19 Ang Lee Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

In 19th century China, the renowned swordsman Li Mu Bai gives up his legendary Green Destiny sword and entrusts it to female warrior Yu Shu Lien to deliver it safely to Governor Yu. However, the sword gets stolen and what follows is a mystical ride with some of the best martial arts sequences of all time. 

Rodeo cowboy Jack and ranch hand Ennis meet after they are hired as sheep herders in Wyoming and gradually develop a deep bond which culminates in a passionate romantic encounter on a drunken night on Brokeback Mountain. They soon settle separately, but continue a complicated affair for nearly two decades, leading to a tragedy.

Selling their zoo in India, the Patel family sets out for Canada onboard a Japanese cargo ship, taking along some of their zoo animals. After a severe storm sinks the ship, young Pi Patel ends up on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger. Pi must find a way to not become meal to the ferocious beast.

Eat Drink Man Woman is a comedy drama film which revolves around a semi-retired chef who is a widower, living with his three grown daughters. The eldest is a chemistry teacher devoted to Christianity. The second one is working for an airline company, although she initially wanted to become a chef like her father. The youngest is a college student who also works past-time.

Based on Jane Austen’s epic novel of the same name, Sense and Sensibility narrates the story of Mrs. Dashwood and her three daughters. After the demise of Mr. Dashwood, she has to leave the house to her stepson and begin a new life with her daughters in a small cottage. All ends well when her two daughters, Elinor, who symbolizes sense, and Maranne, who represents sensibility, find true love. 

This 1997 drama film revolves around several middle class families in New Canaan, in Connecticut, who find their lives beyond control, after an ice storm strikes.  

A landlord agrees to a marriage of convenience with his female tenant, in order to satisfy his parents, although he is gay. However, things get complicated when he is visited by his parents.

Set during the 2nd Sino-Japanese war in China, the story focuses on a young Chinese student, who becomes involved with a group of radicals and is assigned to seduce a top official working for the puppet government. But unfortunately, she soon becomes emotionally involved and is torn between love and commitment.  

Based on a novel named ‘Woe to Live On’, this Western war drama film takes us to the time of the American Civil War. It revolves around a group of men, who join the First Missouri Irregulars, a guerrilla unit loyal to the Confederacy.

Elliot’s parents own a motel which is located in Catskills, New York. Since they are going through a financial crisis, Elliot decides to offer boarding and lodging in the motel to the organizers of the Woodstock music festival.

Hailed as ‘Hero’ after his courageous act during the Iraq War, 19-year-old private Billy Lynn and ‘Bravo Squad’ is temporarily brought back home and taken on a victory tour at the half-time show of Thanksgiving Day football game. The flashback sequences reveal the real incidences of war and their effects on the ‘Bravo Squad’, which emphasize how the realities contrast with perception of heroism. 

The superhero movie explores the origins of Bruce Banner and his transformation into the Incredible Hulk after exposure to gamma radiation. It also reveals the instability of Hulk, while being hunted by the US military. Hulk has to eventually go up against his biological father who has sinister motives of his own. 

Gemini Man is an action thriller science fiction film which tells the story of an ageing assassin who finds himself being targeted by someone who is able to predict his moves. He soon discovers that this person is a younger clone of himself.