Maria Cordero

Acting

Maria Cordero

Born

1954-02-18 (72)

Place of birth

Macau, China

Known for

Acting

Credits

72 titles

Mariam Maria Cordero Bibi, MH (Chinese: 瑪俐亞), nicknamed Fat Mama (Chinese: 肥媽), is a Macanese singer, actress, TV Host and DJ based in Hong Kong. She also has her own cooking show, Maria's Kitchen (肥媽私房菜) on Cable TV.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 13 titles

From Vegas to Macau III poster
4.1

A gambler is targeted for murder during the wedding of his daughter to his protege.

From Vegas to Macau III

2016

From Vegas to Macau poster
5.2

Retired gambling legend Ken returns to Macau, only to be drawn back into action when his daughter becomes entangled in a global mafia scheme. Using his unmatched skills, he must stop a dangerous plot and protect his loved ones.

From Vegas to Macau

2014

72 Tenants of Prosperity poster
5.4

Kung and Kin's rivalry goes way back to the seventies when they fought over the same girl, who eventually became Kung's wife. Now they run competing phone stores right across from each other on Mongkok's busiest street, and stretch their minds trying to outdo each other with crazy promotions.

72 Tenants of Prosperity

2010

All's Well, Ends Well poster
4.6

Romantic comedy following four couples who meet through a dating website. Four men go on a heroic mission to help four women and wind up experiencing a series of mishaps.

All's Well, Ends Well

2012

Delete My Love poster
6.6

So Boring, a nobody who has no love from everyone except from childhood sweetheart Bobo, receives a weird text message one day, saying: Ever thought of deleting those you dislike?

Delete My Love

2014

I Love Hong Kong 2012 poster
4.9

Kwok Ching is a soon-to-retire television weatherman who really has long aspired to be a news anchor. At home, he's single-handedly brought up three children, but they are fed up with him meddling in their lives. His eldest daughter Mei Mei is a successful lawyer, and married to househusband Yao Ming. Tomboyish second daughter Ching Ching manages a supermarket and is in love with sissy promoter Lok Yi Nga. The youngest son Fu Shing is an otaku enamored with beautiful starlet Vivian and he unwittingly becomes the romantic rival of billionaire Roberto. Meanwhile, struck by the shocking news of the world's impending doom, Kwok Ching is determined that he must reunite his family before it's too late...

I Love Hong Kong 2012

2012

Good Take, Too! poster
9.0

An omnibus of 4 short stories, each of them occurring in different corners of our society, but all of which encompass the same themes: courage, determination, pursuance and hope.

Good Take, Too!

2016

Mr. & Mrs. Gambler poster
4.8

Two compulsive gamblers struggle to quit their habit and raise a child.

Mr. & Mrs. Gambler

2012

MBA Partners poster
3.6

Lu Zhenxi had a dream since her childhood, to become just like her uncle, a successful entrepreneur. But when her "Big American Dream" comes down crashing, she is left rejected, and returns to China. Now after a fateful meeting with her idol Professor Meng, she must find it in herself to take a second shot.

MBA Partners

2016

Lucid Dreams poster
1.0

Lucid Dreams is an episodic film which the director recounts four of his own dreams: Don wants to repay his debt by arranging a fake wedding; Fan, a white collar, learns to let go of his ego after struggling with love and work; a writer named Tong reunites with her long-lost mother; a driving instructor, Chung, is inspired by four 'ghost ladies' and starts to believe again in his musical talent.

Lucid Dreams

2018

Passion Island poster
4.5

The comedy of the year. This wannabe magical romance-drama is one of the most illogical films ever and the actors, if not director Kam Kwok-Leung, may be aware of it. Featuring CGI tears and paintings of corn-eating monkeys. The highlight: Chang Chen pretending to be Korean.

