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Siao Yu needs a green card. Mario Moretti needs his debts paid. Getting married could solve their problems, or multiply them.

Man-Li always lives in the normal track as everybody considers. After graduating from school to society, she keeps each job with caution and fear. Unless she finds a new job, she won’t quit the current one easily. This time is quite different. She resigned and had no idea what to do next. She just thought to make a change of her lifestyle. However, what will it look like? She doesn’t know either. Her boyfriend proposed the thought of getting married. She doesn’t feel like working but it doesn’t necessarily mean that she has to choose marriage. All of this is because of the space she longs for. On the contrary, she doesn’t know what to do. Only she can do is in a daze!Waves kept patting the seashore of the night dream……a feeling was gradually brewed, swelled, unlimitedly developed and grew in strength! What does the voice of waves in the dream draw on earth?

Sick and tired of oppression and torture a mute fighter takes the law in to his own hands and single-handedly terminates all the Japanese invaders in his area.

A master swordsman is on a twenty year quest to revenge the death of his parents.

A high school girl, Yu Shan, has long harbored a crush on her classmate, Pin Lun. She finds satisfaction in stealing his small belongings, as this gives her a sense of possession. She knows Pin Lun's weekly schedule, including when he practices piano. Once, Yu Shan sneaked into the music classroom ahead of time, and reveled in the pleasure of accompanying Pin Lun from a close distance as he played the piano.

Vic, an unprosperous actor, is torn between his dreams and real life. A short film produced during Ang Lee's second year at NYU film school.

“Taiwan is just an island across the sea,” Grandma says. Wei must stay in Fuzhou, China, and do everything he can to stop his cousin from going to Taiwan.

Patriotic extravanganza concerning early 20th century political events in Taiwan (i.e. the Republic of China), told in an ensemble format

Ching Wei is on a trip with the rest of his class. Awkward and ungainly, he's the class clown who entertains his fellow students with his goofiness, and his only real friend is Ling, his partner in the show the class is putting on. But he's also in a secret relationship with one of the most popular girls in the class, Yu, though they pretend they don't hang out. But when the class puts the students near one another, dynamics begin to shift between everyone. Ching Wei wants to make his romance with Yu public. But the struggle to do so may also reveal the limitations of their affection.

Adaptation of Huang Chunming's short story "The Two Signpainters".

A paratrooper Kiyohio meets a beautiful tour guide Shumei. The two hit it off and fall in love, but she'd already promised engagement to a childhood friend off at war.

Chia-wen and Hsiao-fen are childhood friends. Chia-wen is the son of a rich landlord and Hsiao-fen is the daughter of a poor couple who works on the rich lanlord's land. Even as children Chia-wen and Hsiao-fen love each other deeply. Chia-wen is sent to school in the city. After graduation Chia-wen returns to the countryside and plans to make his childhood friend Hsiao-fen his wife. Chia-wen's father disapproves of the marriage between Chia-wen and Hsiao-fen and disowns Chia-wen. With the disapproval of their marriage, Chia-wen takes Hsiao-fen and they run away together. Unmarried, Chia-wen and Hsiao-fen live together and struggle to make a living.

Shun used to work under Liao but vanished without a trace three years ago. Now, he's back seeking a job, despite being wanted by the police. Unlike the talkative Liao, Shun is quiet and mysterious, never mentioning his past, and Liao doesn't ask. Still, Liao senses Shun's desperation. On the heavily regulated construction site, Liao helps Shun navigate the heavily guarded construction site. Just as Shun gets through the checkpoints, the police arrive, catching both men off by surprise.

A young rebellious woman has an illegitimate child born with autism and tries to raise money to send him to the United States, where he has been accepted for medical treatment and research.

He, who is about to serve mandatory military service, chose to wander the streets of Taipei on the last night spent with his girlfriend who is about to leave the country. During his time here, his troubles were not just about getting a haircut, dealing with hemorrhoids, encountering a boy, but also a subtle pain.

Based on my daughter's real-life experiences, this story is set against the backdrop of elementary school life where children love to sneak snacks. It follows the adventures of two best friends as they prepare a farewell party for their final meeting. Through comedy and adventure, the story highlights the children's determination and courage to fulfill their wishes and showcases the precious bond of friendship.

A fish stuck in a fish pond does not have the luxury of swimming around freely. They are used to a mindless system of food being fed to them waiting to be weighed by the humans to see how much their worth.

