modernish

• caught in the web
• spider lilies
• dangerous liasons
• partners in crime (it's kinda creepy and intense though)
• meet miss anxiety
• our times
• kano (modern ish,,,,1930s)
• eat drink man woman

historical or fantastical

• mulan
• white vengeance
• the four (I, II, and III) some of my fav films of all time
• painted skin (I and II)

those are my absolute faves, but tbh i watch more cantonese films than mandarin films, and the mandarin things i do watch are dramas, so if you want here are some decent dramas:

• dear mom (it's ridiculously long though)
• ToGetHer
• hi my sweetheart
• never give up dodo ( it's a web drama HONESTLY if you watch one thing from this list please watching this,, but skip most of the last episode tbh...the rest of it is soO funny)
• meteor garden
• new modern people

and for songs....all of rainie yang's discography, all of SHE's discography, hebe tien's discography, and recently actually I've been loving Bii, who's taiwanese and korean, and lots of his songs have random korean words thrown in and his music is really beautiful (here's a yt link to one of his albums https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybPGkuPs91c)