Taiwanese-language Movies

43 movies found (page 1/2):

A Brighter Summer Day(1991)

| 3h 57min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love

4.2/5 (with 71 votes)

A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.

Directed by Edward Yang - With Chang Chen, Elaine Jin, Chen Yi Wen

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Hearing-impaired teenager Chang Cheng transfers to a school for children with special needs. However, the world of the hearing-impaired doesn’t seem quiet at all. When Chang witnesses the “game” taking place in the last row on the school bus, his excitement about blending into a new environment immediately turns into fear. Seeing Bei Bei, the girl he has a crush on, getting hurt so badly, Xiao Guang, the ringleader, behaving like a king and other schoolmates acting innocent, Chang debates with himself on whether he should reveal the cruel truth about the game or whether he should join in. As the divide between the perpetrators and the victim begins to blur, confusion and anxiety grow among everyone in school.

Directed by Ko Chen-nien

Tigertail(2020)

1h 31min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 23 votes)

A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.

Directed by Alan Yang - With Tzi Ma, Christine Ko, Lee Hong-chi, Hayden Szeto

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Yi Yi(2000)

2h 54min | Drama, Romance / Love

4.0/5 (with 131 votes)

Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries.

Directed by Edward Yang - With Wu Nien-jen, Elaine Jin, Issey Ogata, Edward Yang, Lin Adriene, Chen Yi Wen, ...

Little Big Women(2020)

2h 3min | Drama, Kids & Family, Romance / Love

3.9/5 (with 6 votes)

A story about a karaoke-addicted old woman struggling with her self-worth and a sense of betrayal at her long-lost husband's funeral where she encounters his younger and more sophisticated girlfriend while she finds out her kids might have been secretly in touch with her late husband all these years.

A City of Sadness(1989)

2h 39min | Drama, History

3.6/5 (with 30 votes)

Soon after Japan relinquishes control of Taiwan in 1945, the Lin brothers face hardships from the changing culture. Bar owner Wen-heung, the eldest brother, falls foul of local gangsters, Wen-sun disappears, and Wen-leung, scarred by his experiences in the war, ends up in an insane asylum. Deaf-mute photographer Wen-ching, the youngest brother, decides to make a stand and fight the Kuomintang government from China that is assuming power.

Directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien - With Tony Leung, Jack Kao, Chen Sung-young

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag(2011)

2h 24min | Drama, Action, History

3.6/5 (with 25 votes)

Mouna Rudo was born and raised among the Seediq people, an indigenous tribe in Taiwan, and as he grew to be a man he became a member of the Seediq Bale, a courageous band of native warriors. However, Rudo's way of life is threatened under the yoke of occupying forces from Japan, who took over the nation in 1895. As Rudo sees the traditions and honor of his people stripped away, he realizes the time has come to fight back, and in 1930 he brings together a group of former Seediq Bale soldiers, many of whom have been reduced to infighting, and molds them into a revolutionary army. Rudo and his comrades make their stand when they confront Japanese occupation troops at a youth athletic event, leading to a violent confrontation between the Seediq forces and their oppressors. Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag is Part one of the two-part, four-hour Taiwanese edition of the film Warriors of the Rainbow.

Directed by Wei Te-Sheng - With Masanobu Andō, Landy Wen, Vivian Hsu, Dean Fujioka, Nolay Piho, Umin Boya, ...

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The Tag-Along 2(2017)

1h 48min | Horror

3.5/5 (with 12 votes)

When social worker Shu-fen discovers that her pregnant teenage daughter Ya-ting has disappeared, her search for Ya-ting ends her with many horrifying mysteries… Meeting the mysterious Mei-hua who imprisons her own daughter inside her house covered with papers written with spells and encountering the missing and pregnant Yi-chun in an abandoned hospital, the trio returns to the Red Forest to rescue Ya-ting and Shu-fen finally realizes that the deepest fear arises from love….

Directed by Cheng Wei-hao - With Rainie Yang

The Great Buddha+(2017)

1h 42min | Comedy, Drama

4.1/5 (with 21 votes)

Underlining the gap between have-nots' lives and elites' world by switching between black and white and glamorous colors, THE GREAT BUDDHA+ vividly illustrates a corrupted village in rural southern Taiwan with memorable style, heartfelt empathy, and whimsical humor. Security guard Pickle and his trash collector friend Belly Button kill time together in night shifts watching the American-educated boss's dash-cam recordings of his various sexual encounters with women. Against the buddies’ will, something horrifying rather than erotic reveals.

