Nhu Quynh
Also Known As: Như Quỳnh, NSND Như Quỳnh, Nguyễn Như Quỳnh
Biography: Nguyễn Như Quỳnh (born in 1954, known as Như Quỳnh) is a Vietnamese actress and People's Artist (NSND). She is also known as an amateur poet. She graduated in 1971 from the Vietnam Theatre School, today the University of Theatre and Film, Hanoi (SKDA). Two years later, she acted as one of the two female leads in her first film, Bài ca ra trận ("The Song of Battle", d. Trần Đắc, 1973). Then with her role as Nết in Đến hẹn lại lên ("We'll Be Seeing Us Again", d. Trần Vũ, 1974), Như Quỳnh won the Best Actress Award at the 3rd Vietnam Film Festival in 1975. Her roles in a series of French co-productions, Indochine (1992), Cyclo (1995) and Vertical Ray of the Sun (2000) introduced her to a foreign audience.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hanoi, Vietnam
Birthday: January 01, 1954
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Gender: Female
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The Chinese Botanist's Daughters
Overview: At the house of a famous Chinese botanist teacher his daughter and a female intern fall in love with each other - a forbidden love that must be kept secret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-04-26
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The Vertical Ray of the Sun
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: vi
Release Date: 2000-05-17
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Cyclo
Overview: 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 mysterious Madame from whom he rents his cyclo.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: vi
Release Date: 1996-03-22
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Money, Money!
Overview: Returning to Vietnam after many years of studying abroad, a doctorate in atomic force Thai Duong entered an unimaginable reality. Many funny situations took place in his family when he was pondering over choosing a job in a new environment. Thai Duong was tricked into losing money, and his father and brother Loc Ton performed a risky mission to earn money: buying liquidated bombs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: vi
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Trading Happiness
Overview: The Vietnamese Nghi has a bad feeling as she sees the foreign Chinese groom for the first time on the day of her daughter’s wedding. Nghi and Phuong decided that the 17 years old should get married to relieve the family of their debts. But then, the bride disappears after the ceremony and the mother faces the decision what she is ready to give for her family's happiness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: vi
Release Date: 2020-01-21
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Touch Happiness
Overview: The story is a miniature society with views on love and life values. Let the characters exclaim that "When it comes to love, any age is foolish." Hidden deep in the love story and family values is the ideological struggle and the lessons of the times.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: vi
Release Date: 2023-09-01
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Quiet Night
Overview: Quiet Night is an old Vietnamese film produced in 1984 by director Tran Phuong with the participation of actors People's Artist Nhu Quynh, Bui Bai Binh, and Tran Phuong
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Original Language: vi
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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A Love Will Come
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Original Language: vi
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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White Butterfly
Overview: Upon learning of her mother's passing, May returns to Vietnam after 20 years, determined to learn about her parents' separation in relation to the Mother Goddess Worship. Despite family opposition and cultural barriers, May remains committed to uncovering the truth.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: vi
Release Date: 2024-07-12
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Pao's Story
Overview: Set in a breath-taking primitive landscape in the mountainous provinces of Vietnam, the film tells the story of a Hmong tribe girl named Pao. She was raised by her stepmother, for her real mother left her when she was little. One day, her stepmother dies in an accident, and she begins to track down her birth mother. But her journey turns out to disclose an unsealed sentimental drama of the family in the past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: vi
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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The White Silk Dress
Overview: A family living in poverty faces financial difficulties while striving to educate their daughters. The mother resorts to extraordinary measures to procure the traditional silk dresses needed for her kids to attend school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: vi
Release Date: 2006-10-13
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Dumb Luck
Overview: The sexually repressed widow Doan comes to play tennis in the court where sly, lewd orphan Xuan (nicknamed Red-haired Xuan for his sunburnt hair) is working as a ball boy. Their encounter that day would change Xuan's life forever, as the widow introduced him to an entirely different world of the hypocritical and decadent petite bourgeoisie class, a condition of "Westernized" middle-class Hanoians under French colonial rule in the 1920s. An 8-part series adapted from Vu Trong Phung's classic satire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: vi
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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First Love
Overview: Student Ba Duy sinks deep into heartbreak and a nihilistic street life when his sweetheart, Diem Huong, suddenly leaves him to marry an American diplomat.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: vi
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Until We Meet Again
Overview: On a festive spring day in 1940, two young quan họ singers fall in love. But their relationship is soon ruthlessly disrupted by class injustices, imposed upon both—and many other Vietnamese—by the ongoing French colonial rule and the looming Japanese occupation.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: vi
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Between Shadow and Soul
