David Lam Tak-Luk

Directing

David Lam Tak-Luk

Hong Kong Director.

Acting credits

Twin Dragons poster
6.9

Identical twins are separated at birth, one becoming a streetwise mechanic, and the other an acclaimed classical concert conductor. Finally meeting in adulthood, they're mistaken for the other and entangled in each other's worlds.

Twin Dragons

1992

The Secret poster
6.1

A tangled murder mystery unfolds amid a complex love triangle. As conflicting witness accounts emerge, the truth about the victim and key suspects is revealed, leading investigators down a dark and twisty path where nothing is as it seems.

The Secret

1979

The True Hero poster
8.0

An ex-con has spent the last ten years of his life in prison for defending the lives of his best friend and his best friend's sister. While in jail he learns to become a teacher's aide. In school he comes across these troubled teens who start hanging around a sleazy low-level triad that runs a video arcade, luring kids by exchanging games for drug running. He eventually befriends the kids pissing off the triad who gets him fired by digging up dirt on his past. But he doesn't care, he proposes to his girlfriend and she says yes but a student is still held under the grasp of the triad. So he goes back into action to try and free the kid and ridding the neighborhood of the sleazy scumbag. Can he reach the kid and change the kid's ways? Will the ex-con and his girl live happily ever after?

The True Hero

1994

The Wild Ones poster
9.0

Social worker Sandy emigrated to Canada with her father when she was young. With the encouragement of her father, she decided to come back to Hong Kong to develop her career. Her father also has a mission to find his missing wife.

The Wild Ones

1989

Dealer/Healer poster
5.9

The movie is based on a true story about a repented gangster preaching the word of God and guiding his brotherhood to turn over a new leaf. Chen once was the leader of the famous gang "The 13 Tsz Wan Shan", he lost his family, lovers, brothers and finally ended up imprisoned for his drug abuse and trafficking. After jail, he devoted himself to save the lost fellows and was selected as "The JCI Hong Kong Ten Outstanding Young Persons". Being respected by the world, Chen is always asked to solve the most difficult situations between evil and good. People give him a nickname "The Fixer". However, there are two sides of a coin, Chen can work out any problem of others, but he does not know how to deal with his personal knot with his love, with whom he has had guilty conscience all his life. Can he fix it eventually?

Dealer/Healer

2017

Rebel from China poster
10.0

Prolific action director Woo proves his thespian mettle on screen as a destitute, desperate Chinese defector who, with his brother in tow, tries to find a foothold in the Hong Kong underworld.

Rebel from China

1990

Blue Lightning poster
8.0

Danny Lee is a retired cop investigating the murder of his wife, witnessed only by his son.

Blue Lightning

1991

City Squeeze poster
7.5

Wong is a supervisor at Yau's firm, he is often taken advantage of because of his integrity and timidity. Yau has struck rich because of his wife's wealth. One day on an inspection tour, he's stunned by a receptionist, Fung. He then begins to date her. Most of the male staff in the firm is interested in Fung, including Wong. But he hasn't the courage to approach her.

City Squeeze

1989

Headlines poster
8.0

A rookie reporter is trying to overcome his lack of experience. An uptight reporter is seeking to find the good in people, and willing to forgive and forget the insults of her job. A middle-aged reporter uses his connections through many higher offices to make his stories come together. Dealing with modern journalism, the movie tries to do justice to both sides of the newspaper industry. On one side, the reporters are trying to do a good job in reporting the news, and for some, bringing resolution to problems. On the other side, the "victims" of reporters, who believe they are entitled to their privacy, are preventing the reporters from doing their job.

Headlines

2001

The Happenings poster
8.0

A group of teenagers stop at a service station after a leaving a disco. In a fight resulting from their inability to pay, the staff on duty are killed by the group, which leads to a desperate night of cat and mouse with the police.

The Happenings

1980

Behind the camera

S Storm poster
5.7

A suspect is killed while the ICAC team is investigating illegal soccer gambling in Hong Kong.

S Storm

2016

G Storm poster
5.2

Follows an investigator as he prevents a terrorist attack during a symposium held by Hong Kong's Independent Commission Against Corruption. He later finds it has links to human trafficking in Thailand.

G Storm

2021

P Storm poster
6.4

Liu Yue Ping reports to the ICAC about a rich 2G Cao Yuen Yuen who bribed officers of the Hong Kong Correctional Services (HKCS) from inside the prison. William Luk decides to infiltrate the prison as an inmate to conduct his investigation, while his partner Ching Tak Ming and Chief Inspector Lau Po-keung back him up from the outside.

P Storm

2019

Z Storm poster
6.0

ICAC principal investigator William Luk takes his job seriously, and he needs every last scintilla of support from his team to take on the powerful and cunning Supt Wong, who is corrupt to the core. Wong is an enthusiastic tool of the monstrous Malcolm Wu, a cowboy big-time share trader who will stop at nothing to secure a large slice of the upcoming float of the HK government pension fund, worth billions.

Z Storm

2014

Women's Prison poster
5.6

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 Killer's Love poster
7.0

A killer fails to assassinate his target and attempts to escape from pursuing bodyguards. With the help of a woman he runs into in the hotel, he is able to escape detection by pretending to be a gigolo. Later, he becomes a tenant in her house. Still believing him to be a gigolo, she dislikes him at first. However, they eventually fall in love and he reveals his true past to her. He gives up his life as a killer, but must face one final confrontation from a rival assassin out for revenge.

