Taiwan’s submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986. In the story, the kindly and very efficient Chinese settlers are distrusted by the natives until they show that they are able and willing to cure an outbreak of plague. The daughter of the native Taiwanese chief has her own peace plan for the region, which involves finding the most eligible Chinese bachelor and marrying him.
Category: Drama
Drama
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The Name of the Rose
14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church’s authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence; which is considerable.
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Da’et Zar
A doctor opens a clinic in a place where there is a ritual’s beat, and massouad wants to marry Mazzouza who became forbidden from marrying humans.
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Heartbreak Ridge
A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.
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Subway Serial Rape: Office Lady Hunting
A woman, who now lives with a detective, gets a call from her former boyfriend. He is fresh out of prison and wants her back… now!
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Reunion
The story begins in the 1950’s when a group of happy naive primary school students surround a young female teacher. These playmates from childhood are now going through an embarrassing age of adolescence. They get together once again at high school and return to their almamater paying a visit to their teacher. Their reunion goes wonderfully until one of them drowns. Their teacher’s husband gets killed while attempting to save the students. In their early 20s, most of them graduated from college and subsequently start their first jobs. Some of them start their career early, some decide to study abroad, and others get married. As for their teacher, she devotes herself to “special education” following in her husband’s footsteps. When they are reunited at the age of 40, each of them has experienced different trials of life. In search of good old memories of childhood, they gather together again to walk the corridors of their almamater.
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Matador
A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn’t commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.
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Tan-Badan
A man stipulates a unique condition in his will to get his son married to the girl of his choice, but he is murdered on the same night he drafts the will.
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Exploits of a Young Don Juan
In 1914, sixteen year old Roger returned home from boarding school during vacation to find his puberty hit hard in a house filled with beautiful women. These women have previous engagements with other men who are away, and during this time, Roger impregnates them all, including his aunt and sister, then devises plans to cuckold the men.
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Dr. Sun Yat-sen
Dr. Sun Zhongshan leads a democratic revolution in China.