Name: The Puppetmaster
Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien
Released: 1992
Cast: Li Tian-Lu, Lim Giong

Li Tian-Lu

Lim Giong

Puppeteer Li Tian-lu tells his life story, and through it, the story of Taiwan in the first half of the 20th century.

The New Asian Cinemas

The Puppetmaster

戲夢人生, Xì mèng rén shēng

Jack Kao

Kuei-Ying Hsu

Annie Shizuka Inoh

Hsiang Hsi

Pi-tung Lien

Ming Kao

Vicky Wei

Ming Lei

Tien-lu Lee

Kwei Lee

Goong Lim

A glimpse at the lives of two petty criminals in Taipei.

Goodbye South, Goodbye

南國再見,南國, Nánguó Zaìjiàn, Nánguó

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Freebox - VOST - SD

Shu-fen Hsin

Tian-Lu Li

Ching-wen Wang

Mei Fang

Lawrence Ko

A young couple leave their mining town home for Taipei where they struggle to eke out a living in an industrial wasteland.

Dust in the Wind

戀戀風塵, Lian lian feng chen

Chinese

VOST - HD

VOST - SD

Tony Leung

Sung Young Chen

Wou Yi Fang

Ai-yun Ho

A beautiful, historical film based upon the complex lives of four brothers.

A City of Sadness

Bei qing cheng shi

Feng Tien

Ju-Yun Tang

An-Shun Yu

Hsiao Ai

The semi-autobiographical film on director Hou Hsiao-Hsien&#x27;s childhood and adolescence, when he was growing up in Taiwan, living through the deaths of his father, mother and grandmother.

The Time to Live and the Time to Die

Tong nian wang shi

Carina Lau

Michiko Hada

Michelle Reis

Hsiao-Hui Wei

In the &quot;flower houses&quot; (upscale brothels) of Shanghai, various interweaving stories of love, loyalty, and deceit play out subtly.

Flowers of Shanghai

Hai shang hua

Français

Qi Shu

Chun-hao Tuan

Jun Takeuchi

Ko Takeuchi

Vicky travaille le soir dans une bo&icirc;te de nuit. Son copain, Hao-hao, est au ch&ocirc;mage et surveille &eacute;troitement tous les faits et gestes de sa petite amie. Ne supportant plus cette situation, Vicky d&eacute;cide d&rsquo;aller se r&eacute;fugier chez son ami Jack.

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Millennium Mambo

千禧曼波

french

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Chen Chang

Fang Mei

Shu-Chen Liao

Mei Di

Trois histoires d&rsquo;amour se succ&egrave;dent &agrave; travers les &eacute;poques. Aussi br&egrave;ves que passionn&eacute;es, ces idylles semblent les r&eacute;incarnation de deux &acirc;mes inexorablement li&eacute;es par un m&ecirc;me amour malgr&eacute; les contextes historiques diff&eacute;rents...

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Three Times

最好的時光

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Chi-Kuang Wang

Shu-Chen Li

A coming-of-age story about a young brother and sister whom spend a pivotal summer in the country with their grandparents.

A Summer at Grandpa's

Dong dong de jiàqi

VOST - HD - CARLOTTA

Shih Chang

Doze Niu

Chao P'eng-chue

Tou Chung-hua

Yang Lai-yin

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 apartment through relatives, and Ah-Ching is attracted to the girlfriend of a neighbor. There they face the harsh realities of the big city.

The Boys from Fengkuei

風櫃來的人

English

Kenny Bee

Ling Chiang

Meifeng Chen

Da-Nian is a young man from Taipei. He goes to a remote village and works as a substitute teacher. He and Su-Yun, another teacher at the school, fall in love.

Cinémathèque royale de Belgique

Hidden Treasures

Home

Green, Green Grass of Home

在那河畔青草青

english

Chang Chen

Shu Qi

Zhou Yun

Satoshi Tsumabuki

Ethan Juan

A female assassin receives a dangerous mission to kill a political leader in eighth-century China.

The Assassin

Yang Li-Yin

Tsui Fu-Sheng

Cho Sheng Li

Chiang Hsia

 Chen Po-Cheng

Three vignettes from three different directors that tell stories of ordinary people during Taiwan&#x27;s Cold War period.

