Ang Lee’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Ang Lee has 14 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2010s. 5 rank in the Top 10%, led by Brokeback Mountain.
Recurring themes

A Tale of Winter
1992
Drama · Romance

A Home at the End of the World
2004
Drama · Romance

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
2009
Comedy · Drama

Mississippi Masala
1991
Drama · Romance

Y Tu Mamá También
2001
Drama · Romance

Breaking and Entering
2006
Drama · Romance

Dark Blue Almost Black
2006
Drama · Romance

My Life
1993
Drama · Romance

Brokeback Mountain
2005 · Movie · Director
Top 3%Hulu · Included

Life of Pi
2012 · Movie · Director
Top 4%Max · Included

Eat Drink Man Woman
1994 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 7%Tubi · Free w/ ads

I Am Heath Ledger
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 32%Prime Video · Included

Gemini Man
2019 · Movie · Director
Top 52%Prime Video · Included

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
2016 · Movie · Director
Top 89%Hulu · Included

In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.
Dir. Ang Lee · With Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams
The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
Dir. Ang Lee · With Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Ayush Tandon

Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physically-skilled, teenage nobleman's daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life.
Dir. Ang Lee · With Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi

Retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu lives in modern day Taipei, with his three attractive daughters, all of whom are unattached. Soon, each daughter encounters a new man in their lives. When these new relationships blossom, stereotypes are broken and the living situation within the family changes.
Dir. Ang Lee · With Lung Sihung, Yang Kuei-mei, Jacklyn Wu Chien-Lien

During World War II, a secret agent must seduce, then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling in love with the man she is assigned to kill.
Dir. Ang Lee · With Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Tang Wei, Joan Chen

The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, learn that their prospects of marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. After Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son. These circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's wife and daughters without a home and with barely enough money to live on. As Elinor and Marianne struggle to find romantic fulfillment in a society obsessed with financial and social status, they must learn to mix sense with sensibility in their dealings with both money and men.
Dir. Ang Lee · With Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman

A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to keep his parents off his back and to get the woman a green card. Chaos follows when his parents arrive in New York for the wedding.
Dir. Ang Lee · With Gua Ah-leh, Lung Sihung, May Chin

The life and career of an actor, artist, and icon. His own journey through his own camera.
Dir. Adrian Buitenhuis, Derik Murray · With Heath Ledger, Kate Ledger, Kim Ledger

In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hood family is skidding out of control. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century.
Dir. Ang Lee · With Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver

Henry Brogan is an elite 51-year-old assassin who's ready to call it quits after completing his 72nd job. His plans get turned upside down when he becomes the target of a mysterious operative who can seemingly predict his every move. To his horror, Brogan soon learns that the man who's trying to kill him is a younger, faster, cloned version of himself.
Dir. Ang Lee · With Will Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clive Owen

Friends Jake and Jack Bull join up with Civil War guerrilla fighters, yet after the realities of war set in, they must decide what honor truly means.
Dir. Ang Lee · With Skeet Ulrich, Tobey Maguire, Jewel

The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was. When Elliot hears that a neighboring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the producers thinking he could drum up some much-needed business for his parents' run-down motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbor’s farm in White Lake, New York, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life–and American culture–forever.
Dir. Ang Lee · With Demetri Martin, Imelda Staunton, Henry Goodman

19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad – contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.
Dir. Ang Lee · With Joe Alwyn, Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker
Bruce Banner, a genetics researcher with a tragic past, suffers massive radiation exposure in his laboratory that causes him to transform into a raging green monster when he gets angry.
Dir. Ang Lee · With Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Sam Elliott