Charlie Cho Cha-Lee

Acting

Charlie Cho Cha-Lee

Born

1950-03-24 (76)

Place of birth

Hong Kong, China

Known for

Acting

Credits

64 titles

Charlie Cho Cha-Lee, a legendary actor in Hong Kong Category III films, especially during the 1990s. His over-acting approach can be regarded as one of the trademarks of Hong Kong erotic films. He also worked in many comedy and horror movies.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 2 titles

2000s · 4 titles

The Peeper's Story: The Tattoo Master poster
1.0

The story of the tattoo artist Ching and the photographer Sei are good friends. They often go to voyeur together, even more famous for tattoos, and persuade girls to take sexy photos of them. In one encounter, he met the wife of the rich man Fok Cha. Because Fok Cha thought that his wife had committed adultery with Ching and Sei, he sent someone to kill her, and even blamed Ching, which made Ching very distressed...

The Peeper's Story: The Tattoo Master

2003

Electrical Girl poster
5.0

Centers around a horny young woman who has electrical genitals. When young Jan gets sexually aroused, she emits bolts of electricity from various orifices. Any unfortunate males in the vicinity of her nude form invariably end up singed and smoky, and that’s if they’re lucky. It also seems that Jan sees visions of lottery balls as she climaxes. In order to have a premonition of all six lottery balls, Jan sets out to find a lover who can really rock her world.

Electrical Girl

2001

City of Desire poster
5.7

Sandra (Sandra Ng) is in for a serious dose of culture shock when she returns from her studies abroad to her home in Macau, where her father is the head of a major network of underground gambling, prostitution, and other assorted super-vices. Sandra's father is putting on the pressure for her to inherit his morally-corrupt throne, but her morals dictate that she have nothing to do with it. However, Sandra's childhood friend Josie (Josie Ho) has gotten herself into serious debt and desperately needs any help Sandra can offer. Will Sandra help her friend at the cost of her own morals? It's now up to her to decide between upholding her own beliefs and making serious ethical sacrifices for the sake of her friend.

City of Desire

2001

Night Club On Fire poster
NR

Competition heats up the night in this drama about the ladies who work at the Golden Pond club. Tensions rise as the owner of a rival establishment tries to lure in customers by persuading the Golden Pond's madam and her lovelies to defect to the Phoenix club. The situation escalates, and it's not long before the Golden Pond girls' lives are in danger.

Night Club On Fire

2003

1990s · 30 titles

Hidden Desire poster
5.3

David is sitting in a bar, musing over why he has bedded and left five or six of Asia's loveliest women in such a short time.

Hidden Desire

1991

Tricky Brains poster
7.1

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.

Tricky Brains

1991

Seven Sexual Maniacs poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

Seven Sexual Maniacs

1994

High Risk poster
6.7

After failing to save his wife from 'The Doctor', Kit Li is working as a bodyguard and secret stunt double for the cowardly martial arts film star Frankie Lane. Frankie attends an exhibition of the crown jewels of Russia at a Hong Kong hotel, and when the Doctor's gang take over the building in attempt to steal them, Kit is the only thing standing in their way. Will Frankie regain his courage? Will romance blossom between Kit and the nosy reporter? Who has the best Kung-Fu?

High Risk

1995

The Golden Lotus: Love and Desire poster
6.6

A corrupt local official, Xi Men Qing, who lusts after women and money, pursues his brother's young wife, Lee Ping Er. Ping finds Men attractive, and under her drunken husband's nose, she and Men work their way through the illustrations of a pillow book, the "Golden Lotus." Men pursues the same feat with his fourth concubine, Pan Jing Lien, who lives in the compound next to Ping. Jing's jealousy compounds a tale of humiliation, childbirth, death, and depravity. Does karma or enlightenment await anyone?

The Golden Lotus: Love and Desire

1991

Picking Up Girls poster
4.5

The misadventures of a family of sex maniacs.

Picking Up Girls

1994

Queen of Underworld poster
4.8

Popular Hong Kong actress Amy Yip plays Sister Har -- a seminal figure in 1960s and '70s Hong Kong nightlife -- in this biographical film that follows the scenester's rise and fall from the upper echelons of society to the glamour and excess of Hong Kong's teeming underworld. A truly fascinating portrait of the allure and excess that were part of the fabric of Asia's favorite playground.

