Discoveries from Vietnam World Cinema

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.

A notorious assassin loses his memory and his fortune at the local bathhouse, setting into motion a wacky new life chock-full of surprises.

A reporter interviews a former prostitute from South Vietnam about her sheltering of an injured Vietcong leader during the war.

A realistic depiction of the bloody land reform campaign in North Vietnam under Communist-dominated Vietminh.

After her father's passing, a daughter returns to Vietnam to be with her mom. Their pilgrimage to Heaven Gate reflects their struggle to connect since his loss. The mother seeks reunion with her late husband, ascending mountains for solace. The daughter, grappling with vulnerability, joins, exploring her own abyss. Together, they search for healing and understanding amidst the sublime of nature.

A heartwarming family film filled with laughter for the Year of the Dragon. “Gặp Lại Chị Bầu” centers around Phuc, a young man passionate about acting who faces countless hardships. By chance, he ends up in Mrs. Le's boarding house and, together with his friends there, experiences the most memorable days of his youth.

When a burglary takes an awkward turn, a young thief encounters an old man seeking a fatal reunion with his wife. Following the perspective of the thief, we witness his journey of emotions: from getting caught up in an absurd situation to growing a kin-like bond to the old man before fulfilling his final wish. Through this implausible journey, love unfolds with genuine simplicity and a bittersweet ending.

Nhung, who is used to extravagant spending, is suddenly forced to complete a special three-month course by her belated grandmother’s will, in order to inherit her huge estate.

After a long delay, the Doll returned to the box office race under the new name Linh Duyen: The Secret From Doll. The work of the couple director Vo Ngoc - Hanh Nhan impressed when bringing a story full of ghostly and scary about the subject of cursed figures and the principles surrounding the law of cause and effect.

This story is divided in three chapters. 1) "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.

Chị Ngã Em Nâng is a touching story about two siblings, Thương and Lực, who grew up in a family devoted to the traditional craft of incense making. Tragedy struck early, leaving Thương as the sole support for her younger brother — taking on the roles of both sister and parent. Growing up with hardships, Thương relied on her resilience and the deep-rooted teachings of their parents to persevere and change their lives. She eventually found success and hoped her brother would follow the same path. However, her well-meaning imposition unintentionally created cracks in their bond, pushing the siblings into painful conflicts — even to the point of facing life and death.

Live concert for the 11th anniversary of the Vietnamese hip-hop empire SpaceSpeakers.

Inspired by Chuyện Người Con Gái Nam Xương and Đèn Âm Hồn, the story is set in a rural village in Northern Vietnam during the feudal era. Thương, a mother raising her son Lĩnh alone while awaiting her husband's return from war, faces eerie events after Lĩnh accidentally discovers a mysterious lantern. The boy begins calling the shadow cast on the wall his father. According to the village shaman, the lantern is a đèn âm hồn, capable of summoning vengeful spirits. Strange and haunting occurrences unfold, leaving Thương and the villagers to question: is the shadow truly Lĩnh's father or something far more sinister?

A trans Vietnamese woman's deadname being repeated over and over again.

A butler of a wealthy family in Saigon is tasked with bringing food and clothes to the eldest daughter who contracted leprosy and is locked in a room for years, but he soon suspects there is more to the story.

The dynamics of a Vietnamese rural village change when an urban woman returns to the village she originally belonged to and begins a love triangle.

Hoài and Vận fall in love during the war against the French. Vận fought as a guerrilla and Vận ferried guerrillas across the river. When peace comes, Vietnam is divided in two across the Bến Hải River, leaving them separated.

The story is part travelogue, part romance, and part coming of age adventure set in the vibrant industrializing backdrop of Saigon, Vietnam.