Passion Island

2012

得意羊羊迎新春 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

得意羊羊迎新春

2015

厨缘 poster
NR

chinese film

厨缘

2010

2000s · 10 titles

Invisible Waves poster
5.9

After inadvertently killing his girlfriend, a man flees Macau for Thailand in an attempt to cope with his guilt, and avoid possible arrest. But the relocation doesn't prevent his problems from following him, as his new friends could be potential enemies.

Invisible Waves

2006

Fing's Raver poster
3.0

A parking attendant uncovers greed and corruption as he works to clear his brother of false charges.

Fing's Raver

2001

Look for a Star poster
5.3

Wealthy construction mogul Sam Ching and cabaret dancer Milan Sit fall madly in love with one another despite the class differences that would keep many couples apart. However, what Sit doesn't know is that Ching is the man responsible for razing a building representing cherished memories from her childhood.

Look for a Star

2009

Champions poster
5.1

Set in 1930s China, the film details the trials of a group of athletes who desire to compete in the Olympic Games. There’s a snag, however. The full amount required to send them abroad for the games is 600,000 dollars, and the government is only sponsoring half. It falls to the athletes to raise the rest themselves, and they start by saving every last penny they earn. They also attempt to raise the money through a variety of fund-raising activities, including street performances, networking for donations, and probably a bake sale, too. After deciding to fund their own way to the games, the athletes take to the streets to perform all manner of athletic demonstrations and martial arts moves in an energetic and impromptu street fair.

Champions

2008

Men Suddenly in Black poster
6.1

Four men attempt to fool around as much as they can before their wives return from a 14-hour Buddhism trip to Thailand.

Men Suddenly in Black

2003

Money Suckers poster
9.0

So's family lives in financial despair. They always argue about money. One day So Kam Po accidentally picked up a briefcase which has $10 million inside. According to the law, Kam Po owns that 10 million if no one claims it in 6 months. Kam Po wants to pull his family together, so he buys a cafe from his brother Hoi. For the next six months, the family's relationships improve as they all chip in to run the cafe together. Time flies when you're having fun--and when there's a $10 million pot of gold at the end of your rainbow. Will So's pot of gold be there waiting for him once his waiting period is over?

Money Suckers

2002

Forever Yours poster
7.5

Forever Yours is a Comedy starring Ricky Hui

Forever Yours

2004

The Miracle Box poster
7.5

Joanna wanted to become a physician. After she meets Albert, a cancer survivor and fellow doctor, her life changes. Albert's cancer has returned. He encourages Joanna to carry on. He believes that God placed her here for a reason and will eventually reveal his plans. After his passing, Joanna takes up his mettle and becomes a brilliant doctor. Her self-sacrifice became an inspiration to millions in the grip of a deadly epidemic.

The Miracle Box

2004

I Want to Get Married poster
7.5

Fish store owner May is thirty and single, so when Chris, a millionaire, appears, May's family is only too eager to send her off. May is crushed when she finds out Chris's only reason for loving her was her resemblance to his ex-girlfriend Linda.

I Want to Get Married

2003

Let's Love Hong Kong poster
3.8

Fantasies, dreams, tears, and fears of four women chasing and watching each other in post-colonial Hong Kong. They chase, seduce, resist, and fantasize about each other. A Hong Kong that is as fake as real provides the perfect setting for their games, secrets, screams and tears. “Made-in-China Chan” (in Cantonese: Chan Kwok Chan) works as a stripper in cyberspace, but she often has headaches. Her only solace is from a Mainlander migrant who echoes what Chan does but with a better attitude. Nicole has money and power but she depends on “Made-in-China” to play with virtually at night in order to get some sleep. Zero does not have anything, but she knows what she wants and is determined to get it. Four women meet in a Hong Kong somewhere in the future. How do their desires manifest themselves in this Forbidden City? From totally different backgrounds, they look like they have very different problems, but do they?

Let's Love Hong Kong

2002

1990s · 17 titles

Chinese Box poster
5.8

The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of China.

Chinese Box

1997

Lost and Found poster
7.0

A woman diagnosed with leukemia meets a Chinese-Scottish sailor who she loses contact with. In order to find him she enlists Worm, a man who runs a “lost and found” business, and the two set out to find what she’s looking for.

