Maggie Cheung Films Streaming

Maggie Cheung’s impressive filmography is available to stream across several platforms. DP: Jingle Ma.

Maggie Cheung came out of retirement seclusion to do an Olay beauty ad and her IMDb has recently added a new project entitled Shi lian zhuan jia with no other information beyond her attachment to star. 

Yet, beloved audiences have enjoyed Cheung’s multifaceted presence, some falling in love with her since playing Jackie Chan’s devoted girlfriend May in the Police Story trilogy. Others were introduced to her through the brilliant Wong Kar-wai’s sumptuous melodramas, mainly the forever praised In The Mood For Love, the ultimate forbidden romance between two married people whose spouses are having an affair. In it, Cheung is a beautiful, observant secretary— wearing twenty different cheongsams throughout the film— balancing her boss’s adultery, her husband’s dalliance, and her own taste of temptation. 

Cheung— born in Hong Kong and raised in England— the first runner up Mrs. Hong Kong beauty pageant winner made her debut in Jing Wong’s 1984 film Prince Charming. Her dynamic performances define incredible range— wise cracking humor, compelling grace, and profound vulnerability, affecting viewers often without verbiage. Her wide expressive eyes tell infinite stories, showcasing phenomenal depth to her many iconic characters. 

A respected award-winning actress breaking barriers, Cheung was the first Chinese actress to win Best Actress at Berlin International Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival in addition to being nominated for a Best Actress Cesar. She has starred in seven films with Tony Leung and six with Brigette Lin, and speaks fluent Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin), French, and English, and has worked with several renowned women directors: Sylvia Chang, Ann Hui, and Clara Law. 

Thus, here are places to find Maggie Cheung films online as of now. 

Maggie reenacts the roles of silent film actress Ruan Lingyu (1910-1935) in Center Stage. DP: Hang-Sang Poon.

Stanley Kwan’s “Center Stage” (1991) and Zhang Yimou’s “Hero” (2002) are on kanopy, the free streaming service offering eclectic film buffs cinema from all over the world with the aid of your library card. Yimou also directed my latest obsession “House of the Flying Daggers” (2004).

May in the original Police Story. DP: Yiu-Tsou Cheung.

May in Police Story 2. DP: Yiu-Tsou Cheung and Yu-Tang Li.

May in Police Story 3: Super Cop. DP: Ardy Lam.

“Police Story” (1985), “As Tears Go By” (1988), “Police Story 2” (1988), “Full Moon in New York” (1989), “Days of Being Wild”(1990), “Farewell China” (1990), “Executioners” (1993), “The Heroic Trio” (1993), “Comrades: An Almost Love Story” (1996), “Irma Vep” (1996), and “In The Mood for Love” (2000) are all streaming on the Criterion Channel.

Li Hung in Farewell China alongside Tony Ka Fai Leung as Zhao Nansan. DP: Jingle Ma.

Lee Fung-Jiau in Full Moon in New York with Sylvia Chang as Wang Hsiung-Ping and Siqin Gaowa as Zhaohong. DP: Bill Wong. 

“The Seventh Curse” (1986), “Twin Dragons” (1992), “Moon Warriors” (1992), and “The Bare-Footed Kid” (1993) are on Tubi— a free streaming service that has been bringing tons of good stuff.

Su Li-zhen In The Mood For Love with Tony Leung as Chow Mo-Wan. DP: Christopher Doyle. 

Anthony Chan’s “A Fishy Story” (1989), Ann Hui’s “Song of the Exile” (1990), and Wong Kar-wai’s “Ashes of Time” (2008) are on rarefilmm, a rich, fascinating archive of treasures. My Letterboxd review of “Song of the Exile” is here.

Maggie Cheung plays a character named Maggie Cheung in Heartbeat 100. DP: Hau-Ming Chan.

Emily in Clean. DP: Eric Gautier.

Kin Lo and Kent Cheng’s horror “Heartbeat 100” (1987) can be found on Internet Archive here. Oliver Assayas’s “Clean” (2001) is on Tubi and YouTube. Stanley Tong’s Police Story 3: Super Cop (1992) is on Pluto TV.