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- Hsiao-Kang, now working as a pornographic actor, meets Shiang-chyi once again. Meanwhile, the city of Taipei faces a water shortage that makes the sales of watermelons skyrocket.
- The story about an ambitious journalist who eagerly pursues a long-forgotten accident. When the sole survivor of the accident suddenly disappears, he realizes that nothing is what it seems, and the unimaginable dark truth will haunt him for the rest of his life.
- A bankrupt Taiwanese man loses everything including girlfriend. He still has a key to his luxury condo, where he grows and smokes marijuana. He spends time with a woman on suicide hotline and a lingerie clad woman selling cigarettes.
- '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.
- Police officers Pi Zi and Ying Xiong are as different as day and night. One lives a luxurious lifestyle and does nothing but drink coffee and wait for information from dubious sources to crack his cases. Another believes that law and justice are the pillars of society and is constantly on the street catching criminals. When a case brings these two top crime-solvers together, sparks fly and light creeps into the dark city of Taipei.
- A celebrated Police Officer teams up with another man with extremely opposite characteristics to protect the city from threats.
- A battalion of Chinese soldiers defend the Sihang (4 Bank) warehouse from the invading Japanese army in 1937 at the end of the Battle of Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War. There are only 452 defenders, but to mislead the Japanese they tell the outside world that they are 800 in number. Their heroism leads to them becoming known as the 800 Heroes.
- Chih-Ming was the ex-boyfriend of Chun-Chiao during their high school. When Chun-Chiao and her boss had started a stable relationship 10 years later ,Chih-Ming stepped into her life again.
- The Malaysian father, Beng Soon, came to Taiwan to investigate the disappearance of his son, Kah Choon. During the process, he gradually realized his lack of understanding towards Kah Choon, while also discovering the changes in Kah Choon.
- Centers on the wedding of a cross-straits couple and the fallout that comes as both families try to come to terms with differences in culture.
- Having gay dads, Qiu, a sixth-grade boy, takes action to prove to the world that, unlike his parents, he is straight and manly. It's no joke.
- This story is a description of how modern people search for their happiness and self-worth in Taipei City. In order to make a living, a man and a woman applied for a job as Call Man and Call Girl in the same day coincidentally, and they also sat out with the same taxi in that day. More spontaneously, due to various factors, both of them always fail to get clients which produced a lot of funny accidents. Finally, these pitiful and ridiculous "chicken and duck" have an opportunity to break the shackles on their body toward the well-being reality. The film's unique humor in trying to approach the interpretation of the most true humanity.
- After a married couple get a divorce, the ex-husband is left to raise his 6-year-old son.
- A story about a group of funeral directors who will accompany the last few days of their clients' lives. It will use black humor to lighten up the topic of death and depict the departure stories of the deceased and their loved ones in a lighthearted yet respectable manner.
- Starting from a seemingly pointless case of a puppy's accidental death, from eating chocolate, the essentially incompatible pair unexpectedly digs up the clues to a series of mysterious deaths.
- Gao-bing works in a bakery in a small town. The owner, Mr Chiu, is so into his Rock 'n 'Roll band, and the apprentice Di doesn't seem enthusiastic about learning baking at all. The business of the bakery is getting down and Gao-bing doesn't know what to do with the situation. All he can do is work harder and makes more bread. Ping, the daughter of Mr Chiu, grew up together with Gao-bing and is Gao-bing's girlfriend. She often complains that Gao-bing only follows the traditions and doesn't take any dramatic actions to save the bakery. In order to develop revolutionary new flavors, Ping takes baking courses in the city where she meets Bread. Bread, born in America, is charming and humorous. He falls for Ping at the very first sight. Even though Ping is with Gao-bing, she finds Bread's bread has a special magic. She thinks Bread might be the one that saves the bakery... With Ping's arrangement, Bread moves in to Mr Chiu's houses and becomes Gao-bing's roommate. Bread never hides his feelings toward Ping and always says, "We must put our passing into the bread". Gao-bing disagrees with Bread's western style and thinks of him merely a dumbass from America.
- Three graduating seniors, Willy, Fatty and Yaya, who have no ideas what the future holds for them, are now facing the biggest challenge beyond their imagination: their friend Kaka is back from Australia with a baby in her arms! The baby disrupts their lives and also puts their friendship to the test. Three new "Daddies" are learning the responsibility of life while taking care of the baby...
- CNN examines the worldwide conflicts between growing populations and natural resources.
- A rampant killer stalk the citizens of China. As they run away, they soon realize the killer is amongst themselves.
- Guards looking after ships usually turn a blind eye to troubles as long as the ship remains safe. However, Chuang kind-heartedly shelters the intellectually-challenged prostitute, Neko, in a dilapidated ship, while being involved in disputes between foreign fishers.
- 9-year-old Lan and his dad always enjoyed time together in Dad's boat art shop. One day Lan came home and suddenly found Dad dies. Lan is shocked. Dad disappears forever. Sister never cries and refuses to speak to Mom. And Mom insists to prepare a seat for Dad every dinner as if Dad were alive. What is worse, Lan's classmates often laugh at him. Lan starts fighting and running away from school. As life gets harsher, he receives a package. It is a strange-shaped clock which has stopped. Dad sent it before he dies. Lan visits many stores trying to fix the clock but in vain. He hope he will have answer for everything when he eventually solved the mystery of the clock...
