Taiwanese-language Movies

46 movies found (page 1/2):

Yi Yi(2000)

2h 54min | Drama, Romance / Love

4.0/5 (with 157 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, ...

A Brighter Summer Day(1991)

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

4.2/5 (with 90 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, Chang Kuo-chu, Zhang Han, ...

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Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge(2011)

2h 12min | Action, Drama, History

4.0/5 (with 25 votes)

After the uprising at Wushe, Mona Rudao faces a guerrilla war against the militarily superior Japanese and Seediq clans. He and his followers must fight for their dignity and honor so that they can truly be "Seediq Bale" or "real men." Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge is Part two 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, ...

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

2h 24min | Drama, Action, History

3.6/5 (with 32 votes)

An indigenous clan-based people living in harmony with nature find their way of life threatened when violent interlopers from another culture arrive, intent on seizing their natural resources and enslaving them. 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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Tigertail(2020)

1h 31min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 25 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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The Great Buddha+(2017)

1h 42min | Comedy, Drama

4.0/5 (with 22 votes)

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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A City of Sadness(1989)

2h 39min | Drama, History

3.6/5 (with 40 votes)

The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror", mainland China's political repression that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government in the late 1940s.

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

The Tag-Along 2(2017)

1h 48min | Horror, Thriller

3.4/5 (with 14 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 Time to Live and the Time to Die(1985)

| 2h 18min | Drama, Kids & Family

3.7/5 (with 28 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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Little Big Women(2020)

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

3.9/5 (with 10 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.

Cape No. 7(2008)

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

3.2/5 (with 17 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

Monga(2010)

2h 20min | Thriller

3.2/5 (with 18 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

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Au Revoir Taipei(2010)

| 1h 25min | Comedy

2.9/5 (with 10 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

The Tag-Along: Devil Fish(2018)

1h 55min | Horror

2.7/5 (with 6 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.

A Confucian Confusion(1994)

2h 5min | Comedy

3.6/5 (with 6 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, Joyce Ni, Danny Deng, Berson Wang, ...

10,000 Miles(2016)

1h 43min | Romance / Love, Drama

2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Kevin, a young, fearless runner from a rough neighborhood in Taiwan, falls in love with his tough coach Ellie. When Ellie becomes sick and distant, Kevin fights to survive and conquer the famous 10,000 Miles Silk Road Ultramarathon in order to win her heart.

Directed by Simon Hung

The Silent Forest(2020)

1h 44min | Drama

4.0/5 (with 6 votes)

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.

Directed by Ko Chen-nien - With Troy Liu, Buffy Chen, Liu Kuan-ting, Yang Kuei-Mei, Tai Bo, Jessie Chang, ...

Love(2012)

2h | Drama, Romance / Love

2.9/5 (with 14 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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The Sandwich Man(1983)

1h 45min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 7 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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Girlfriend Boyfriend(2012)

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

3.3/5 (with 13 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

All You Need Is Love(2015)

1h 43min | Romance / Love, Comedy

3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

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

Man in Love(2021)

1h 55min | Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 13 votes)

A-Cheng collects debts for a gangster and doesn't skimp on violence, but he can also be merciful to those who deserve it. He has a crush on Hao-ting, the daughter of one of the debtors, but he only knows the underworld and so embarks on a clumsy and primitive courtship that includes reducing the girl's debts in exchange for pity dates. But when Hao-ting catches a glimpse of the good in him, the clouds of melodrama thicken and A-Cheng is forced to come to terms with the real nature of his work.

Directed by Yin Chen-hao - With Roy Chiu, Tiffany Hsu, Tsai Chen-nan, Chung Hsin-ling, Wei-Hua Lan, Lulu Huang Lu Zi Yin, ...

On Happiness Road(2018)

1h 51min | Animation, Drama

3.4/5 (with 14 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

Dear Tenant(2020)

1h 46min | Drama

3.8/5 (with 8 votes)

For the past five years, Lin has been looking after the son and the elderly mother of his deceased boyfriend. 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 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

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 - With Lu Yi-ching, Tarcy Sū

Darkness and Light(1999)

1h 44min | Drama

3.7/5 (with 4 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

Tropical Fish(1995)

1h 47min | Comedy, Drama

3.8/5 (with 5 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

Thanatos, Drunk(2015)

1h 47min | Drama

2.9/5 (with 6 votes)

They live in an old house on the fringe of Taipei City: Rat and his elder gay brother Shanghe. Two brothers look for jobs to survive while search for themselves and long for a foothold in life. The younger works at market where he meets a mute woman who gets up to all sorts of craziness. The elder is attracted to a nightclub dancer and finds himself drawn into shifty business.

Directed by Chang Tso-chi

Super Citizen Ko(1995)

2h 1min | Drama

3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

At an old age, a former political prisoner is determined to find out where his fellow sufferers have laid since their secret execution, while Taiwan embarks on a tumultuous path of democratization.

Directed by Wan Jen - With Lin Yang, Su Ming-ming

The Bride(2015)

1h 29min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

3.5/5 (with 5 votes)

Han and Hao are about to get married soon when Hao picks up a strange red envelope on the street and then all hell breaks loose with a vengeful supernatural bride wreaking havoc on his life.

Directed by Lingo Hsieh