In the Line of Duty - Watch Order: Release Order
The In the Line of Duty series is a pioneering Hong Kong girls with guns action franchise that helped define the subgenre in the 1980s and 90s. Starring powerhouse performers like Michelle Yeoh and Cynthia Khan, these films showcase female police officers using martial arts and modern policing techniques to take down criminal conspiracies.
This release order watch list includes both the official series (1985-1991) and the unofficial sequels that followed. Each film tells a standalone story with different characters, making the series more of a thematic anthology than a connected narrative.
Yes, Madam!
Two unlucky thieves break into a just murdered man's hotel room and steal his passport with a hidden microfilm wanted by a triad boss. Two ass-kicking women cops—one Chinese, one British—are on the case.
Royal Warriors
When a tough policewoman learns about a group of violent terrorists, she, along with her partner and a Japanese detective, does everything it takes to take them down.
In the Line of Duty 3
Genji Nakamura and his partner Michiko Nishiwaki are thieves for the notorious Red Army terrorist organization in Japan. After pulling off the jewelry heist of the century in which dozens of people get killed, they are now planning to use the jewelry they've snatched to buy an arms cache.
In the Line of Duty 4
Two detectives who are up to their necks in trouble and in each other's face, as they try to shut down a drug-trafficking scheme that could be connected with international ties to organized crime. But in the midst of their investigation, innocent immigrant dock worker Luk Wan-Ting gets caught up in the mix when he witnesses the murder of an intelligence operative and is framed for the crime.
In the Line of Duty 5: Middle Man
When he is framed for being a spy because of his friend's illegal activities, David must escape from police, CIA, and assassins with the help of his cousin.
A Serious Shock! Yes Madam!
In this action packed Hong Kong Yes Madam installment two friends in the police force are in love with the same man. After a certain incident one of them goes crazy and does everything she can to kill her former friend.
Yes Madam 5
A disc with the names of Triad members is taken away, and when the gangsters try and find about where it is, they kill the only person who knows the hiding-place. So, what can be done now to retrieve the disc? The Hong Kong police are looking for the murderer and the disc, but Inspector Yeung has to realize her fiancée Ho Chan is one of the gangsters! The trace of the disappeared disc leads to Malaysia, where the victim's girlfriend lives...
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Taxi
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xXx
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