Movies and TV shows set in taiwan
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in taiwan ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, realistic, serious, psychological, touching and melancholic films and TV shows about / with friendship, love and romance, coming of age, family relations, lifestyle, couples, love, loneliness, life is a bitch and youth plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in Taiwan, France, USA and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as taiwan: Eternal Summer (2006), The Wayward Cloud (2005), Get the Hell Out (2020), Crystal Boys (2003), Dust in the Wind (1986), Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), Millennium Mambo (2001), Vive L'Amour (1994), Touch of the Light (2012), Gold Leaf (2021).
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List of movies set in taiwan
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Three high school students experience the perks and pitfalls of love in director Leste Chen’s sensitive tale of friendship and yearning.
Style:
sexy, realistic, sentimental, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, gay, gay interest, friendship, lgbt, gay sex, unrequited love, gay teenager, true love, romantic friendship, gay asian, gay crush ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
taiwan, asia, taipei, hong kong
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: France, Taiwan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Hsiao-Kang, now working as an adult movie actor, meets Shiang-chyi once again. Meanwhile, the city of Taipei faces a water shortage that makes the sales of watermelons skyrocket.
Style:
sexy, erotic, disturbing, surreal, humorous ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
passionate sex, filmmaking, sexual perversion, isolation, human nature, lifestyle, actor's life, love and romance, sex scene, sex, erotica, crazy love ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
taiwan, taipei, india
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A group, lead by a loser MP and his assistant, must work together to stay alive after a virus infects the Taiwanese parliament and turns them all into ravenous zombies.
Style:
suspense, psychotronic, humorous, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
death, bomb, political satire, female protagonist, virus, hiding place, supernatural, apocalypse, camaraderie, fear, revenge, fate of humanity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
taiwan
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on the homonymous novel by Pai Hsien-yung, the story takes place in Taipei in the 1970s, and follows a short period in the life of a young man called Li-Qing (nicknamed A-Qing). When A-Qing is expelled from his school because of ...
Style:
suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, psychological, period drama
Plot:
gay subtext, gay, gay interest, lgbt, male homosexuality, hardship, social issues, gay lead character, life is a bitch, family problems, brother brother relationship, buddy ...
Time:
70s
Place:
taiwan
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Genre: History
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
"1895" tells the story of the resistance against the Japanese invasion in 1895.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, suspense, period piece ...
Plot:
resistance, resistance movement, invasion, fight for supremacy, battles, power struggle, war, resistance fighter, fight, guerilla warfare, occupation, asian history ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, victorian era
Place:
taiwan, asia, taipei, japan, east asia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A-yuan and A-yun are both from the small mining town of Jio-fen. In the city, A-yuan is an apprentice by day and goes to night school, and A-yun works as a helper at a tailors. Everyone thinks they are meant for each other, so do they. They fail to ...
Style:
slow cinema, teen, aesthetic, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coal mine, asian, mining town, family relations, delivery, love affair, city life, apprentice, working class, urban, teenage life, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, year 1986, 80s, 70s
Place:
taiwan, china, taipei, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of a retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu (Si Hung Lung) and his family living in modern day Taipei, Taiwan. At the start of the film, he lives with his three attractive daughters, all of whom are unattached. As the ...
Style:
romantic, visual, humorous, feel good, twisted ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
chef, cooking, food, daughter, love, teacher, restaurant, sisters, women, dialogue, art, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s, 20th century
Place:
taiwan, asia, hong kong, taipei, tokyo ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Taipei. A voice off-camera looks back ten years to 2000, when Vicky was in an on-again off-again relationship with Hao-Hao...
Style:
realistic, contemplative, touching, aesthetic, art house ...
Plot:
couples, love and romance, love triangle, addiction, friendship, destructive relationship, couple relations, coming of age, lifestyle, life is a bitch, nightlife, infidelity ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
taiwan, japan, asia, taipei, india
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Three lonely young denizens of Taipei unknowingly share an apartment: Mei, a real estate agent who uses it for her sexual affairs; Ah-jung, her current lover; and Hsiao-ang, who's stolen the key and uses the apartment as a retreat.
Style:
erotic, sexy, atmospheric, meditative, disturbing ...
