Mạnh Cường

Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (2023)

After a Vietnamese woman dies in a car crash in Saigon, her brother-in-law and her young son transport her body back to the former's hometown in rural Vietnam, where they plan to give her a funeral. ...

Thi Mai (2018)

After losing her daughter in an accident, Carmen loses all incentive to keep going, until she receives an unexpected letter from the adoption agency: her daughter was finally granted the Vietnamese girl she had asked for adoption and whose name is Thi Mai. ...

Fortune Favors the Brave (2016)

Eleven-year-old Linh shows great grace under pressure. When her mother, who's raising her kids on her own, has to return unexpectedly to Vietnam, Linh looks after her little sister Tien and the family restaurant on her own. Of course, no one is supposed to ...

21 and a Wake-Up (2009)

"I learn that Chris McIntyre served in Vietnam and that "21 and a Wakeup," set in an Army hospital in the waning days of the war, is based on events that he experienced and heard about. ...

The Backstage Slap (2002)

A theater troupe reunites in excitement for a new production after having been out of work for a long time, with the performers and their mentor having gone their separate ways to make ends meet. But the bitter fallout from the failed romance between the l ...

The Vertical Ray of the Sun (2000)

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 ...

Beneath the Quiet Canopies (1999)

Three Seasons (1999)

The residents of Ho Chi Minh City face modernization amid widespread poverty. A retired American Marine arrives on a search for his daughter, whom he abandoned at the end of the Vietnam War. Elsewhere, a cyclo driver falls for a troubled prostitute and sch ...

Misfortune's End (1997)

A woman's husband wants a divorce, but she refuses and forges a forbidden romance with a brother-in-law. ...

Cyclo (1995)

Follows a young cyclo driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a living for his two sisters and grandfather in the mean streets of the city lead to petty crime on behalf of a m ...

The Return (1994)

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. ...

In Chase of the Windy Devil Gang (1993)

A young policeman is determined to trace down the elusive Windy Devil Gang that has been wrecking terror and fear across the city. As the chase seems to know no bounds, the possibilities of discovery dissolve into infinity. ...

Lotus Flower (1988)

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. ...

No Horizon To Be Seen (1986)

A platoon loses contact with their commanders and finds themselves stuck in the vast forests with no way out. Plagued by despair and the constant sightings of their fallen comrades, the soldiers begin to succumb to ill health and madness. ...