Best Taiwanese Movies

This page is updated regularly. Subscribe, so you don't miss new recommendations. The list of "Best Taiwanese Movies" contains films with the following parameters. Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, captivating, 2d animation and touching. Plot: friendship, escapades, friends, heroes, youth, family relations, danger, rescue, anthropomorphism and pteranodon. Genre: Drama, Comedy and Adventure. Country: USA, Taiwan and China.
Best Taiwanese Movies
Best Taiwanese Movies
TOP Movies: A Sun (2019), A Brighter Summer Day (1991), Your Name Engraved Herein (2020), Our Times (2015), Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (2002), The Brave Little Toaster (1987), Tom and Jerry: The Movie (1992), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), The Revenant (2015), Marry My Dead Body (2022), Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), Taking Woodstock (2009), Fall in Love at First Kiss (2019), Man in Love (2021), Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins (1991), Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003), Classmates Minus (2020), The Falls (2021), Kano (2014).

List of Best Movies

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A Sun (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 156 min.
Story: A family of four fractures under the weight of unmet expectations, unexpected tragedy, and uncompromising pride.
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing, art house, sad ...
Audience: date night
Plot: family relations, father son relationship, resentment, jail, pregnancy, family problems, relationship problems, pregnant teenager, parents and children, criminal, teenage pregnancy, family life ...
Time: 2010s
Place: taiwan, thailand, china
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A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 237 min.
Story: A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.
Style: slow cinema, art house, aesthetic, inspirational, existential ...
Plot: coming of age, murder, love, teenager, sadness, bookstore, asian, mouse, slow burn, martial arts, killer, book ...
Time: 60s, year 1991, 20th century, 1950s, year 1959 ...
Place: taiwan, nebraska, taipei, asia
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Your Name Engraved Herein (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In 1987, as martial law ends in Taiwan, Jia-han and Birdy fall in love amid family pressure, homophobia and social stigma.
Style: disturbing, sincere, captivating, social, touching ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gay relationship, gay love, gay couple, gay asian, homosexual, gay interest, first love, gay bashing, self discovery, gay slur, chinese culture ...
Time: 80s, 2000s, year 1987, 2020s
Place: taiwan, asia, taipei, ontario canada
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Our Times (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Office worker Truly Lin goes on a journey through her memories. 20 years ago, she had a crush on the most popular guy in school. Taiyu, a ruffian and a bully, is in love with the campus belle. Truly teams up with Taiyu to tear the golden couple ...
Style: romantic, sweet, sincere, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: teenager, unrequited love, love triangle, friendship, opposites attract, school bully, love story, asian, high school, love, young adult, child ...
Place: taiwan
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Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (2002)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A movie within a movie, created to spoof the martial arts genre. Writer/director Steve Oedekerk uses contemporary characters and splices them into a 1970s kung-fu film, weaving the new and old together. As the main character, The Chosen One, ...
Style: parody, spoof, funny, satirical, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, silly humor, one against many, heroes, female martial artist, brutality, irreverent, violence, hand to hand combat, fistfight, kung fu master ...
Time: 20th century
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The Brave Little Toaster (1987)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A group of dated appliances find themselves stranded in a summer home that their family had just sold decide to, a la The Incredible Journey, seek their young 8 year old "master". Children's film which on the surface is a frivolous ...
Style: entertaining, talky, witty, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, preschool, horror for children
Plot: friendship, on the road, greed, happy ending, rescue, escapades, toys, missing person, danger, radio, technology, secrets ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
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Tom and Jerry: The Movie (1992)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The popular cartoon cat and mouse are thrown into a feature film. The story has the twosome trying to help an orphan girl who is being berated and exploited by a greedy guardian.
Style: sentimental, humorous, feel good, not serious, independent film ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: tom and jerry, dogcatcher, cartoon mouse, chase, talking cat, talking mouse, childhood, friendship, rescue, heroes, blonde, cat versus mouse ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: tibet
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The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration (2003)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A bedtime story leads Littlefoot and his grandparents on a journey to a new land, where Littlefoot discovers someone who vanished before he was born: his father! Now Littlefoot must decide between two worlds. Will he leave to be with his friends in ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, suspense, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, family relations, getting home, land before time, friendship, child in peril, friends, parents and children, family life, danger, young heroes, survival ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, prehistory
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The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire (2000)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Littlefoot and his pals set off in search of a "stone of cold fire" that fell from the night sky. Since he's the only one who has seen it though, nobody really believes him. Littlefoot's uncle Pterano offers support only because ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, surprise ending, 2d animation
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, land before time, family relations, prehistoric animal, violence against women, anti hero, furry, village life, heroic mission, village, parallel world, friends ...