Anh Duong is a dynamic, modern and successful beauty blogger with thousands of followers. For a long time, she has planned for a perfect wedding that can bring happiness to her mother and fans. On the other hand, Nhat Minh is an unemployed, has-been pro gamer who lives off his younger brother's family. His sister-in-law always looks down on him and considers him an useless loser. Now, the only thing he does is playing online games. One day, Anh Duong and Nhat Minh' fates cross path: Anh Duong is diagnosed with brain cancer and Nhat Minh is diagnosed with spinal cancer. Abandoned by her fiancé after the news, Anh Duong desperately comes up with a plan and asks Nhat Minh, her former classmate in college, to be the fake groom for her dream wedding. In return, Nhat Minh will receive a hefty sum of money to support his brother's dream. With only three months left to live, two polar-opposite persons must come together to fight for their last wishes.

In 1959, Luan is appointed Commander of the Great Flood Operations and of Binh Duong's Security Corps, with full authority to stabilize this province. The Liaison Department of the Republic of Vietnam, under the support of the United States, send commandos to North Vietnam for reconnaissance. If the commandos successfully infiltrate, they will respond to South Vietnam with a tango. Tango No. 1 and Tango No. 2 have failed. What will become of the third tango?

Since its first premiere in 1971, a classic Republic of Vietnam (1954-1975) war romance feature based on a fiction novel by military writer, Van-Quang. The film was lost for more than 4 decades when the communist forces took Saigon, Republic of Vietnam's capital, on April 30th, 1975. Digitized and restored from surviving 35mm prints archived by Japan film studio Imagica Lab; now transferred to UCLA Film and TV Archive. This film provides an almost unknown perspective on the Vietnam War, the Republic of Vietnam, and the RVN Army. The stage is the Republic of Vietnam, and the scenes portray a time during the Vietnam War as experienced by the Southern Vietnamese people, themselves. Phi, a soldier, longing to take Lien off to their private, imaginary space (the Purple Horizon), understands what his duty and commitment as a soldier is. Lien is a singer whose style is reminiscent of the "Torch" singers of the early 1930s. She desperately longs to escape the world with Phi to their purple.

When a ghost-fearing magician falls for his staffer, who happens to be haunted by her dead best friend, he must face his fears while convincing her he'd make an excellent boyfriend.

A family caught in the middle of a jewelry store robbery is chased all over Saigon. They bond and become closer through their hilarious caper.

After the Tet Offensive of 1968, the Command of Group 559 assigned Transport Stations 9 and 12 to urgently recruit young female volunteers for training as truck drivers to supply the battlefield. The story follows four women—Chau, Han, Sa, and Thuong—who drive from Ben Thuy to the Western Truong Son. During their missions, the sacrifices of Han, Thuong, Sa, and Chau’s brother leave her with deep sorrow. Yet, with determination and strength, Chau continues to the battlefield to fulfill her duty.

Two pilots and their beloveds, all of whom are close friends, try to navigate their lives separate from one another as the men transition to combat.

Nhan Duyen: The lover of a previous life revolves around a love lasting many lives between a love-love boy Tran Nhat and Quynh Mai, a beautiful, gentle girl. Just because he did not want to forget his unfinished love with Mai from his previous life, Tran Nhat was determined to oppose the law of reincarnation, volunteering to be by Mai's side like an invisible shadow to protect her from the waves of life. After all, will this previous life relationship overcome all the obstacles to be together?

After his family was brutally murdered by French settlers on his wedding day, an Algerian man joins the French army and is sent to Vietnam to fight in the First Indochina War.

This is the first Vietnamese horror film set in the factory, the 13th studio introduces a new space that has never been seen on the screen. Through the words of the people around the workshop: "Hieu - he defended the dead in the workshop 13 has a strange hobby that makes everyone around the fear. Not touching or talking to people, he just likes to play with the cold hardened mannequins. Every day, dearly sing and confide in them. Dead for a year but at twilight people still hear Hien's voice pensive a song of singer Thuy Nhi as crying grievances. The mannequins who were friends with him in the past also often move for unknown reasons. They believe that Mr. Hieu's ghost is not still in the factory 13. Determined to have a clip to view millions, a group of young people broke into the factory to find the truth.

When a post-war fishing firm fails to meet its expected demand, the chief accountant begins falsifying records and cutting down on wages paid to the already struggling fishers.