Lost and Found

1996

The Banquet poster
5.8

Developer Tsang Siu Chi and his agent have bought two of a group of four properties. Rival developer Boss Hung has secured the other two. Both aim to buy all four so they can knock them down and build hotels.

The Banquet

1991

Street Angels poster
5.9

After her gangster boyfriend Walkie Pie skips town to evade a murder rap, beautiful Tung Yen hooks up with a wealthy nightclub owner, Brother Man, only to have her ex return with guns blazing.

Street Angels

1996

Tiger on the Beat 2 poster
6.5

Lam, a middle-aged cop on the verge of retirement, is asked by his sister to find his nephew, Buffalo, a suitable wife, but Buffalo already has designs on an escort, who becomes the target of a drug smuggling syndicate after she witnesses a murder.

Tiger on the Beat 2

1990

97 Aces Go Places poster
4.5

Eternal 25 year-old Alan Tam is a wimpy triad boss who must avenge his dad because he had a heart attack after losing at cards to a pretty cat burglar. For help, he enlists Drunk Shooter, HK’s ace gunman, who’s also an incredible souse. Problem: Christy ripped off wacky triad boss Francis Ng, so he wants her, too. Even worse, Alan just doesn't want to kill Christy because she’s too damn beautiful. Hijinks ensue.

97 Aces Go Places

1997

Thanks for Your Love poster
6.0

Wah (Andy Lau) has an uninhibited romantic nature and is very optimistic. He also loves motorcycles, but he gets into a traffic accident which damages a business of the company he works for and Wah is fired as a result. Lam-lam (Rosamund Kwan) is old-fashioned and conservative. She wants to get married with his boyfriend Michael (Michael Tao), but she overreacts and gets violent when she gets intimate with a man. Because of this, Michael broke up with her. One day, Wah met Lam-lam at a reception of her company. Having lost her love, Lam-lam was determined to make a breakthrough. Using alcohol to boost her courage, Lam-lam uses her tipsiness to seduce Wah. Wah sees his love fortune coming and the two of them hook up creating a seemingly imaginary and real bewildered night.

Thanks for Your Love

1996

Jail House Eros poster
6.1

In Jail House, Blackie has concocted a perfect escape plan. Then wardress 5354 is killed by accident when making love. She becomes the bad ghost, in contrast to the good ghost who dies in a previous escape attempt. Finally, the chief warden, the interior decorators, Blackie and the good ghost come to an agreement. They would get the chief warden's girl friend, the exorcist, to banish the bad ghost. To leave quietly too are Blackie and the good ghost...

Jail House Eros

1990

Hong Kong Adam's Family poster
7.0

Mad mix of comedy and action as a family of thugs and Triads can't see eye to eye and so end up going fist to fist.

Hong Kong Adam's Family

1994

Fatal Love poster
4.3

After being thrown out of the police academy, Debbie Fung (Ellen Chan) gets a new chance but instead the proposition is to go undercover. Accepting the mission to get close to tycoon Lau Fuk Tin (Michael Wong) as he's suspected of a number of murders of women, under the disguise of Maryanne, Debbie quickly gets close to Lau. Going so far as getting almost permanent residence with the man, Debbie witness horrific things on the grounds. Despite, affection starting to develop towards her target.

Fatal Love

1993

To Spy with Love!! poster
6.4

Terry (Teddy Robin), a diminutive rock enthusiast and manager of all-girl band The Playgirls, finds himself caught up in a chaotic espionage caper. After two bumbling Japanese hitmen tear apart a rock bar in search of the spy Yap and a hidden treasure map, Terry is wrongly blamed and storms out. He soon discovers the dying Yap in his car, and with her last breath she conceals the map on one of his posters. As the police close in, Terry falls for Inspector Nina, convinced that she shares his feelings, while spy chief Mak and his incompetent assassins continue their frantic pursuit of the missing map.

To Spy with Love!!

