01 A group of high school friends' shared crush on the same girl shapes all of their adult lives.
14 Best Taiwanese Movies to Watch
By Vlad Zakh · September 13, 2026
Taiwan Arthouse slow and atmosphericthought provoking
Taiwanese New Wave directors Edward Yang and Hou Hsiao-hsien built patient, observational family dramas that became some of the most quietly influential films of the 1990s, and the tradition of formal restraint still runs through the country’s best work.
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02 A new transfer student is pulled into a gang war in Taipei's oldest, roughest district.
03 A repressed teenager's feelings for his best friend surface just as a new girl enters their friendship.
04 A porn actor and a lonely young woman's paths cross during a severe watermelon-fueled drought.
05 Three lonely strangers unknowingly share the same empty Taipei apartment.
06 The same two actors play three couples across three different eras of Taiwanese history.
07 A real puppet-theater master's life story is told through his own recollections and staged recreations.
08 A family navigates Taiwan's brutal transition from Japanese rule to Kuomintang control.
09 A teenager's gang entanglements in 1960s Taipei build toward a real, shocking act of violence.
10 A middle-class Taipei family's quiet crises unfold across three generations over one eventful year.
11 A trained assassin sent to kill the cousin she was once promised to hesitates when the moment finally arrives.
12 A young couple's move from their rural village to Taipei slowly wears down the relationship they left home to protect.
13 Two students trapped in a martial-law-era school confront the ghosts of a suppressed reading group.
14 A Taiwanese-American family relocates back to Taiwan just as a rebellious daughter and her mother's illness collide.
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