Time: year 2000
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The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers (2006)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: As the Great Day of the Flyers nears, the Great Valley's flying youngsters are eager to participate in the annual exhibition to show off their skills. Everyone, that is, except free-spirited pterodactyl Petrie, whose individualism causes ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, touching, exciting, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, land before time, friendship, family relations, escapades, wilderness, siblings relations, self discovery, mischievous children, family gatherings, friends, child in peril ...
Time: prehistory, 2000s
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The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water (2002)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Beloved dinosaurs Littlefoot, Cera, Spike, Petrie and Ducky return in this story about the wonders of discovery that features new songs, including Donny Osmond's "No One Has to Be Alone."
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, touching, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, land before time, friendship, family relations, family life, youth, child in peril, best friend, disorder, heroic mission, mischievous children, young heroes ...
Time: prehistory, year 2002
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The Land Before Time XIV: Journey of the Brave (2016)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: On a day known to the dinosaurs as "Treasure Day", Bron becomes stuck in the Mysterious Beyond. This event urges the young Longneck Littlefoot to take his friends on a quest to the Fire Mountain to save his father. Along the way, they ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, entertaining, captivating, 2d animation
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers
Plot: dinosaur, land before time, tyrannosaurus rex, cave, stegosaurus, pteranodon, talking animal, animal, friends, animal life, wild animal, anthropomorphic animal ...
Time: prehistoric times, 2010s
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The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze (2001)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: When the dinosaur families get trapped in a valley by an ice storm, one family of "spike tail" dinosaurs volunteers to leave since they consume more food than the others. Meanwhile, the young dinos and a new adult dinosaur named Mr. ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, land before time, danger, rescue, escapades, best friend, friendship, friends, misfit, heroes, cold weather, anthropomorphism ...
Time: prehistory, year 2001
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong, USA, China
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physically-skilled, teenage nobleman's daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life.
Style: epic, atmospheric, colorful, visually stunning, stylized ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: martial arts, sword fight, wuxia, fight, kung fu, sword, master warrior, female martial artist, tough girl, warrior, monastery, heroine ...
Time: 18th century, year 2000, 2000s, 19th century, 17th century ...
Place: china, beijing china, east asia, asia
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The Revenant (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan, USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story: In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
Style: atmospheric, breathtaking, scenic, suspenseful, harsh ...
Audience: manly, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, wilderness, revenge, vengeance, native american, snow, bear attack, life & death, nature, winter, obsessive quest, hunter ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 19th century, 90s, distant future ...
Place: los angeles, usa
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The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses (2005)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: While trying to obtain "Tree Sweets", Littlefoot into the tree and knocks down all the blossoms, attracting the Tinysauruses. They devour the plants and disappear. But Littlefoot isn't blamed for the disappearance, instead he ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, crying ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, land before time, friendship, heroes, parallel world, heroic mission, mischievous children, unlikely partners, anti hero, escapades, rescue, good versus evil ...
Time: prehistory
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Marry My Dead Body (2022)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 130 min.
Story: After finding an odd envelope, Policeman Ming-han's life takes a spooky turn: He's now wed to a ghost husband, and they must solve a crime together.
Style: thrilling, captivating, satirical, romantic, psychological ...
Plot: ghost, spirit, gay, love and romance, love affair, couples, male female relationship, couple relations, love story, haunting, in love, fall in love ...
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The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends (2007)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: After an incident which nearly cost Littlefoot's grandmother her life, Littlefoot learns a series of lessons which his species call "Wisdoms". Meanwhile, a trio of dim-witted Beipiaosauruses named Loofah, Doofah and Foobie arrive in ...
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, psychotronic, 2d animation
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, land before time, friendship, disorder, friends, mischievous children, escapades, buddies, goofy hero, youth, wisdom of life, wilderness ...
Time: 2000s, prehistory
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The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Madame Tang colludes and mediates between the government and the private businesses for the benefits of her all-female family. One case does not go according to plan, and an entire family close to Madame Tang fall victim to a gruesome murder. ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot: power politics, corruption, family secret, power struggle, mother daughter relationship, problem, evil plot, blind ambition, political conspiracy, dysfunctional family, criminal, secret plan ...
