Taiwan

One Night in Taipei

One Night in Taipei

One Night in Taipei

IMDb: 4.1
2015
94min

A bachelor who decides to propose to his girlfriend with his mother’s ring only to have the ring accidentally knocked into the gutter by a boy. He experiences the crazy nightlife in Taipei and meets many interesting individuals throughout his mission to get the ring back.

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Sashimi

Sashimi

Sashimi

IMDb: 3.6
2015
88min

A Japanese porno actor, HIV positive, commits suicide. Natsumi, a popular porno actress who has often worked with him, learns that she is also HIV positive and becomes desperate. She receives mysterious post cards at times from Taiwan, and decides to go to Taiwan to solve the mystery. The latest film by director PAN Chih-yuan of “The Touch of Fate”, which brought him multiple nominations at the Golden Horse Awards. LEE Kang Sheng, Golden Horse Awards’ Best Actor winner, plays the leading role. Co-star HATANO Yui gives a wonderful performance in her debut feature.

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The Assassin

The Assassin

The Assassin

IMDb: 6.4
2015
105min

A female assassin during the Tang Dynasty who begins to question her loyalties when she falls in love with one of her targets.

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The Arti: The Adventure Begins

The Arti: The Adventure Begins

The Arti: The Adventure Begins

IMDb: 6.2
2015
102min

Combining ancient designs discovered on the Silk Road, and an enigmatic natural power called the Origin, Zhang Meng created Arti-C, a powerful mechanical man made of wood and metal. Having stirred up fears, he was accused of treason and slain — but not before entrusting the Arti to his son Mo, who controls the wooden robot, and his daughter Tong, a cocky swordswoman. The siblings, now grown, pursue a perilous quest across the desert in search of the legendary city of Loulan, where they hope to find the Origin at its source. However, with ambitious royal schemes afoot and a mysterious tribe guarding the Origin, the Zhangs’ goal will not be easy to achieve. In the battle to come, are they even on the right side?

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All You Need is Love

All You Need is Love

All You Need is Love

IMDb: 5.9
2015
0min

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.

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Another Woman

Another Woman

Another Woman

IMDb: 6.3
2015
93min

Pei-xun, an early university graduate, is eager to take risks, and believes that she can play in the game of love. She soon finds out that in the adult world of love, love is not merely love – it is a war between different generations of women, and it is a war created with business and power struggles.

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The Revenant

The Revenant

The Revenant

IMDb: 8.0
2015
156min

In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.

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Our Times

Our Times

Our Times

IMDb: 7.4
2015
134min

Office worker Truly Lin goes on a journey through her memories. 20 years ago, she had a crush on the most popular guy in school. Taiyu, a ruffian and a bully, is in love with the campus belle. Truly teams up with Taiyu to tear the golden couple apart and help each other to get the ones they love.

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The Laundryman

The Laundryman

The Laundryman

IMDb: 6.2
2015
112min

A-Gu enlists a group of contract killers in the disguise of laundry service. One of them, code-named “No.1 Qingtian Street”, is haunted by the ghosts of his victims. He seeks help from Lin Hsiang, a psychic.

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The Search for General Tso

The Search for General Tso

The Search for General Tso

IMDb: 6.9
2014
71min

From New York City to the farmlands of the Midwest, there are 50,000 Chinese restaurants in the U.S., yet one dish in particular has conquered the American culinary landscape with a force befitting its military moniker—“General Tso’s Chicken.” But who was General Tso and how did this dish become so ubiquitous? Ian Cheney’s delightfully insightful documentary charts the history of Chinese Americans through the surprising origins of this sticky, sweet, just-spicy-enough dish that we’ve adopted as our own.

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Paradise in Service

Paradise in Service

Paradise in Service

IMDb: 6.5
2014
133min

Set in the island Kinmen, often seen as the most dangerous military base because it’s geographically close to China, “Paradise in Service” follows the adventure of a boy who serves his military service in Unit 831 from 1969 to 1972, in preparation for a war that could erupt anytime. Through an unlucky lottery draw result, Pao, a twenty-something young man from Southern Taiwan has to serve the military in the remote and perilous Kinmen. Moreover, he is assigned to the Sea Dragon (ARB), a unit noted for the toughest physical training. It never occurs to Pao, however, that the greatest challenge in his military service lies not in the Sea Dragon but in Unit 831, a special task he is later appointed to… In this peculiar assignment, Pao vows to keep his virginity against all odds.

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Zombie Fight Club

Zombie Fight Club

Zombie Fight Club

IMDb: 4.0
2014
95min

It’s the end of the century at a corner of the city in a building riddled with crime – Everyone in the building has turned into zombies. After Jenny’s boyfriend is killed in a zombie attack, she faces the challenge of surviving in the face of adversity. In order to stay alive, she struggles with Andy to flee danger.

