# The best Ang Lee movies

From The Wedding Banquet to Life of Pi: Ang Lee's films ranked by critics and fans (Gold Derby, Collider, Ranker).

- 659 votes · 14 items
- Oct 27, 2024 · Mitchell King
- https://even.best/en/l/2365/the-best-ang-lee-movies

## Top 13

1. **Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)** (66 · ▲71 ▼5) — Wuxia with Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh and Zhang Ziyi; Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
2. **The Wedding Banquet (1993)** (52 · ▲56 ▼4) — A fake marriage in New York; Golden Bear.
3. **Brokeback Mountain (2005)** (48 · ▲53 ▼5) — Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal; Golden Lion and Oscar for Best Director.
4. **Sense and Sensibility (1995)** (42 · ▲50 ▼8) — Emma Thompson's Austen adaptation; Golden Bear.
5. **Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)** (37 · ▲42 ▼5) — A Taipei chef and his three daughters.
6. **Life of Pi (2012)** (33 · ▲42 ▼9) — A boy and a tiger in a lifeboat; second Oscar for Best Director.
7. **Pushing Hands (1991)** (31 · ▲37 ▼6) — A tai chi master moves in with his son in New York; his debut.
8. **Lust, Caution (2007)** (24 · ▲31 ▼7) — A student spy in occupied Shanghai; Golden Lion.
9. **Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016)** (22 · ▲32 ▼10) — An Iraq war hero at a football halftime show.
10. **Taking Woodstock (2009)** (17 · ▲28 ▼11) — The family motel that helped make the festival happen.
11. **Gemini Man (2019)** (17 · ▲25 ▼8) — Will Smith against his younger clone.
12. **Ride with the Devil (1999)** (16 · ▲28 ▼12) — Bushwhackers in the Civil War.
13. **The Ice Storm (1997)** (16 · ▲27 ▼11) — Two Connecticut families in 1973.
14. **Hulk (2003)** (14 · ▲25 ▼11) — Eric Bana as Bruce Banner.

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