Place: taiwan
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan, Mexico, China
Duration: 132 min.
Story: The new story follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the ...
Style: captivating, action adventure, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: godzilla, giant monster, monster, creature, giant lizard, destruction, giant animal, rescue, creature feature, giant bird, giant creature, humanity in peril ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, year 2014, 21st century
Place: boston, japan, antarctica, arizona, germany ...
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Taking Woodstock (2009)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Music
Country: USA, Taiwan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was. When Elliot hears that a neighboring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music ...
Style: feel good, stylized, light, period piece, realistic ...
Plot: hippie, music festival, music, gay, small town, eccentricity, family business, free spirited, lifestyle, drug, fish out of water, rock ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 2009, year 1969
Place: woodstock, bangkok thailand, brooklyn new york city, new york, new york state
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Fall in Love at First Kiss (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Taiwan, China
Duration: 122 min.
Story: After an earthquake destroys Xiang Qin's house, she and her father move in with the family of her father's college buddy. To her surprise, her new kind and amicable aunt and uncle are the parents of her cold and distant schoolmate, Jiang ...
Style: dorama, romantic, sweet, touching, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: unrequited love, love and romance, first love, love, romanticism, couple relations, arrogance, male female relationship, living together, teenage protagonist, first date, broken heart ...
Place: china, asia
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Man in Love (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A-Cheng collects debts for a gangster and doesn't skimp on violence, but he can also be merciful to those who deserve it. He has a crush on Hao-ting, the daughter of one of the debtors, but he only knows the underworld and so embarks on a ...
Style: talky, emotional, romantic, touching, psychological ...
Plot: love, debt, love and romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love affair, couples, teen romance, friendship, relationships, couple relations, youth, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: taiwan
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Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins (1991)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: This is a live-action version of the popular Japanese animated series Dragon Ball.
Style: manga, exciting, stylized, offbeat, serious ...
Plot: dragon ball, martial arts, evil alien, superhero, superhuman powers, rivalry, danger, good versus evil, escapades, custody, master villain, master warrior ...
Place: taiwan
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Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 82 min.
Story: On a dark, rainy night, an historic and regal Taipei cinema sees its final film: 1967 martial arts feature "Dragon Inn". As the film plays, the lives of the theater's various employees and patrons intersect, and two ghostly actors ...
Style: contemplative, surreal, atmospheric, sincere, slow cinema ...
Plot: tourist, longing, human nature, introspection, theater, solitude, dull life, loneliness, minimalism, underground, asian, life & death ...
Time: 2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place: taiwan, taipei, japan, east asia, asia
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Classmates Minus (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A group of former high school pals see their friendship put to test amid their struggles with love, marriage and careers.
Style: thrilling, entertaining, semi serious, captivating, satirical
Plot: midlife crisis, middle aged, best friend, lifestyle, friends, slice of life, middle aged man, satire, friendship, multiple storylines
Place: taiwan
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The Falls (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 129 min.
Story: After having to quarantine together during COVID-19, a mother and daughter are forced to confront their personal obstacles and relationship tensions.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: family conflict, family life, mother and daughter, social isolation, family problems, isolation, quarantine, living together, conflict, mother daughter relationship, relationships, social problems ...
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Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension (2011)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Taiwan, China
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Perry's worst fear comes true when Phineas and Ferb finds out that he is in fact Secret Agent P, but that soon pales in comparison during a trip to the 2nd dimension where Perry finds out that Dr. Doofenshmirtz is truly evil and successful.
Style: humorous, witty, not serious, sweet, exciting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: parallel world, parallel universe, save the day, secret identity, hidden identity, daring rescue, heroes, resistance, undercover, danger, rivalry, teleportation ...
Time: 21st century
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Kano (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 185 min.
Story: A Taiwanese high school baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament.
Style: uplifting, captivating, sincere, sentimental, serious ...
Plot: baseball, ambition, athlete's life, rivalry, against the odds, youth, hopes, contests and competitions, society, sport team, asian, power relations ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: japan, taiwan, china, asia
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Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone (2005)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: An Orphaned Boy sets out in search of adventure, but when a shipwreck lands him on an island where Dinosaurs and Humans coexist, he finds not only adventure but a family as well.
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, tense, touching ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens
Plot: dinosaur, family relations, survival, imaginary, rescue, adventurer, disorder, imaginary kingdom, heroic mission, family life, young heroes, friendship ...
Time: prehistory, prehistoric times
Place: fictional island
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