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Taiwanese horror film.

Journalist San Lin-jun and his colleague attend a jewelry exhibition when the Cosmic Gang attacks, causing an explosion. A masked vigilante confronts the gang, leading to a battle between justice and evil.

A young scholar is asked by a woman ghost to bring her back to the world where she wants to take her revenge on her killers.

If you are a woman who wants to have children, you are not allowed to have any assisted reproductive treatments in Taiwan unless you are married to a man. In 2019, Mota and City “were allowed” to become each other’s wives but they are still “not allowed” to have children. Despite the fact, they refuse to bow down to the law and have found a route not regulated by any laws just to fulfill their longing to become mothers.

On a winter night in 2002, a couple in their early 20s is breaking up atop a bridge, when the woman falls down. Is it a suicide or accidental death? The man asks a friend to call an ambulance, but the woman dies. The man and his friend are imprisoned for murder when an eyewitness reverses her original statement and says that she saw the two men throwing the woman from the bridge. After more than a decade, director Shih Yu-Lun collaborates with the ‘Taiwan Innocence Project’, a private organization that helps innocent people who have been unjustly convicted, to re-investigate the case.

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

After orphan Fung Ma-Chun marries Tzu Feng he learns the truth of his parents' death. The newlywed couple of sword-fighters set out for revenge, but their path is beset by surprise and tragedy.

In 1949, the Republic of China suffered a major defeat in the Chinese Civil War, and the Government was forced to relocate to Taiwan. The Government enacted the Declaration of Martial Law in Taiwan, prosecuted anyone who was suspected to be Chinese communists spy. Tin, an innocent farmer, was falsely accused and imprisoned. During the days in jail, Tin got lots of support from his inmate, Kok. With the hope that Kok gave him, Tin gradually found that it is impossible for him to be released from prison.

A boy working in a supermarket develops a strange relationship with a shopping cart.

Raised in Japan, Yukiko’s education was made possible by a Taiwanese benefactor. As Expo ’70 nears, she becomes a hostess, determined to find her long-lost benefactor. Her search takes her across Osaka, Kobe, Nara, and Hokkaido, but every lead vanishes as quickly as it appears. Set against the 1970 Osaka Expo, this film stars Taiwanese-Japanese singer Judy ONGG, seamlessly blending music, dance, and documentary elements.

The artist Mucun’s interest is to collect antiques and old objects. He likes to hang out in flea markets and second-hand junk stalls to hunt for treasure. To him, the tens of thousands of old things piled up at home are just the epitome of people's life history and life memory. The film "Dream is not a residual image" reflects Mu Can's inner artistic ideal, a strong surreal style, and a high standard pointing out the "incomplete" aesthetics.

A warrior is transported 1,000 years into the present day and must fend for his life while adapting to modern society

Drug dealer Guo-hao hopes to make big money by an unknown cocaine deal so that he and his girlfriend can leave their life of crime behind. But he soon realized that the whole thing is not that simple.

When a luxurious family touring train halts in a pitch black tunnel, an uninvited creature sneaks on board.

After serving three years in prison for a murder he didn't commit, an angry streetfighter seeks justice. Two sworn brothers oppose a gang of killers running a gym.

Son and father are driving on the highway. The son keeps asking questions until he finally notices the changes in his father's body. The dialogue in the animation is taken from a recording of a real conversation between the filmmaker and his father.

Also known as White Jasmine.

Liu Hui is a widower whose son lives in America. She insists on living alone in the house she shared with her late husband, a calligrapher, and is surrounded by fond memories. As she gradually joins community activities, she strikes up an acquaintance with the kind and shy building caretaker who faces a quandary over a stray cat. Small moments together reveal loneliness and companionship.

