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In 1962 Taiwan, student Fang and teacher Mr. Chang fall in love amidst the restrictive White Terror period banning sensitive books. Despite this, Mr. Chang secretly organizes a banned book study group with fellow teacher and student.

After saying "no" on her wedding day, Joice leaves the Ivory Coast to start a new life in Guangzhou, China.

Professional hitman Long takes on an assignment in Japan. When things go awry, he has to flee. Badly injured, he takes refuge in a deserted part of a small town.

A few hours before his third Michelin star was awarded, a renowned chef disappeared with his second chef during a hunting trip. His daughter Clara found herself alone at the head of the restaurant, harassed by paparazzi. Two years later, she received an invitation to a renowned gastronomic congress in Taiwan.

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 cruel murder.

'The Receptionist' is a film based on an illegal massage parlour in London, and follows the lives of the employees and clients as seen through the eyes of a Taiwanese graduate employed as a receptionist.

With a single mistake, Rui, a former star basketball player, loses his job and has nothing to do. Collecting parking fees on the street, he's snooping around a dark world. He knows it is not where he belongs, but he has no place to go and nobody welcomes him. Then one day, he finds a woman bleeding on the street, and he takes her to the hospital. On the way, he is kidnapped by a bank robber. At first, he only looks for a chance to get away, but he is increasingly attracted to the robber who lives proudly, cleverly leading the underworld. Through him, a mentor and role model for the dark, Rui faces the brutal criminal nature hidden inside him. But the moment arrives when Rui can't avoid the final showdown with him.

After years abroad, a woman returns to her family home in Taiwan and begins to contemplate the meaning of life and home.

On a late-night bus, a panicked scream shatters the night's calm. A necklace is stolen, followed by a tragic and fatal road accident. The series of intriguing events that follows reveal love, hatred, and vengeance.

A high school student is deeply in love with the single most beautiful girl in all of the school, but he has to suffer through torment and bullying every day in school. When the girl of his dreams become the leader of the bullies, things spiral out of control.

A group of young children volunteer to take part in a nationwide competition in order to restore hope in their town, while a large number of foreign mothers in the area hope to revive the land that they love through exotic cuisine.

A striving actress is invited to a private, mysterious gourmet club only to discover that her competition has prepared a horrifying banquet.

Fisherman Ah-Hai is found dead from self-immolation during a large-scale protest against TL Petrochemical. The incident instantly makes media headlines; Ah-Hai is hailed as a martyr. Medical examiner Chou is assigned to the case with public prosecutor Kim, his ex-fiancée. When the two discover evidence of murder and a major conspiracy, Chou breaks protocol to conduct his own investigation in order to protect Kim. As the truth is gradually revealed, the case and their past start to intertwine.

Over the decades, the Malayan Communist Party fought a guerrilla war in the jungle for independence. When a baby was born during the war, they sent it out of the jungle to ensure its survival. Boluomi is one of those babies.

Cherry identified herself as a drag queen. She just found out her boyfriend had been cheating on her. Later, she walked on her way to work and met with an abandoned baby. When she was performing sparkly on the stage with her close sister, Lena. They discovered something weird about this baby...

Yamaha is a cocky and yet caring juvenile offender who has been sent to the juvenile detention house three times. Yamaha takes Sonny, a very young inmate who suffers from domestic violence, under his wing and that gives the boy a sense of belonging in the detention center. Chuan, a new arrival who remains quiet and mysterious, is charged with a serious crime. The trio become roommates on the New Year's Eve. Acting like a boss, Yamaha tries his best to look after his roommates, drawing the trio closer and closer to each other as a result. However, at the same time, Yamaha realizes that it is getting harder and harder for them to be freed from the criminal world.

Every image performs a death, releasing a vast vitality. From the first minute to the last, from surreal, incongruous scenes to indigenous funeral ceremonies, from fish ponds to ruins, from women to men, from a telephone to a tortoise shell, from fortune-telling to Taoist salvation rites, from color to black and white, from Ma'nene to Family Constellations, from animals to being animalized, from sorrow to tranquility.