Lu Yi-ching
Also Known As: Hsaio-Ling, Lu Xiao Lin, Lu Xiaolin, Luk Yik-Ching, Lynn Lu, Lu Hsiao-Lin, Ding Yi-Ching, Lù Yìjìng, Lù Yì-jìng, Lù Yì Jìng, 陸筱琳, 陸 筱琳, Lu Yiching, Lu Yi Ching, Lu Hsiao-ling, Lu Hsiao Ling, Lu Hsiaoling, 陸奕靜
Biography: Lu Yi-ching (Chinese: 陸 弈靜; Pinyin: Lù Yìjìng; born 23 October 1958) is a Taiwanese film and television actress. She played in several films directed by Tsai Ming-liang such as The Wayward Cloud, What Time Is It There? and films by Cheng Wen-tang, including Blue Cha Cha. She was previously credited as Lu Hsiao-ling (Chinese: 陸 筱琳; Pinyin: Lù Xiǎolín).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Taiwan
Adult: No
Birthday: October 23, 1958
Age: 66 years old
Gender: Female
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My Stinking Kid
Overview: Drama about a young boy who suffers from a rare deficiency disease. The medicine he has to take every day has the side effect of making him reek of ammonia. The consequent bullying and ostracism by schoolmates exacerbates the boy's sense of victimhood. His mother, meanwhile, runs a help-line for parents with comparable problems.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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To Heaven, to Gather
Overview: A vast, blue sky. An endless mountain path. This is not an excursion, but the journey of three-year-old Xiao Wu and her lamb to the orphanage where they will be abandoned.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2018-10-24
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To the Sea
Overview: An elderly mother who spends her life taking care of her intellectually-disabled son finally reaches her breaking point and decides to take her son on one last ride, towards the sea and towards the end of their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2021-10-23
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What Time Is It There?
Overview: A street vendor with a grim home-life forges a connection with a young woman on her way to Paris.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2001-09-26
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The Wayward Cloud
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2005-05-19
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A Place of One's Own
Overview: Moody, atmospheric ghost story starring Mason as a retired tradesman who purchases an old mansion that has been vacant for 40 years because it is believed to be haunted by the spirit of a young woman who had died there. Unaware of the mansion's reputation, Mason and his wife Mullen move in and hire a young woman, Lockwood, to keep house. Soon after Lockwood's arrival, strange things begin to happen in the household, and it becomes apparent that she is possessed by the spirit of the dead girl, though Mason scoffs at the idea. On death's door and bedridden, Lockwood asks for the same doctor who treated the woman who died 40 years ago. He arrives and treats her. The next morning Lockwood is cured, and it is revealed by the police that the doctor's dead body was found in his carriage hours before the time Mason claims he arrived to see Lockwood. Convinced that not only the ghost of the girl but that of the doctor as well entered his home, Mason finally believes in the supernatural.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2009-10-09
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Gone
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2023-05-06
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Blue Cha Cha
Overview: Just coming out of the jail, depressed and close-hearted, Ah Yu met two men with different characters from each other. One is a businessman, charming and mature; the other is a young supervisor in a factory with a promising future. But these two loves are short-lived, fading away like bubbles on the beach. With a wounded soul, she went back to the cottage owned by Sister An, a friend from jail.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2005-09-16
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The Missing
Overview: A grandmother is looking for her grandson, a teenager for his grandfather.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2003-10-04
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SOLO
Overview: A mother of two sons, one with piano talent, and one with illness. The talented son’s piano recital day is a trip and a task for all of them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2017-10-28
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Brotherhood of Legio
Overview: A person's birth is influenced by time, location, and the alignment of the earth's magnetic fields. Because of these factors, there are those who have a unique resonance with their magnetic power. These humans were named the Chosen People. In the West, since the days of the Roman Empire, the Chosen people joined together to form the Brotherhood of Legio. Ever since, they have played a significant role in history. In 2006, the Chosen people made their quiet entrance into Taiwan, in search of new blood... A cold-blooded rebel, Xiao Lan, killed her entire family for the sake of an internet love affair. Ah Jian is a hot-blooded young man, and a paraplegic. Zhong Dao, is haunted by the violent death of his younger sister. Ren Fang is an energetic and passionate assistant professor, living with terminal illness. And then there's the beautiful news anchor, Ya Zhu.