Documenting Taiwan’s first large-scale postwar outdoor concert, this film revisits the 1978 Grass Field Charity Concert, an unprecedented gathering of over 4,000 people. Organized by singer and television host Yang Tsu-Chun (楊祖珺) during the height of the island’s folk song movement, the event foregrounded music’s relationship with everyday life rather than overt political messaging. Yet its significance was inseparable from the era’s tensions: Yang’s self-titled album had recently been banned for the perceived “left-wing” social consciousness of her lyrics, and despite the concert’s stated charitable intent, its scale and popular appeal drew the scrutiny of Kuomintang (KMT) intelligence agencies. Framed against late-1970s Taiwan, the film documents how music, public space, and cultural expression intersected under authoritarian surveillance, marking a pivotal moment in the history of popular music and collective gathering.

An elderly Taiwanese farmer faces new struggles when his children attempt to put him into aged care.

Little Scissors, a little young girl always dreaming of becoming a space hero. Today is her first day of preschool. Surprisingly, she met the alien attack. Will she fight with them bravely? An incredible and fantasy story is keep going!

The love bug strikes two young sisters at about the same time. Since the two sisters happen to be in love with the same person, chaos and confusion is brought into their once serene home.

Taiwanese movie

A misplaced time of youth, is like playing badminton in a tennis court.

Five "Disciples" with their own addictions gather in a spiritual growth group with religious undertones. They expose their wounds, solicit approval, and try to fill the void within them through the teachings of the leader, “The Master." However, one of the addicts seems to be seeking treatment, but in fact hiding ulterior motives.

Documentary about making of "Three Tears in Borneo".

Five years after participating in a failed government protest in 2009, Sheng-han and his friends storm the Executive Yuan as members of the Sunflower Student Movement. Through failures and choices, these young activists on the cusp of adulthood seek to affirm their self-identity.

With Siao-lu’s classmate Yu-Tin’s (played by Gigi Lin) help Siao-lu finds coach Chang who trains disabled player. Siao-lu happens to know coach Chang is Jie’s father. Even though she wants to help them to reconcile, she couldn’t find a way. On the other hand, she has her own thinking towards her dream. On her 20 years’ old birthday, she announces her plan of receiving training to her family. Although her mother is against it, with her sister’s help, Xiao-Lu finally convinces her mother with doctor’s approval; her mother approves her request reluctantly Flinging into the training completely, Siao-lu doesn’t pay attention to the change of her body condition. On the eve of the competition, fate forces Siao-lu to compete with time. Can Siao-lu accomplish her dream? Can Jie and Coach Chang reconcile? Can Siao-lu complete the training and the competition with her love and courage in her heart ?

Lingtan Street is home to several shops, where the owners keep their secrets. A woman who has lost her family, a lesbian running a bookshop, a vegetable stall owner controlled by her husband, a piano teacher relying on a cleaning job, a young mother separated from her son and a music store owner about to have a home birth. Their lives become entwined as they go through the highs and lows together.

My Nostalgia, My Songs is a poetic documentary centered on Lin Hwai-min’s landmark dance work for Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan. The music, curated by iconic photographer Chang Chao-tang, weaves Taiwanese folk melodies into reflections on urban migration and collective memory. Through the cinematography and editing of Christopher Doyle, the stage becomes a cinematic space, transforming performance into a sensory meditation on Taiwanese identity and cultural displacement in the 1980s.

As Jun waits leisurely to enlist in the army, everything starts to go sloppy after two lines appear on his girlfriend’s pregnancy test. Jun, who lost his father as a child, is at a loss because of his sudden “fatherhood”. Meanwhile, his mother Jia-ling gives Jun a golden watch, a relic from his father. Looking at the oldfashioned watch, Jun wonders if he can become a reliable man.

On his first day at a bustling restaurant, newcomer Zih-yan is guided by veteran staff member Mao, who walks him through the environment, pointing out all the tedious rules and minute details of the job. But as Zih-yan gradually comes to understand Mao’s role in the restaurant and how others relate to him, his own attitude toward the job begins to shift.

