Movie Database

Movies by Director - Hou Hsiao-hsien (19 [Missing: 2])
TitleYearDirectorGenreRatingRuntimeAdded
Cute Girl [iu shi liu liu de ta]The daughter of a wealthy man takes French lessons so she can go to France with her fiancée, but ends up falling for a poor man who studies civil engineering.1980Hsiao-Hsien HouComedy,Drama,Romance5.7 (369 votes)9020211228
Cheerful Wind [Feng er ti ta cai]A romance develops between a blind man and a photographer.1981Hsiao-Hsien HouDrama,Romance5.9 (160 votes)9020211228
Sandwich Man, The [Er zi de da wan ou]Three vignettes from three different directors that tell stories of ordinary people during Taiwan's Cold War period.1983Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Chuang-Hsiang Tseng, Jen WanDrama7.1 (675 votes)10520211228
Boys from Fengkuei, The [Feng gui lai de ren]Ah-Ching and his friends have just finished school in their island fishing village, and now spend most of their time drinking and fighting. Three of them decide to go to the port city of Kaohsiung to look for work. They find an apart1983Hsiao-Hsien HouDrama7.4 (1.5K votes)9920211228
Boys from Fengkuei, The [Feng gui lai de ren]NA1983 Not Available
The Green, Green Grass of HomeNA1982 Drama Not Available
Summer at Grandpa's, A [Dong dong de jiàqi]A coming-of-age story about a young brother and sister who spend a pivotal summer in the country with their grandparents.1984Hsiao-Hsien HouDrama7.7 (1.4K votes)9320211228
Time to Live, a Time to Die, AThe semi-autobiographical film on director Hou Hsiao-Hsien's childhood and adolescence, when he was growing up in Taiwan, living through the deaths of his father, mother and grandmother.1985Hsiao-Hsien HouBiography,Drama7.7 (2.9K votes)13820211228
Dust in the Wind [Liàn liàn fengchén]A young couple leave their mining town home for Taipei where they struggle to eke out a living in an industrial wasteland.1986Hsiao-Hsien HouDrama,Romance7.6 (2.6K votes)10920211228
Daughter of the Nile [Ni luo he nu er]The eldest daughter of a broken and troubled family works to keep the family together and look after her younger siblings, who are slipping into a life of crime.1987Hsiao-Hsien HouCrime,Drama7.0 (880 votes)9320211228
City of Sadness, A [Bei qing cheng shi]The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror" that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government after their arrival from mainland China in the late 1940s.1989Hsiao-Hsien HouComedy,Drama,History7.9 (4.7K votes)15720211228
Puppetmaster, The [Xi meng ren sheng]Puppeteer Li Tian-lu tells his life story, and through it, the story of Taiwan in the first half of the 20th century.1993Hsiao-Hsien HouBiography,Drama,War7.2 (1.8K votes)14220211228
Good Men, Good Women [Hao nan hao nu]Intended as the concluding film in the trilogy on the modern history of Taiwan began with Beiqing Chengshi (1989), this film reveals the story through three levels: a film within a film as well as the past and present as linked by a 1995Hsiao-Hsien HouDrama,Romance7.1 (1.1K votes)10820211228
Goodbye, South, Goodbye [Nan guo zai jian, nan guo]A glimpse at the lives of two petty criminals in Taipei.1996Hsiao-Hsien HouCrime,Drama7.2 (1.7K votes)11620211228
Flowers of Shanghai [Hai shang hua]In the ""flower houses"" (upscale brothels) of Shanghai, various interweaving stories of love, loyalty, and deceit play out subtly.1998Hsiao-Hsien HouDrama7.3 (3.6K votes)11320221116
Millennium Mambo [Qianxi mànbo]The ethereally beautiful Vicky recalls her romances with Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.2001Hsiao-Hsien HouDrama,Romance7.1 (5.2K votes)11920211228
Café Lumière [Kôhî jikô]The story revolves around Yoko Inoue, a pregnant woman in search of a cafe that was frequented by a Taiwanese composer whose life she is researching.2003Hsiao-Hsien HouDrama6.9 (3.1K votes)10820211228
Three Times [Zui hao de shi guang]Three stories set in three times, 1911, 1966 and 2005. Two actors play the two main characters in each story.2005Hsiao-Hsien HouDrama,Romance7.0 (5.7K votes)12020211228
Flight of the Red Balloon [Le voyage du ballon rouge]A little boy and his baby-sitter inhabit the same imaginary world: through their adventures they are followed by a strange red balloon.2007Hsiao-Hsien HouDrama,Family6.6 (4K votes)11520211228
Assassin, TheA female assassin receives a dangerous mission to kill a political leader in eighth-century China.2015Hsiao-Hsien HouAction,Drama,History6.3 (16.6K votes)10520211228