Directed by Huang Hsin-yao

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The Tag-Along: Devil Fish(2018)

1h 55min | Horror

2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

When a spirit medium is called to exorcise a demon from a possessed man, he is unknowingly captured in the act by two students looking to document the process. When the students accidentally release the devil fish demon into the world, it is up to them and the spirit medium to send it back to the hellish world from where it came.

Monga(2010)

2h 20min | Thriller

3.1/5 (with 16 votes)

Set in the 1980s, “Monga” centers on five boys (Mosquito, Monk, Dragon, White Monkey and A-Lan) who join the "Gang of Princes" who are tired of being pushed around. As the "Gang of Princes" rise in stature, they come into conflict with other gangs jealous of their rising power.

Directed by Doze Niu - With Ethan Juan, Mark Chao, Ma Ju-lung

The Time to Live and the Time to Die(1985)

| 2h 18min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 22 votes)

The semi-autobiographical film on director Hou Hsiao-Hsien's childhood and adolescence, when he was growing up in Taiwan.

Directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien - With Tien Feng, Fang Mei, Ai Hsiao, Tang Ru-Yun

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Small Talk(2016)

1h 28min | Documentary, Kids & Family

3.7/5 (with 3 votes)

Anu is a tomboy. Although she was married off at a young age – as was customary in Taiwan in the 1970s – and had two children, she quickly divorced her violent husband and brought up her daughters alone. Since then her only relationships have been with women who, like her, earn a living as professional mourners at funerals. One of her daughters is filmmaker Hui-chen Huang. It’s considered taboo in Chinese culture to question a mother’s unconditional love, and yet this is exactly the topic of Huang’s intimate portrait. Mother and daughter set off on a journey together into the past during which Anu is confronted with questions that have tormented her daughter for years. In a series of long shots the two women discuss such topics as trust, abuse and cognisance, and yet most of these discussions end in painful silence. Shifting focus in order to plumb the depths of the depicted room, the director attempts to understand her mother by also talking to her mother’s siblings and ex-lovers.

Directed by Hui-Chen Huang

Cape No. 7(2008)

2h 9min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 16 votes)

Aga, a band singer, returns to Hengchun with frustration. Tomoko is a Japanese model assigned to organize a local warm-up band for the Japanese super star beach concert. Together with other five ordinary Hengchun residents who were not expected to be great or anything, they formed an impossible band.

Directed by Wei Te-Sheng - With Van Fan, Chie Tanaka, Kousuke Atari, Ma Ju-lung

Au Revoir Taipei(2010)

| 1h 25min | Comedy

3.0/5 (with 9 votes)

Kai (Jack Yao), who works at his parent's noodle shop by day and spends his nights in a bookstore to learn French, decides to go to Paris after his girlfriend, who recently left for Paris, dumps him by phone. Then the local neighborhood mafia boss offers Kai a free plane ticket to Paris if he takes a mysterious package with him.

Directed by Arvin Chen - With Amber Kuo

A Confucian Confusion(1994)

2h 5min | Comedy

3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

After firing a colleague, the head of a PR company begins to question her lifestyle and values.

Directed by Edward Yang - With Chen Shiang-chyi, Elaine Jin, Chen Yi Wen

Blue Cha Cha(2005)

1h 48min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 4 votes)

Just coming out of the jail, depressed and close-hearted, Ah Yu met two men with different characters from each other. One is a businessman, charming and mature; the other is a young supervisor in a factory with a promising future. But these two loves are short-lived, fading away like bubbles on the beach. With a wounded soul, she went back to the cottage owned by Sister An, a friend from jail.

Directed by Wen-tang Cheng

Tropical Fish(1995)

1h 47min | Comedy, Drama

3.6/5 (with 3 votes)

Young boy, Ah-Jiang, a school failure and day dreamer witnesses the kidnapping of a child. After being taken hostage by a corrupt family, he begins an unusual adventure away from home.

Directed by Yu-Hsun Chen - With Lin Cheng-sheng

Darkness and Light(1999)

1h 44min | Drama

3.7/5 (with 3 votes)

A 17-year-old university student returns home during her summer holidays to the port city of Keelung of on the outskirts of Taipei. She falls in love with a young man, but his association with a local gang sees him caught up in a turf war... A wistful portrayal of the fragile, brief-lived attraction between these two youths, and pleasant times spent with loving families.

Directed by Chang Tso-chi

The Receptionist(2017)

1h 40min | Drama

3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

Weighed down by financial problems, Tina takes a job as a receptionist at an illegal massage parlour in London. As she slowly gets to know the women who work there, Tina is forced to question her values and morals. But how far will she be drawn into this world, and can she avoid losing herself in the process?

