14 Best Taiwanese Movies to Watch

A group of high school friends' shared crush on the same girl shapes all of their adult lives.

Directed by Giddens Ko · 1h 49m

A new transfer student is pulled into a gang war in Taipei's oldest, roughest district.

Directed by Doze Niu Cheng-Tse · 2h 20m

A repressed teenager's feelings for his best friend surface just as a new girl enters their friendship.

Directed by Leste Chen · 1h 36m · Rated NR

A porn actor and a lonely young woman's paths cross during a severe, watermelon-fuelled drought.

Directed by Tsai Ming-liang · 1h 54m

Three lonely strangers unknowingly share the same empty Taipei apartment.

Directed by Tsai Ming-liang · 1h 58m · Rated NR

The same two actors play three couples across three different eras of Taiwanese history.

Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien · 2h 10m

A real puppet-theatre master's life story is told through his own recollections and staged recreations.

Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien · 2h 23m

A family lives through Taiwan's brutal shift from Japanese rule to Kuomintang control.

Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien · 2h 38m · Rated NR

A teenager gets tangled up with gangs in 1960s Taipei, building towards a real act of violence.

Directed by Edward Yang · 3h 57m · Rated NR

A middle-class Taiwanese family navigates love, disappointment and self-discovery across generations.

Directed by Edward Yang · 2h 54m · Rated NR

A trained assassin sent to kill the cousin she was once promised to hesitates when the moment finally comes.

Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien · 1h 45m · Rated NR

A young couple's move from their rural village to Taipei slowly wears down the relationship they left home to protect.

Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien · 1h 49m · Rated NR

Two students trapped in a martial-law-era school confront the ghosts of a suppressed reading group.

Directed by John Hsu · 1h 42m

A Taiwanese-American family moves back to Taiwan just as a rebellious daughter and her mother's illness collide.

Directed by Feng-I Fiona Roan · 1h 41m