Plot:
sex, love triangle, multiple storylines, character study, friendship, dysfunctional family, storytelling, drug, art, loneliness, love and romance, couples ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
taiwan, asia, east asia, taipei, tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Yu-Siang is blind – but he has a superb sense of hearing. Born in rural Taiwan, this extremely talented musician moves to the capital Taipei to study the piano. But how will he manage on his own? Even the walk across campus from his halls of ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, motivational, heartfelt ...
Plot:
blind character, blindness, hopes, prodigy, human spirit, follow your dream, musician's life, artists and showbiz, piano, music, disability, inspiration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
taiwan, asia, china
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
TV show
Story:
In 1949, the only daughter of the largest tea factory in Taiwan was supposed to marry a man to take over her life and her father’s huge business. After she divorced, who was her own master became a question. To prove her worth, she intervenes in ...
Style:
historical drama, captivating, thrilling, psychological, inspirational ...
Plot:
family business, female protagonist, businessman, female empowerment, family drama, gender roles, life is a bitch, money problems, tragic love, wealthy family, relationships, social problems ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s
Place:
taiwan, east asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
Island Nation is a Taiwanese political drama based on Taiwan's transition from an authoritarian state to a democracy in the 1990s
Style:
thought provoking, tense, thrilling, captivating, political ...
Plot:
political intrigue, politics, historical event, politician, political activism, political unrest, intrigue, lifestyle change, authoritarianism, power struggle, civil liberties, government corruption ...
Time:
90s
Place:
taiwan
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Through a famous painting "South Street Festival", a Taiwanese college boy unexpectedly travels 100 years back in time, back to the 1920's, when Taiwan was under Japanese rule. He is stuck, he panics, he wants to return to 2014 but ...
Style:
satirical, psychological, captivating, semi serious, thrilling ...
Plot:
time travel, time jump, satire, time warp, time loop, time traveler, time machine, lifestyle, asian, travel, japanese occupation, identity ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
taiwan
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Tang (Muo) goes on a trip to Taitung to record the sounds of nature, hoping the tape may save his relationship with his girlfriend who is leaving him. What he does not know, is that she has already moved away and another girl, Yun (Kwai), has moved ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, gloomy ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
lost love, suicide, introspection, self discovery, love triangle, on the road, couples, unfulfillment, cause and meaning, love affair, road trip, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
taiwan, japan, asia, taipei
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
During the Qingming Festival, a single mother He Sheng Xin, her daughter and mother, visits the tomb at Chiayi Minxiong Cemetery. Xiao Yi, Sheng Xin's daughter, gets missing when she accidentally touches weird barrier, keeping strangers away ...
Style:
suspenseful, creepy, captivating, scary, bleak ...
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, cemetery, supernatural, missing child, old dark house, dark secret, old mansion, apparition, haunting, undercover, haunted ...
Place:
taiwan
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, China
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An American-born Chinese economics professor accompanies her boyfriend to Singapore for his best friend's wedding, only to get thrust into the lives of Asia's rich and famous.
Style:
romantic, rom com, feel good, sincere, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
wedding, wealthy family, infidelity, luxury, rich man poor woman, materialism, chinawoman, chinaman, domineering mother, aeroplane, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, marriage proposal ...
Time:
2010s, year 1995, 21st century
Place:
singapore, taiwan, xian, new york, asia ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Based on a true social event, The Rice Bomber depicts a series of bombing events in Taiwan a decade ago. It is a time when the agriculture is struggling to survive. A man strives to arouse the government’s attention and to revive its conscience by ...
Style:
realistic, serious, controversial, tense, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
fighting the system, forced into action, political unrest, society, family relations, globalization, state affairs, rebelliousness, ethical dilemma, village life, moral ambiguity, activism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
taiwan
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
With more Taiwanese students studying at Japanese universities in recent years, Japanese teachers need to better understand these students. When Onizuka (AKIRA) is invited for a one-week teaching exchange program at a Taiwanese high school, he is ...
Style:
captivating, satirical, feel good, semi serious, intercultural ...
Plot:
high school life, teacher, high school teacher, school teacher, high school, culture clash, lifestyle change, school, dedicated educator, satire, schoolboy, teachers and students ...
Place:
taiwan, east asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Taiwan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Kicki has after several years abroad returned to Sweden. Her 17-year old son has been brought up by his grandmother and has a very distant relationship to his mother. In an effort to get reacquainted Kicki invites her son to join her on vacation in ...
