Hanoi comes across almost picture-perfect in director Tran Anh Hung's beautiful, elegiac tale about the lives and loves of three Vietnamese sisters. A mood characteristic of Hung's films is set early on with the vivid sounds of birds, insects and water and the way the lighting enhances the subtle use of color. They all combine to gem-like effect here.
A soldier (Hien) survives the war and comes back to live with his brother's family (Tien). He can't seem to adjust to civilian life after the war and feels increasingly alienated from other people, whom he finds calculating, selfish and materialistic.
The movie chronicles a state-owned theatre troupe's struggle to survive both artistically and financially. The actors and actresses have to support themselves with odd jobs ranging from selling food and drinks on the streets to dancing at bars to doing commercials. Then comes a great play, written and directed by Teacher Nguyen Dinh, a veteran playwright, and former troupe mentor. The play promises to bring the group everything they need: inspiring work, state funding, festival prizes, and fame. But the rising tension between lead actress Kim Ha and her womanizing co-star Van Hung due to their troubled past relationship threatens to tear the play apart.
A young man, recently returned from study abroad, accompanies his father on a ship bringing food and weapons to South Vietnam.
A thrilling and haunting account of historical events in the Trịnh clan in the late 18th century with the central conflict between lord Trịnh Sâm who was feeble and indecisive, and a cunning and manipulative concubine named Đặng Thị Huệ. Based on the novel of the same name by Nguyễn Huy Tưởng.
A father was finally reunited with his son after the American War, only to be separated again by the Sino-Vietnamese War in 1979.
A story about a Catholic Village by the sea in Northern Vietnam in the early 60's, where people lacked faith in the new Communist regime.
During the war, a woman learns that her husband is an army deserter.
The story focuses on a group of Vietnamese people struggling to work and study in Russia in the 90's. Nguyet is a talented ballet dancer whose marriage suffers from the loss of her daughter and financial difficulties. She decides to go to Russia with her friends to find jobs helping her send money to the family and continue her passion for ballet. But a horrible succession of tragedies in the foreign land turns her life into a grueling nightmare.
The story about a group of people struggling to expand agricultural land in North Vietnam.
The battle for political power in the Trịnh clan continued after the death of Lord Trịnh Sâm in this sequel of "Night of Long Tri". The rivals were two famous concubines of Trịnh Sâm: Dương Thị Ngọc Hoan and Đặng Thị Huệ.