1990

Sexy and Dangerous poster
7.0

Meet Marble, a teenage girl known by all on the streets of Hong Kong as an arcade game wizard. Teamed up with her girl gang of four, Marble gets into many tight situations for the sake of her gangster boyfriend, One.

Sexy and Dangerous

1996

Whores from the North poster
10.0

Four girls from the north work in the same nightclub. The foreman Xian brings the dancers, Qin Na and Maine in Hong Kong, Shiliyangchang, fighting for the dream of prosperity. Each has a different experience, and the end will be tragic and joyous

Whores from the North

1993

Our Neighbour Detective poster
7.0

When Cheng Kam-Fu (Lawrence Ng) reports his wife missing to the police, Detective Lau (Anthony Wong) suspects there’s more to the disappearance than meets the eye. While his colleagues remain uninterested, Lau begins round the clock observation on Fu’s shop/flat, paying particular attention to his mistress, Lo (Li Yu).

Our Neighbour Detective

1995

Gangs '92 poster
5.5

A rich teenager (Aaron Kwok) hangs out with a young gang of pickpockets. After dealing with the wrong guys (Jimmy Lung Fong and Karel Wong), things will turn into violence.

Gangs '92

1992

Second to None poster
7.0

Businessman marries his company's mainland representative. Trouble is, he already has a wife and family back in Hong Kong!

Second to None

1992

The Enigma of Love poster
7.0

Jackie (Jacky Cheung) is the owner of a very shady nightclub, which the cops are itching to shut down. But they haven't been able to catch Jackie red-handed yet due to his trickiness. When Jacky goes so far as to trick a female cop, Tammy (Maggie Cheung), into falling in love with him, the rest of the police force goes bananas, swearing to put an end to his nefarious activities at any cost. But is Jacky actually falling for Tammy and beginning to change his ways? Or is he already in too deep with the cops for that to help his situation?

The Enigma of Love

1993

1980s · 18 titles

City on Fire poster
7.0

Ko Chow is an undercover cop who is under pressure from all sides. His boss, Inspector Lau, wants him to infiltrate a gang of ruthless jewel thieves; his girlfriend wants him to commit to marriage or she will leave Hong Kong with another lover; and he is being pursued by other cops who are unaware that he is a colleague. Chow would rather quit the force, feeling guilty about betraying gang members who have become his friends.

City on Fire

1987

Vampire vs. Vampire poster
6.2

To save the village from paranormal menaces, the One-Eyebrow Priest deals with and battles a host of mysterious creatures including: a little mischievous Chinese vampire; a lustful female ghost; the spirit of a woman murdered by a club owner and a European vampire and his blood-sucking pet bats.

Vampire vs. Vampire

1989

Aces Go Places V: The Terracotta Hit poster
5.4

Two friends who own an investment firm turn to a policeman friend for help when they are framed for robbery by a gang of antiquities smugglers.

Aces Go Places V: The Terracotta Hit

1989

Pedicab Driver poster
6.9

Lo Tung and his friend Malted Candy, pedicab drivers working the streets of Macao, have both fallen in love. The problem is that both their objects of affection - one a baker, the other a prostitute - are working under cruel and lecherous bosses. Somehow, the pair must find a way to win the ladies' hearts and free them from their unpleasant jobs.

Pedicab Driver

1989

The Romancing Star poster
6.0

Wong, a mechanic who falls for a beautiful rich girl played by Maggie Cheung. When Wong finds out his friend also like her, he must fight him for her attention.

The Romancing Star

1987

Women's Prison poster
6.0

A young woman about to get married discovers all too late that her spouse has mafia connections, when violence breaks out during her wedding. Caught up in the crossfire Lynn gets arrested and thrown into a women's prison.