Tong and Yong-sheng are inseparable playmates, but after Yong-sheng dies in an accident, Tong falls into a dark spiral. At the time, this film was banned due to its homosexual overtones and ideology, while some felt that certain segments drew comparison with CHEN Ying-zhen’s short story The Noodle Stall.

Soft, an escaped undocumented worker, clutches a woman's ID card in his hand. This woman is the goddess of his best friend, Chai, who yearns to meet her. To fulfill Chai's desire, Soft embarks on a journey, heading toward the location indicated on the ID card.

Shot by Chang Chao-Tang and cinematographer Christopher Doyle, The Boat Burning Festival captures the ceremony worshipping Wangye（王爺）, the local god of plague, held every three years in Sucuo Village（蘇厝） in Tainan（台南）, Taiwan. Chang timed the work to "Ommadawn", a Celtic-inspired progressive rock album by Mike Oldfield. Defying genre conventions and deviating stylistically from television or ethnographic documentary, the film testifies to the tense and complex coexistence of traditional rites, local folklore, and discourses about modernisation and identity in 1970s Taiwan.

For over 70 years, Kai has lived in a military dependents’ house frequented by monkeys. He has spent years maintaining the almost 90-year-old house. In facing monkeys’ intrusions, typhoons and the unpredictable nature of life, can he weather the trials of nature and time?

A sweet potato, on the way back...

A team of an entrepreneur, an athlete and a student from Taiwan arrived in the Arctic Circle. Through their participation in the 2008 Polar Challenge – a 600 km race to the Magnetic North Pole, they’ve realized their dreams. They experienced hypothermia and attack from polar bears en route.

How does a piece of sugar taste of history?⁣ A century ago, in Erlin, a land susceptible to winds and floods, the Erlin Sugarcane Farmers' Association was born. It was Taiwan's first modern organization to advocate for farmers. They held lectures and established rural schools, but ultimately faced imprisonment.⁣ A century later, many have forgotten this history. On the crimson monument at the site of the incident, only the faded inscription "Erlin Sugarcane Farmers" is visible, reflecting against distant chimneys.⁣ What kind of future awaits Erlin's rural villages? Looking back at history, what can we learn?⁣ "Before Crystallization" tells the story of how people were treated before sugarcane became a symbol of sweetness.⁣ "Before Crystallization" discusses what efforts we still need to make before memory becomes a collective identity.⁣ Let the Erlin Sugarcane Farmers' Association lead the way, as we travel through time together and begin a century of reflection.⁣

Taiwanese movie

Shy clerk Douglass is ridden by bad luck. He would like to be rich, but his work bores him. So does his lifestyle. One night in his dream, he sees six numbers which are to change his life. The lottery with the highest jackpot in history is about to close the ticket offices...

A feature film that reveals the love and lust between two women, the conflicts between gay family and traditional stereotypes. It finds back the forgotten love with a romantic touch.

After the divorce lawsuit, Jia Ting and Ming Kai want to have brain surgery to completely forget each other. While preparing the materials for the surgery, which include the objects representing their love, hatred, relatives and friends, they realize that the difference between them is this increasingly divided memory...

Jin-Hua and Jin-Tien are twin sisters. Quiet and shy Jin-tien is an animal trainer at an aquarium. When her sister suddenly goes missing, Jin-tien must stand for her in a magic show. While inside the box, she is confronted with the childhood Jin-tien, Jin-hua and their mother. A very lyrical film about memories of loved ones.

Legend has it that the forest that makes noise in the morning is the home of monsters. When the demented old woman (played by Wang Yan) and the monsters were distressed about the forgotten way home, the old woman met university classmate Wang Xin (played by Xie Qiongnuan). She accidentally opened up the inextricable past, but also quietly unravels the mystery of the monsters' origins, and clues emerge as to the mysterious location of the forest.

Yuexin is trapped in an endless time loop—each time he wakes, he's confronted by his wife, Shuchun, holding a photo of his affair and asking the same question: “Why?” He’s tried apologizing, explaining, yelling, even staying silent, but no matter how he responds, the outcome never changes.