Movies like Hail the Judge (1994)
The best movies like Hail the Judge (1994) are King of Comedy (1999), The God of Cookery (1996) and Golden Chicken (2002). If Hail the Judge hooked you with its comedy and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedChungking Express (1994)8.0/10 from 2,345 votes
- NewestThe Movie Emperor (2024)Released 2024
- In ChineseFlirting Scholar (1993)Also in Chinese
King of Comedy (1999)
Wan Tin-Sau is an actor who cannot seem to catch a break, since his only professional jobs are limited to being a movie extra. As well as being an actor, he is also the head of his village's community center.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe God of Cookery (1996)
The most renowned and feared chef in the world loses his title of God of Cookery because of his pompous attitude. Humbled, he sets out to reclaim his title.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGolden Chicken (2002)
After his attempted robbery runs aground, a thief takes a shine to his would-be victim, a charming prostitute, who begins to tell him her life story.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Tricky Brains (1991)
A trickster-for-hire, known as the Tricky Expert, is hired to ruin the lives of a father and son by making them think that he's a part of the family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Magnificent Scoundrels (1991)
Valentino is a mediocre con artist who crosses paths with Kwan, a fellow con artist. Together, they impersonate various people and create numerous schemes to make money. Meanwhile, gangsters are making a scheme of their own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFight Back to School 3 (1993)
Chow Sing Sing returns, only this time he doesn’t go back to school. Instead, Chow goes undercover as the husband of a wealthy socialite, which doesn’t sit well with his fiancée, who tries to convince Chow to quit working as undercover.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLove on Delivery (1994)
After being humiliated in front of a love interest, delivery boy Ho Kam-An seeks help from a retired martial arts master for self-improvement, unaware that he might actually be a fraud.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAll's Well, End's Well '97 (1997)
Old Mr. Lo has three sons and the youngest one Lo Kung is his favorite. However, Kung does nothing but fool around all day long. Old Mr. Lo is very annoyed about this. The relationship between father and son is thus affected. So on Kung's birthday, his two brothers decide to play a joke on him. They trick him into believing he has won the lottery. Kung is so happy that he spends a tremendous amount of money. When he realizes he is in huge debt, he pretends to go insane and the whole family believes him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGolden Chickensss (2014)
Working as a prostitute since she was 16, Kam has witnessed the highs and lows of Hong Kong over the decades. Kamis now a “madam” who manages a stable of high-end prostitutes, entertaining and hosting parties for rich men. She has seen it all. On the surface she embraces the prosperity of the ‘New HK’ but like countless middle-class HK citizens, she laments the lossof the old Hong Kong that once belonged to the people. Over the hill mob boss, Gordon, was put behind bars before the Hong Kong Handover in 1997. Gordon’s appearance and mindset are still stuck in the colonial past. Recently released from prison, he is unable to cope with the New Hong Kong. His sole source of solace is his old flame, Kam.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Flirting Scholar (1993)
A scholar in search of true love. Disguising himself as a houseboy, he indentures himself to a rich family in order to pursue the ravishing servant girl who has stolen his heart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGod of Gamblers (1989)
Ko Chun, a renowned gambler, loses his memory in an accident and starts behaving like a child. Little Knife, an amateur gambler, offers him shelter and realizes that he has a penchant for gambling.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLawyer Lawyer (1997)
Stephen Chow plays a selfish yet in some places kind hearted barrister who tricks his servant in doing things for his own benefit. Eric Kot playing the servant is misguided by what he thinks is love and leaves Chow vowing that he will never need Chow's help again in life. Shortly afterwards Kot gets into some big trouble (due to be executed) with the British and calls on Chow for help. Chow tries to help his client, but is fish out of water when he has to fight this court room case according to western rules.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRob-B-Hood (2006)
For never-do-well compulsive gambler Fong, there's only one thing more fearsome than debtors at his doorstep - having to coax a crying baby. But what if the baby becomes his golden goose to fend off his debtors? Can he overcome his phobia of diapers, milk bottles, and cloying lullabies?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGung Ho (1986)
When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of mediating the assimilation of two clashing corporate cultures. At one end is the Japanese plant manager and the sycophant who is angling for his position. At the other, a number of disgruntled long-time union members struggle with the new exigencies of Japanese quality control.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSummer Snow (1995)
Tells the story of the relationship between a widower with Alzheimer's disease and his daughter-in-law, May Sun, who is a housewife in her forties trying cope with the upheavals in her family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Chungking Express (1994)
Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Movie Emperor (2024)
In an attempt to win back the public's interest, has-been Hong Kong film star Lau Wai-chi makes a comeback film with a major director. To prepare for his role as a peasant farmer in the 1960s, he travels to the mainland China countryside to experience rural life there, but his arrogance triggers a series of farces.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Legend of Drunken Master (1994)
Returning home with his father after a shopping expedition, Wong Fei-hung is unwittingly caught up in the battle between foreigners who wish to export ancient Chinese artifacts and loyalists who don't want the pieces to leave the country. Fei-hung must fight against the foreigners using his Drunken Boxing style, and overcome his father's antagonism as well.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLove on a Diet (2001)
A depressed, obese woman tries to lose weight in order to win back her ex-boyfriend with the help of a fellow Hong Konger whom she met in Japan.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisForbidden City Cop (1996)
An imperial agent gets ridiculed for his various inventions, until his supportive wife encourages him to attend a conference, which's actually a trap to kill all the doctors serving the emperor, where his crazy inventions come in handy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAll's Well, Ends Well (1992)
Three brothers living with their father fib and play pranks to win parental approval for themselves and their romances.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFirst Love: The Litter on the Breeze (1997)
Faced with the task of creating a film about first love for his producer Wong Kar-wai, Kot ruminates on his creative process, his rejected ideas, and finally his two chosen tales, about a sleepwalker guided through the night by a lonely admirer, and a married convenience store owner faced with the vengeful first love that he once rejected.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Peking Opera Blues (1986)
In 1913 Beijing, three fierce women—disguised rebel Tsao Wan, jewel-seeking Sheung Hung, and opera heiress Pai Niu—embark on a daring quest filled with intrigue and betrayal, challenging societal norms amidst political turmoil and the vibrant world of Peking Opera.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAll About Ah-Long (1989)
Ah-Long, a father living a low-class lifestyle, while trying to raise his son, Porky. The strong bond between father and son is tested when a chance encounter from Ah-Long's ex-girlfriend changes the course of their lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAll for the Winner (1990)
Sing, a dumb, lovable mainlander with supernatural powers comes to China to visit his uncle Tat. When it's revealed that Sing can see through objects, Tat employs him as "The Saint of Gamblers," and proceeds to set him loose in the gambling world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSwimming to Cambodia (1987)
Spalding Gray sits behind a desk throughout the entire film and recounts his exploits and chance encounters while playing a minor role in the film 'The Killing Fields'. At the same time, he gives a background to the events occurring in Cambodia at the time the film was set.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Article 20 (2024)
Tells the story of prosecutor Han Ming who is involved in a difficult case where the intentional injury of people is turned into a legitimate defense.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Am Not Madame Bovary (2016)
Li Xuelian, a woman from the countryside is falsely accused by her husband of having an affair. To defend herself, Li moves from her small town to the big city until she reached the capital.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChloe and Theo (2015)
A young woman, Chloe, living by her wits on the streets of New York City, has a chance meeting with a wise Inuit Eskimo, Theo, who was sent to New York by his elders to provide a message to the people of the world – We either change our destructive was or be destroyed by them. Chloe, who has been searching for something to believe in, becomes inspired by Theo and , with the help of a kind lawyer, Monica, the three of them present Theo’s story to the United Nations in hopes of creating a better future for all of us.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisHooking Up (2020)
Bailey and Darla embark upon a misguided and mutually deceitful form of therapy, one in which they must drive across the country, re-enacting Darla's colorful history as a sex addict. As their true motivations for the road trip come to light, the unlikely pair force one another to confront their issues, discovering that there might actually be more to love than just sex.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Hail the Judge?
The closest matches to Hail the Judge are King of Comedy (1999), The God of Cookery (1996) and Golden Chicken (2002). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Hail the Judge?
People who watched Hail the Judge most often go on to King of Comedy (1999), The God of Cookery (1996) and Golden Chicken (2002).
What is the highest-rated movie like Hail the Judge?
Chungking Express (1994), rated 8.0/10 by 2,345 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Hail the Judge?
The Movie Emperor (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Chinese movies like Hail the Judge?
Yes: Flirting Scholar (1993), Summer Snow (1995) and The Movie Emperor (2024).
How are movies similar to Hail the Judge chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Hail the Judge, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.