Lee and his friend plan to travel round the island of Taiwan when they both face their biggest challenges in life.

When a daydreaming Taipei teenager tries to save a kidnapped boy, he ends up being kidnapped himself and transported to the Taiwanese countryside. There, among an eccentric family of criminals, he embarks on an unexpected journey that is by turns hilarious, surreal, and deeply humane.

Ching's grandpa passed away. Though her grandma insists on staying at home for the funeral, the girl tries to take her away in her own way.

Photographer Yen, Yu-Feng faced the pain of bereavement alone after the death of his mother. When he was grieving alone, he realized that his mother would completely disappear from this world, and he couldn’t find any photos of his mother. Yu-Feng began to recall his past with his mother, trying to find her figure from old things, graduation albums, and old photos.

David Loman, a simple country bumpkin who accidentally becomes a big boss in the criminal underworld. A decade passes, and life seems to go on as usual - solving daily problems for locals and receiving "protection fees" - until one day a deity tells David through a medium that he needs to find a double to avoid a catastrophe. Panicky, the boss seeks help from Old Ho, who agrees to pass as David for a few days, but is assassinated when attending a gathering with fellow gangsters.

A high school student who has lost his father is bullied at school while also being misunderstood by his mother. He decides to return to his father’s hometown to find the tobacco field that was painted in the torn painting he takes along on the journey.

During the Manchu (Qing) Dynasty, a mainland Chinese patriot becomes a one-man resistance force to defend a timber works against the invading Japanese army.

Ah Cheng has decided to get out of this silly kung-fu business and retire with his new girlfriend. Unfortunately, everyone is out to kill him, and one of the killers has been using his trademark knives to frame him! Meanwhile his friends meet up with a mysterious swordsmen who is not what he seems.

A woman who has owned a barbershop for over 40 years determines to embark on a long journey to cut the hair of an old customer who has moved away and is too sick to travel.

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.

'Such a Life' is quite a sad film. 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.

Lui is working towards protecting the ocean, promoting plastic-free life, and taking care of every sea turtle on Lamay Island. But her ex-boyfriend, Hui, crushes the dream they had set up and plans to build a resort in Lamay that would destroy the habitat of sea turtles. Lui works with the village chief, Hao, to defend his homeland but it puts them in danger.

It’s time to leave the fort belongs to us.

Hsiao Yen, a Young Country girl, has come to the city to find work. Her first job is as a maid-servant. She is told by the hunchback servant Lei Kung, that the master of the house is an invalid cripple who never leaves his room. One night, Hsiao Yen's screams bring Ta Tseng, the Chauffeur, to the rescue of Wang Ma, an old servant, who has tried to hang herself...

With a singular voice that distinguishes him from his New Taiwan Cinema contemporaries, Lin Cheng-sheng adds to his brief, but already remarkable, filmography with Sweet Degeneration, his third film in two years. As with A Drifting Life and Murmur of Youth, Lin’s new film delicately unfolds, gradually building to a climax of stunning emotional reverberations. Drawn from a particularly painful episode in the director’s past, Sweet Degeneration delves into the uneasy bonds a brother and sister have with each other and the people around them.

Mr and Mrs Chang live in Taipei's Hsi-Men-Ding (the city's entertainment/red light/nightlife district) with their teenaged kids. The parents work as cleaners in a "love hotel" and send the kids out to work as ticket scalpers, block-buying seats for hit movies like A City of Sadness and reselling them at a profit. Tragedy strikes when the daughter Mei-Hsueh flirts with the idea of prostituting herself and changes her mind at the last moment, leaving her first client with injuries that put him on the critical list. The focus throughout is on the son Ah Tong, who has a latent talent as a writer that is never going to flower.

An unemployed son visits his mother who lives alone. Having been away from home for a while, a sense of distance and alienation is all that is left between them. Nevertheless, they keep saying, ‘I’m fine’, to each other as neither wants to worry the other.

The Lin family, a Taiwanese shipping dynasty in Okinawa, is thrown into turmoil when the second son, Hung-hai, defies his father’s wishes by rejecting an arranged marriage with TV star Yoshiko and falling in love with Hsiu-ling, the daughter of their rival. As generational animosities and cruel twists of fate unravel, Hung-hai spirals into bitterness and alcoholism. Can these star-crossed lovers break free from the bonds of family conflict and rewrite their destinies?

