Best Taiwanese animation movies

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch animation films from Taiwan, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for The Lighthouse

    The Lighthouse 2010

    Father, son, the lighthouse as the center of their lives. Both grow up, the son leaving every day to pursue his studies, then returning to an increasingly elderly father who welcomes him with the same warmth, taking him, as he has always done over the years, to the piano to play together.

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  • Poster for Scapegoat

    Scapegoat 2019

    A story about bullying. Someone will be chosen as a scapegoat for no reason.

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  • Poster for Moist

    Moist 2019

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  • Poster for Cage

    Cage 2022

    The devil, longing for the angel's love, put him in a cage to make the angel accept him, and even did things that hurt the angel's siblings. However, these actions caused irreversible and serious consequences.

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  • Poster for Little Hilly

    Little Hilly 2020

    Hilly is a 10-year-old silent Taiwanese girl. Nobody cares about her depression and the pressure she suffers. Hilly hates that she always oppresses herself, and also hates the world controlled by adults. What does Hilly really want to speak to the adults?

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  • Poster for The Drawer of Memory

    The Drawer of Memory 2006

    The story is about an old women with a drawer on her body. This drawer is full of the memory of her passed husband. She puts things into the drawer every day to look for the shadow of him.

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  • Poster for Red Balloon

    Red Balloon 2017

    Sometimes you are the only one that can really see what’s out there.

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  • Poster for Deathigner

    Deathigner 2013

    Little Death, child of The Grim Reaper, have problems to follow the steps of his infamous father.

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  • Poster for Reminisce me with the time of a day

    Reminisce me with the time of a day 2015

    A story about memories.

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  • Poster for Fallen Leaves Return to Film

    Fallen Leaves Return to Film 2016

    Lying quietly in a cine-camera, a film awaits to fulfill its responsibility of projecting 24 frames of images per second after exposure. Nonetheless, I prefer rolling out films outright and fiddling with them by pigments application, collage, scratch, cut-and-mix, etc. Since these are camera-less measures, the projection is unpredictable, surprising, and often so astonishing that I would be mesmerized.

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  • Poster for The Empress

    The Empress 2020

    In an ancient Eastern Kingdom, an emperor was controlled by the ministers. The emperor could not stand it and escaped from the palace

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  • Poster for On My Way Home

    On My Way Home 2022

    We are always going faster on the way back home. In the experiments carried out at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the protons apparently only exist for a billionth of a second, travelling at approximately the speed of light. Feelings are broadcasted like the passing of time.

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  • Poster for Wong, Bitter Gourd

    Wong, Bitter Gourd 2019

    A story, between father and son, happened round dinner table in the kitchen. "Bland lunch, day after day. the father who lives in the fridge. Discontented son. Inside the kitchen. Repast. Communication. Genes. On the verge of breaking out." Father and son came into a conflict because of a decision made by the son. To indicate the relationship between them through their reaction on that circumstances. We are all have some dissatisfaction with our parent’s personality,but meanwhile,we will gradually find them in yourself when you are growing up. The trepidation and the contradictory state.

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  • Poster for Neon

    Neon 2017

    This is a love story. Colourless, tasteless, odourless. We cannot see it, until it is stimulated and glows with dazzling light.

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  • Poster for Reminisce me with the time of a day

    Reminisce me with the time of a day 2016

    A short film that has a purely core and talks about memory.

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  • The Pumpkin of Nyefar 2004

    The Pumpkin of Nyefar is a short directed by Tod Polson and Mark Oftedal. The story was co-written by Maurice Noble, who began his animation career at Disney in the 1930s, and eventually designed many of Chuck Jones’s classic Warner Bros. cartoons including Duck Dodgers in the 24th Century and What’s Opera, Doc?. The film is narrated by June Foray (the voice of Rocky in Rocky and Bullwinkle).

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  • Poster for Confusion of the Afternoon

    Confusion of the Afternoon 2023

    Two boys play poker on a dull afternoon. As one boy inadvertently touches and makes eye contact with the other, it sparks a beautiful, imaginative dance.

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  • Poster for Meat Days

    Meat Days 2006

    In a chaotic time of men eating men, A-e gets some human meat by selling her body…

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  • Poster for The Day When Phoenix Flowers Blossomed

    The Day When Phoenix Flowers Blossomed 2021

    A mother ran into a monster on her way home. She was dragged into a surreal world, where she discovered her son's suppressed inner side. As she slowly discovered the truth, a tragedy was also foreshadowed.

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  • Taipei, Taipei 1993

    The film was produced independently which used clay and other materials for landscaping to shoot on 16mm film. It shows that Taiwan's metropolis, mainly Taipei, has undergone rapid changes in the times, with vigorous vitality but disorder and lack of overall urban planning.

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  • Doraemon: Robot War 1983

    Nobita and friends engage in an all out robot war in this unofficial installment of the Doraemon series.

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