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Design 7 Love

Design 7 Love

Design 7 Love

IMDb: 6.1
2014
116min

Seven people with seven love stories. They ignite the love and hate hidden under the table. In this battle of love, who will survive and who will lose? When the boundary between lies and truth has blurred, who can tell if the others are sincere or not? When one says, ‘ I love you’, does one mean it or it’s just another ‘design’?

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Twa-Tiu-Tiann

Twa-Tiu-Tiann

Twa-Tiu-Tiann

IMDb: 5.3
2014
135min

Through a famous painting “South Street Festival”, a Taiwanese college boy unexpectedly travels 100 years back in time, back to the 1920’s, when Taiwan was under Japanese rule. He is stuck, he panics, he wants to return to 2014 but soon changes his mind, not just because of the prettiest geisha girl in town…

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The Second Coming

The Second Coming

The Second Coming

IMDb: 4.8
2014
88min

All the CHEN family want is a quiet life but as daughter Lucy’s behavior changes from strange to violent, they are forced to confront dark secrets they have hidden for years. One by one, their desperate poverty, the mother’s rape and the father’s revenge by murder return to haunt them…until a searing TRUTH no one knew is revealed. Will this truth give them a second chance to right the wrongs in their lives or destroy them all?

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Saving Mother Robot

Saving Mother Robot

Saving Mother Robot

IMDb: 2.0
2013
86min

Taipei, late Dec 2012. The city is going through an unprecedented winter heatwave, with temperatures in the 30s. Eight-year-old Tiger (Antoine) lives with his divorced mother, Cao Yi (Vivian Hsu), 36, who is struggling to make ends meet with her job as a magazine editor and reduced alimony payments from her ex-husband (Tang Kuo-chung). Tiger, who has a hyper-active imagination and sees his mother as a run-down robot who needs a new model, is not very bright at school and worries his art teacher (Mini Yang) with the dark pictures he draws in class.

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Stray Dogs

Stray Dogs

Stray Dogs

IMDb: 7.0
2013
138min

A father and his two children wander the margins of modern day Taipei, from the woods and rivers of the outskirts to the rain streaked streets of the city. By day the father scrapes out a meager income as a human billboard for luxury apartments, while his young son and daughter roam the supermarkets and malls surviving off free food samples. Each night the family takes shelter in an abandoned building. The father is strangely affected by a hypnotic mural adorning the wall of this makeshift home. On the day of the father’s birthday the family is joined by a woman – might she be the key to unlocking the buried emotions that linger from the past?

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New Perfect Two

New Perfect Two

New Perfect Two

IMDb: 5.5
2012
100min

Ah Bee, a former superstar motorcycle racer who gave up on the sport after a bad fall on the track left him physically and emotionally scarred. Now Ah Bee is a self-loathing, boozing, gambling layabout with a faithful girl named Maniu, a spunky tomboy who cooks his meals, launders his clothes and constantly reminds him of what a loser he is. Of course, she needles him in an adorably sassy way, making her one of those awesome in-the-movies-only girls who’ll love a man faithfully even if he’s a boozing, gambling layabout.

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Life of Pi

Life of Pi

Life of Pi

IMDb: 7.9
2012
127min

The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper’s son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.

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Sai de ke · ba lai: Tai yang qi

Sai de ke · ba lai: Tai yang qi

Sai de ke · ba lai: Tai yang qi

IMDb: 7.5
2011
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Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale – Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale – Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale – Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge

IMDb: 7.7
2011
132min

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 2: The Rainbow Bridge is Part two of the two-part, four-hour Taiwanese edition of the film Warriors of the Rainbow.

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Monga

Monga

Monga

IMDb: 6.9
2010
140min

Set in the 1980’s, “Monga” centers around 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.

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Invitation Only

Invitation Only

Invitation Only

IMDb: 5.0
2009
95min

Five friends arrive at a party, fully unaware that the special night is just a cover for an evening of torture and murder.

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Red Cliff

Red Cliff

Red Cliff

IMDb: 7.4
2008
150min

In the early third century, the land of Wu is invaded by the warlord Cao Cao and his million soldiers. The ruler of Wu, Sun Quan, calls on the rival warlord Liu Bei for help, but their two armies are still badly outnumbered. However, the Wu strategist Zhou Yu sees that Cao Cao’s army is unused to battling on the sea, which may just give them a chance if they can exploit this weakness properly.

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Silk

Silk

Silk

IMDb: 6.5
2006
108min

A scientist uses his invention – the “Menger Sponge” – to capture the energy of a dead child’s spirit in an old building. In trying to determine why the energy of the ghost does not dissipate, the team discovers the identity and the dramatic story of the boy.

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Mulan II

Mulan II

Mulan II

IMDb: 5.7
2004
79min

Fa Mulan gets the surprise of her young life when her love, Captain Li Shang asks for her hand in marriage. Before the two can have their happily ever after, the Emperor assigns them a secret mission, to escort three princesses to Chang’an, China. Mushu is determined to drive a wedge between the couple after he learns that he will lose his guardian job if Mulan marries into the Li family.

