Movies by Director - Hou Hsiao-hsien (19 [Missing: 2]) Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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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. | 1980 | Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Comedy,Drama,Romance | 5.7 (369 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Cheerful Wind [Feng er ti ta cai]A romance develops between a blind man and a photographer. | 1981 | Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Drama,Romance | 5.9 (160 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
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. | 1983 | Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Chuang-Hsiang Tseng, Jen Wan | Drama | 7.1 (675 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
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 apart | 1983 | Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Drama | 7.4 (1.5K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
Boys from Fengkuei, The [Feng gui lai de ren]NA | 1983 | | | | | Not Available |
The Green, Green Grass of HomeNA | 1982 | | 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. | 1984 | Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Drama | 7.7 (1.4K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
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. | 1985 | Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Biography,Drama | 7.7 (2.9K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
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. | 1986 | Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Drama,Romance | 7.6 (2.6K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
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. | 1987 | Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Crime,Drama | 7.0 (880 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
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. | 1989 | Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Comedy,Drama,History | 7.9 (4.7K votes) | 157 | 20211228 |
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. | 1993 | Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Biography,Drama,War | 7.2 (1.8K votes) | 142 | 20211228 |
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 | 1995 | Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Drama,Romance | 7.1 (1.1K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
Goodbye, South, Goodbye [Nan guo zai jian, nan guo]A glimpse at the lives of two petty criminals in Taipei. | 1996 | Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Crime,Drama | 7.2 (1.7K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
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. | 1998 | Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Drama | 7.3 (3.6K votes) | 113 | 20221116 |
Millennium Mambo [Qianxi mànbo]The ethereally beautiful Vicky recalls her romances with Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei. | 2001 | Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Drama,Romance | 7.1 (5.2K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
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. | 2003 | Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Drama | 6.9 (3.1K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
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. | 2005 | Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Drama,Romance | 7.0 (5.7K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
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. | 2007 | Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Drama,Family | 6.6 (4K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
Assassin, TheA female assassin receives a dangerous mission to kill a political leader in eighth-century China. | 2015 | Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Action,Drama,History | 6.3 (16.6K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |