In Ang Lee’s sexy spy thriller, alliances and relationships are as fraught with peril as any war.
Category: Taiwan
Detention
In John Hsu’s adaptation of Detention the terror is frighteningly real.
Red Cliff, Part Two
In Part 2, the battle for Red Cliff focuses and offers more drama, combat and plenty of flames.
Red Cliff, Part One
History has never been more grand and more romanticised than in the first part of John Woo's magnificent Three Kingdoms saga.
Heavy Craving
A young woman struggles with society and weight loss in Hsieh Pei-Ju’s comedy-drama.
Nina Wu
An aspiring actress learns that fame has a price in this tense psycho-drama.
Sen Sen
Friendship arises from tragedy in Bon Am’s quaint drama.
The Bold, the Corrupt and the Beautiful
Stylish direction only does so much to save a convoluted, boring story.
Father to Son
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree in Hsiao Ya-chuan’s tale of generational distance.
Great Buddha +
Curiosity kills the cat in Huang Hsin-yao’s dark comedy.
Small Talk
Brick by brick, walls crumble in Huang Hui-chen’s touching documentary.
The Receptionist
Jenny Lu shows us the trials of 'massage' parlour women in her 2016 drama The Receptionist.
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