- In the not-too distant future, 17 year-old Tye and his family move to the burgeoning metropolis of Real City, where, bored with classes, he spends his time daydreaming until one day he finds a magic stone that allows him to pass through walls. On a field trip to a museum, Tye meets NoNo, a deaf girl with bionic ears who is working as a museum docent. The two grow closer, until Tye discovers she has a boyfriend and demands she chooses between them. NoNo tells him to come and see her again in twenty years and then disappears from his life, leaving him only with a photo of her in front of a signpost saying Elsewhere. Tye uses the magic stone to go to Elsewhere, but he discovers a desolate world full of discarded things, among them an attractive blind girl, Ya-hung. Two worlds, two realities, two girls, what will Tye's choice be ?
- A-Sen is born in an aristocratic family. His family has a long tradition of practicing medicine. Before the high school entrance exam, A-Sen is transferred from a music class to a normal class, which his father believes would lead A-Sen to a better future. Unexpectedly, A-Sen joins a rock band for a music.
- Best friends Mickey and Gin Gin are young women scraping by in southern Taiwan. A headstrong tomboy, Mickey looks after her depressed mother, and spends her free time at the local temple, trying to join its all-male martial arts troupe. By contrast, sanguine and impulsive Gin Gin makes money dancing in nightclubs. When Gin Gin hatches a plan to rendezvous with her crush, Jay, in the city of Guangzhou, China, Mickey decides to go along, determined to locate the father who abandoned her and her mother years before. Almost immediately the two find themselves in over their heads, immersed in lawlessness and betrayal. But China also has a magical quality of new desires and pleasures that arouse Mickey's sexual-discovery. Through misadventures--some comic, some brutal--Mickey and Gin Gin strengthen their friendship and transform from rascally naifs into more mature souls with a clearer sense of self.
- Best Documentary Film of Golden Horse Awards 2005, Special Jury Prize and Audience Award, Taipei Film Festival 2005 "Jump! Boys," a warm and engaging documentary about young boys training for gymnastics competition, brought out tears and laughter when it was shown in local theaters.
- Elena was a factory worker, and a car accident bonded her with violin at the age of 26. She becomes a violin teacher, but earns no more than before. After having worked flat out for eight years, she finds herself alone with no potential suitor in sight. Therefore she decides to find herself a husband within a year to start a happy new life. Nonetheless, it proves to be harder than she expects.
- Tear-jerker about a Husband, caught between his Wife, who is getting blind and his sympathetic Girlfriend, all 3 characters are pitiful, played by 3 of Taiwan's most popular actors of such genre films during that time.The title song composed by Chia-chang,Liu is so popular, an evergreen now.
- 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. An treats her like a sister, embracing her tortured soul. When they are unhappy, they dance on the pier. Their dancing steps swing like small boats in the harbor, driving away all the depression. Someday, a puppet show was performed on the pier. They saw a fisherman, Lao-Yao, playing a puppet. Through Lao-Yao who suffers from autism, Ah Yu found herself tangled in a feeling as deep as the ocean.
- Jay is forced to return home to reunite with his father he has grown apart. After a long day of exploration in the house that he does not recall, Jay recollects pieces of memories that prove his father's love for him.
- HUF "9 To Yo' Deck" Nationwide Skate-tour. 3 Skaters, 3 Disc Jockeys, and 3 Filmmakers cultivating 1 Culture.
- Hsiao-Hsia, a girl in the fifth grade, pretends to be the "Venusian" with her closest friends in the summer vacation, and they are planning pranks on the adults who facing the problems in their relationship.
- An American-Chinese man (Shaun-Tam) returns to Taiwan to find his dream girl, and he is surprised by the result.
- An English teacher searching for direction, and a outcast Betel Nut Girl meet up as strangers in Kaohsiung, Taiwan and form an unlikely bond under unusual circumstances in a unique urban setting.
- PETA went to Taiwan to expose the deadly pigeon sea races, and the illegal gambling behind it.
- Summer is on its way, though the sudden death has made everything somewhat different.
- The social impact of gambling affected Taiwanese the greatest during the 80s in Taiwan. The concept of this film is to have audience experience and observe the social values of religion beliefs from a deity statue's viewpoint through Virtual Reality technology.
- Jamie used to live a blissful life. All he does everyday is coffee-drinking, bike-riding, and taking pictures. Until that day he met the girl Belle, suddenly everything in his life changed forever.
- Stage actress Shen Man Qing recently performs not well. During her back home at New Year, she sees the pressure of depression suffered by her brother. She wants to care his brother and know his feelings but can't .
- Elijah, the son of a school headmaster, decides to help out a desperate group of delinquent students, but soon unearths a startling secret that could reveal truths about himself and jeopardize everything.
- When a disabled boy becomes a man and his single mother grows old, both need to face the most painful decision of their journey together.