Best Chinese thriller movies

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch thriller films from China, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for Glass

    Glass 2019

    In a series of escalating encounters, former security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities. Meanwhile, the shadowy presence of Elijah Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men.

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  • Poster for The Foreigner

    The Foreigner 2017

    Quan is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love – his teenage daughter – dies in an Irish Republican Army car bombing. His relentless search to find the terrorists leads to a cat-and-mouse conflict with a British government official whose own past may hold the clues to the identities of the elusive killers.

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  • Poster for Allied

    Allied 2016

    In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.

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  • Poster for The Hunt

    The Hunt 2020

    Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are—or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is about to be derailed when one of the hunted turns the tables on her pursuers.

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  • Poster for Adrift

    Adrift 2018

    Tami Oldham and Richard Sharp couldn't anticipate that they would be sailing directly into one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history. In the aftermath of the storm, Tami awakens to find Richard badly injured and their boat in ruins. With no hope of rescue, Tami must now find the strength and determination to save herself and the only man she has ever loved.

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  • Poster for Escape Plan 2: Hades

    Escape Plan 2: Hades 2018

    Ray Breslin manages an elite team of security specialists trained in the art of breaking people out of the world's most impenetrable prisons. When his most trusted operative, Shu Ren, is kidnapped and disappears inside the most elaborate prison ever built, Ray must track him down with the help of some of his former friends.

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  • Poster for 24 Hours to Live

    24 Hours to Live 2017

    An assassin seeks redemption after being given a second chance at life.

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  • Poster for Triple Threat

    Triple Threat 2019

    A crime syndicate places a hit on a billionaire's daughter, making her the target of an elite assassin squad. A small band of down-and-out mercenaries protects her, fighting tooth and nail to stop the assassins from reaching their target.

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  • Poster for Bleeding Steel

    Bleeding Steel 2017

    Jackie Chan stars as a hardened special forces agent who fights to protect a young woman from a sinister criminal gang. At the same time, he feels a special connection to the young woman, like they met in a different life.

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  • Poster for Lust, Caution

    Lust, Caution 2007

    During World War II, a secret agent must seduce and assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai.

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  • Poster for Kung Fu Jungle

    Kung Fu Jungle 2014

    A martial arts instructor working at a police academy gets imprisoned after killing a man by accident. But when a vicious killer starts targeting martial arts masters, the instructor offers to help the police in return for his freedom.

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  • Poster for Vanguard

    Vanguard 2020

    Covert security company Vanguard is the last hope of survival for an accountant after he is targeted by the world's deadliest mercenary organization.

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  • Poster for Operation Red Sea

    Operation Red Sea 2018

    A squad of the Jiaolong Commando Unit - Sea Dragon, a spec ops team of the Chinese Navy, carries out a hostage rescue operation in the nation of Yewaire, on the Arabian Peninsula, and fiercely fights against local rebel groups and Zaka, a terrorist organization.

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  • Poster for SPL 2: A Time for Consequences

    SPL 2: A Time for Consequences 2015

    A Hong Kong cop named Kit busts a major gangster only to find his cover blown and his main witness gone. The gangster, in retaliation, has him kidnapped and put in a Thai jail with a false criminal identity. Lowly prison guard Chai, with his extraordinary fighting skills, guards Kit and prevents his escape. The prison guard’s daughter suffers from a rare form of leukemia and Kit is the only donor who can save her. The prison guard discovers Kit’s real identity and helps him to escape in return for his agreeing to save his daughter. Together, Kit and Chai must face and take down the gangster and his minions.

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  • Poster for Animal World

    Animal World 2018

    Backed into a corner by mounting debts, a youth agrees to submit himself to a high stakes game of chance in international waters aboard a disused warship.

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  • Poster for Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen

    Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen 2010

    The Japanese forces occupy Shanghai and slowly start spreading terror in the city. Chen Zhen, who was presumed dead, returns to fight against the Japanese and put an end to their tyrannical rule.

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  • Poster for Shock Wave

    Shock Wave 2017

    When a terrorist who specializes in explosives takes hold of an underground tunnel, he threatens to kill hostages if his demands are not met.

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  • Poster for The Wild Goose Lake

    The Wild Goose Lake 2019

    A gangster ends up making a mistake that causes every gun on both sides of the law to point at him. While on the run, he comes across a mysterious woman who might get him out of trouble or make things worse.

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  • Poster for Black Coal, Thin Ice

    Black Coal, Thin Ice 2014

    Two former cops start investigating the series of murders that tanked their careers when the killings begin again.

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  • Poster for Dragon Tiger Gate

    Dragon Tiger Gate 2006

    Three young martial arts masters emerge from the back streets of Hong Kong to help the powerless fight injustice.

