Vietnamese movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant vietnamese movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, touching, sincere, captivating and psychological films and TV shows about / with family relations, society, love and romance, vietnam war, coming of age, sex scene, fight, youth, love and life is a bitch plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Action genres shot in Vietnam, France, USA and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as vietnamese: The Third Wife (2018), The Scent of Green Papaya (1993), The Buffalo Boy (2004), Battle Rats (1989), The Vertical Ray of the Sun (2000), Cyclo (1995), Three Seasons (1999), Floating Lives (2010), Nostalgia for the Countryside (1995), Pao's Story (2006).

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The Third Wife (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: suspense, psychological, rough, thought provoking, touching ...
Plot: arranged marriage, teenage girl, childhood, sex with stepmother, family relations, teenager, fiancee, countryside, girl, lesbian, wedding planning, youth ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: vietnam
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The Scent of Green Papaya (1993)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Vietnam
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A little girl, Mui, went to a house as a new servant. The mother still mourns the death of her daughter, who would have been Mui's age. In her mind she treated Mui as her daughter. 10 years later Mui (now a young woman) was sent to another ...
Style: erotic, aesthetic, inspirational, retro, independent film ...
Plot: buddhism, cooking, friendship, music, food, coming of age, youth, animal abuse, vietnam war, destiny, master and servant, death ...
Time: year 1993, 60s, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: vietnam, saigon, asia
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The Buffalo Boy (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, Belgium, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Set along the southern coast of Vietnam during the French occupation in the 1940s, water is everywhere, giving life and bringing decay and rot. Kim is 15; his father and step-mother have two buffalo, their lifeline as subsistence rice farmers. ...
Style: touching, contemplative, serious, realistic
Plot: boy, father son relationship, corpse, poverty, family relations, society, introspection, youth, self discovery, forces of nature, parents and children, occupation ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: vietnam, indochina, asia
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 5.3
 112
Battle Rats (1989)
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Philippines
Duration: 96 min.
Story: During the Vietnam war, the American army forms a special unit called "tunnel rats" to go down into the elaborate system of underground tunnels constructed by the Vietcong, kill anyone they find in it and destroy the system.
Plot: vietnam war, cobra, female soldier, vietcong, interracial relations, nudity, shootout, death, massacre, violence, psychopath, racist ...
Place: vietnam
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The Vertical Ray of the Sun (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, France, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story: 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, ...
Style: melancholic, sincere, psychological, serious, touching ...
Plot: infidelity, couples, marriage, crumbling marriage, adultery, pregnancy, family relations, family life, love and romance, siblings relations, human nature, unfulfillment ...
Time: 90s
Place: vietnam, east asia
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 7.2
 5K
Cyclo (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Vietnam, France, Hong Kong
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Follows a young cyclo (bicycle cab) 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 ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, stylized, neo noir, controversial ...
Plot: poverty, vietnam war, gangster, coming of age, gang, youth, minimal dialogue, drug, corruption, mafia, prostitution, poetry ...
Time: year 1995, 90s
Place: saigon, vietnam, asia
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Three Seasons (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Three Seasons wants to show individuals triumphing over adversities, recovering from traumas, looking forward to better times, as well as nostalgia for those better days before American and French and other invasions, material and ideological. It is ...
Style: scenic, independent film, sentimental, touching, lyrical ...
Plot: vietnam war, prostitute, love, poetry, culture clash, leprosy, scenery, daughter, poet, anti capitalism, urban, writer's life ...
Time: year 1999, 20th century, 70s
Place: asia, saigon, vietnam
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 7.1
 392
Floating Lives (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Set in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, the film tells a story of Mr. Vo and his children. Vo, enraged by his wife’s infidelity, burns down his house and all his memories of the past.
Plot: backpacking, health, asian, inspiration, voice over narration, father daughter relationship, rape, sex, flashback, family relations, duck, boat ...
