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Returning home for his mother's birthday, Jhe-Ming must decide if he’s ready to reveal his secret: he’s married to the man he loves.

A corrupt mayor of a town in Szechuan province allies himself with a group of bandits to gain control of the region by cutting off all supply routes to the town. Two police men both expert kickers are deployed to put an end to the mayors evil plot.

1945-1947, Taiwan. A teenage couple were deeply in love despite objections from the girl’s family. Their tragic story is played out in travelling troupes, tea-houses and western-style cafes, with the backdrop of Japanese occupation and the 28 February Incident.

Daylight Developing is a filmed family diary in the form of a personal cinema. This work covers a family history and discusses changes in the light of family in the economic globalization, including the constantly moving family, the absence of family members, the room for women in separated families, as well as representations the concept of home; ultimately what is the meaning of home? In the film, the use of light as a symbol highlights the sanctity of the family and the beginning of life and the use of changes in lighting in the home movie remind of the warm atmosphere in l’espace heureux and therefore leads us to imagine the deepening relationships between the members of this family.

Taiwanese movie

A girl who weds her love against her wishes repents after their daughter is born and her decision makes her husband leave her. He returns 10 years later to see the child.

Two Taiwanese girls fly back to their hometown Taipei for an annual family visit. The trip starts out joyful with the embrace of family love; however it becomes unbearable when a disturbing truth is uncovered.

Billed as a "concept film" MAYDAY 3DNA combines play from the group's DNA concert tour in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and China 2010 and interweaves that with three fictional stories. The fictional sequences include a vignette about a Guangzhou father and daughter; another about a Taiwan taxi driver and passenger; and a third about a Shanghai delivery boy. All are affected by the lure of a Mayday gathering and the three separate stories intersect at one particular Mayday concert in Shanghai. Established in Taiwan in the late 1990s, Mayday has remained popular for over a decade by tuning into a Taiwan youth beat and pushing rock music in Greater China. Most songs are performed in Mandarin with some Taiwanese Hokkien tracks by band.

Kaohsiung Senior High School and Kaohsiung Girl’s Senior High School have a tradition. On a special “Drink Day,” boys and girls give drinks to each other. There are lots of puppy love stories on the “Drink Day”. Che likes Orange. He secretly learns Orange’s favorite drink from her best friend ,Bei. However, Che meets a strong rival of love, Tsai, always sending expensive Starbucks to Orange. Who will be chosen by Orange ?

Seeking revenge for the murder of his family, a man returns to Hong Kong to track down the killers. He becomes enthralled in further intrigue when his new boss is targeted by the same group.

The sudden arrival of Han provides a diversion from Ching's monotonous life as the proprietor of the family clock shop. She quickly falls in love with the young man who claims to be her high school classmate, but her bliss proves short-lived as he disappears just as abruptly. Worried, Ching calls Han's parents, only to be told that he died many years ago.

When a single-father mechanic bumps into a pungent massage girl, a buzzard encountering becomes a marginal romance.

A comedy about the advertisement business, set in modern Taiwan.

They sacrificed their lives fighting for the independence of their country, but their stories remain untold for 60 years. The story begins with a man’s portrait, which has been hanging for more than 30 years in an old wooden house where I was born and grew up in Perak, Malaysia. It’s long become a taboo that my families do not talk about this man, not even to bring up his name or his past. Eventually I found out he is my grandfather, who sacrificed his life fighting for Malaysia’s independence and decolonisation, but his and his comrades’ stories are excluded from history. This documentary set out to unveil the mysteries.

Chao Ta-jung and Yuan-yuan met at the seashore by chance. Ta-jung was impressed with Yuan-yuan's compassion towards those who were less unfortunate even though she had given him a hard time. They soon fell in love and decided to get married but due to Yuan-yuan's heart problem, there is a possibility that she may not conceive.

Somewhere Over the Dreamland adopts a portmanteau form to provide a realistically poetic depiction of the sad fate of two generations of aboriginals as alienated laborers in Taipei city.

An old downtown hotel had been visited by people with secrets. Each of them was assigned a number, and it was guaranteed that all the secrets would be forever kept in the hotel. No. 287 is quite a unique case. She hides her secrets in this hotel as well as a grand palace where her memories with her lover remain intact. Years later, the old hotel was relocated, and the palace was devoured by fire. All the secrets have thereby disappeared.

A woman discovers a magical sword, which enables her to learn the deepest secrets of the Dragon Kung-Fu school.

Zhi-Hui killed his annoying wife and told everyone she went traveling. And yet, her postcard arrived. It seems she is having a great time on her trip. Wait… what? She's alive? No… Or is he haunted? What happened that night?

Taiwanese drama.

Lonely and closeted, Xiao-Wei turns to the internet—until real-life feelings bring more questions than answers.

Viewers are transported back in time to 1974 to see the annual Taoist celebration of the Dajia Mazu Pilgrimage. Thousands of participants accompany a statue of the goddess Mazu, who protects seafarers, on a 9-day, 8-night procession, stopping at several prominent temples along the way. The religious pilgrimage is a round-way journey from the Zhenlan Temple in Dajia, Taichung City to Fengtian Temple in Xingang of Chiayi County on the Western plains of Taiwan. The mesmerising festival takes place every year during the third lunar month and still attracts large masses to this day. The audio track of the film was once banned under the Kuomintang (KMT) due to the film’s inclusion of spoken Hokkien (Taiwanese), giving viewers at the time an altered and suppressed understanding of the event and its cultural significance in Taiwan. Viewers now can revel in the beauty of the Taiwanese language and see the film for the true spirit that it captures.

5 years old Yang spends an afternoon with his mother on a shopping trip. When he throws a tantrum after feeling neglected, she decides to punish him by walking away. A seemingly harmless punishment eventually becomes a pivotal childhood experience for Yang that will forever change him.

Fire Ball is a 2005 Taiwanese animated feature film made by Wang Film Productions and directed by Wong Tung.

A massive gold forture is hidden somewhere in the hills surrounding Hong Kong, and 12 kung fu masters are in pursuit of the loot. Through a series of head-to-head confrontations, the pool of treasure hunters dwindles until there's one left.

Blending modern techno music with traditional Buddhist ceremonial dance on the big screen, The Spin Kid is one young man's redemptive journey from alleyway punk to dance floor pioneer.

A bevy of top fighters all fighting to rule the martial world and use the rarest styles ever put on screen. Master Ko, is in possession of a very special sword. A sword that can cut through anything and becomes invisible, it, therefore can easily trick and defeat the enemy. Many people are after this sword. One day, the master gets killed and the sword is stolen.

This film describes the sequelae produced by the changes and progress of the current society. By shooting this film, it uses a realistic approach to guide the family, school, and education of young people in the industrial society.

Depicts the tragic adventure of two brothers in Shanghai. They are skilled boxers but can't resist the material temptations of the underworld.

Three commentators sit in a news studio in front of a TV discussing the Tiananmen Square massacre as reported by local and foreign media. This film aims to examine the politics of image and the image of politics through commenting on the topics of democracy, media control, consumption and commercialism.

It narrates the sad experiences of the people around Huang Mingzhu who cannot enjoy freedom and live a peaceful life even though they live in the 1960s.

Kon Loong, a rickshaw boy, learns kung-fu from master Auyang Tin-Kin, for three years of practice. Kon Loong is recognized as the best among all the students. One day, when the master is out for a journey, another fighting association sends a challenge to the school, and Kon Loong accepts it. He goes with four other brothers, but they are badly defeated by their opponents, who hired the help of a Japanese karate fighter. When the master returns, he will have to save the school's honour, in a duel against the two other schools.

