Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), A Touch of Zen (1971), Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003), Ci ke Nie Yin Niang (2015), Going Home (1971), Sandwich (2006), Jenny (1997), Days (2020) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Taiwanese Cinema movies.
Storyline: Eat Drink Man Woman is a classic tale of simmering frustrations and relationship woes as semi-retired Master Chef Chu shares his culinary skills and tends to his three unmarried daughters' respective emotional journeys. Jia-Jen is a chemistry teacher, Jia-Chien an airline executive and Jia-Ning works at a fast-food establishment. Together they help prepare and eat a sumptuously elaborate dinner each Sunday, a family tradition which allows for considerable insight into their lives and fuels the fire for each daughter to deal with the turmoil of new romantic challenges.
Plot Keywords: family, food, romance, cultural conflict, tradition, modernity, father-daughter relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An artist, Ku, lives with his mother near an abandoned fort, reputed to be haunted. One night, investigating strange noises, he meets the beautiful Yang who is living there. She is being pursued by agents of an Imperial noble who have murdered her family. Ku finds himself caught up in her struggle to survive, and many fierce battles take place before all is resolved. Action adventure with a lyrical feel, this is a kung fu film with a strong spiritual element.—Richard Hills <R.Hills@wlv.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, drama, historical, swordplay, revenge, female protagonist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Japanese tourist takes refuge from a rainstorm inside a once-popular movie theater, a decrepit old barn of a cinema that is screening a martial arts classic, King Hu's 1966 "Dragon Inn." Even with the rain bucketing down outside, it doesn't pull much of an audience -- and some of those who have turned up are less interested in the movie than in the possibility of meeting a stranger in the dark.—Sujit R. Varma
Plot Keywords: slow cinema, nostalgia, loneliness, silence, farewell, passage of time, minimal dialogue ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 8th century China, 10-year-old general's daughter Nie Yinniang is handed over to a nun who initiates her into the martial arts, transforming her into an exceptional assassin charged with eliminating cruel and corrupt local governors. One day, having failed in a task, she is sent back by her mistress to the land of her birth, with orders to kill the man to whom she was betrothed - a cousin who now leads the largest independent military region in North China. After 13 years of exile, the young woman must confront her parents, her memories and her long-repressed feelings. A slave to the orders of her mistress, Nie Yinniang must choose: sacrifice the man she loves or break forever with the sacred way of the righteous assassins.
Plot Keywords: action, historical, assassin, female protagonist, literary adaptation, slow paced, poetic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nineteen year old Jimmy Graham has grown up to be an angry young man based on his experiences, including not having either his mother or father in his life as he was growing up. When he was six, Jimmy saw his mother, Ann Graham, die before his eyes, she killed by his father Harry Graham in a drunken rage. Jimmy's testimony helped put his father away. Jimmy's anger often manifests itself in passive-aggressive behavior. When Jimmy is rejected from joining the military due to medical reasons, he, at a loss, decides to search out Harry, who he knows has now been paroled. He finds Harry living in a trailer park in a community close to their old Pennsylvania home. Harry is also in a relationship with a woman named Jenny Benson, who also lives in the trailer park in a Winnebago. Jenny knows all about Harry's past. While Harry wants to be whatever Jimmy wants him to be in his life, Jimmy exhibits that passive-aggressiveness toward Harry, being generally cordial to him to his face while doing things behind his back intentionally to hurt him. Partly as Jimmy sticks around longer than he says and as their life is generally going better than expected, Harry, who seems to have owned up to his role in killing Ann, maps out a life for him and Jenny to include Jimmy if he wants. In the process, Jimmy will need to confront both his issues with his father, and the overall anger in his life which is hindering him from finding his own path.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: drama, family, parent-child relationship, coming of age, rural life, nostalgia, childhood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sher Singh lives with his mother and handicapped sister in Punjab but moves to Mumbai, changes his name to Shekhar, meets Nisha and falls in love. When his mother asks him to return, he explains to Nisha that if he takes her before they are married the people would make an issue of it and promises to return in 4 days. On his return, Shekhar is surprised to find out that the Zamindar's son is ready to marry his sister. His mother tells him that the Zamindar's daughter Sweety loves him from their childhood days. The Zamindar had approached his mother to fix the marriage but she told him that she cannot fix her son's wedding until her daughter is married. Sweety's brother agreed to the marriage for as his mother says, brothers are those who sacrifice everything for their sister's happiness. He has no alternative and marries Sweety. So, during the day Sher Singh stays with Sweety and at night Shekhar stays with Nisha. One day both of them meet Sher Singh and tell him that he cannot go till Shekhar arrives! At that time a person makes an entry who looks like Sher Singh claiming to be Shekhar - what is going on?—gavin@sunny_deol2009@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, drama, family, youth, coming of age, school ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After Jenny (Marlo Thomas) ends up pregnant, she leaves home and moves to New York City. There she marries filmmaker Delano (Alan Alda), who wants to avoid being drafted for Vietnam and offers to support her if he can claim the baby as his own. Despite the opposition of her conservative father (Vincent Gardenia) and Delano's ongoing affair with girlfriend Kay (Marian Hailey), the marriage of convenience soon becomes real love as they wait to hear whether Delano will be forced to join the war.
Plot Keywords: youth, coming of age, romance, friendship, school, rebellion, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Kang lives alone in a big house. Through a glass façade, he looks out onto the treetops lashed by wind and rain. He feels a strange pain of unknown origin which he can hardly bear and which grips his whole body. Non lives in a small apartment in Bangkok where he methodically prepares traditional dishes from his native village. When Kang meets Non in a hotel room, the two men share each other's loneliness.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, parent-child relationship, loneliness, aging, daily life, time ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An impoverished young woman (Minnie Driver) sacrifices everything in her quest for a beauty pageant title.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, youth, coming of age, school, first love, 2000s ...
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