Three Hong Kong films where the third is a prequel, plus two foreign remakes of the first.
Watch the 1986 film and then the sequel. The third one is a prequel, so save it for last even though it explains the beginning.
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The one that changed Hong Kong cinema and made Chow Yun-fat a star. Everything else here exists because of it, including two foreign remakes.
Follows on directly. Be ready for the twin brother, which is how the film brings back a character who definitively died in the first one.
A prequel set in Vietnam, and the only one Tsui Hark directed rather than John Woo. Watch it last: it explains the first film's character and it is a very different piece of work, so it lands better once you know the two it precedes.
Then what? The 2010 Korean film and the 2018 Chinese film are licensed remakes of the 1986 original and neither has a sequel, so they stand alone. Return to a Better Tomorrow from 1994 is not part of this at all, despite the title.
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