Queen of Underworld

1991

Pretty Woman poster
4.3

While working alone late at the office one night, Veronica is raped by a returning male colleague, who accidentally kills her in the process (she falls back and hits her head on a sharp object). Later that same evening, he comes across a bar hostess who looks identical to the woman that he has just murdered. He eventually talks her into showing up for work in Veronica's place on the very next day, and handing in her resignation. Unfortunately for him, she is persuaded to stay, and decides to continue impersonating the deceased secretary.

Pretty Woman

1991

The Musical Vampire poster
5.9

A crazy white scientist resurrects a corpse with a werid chemical creating a super hopping ghost. The only thing that can somewhat control it is the sound of music. A Taoist and his two assistants try and stop it from destroying the countryside.

The Musical Vampire

1992

Take Me poster
4.5

Milk's husband dies on their wedding night while having sex. He returns as a ghost as she attempts to get her life back on track whilst choosing between two new men in her life.

Take Me

1991

Sex and Curse poster
4.8

Women keep throwing themselves at Charlie, but he falls for charming masseur Si Wai, who is beholden to a cute little idol who once saved her from being raped by a gangster. Unfortunately, the ghost of the gangster goes after Charlie, making him have sex with the women he is obliged to show around for work purposes.

Sex and Curse

1992

Forced Nightmare poster
5.5

A female psychic leaves her mainland home to visit Hong Kong. Along the way her bus crashes killing everyone on board except her as her powers protected her but it also causes the dead passengers to re-aminate. So, she seeks the help of a famous Tao Priest to put the dead back to rest.

Forced Nightmare

1992

Wizard's Curse poster
6.0

Lam Ching Ying is a Taoist wizard who goes to Thailand to help defeat a pair of black magic criminals (Billy Chow and Tsui Man Wah) using huge Taoist charms and good, old-fashioned blood of a black dog. Afterwards, "a fiendish wizard steals the bodies of the two criminals. He anoints them with the sperm of 99 satyrs and the blood collected from the menstrual flow of 99 bitches. The result is the merging of the two bodies into one ultra-powerful, bisexual creature known as the Terrific Vampire. This lustful monster gains knowledge and strength by killing and devouring the brains of victims (the first casualties are the wizard and his assistants).

Wizard's Curse

1992

China Dolls poster
5.2

Tong catches Chiu attempting to rape his wife May (Amy Yip). They scuffle and Tong shoots Chiu dead with Chiu's gun. They flee but Tong is killed in a shootout with police. May begs an officer to take her child, since if he is repatriated he'll have a horrible life. So, the infant son ends up in Hong Kong separated from his mother. Six years pass and May is a hotel maid then gets forced into prostitution. She longs to see her son, who is now a young boy, maybe to fully reunite with him.

China Dolls

1992

Indecent Woman poster
4.6

Upon knowing that her husband purposefully exchanged her body for business, Lam lost her control and killed her husband and devised a plan to lure her husband business partner and murdered him as well, Lam had a good impression in Ka-Wah and in order to get him in hand, she forced his girlfriend to commit suicide but fortunately she escaped and when the police came they found Ka-Wah was tied up on the bed. Upon arrested Lam, it came to the end of a tragic stroy

Indecent Woman

1999

The Demon Wet Nurse poster
6.0

This Category III period drama featuring power struggles and naughty things within the imperial palace walls definitely has effort put forth but immense chunks of plot holes are nowhere near filled up. Much seem missing in the story of poor Ru Yee who applies to be the nurse maid of the Emperor’s son. She gets help to gain access by Wei (Tan Lap-Man) and soon they are both heavily involved inside the palace. She as the nurse maid and he as a eunuch in training. Wei also finds time to murder Ru Yee’s sick husband and child… a fact barely mentioned after it’s happened.

The Demon Wet Nurse

1992

Sweet Peach poster
1.0

An innocent girl falls for the wrong man and is pushed into prostitution and fraud.

