Trần Hạnh

Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere (2015)

When they discover that they are pregnant, a young couple in Hanoi resort to desperate (and bizarre) measures to raise money for an abortion. ...

Ballad of a Songstress in Thang Long (2010)

In a time of chaos and conflicts, a talented musician falls in love with an upper-class royal mandarin. ...

Son of Dragon (2010)

The childhood of Ly Thai To, a Vietnamese monarch. ...

Black Forest (2008)

Relationships within a family of illegal loggers gone turbulent when the son starts an affair with his father's lover. ...

A Time Far Past (2004)

Sai is forced to marry Tuyet at the age of ten and leaves his home by the river wharf to live with an old man named Kien. As the war against France accelerates, Sai enlists to fight and falls in love with another woman named Huong. While the affair is fate ...

The Beautiful Country (2004)

After reuniting with his mother in Ho Chi Minh City, a family tragedy causes Binh to flee from Viet Nam to America. Landing in New York, Binh begins a road trip to Texas, where his American father is said to live. ...

Missing Object (2004)

Thang is a Hanoi intellectual and graduates from university with high distinction causing his former teacher, Dao, to invite him to work in a mathematics institute of odd algorithms. He has problems because of his personality and refuses to give up his mat ...

The Landfill King (2002)

Trong, a self-proclaimed king of a garbage dump, falls in love with the poor flower seller Thuy. ...

Who's Visiting This New Year ? (2002)

Down South, Up North (2000)

At a dance bar, a former soldier and now company director chances upon a hostess whose appearance resembles the young girl that saved his life many years ago in the War. ...

The Sawyers (1999)

A peasant opens a lucrative dog meat shop but becomes a subject of extreme loathing from the local people. When his shop is finally burned down, the man enlists the help of his son and nephews to leave their home and work as sawyers in a logging camp. Howe ...

The Refugee's Melody (1998)

Fleeing the control of their authoritarian father, two women cross the border into China with a friend's help. ...

Wild Reeds (1993)

A soldier returns home after the war, only to finds out his family thinks he is dead, and his wife has married another man. ...

The Pot From A Past Life (1990)

An old man chances upon a ceramic teapot while working as a gravedigger. Fervently believing that the teapot is a valuable piece of antique, he risks life and death to protect it against the concern of his family. ...

The Fortune Seeker (1990)

An old man dreams of escaping poverty and securing a better future for his family in retirement through winning a lottery, though luck is never on his side. ...

Night of Long Tri (1989)

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 ...

The General Retires (1988)

A general who devoted his life to the communist cause, retires, only to find that his household is in disarray, his grown children money-grubbing, and Vietnamese society far from the rosy picture of equality he'd imagined he'd helped make it. ...

Fairytale for 17-Year-Olds (1988)

The vibrations adolescence, nostalgia injured ones in the battlefield, the dreaming and wondering aimlessly early ... has created space for a story fairy with her An. ...

Obsession (1988)

During the war, a woman learns that her husband is an army deserter. ...

The Part of Life I Want to Forget (1980)

Floating Village (1964)

The inhabitants of a small island in the delta of the turbulent Red River are doomed to poverty: floods wash away crops, livestock, and even people. From generation to generation, a legend is passed down about a kind dragon that can drink the river's water ...