Search results for "Hou Hsiao-hsien"
The Assassin

The Assassin

The Assassin
IMDb: 6.3
105

9th century China. Ten year old general’s daughter Nie Yinniang is abducted by a nun who initiates her into the martial arts, transforming her into an exceptional assassin charged with…

Genre: Drama, History
10 Plus 10

10 Plus 10

10 Plus 10
IMDb: 6.4
114

10+10 is a project initiated by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival to demonstrate the solidarity between Taiwanese film-makers. 20 directors are invited to make a 5-minute short film each…

Genre: Drama
Flight of the Red Balloon

Flight of the Red Balloon

Flight of the Red Balloon
IMDb: 6.5
117

The first part in a new series of films produced by Musée d’Orsay, ‘Flight of the Red Balloon’ tells the story of a French family as seen through the eyes…

Genre: Drama, Family
Three Times

Three Times

Three Times
IMDb: 6.9
130

In three separate segments, set respectively in 1966, 1911, and 2005, three love stories unfold between three sets of characters, under three different periods of Taiwanese history and governance.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Café Lumière

Café Lumière

Café Lumière
IMDb: 6.8
103

Making her way through life by forming superficial relationships, Yoko keeps everyone at arm’s length, whether it’s her father and stepmother or Hajime, the owner of a small bookstore who…

Genre: Drama
Millennium Mambo

Millennium Mambo

Millennium Mambo
IMDb: 7
106

The youthful Vicky is torn between two men, Hao-Hao and Jack. At night she works as a PR person at a night club to support both of them. Hao-Hao keeps…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Flowers of Shanghai

Flowers of Shanghai

Flowers of Shanghai
IMDb: 7.3
113

At the end of the 19th century, Shanghai is divided into several foreign concessions. In the British concession, a number of luxurious “flower houses” are reserved for the male elite…

Genre: Drama
A City of Sadness

A City of Sadness

A City of Sadness
IMDb: 7.8
159

The story of a family embroiled in the “White Terror”, mainland China’s political repression that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government in the late 1940s.

Genre: Drama, History
Daughter of the Nile

Daughter of the Nile

Daughter of the Nile
IMDb: 7
91

Lin Hsiao-yang tries to keep her family together while working as a waitress at Kentucky Fried Chicken and going to night school. With no mother and her father currently working…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Dust in the Wind

Dust in the Wind

Dust in the Wind
IMDb: 7.6
109

A-yuan and A-yun are both from the small mining town of Jio-fen. They move to Taipei, where A-yuan is an apprentice by day and goes to night school, and A-yun…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Time to Live and the Time to Die

The Time to Live and the Time to Die

The Time to Live and the Time to Die
IMDb: 7.6
138

An autobiographical film based on Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien’s memories of his youth growing up in Taiwan after emigrating from mainland China.

Genre: Drama
The Boys from Fengkuei

The Boys from Fengkuei

The Boys from Fengkuei
IMDb: 7.3
98

Ah-Ching and his friends have just finished school in their island fishing village, and now spend most of their time drinking and fighting. Three of them decide to go to…

Genre: Drama
Play While You Play

Play While You Play

Play While You Play
IMDb: 5.9
90

A photographer travels with her boyfriend to a seaside village in Penghu. There she strikes up a relationship with a blind man. When they reencounter one another back in Taipei,…

Genre: Drama, Romance