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- DirectorThien DoStarsNguyen HauJayvee Mai The HiepPhuong Anh LeuA man of dubious background, Lucky Loc has worked his way into respectable society as the owner of a company producing high-end ceremonial gifts to be burned as offerings to the dead. When his luck takes a sudden nosedive, he's convinced that it has to do with a torn money note which he slipped to a salesgirl at a flower shop, knowing local businesses don't accept damaged money. Believing that the same bill is his lucky charm, he scrambles to retrieve it from her. Complications arise when she decides to hold it for ransom. Set in Vietnam, Tien Chua is a social satire about a man struggling to survive the increasingly materialistic world with his soul and sanity intact, or at least partially intact.
- DirectorSon KhanhLuc TranStarsDiep HaiHoa NguyenTrang Nhu
- DirectorLuu HuynhStarsDinh Y NhungHuy KhanhThai HoaIn this dark love triangle that proceeds with the inexorable logic of a Greek tragedy, a dedicated wife in a small Vietnamese fishing village secretly turns to another man when her husband is unable to give her the child they both crave - but the surrogate father's crazed jealousy will have fateful consequences.
- DirectorVan Khoa PhamStarsHuu Muoi NguyenHien ThanhLan Kim
- DirectorCuong NgoStarsTruong Ngoc AnhKieu ChinhKris DuangphungSeven stories about Vietnamese women spanning different generations, exploring their inner lives and forbidden loves.
- DirectorJun MutôStarsNoriyuki HigashiyamaHuynh DongEmi TakeiA story about the special friendship between Pan Boi Chau and Japanese doctor Asaba Sakitaro, which began 100 years ago when Chau went to Japan to seek support for Vietnam's national independence movement.
- DirectorBá Son DàoStarsKim Anh NhatQuach Ngoc NgoanLuc TranWar tears apart the life of a beautiful musically gifted girl and a fateful encounter brings tragedy. The biggest historical Vietnamese film on tragic love ever made.
- DirectorJean-Jacques AnnaudStarsJane MarchTony Ka Fai LeungJeanne MoreauIn 1929 French Indochina, a French teenage girl embarks on a reckless and forbidden romance with a wealthy, older Chinese man, each knowing that knowledge of their affair will bring drastic consequences to each other.
- DirectorAnh Hung TranStarsLe Van LocTony Leung Chiu-waiNu Yên-Khê TranWhen a poor bicycle-taxi driver has his cyclo stolen, he is forced into a life of crime. Meanwhile, his sister becomes a sex worker.
- DirectorAnh Hung TranStarsNu Yên-Khê TranQuynh NhuKhanh LeWith the brilliant Vietnamese summer as a setting Vertical Ray of the Sun is beautiful from beginning to end. The plot centres around three sisters, two of whom are happily married (or so it appears). The youngest sister is single and living with her cute older brother, whom she is desperately in love with. A second sister is married to a man who has another woman and child elsewhere whom he loves just as much as his wife -with a few conditions, she agrees to carry on with the marriage. The third sister and her husband are overjoyed to discover she is pregnant, and though he is tempted, her husband remains loyal to her. Charming, slow-paced, face value, family saga film.
- DirectorTony BuiStarsNgoc Hiep NguyenNgoc MinhPhat Trieu HoangAlthough the hearts and goals and desires are different for everyone in a culturally-shifting Ho Chi Minh City, the stories of four separate individuals paint a vivid picture of the past, present, and future of a city eking into a new era.
- DirectorCharlie NguyenStarsJohnny Tri NguyenVeronica NgoDustin NguyenFrance employs local secret agents in Vietnam 1922 to eliminate resistance. The rebel leader's pretty daughter gets captured. Later an agent seems to have fallen in love with her and helps her escape. He flees, too. Lots of martial arts.
- DirectorStephane GaugerStarsCat LyThe Lu LeHan Thi PhamIn modern-day Saigon, three lonely strangers form a unique family as a ten-year old orphan plays matchmaker to a zookeeper and a beautiful flight attendant.
- DirectorThanh Son LeStarsJohnny Tri NguyenVeronica NgoHoang Phuc NguyenTwo mercenaries have the same goal but different motives. When Trinh's daughter is kidnapped, she's forced to recover a stolen hard drive with codes to Vietnam's first satellite in order to save her.