Genres: Drama Mystery Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2007-11-30
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Face
Overview: Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that explores the Salomé myth.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-10-02
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The River
Overview: A young man develops severe neck pain after swimming in a polluted river for a movie shoot, but nobody can provide him any relief.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1997-08-07
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Drifting Flowers
Overview: Three poetic tales of seeking the true identity. In the first story, Jing, a blind singer, falls in love with her band's tomboy accordionist Diego. In another time and place, Lily, an elderly lesbian and Yen, her gay friend, create an unexpected bond and support each other in a time of crisis. Finally, we see Diego before she joined the band, when as a teenager she came to grips with her gender identity.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2008-02-10
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Ghosted
Overview: A woman who is mourning the love of her life falls into a relationship with a mysterious stranger.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-02-09
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Dim Star
Overview: A woman is abruptly called back home to take care of her mother, interrupting her in the process of committing suicide. The family’s past is gradually revealed through the revelation of the details about the relationship between the mother and daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2022-04-17
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Rebels of the Neon God
Overview: In Taipei, revenge and love twist the paths of wayward youths.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1994-08-04
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Séance familiale
Overview: A french TV crew breaks into a Taiwanese family in Taipei for a real TV program during a weekend. After a short thought and seducing by the possible winnings, Lin's family accepts to be followed by the cameraman Pierre for two days. Little by little, Pierre's camera has become a new way of communication in this family. Everyone delivers their way of life and thinking, and maybe a little secret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2008-12-31
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The Lonely Soul In The Night
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2022-04-03
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Gin and the Virgin
Overview: No English overview available now. This film was nominated for the Golden Harvest Award 2021.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2021-04-11
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Stray Dogs
Overview: An alcoholic man and his two young children barely survive in Taipei. They cross paths with a lonely grocery clerk who might help them make a better life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2014-02-21
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March: the Southern South
Overview: The elderly photographer, Chie, told a childhood story about her sister Iòng-Hâ and the sister's admiration Kong-Suī, in a time when Taiwan's cultural and linguistic identity have undergone dramatic changes after the Pacific war.
Genres: History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2021-10-23
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Summer's Tail
Overview: In the eyes of her classmates, Yvette is a rock-and-roll girl. Because of a congenital heart condition, she has dropped out of school and spends most of her time at home with her can Summer, messing around, playing the guitar, and getting out and about.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2007-11-16
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Hello Ghost!
Overview: After a failed attempt to take his own life, a man discovers he's returned with four ghosts seeking to fulfil their last wishes in hopes of earning his own place in the afterlife.
Genres: Comedy Family Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2023-08-18
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The Skywalk Is Gone
Overview: A young woman wandering around meets a young man going to a casting call for a pornographic film.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2002-10-08
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Ripples
Overview: On a long winter day, the idea of "death" creeps into Yang Yang’s young heart. When longing transforms into poetry, memories endure eternally in the form of light and shadow.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2023-11-22
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Blowfish
Overview: A woman leaves her cheating boyfriend and goes to a remote village in the Taiwaneese mountains to deliver a blowfish to a man who won it on an online auction. Immediately, a quiet and unusual relationship develops between the two.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2011-08-05
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Winds of September
Overview: Lin Shu-Yu's semi auto-biographical debut takes us back to 1996, during the time of the tragic Taiwan baseball scandal, an event that devastated many teenage boys. The story follows Yen and Tang and their gang through the last year of their high school life. From chasing girls to midnight skinny dipping to rooting for their favorite baseball team, they do everything together. When an accident throws Yen into a coma, their world starts falling apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2008-06-06
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My Whispering Plan
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2003-11-21
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The Boar King
Overview: When Cho loses her husband Ying and her family business in a massive typhoon, she is devastated.Then the villagers begin receiving mail from Ying. Is he really dead?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2014-08-28
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10 Plus 10
Overview: 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 on the theme of the “Uniqueness of Taiwan,” but allowed total freedom in all other aspects.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2011-11-04
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Taipei 24H
Overview: Taipei 24H divides 24 hours in Taipei into 8 shorts. It opens with Cheng Fen-fen's upbeat and comedic "Share the Morning", and ends with Lee Kang-sheng running the final leg of this relay with "Remembrance" at 4am. Well-known director Tsai Ming-liang makes a rare appearance visiting a late night coffee shop. Taipei 24H is a contemporary urban chronicle of a city rarely at sleep.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2009-10-09
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Mongrel
Overview: Oom has no papers or formal training but is good at caring for the elderly and disabled. When his situation as a caregiver in the mountains becomes too much for him, he has to choose between survival or dignity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2025-01-26
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The Hole
Overview: In the final days of the year 1999, almost everyone in Taiwan has died from a strange plague that ravished the island. As rain pours down relentlessly, a single man is stuck with an unfinished plumbing job and a hole in his floor. This results in a very odd relationship with the woman who lives below him.
