I've had better luck with Taiwanese film than Chinese but then again I'm general into indie stuff.

Orz Boys is about 2 little brothers kind of in their own world, I'm not the sentimental family type but I really enjoyed it.

Pier Number 9 was cheesy but enjoyable. Mixes Chinese Japanese and Taiwanese but 70% chinese.

I really like the first 3/4 of Candy Rain. It's 4 short stories about lesbian relationships and the first 3 were really great. The last was just terrible though. There was another good movie the same year with short stories about lesbians. I'm not particular to lesbians, I watched both because of a top Taiwanese films of 2008 list haha