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Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Vietnamese
Description
In nineteenth-century rural Vietnam, fourteen-year-old May becomes the third wife of wealthy landowner Hung. Soon, she learns that she can only gain status by asserting herself as a woman who can give birth to a male child. May's hope to change her status turns into a real and tantalizing possibility when she gets pregnant. Faced with forbidden love and its devastating consequences, May finally comes to an understanding of the brutal truth: the options...
9) Số đỏ
Publisher
Gia Định Productions
Pub. Date
2003]
Language
Vietnamese
Description
Set in the decade of 1930 Vietnam, the film describes people living after the fashion of westerners in a modern French influenced society.
Series
Publisher
distributed by Genius Products
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
Vietnamese
Description
The films follows Le Van Cuong, a French cultured undercover elite, during the period of French colonial rule of Vietnam. Cuong's inner conscience is troubled by the sea of Vietnamese blood he had spilled to uphold a French ideal.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Vietnamese
Description
On the bustling streets of Saigon, three very different people all seeking connection are about to collide. A beautiful flight attendant looking for love, a zookeeper hiding within his animal kingdom to nurse a broken heart, and the young flower-selling runaway who brings them together.
12) Clash
Publisher
Chanh Phuong Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Vietnamese
Description
Trinh is a mercenary assigned to recover a stolen hard drive containing codes to Vietnams̀ first satellite, the VINASAT.1. She creates an ensemble of specialists to regain control of the hard drive before it is sold to the Chinese Triad. Lies and betrayal unfold as Trinh uncovers the truth behind her squad. Who can she trust?
13) Furie
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Vietnamese
Description
An ex-gangster lying low in the countryside after becoming a mother can't escape her violent past when her daughter is kidnapped.
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