Overview: Mây, a fourteen year-old girl is being married as the third wife to a rich landowner in the late 19th century Northern Vietnam. A black & white version of The Third Wife with no dialogue and new music.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-05
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Long Legged Girls
Overview: Thuy is a country girl. She met Hoang, who is photographer for a fashion company. Thuy entered the fashion field. Thuy's older sister protested so Thuy left home. In fierce competition, Thuy accepted a date with a famous photographer to become a vedette.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: vi
Release Date: 2004-06-15
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Blood Curse
Overview: The film tells the scary, haunting adventures of three medical university students who accidentally discover a species of wormwood that is made with human blood in an ancient wooden box containing a piece of withered tree and amulet. He placed it deep in a messy bookshelf in Professor Hoan Sinh's house. That is wormwood blood, a secret medicine of the Sang La people.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: vi
Release Date: 2012-01-12
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Adrift
Overview: Soon after her wedding, newlywed Duyen's excitement begins to fade as she realizes her young husband is not only naive but overly occupied by his job and doting mother. As her marriage goes unconsummated and her emotional isolation grows, she reaches out to her closest girlfriend, Cam, who secretly desires her, but pushes her into the arms of a dangerous and provocative suitor. The resulting infidelity puts Duyen in a precarious love triangle, challenging her notions of conventional relationships and also the stability of her new family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: vi
Release Date: 2009-11-13
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Saigon Eclipse
Overview: Saigon Eclipse is inspired by the "Story of Kieu", the classic Vietnamese epic poem written by Nguyen Du in the early 19th century. Our story revisits and updates the poem's principal themes of filial devotion, redemption and woman's submission; themes structuring Asian feudal society.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: vi
Release Date: 2007-04-26
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Rise
Overview: A rags to riches story of unusual circumstance. 'Huong Ga - Rise' is the story of Dieu. Chronicling the highs and lows of Vietnam's most notorious female gangsters| this is a woman's journey as she breaks the glass ceiling in a man's word| albeit| a much darker and dangerous existence. Shaded by the influence and lessons of the men in her life: Nhan her childhood sweetheart| her great unrequited love; Hung fifty shades of empty but a great physical attraction; Tung the man of her dreams| husband| lover and friend; and Tan - the gentle man who promises a simpler life. Each of the men in her life contribute to Dieu's great success (and failures) as she climbs to the top of Vietnam's gangster underworld.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: vi
Release Date: 2014-10-31
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Noble
Overview: Christina Noble overcomes the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny on the streets of Saigon. A true story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-19
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Pearls of the Far East
Overview: Seven stories about Vietnamese women spanning different generations, exploring their inner lives and forbidden loves.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: vi
Release Date: 2012-03-08
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The Third Wife
Overview: Though only 14 years old, May is selected to be the third wife of a wealthy landowner. Her new home seems idyllic, her husband favours her, and she quickly becomes pregnant with what she is certain will be the desired male progeny. But trouble is quietly brewing: she witnesses a forbidden tryst that will spark a chain reaction of misfortunes — and stir in May urges that until now had been dormant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: vi
Release Date: 2019-01-11
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The Holy Day
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: vi
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Wharf of Widows
Overview: Based on a well-known novel of the same title by author Duong Huong, “Wharf of Widows” reflects stories in the context of a rural Village called Dong – a typical North Vietnamese village with bamboo ramparts, communal house roofs, banyan trees and wharves. It was a time when the north hurried to build up the countryside and support the southern battlefield. The movie takes us back to the olden days of peaceful northern villages and women waiting for their men to return from the battlefield. The war robbed the village of healthy strong men leaving behind the women who waited at the water’s edge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: vi
Release Date: 2001-12-01
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Nesting Season in Hanoi
Overview: Hanoi of 1978, milkwood pine flowers in autumn, and the anxiety of idealistic youths navigating postwar life. A young couple struggle to be together as individual happiness gets in the way.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: vi
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Debt of love
Overview: Melodrama set in South Vietnam in the 1970s. Before liberation, Kha and Hien were in love but prevented from marrying by rigid class distinctions. After the war, Kha returns home with the rank of lieutenant colonel and finds Hien has lost her fortune and her status. Kha decides to protect Hien to repay his ‘debt’ of love to her.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: vi
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Time in the Jungle
Overview: Defectors from Hitler's army join the French Foreign Legion and end up in Vietnam in the late '40s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: vi
Release Date: 1988-04-14
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March to the Front
Overview: March to the Front depicts the Resistance War Against America (Vietnam War) through the lens of romance.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: vi
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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