The Killer's Love

1993

Gigolo and Whore II poster
7.9

Humiliated by Charlene, a rich girl who has acquired the company that Johnson works in, Johnson decides to take revenge on her. To their surprise, Charlene turn to woman again. When Jack nearly succeeds, he finds himself in love with Charlene...

Gigolo and Whore II

1992

Hybrid Storm poster
2.0

ICAC investigator Ching probes cigarette smuggling, catching an ex-boxer, only to be suspended and investigated himself after mysterious bribery funds appear in his father's account.

Hybrid Storm

2025

Call Girl '88 poster
4.8

A depressing tale dealing with five women involved with prostitution and the effects it has on their love and family lives. High class or low class, each is just as sad.

Call Girl '88

1988

Girls Without Tomorrow poster
7.2

"Girls Without a Future" - About five escort girls in misery. Hung is getting to old for the job. Her daughter Ling follow in her footsteps. Wah is Hung's foster daughter. A hot tempered dancer at a night club. Eva is the glamorous top model escort.

Girls Without Tomorrow

1992

L Storm poster
6.8

ICAC Investigator William Luk and JFIU Chief Inspector Lau Po-keung both hit a dead end in their investigation of a bribery case and a money laundering case. In the meantime, William Luk was suspended when model Eva Ng went to Inspector Kenny Ching of ICAC’s Internal Investigation Group L, to file a report against him for accepting a $12M bribe. Lau discovered Luk was set up and whoever framed Luk was connected to his case. He began to suspect the bank manager Thomson Yau was assisting a gangster, Wong Hoi-wo in money laundering activities. When Director Hong Liang of China’s Anti-Corruption & Bribery Bureau (ACBB) provided Lau with important intelligence, it became clear the money laundering activities were connected to a corrupted Vice-Ministerial Level cadre. To clear his name, William Luk put everything on the line…

L Storm

2018

Gigolo and Whore poster
8.0

The popular Pygmalion formula, popularized in the Hollywood musical "My Fair Lady," gets a decidedly Hong Kong cinema twist in this bawdy comedy. Sam, a successful gigolo whose skill with the ladies is only exceeded by his impeccable taste, teaches Chinese mainlander Chung Siu-Hung how to be a call girl.

Gigolo and Whore

1991

Doctor's Heart poster
8.5

An idealistic hospital intern contends with cost-cutting measures and endemic corruption while lusting after a sweet social worker who just happens to be the lover of the facility's crooked administrator.

Doctor's Heart

1990

Goodbye Mammie poster
8.0

After her husband's death, Sally takes over. She works and helps educate her 10-year-old son Andy. Andy is rather weak in character. That worries Sally. One day out of the blue comes the thunderbolt. Sally is to be found to have leukemia and has only six months to live. Turning a deaf ear to Andy's cries, she sends him to an orphanage to learn to be independent. Andy is extremely anguished.

Goodbye Mammie

1986

The Wild Ones poster
9.0

Social worker Sandy emigrated to Canada with her father when she was young. With the encouragement of her father, she decided to come back to Hong Kong to develop her career. Her father also has a mission to find his missing wife.

The Wild Ones

1989

The Tipping Point poster
4.2

A female college student falls from a building in a bizarre manner. Cheng Rui, the deputy captain of the Criminal Investigation Detachment who has just been transferred to the post, is assigned by the deputy director Du Yulin to investigate the hidden story behind the case.

The Tipping Point

2022

The Modern Love poster
6.0

Hong Kong in the 90's - the women's movement and attitudes towards love and sex is depicted through experiences of three women.

The Modern Love

1994

The Modern Love poster
6.0

Hong Kong in the 90's - the women's movement and attitudes towards love and sex is depicted through experiences of three women.

The Modern Love

1994

The Modern Love poster
6.0

Hong Kong in the 90's - the women's movement and attitudes towards love and sex is depicted through experiences of three women.

The Modern Love

1994

The First Shot poster
6.4

During a period of widespread police corruption, Ti Lung is a stubborn cop who takes on both the mob and the political establishment.

The First Shot

1993

The First Shot poster
6.4

During a period of widespread police corruption, Ti Lung is a stubborn cop who takes on both the mob and the political establishment.

The First Shot

1993

Perfect Couples poster
8.0

A group of people all looking for their perfect match.

Perfect Couples

1993

Hong Kong Gigolo poster
4.4

Cheng, Wai & Joe are Gigolos. Cheng, once very popular, is losing his fame due to age. Wai’s profession brings to his family lots of bad luck and destruction. Joe is persuaded to betray his client by videotaping their intercourse for the client’s husband and get involved in a murder case. The life of gigolos with the good things and the wrong side.

Hong Kong Gigolo

1990

Tears and Triumph poster
8.0

Sai Ming Jun (Anita Yuen) is a single mother who works as an office administrator. But when the company gets taken over, her road suddenly becomes an uphill one. The controlling family's son (Sean Lau Ching Wan) takes an immediate shine to her, and begins to woo her, but she resists. Things get worse when his half-brother (Frankie Lam) shows up. He happens to have a controlling interest in the company - and is the father of Ming Jun's child! Will Ming Jun be able to make it through this twisted maze of family politics and hidden agendas? And will she be able to find a true, honorable love?

Tears and Triumph

1994