- DirectorTae-kyeong KimStarsJo AnSo-hee HongHong-Anh"Muoi" charts the path of a Korean writer who travels to Vietnam in search of stories for her second novel. There she learns about a mystery centered around a century-old vengeful spirit.
- DirectorNgoc Dang VuStarsManh Hai LuongVinh Khoa HoLinh Son NguyenKhoi, a naive twenty-year-old, travels to Ho Chi Minh City from the countryside to begin a new life. It's his first time in the big city and he's looking for a place to live. He befriends Dong, a handsome extrovert who offers to share his apartment. When Khoi goes to check the place out, he meets Lam, who also appears to be living there. Khoi decides to stay, but while he showers, Dong and Lam - who turn out to be boyfriends - run off with all his cash and belongings. It's not long before Lam is himself abandoned by Dong, and winds up back on the street as a prostitute. Meanwhile the penniless and disillusioned Khoi takes on menial jobs to survive. Lam and Khoi are eventually reunited, and despite Lam's past actions, the two become closer and closer - even though Khoi becomes more and more troubled by Lam's dangerous source of income. At the same time, Cuoi, a mentally handicapped man abandoned by his family, attempts to befriend a female prostitute. Her pimps do not take kindly to his hanging around and scaring away customers, but she takes pity on him and ultimately becomes his protector.
- DirectorVictor VuStarsHuynh DongMiduKhuong NgocNguyen Vu is the sole survivor of his family who was executed by the empress of Vietnam. Upon discovering that his family may have been framed for crimes they did not commit, he sets out to bring justice and clear his family name.
- DirectorMinh Nguyen-VoStarsThe Lu LeThi Kieu Trinh NguyenHuu Thanh NguyenSet along the southern coast of Vietnam during the French occupation in the 1940s, water is everywhere, giving life and bringing decay and rot. Kim is 15; his father and step-mother have two buffalo, their lifeline as subsistence rice farmers. During the rainy season, there's no grass and the buffalo are starving. Kim volunteers to take the beasts inland to find food. On this coming-of-age journey, Kim sees men mistreat women, men fight with men, and French taxes rob the poor. He works for Lap, a buffalo herder whose past is entangled with Kim's parents, and he makes friends who will lead him to his place in the world.
- DirectorLuu HuynhStarsThien Tu TranTruong Ngoc AnhKhanh Quoc NguyenWartime epic involving a poverty-stricken family who struggle to make ends meet, and the mother who does the unthinkable to provide her daughters with the traditional silk dresses required to attend school.
- DirectorCharlie NguyenStarsDustin NguyenKathy UyenThai HoaEarnest bathroom clerk Dung falls in love with lounge singer Mai, but she's being pursued by a tycoon who offers her a job in exchange for dating him
- DirectorDang Di PhanStarsThanh Minh PhanThi Kieu Trinh NguyenHa Phong NguyenIn an old house in Hanoi, Bi, a 6-year-old child lives with his parents, his aunt and their cook. His favorite playgrounds are an ice factory and the wild grass along the river. After being absent for years, his grandfather, seriously ill, reappears and settles at their house. While Bi gets closer to his grandfather, his father tries to avoid any contact with his family. Every night, he gets drunk and goes and see his masseuse, for whom he feels a quiet strong desire. Bi's mother turns a blind eye on it. The aunt, still single, meets a 16-year-old young boy in the bus. Her attraction to him moves her deeply.
- DirectorCharlie NguyenStarsLong DienHa HienBich Phuong HuynhIn the heart of Saigon, there's a place where promises are still written in blood.
- DirectorVictor VuStarsCatherine AiTang Hue ChiTuan Cuong1) "The Visitor": The drifter writer Tran Thanh Loc arrives in an old house and is lodged by the gorgeous Hoa. Along the days, he falls in love for her and discloses the truth about the hostess. 2) "Only Child": Loc is sick, totally disconnected of the world, but his nurse Linh heals him. He writes the best-seller The Visitor about his relationship with Hoa and becomes a successful writer. He proposes and marries Linh, but when he decides to have a baby, Linh is haunted by her hidden obscure past. 3) "The Diviner": Linh's parents send the fraudulent diviner Lan to use her pretentious knowledge of Feng Shui to help Loc, and she sees ghost in the house. Her son and aspirant writer Bao does not believe on his mother until he finds a surprising secret about Loc.