Style:
realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
mother son estrangement, teenage boy, businessman, gay, family relations, lgbt, love, lgbt teen, travel, friendship, romantic friendship, hotel ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
taiwan, taipei, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
When a young street vendor with a grim home life meets a woman on her way to Paris, they forge an instant connection. He changes all the clocks in Taipei to French time.
Style:
erotic, atmospheric, philosophical, breathtaking, disturbing ...
Plot:
obsession, insomnia, isolation, death in the family, unfulfillment, lifestyle, estrangement, loneliness, drinking, father son relationship, drinking alcohol, death ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, taiwan, east asia, asia, hong kong ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story:
This epic period piece follows the lives of several families in a military village from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Style:
family saga, disturbing, semi serious, satirical, entertaining ...
Plot:
slice of life, village, lifestyle, wartime life, satire, large family, family relations, society, social change, domestic drama, coming of age, memory ...
Time:
80s, 60s, 90s, 70s
Place:
taiwan
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Taiwan
TV show
Story:
A troubled psychologist returns from the U.S. and sets up a clinic in Taiwan, where mysterious patients and uncanny events shed light on his murky past.
Style:
scary, suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
spirit, psychiatry, possessed, haunted, supernatural, psychiatrist, doctor patient relationship, confronting the past, doctors and patients, secret past, mysticism, dark secret ...
Place:
taiwan
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Gwei Lun-mei-starring drama series “Women in Taipei,” as a spin-off from the “Women in Tokyo” series.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, realistic, melancholic
Plot:
female protagonist, ambition, city life, aunt niece relationship, ambitious woman, lifestyle, coping, family relations, self discovery, struggle, aspiration, slice of life ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
taiwan, taipei
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
The arrogant, third most-wanted criminal in Taiwan, decides to get rid of the top two competitors and crowns himself the most-wanted criminal before dying.
Style:
crime drama, exciting, captivating, thrilling, tense ...
Plot:
violence, rivalry, fugitive, wanted, bandit, escapades, criminal underworld, criminal, true crime, rivals, manhunt, gangster ...
Place:
taiwan
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 72 min.
TV show
Story:
To carry out her dad's wish and discover her roots, Dai Tian-qing embarks on a journey around Taiwan and finds love and redemption on the way.
Style:
psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
redemption, family drama, father daughter relationship, self discovery, love interest, couples, in love, male female relationship, travel, love story, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, relationships ...
Place:
taiwan
Is relevant?
Genre: Action
Country: USA, Taiwan
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Chuck Connors stars in this routine martial arts feature as the Colonel. He sends agents Sonny (Mike Kelly) and Dennis (George Nichols) to Taiwan in search of microfilm containing experiments on genetic engineering. The agents soon find themselves ...
Style:
suspenseful, action adventure, independent film, serious, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, ninja, assassin, kung fu, hand to hand combat, espionage, mentor protege relationship, violent, cold war, ruse, warrior, fight ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
taiwan, japan, soviet union
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Taiwan, China
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Set in the island Kinmen, often seen as the most dangerous military base because it’s geographically close to China, "Paradise in Service" follows the adventure of a boy who serves his military service in Unit 831 from 1969 to 1972, in ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, sentimental, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
forbidden love, soldier, military life, military base, brothel, haunted by the past, friendship, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, prostitute, military, boy ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, pre world war two, 60s
Place:
taiwan, ancient china
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Taiwan, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A woman who is mourning the love of her life falls into a relationship with a mysterious stranger.
Style:
serious, psychological, suspenseful, melancholic, sexual ...
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian interest, lesbian love, couple relations, danger, love and romance, couples, love affair, fall in love, lgbt, dangerous attraction, gender ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
taiwan, asia, germany, europe, taipei ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
First-time actor Tung Ming-Hsiang plays Ming, a young college student whose lifelong hearing problem causes him to communicate via slurred speech. Carrying a guitar on his back and lacking few concrete reasons, he decides to bike around the island ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, exciting, rough ...
Plot:
cycling, bicycle, friendship, self discovery, starting over, love and romance, homecoming, elderly lovers, ambition, obsessive quest, misfit, mute or deaf ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
taiwan, europe, canada
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
Sega's children, born into post-war Chinese rule, can't relate to their father's love for Japanese culture, having grown up under Japanese rule before WWII.
Style:
family saga, historical drama, reflective, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
father son relationship, family drama, national identity, poverty, memory, identity crisis, autobiography, language barrier, intimate, village life, tragedy, retiring ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s, 50s
Place:
taiwan, china
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