Genres: Drama Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1999-03-24
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Reflections
Overview: A couple is torn by conflicting emotions. Jing and Mi are two women living in Taiwan who have been lovers for some time; Jing is a singer in a rock band who suffers from severe mood swings and has been suffering from a fractured relationship with her mother, while Mi is the more sedate and level-headed of the couple.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2007-03-09
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Spring Awakening
Overview: It’s a single-parent family, but there is always laughter coming through the door. Their house is like an aquarium; the ray surrounding the fluorescent light and the delicate oxygen bubbles from the air pumps are like the mother's arms, shielding them from the outside world.
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Original Language: zh
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When Miracle Meets Maths
Overview: Jin-Hui Chiu is a 28-year-old single girl recently returned home from Japan. Sean Shih is a 35-year-old Silicon Valley bachelor in search of a wife. Will these two overseas Taiwanese ever tie the knot and live happily ever after? They need some miracles and let us see if God will do the math for them? We shall all find love in Taipei, Daqiaotou area.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2015-10-30
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Overview: A story set in 19th century China and centered on the lifelong friendship between two girls who develop their own secret code as a way to contend with the rigid cultural norms imposed on women.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-15
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Forêt Debussy
Overview: Deep in the barren mountains, a mother and a daughter live an isolated quiet life. The Daughter looks lean and fragile. She seems unreactive toward her surroundings, confining herself in her own wretched world. The Mother is like a guardian angel who always protects her and takes care of everything. Before living in seclusion, The Daughter was a pianist who lost her husband and son. The Mother decided to take her away and hid her in the mountains where no one could ever find them, believing it is the only possible way for her daughter to survive, Nevertheless, they have to face nothing but themselves ever since, as well as to confront the endless forest…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2016-10-28
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Cupcakes, Lonely Cats
Overview: Liu Hui is a widower whose son lives in America. She insists on living alone in the house she shared with her late husband, a calligrapher, and is surrounded by fond memories. As she gradually joins community activities, she strikes up an acquaintance with the kind and shy building caretaker who faces a quandary over a stray cat. Small moments together reveal loneliness and companionship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2025-03-14
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Rookie Chef
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Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2016-02-05
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Together
Overview: Min Min runs a juice stall in Taipei's Yongle Market. Her husband Bin runs a small printing business in the neighborhood. Their daughter Hsiao Lan is dating a bad boy-type that keeps her out late at night, and their youngest son Hsiao Yang is helping his best friend get a date with a local café girl. One day, neighborhood girl Hsiao Li returns home and announces her engagement to a bookseller. However, Hsiao Li is getting cold feet about the marriage and starts spending time with Bin. Meanwhile, Min Min also finds herself growing closer to Hsiang, the friendly owner of a dress-making shop in the market.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2012-11-30
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The Deserted
Overview: Tsai Ming-Liang, the artisan of cinematography approaches virtual reality, pushing the boundaries of VR film. The Deserted stripped away traditional film techniques and is presented in 360 degrees, like a theatre. The viewer is placed in the scene and is allowed to look freely at the construction of the environment. And immersed in the handcraft of the scenes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2018-03-31
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Life is Wonderful
Overview: Seven year-old Taipei girl Pearl is shunted off to Kaohsiung to stay with her grandmother while her parents deal with work and business back in Taipei. Unhappy at this development Pearl wants to return home but her pleas fall on deaf ears. At school she meets cheeky chap Larry who nicknames Pearl "Peel".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2009-06-01
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Turn Around
Overview: Turn Around is based on the story of Cheng-chung Wang, a passionate Taiwanese teacher who has won multiple educational awards. After graduating from the National Kaohsiung Normal University, he is assigned to teach at a school located at the rural Zhongliao in Nantou County, which is lacking in educational resources. As he is preparing to leave at the end of his assignment, the area is met with the deadly 921 earthquake. Seeing the students breaking down in tears and asking for his return, Wang decides to stay with the school to improve the education of the students.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2017-09-29
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Han Dan
Overview: An upstanding young man commits a reckless act that ends in life changing tragedy. His doomed rival becomes his friend only to become his rival again.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2019-01-31
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The Heirloom
Overview: A Taiwanese man returns to the island after years abroad when he inherits a house; when he and his fiancé move in, strange things start to happen.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2005-09-15
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One Step is Enough
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2011-02-20
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We Are Champions
Overview: Bonded by blood but divided by basketball, two brothers become rivals on the court. This exciting sports film balances drama on and off the court.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2019-08-23
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Hill of No Return
