · Andy Lau · Maggie Cheung · Carina Lau

Plot DAYS OF BEING WILD is the story of York (Leslie Cheung), a lady's man who finds girlfriends very quickly and then terminates the relationship without warning. Needless to say, this...

Max

7.0

3K votes

7.0

3K votes

Ocean Heaven

2010 · Movie · 102 min. · China

Direction Xue Xiaolu

Cast Jet Li · Zhang Wen · Gwei Lun-Mei · Yuanyuan Zhu

Plot Explores the subject of parental love and autism in kids.

7.0

211 votes

7.0

211 votes

Rabbit-Proof Fence

2002 · Movie · 94 min. · Australia

Direction Phillip Noyce

Cast Everlyn Sampi · Tianna Sansbury · Laura Monaghan · Kenneth Branagh

Plot The true story of three aboriginal girls who were forcibly taken from their homes in 1931 to be trained as domestic servants as part of an official Australian government policy....

6.9

2K votes

6.9

2K votes

Paranoid Park

2007 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Gus Van Sant

Cast Gabe Nevins · Taylor Momsen · Jake Miller · Daniel Liu

Plot An unsolved murder at Portland's infamous Paranoid Park brings detectives to a local high school, propelling a young skater into a moral odyssey in which he must not only deal...

6.8

7K votes

6.8

7K votes

Last Life in the Universe

2003 · Movie · 104 min. · Thailand

Direction Pen-Ek Ratanaruang

Cast Tadanobu Asano · Sinitta Boonyasak · Chermarn Boonyasak · Yutaka Matsushige

Plot A mysterious, obsessive-compulsive, suicidal Japanese man living in Bangkok, Thailand, is thrown together with a Thai woman through a tragic chain of events. The woman is everything he is not....

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Endless Poetry

2016 · Movie · 130 min. · Chile

Direction Alejandro Jodorowsky

Cast Adan Jodorowsky · Brontis Jodorowsky · Pamela Flores · Jeremias Herskovits

Plot Through Alejandro Jodorowsky's autobiographical lens, Endless Poetry narrates the years of the Chilean artist's youth during which he liberated himself from all of his former limitations, from his family, and...

6.6

540 votes

6.6

540 votes

Invisible Waves

2006 · Movie · 118 min. · Thailand

6.5

247 votes

6.5

247 votes

The Quiet American

2002 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Phillip Noyce

Cast Michael Caine · Brendan Fraser · Do Thi Hai Yen · Rade Serbedzija

Plot American Aid worker Alden Pyle arrives in Saigon in the fall of 1952, at the height of the Vietnamese fight for independence from French colonial rule. Filled with zeal for...

6.4

8K votes

6.4

8K votes

Three... Extremes

2004 · Movie · 128 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Fruit Chan · Park Chan-wook · Takashi Miike

Cast Bai Ling · Pauline Lau · Tony Leung Ka-Fai · Meme Tian

Plot A beautiful female novelist, still guilt-ridden over the childhood death of her twin sister, receives a mysterious invitation to meet at the site of her sister’s demise… more… A retired...

6.4

4K votes

6.4

4K votes

Buenos Aires Zero Degree: The Making of Happy Together

1999 · Documentary · 60 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Kwan Pun-Leung

Cast Chang Chen · Leslie Cheung · Shirley Kwan · Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Plot A making of documentary for Happy Together. Includes interviews, on-set footage, cut scenes and footage of crew members revisiting the locations where Happy Together was filmed.

6.4

46 votes

6.4

46 votes

Dumplings

2004 · Movie · 91 min. · Hong Kong

6.3

1K votes

6.3

1K votes