The best Austin Lin’s movies

As humanity picks up the pieces, following the conclusion of "Transformers: Dark of the Moon," Autobots and Decepticons have all but vanished from the face of the planet. However, a group of powerful, ingenious businessman and scientists attempt to learn from past Transformer incursions and push the boundaries of technology beyond what they can control - all while an ancient, powerful Transformer menace sets Earth in his cross-hairs.

Pu Songling (Jackie Chan), a legendary demon hunter, is asked to investigate the mysterious disappearances of young girls from a small village. When he discovers evil forces are kidnapping the girls to feast on their souls, he sets out to save humanity from the inhuman invasion journeying through hidden worlds and colorful dimensions.

In an abandoned hospital in Tainan, a group of people came to try to communicate with the souls of their loved ones, only to be haunted by ominous supernatural phenomena.

An experienced mountain rescue team is tasked with recovering crucial documents from Everest’s notorious death zone

Chi-yi is a veteran cop, who values his own safety more than anything else and is therefore infamous for his cowardice and poor efficiency at work. Yi-ping, on the other hand, has just graduated from the police academy and is more than ready to prove herself regardless of any risks. Daughter of the head of the National Policy Agency, Yi-ping is secretly kept away from danger by being appointed to team up with Chi-yi. Starting from a seemingly pointless case of a puppy’s accidental death, the essentially incompatible pair unexpectedly dig up the clues to a series of mysterious deaths.

After her car breaks down on a rainy night, Miss Liang enters a nearby coffee shop called Cafe 6. The owner of the shop finds out that Miss Liang has just gotten into a fight with her boyfriend who is currently overseas, so to kill time, he shares a story of his time back in 1996. During that year, Guan Min-lu and his good friend Xiao Bo-zhi always hang out together. Min-lu is secretly in love with Li Xin-rui while Bo-zhi is attracted to Xin-rui's best friend, Cai Xin-yi. The four young teenagers share a good relationship with each other and spend their days happily every day. But as their graduation day draws near, they wonder if they can still stay committed with each other after going their separate ways.

When a woman chances upon a ticket to an exclusive concert, she realizes the man who gave it to her may be the key to her life’s happiness. But when life itself throws barriers in her way, it’s up to her daughter to try and reunite the star crossed lovers.

The film is set in a pre-Covid Taipei, where a group of disenchanted souls are lost in a parallel virtual world.

A boy and a girl. He - Po-ching - suffers from an obsessive-compulsive disorder that forces him to constantly wash his hands. She - Ching - suffers from an obsessive-compulsive disorder that forces her to cover herself up from head to toe as though she's trying to survive germ warfare. For society at large they're just a couple of weirdos, but for fate they're soul mates who sooner or later are destined to meet. And when they do, it sets in motion a bizarre sentimental short circuit...

Mo Xiaofeng died unexpectedly in an adventure. At the funeral of Mo Xiaofeng who had been in love for 10 years, Yang Yixue got his legacy, a mysterious wooden box full of letters. With these loving letterheads, Yang Yixue's thoughts were flying and dusty memories were opened. She regretted that she had missed her lover. The "Mystery Wooden Box" has a magical traversal function, which can be connected with the past time and space. Yang Yixue wants to recover the lost love by continuing to communicate with her 19-year-old geese.

Adapted from a popular Chinese Crime Fiction Campus novel. After receiving a heart transplant, Xia, who is a mathematical genius and studies in Nanyang University, is wrapped in the mist of a murder. With the help from University colleague Qin, she gradually realises that this is an insane scheme of organ trafficking manipulated by subtle mathematical calculations. What is more, a terrifying secret is also hidden inside Xia’s new heart.

Everyone wants their life to a perfect circle, but always failed with a missing piece. Dao-Fung, who has strange psychological symptom, five second’s blank, had decided to cure himself by a travel and arrived Riguang village in Taitung. He met four interesting people. During stayed at there, five of them found their own missing piece due to the love among them. Dao-Fung became aware of his symptom gradually disappeared, too. (Bifan 2015)

Austin Lin opens the night of the 58th Golden Horse Award Ceremony, and pays his tribute to the magic of film, with a short film and the song “Contentment”.