The once prosperous mining town of Houtong. The film collects voices of elderly folk who lived through those times—encounters with the supernatural. Their stories are lights cast down into the darkness of that near-faded history.

The little place is Hsiao-Chun’s home and country. As many young Taiwanese, she is torn apart between leaving or staying this place. Expecting a baby, her chances of finding a career abroad are fading, though her connections to the little place are changing like the bustling city that surrounds her.

Three interrelated stories about life in New York City: A lonely interpreter; two young hip-hop dance enthusiasts; and a couple struggling to cope with their mentally ill son. They inspire one another in their journey of finding hope in this seemingly heavenly city.

An adult who has a mental age of child. An eccentric middle-aged man wearing a raincoat at the height of summer. In an ordinary morning in Taipei, a group of anonymous people and TV set unexpectedly stage a preposterous breakfast show.

In a valiant attempt to rescue her younger brother, a young woman goes head to head with a group of ruthless gangsters.

In Taiwan, a young woman, Lin-Lang, is released from prison after serving ten years for terrorist activity. She had turned to bomb making in grief after her mentor and lover, An Rong, who was also her university professor, was arrested for political activity and, she presumed, executed. In prison, she learns Rong is alive, and she maintains her spirits and sanity for the years in her cell by holding imaginary conversations with him. When she is released, she discovers he is married, has a child, and lives conventionally. She finds him; he's not happy to see her. How she reacts to losing the center of her life becomes the subject of the film.

The story of Rider of Revenge revolves around a convict on the death row, who has killed many people and hidden a huge stash of loot somewhere. Several parties race against time and each other to get him out of jail, including the dashing daughter of the chief constable (Shang-Kuan Ling Feng), an upright lone swordsman (Tien Peng), a chivalrous young man (Chiang Pin), and gangsters coveting the treasure.

Uncle Sheng has been as a fisher for his whole life. After retirement, he felt lost. One day, he decided to go with his old pal onto the boat.

Taiwanese movie

A young boy enters the Shaolin Temple and undergoes rigorous training in traditional martial arts. The film focuses on discipline, endurance, and classical Shaolin forms as the child monk learns the fundamentals of kung fu. This is a 1972 Taiwanese production by Hwa Shing Film Co. and is not related to the similarly titled 1984 Hong Kong film.

It's Mom's birthday today. Li Si-yong is completely blind. Taking Wu Wen-ru who is visually impaired and their unborn child, they wander the streets in the dark. They try to piece together the fragmented memories of their daily life and family, waiting to welcome the arrival of a new life.

Taiwanese adventure film that reunites Ivy Ling Po with ex-Shaw stars Ching Li and Lisa Chiao Chiao.

The One Legged Fiend wreaks havoc throughout the central plains of China. Two young martial artists are trained in various forms of combat to bring the Peg Leg fighter to justice.

It's the year 1999, Hei-shu, a long-term unemployed man, finally gets a job in a local musical band, performing at funerals and weddings. One day, Hei-shu's cat is missing. He later suspects that the cat has turned into a woman.

More than just naughty, they play tricks on classmates, tease girls at school, fight with other boys, and lie to everyone until their teacher breaks down. They are named Liar No. 1 and Liar No. 2. The most important act planned in their life is to go to the mysterious water park, where they can leap through the portal at the end of the water slide to the fairy-tale world OZ and live as grown-ups happily ever after. However, the commitment is torn by a careless betrayal.

Once praised as “good helpers,” four migrant women from Indonesia and Vietnam face dismissal after pregnancy and struggle to raise children in a foreign land. As both workers and mothers, their pursuit of happiness is filled with hardship and separation.

On the last night of Mercury retrograde, the gang rookie Hao suffered a series of accidents and was forced to assassinate his benefactor. Hao blamed all this on Mercury retrograde, and hoped that Mercury retrograde would pass quickly…

In the table that symbolizes the value of traditional women, a woman who wants to break free from her family must face her daughter.