9 Films & TV Shows Set In Taiwan During The 21st Century
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The Falls
🇹🇼 Taiwan The 2020sWhile quarantining, the relationship between a mother and daughter takes an unexpected turn.
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Nina Wu
🇹🇼 Taiwan The 2010sNina Wu, a girl who leaves small theatre company in the country for the big city in pursuit of her actress dream. The wait seems to be endless, as she lives a lonely and repressed life combined with hereditary condition, she suffers from minor depression. One day, she gets a role as a heroine in a 70s espionage film. Having decided to devote herself completely to the character, she did everything she could to get the role and she did succeed. When she finally welcomes her long anticipation of fame, series of unfortunate events and threats start to haunt her. Having to struggle her way through gender and sexuality equality, can Nina, like many other minor individual fight against the odds in life and stand undefeated? Or is it just real life that no one can escape from endless hardships?
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Geostorm
New York District of Columbia Georgia Florida Ontario England 🇫🇷 France 🇪🇸 Spain 🇩🇪 Germany 🇷🇺 Russia 🇮🇳 India 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates 🇦🇫 Afghanistan Shanghai 🇰🇷 South Korea 🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇹🇼 Taiwan Tokyo Prefecture New South Wales Africa - General 🇧🇷 Brazil The 2010s The 2020sSome things were never meant to be controlled. — After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong: the system built to protect Earth is attacking it, and it becomes a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything and everyone along with it.
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Lucy
New York England 🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇹 Italy 🇹🇼 Taiwan The 2010s The 19th CenturyThe average person uses 10% of their brain capacity. Imagine what she could do with 100%. — A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
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Au Revoir Taipei
🇹🇼 Taiwan The 2000sKai (Jack Yao), who works at his parent's noodle shop by day and spends his nights in a bookstore to learn French, decides to go to Paris after his girlfriend, who recently left for Paris, dumps him by phone. Then the local neighborhood mafia boss offers Kai a free plane ticket to Paris if he takes a mysterious package with him.
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Three Times
🇹🇼 Taiwan The 1960s The 1910s The 2000sThere are three stories of women and men: in "A Time for Love" set in 1966, a soldier searches for a young woman he met one afternoon playing pool; "A Time for Freedom," set in a bordello in 1911, revolves around a singer's longing to escape her surroundings; in "A Time for Youth" set in 2005 Taipei, a triangle in which a singer has an affair with a photographer while her partner suffers is dramatized. In the first two stories, letters are crucial to the outcome; in the third, it's cell-phone calls, text messages, and a computer file. Over the years between the tales, as sexual intimacy becomes more likely and words more free, communication recedes.
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Millennium Mambo
🇹🇼 Taiwan The 2010sTaipei. A voice off-camera looks back ten years to 2000, when Vicky was in an on-again off-again relationship with Hao-Hao...
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The Mirror
Shanghai 🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇹🇼 Taiwan 🇸🇬 Singapore The 1980s The 1990s The 1920s The 2000sThe grandson of a rich widow returns to Hong Kong with his girlfriend. They are charmed by an antique mirror at the grandmother's home. The mirror used to belonged to a famous courtesan in ...