During the Sino-Japanese War, Tsui-Ying flees with her father from the Japanese occupation. She meets a young man, Ling-Yun, and falls in love. Yet Tsui-Ying chooses to leave Ling-Yun and marries his uncle, a traitor who serves the Japanese. Out of heartbreak, Ling-Yun leaves the country to study abroad. In the meantime, Special Agent 001 leads the resistance against the Japanese. After Ling-Yun returns to Shanghai from the UK, he is surprised to find out his ex-lover has become the wife of his uncle Chao-Chun. Special Agent 001 continues their sabotage and the identify of the agent finally is revealed. The first Taiwanese-language spy film produced in Taiwan, The Best Secret Agent is a remake of the 1945 movie of the same name that caused a sensation in Shanghai.

Three bailiffs draw lots to decide who to perform tomorrow's execution. Quei-wu gets the mission but his wife just gets pregnant. He asks Hsin-chuen to fill in for him to avoid bad luck. Hsin-chuen, however, struggles to say yes.

Nearly a year has gone by since the passing of Grandma, and the Zheng family is busy preparing for memorial rituals. Hwa Jia (Crowd Lu) gets discharged from military service and happily reunites with Wei (Vera Yen). The next morning, Wei's parents catch them in bed together and flip out. Wei's angry parents confront Hwa Jia's family, and the whole meeting turns into a farcical mess. Faced with an unprecedented crisis, Hwa Jia must figure out how to save himself and his family. Part of TTV's acclaimed Qseries imprint, the quirky and moving family series A Boy Named Flora A (2017) turned into one of Taiwan's biggest television hits of 2017. The cast and crew return with more family love and laughs in the 2018 feature film Back to the Good Times (2018), directed by Yu Ning Chu. Released during the Chinese New Year period, the film follows the post-military life of protagonist Hwa Jia, played by popular singer-songwriter Crowd Lu

Ashin has spent his enitre life training for the national team in gymnastics. His mother believes his work will amount to nothing and asks his high school coach to take him off the team. Ashin then quits the sport entirely. He quickly falls in with wrong crowd and finds himself in a lot of trouble. Ashin leaves his small hometown of Yilan. Will he ever get back to the sport that he loves?

Taiwanese film

Zhijie, in her bid to find a wife for her mentally-challenged son, found Chu Lien to become her daughter-in-law. From then, Chu Lien's life becomes miserable, constantly being physically abused. Fortunately, Shun-hsing took pity on her, both of them quietly exchange solemn vows to each other...

Xue Ping, an out of town war veteran and Ahong a high school night school student both take the train to visit Taipei and wander around Taipei city, spending a strange and chaotic day. From time to time these two people's lives intersect. When the sun sets, they finally run into each other, stirring up the drama, and the revelation of a sixty year old sad and beautiful gay love story.

Shuichi, a young doctor working at a hospital in Bangkok, falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy Chinese trader.

The film focuses on a bunch of criminals and murderers whose paths cross in a small suburban town.

Road Less Traveled is a Taiwan Drama starring Sammo Hung

After a grueling night shift, Johney, a Filipino migrant worker, returns to find strangers clearing out her dorm—installing heavy machinery and claiming to “inspect the factory.” As tensions erupt, Johney fights to protect her home—and a secret she’s kept hidden inside.

Since getting married in Taiwan, Yun, a Vietnamese bride has been grounded all day with her baby. All she can do is watch the shopping channels on TV and imagine that if she puts on those gorgeous clothes, she will be more beautiful than her husband's mistress. ​One day, she is trapped on the top floor of the townhouse by accident.

In Damai Field Village, a city girl named Kui Hua lives with her artist father. One day, her father tragically dies in an accident caused by extreme weather, leaving Kui Hua an orphan. Although poor, a kind-hearted family takes her in，the family of a boy named Qing Tong . Growing up together as brother and sister, Qing Tong and Kui Hua care for and support each other through a time of material hardship.

Doris simply wanted to open a refined, stylish coffee shop in a bohemian Taipei neighborhood, but when she's stuck with a load of useless gifts from the opening celebration, her younger sister Josie turns the café into a burgeoning bartering business. There, even a soulful song (by Japanese singer Atari Kosuke in a cameo) is a tradable commodity. One day, a traveler brings in 35 soaps from around the world with a story for each of them, awakening Doris' imagination about the outside world that she has never seen.

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?