History of Movies.

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

8.72body-of-work score · ranked #88 of 1774 directors · 11 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1A City of Sadness19893.41
  2. 2Flowers of Shanghai19981.55
  3. 3Goodbye South19960.63
  4. 4A Summer at Grandpa's19840.61
  5. 5Millennium Mambo20010.50
  6. 6Three Times20050.43
  7. 7The Assassin20150.39
  8. 8Dust in the Wind19860.32
  9. 9The Puppetmaster19930.30
  10. 10Café Lumière20040.30
  11. 11The Time to Live and the Time to Die19850.29