Sweet Peach

1993

False Lady poster
5.6

Man is killed in a hit-and-run, but is ordered to return to earth. Unfortunately, he's just been cremated, so he returns in the body of a beautiful woman

False Lady

1992

Liu Jai - Home for the Intimate Ghosts poster
6.8

Very seldom shown erotic story of a cuckolded husband who departs his home and unwittingly becomes included with not one, but two, alluring ghosts. [Rim movies Catalog] Mandy and his spouse (that's right, Mandy is a man) will be an uncommon few under any conditions. Mandy fools around with young women while his spouse is within the home, nevertheless the wife isn't bothered a lot. She is just considering in the job she's offered Mandy, which is .... to frequently check with the neighborhood brothelkeeper, and find away if she's found guys with incredibly difficult manhoods. How hard ? Complicated enough to punch an opening in a sack of grain (ouch !). And one more thing. Mandy and his wife are ghosts. Of course, this means you will find people who are seeking to exorcise them. In between residential disputes and pursued exorcisms, there's acres of nudity and lots of sex.

Liu Jai - Home for the Intimate Ghosts

1991

The Fortune Code poster
6.5

Set in China during the Japanese occupation. A young man breaks out of a POW camp to marry his sweetheart, but finds she is now a spy for the resistance, code-named "Number 3". With the help of "Number 2" he returns to the camp to find "Fortune", an agent who possesses the pass-code to a Swiss bank account with $500 billion intended for the Chinese army.

The Fortune Code

1990

Sex Memoirs of a Playboy poster
NR

After finishing filming, Cao and a group of performers went to the mountain top restaurant to chat. They discussed romance and boasted about their skills in love. Cao, in particular, bragged about his father being a big shot in the romantic scene of bygone days and claimed to have inherited his skills, having had his share of women. Cao recounted various bizarre tales of love-making and desires he had heard, leaving everyone astonished at such peculiar methods. The group decided to test them out right there.

Sex Memoirs of a Playboy

1994

Behind the Pink Door poster
3.1

In a Hong Kong villa, Lyon throws a party celebrating her win at a beauty contest. Come midnight, when her schoolmates Sze-Wan and Nam leave the party to go home, their car suddently breaks down, and six men stop by and kidnap them

Behind the Pink Door

1992

The Gigolo Revelation poster
6.5

A look at Hong Kong's nightlife, where gigolos service women.

The Gigolo Revelation

1994

Hunting Evil Spirit poster
5.2

A tale about a businessman who wants to screw a colleague at work but can't seem to make it happen. He eventually resorts to black magic so that his spirit can rape her since his body can't.

Hunting Evil Spirit

1999

Call Girls '94 poster
4.5

Xiao Lan's adoptive father is addicted to gambling. Even worse he loses every time. He borrows from the elder sister of the brothel to gamble and owes more and more each day.

Call Girls '94

1994

Sex and Curse poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Sex and Curse

1992

Mortuary Blues poster
6.3

On a remote island off Hong Kong, its rich and happy inhabitants are celebrating an annual ritual by staging an operatic show. The island is not productive but its people are rich. No wonder police chief Yuan Kuei becomes suspicious. He thinks he is sitting on top of a narcotics ring. His two men are ordered to watch closely movement of the opera people. Little does the chief know that actually the islanders are living off the loot their ancestors made by raiding a government gold galleon some centuries ago. They buried much of the treasure and a dormant vampire under a pagoda......

Mortuary Blues

1990

The Wild Girls poster
3.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Wild Girls

1993

Happy Ghost IV poster
6.1

A group of college kids discovers the remains of an evil warlord from an old cave and brings it to their dormitory, which ultimately awakens the warlord's ghost. It is seeking to avenge his killer, who has since reincarnated as Mr. Hong's snobby girlfriend Annie. With Hong and Annie endangered, Hong's reincarnated spirit takes over to save him and Annie, and defeat the demon.

Happy Ghost IV

1990

Here Comes a Vampire poster
5.5

To cut down on expenses, a Hong Kong police superintendent orders a captain to take a group of S.W.A.T. team rookies to a rigorous training camp, hoping to force them to resign after undergoing grueling training courses. However, events get a mysterious turn when the rookies, on their break, discover an old Chinese Ouija board and decide to try it out. The game backfires when a reckless ghost is unleashed.

