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Christopher Doyle

Born May 2, 1952 · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (age 74)

Christopher Doyle is an Australian-Hong Kong cinematographer who often works on Chinese language films. He has won awards at the Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival, as well as AFI Award for cinematography, the Golden Horse awards (four times), and Hong Kong Film Award (six times). Doyle is an affiliate of the Hong Kong Society of Cinematographers. Doyle was born in Sydney, Australia in…

Known For

Morte Cucina

Morte Cucina · 2026

MovieThrillerDrama

Sao, a talented cook, accidentally meets the man who took advantage of her in the past. She sets her revenge plan in motion using her cooking skill to achieve a rather unexpected result.

In the Mood for Love

In the Mood for Love · 2000

In the Mood for Love

MovieDramaRomance

In 1960s Hong Kong, two neighbors form an intimate bond after making a discovery about their spouses in this visually stunning tale of unrequited love.

Chungking Express

Chungking Express · 1994

Chungking Express

MovieDramaComedy

Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.

Hero

MovieDramaAdventure

During China's Warring States period, a district prefect arrives at the palace of Qin Shi Huang, claiming to have killed the three assassins who had made an attempt on the king's life three years ago.

Fallen Angels

Fallen Angels · 1995

MovieActionRomance

An indifferent hitman, his infatuated business partner and an ex-convict search for love and meaning as their lives cross paths in Hong Kong.

2046

MovieDramaScience Fiction

Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.

Red Lotus Society

Red Lotus Society · 1994

Red Lotus Society

Ahda sells language tapes by day and attends cram school at night, but his real passion is to achieve the secret art of "vaulting" - defying gravity to leap impossible distances. Fired by the exploits of the legendary Red Lotus Society, Ahda is on a romantic quest for a master.

Days of Being Wild

Days of Being Wild · 1990

Days of Being Wild

MovieCrimeDrama

Yuddy, a Hong Kong playboy known for breaking girls' hearts, tries to find solace and truth after discovering the woman who raised him isn't his mother.

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Morte Cucina

Morte Cucina · 2026

MovieThrillerDrama

Sao, a talented cook, accidentally meets the man who took advantage of her in the past. She sets her revenge plan in motion using her cooking skill to achieve a rather unexpected result.

Director of Photography

In the Mood for Love

In the Mood for Love · 2000

In the Mood for Love

MovieDramaRomance

In 1960s Hong Kong, two neighbors form an intimate bond after making a discovery about their spouses in this visually stunning tale of unrequited love.

Director of Photography

Chungking Express

Chungking Express · 1994

Chungking Express

MovieDramaComedy

Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.

Director of Photography

Hero

MovieDramaAdventure

During China's Warring States period, a district prefect arrives at the palace of Qin Shi Huang, claiming to have killed the three assassins who had made an attempt on the king's life three years ago.

Director of Photography

Fallen Angels

Fallen Angels · 1995

MovieActionRomance

An indifferent hitman, his infatuated business partner and an ex-convict search for love and meaning as their lives cross paths in Hong Kong.

Director of Photography

2046

MovieDramaScience Fiction

Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.

Director of Photography

Red Lotus Society

Red Lotus Society · 1994

Red Lotus Society

Ahda sells language tapes by day and attends cram school at night, but his real passion is to achieve the secret art of "vaulting" - defying gravity to leap impossible distances. Fired by the exploits of the legendary Red Lotus Society, Ahda is on a romantic quest for a master.

Director of Photography

Days of Being Wild

Days of Being Wild · 1990

Days of Being Wild

MovieCrimeDrama

Yuddy, a Hong Kong playboy known for breaking girls' hearts, tries to find solace and truth after discovering the woman who raised him isn't his mother.

Director of Photography

Eros

MovieDramaRomance

A three-part anthology about love and sexuality: a menage-a-trois between a couple and a young woman on the coast of Tuscany; an advertising executive under enormous pressure at work, who, during visits to his psychiatrist, is pulled to delve into the possible reasons why his stress seems to manifest itself in a recurring erotic dream; a story of unrequited love about a beautiful, 1960s high-end call girl in an impossible affair with her young tailor.

Director of Photography

Dumplings

Dumplings · 2004

Aunt Mei's famous homemade dumplings provide amazing age-defying qualities popular with middle-aged women. But her latest customer, a fading actress, is determined to find out what the secret ingredient is.

Director of Photography

Psycho

MovieHorrorMystery

A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.

Director of Photography

Paris Je T'aime

Paris Je T'aime · 2006

Paris Je T'aime

MovieDramaRomance

Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to choose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.

Director

Irma Vep

Irma Vep · 1996

MovieComedyDrama

A has-been French filmmaker wants a Hong Kong actress to be the heroine in a rendering of Les Vampires.

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Rabbit Horror

Rabbit Horror · 2011

To his mute sister's dismay, a young boy puts a dying rabbit out of its misery with a brick -- and soon the siblings end up in a world of nightmares.

Director of Photography

Happy Together

Happy Together · 1997

MovieDramaRomance

A couple travels from Hong Kong to Argentina to revive their relationship but experience turbulence when both men's lives drift in separate directions.

Director of Photography

Return Engagement

Return Engagement · 1990

Return Engagement

MovieCrimeAction

A well-known gangster is released from prison, and decides look for his daughter with the help of a troubled young woman.

Director of Photography

Comrades, Almost a Love Story

Comrades, Almost a Love Story · 1996

Comrades, Almost a Love Story

MovieDramaRomance

Jun arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, hoping to be able to earn enough money to marry his girlfriend back home. He meets the streetwise Qiao and they become friends. As friendship turns into love, problems develop, and although they seem meant for each other they somehow keep missing out.

Jeremy

Perhaps Love

Perhaps Love · 2005

MovieDramaMusic

A love triangle develops between the male and female leads and the director during the making of a musical in Mainland China.

Director of Photography

That Day, on the Beach

That Day, on the Beach · 1983

That Day, on the Beach

MovieDramaRomance

Two friends who haven't seen each other for thirteen years reunite. One is a successful concert pianist just back from a European tour and the other has just started a new business.

Director of Photography

Burning Snow

Burning Snow · 1988

A young woman is forced to marry an older man who runs a roadhouse saloon. She is constantly being raped by her husband, a drunken loutish brute. She harbors a young man wanted by the police in a murder case, and soon the fugitive and the young wife have a torrid affair as she continues to hide him from the authorities.

Director of Photography

Passion Play

Passion Play · 2011

MovieDramaRomance

An angel under the thumb of a ruthless gangster is saved by a trumpet player down on his luck.

Director of Photography

Three

MovieHorrorMystery

An anthology consisting of three horror shorts from different Asian directors: Memories by Kim Jee-woon, The Wheel by Nonzee Nimibutr, and Going Home by Peter Chan.

Director of Photography

Ocean Heaven

Ocean Heaven · 2010

The story of a father's tireless love for his autistic son. A terminally ill father's attempt to teach his autistic son the necessary life skills to survive on his own before he passes away. It is also a poignant tribute to the infinite love that parents have for their children and their unending desire to take care and look after them to their best abilities, no matter the struggle, no matter the effort.

Director of Photography

My Heart Is That Eternal Rose

My Heart Is That Eternal Rose · 1989

My Heart Is That Eternal Rose

MovieActionCrime

The fallout resulting from a botched Triad gang smuggling job forces a young couple to separate - she becomes a kingpin’s unwilling moll and he travels to the Philippines to work as a contract killer. Six years later, the two are reunited in a chance encounter, but their rekindled emotions and people from their past lead them into extreme danger.

Director of Photography