Women's Prison

1988

The Good, The Bad & The Beauty poster
8.5

Director-actor Frankie Chan does multiple duty in the action comedy vehicle The Good, The Bad & The Beauty. Frankie Chan is Inspector Hor Sun Chun, a tough cop investigating a smuggling operation in which airline stewardess Ko Sau Ping (sultry Cherie Chung) is possibly involved. Realizing that she may be in danger, Sau Ping feigns amnesia, and uses Sun Chun's smitten partner Tang Tat Kit (Kent Cheng) as a possible smokescreen. Meanwhile there's action, and plenty of it! A seasoned director, actor, composer and action director, Frankie Chan uses his myriad talents to the nth degree as he combines gunplay, stunts, and laugh-a-minute hijinks in true Hong Kong Cinema action-comedy style!

The Good, The Bad & The Beauty

1987

Little Cop poster
7.6

Ever since he was a child, Lee Chi-kin has been determined to become a police officer, despite the fact that he comes from a family of criminals. As an adult, he joins the police force, where he is first placed with the Narcotics Bureau. During a drug raid operation, he catches a drug dealer. He is later transferred, first to the Anti-Porno Bureau where he falls in love with a call girl, then to the Regional Crime Unit where he works under Inspector Chu. During a drug raid operation, Lee kills drug lord Ng Cheung. Ng's father hires a killer, Thousand Faces Man to take revenge on Lee. After several confrontations, Lee finally brings Thousand Faces Man to justice. The corrupt director of a mental hospital places Lee in the mental hospital for a year, during which time he develops mental disorders. After being discharged from the hospital, he becomes a restaurant waiter.

Little Cop

1989

Bet on Fire poster
6.0

Cherie Chung and Cheung Man are two young women forced into a life of prostitution. Mostly, it's a sensitive melodrama about loyality and female bonding.

Bet on Fire

1988

Mr. Coconut poster
7.0

Lovable Mr. Coconut arrives in town from Hainan China where he lived with his coconuts. Here in the sophisticated urban jungles of Hong Kong. He has finally reunited with his family, as he endures Hong Kong Streets of the late 1980s, filled with stock and property gamblers, heavy mobile phones and others.

Mr. Coconut

1989

Crocodile Hunter poster
9.0

Two cops are partnered together and decide to protect two beautiful women who are actually rivals--one, a woman released from prison, the other, an actress who's been targeted for rape--while in search of escaped murderous convicts.

Crocodile Hunter

1989

Inspector Chocolate poster
6.8

Inspector Chu is an idiot to rival Inspector Clouseau. After he fails to catch a car-park full of thieves he is demoted to the missing persons squad, only to be faced with the kidnapping of the son of the star of a TV cooking show. Inspector Chocolate bungles the case, fails to dance the tango and interferes with the Miss Hong Kong pageant in his attempts to solve the case

Inspector Chocolate

1986

Walk on Fire poster
6.0

Sergeant Kwok Wah (Andy Lau) and Ho Lung (Ray Lui) are both colleagues and best friends. Ho Lung has developed hatred with a gang leader Dick. Dick sends Hung (Cherie Chung) as a bait to kill Ho Lung. Swore to take revenge for his best friend, Kwok Wah works with Ho Lung's partner Mother (Kent Cheng) to unveil the enemy. Kwok Wah saves Hung during an operation and Hung starts to like Kwok Wah. Kwok Wah and Mother follow their plan to capture Dick, but it ends in vain and both of them get into a gunfight. Hung is killed for saving Kwok Wah during the gunfight. Though heart-broken, Kwok Wah and Mother go on fighting the villain...

Walk on Fire

1988

Big Man Little Affair poster
NR

Joseph is an advertising man whose wife and mother in law want a grandson. He is saddled with a loud-mouthed Taiwanese partner, who takes him to Taiwan for a business trip. There, he becomes involved with an apparently sweet Taiwanese woman.

Big Man Little Affair

1989

Mr. Sunshine poster
9.0

Shop assistant in the electronics store, May Bao (Kent Cheng) - good-natured fat man, always ready to help those who need it. Therefore, he decides to help the new store employee, a fat Shan (Maria Cordero), which the evil boss (Richard Ng) forced to jump on the trampoline to the delight of visitors. His plan fails miserably, and Mai Bao, along with Shan, is fired-but the cheerful Mai Bao is accustomed to seeing positive in absolutely any situation.