The story tells of Đình Phong and his friends: Ngo Kien Ha, Pham Quynh Bang, Sky - a funny Korean girl, and manager Lam - a greedy guy. The screenplay is based on the book Bắt đầu từ một kết thúc, an autobiography about the life of the ill-fated singer Wanbi Tuấn Anh.

Tai, 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 mines and bombs leftover from the war. Tai earned his living by removing the mines from the land and collecting the scrap metal.

The plot of the film revolves around revolutionary soldiers who come from different classes, but all share the same patriotism. They had to overcome many life-and-death challenges and enormous adversities in order to mobilise the masses to prepare for an uprising and seize power from the Japanese fascists, in a situation where the country fell into the tragedy of famine.

In the years following the American war a young woman from Hanoi teaches in a rural school in the south. There she meets a troubled young man, and they have a brief romance that she recalls wistfully years later in her unhappy marriage.

The movie Tra directed by Le Hoang belongs to the psychological-emotional genre, exploiting a marital issue that is still extremely "painful" at the present time: Adultery. The film stars a cast of talented actors: Viet Huong, Meritorious Artist Truong Minh Quoc Thai and rookie Doan Trinh.

Until 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.

On an isolated dairy farm, Chau - a young worker struggling with a strange addiction to a pack of cigarettes called "Flavor of Love", finds stimulation in his vivid imagination when delivering milk to a mysterious female customer in a colorless forest.

Tue Lam (Midu) is a young artist manager with a burning passion for her music group - The Air. However, a major incident occurred causing all plans for the group to be delayed. What will Tue Lam do to launch her group? With the story of the people behind the artist's aura, when Ta Hai Lam will have any more surprises besides the confusing combination of Midu and Le Duong Bao Lam?

A woman running from her past meets a poor farmer who offers to marry her and raise her newborn as his own. After marrying they struggle to make a happy life together as their family grows and the war rages around them.

Ha, who is 40 and pregnant, decides to confront her husband’s secret lover but the showdown leads to a sticky situation that leaves her with a bittersweet realisation.

In the heart of Saigon, Thai and Linh are getting married. But the wedding is suddenly cut short when four other brides show up – threatening to take the groom's life. It turns out that Thai is the biggest player in the city, and has been dating all five women at the same time up until the day of his wedding. Trang is an overly jealous flight attendant, Mai Chau is a doctor who loves to party, Quyen is a sexually aggressive chef while Huynh Phuong is one fiery actress.

A face reading tells Lan Anh that she has a face that will bring about the death of her lovers. Further confirmed after the tragic death of her boyfriend, Lan Anh grows reclusive and rejects any romantic advances towards her.

An inspector interrogates three men connected to a famous singer after her sudden mysterious death and finds out the secrets behind her seemingly glamourous life.

Toward the end of 1946, residents from all walks of Hanoi struggle to avoid—and eventually accept—the possibility of a full-blown war.

After the war a young woman from Saigon goes to the countryside at the call of the government to teach love of country to the local people. There she finds that she doesn't really believe in what she teaches, that she's not really interested in the butterflies and birds of the poems she recites and is terribly bored in the countryside.

In modern day Vietnam, a young man finds freedom through the music of a girl whom he is forbidden to fall in love with.

Devastated by the loss of both parents to cancer, a medical student drops out of school and meets a firebrand photographer with a lust for life.

As French colonial rule reaches a violent end in Vietnam, a 12 year old boy makes a treacherous journey in search of his estranged father.

One month before the Fall of Saigon, a city in Central Highland plunges into chaos, as its disillusioned citizens prepare to witness what was once a glorious and beautiful time collapse before their own eyes.

In early-80s' Hanoi, a director of a state-owned factory welcomes his wife, a journalist, into a changed home after she spent some time away. As she struggles to make sense of their new wealth, he struggles to avoid embezzlement charges by a poor inspector—who turns out to be an old friend of hers.

Thai is a die-hard fan of the famous singer Gia Nghi (Johnny Tri Nguyen). He is so obsessed with Gia Nghi that he neglects his personal life. When the singer encounters trouble, Thai agrees to travel back in time to help his idol. However, the more Thai tries to help, the more he messes things up!