Place: vietnam
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Nostalgia for the Countryside (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Vietnam, Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Set in a small village in North Vietnam, a tale of awakening which traces a growing love triangle between Nham, an earnest and responsible 17-year-old country boy; the charming Ngu, his lonely and naive sister-in-law with whom he works closely in ...
Plot: countryside, brother in law sister in law relationship, woman, rural setting, village, provincial life, poverty, culture clash, rice, farmer, neighbor, beer ...
Place: vietnam
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 6.8
 178
Pao's Story (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 98 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: surprise ending
Plot: inspiration, backpacking, voice over narration, rural setting, hmong, search for mother, stepmother, adoptive mother, family secret, mountain, mother daughter relationship
Place: vietnam
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Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A coming of age story set in the Vietnamese countryside during the late 1980s, as told through the eyes of a 12 year old boy named Thieu. Thieu and his younger brother Tuong share and do everything together. Their days unfold like a whimsical and ...
Style: psychological, touching, contemplative, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot: boy, brother brother relationship, childhood, fall in love, family relations, innocence, girl, boyhood, teenager, coming of age, 7 year old, 12 year old
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: vietnam
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Owl and the Sparrow (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In modern-day Saigon, three lonely strangers form a unique family as a ten-year old orphan plays matchmaker to a zookeeper and a beautiful flight attendant.
Style: uplifting, serious, sincere, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: matchmaking, youth, couples, orphan, street kid, friendship, optimism, on the run, human nature, society, opposites attract, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: saigon, asia, vietnam
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 6.2
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Adrift (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Adrift begins with the wedding of Duyen and Hai. Duyen is a beautiful tourist guide and translator who marries Hai, a taxi driver who is two years her junior. Duyen thinks the marriage will make her happy but it turns out more difficult, especially ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
Plot: couples, couple relations, sexual relations, infidelity, forbidden love, self discovery, family problems, estrangement, unfulfillment, tour guide, lgbt, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
Place: vietnam, asia
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 6.9
 1K
Dreamy Eyes (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Mắt Biếc (Dreamy Eyes) tells the story of the one-sided love of Ngan for Ha Lan — his childhood friend.
Style: romantic, captivating, disturbing, sincere
Plot: love and romance, love story, couple relations, relationships, love affair, romantic friendship, love interest, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male female relationship, romantic relationship, true love, love
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Bi, Don't Be Afraid (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, France, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In an old house in Hanoi, Bi, a 6-year-old child lives with his parents, his aunt and their cook. His favorite playgrounds are an ice factory and the wild grass along the river. After being absent for years, his grandfather, seriously ill, reappears ...
Style: psychological, touching, atmospheric, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: childhood, dysfunctional family, family life, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, estrangement, family problems, crumbling marriage, youth, life is a bitch, alcohol abuse, grandfather grandson relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: vietnam, asia
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Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Vietnam, France, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Saigon in the late nineties. Photography student Vu rents a room in a shared flat. With his brand-new camera, a gift from his father, he explores the people, places and things around him. He is particularly fascinated by his flatmate Thang, a ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, disturbing, contemplative ...
Plot: gay, submissive woman, photographer, friendship, father son relationship, love triangle, life is a bitch, society, urban ghetto life, poverty, friendship between men, birth control ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place: vietnam, asia, saigon
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 6.8
 2K
The Rebel (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 1920s. Vietnam under colonial French ruling. Anti-French rebellions emerge all over the country to disrupt the foreign occupiers. In respond, the colonialist employed units of Vietnamese agents to track and destroy these rebels. The film follows the ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, touching, suspenseful
Plot: martial arts, assassination attempt, secret agent, social decay, vengeance, fighting the system, undercover, genocide, wartime life, political intrigue, working undercover, political unrest ...