Overview: In 1920s Taiwan, Jou, a controversial woman with a tragic past, seeks to change her life after falling for a man named Che. Meanwhile, a man named Wei seeks to buy the freedom of Fumiko, a dying young woman.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1992-12-05
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Grandma’s Farting Scooter
Overview: Hsiao Hui, a lady over 60 years old, always rides an old scooter. Although two-stroke scooters will be forbidden soon, Hsiao-Hui has got used to hers and refuses to replace it. Today, she needs to deal with lots of things, including attending a mediation committee since she had a scooter accident previously. However, she is requested to look after her granddaughter all of a sudden, and thus their adventure on the old scooter begins…
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2018-10-28
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3 Days 2 Nights
Overview: Xiaoyue finds that her mother has been working for a long time away from home when she receives the apples sent from her mother. Just entering her puberty, Xiaoyue comes from a new immigrant family from Vietnam. She is laughed at and bullied in school because her old father makes a living as a scrap collector. The rebellious Biyan always stands out for Xiaoyue. She even plans a three-day journey to see her mother with Xiaoyue. Ms. Chen is faced with a dilemma. She is going to retire but the after-school tutorial class in the community is the only place for her to care her students. For Xiaoyue and her friend Biyan, her class is their hope.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2018-12-01
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Rising Sun
Overview: A junior high school boy drowned in the local sea. After that, his mother accidentally finds an examination sheet in the house that doesn't belong to her son.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2018-11-11
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Invisible Justice
Overview: Li Zhenghong (Zhang Zhehao) is unwilling to be blind and can only be assigned to do word processing work in a law firm. He strives to participate in litigation, but always hits a wall. One day, he finally received a civil claim suit, but did not expect that the defense lawyer in this case was actually Zhao Dingbang (Ban Tiexiang), the boss of his law firm. If he helped the plaintiff, how should he face his boss? What is more difficult is that this case is not a general lawsuit. It is actually a multinational class action with 531 plaintiffs. Li Zhenghong has not even fought a single lawsuit, and is a blind person. How should he win the lawsuit?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2019-10-18
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How to Describe a Cloud
Overview: A young woman in Taipei is confronted with the blindness of her mother who is convinced she has a sixth sense. Shot with little facilities, but it is Verbeek’s most mature film - about uprooting, spirituality and modernity.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2013-01-25
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Vive L'Amour
Overview: Three lonely young denizens of Taipei unknowingly share an apartment: May, a real estate agent who uses it for her sexual affairs; Ah-jung, her current lover; and Hsiao-kang, who's stolen the key and uses the apartment as a retreat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1995-03-02
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Pigeon Tango
Overview: To repay the gambling debts her boyfriend has left behind after a fatal pigeon racing accident, Barbie, a pole dancer, meets organ dealer Malacca, who extracts her deceased boyfriend's organs. Malacca becomes Barbie's lover in the process. Meanwhile, Yang, a detective, sets up a trap to capture Malacca.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2017-10-06
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Boys
Overview: A junior-high student bullies and blackmails a younger boy, then receives the same treatment at the hands of some older students.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1991-04-10
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Rouge
Overview: A companion to the director's Le Dos Rouge/Portrait of the Artist. A famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is obsessed by the idea of finding a painting that will be central to the film and will crystallize all the power and beauty of monsters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-06-11
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Hotel Blackcat
Overview: The Hotel Blackcat's owner, Mang, never leaves the counter. Guests include the immigrant worker, whore, losing-job Japanese, sex-abused man, little Lolita.... The police forces the Hotel to shut down and all guests must leave. What should they do? It's not necessary to lock each room anymore. Keep the door open, you'll find out traces imprinted with figures as well as times.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2011-11-06
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Reclaim
Overview: Shouldering all of her family's responsibilities, a mother scrambles to find a bigger apartment for her suddenly crowded household.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2022-05-06
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The Faces
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2020-11-08
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L-O-V-E.
Overview: Four love stories by four talented Taiwanese first-time directors – well-known lyrist, Vincent Fang Wenshan; TV host, Huang Zijiao; online novelist, Jiu BaDao; and commercial director, Chen Yixian.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2009-02-26
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Final Exam
Overview: With a week before final exams and summer vacation, a substitute teacher must prove himself worthy of rehiring.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2021-08-20
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Wingless Swallow
Overview: An author travels to a remote library in search of inspiration.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2009-12-04
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Weekend in Taipei
Overview: A former DEA agent and a former undercover operative revisit their romance during a fateful weekend in Taipei, unaware of the dangerous consequences of their past.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-19
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溝-小包袱
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: zh
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