Taiwan Cinema
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1. Rebels of the Neon God (1992)
Not Rated | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Within the urban gloom of Taipei, four youths face alienation, loneliness, and moments of existential crisis amidst a series of minor crimes.
Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Stars: Wang Yu-wen, Chen Chao-jung, Kang-sheng Lee, Jen Chang-bin
Votes: 5,536 | Gross: $0.03M
2. Vive L'Amour (1994)
R | 118 min | Drama, Romance
Three lonely young denizens of Taipei unknowingly share an apartment used for sexual trysts.
Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Stars: Chen Chao-jung, Kang-sheng Lee, Kuei-Mei Yang, Yi-ching Lu
Votes: 4,798
3. Pushing Hands (1991)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Drama
All the while, Master Chu tries to find his place in the foreign American world.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Sihung Lung, Lai Wang, Bozhao Wang, Deb Snyder
Votes: 4,820 | Gross: $0.15M
4. Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
Not Rated | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A senior chef lives with his three grown daughters; the middle one finds her future plans affected by unexpected events and the life changes of the other household members.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Sihung Lung, Kuei-Mei Yang, Wang Yu-wen, Chien-Lien Wu
Votes: 23,207 | Gross: $7.29M
5. The Red Lotus Society (1994)
120 min | Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Stan Lai | Stars: Li-Wei Chang, Wen-Min Chen, Leon Dai, Yi-kang Feng
Votes: 32
6. The Puppetmaster (1993)
142 min | Biography, Drama, War
Puppeteer Li Tian-lu tells his life story, and through it, the story of Taiwan in the first half of the 20th century.
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Stars: Tien-Lu Li, Giong Lim, Kuei-Chung Cheng, Chien-ru Huang
Votes: 2,072
7. A City of Sadness (1989)
157 min | Drama, History
The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror" that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government after their arrival from mainland China in the late 1940s.
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Shu-Fen Hsin, Sung-Young Chen, Jack Kao
Votes: 6,102
8. The Terrorizers (1986)
109 min | Crime, Drama
A metaphysical mystery about the lives of three couples in Taipei that continually intersect over a span of several weeks.
Director: Edward Yang | Stars: Cora Miao, Li-Chun Lee, Shih-Chieh King, Pao-Ming Ku
Votes: 5,511
9. Yi Yi (2000)
Not Rated | 173 min | Drama, Romance
Each member of a middle-class Taipei family seeks to reconcile past and present relationships within their daily lives.
Director: Edward Yang | Stars: Nien-Jen Wu, Elaine Jin, Issei Ogata, Kelly Lee
Votes: 28,423 | Gross: $1.14M
10. You ma cai zi (1984)
115 min | Drama
Ah-fei's mother, Hsin-chin, comes from a well off family headed by a doctor. Hsin-chin's marriage to a young engineer is not a happy one. Her circumstances change for the worse, and she can... See full summary »
Director: Jen Wan | Stars: Chiu-Yen Chen, I-Chen Ko, Ming-Ming Su, Shih Chang
Votes: 86
11. A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
Not Rated | 237 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Based on a true story, primarily on a conflict between two youth gangs, a 14-year-old boy's girlfriend conflicts with the head of one gang for an unclear reason, until finally the conflict comes to a violent climax.
Director: Edward Yang | Stars: Chang Chen, Lisa Yang, Kuo-Chu Chang, Elaine Jin
Votes: 12,785
12. A Borrowed Life (1994)
167 min | Drama
Autobiographical story about the life of a poor family in the Taiwanese countryside during the 1940s and 1950s as the Japanese rule of the island ends and nationalist forces of Kwomintang arrive when the Communists take the mainland.
Director: Nien-Jen Wu | Stars: Akio Chen, Shu-Fang Chen, Jun Fu, Yung-Feng Lee
Votes: 333
13. The Sandwich Man (1983)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
Three vignettes from three different directors that tell stories of ordinary people during Taiwan's Cold War period.
Directors: Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Chuang-Hsiang Tseng, Jen Wan | Stars: Bor-Jeng Chen, Li-Yin Yang, Kuo-Feng Tseng, Te-Nan Lai
Votes: 778
14. In Our Time (1982)
110 min | Drama
Four short films from four different directors, spanning from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Directors: Yi Chang, I-Chen Ko, Te-chen Tao, Edward Yang | Stars: Emily Y. Chang, Sylvia Chang, Chi Chen, Sheng-wen Lan
Votes: 788
15. The River (1997)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Romance
A young man develops severe neck pain after swimming in a polluted river; his dysfunctional parents are unable to provide any relief for him or themselves.
Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Stars: Miao Tien, Kang-sheng Lee, Yi-ching Lu, Ann Hui
Votes: 3,332
16. The Hole (1998)
95 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical
While never-ending rain and a strange disease spread by cockroaches ravage Taiwan, a plumber makes a hole between two apartments and the inhabitants of each form a unique connection, enacted in musical numbers.
Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Stars: Kuei-Mei Yang, Kang-sheng Lee, Miao Tien, Hui-Chin Lin
Votes: 4,407
17. Millennium Mambo (2001)
R | 119 min | Drama, Romance
The ethereally beautiful Vicky recalls her romances with Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Stars: Shu Qi, Jack Kao, Chun-hao Tuan, Jun Takeuchi
Votes: 6,760 | Gross: $0.01M
18. A Drifting Life (1996)
123 min | Drama
Historical drama about a man coping with the tragic death of his young wife. As he makes new connections, he works to be a better man and father.
Director: Cheng-sheng Lin | Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Vicky Wei, Grace Chen, Shih-huang Chen
Votes: 93
19. Murmur of Youth (1997)
R | 106 min | Drama
A rather dejected Mei-li Chen lives with her extended family in the suburbs. She drops out of college when the boy she has a crush on finds a girlfriend. Mei-li eventually ends up selling ... See full summary »
Director: Cheng-sheng Lin | Stars: Rene Liu, Jing Tseng, Chin-Hsin Tsai, Hsiu Li
Votes: 279
20. Sweet Degeneration (1997)
Not Rated | 118 min | Drama
It's a story about love, desire - Taboo love between a sister and a brother.
Director: Cheng-sheng Lin | Stars: Shiang-chyi Chen, Kang-sheng Lee, Pen-yu Chang, Shih-huang Chen
Votes: 69
21. Ah-chung (1996)
97 min | Drama
The story concerns a male youth named Ah Chung who graduates from high school and descends into a maelstrom of personal, familial, and communal conflicts.
Director: Tso-chi Chang | Stars: Ming Chen, Hsiu-Min Chiu, Ying Lu, Ming-shiou Tsai
Votes: 67
22. Darkness and Light (1999)
104 min | Drama
Kang-Yi is a teenage girl who lives in an apartment building in the port city of Keelung. Most of her family, and the people in the apartment, are blind, and she helps them out. Ah Ping, ... See full summary »
Director: Tso-chi Chang | Stars: Kang-i Lee, Ming-shiou Tsai, Bau-huei Shie, Huang-ji He
Votes: 280
23. The Best of Times (2001)
109 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Although their characters and temperaments couldn't be less alike, 19-year olds Wei and Jie are best friends. They're also neighbours, living with widower fathers and problem siblings in ... See full summary »
Director: Tso-chi Chang | Stars: Wing Fan, Meng-Chieh Kao, Wan-mei Yu, Mao-ying Tien
Votes: 398
24. Heartbreak Island (1995)
120 min | Drama
In Taiwan, a young woman, Lin-Lang, is released from prison after serving ten years for terrorist activity. She had turned to bomb making in grief after her mentor and lover, An Rong, who ... See full summary »
Director: Hsiao-Ming Hsu | Stars: Vicky Wei, Jieh-Wen King, Ching-Ju Chang, Chen-Nan Tsai
Votes: 40
25. Treasure Island (1993)
105 min | Drama
A group of young Taipei residents is drawn into the city's underworld through the growing obsession of one, the boyish Ah-feng, for the sexy Cantonese mistress of a gang boss.
Director: Kuo-Fu Chen | Stars: Giong Lim, Tarcy Su, Jack Kao, Emi Lee
Votes: 37
26. The Personals (1998)
Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An attractive and successful doctor places a personal ad in a newspaper to try to meet (and eventually marry) Mr. Right. A succession of blind dates ensues, featuring men who are lonely, desperate, dangerous and perverted.
Director: Kuo-Fu Chen | Stars: Rene Liu, Wu Bai, Chen Chao-jung, Pao-Ming Ku
Votes: 650 | Gross: $0.02M
27. Siao Yu (1995)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama
Siao Yu needs a Green Card. Mario Moretti needs his debts paid. Getting married could solve their problems, or multiply them.
Director: Sylvia Chang | Stars: Rene Liu, Marj Dusay, Chung-Hua Tou, Daniel J. Travanti
Votes: 450
28. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
82 min | Drama, Comedy
On a dark, wet night a historic and regal Chinese cinema sees its final film. Together with a small handful of souls they bid "Goodbye, Dragon Inn".
Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Kiyonobu Mitamura, Chun Shih
Votes: 6,176 | Gross: $0.03M
29. A Time to Live and a Time to Die (1985)
Not Rated | 138 min | Biography, Drama
The semi-autobiographical film on director Hou Hsiao-Hsien's childhood and adolescence, when he was growing up in Taiwan, living through the deaths of his father, mother and grandmother.
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Stars: Chia-bao Chang, Neng Chang, Chih-Chen Chen, Han-wen Chen
Votes: 3,516
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