Here Comes a Vampire

1990

1980s · 24 titles

Police Story poster
7.6

Officer Chan Ka Kui manages to put a major Hong Kong drug dealer behind the bars practically alone, after a shooting and an impressive chase inside a slum. Now, he must protect the boss' secretary, Selina, who will testify against the gangster in court.

Police Story

1985

Police Story 2 poster
7.1

The Hong Kong super-cop must stop a group of blackmailing bombers at the same time that the villains of the first Police Story are out for revenge.

Police Story 2

1988

The Owl vs Bombo poster
5.5

Sammo and George Lam are partners in crime and they scam some triad big shot out of a load of money and decide to retire. Three years later they both receive letters from Stanley Fung, in which he informs them that he has proof of all their criminal activity and unless they do exactly what he says–he will turn it over to the cops. Fung is an ex-cop himself and is trying to get the goods on the same triad leader that Sammo and George scammed.

The Owl vs Bombo

1984

The Romancing Star II poster
5.0

Chow Yun Fat leaves his buddies Eric Tsang, Stanley Fung, and Nat Chan Bak Cheung to their own devices, so the first thing the trio do is get taken hostage in a bank robbery! The trio makes it onto TV, which equals instant celebrity, but the big station in town won't give them a job. Enter Andy Lau, who gives the guys their own talk show on a rival station, where they beat up their guests for being annoying. Meanwhile, a trio of comely females (including Elizabeth Lee and Carina Lau) move in next door, and the chase is on!

The Romancing Star II

1988

The Romancing Star III poster
5.1

Four mismatched and contentious Hong Kong couples consider swapping partners but realize they're happier as they are.

The Romancing Star III

1989

Rosa poster
6.3

Hsia and Lei Kung are two bumbling cops assigned to protect the gorgeous Rosa, girlfriend to a missing informer named Lee. But Rosa's wanted by more than just the law - the bad guys want her for leverage, and Lei Kung just wants her to be his girlfriend! Meanwhile, Hsia attempts to romance Lei Kung's sister, and the bad guys prepare for a final blow-out fight sequence!

Rosa

1986

Born to Gamble poster
5.8

Alex is the smart one who claims first place in every human endeavor. To be true, he really excels in all forms of gambling. Alex likes to help people. Thus, when his old friend Fung is jilted by a rich girl, he immediately takes Fung to a slave auction in the Philippines. There, Fung buys a woman of beauty and femininity. Alex himself falls in love with Mina, who is deadly against gambling. She would break ties with anyone found to be gambling...

Born to Gamble

1987

Angel Enforcers poster
6.4

Female agents battle a gang of diamond thieves.

Angel Enforcers

1989

Happy Ghost III poster
6.9

A young, unsuccessful singer, after committing suicide, is to be reincarnated, this time into a musical family. Her spirit must get to the hospital where her future mother is currently ready to give birth to her, so that she can enter the womb and be born. Unfortunately, she misses her appointed birth time, twice, due to the accidental intervention of a young man, Mr. Hong. At first she is angry and makes life hard for him, but eventually they fall in love, although she can't stay around long as she has one last chance to be born.

Happy Ghost III

1986

The Dragon Family poster
7.4

The Lung (Dragon) triad used to be one of Hong Kong's most powerful crime families, but its power has waned in recent years. The crime boss Lung Ying feels that their involvement in drug trafficking has resulted in costs that far outweigh the benefits, and he considers investing his wealth into relatively safe and legal industries. His second-in-command White Wolf and his frequent collaborator Tsui disagree with his anti-drug policies, and they plot to take over the triad. They assassinate Lung Ying, and they execute most members of the Lung family in a brutal massacre. Three members of the family survive the attack, and they start plotting their own brutal revenge. White Wolf is betrayed and assassinated by Tsui shortly after claiming power. Tsui is quite willing to kill or sacrifice all for his subordinates to secure power, but he might be weakening his own organization due to this mentality.

The Dragon Family

1988

They Came to Rob Hong Kong poster
6.4

A bungling gang of criminal mercenaries arrives from the Chinese mainland on a mission for a mysterious evil mastermind, only to discover that their shady new employer has set them all up for a fall.