Mr. Sunshine

1989

King of Stanley Market poster
7.5

Self-styled ladies man Richard Ng gets depressed when all those around him are finding love while he remains single.

King of Stanley Market

1988

You're OK, I'm OK poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

You're OK, I'm OK

1987

Carry On Yakuza poster
9.0

Charlie Chan is a boxer who goes to Japan to take on a local hotshot in the ring. A gang of yakuzas pressure him to take a dive, but Charlie beats his opponent senseless instead, resulting in a life-or-death chase in which Charlie and his coach try to escape from the angry gangsters. They are spared by the yakuza boss Yakoda, and their eagerness to impress him leads them to pretend that they are the leaders of an influential triad organization known as the Marlboro Gang. That gang doesn't really exist, and their ruse only leads them to further endangerment after Yakoda is murdered by one of his employees. Yakoda's widow sends their daughter (who speaks Cantonese) to Hong Kong so that she won't be next on the hit list, and Charlie -- still pretending to be a powerful triad gangster -- agrees to protect her. He and his friends must save the girl from assassination attempts and kidnapping along the way, as well as coming to the rescue of Yakoda's widow.

Carry On Yakuza

1989

Series credits

Infinity and Beyond poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Infinity and Beyond

2022

Good Cheap Eats poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Good Cheap Eats

2013

Midlife Sing & Shine! poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Midlife Sing & Shine!

2022

星光熠熠耀保良 poster
NR

The annual "Starlight Shines Over Po Leung Kuk" will be held at the Hung Hom Sports Centre in Hong Kong. Multiple singers from both Hong Kong and Taiwan will continue to perform in the program, calling on everyone to contribute to the charity and donate to support Po Leung Kuk community services.

星光熠熠耀保良

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Recipes to Live By poster
NR

Born with a golden tongue and able to distinguish between good and bad dishes from one bite, Ding Yat San is upset that his adoptive father Ding Yat has forbidden him from being a chef. When he hears about a cooking contest in Yangzhou, he asks Shek Yau to disguise as a man and substitute for him in the competition. As a result, he wins the admiration of famous chef Koi Siu Tin. Ding Yat San and Koi Siu Tin work together to create new dishes, which helps Koi Siu Tin win the Golden Lotus Flower, culinary's highest honour, many times in a row. As they become famous, they meet new friends who are also interested in food, like the daughter of a wealthy family Tung Ming Ming and a famous female chef Dai Ng Yuen.

Recipes to Live By

2017

Wonder Bar poster
NR

Wonder Bar is a co-production of Hong Kong's Asian Television and Emperor Film Group. The series has a total of 60 episodes, the only work of the Emperor Television Department, all live shooting

Wonder Bar

2000

When Grandpa Meets Maria poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

When Grandpa Meets Maria

2023

Wild, You Eat poster
NR

"Fat Mama" Maria Cordero's cooking knows no bounds! After over two years of the pandemic, many Hongkongers have gotten closer to nature. In this show, (No. 6) and Maria Cordero take on a new challenge and move their cooking show to the wilderness. What surprises will they have in store? They search for wild ingredients, fish, dig for clams, collect green mussels, and catch river fish. They also obtain fresh "wild" ingredients from villagers and use simple cooking tools to prepare healthy and delicious dishes. Whether on a secluded island or a beautiful backyard, they can still cook up Mama's flavor!

Wild, You Eat

2022

Midnight Lovers poster
NR

It will also be intertwined in the play, telling the story of the "mother-daughter love" of the joyful place, which shares weal and woe and the unfortunate story of the prostitute's abandonment of Miss Dancer

Midnight Lovers

1995

在家宴客60道菜 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

在家宴客60道菜

2026

全民居家煮嘢食 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

全民居家煮嘢食

2022

奇迹小店 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

奇迹小店

2023