Girlfriend Boyfriend(2012)

1h 45min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 11 votes)

Mabel, Liam and Aaron have been friends since childhood. Their bonds of friendship are tested when, years later, they realize their friendship is the only reason they have made it through emotional hardships and extreme tragedies.

Directed by Yang Ya-che - With Joseph Chang, Rhydian Vaughan

The Sandwich Man(1983)

1h 45min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 5 votes)

Composed of three separate stories, the film vividly portrays Taiwan during the cold war period when the country developed its economy with help from the United States.

Directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Wan Jen, Tseng Chuang-hsiang

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On Happiness Road(2018)

1h 51min | Animation, Drama

3.5/5 (with 12 votes)

Chi earned her American dream after persevering with her studies in Taiwan. Following her grandmothers’ death, Chi returns to her family on Happiness Road, where she begins to feel nostalgic about her childhood and starts to contemplate the meaning of “life” and “home”. What is happiness? Will Chi find her own happiness?

Directed by Sung Hsin-Yin

Love(2012)

2h | Drama, Romance / Love

2.9/5 (with 13 votes)

Eight people try to end their loneliness by searching for that one person to love, who can make their life complete.

Directed by Doze Niu - With Zhao Wei, Shu Qi, Mark Chao, Ethan Juan, Eddie Peng, Doze Niu, ...

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1895 in Formosa(2008)

1h 50min | History

2.1/5 (with 2 votes)

"1895" tells the story of the resistance against the Japanese invasion in 1895.

Directed by Hung Chih-yu - With Cheryl Yang

Zone Pro Site(2013)

2h 25min | Comedy, Drama

3.0/5 (with 6 votes)

More than 20 years ago, there were three “Ban Dou(street banquet)” master chefs who dominated the catering business in Taiwan. However, the street banquet business has been in decline since Taiwan’s economic boom. Master Fly Spirit wants to pass the family recipes and culinary skills on to his only child, Wan, but she desperately wants to run away from the family business and to become a film star.

Directed by Yu-Hsun Chen - With Kimi Hsia, Lin Mei-hsiu, Tony Yang, Wu Nien-jen, Jason King, Ko I-Chen, ...

The Best of Times(2002)

1h 49min | Thriller, Crime, Drama

3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

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 the suburbs of Taipei. When Wei is promoted from the rank of nightclub parking valet to the rank of debt-collector in Brother Gu's gang, he persuades his boss to hire Jie to work alongside him. Things begin to go wrong when they are given a handgun to reward their success in the new job. Always excitable and volatile, Jie becomes reckless and dangerous when he has the gun in his hand. When they try to collect a debt from the boss of a rival gang, a fight erupts and Jie shoots the gang-boss. The boys find themselves on the run. But fate and their youthful dreams still have tricks to play.

Directed by Chang Tso-chi

Ploning(2008)

Romance / Love, Drama

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

In the picturesque island of Cuyo, Palawan, an illegal Taiwanese fishing vessel docks carrying the fisherman named Muo Sei, a man looking for something or someone with the name Ploning. He has from sunrise to sundown to look for this "Ploning".

With Judy Ann Santos, Gina Pareño, Eugene Domingo

All You Need Is Love(2015)

1h 43min | Romance / Love, Comedy

2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Tired of her family constantly nagging her to get married, spoiled heiress Yeh Fenfen (Shu Qi) books a stay at a beautiful villa on the Penghu Islands, which are the subject of a classic song on a tape left for her by her mother. When she arrives at her destination, she's dismayed to find that the gorgeous villa is actually a rundown B&B owned by Wu (Richie Jen). It turns out that Wu's friends, hoping to drum up some business for the B&B, falsified a few details about the state of the property on the internet. Angered by the deception, Fenfen packs her bags and leaves the next day. But, when she loses all of her luggage on the boat ride, Fenfen has no choice but to head back to the island.

Directed by Richie Jen - With Richie Jen

Dear Tenant(2020)

1h 46min | Drama

3.8/5 (with 3 votes)

For the past five years, Lin has been looking after the son (Yo-you) and the elderly mother (Mrs Chou) of his deceased boyfriend (Li-wei). They live together like a family, and it is Lin’s way of remembering Li-wei - by continuing to be in the life he once had and loving the people he once loved. But when Mrs Chou passes away, her other son (Li-gang) returns from overseas and discovers that Mrs Chou’s property is passed on to Yo-you, who has been legally adopted by Lin. Li-gang contacts the police, accusing Lin of killing his mother. As the ensuing investigation continues, more and more evidence mounts against Lin...

Directed by Yu-Chieh Cheng