Best Taiwanese Movies

It is set in the sixties, in a village on the west coast of Taiwan, where many are succumbing to 'black foot', a disease caused by drinking contaminated well water. The only 'cure' is to amputate the afflicted limb, and to avoid drinking the contaminated water. Many in the village were already sick, and few could afford to have tap-water installed. At the center of the story is Ah Chung, who lives with his grandfather, who has already lost one leg to 'black foot'. In the same village also live an opera family, who are finding things increasingly difficult there, an oyster farmer, who complains that his oysters are being poisoned by a nearby pharmaceutical plant, and an assortment of children who enjoy swimming in the sea, and who bully Ah Chung. A significant portion of the action also takes place in the village school, where Ah Chung is having trouble keeping up with the fees.

Taiwan highways are crammed with millions of cars everyday. One day, the government closes the highways for 12 hours. All the cars are forced off their usual routes... Youthful Jade steals a jeep. On her way, she picks up the car's cell phone and calls the owner to bug him. Two of them gradually establish an ambiguous relationship. A trigger-happy man avenges his father's death and hijacks a bus. The bus driver gradually develops a sympathy for the killer, and begins to assume a father's role. Full of resentment towards his boss, a limousine chauffeur has given himself a day off to look for a girlfriend who had ditched him.

Liu befriends an Englishman bringing cinema to Beijing. Their modern interests conflict with traditions, Liu's father, and Liu's love for Ling. They navigate screening films for the Empress Dowager while balancing progress and customs.

A grandmother is looking for her grandson, a teenager for his grandfather.

A well-behaved teenager hides a rebellious streak and a passionate love affair in this 1960s drama. Hsi-lien is 20, on the verge of entering the real world. But a hidden love pulls her away.

While on a business trip in Shanghai, a man sees a woman he has had recurring dreams of.

Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that explores the Salomé myth.

How far away can you go, for how long can you leave, before you begin to long for home?

Mr. Sun is a married man. 40 years ago, he escaped from communist ruling in Mainland China to Taiwan. 20 years ago he remarried, and they have a sweet family. Recently Taiwan government announced that people at Taiwan were allowed to visit families and relatives in Mainland China. That caused some disturbance in his current wife's mind. The story shows the time of 2 weeks shared between two families, Mr. Sun's family in Mainland China and Taiwan, in Hong Kong

A couple and their son and daughter struggle through their divorce. The children try to cope after moving away to their grandparents', who live by the ocean, with the help of fairy tales that are told to them.

Ti Hung's parents die when she is twelve. When she is sixteen, she determines to change her fate, swearing to forget about the poverty. Based upon her famous clever hands at embroidery and three-inch lilies, her feet deformed by foot-binding, she is married into a rich family. But fate doesn't change, she becomes a widow at twenty three, and that year her son is only five. In her thirtieth year, she finally defeats all her elders, and becomes the Mistress of a family. But she fails to defeat the love desire, and that year she finds herself pregnant, and the other party is her personal male servant. She faces the challenge of the fate strongly, and then, she wins. This woman lives to the age of seventy five. When she is going to die, she begins to understand the lonely fate of this life seems to be destined when she is born, just as her broken palm lines.

This film tells of a woman's never-ending struggle to keep herself and her family fed and clothed.

Bandits trying to survive at the end of the Tang Dynasty.

Story of Lao Mo, a Taiwanese veteran who does not want to live a lonely life as an old man.

A girl, who was sold by her stepfather at the age of 14, has had been a prostitute for 14 years. Her family, despite enjoying a comfortable life with her help, avoids her. She thus decides to have a son of her own and succeeds by sheer determination. She is now hopeful that her son will have a life better than hers.

Patriotic extravaganza concerning early 20th century political events in Taiwan.

Patriotism motivates a Chinese American painter to return to motherland after civil war. He was accused to be capitalism during Anti-Rightist Movement, which caused him to flee. He goes exile into a wild bulrush in order to avoid the hunt.

Taiwanese film about the dark days of the Cultural Revolution and the young people who were destroyed by it, centered on a group of students who perform Nikolai Gogol's play The Inspector General.