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  • Poster for Chasing the Dragon

    Chasing the Dragon 2017

    An illegal immigrant from Mainland China sneaks into the corrupt British-colonized Hong Kong in 1963, transforming himself into a ruthless drug lord.

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  • Poster for Manhunt

    Manhunt 2017

    Accused of a murder he didn't commit, a prosecutor sets out on a mission to clear his name.

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  • Poster for The Prosecutor

    The Prosecutor 2024

    A poor young man is wrongly charged with drug trafficking after being deceived. An ex-prosecutor investigates the case, uncovers a corrupt lawyer team's scheme, and restores justice despite obstruction from evil forces.

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  • Poster for Full River Red

    Full River Red 2023

    During China's Song Dynasty, a mysterious murder occurs at Chancellor Quin Hui's palace after meeting delegates from the neighboring Jin Dynasty. The members become embroiled not just in a murder mystery, but a larger conspiracy concerning the fate of the empire.

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  • Poster for Lost in the Stars

    Lost in the Stars 2023

    He Fei's wife, Li Muzi, disappears during their anniversary trip. When she reappears, he insists that she is not his wife. As Chen Mai, a top lawyer gets involved in this bizarre case, more mysteries start to emerge.

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  • Poster for Striking Rescue

    Striking Rescue 2024

    A veteran Muay Thai expert goes on a take-no-prisoners mission of revenge after his wife and daughter are brutally murdered by mysterious forces.

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  • Poster for Cliff Walkers

    Cliff Walkers 2021

    In the puppet state of Manchukuo in the 1930s, four Communist party special agents, after returning to China, embark on a secret mission. Sold out by a traitor, the team find themselves surrounded by threats on all sides.

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  • Poster for Lost in the Pacific

    Lost in the Pacific 2016

    The passengers of a luxury airliner become stranded on a remote, mysterious island after an emergency landing. They soon realize the island holds a dark, deadly secret.

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  • Poster for Sheep Without a Shepherd

    Sheep Without a Shepherd 2019

    Li and his wife A Yu run a small business in Thailand and enjoy a happy home life with their two daughters. When their eldest daughter is violently assaulted, blackmailed and left traumatised by another student, her parents intervene, leading to a dead body which needs to be hidden, and every trace of the boy buried to cover up the accident.

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  • Poster for The Taking of Tiger Mountain

    The Taking of Tiger Mountain 2014

    Yang Zirong disguises himself as a bandit to infiltrate and destroy a bandit group. He joins hands with a hostage, and together, they fight against the warlord, Hawk.

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  • Poster for Cold War II

    Cold War II 2016

    A suspected criminal mastermind escapes from police custody, throwing the city into turmoil. With the police department now divided, rival police chiefs are forced to take their fight to the streets of Hong Kong with deadly consequences.

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  • Poster for Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe

    Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe 2015

    In 1979, a young soldier is working in China's snowcapped mountains when an explosion reveals bizarre fossils hidden deep in the mountain caverns. What they discover next will change his life and human history forever.

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  • Poster for Saving Mr. Wu

    Saving Mr. Wu 2015

    Mr. Wu, a Hong Kong movie star, is kidnapped in Beijing by Zhang Hua's gang. The police quickly form a task force and begin the search, ignoring that detectives in charge have only twenty hours before the deadline.

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  • Poster for Only the River Flows

    Only the River Flows 2023

    1990s, Banpo Town, rural China. A woman's body is found by the river. Ma Zhe, Chief of the Criminal Police, heads up the murder investigation that leads to an obvious arrest. His superiors hurry to congratulate him, but several clues push Ma Zhe to delve deeper into the hidden behaviour of his fellow citizens.

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  • Poster for The Looming Storm

    The Looming Storm 2017

    Yu, a self-assured factory guard, fancies himself a detective and begins poking his nose into a murder investigation.

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  • Poster for A Cool Fish

    A Cool Fish 2018

    Cop-turned-security guard Ma Xianyong finds himself in a criminal twilight zone when two unrelated events turn his world upside down. The mysterious disappearance of his boss has implications for his financial security. Even more perilous is the abduction of his paralyzed sister who, unknown to Ma, makes a morbid deal with her captors.

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  • Poster for Wrath of Silence

    Wrath of Silence 2018

    Northern China, 2004. When miner Zhang Baomin returns to his home, a small and isolated mining village, his wife tells him that their son has mysteriously disappeared while shepherding his small flock.

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  • Poster for The Great Hypnotist

    The Great Hypnotist 2014

    The famous psychologist Xu Ruining has a raising career, when he met the troublesome patient Ren Xiaoyan. The meeting is not easy as feeble-looking Ren is point by point against him.

