Something like The Deer Hunter by way of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, John Woo’s Vietnam War-era saga of greed and betrayal is an early showcase of Tony Leung’s movie star magnetism.

Tony Leung is an undercover operative forced into an uneasy alliance with maverick cop “Tequila” Yuen (Chow Yun-fat) in John Woo’s operatic action landmark.

Chungking Express marked Tony Leung’s emergence from Hong Kong stardom into an international arthouse icon and Wong Kar Wai’s defining muse, paving the way for masterpieces like In the Mood for Love and 2046.

Cyclo is a ’90s gem that transfigures neon, sweat, and pop music into a punishingly sad fever dream, with Tony Leung’s taciturn performance at its center.

Tony Leung is a homesick Hong Kong exile in Buenos Aires locked in an on-again/off-again spiral of passion, jealousy, and “starting over” with the mercurial Leslie Cheung in Wong Kar Wai’s lushly stylized portrait of a relationship in breakdown.

Hou Hsiao-hsien’s first film set outside Taiwan is an achingly, intoxicatingly sensuous landmark and a pivotal transnational chapter in Tony Leung’s career that placed his famously modern melancholia inside an exquisite late-Qing tableau.

In the career-defining performance that earned him Best Actor at Cannes, Tony Leung stars alongside Maggie Cheung in Wong Kar Wai’s masterful evocation of romantic yearning and its fleeting moments. Followed by Wong’s nine-minute coda, In the Mood for Love 2001.

Reuniting the In the Mood for Love pair in a more openly tragic key, Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung bring aching romantic force to Zhang Yimou’s lush wuxia.

Tony Leung and Andy Lau star in the first part of Andrew Lau and Alan Mak’s groundbreaking policier saga, a sleek, visually exacting thriller that became a blockbuster in Asia and later the source for Martin Scorsese’s The Departed.

A future-set work enamored of the limitless expanse of memory and imagination, Wong Kar Wai’s loose continuation of Days of Being Wild and In the Mood for Love finds Tony Leung back in the role of the affable, self-mocking Mr. Chow, this time with a bitter edge.

Tony Leung’s minimalist menace makes every glance a test, every silence a threat in Ang Lee’s ravishing espionage tragedy set against the shifting backdrops of Japanese-occupied Hong Kong and Shanghai.

This exceptionally rare 35mm screening of John Woo’s colossal five-hour epic recreates the Battle of Red Cliffs (208–209 A.D.) and stars Tony Leung as the chief military commander of the southern kingdom of Wu.

Wong Kar Wai’s most ambitious film to date features exquisitely staged action and a virtuosic performance by Tony Leung as the legendary kung fu master Ip Man.

Tony Leung discusses his extraordinary screen career in a special in-depth conversation as part of our 13-film retrospective.