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- With the brilliant Vietnamese summer as a setting Vertical Ray of the Sun is beautiful from beginning to end. The plot centres around three sisters, two of whom are happily married (or so it appears). The youngest sister is single and living with her cute older brother, whom she is desperately in love with. A second sister is married to a man who has another woman and child elsewhere whom he loves just as much as his wife -with a few conditions, she agrees to carry on with the marriage. The third sister and her husband are overjoyed to discover she is pregnant, and though he is tempted, her husband remains loyal to her. Charming, slow-paced, face value, family saga film.
- Duyen faces a daily struggle to care for her young son and her weakened father-in-law, while keeping secret the fact that her husband died in a battle during the war.
- Four North Vietnamese soldiers fighting in an 81-day battle in 1972.
- A young newlywed couple in Hanoi begin to experiment with their sexual desires.
- Wartime epic involving a poverty-stricken family who struggle to make ends meet, and the mother who does the unthinkable to provide her daughters with the traditional silk dresses required to attend school.
- A young Vietnamse girl must find her lost family after her city was destroyed by US's bombing campaign in 1972.
- Following the Geneva Agreement in 1954, the Ben Hai River, at the 17th parallel, became the military demarcation line that separated Vietnam into two states. The lives of people on both sides of the river were severely affected, with many being separated from their families. The young Chi Diu, who lives south of the river, is separated from her husband, who worked in the north.
- The story of liberation of Saigon by People's Army of Vietnam and National Liberation Front of South Vietnam on 30 April 1975.
- Set in the 60s during the war, Vietnamese soldiers have to overcome numerous hardships and dangers to build an oil pipeline all the way from the north to supply the fighters in the South.
- A group of young people who travel to Dien Bien.
- According to the marriage arrangement of parent, Yen had to get married when she was only 10 years old. Since then, her life closed to the ups and downs of her husband's family.
- A woman reporter named Lien interviews a former wartime prostitute from South Vietnam named Nguyet, now a patient in a hospital, about her brief sheltering of an injured Vietcong leader during the war.
- When Uncle Ho stayed at Viet Bac war zone, he predicted victory in 1954. Reality reflected the accuracy of his genius analysis. On Oct, 10th, 1954, soldiers liberated the capital after the Dien Bien Phu victory.
- The story of a group of Soviet sailors aboard the freighter Chelyabinsk who aid their Vietnamese comrades after their ship is sunk during the Vietnam War.
- Trong (Vo Hoai Nam) is a domineering pseudo gang leader and rubbish dealer who pockets any meager profits made by the other rubbish collectors in his end of town. But his life takes a dramatic turn for the better when he meets Thuy, a flower vendor who is also engaging in prostitution just to make enough money to buy medicine for her sick mother. Transformed by his love for her, Trong also re-configures the garbage dump, making it more bearable for its inhabitants. But when a young artist begins to make frequent visits to see Thuy, Trong almost kills him in a fit of jealous rage. Thuy, not one to take this false show dirty machismo, walks out on him. Trong once again attempts to change his physical space by turning the garbage dump into a venue for experimental art exhibits put together by the garbage collectors themselves.
- Based on the book by Ngo Tat To, Chi Dau tells the story of a Vietnamese woman who struggles to keep her family safe and stable under the cruel domination of the French Indochina.
- An illiterate scheming peasant swindles whoever he can in order to provide for his family.
- Thu's mother makes a meager living running a Hanoi fruit stand and is deep in debt. Focused on her lousy boyfriend, she neglects Thu, who takes responsibility for the family.
- Trieu is an orphan who lives with her mother-in-law and her brother-in-law Thien. They work the family land, and also weave towels. Trieu's husband Dai returns to the village, after a four year absence, to ask Trieu for a divorce, because he has started a business in Hanoi with his girlfriend. Trieu refuses, but Dai leaves her ten pieces of gold and the divorce papers to sign. After a row with Toan, the local towel buyer, Trieu manages to sell the cloth to the distributors herself, and uses the gold to set up a weavers co-op. Trieu and Thien grow closer together, but village custom would disapprove of any relationship between the siblings-in-law, even if Trieu were divorced.
- A Vietnamese General retires and has difficulty adjusting to civilian life with his extended family. His wife is senile and thinks that the war is still on. His conniving bossy daughter-in-law, Thuy, runs the house, entertains her poet lover, and makes extra money breeding dogs feed on ground-up placentas she steals from the clinic where she works. His thieving lower class half-brother tries to raise money for his pregnant daughter's wedding. The servants, saved from the streets, are sent back to their village against their will, because the General thought that the revolution he fought for was supposed to herald a classless society.
- A story about three lonely teachers and their love.
- At the close of the Sino-Vietnamese border war, a journalist travels to Lang Son in northern Vietnam, the hometown of his former girlfriend, to report on the situation there.
- Feature film on romance and social life of the minority ethnic in the Northwest of Vietnam. Mi and A Phu, a Meo couple, freed themselves with the aid of communist leadership and joined the rising against the French in August 1945.
- Rebellious teenagers Hue and Ly, prompted by Hue's boyfriend, attempt to escape Hanoi and their fathers' control to China where they then discover their own homesickness.
- A government minister from Hanoi has a car accident on the way to a wedding in a remote village. The county hospital does not have the authority to operate on a minister. The county commissioner would like the operation done in the county for the prestige it would bring, but will not authorize it without the approval of the whole county committee. The hospital director has filled his quota, so does not want to take the risk of an operation. Since a telephone call to Hanoi has to be booked two days in advance, the minister's wife cannot be contacted, nor can a helicopter be arranged to move the minister to Hanoi.
- A young North Vietnamese soldier wants to fight in battle but soon learns that there are other honorable ways to serve his country.
- Based on Vietnamese folktale. Thang Bom, the idiot, tries to become a peerage after getting married to a landlord's daughter.
- An opera company touring rural Vietnam is beset with personal, political and sociological infighting. The company's two lead actresses' friendship is threatened with romantic entanglements involving past and present boyfriends. issues like pregnancy, abortion, gambling, adultery, poverty , women's rights and spousal abuse as well as the relevancy of old, less popular operas and the role of the entertainer during times of economic upheaval are considered. The film uses a parallel stage/realty, "drama-within-a-drama" construct.