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  • Poster for The Message

    The Message 2009

    After a series of assassinations in Nanking, a Japanese spy master gathers a group of suspects in a mansion, then a tense cat-and-mouse game erupts as the Chinese agent tries to keep his or her identity a secret.

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  • Poster for No Man's Land

    No Man's Land 2013

    Pan Xiao, a young lawyer, goes to a rural small village settled in the western desert lands of China to handle the case of a falcon poacher who has ran over a policeman. Pan wins the case through sophisticated reasoning and forces the poacher to give him his car as a reward. Then, he just drives back home, but the return will not be an easy one.

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  • Poster for China Salesman

    China Salesman 2017

    Yan Jian, a young Chinese IT engineer who volunteers to go to North Africa and help the company he works for to win a competition. The winner can own the right to control the communication between south and north. French spy Michael works for the West. His boss ordered him to go to the North Africa and win the competition, and they can control the great mineral resources of Africa. He hired the best mercenary in Africa whose name is Lauder and a former general Kabbah to help him. Yan has discovered their conspiracy, he is the only one who can stop them.

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  • Poster for Connected

    Connected 2008

    A debt collector receives a call from a woman who is kidnapped by an unknown gang. He thinks it is a joke but soon, he realises that it is not a prank.

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  • Poster for Three

    Three 2016

    Realising that he will be defeated in no time during a police showdown, a thug shoots himself to force the cops to cease fire and take him to the hospital. In the hospital, he claims human rights to refuse immediate treatment in order to buy time for his underlings to rescue him. The detective in charge sees through his scheme but decides to play along so as to capture his whole gang once and for all.

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  • Poster for The White Storm 2: Drug Lords

    The White Storm 2: Drug Lords 2019

    A financial tycoon, once a triad member, tries to eradicate the drug market while an old accomplice aims to be Hong Kong's first drug lord.

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  • Poster for Across the Furious Sea

    Across the Furious Sea 2023

    A murder case reveals unknown secrets of the killer and the victim.

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  • Poster for A Place Called Silence

    A Place Called Silence 2024

    Chen Yutong, a girl's middle school student, was bullied at school, but her mother Li Han was unable to save her daughter from the "hell." Everyone around her turned a blind eye, and a collective silence brewed greater violence.

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  • Poster for Line Walker 2: Invisible Spy

    Line Walker 2: Invisible Spy 2019

    A car crash sparks a war between local police and an international terrorist organization.

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  • Poster for The Rescue

    The Rescue 2020

    A rescue unit within the Chinese Coast Guard are forced to overcome their personal differences to resolve a crisis.

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  • Poster for Battle of Memories

    Battle of Memories 2017

    A man becomes involved in a memory manipulation operation to try and regain lost memories. He thinks the exercise may help repair his failed marriage, but accidentally ends up with the mind of a serial killer.

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  • Poster for A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop

    A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop 2009

    Wang is a gloomy, cunning and avaricious noodle shop owner in a desert town in China. His neglected, sharp-tongued wife is involved in a secret affair with Li, one of Wang’s employees. A timid man, Li reluctantly keeps the gun his lover has bought to kill her husband. But Wang is watching their every move. He bribes patrol officer Zhang to murder the illicit couple. It seems like a perfect plan: the affair will come to a cruel, bloody but satisfying end or so he thinks. The equally wicked Zhang has an agenda of his own. As the plot twists, more blood will flow, and ever greater violence will erupt.

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  • Poster for Sacrifice

    Sacrifice 2010

    For generations the Zhao family has wielded power, until their mortal enemy TU’AN GU slaughters the entire clan, determined to wipe out their influence forever. But one Zhao baby survives hidden by CHENG YING the doctor who delivered him. When Tu’an Gu learns of the baby’s escape he seizes every infant in the city, vowing to kill them all unless the Zhao baby is surrendered. As the tyrant’s soldiers arrive at Cheng Ying’s home the frantic doctor hides his wife with their own baby whilst surrendering the Zhao child as his own. But his family is discovered; his baby is presumed to be the Zhao heir and murdered along with his wife for harboring the infant. Now set on revenge Cheng Ying enrolls the Zhao orphan into the service of the Tu’an Gu household, plotting to use him as an instrument of vengeance when he comes of age.

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  • Poster for Running on Karma

    Running on Karma 2003

    A monk turned body-builder, with the gift to see into people's lives, befriends a female cop, and uses his gift to change the force of Karma and her destiny.