- DirectorVictor VuStarsBinh MinhHuy KhanhKathy UyenTwo best friends, Khang and Hieu, are sent from Ho Chi Minh City to study abroad in the United States. Once in America, their lives and their loves take a surprising twist.
- DirectorPhan Quang Binh NguyenStarsTang Thanh HaDo Thi Hai YenNinh Duong Lan NgocThe film portrays the life of a family separated from the mainstream of modern society, yet containing within its microcosm the complex layers and dramas of human relationship: conjugal life, sexual trauma, and the failures and bonds of fatherhood, brother and sisterhood. The film is about a unique social stratum in a remote place in Vietnam with unspoken traditions, customs and lifestyles. But most of all, it is the universal story of a family that like all other families have to find the strength and direction in each other to navigate their way through the choices and consequences that make up human existence. Based on Nguyen Thi Ngoc Tu's best selling short story "Boundless Rice Field", winner of the best short story prize from the Vietnam Writer's Association in 2007 and the ASEAN Literature Award recently, Floating Lives will draw audiences into the colourful daily life of unsophisticated peasants scratching out a living in the beautiful but forgiving landscape of the immense, mysterious and prescient Mekong Delta, characters whose strength, flaws and beauty, as they search for the sustenance of life and love, tear at one's heart.
- DirectorVictor VuStarsHoang BachThai HoaNha PhuongLinh, the recipient of a heart transplant, begins having nightmares and visions leading to a house in the remote countryside. She begins to believe that the previous owner of the heart, a former resident of the house, wants her to uncover the secrets of her death.
- DirectorDang Nhat MinhStarsVân LêLuu Viet Bao DangYen HoangDuyen faces a daily struggle to care for her young son and her weakened father-in-law, while keeping secret the fact that her husband died in a battle during the war.
- DirectorDoan HoangStarsNam HoangVan TranAnne HoangAccompanied by gripping images from the war, 'Oh, Saigon' is an in-depth, compelling documentary about one refugee family's attempts to face its divided past and heal the physical and emotional wounds of the Vietnam War.
- DirectorCharlie NguyenStarsVan Hai BuiHieu HienJayvee Mai The HiepTeo, a country bumpkin from a village in Vietnam, goes to Saigon to make a bigger life for himself. He discovers that he bears an uncanny resemblance to the famous Saigon gangster Long Ruoi and begins to hustle the city by putting on an impersonation. But when Long Ruoi's henchmen catch him in the act, he becomes entwined in their nefarious schemes and must choose between playing along and following his heart.
- DirectorQuang Hai NgoStarsDo Thi Hai YenTa AmNguyen Thai AnSet in a breath-taking primitive landscape in the mountainous provinces of Vietnam, the film tells the story of a Hmong tribe girl named Pao. She was raised by her stepmother, for her real mother left her when she was little. One day, her stepmother dies in an accident, and she begins to track down her birth mother. But her journey turns out to disclose an unsealed sentimental drama of the family in the past.
- DirectorDang Nhat MinhStarsBài Bình BùiLan Huong NguyenThu Thuy PhamA middle-aged man whose emotional and mental development ended at adolescence becomes obsessed with a guava tree in the yard of his former childhood home. When he is arrested trying sneak into the yard, he forms a unique relationship with the daughter of the home's current resident.
- DirectorStephane GaugerStarsQuynh HoaKhuong NgocPhan Tan ThiMai, a ribbon dancer from the countryside arrives in Saigon and befriends Kim, a street dancer. A promise of a better life leads their dance crew to the big competition, but a romance with a rich kid threatens to derail Kim's plans.
- DirectorDustin NguyenStarsDustin NguyenVeronica NgoRoger YuanAssigned to protect a small town in Vietnam, Dao arrives to fight against the crime boss; but soon his past catches up with him, threatening to destroy the cherished village.