They Came to Rob Hong Kong

1989

Aces Go Places II poster
6.3

An assassin called Filthy Harry is hired by a shady figure and charged with killing the heroes. The men are framed twice for different robberies by King Kong's new girlfriend, nearly committed to a mental hospital by their devious boss, and forced to battle Filthy Harry's weaponry-laden robot while covered with time bombs.

Aces Go Places II

1983

The Haunted Cop Shop II poster
5.5

Specially trained government troops are sent to clean out a city that is plagued by vampires, ghosts and cannibalistic zombies.

The Haunted Cop Shop II

1988

The Crazy Companies II poster
6.3

One the day Horny to get married, his two pals Frank and Kai told him to avoid the trap of marriage. However his finacee forced him to sign the certificate. Kwai, Horny's other pal had a firm with his brother Fu. Fu could not manage the office and owed the Fok's family 2M and Fok's manager Robert persuaded to merge Fu's company. The three pals joined Fok's to solve the crisis...

The Crazy Companies II

1988

The Eighth Happiness poster
6.4

Three oddball brothers go looking for love but unfortunately, their out-there personalities get in the way!

The Eighth Happiness

1988

Aces Go Places III: Our Man from Bond Street poster
5.7

While vacationing in Paris, King Kong is kidnapped by a British agent called James, who seeks to recover one of the stolen crown jewels, the Star of Fortune, supposedly at the request of the Queen of England. The jewel is hidden at the Hong Kong Police Headquarters and Kong will have to steal the jewel without his partner-in-crime, Detective Albert 'Baldy' Au, finding out. When James' devious intentions are revealed and Baldy and his wife, Supt. Nancy Ho, discover Kong's heist, Kong finds himself at a crossroad.

Aces Go Places III: Our Man from Bond Street

1984

Lucky Diamond poster
7.7

Lucky Diamond is a Hong Kong Comedy directed by Yuen Cheung-Yan and starring Alex Man and Anita Mui.

Lucky Diamond

1985

Four Loves poster
9.0

The two Cheng sisters leave war-torn Shanghai for Hong Kong. They take on another guest along the way, and move in with their cousin in Hong Kong, now a close unit of four friends. Through highs and lows, they all learn to live with each other.

Four Loves

1989

The Intellectual Trio poster
5.2

Joyce Ni (Esprit D'Amour) and Sandy Lam play two sisters who pick pockets for a living, and manage to run afoul of a pair of cops (Leslie Cheung and Billy Lau) after lifting their wallets. However, rather than arresting the two thieves, the cops are taken in by their obvious charms, and with urban, metropolitan Hong Kong as a backdrop, romance seems almost inevitable. But the girls also lifted a precious jade from a vicious hitman, who soon comes looking for his stolen property...

The Intellectual Trio

1984

Stumbling Cops poster
5.8

Stumbling Cops is a Hong Kong Crime-Comedy directed by Guy Lai Ying-Chau and starring Stanley Fung.

Stumbling Cops

1988

The Crazy Companies poster
6.3

A rivalry between two brothers causes chaos through out the business world. Can the good brother defeat his greedy elder brother at his own game? Only Wong Jing and his usual cronies can sort out this mess with hysterical results and oddball humor

The Crazy Companies

1988

Mistaken Identity poster
9.5

Mistaken Identity is a Hong Kong Crime-Comedy directed by Tsui Siu-Ming and starring Richard Ng.

Mistaken Identity

1988

Ghost Busting poster
5.8

Salesmen Bangladesh and Robert once worked in countryside and came across a female ghost and a sissy ghost, but their driver was killed by the ghosts unfortunately. Bangladesh and Robert were rescued by a Taoist Master, Cheung. They were so scared that they had to find a new job. The boss of the new company, Mr. Kan, authorized his daughter to be the manageress. His son, Tin Wai, was jealous and requested various ghosts to make a mess of the company in order to usurp power. So, the staff receive special training on exorcising ghosts.

Ghost Busting

1989

The Ghost Snatchers poster
6.0

Vengeful spirits of Japanese soldiers from World War II haunt a new high-rise office building in Hong Kong.

The Ghost Snatchers

1986

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