1980s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | ||||||
| Cute Girls | Hou Hsiao-Hsien | Kenny Bee, Fong Fei Fei | drama/comedy | Hou's first full length feature film | ||
| 1981 | ||||||
| Cheerful Wind | Hou Hsiao-Hsien | Kenny Bee, Fong Fei Fei | drama/comedy | |||
| 1982 | ||||||
| In Our Time | Tao Decheng, Edward Yang, Yi-cheng Ko, Chang Yi | Sylvia Chang | drama/comedy | A Taiwanese New Wave collection of film shorts | ||
| The Green, Green Grass of Home | Hou Hsiao-Hsien | Kenny Bee | drama/comedy | |||
| 1983 | ||||||
| Growing Up | Chen Kunhou | Doze Niu | drama | |||
| The Sandwich Man | Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Tseng chuang-hsiang, Wan Ren | drama | A Taiwanese New Wave collection of film shorts | |||
| The Boys From Fengkuei | Hou Hsiao-Hsien | Doze Niu, Tou Chung-Hua, Shih Chang | drama | Won the Golden Montgolfiere at the 1984 Nantes Three Continents Festival | ||
| That Day, on the Beach | Edward Yang | Sylvia Chang | drama | |||
| 1984 | ||||||
| A Summer at Grandpa's | Hou Hsiao-Hsien | drama | Won the Golden Montgolfiere at the 1985 Nantes Three Continents Festival | |||
| 1985 | ||||||
| A Time to Live, A Time to Die | Hou Hsiao-Hsien | drama/biography | Won the FIPRESCI Prize Forum of New Cinema at the 1986 Berlin International Film Festival | |||
| Taipei Story | Edward Yang | Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Tsai Chin | drama | |||
| Kuei-mei, A Woman | Chang Yi | Hui-san Yang | drama | |||
| 1986 | ||||||
| Dust in the Wind | Hou Hsiao-Hsien | Li Tian-lu | drama | |||
| The Terrorizers | Edward Yang | drama | Won the Silver Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival | |||
| 1987 | ||||||
| Daughter of the Nile | Hou Hsiao-Hsien | Jack Kao, Li Tian-lu, Lin Yang | drama | Won the Special Jury Prize at the 1987 Torino International Festival of Young Cinema | ||
| Strawman | Wang Tung | Kuei-mei Yang, Wen Ying | drama | |||
| The Game They Called Sex | Gam Gwok-Chiu, Wong Siu-Dai, Sylvia Chang | Maggie Cheung, David Wu, Wakin Chau | Romance | |||
| 1988 | ||||||
| Osmanthus Alley | Chen Kunhou | Simon Yam, Wakin Chau, Tou Chung-Hua | Drama | |||
| Autumn Tempest | Huang Yu-shan | ------- | Drama | |||
| 1989 | ||||||
| A City of Sadness | Hou Hsiao-Hsien | Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Chen Sung Yung, Li Tian-lu | drama | Won the Golden Lion award at the 1989 Venice Film Festival, the Best Director at Golden Horse Awards | ||
| Banana Paradise | Wang Tung | Doze Niu, Shih Chang | drama | |||
| The Dull Ice Flower | Yang Li Kuo | Huang Kun Hsuan, Lee Shu Chen, Chen Sung Yung | drama | Screened at the 1989 Berlin International Film Festival | ||
| Twin Bracelets | Huang Yu-shan | ------- | Drama | |||
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