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Coral Reef Adventure

Coral Reef Adventure

Coral Reef Adventure

IMDb: 7.0
2003
46min

Coral Reef Adventure follows the real-life expedition of ocean explorers and underwater filmmakers Howard and Michele Hall. Using large-format cameras, the Halls guide us to the islands and sun-drenched waters of the South Pacific to document the health and beauty of coral reefs. Featuring songs written and recorded by Crosby, Stills & Nash.

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Kung Pow: Enter the Fist

Kung Pow: Enter the Fist

Kung Pow: Enter the Fist

IMDb: 6.2
2002
81min

A movie within a movie, created to spoof the martial arts genre. Writer/director Steve Oedekerk uses contemporary characters and splices them into a 1970s kung-fu film, weaving the new and old together.
As the main character, The Chosen One, Oedekerk sets off to avenge the deaths of his parents at the hands of kung-fu legend Master Pain. Along the way, he encounters some strange characters

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The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea

The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea

The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea

IMDb: 5.6
2000
72min

Set several years after the first film, Ariel and Prince Eric are happily married with a daughter, Melody. In order to protect Melody from the Sea Witch, Morgana, they have not told her about her mermaid heritage. Melody is curious and ventures into the sea, where she meets new friends. But will she become a pawn in Morgana’s quest to take control of the ocean from King Triton?

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

IMDb: 7.9
2000
120min

Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physically-skilled, teenage nobleman’s daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life.

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Yi Yi

Yi Yi

Yi Yi

IMDb: 8.1
2000
173min

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

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Gorgeous

Gorgeous

Gorgeous

IMDb: 6.1
1999
121min

When Ah Bu, a girl from a small fishing town in Taiwan, finds a glass bottle with a romantic message, she travels to Hong Kong to find her prince charming. As it turns out, her prince charming, Albert, happens to be gay. But all is not lost when Ah Bu meets the dashing Chi Wu. Meanwhile, Ah Bu’s boyfriend from Taiwan comes looking for her, as the action and romance follow Ah Bu back to Taiwan.

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Eat Drink Man Woman

Eat Drink Man Woman

Eat Drink Man Woman

IMDb: 7.8
1994
123min

The film tells the story of a retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu (Si Hung Lung) and his family living in modern day Taipei, Taiwan. At the start of the film, he lives with his three attractive daughters, all of whom are unattached. As the film progresses, each of the daughters encounters new men in their lives. When these new relationships blossom, the stereotypes are broken and the living situation within the family changes.. The film features several scenes displaying the techniques and artistry of gourmet Chinese cooking. Since the family members have difficulty expressing their love for each other, the intricate preparation of banquet quality dishes for their Sunday dinners is the surrogate for their familial feelings.

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The Wedding Banquet

The Wedding Banquet

The Wedding Banquet

IMDb: 7.7
1993
109min

A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to keep his parents off his back and to get the woman a green card. Chaos follows when his parents arrive in New York for the wedding.

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Pushing Hands

Pushing Hands

Pushing Hands

IMDb: 7.3
1992
105min

The story is about an elderly Chinese tai chi chuan teacher and grandfather who emigrates from Beijing to live with his son, American daughter-in-law, and grandson in a New York City suburb. The grandfather is increasingly distanced from the family as a “fish out of water” in Western culture.

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The Brave Little Toaster

The Brave Little Toaster

The Brave Little Toaster

IMDb: 7.3
1987
90min

A group of dated appliances find themselves stranded in a summer home that their family had just sold decide to, a la The Incredible Journey, seek their young 8 year old “master”. Children’s film which on the surface is a frivolous fantasy, but with a dark subtext of abandonment, obsolescence, and loneliness.

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Spiritual Kung Fu

Spiritual Kung Fu

Spiritual Kung Fu

IMDb: 5.8
1978
94min

Jackie Chan plays the part of the class clown in a shaolin temple whose deadliest secret is stolen. All is lost until Jackie’s character discovers dancing blue ghosts with bright red hair who haunt the library.

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Master of the Flying Guillotine

Master of the Flying Guillotine

Master of the Flying Guillotine

IMDb: 7.6
1976
93min

A one-armed martial arts master is being stalked by an Imperial assassin, the master of two fighters (the Tibetan Lamas) who were killed in the previous film. When the One-Armed Boxer is invited to attend a martial arts tournament, his efforts to lay low are unsuccessful, and the assassin soon tracks him down with the help of his three subordinates competing in the tournament: a Thai boxer, a yoga master, and a kobojutsu user.

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The Killer Meteors

The Killer Meteors

The Killer Meteors

IMDb: 5.2
1976
104min

Mi Wey is a local hero named after “Killer Meteors”, his secret weapon which makes him invincible. However, when “Immortal” Wa Wu Bin, another powerful local character seeks his assistance, Killer Meteor will face the greatest and the deadliest challenge of his life.

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Formosa Boulevard

Formosa Boulevard

Formosa Boulevard

IMDb: 7.8
2015
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