- DirectorLe-Van KietStarsVeronica NgoSon Bao TranVan Hai BuiUntil they lose their baby to a miscarriage, a young couple were happily settling into their new life in their spacious home. After the tragedy, Thao is inconsolable and won't let her baby's body leave the house. Normal life eludes her as terrifying visions undermine her sanity. Her husband, Thanh, experiences strange phenomena around their home and when his wife turns on him, he must race to uncover the secrets of the house in the alley before they lose their sanity and their lives.
- DirectorHong Sen NguyenStarsToi LamThuy An NguyenDe XuanThe story of a young man and his wife who struggle to survive against a hostile force intent upon driving them out of their home in the swamps of the Mekong Delta.
- DirectorCharlie NguyenStarsThai HoaJohnny Tri NguyenNinh Duong Lan NgocWhen Ty decides to abandon his work to go after his girlfriend Minh before she gets married in her hometown, a chance encounter with Teo, his long-lost adoptive brother, foils the original plan. Desperate to get to Minh, Ti drives mad as he shares the road trip with Teo.
- DirectorMarlo PorasWhen a spunky, mini-skirted daughter of Ho Chi Minh's revolution leaves cosmopolitan Hanoi for a high school exchange program in rural Mississippi, her ideas about freedom, America, Vietnam and herself are thrown into question.
- DirectorDang Nhat MinhStarsTat Binh DangYen HoangVân LêThe dynamics of a Vietnamese rural village change when an urban woman returns to the village she originally belonged to and begins a love triangle.
- DirectorBui Thac ChuyênStarsMy Uyen Dang TranNgoc Phuong MaiHanh Thuy Ngo PhamTai, a soldier in South Vietnam, had 2 wives living in 2 different places. When the war ended in 1975, he brought his second wife and her child to a new land which was littered with land mines and bombs leftover from the war. As a loser, he had no choice. He built a small house for himself. He worked extremely hard to earn money. One day, while having a drink with a Cong San named Nam Duc, he found out another way to earn his living. Nam Duc was a good mine clearer and he collected barbwire in the minefields in exchange for alcohol. Tai was taught how to earn money in that way by Nam Duc. Tai went to the minefield at the risk of his life and cleared land-mines. He collected scraps from the minefield. He had money to bring up his 2 wives and children. However, he understood that scraps would run out one day. He discovered a new way to be paid...He cleared land-mines daily for cultivation land. He dug for land-mines and took them out of land. And he had a simple conclusion: land-mines were only dangerous when they were stepped over. If being taken out, they were like stones
- DirectorNguyen Thanh VanStarsDuong DonHong-AnhHoa MaiFor twenty years, Canh has lived in North Vietnam, unable to return to his home in the south where his wife is waiting for him. She is happy to reunite with her husband until she learns that he has married a young woman in the north and has a child by her. The love triangle becomes more complicated.
- DirectorJoris IvensMarceline Loridan IvensDuring some months, the Dutch movie director Ivens and some North Vietnamese colleagues filmed the life of North Vietnamese peasants under the menace of heavy American bombardments. The result is an indictment of all forms of war.
- DirectorHam TranStarsKathy UyenJayvee Mai The HiepPhuong MaiA neurotic junior fashion designer from New York discovers her fiancé, KIET, working overseas in Vietnam may be having an affair with a supermodel. With jealousy burning and her wedding date on the horizon, she conjures up a scheme to achieve the ultimate makeover, investigate the supermodels and infiltrate the high-fashion world of Saigon in order to catch him in the act. But her plan backfires when she really befriends the three supermodels and discovers that there is more to life than living through a series of checklists.
- DirectorDang Nhat MinhStarsMinh HuongTina DuongMichael JarmusIn the spring of 2005, an old mother living in Hanoi receives a diary. The diary carries the notes of a young woman doctor who worked at a national liberation front hospital for two years starting in 1968 until her death. The diary was first discovered by a US military officer, who kept it for 35 years. The diary was then published in Vietnam and caused a sensation. The long moving journey linking Vietnam with the US is depicted through a true story adapted by Dan Nyat Minh, one of Vietnam's top film directors.
- DirectorLinh VietStarsDuong DonLe Dung NhiTrang MinhA rich man's fiance dies in a car accident.
- DirectorHuu-Tuan NguyenStarsQuoc Trung DoHuynh Anh LêThien Tu TranThree friends must save their friendship before a basketball match between their team and a strong opponent begins.