L'Homme-sandwich

兒子的大玩偶

Jackie Burroughs

Victor Cowie

Gosia Dobrowolska

Paul Cox

Katya Gardner

Kyle McCulloch

Brent Neale

Michael O'Sullivan

Sarah Neville

Vince Rimmer

In the Alpine village of Tolzbad in the 1800s, the townsfolk talk quietly and restrain their movements lest they incur avalanches. This atmosphere lends itself to repressed emotions - shown through the parallel stories of butler student Johann lusting after his mother (an old flame of the mysterious Count Knotkers) and Klara&#x27;s attraction to her father (who lusts after his other daughter), leading to duels and suicidal plunges galore.

Careful

Jacqueline Poelvoorde Pappaert

Nelly Pappaert

Hector Pappaert

Valérie Parent

Jenny Drye

Malou Madou

Édith Le Merdy

Olivier Cotica

Rachel Deman

Alexandra Fandango

Rémy Belvaux

André Bonzel

Benoît Poelvoorde

A film crew follows a ruthless thief and heartless killer as he goes about his daily routine. But complications set in when the film crew lose their objectivity and begin lending a hand.

Man Bites Dog

Joe Leahy is the half-caste son of one of the first explorers of the Papua New Guinean interior. His relations with the local Ganiga tribe who work his coffee plantation on their land are difficult at times. However he has successfully managed to get them to agree to open a second plantation in partnership with him. Things are looking up until the international coffee market hits rough times and conflict seems imminent between the Ganiga and their neighbouring traditional enemies.

The Highlands Trilogy : Black Harvest

Diane Keaton

Anjelica Huston

Woody Allen

Alan Alda

Joy Behar

Jerry Adler

Ron Rifkin

Lynn Cohen

Zach Braff

Melanie Norris

William Addy

Diane Keaton stars as Carol Lipton, a bored Manhattan housewife who becomes convinced that her next-door neighbor has committed a murder. When her skeptical husband, Larry (Woody Allen) rejects the idea, Carol turns to a flirtatious friend (Alan Alda) to help her search for clues. And as their enthusiasm for the case grows, so does their interest in each other. Spurred on by jealousy - and by a seductive writer (Anjelica Huston) who&#x27;s also excited by the mystery - Larry reluctantly joins the chase, only to learn that much more than his marriage is at stake. A comic romp bursting with wry one-liners and inspired sight gags.

Manhattan Murder Mystery

Bill Murray

Andie MacDowell

Chris Elliott

Stephen Tobolowsky

Brian Doyle-Murray

Marita Geraghty

Angela Paton

Rick Ducommun

Rick Overton

Robin Duke

Carol Bivins

Willie Garson

Bruno Podalydès

Jonás Trueba

Bill Murray is at his wry, wisecracking best in this riotous romantic comedy about a weatherman caught in a personal time warp on the worst day of his life. Teamed with a relentlessly cheerful producer (Andie MacDowell) and a smart-aleck cameraman (Chris Elliott), TV weatherman Phil Connors (Bill Murray) is sent to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities. But on his way out of town, Phil is caught in a giant blizzard, which he failed to predict, and finds himself stuck in small-town hell. Just when things couldn&#x27;t get any worse, they do. Phil wakes the next morning to find it&#x27;s Groundhog Day all over again... and again... and again.

Groundhog Day

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Tom Skerritt

Craig Sheffer

Brad Pitt

Emily Lloyd

Brenda Blethyn

Edie McClurg

Stephen Shellen

The story about two sons of a stern minister, one reserved and one rebellious, growing up in rural Montana while devoted to fly fishing.

A River Runs Through It

french - SME

Julie Brown

Tom Hickey

Ricky Tomlinson

Bruce Jones

Christine Abbott

Karen Henthorn

Gemma Phoenix

Geraldine Ward

Mike Fallon

William Ash

This Ken Loach film tells the story of a man devoted to his family and his religion. Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him into trouble as he turns to more and more questionable measures, in his desperation to raise the needed money. This tragic flaw leads him to risk all that he loves and values, his beloved family, indeed even his immortal soul and salvation, in blind pursuit of that goal.

Raining Stones

Chao-jung Chen

Yu-wen Wang

Kang-sheng Lee

Chang-bing Jen

Tien Miao

Hsiao-ling Lu

Within the urban gloom of Taipei, four youths face alienation, loneliness, and moments of existential crisis amidst a series of minor crimes.

Rebels of the Neon God

青少年哪吒, Ch'ing shaonien na cha

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