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  • Poster for Moscow Mission

    Moscow Mission 2023

    Tough Chinese detectives go on a mission to Moscow to hunt down ruthless robbers who have been plaguing the trans-Siberian railway with violence and chaos.

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  • Poster for The Viral Factor

    The Viral Factor 2012

    Agent Jon contemplates leaving the force until he learns his brother is working as a mercenary for a former colleague who betrayed their team.

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  • Poster for That Demon Within

    That Demon Within 2014

    By a strange twist of fate, dutiful Hong Kong policeman Dan saves the life of the leader of a violent gang of armed robbers. When they commit another crime, Dan is determined to put an end to their activities. He works with the leader, whom the gang had betrayed, to engineer a plan to wreak havoc within the gang and let the gangsters kill one another. But it becomes increasingly obvious to Dan and to his colleagues that Dan is suffering from a severe mental disorder, and Dan finds that instead of upholding the law as a righteous police officer, he has now become a fugitive wanted for murder.

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  • Poster for The Shadow Play

    The Shadow Play 2019

    Tang Yijie, the Construction Committee Director, falls off from rooftop and dies in a demolition riot. Yang Jiadong, a young police officer starts his investigation and finds that Tang's death is tied up with another case several years ago. Soon he is framed and suspended from duty, but he never gives up.

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  • Poster for Beast Stalker

    Beast Stalker 2008

    Sergeant Tong is wracked with guilt after he unwittingly kills a young girl whilst capuring a criminal named Cheung. When the girl's sister is later kidnapped in a ploy to get Cheung released, Sergeant Tong vows to find and rescue her before she comes to harm.

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  • Poster for Extraordinary Mission

    Extraordinary Mission 2017

    An undercover police officer attempts to take down a drug trafficking syndicate from the inside.

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  • Poster for Fireflies in the Sun

    Fireflies in the Sun 2021

    A story of Lin Rilang, a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart, gives all his efforts to collect money for his son's operation.

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  • Poster for The Stool Pigeon

    The Stool Pigeon 2010

    Living in the guilt of sacrificing his informant in a previous operation, Criminal Intelligence Inspector Don Lee is wary when his superior orders him to send another informant to spy on the criminal operations of Barbarian, a vicious gangster plotting a jewelry heist. He seeks ex-convict Ghost, who agrees to work for Don despite vowing to go straight since he's desperately in need of money to repay a debt and save his sister. Ghost's driving skills help him infiltrate Barbarian's gang and earn his trust, but by feeding information to Don and hooking up with Barbarian's girlfriend Dee, Ghost is pushing himself into a tight and deadly corner...

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  • Poster for Chasing the Dragon II: Wild Wild Bunch

    Chasing the Dragon II: Wild Wild Bunch 2019

    Based on real-life crimes that terrorized Hong Kong in the 1990s, Logan (Tony Leung Ka-Fai) is the head of leading a notorious human trafficking gang, abducting the children of Hong Kong's elite. Police forces decide to send in Sky (Louis Koo), a Hong Kong undercover agent whose mission is to infiltrate and save the hostages, all while bringing the gang and their leader to justice.

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  • Poster for Are You Lonesome Tonight?

    Are You Lonesome Tonight? 2021

    On a dark night, Xueming hits a pedestrian with his car and flees the scene. Desperate to escape his feelings of guilt, he decides to approach the dead man's wife, Mrs. Liang. He develops an ambiguous relationship with the widow, while a policeman tries to resolve the investigation that will change his life forever.

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  • Poster for Out of Inferno

    Out of Inferno 2013

    On the hottest day in 50 years, a serious fire incident happened to a busy commercial tower, a gaggle of fire fighters with an indestructible enthusiasm are going to save lives.

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  • Poster for Hide and Seek

    Hide and Seek 2016

    A man lives in a lovely apartment with his wife and 2 children. He is obsessed with cleanliness, has strange dreams and struggles with a mystery in his past. He goes to a bad part of town hunting for a long lost brother, leaving his wife and children in their car. As he tries to get cooperation from neighbors, the wife finds her children are missing. A stranger wearing a dark motorcycle helmet appears, frightening her. As the story unfolds this stranger follows them becoming more and more threatening.

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  • Poster for The Devotion of Suspect X

    The Devotion of Suspect X 2017

    Based on Keigo Higashino’s award-winning novel, THE DEVOTION OF SUSPECT X follows a professor (Wang Kai) assisting in a murder investigation, only to find that a longtime rival and friend (Zhang Luyi) from his early university days may be involved.

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  • Poster for Tik Tok

    Tik Tok 2016

    When a bombing occurs during a soccer match between China and South Korea, the two countries are embroiled in a fierce cat-and-mouse chase.

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