Time: 1920s
Place: southeast asia, asia, vietnam
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 5.9
 1K
Clash (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Trinh, a mercenary, must complete a series of organized crime jobs for her boss in order to win the release of her kidnapped daughter. She hires several mercenaries to help, including Quan, who she becomes attracted to. Trinh and Quan's ...
Style: exciting, stylized, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, hitman, gangster, kidnapping, dangerous attraction, violence spree, danger, heist, female fight, mercenary, woman, triad ...
Time: 21st century
Place: vietnam, asia
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Sword of the Assassin (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Nguyen Vu is the sole survivor of his family who was executed by the empress of Vietnam. Upon discovering that his family may have been framed for crimes they did not commit, he sets out to bring justice and clear his family name.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, royal family, state affairs, corrupted ruler, frame up, medieval, rivalry, vengeance, false accusation, conspiracy, danger, falsely accused ...
Time: 15th century
Place: asia, vietnam
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 5.8
 124
2030 (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Vietnam, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In a near future Vietnam where global warming and rising seawater levels have forced cultivation to be done on floating farms, a strong-willed woman has to make a critical decision about her ex-lover, a suspect of her husband's murder.
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak, serious
Plot: moral dilemma, uncover truth, dystopian future, global warming, murder, environmentalism, life is a bitch, society, ocean, ship, evacuation, international crisis ...
Time: 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: asia, vietnam
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 6.3
 6K
Furie (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a little girl is kidnapped by a trafficking ring, they soon find they messed with the wrong child. Her mother, a notorious former gang leader, is close on their trail and will go to any lengths to bring her child home.
Style: suspense, serious, sinister
Plot: human trafficking, martial arts, mother daughter relationship, danger, medieval, strong female lead, murderer, life is a bitch, chase, one man army, dishonesty, violence ...
Place: vietnam, saigon
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 5.7
 895
The Housemaid (2016)
Genre: Horror, Romance
Country: Vietnam, South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When an orphaned Vietnamese girl is hired to be a housemaid at a haunted rubber plantation in 1953 French Indochina, she unexpectedly falls in love with the French landowner and awakens the vengeful ghost of his dead wife... who is out for blood.
Style: suspense, serious, enigmatic, scary, disturbing ...
Plot: orphan, chambermaid, vengeful ghost, revenge, murder, police investigation, servant, seduction, ghost story, ghost, employer employee relationship, female ghost ...
Time: 1950s, year 1953
Place: indochina, vietnam
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Gate, Gate, Paragate (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, Switzerland
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Vietnam's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1996
Plot: flashback, propaganda, brother brother relationship, politics, buddhist, brother sister relationship, emigrant, vietnam war, buddhism, nun, recovery, family reunited ...
Time: 1940s, 80s
Place: vietnam
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Once Upon a Time in Vietnam (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Assigned to protect a small town in Vietnam, Dao arrives to fight against the crime boss; but soon his past catches up with him, threatening to destroy the cherished village.
Style: exciting, stylized, epic, suspenseful, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, love triangle, rivalry, hidden identity, heroes, haunted by the past, disorder, mission gone awry, fugitives, master warrior, chases and races, medieval ...
Place: vietnam
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Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, Singapore, France, Spain
Duration: 179 min.
Story: After a Vietnamese woman dies in a traffic accident 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.
Style: captivating, psychological, thrilling
Plot: life, promiscuous past, confronting the past, haunted by the past, tragic past, troubled past, getting home, bare chested male, uncle nephew relationship, religion, baby, church ...
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Goodbye Mother (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Văn comes back to Saigon from the US with his boyfriend Ian to visit his mother. Being the male heir of the family, everyone expects him to take a wife soon. And to top it all, his grandmother, who has Alzheimer, mistakes Ian for her grandson.
Style: captivating, funny, entertaining, romantic, light ...
Plot: gay, gay interest, family relations, gay son, gay couple, grandmother grandson relationship, lgbtq, getting home, inheritance, gay lead character, friend, gay relationship ...
Place: vietnam
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 6.8
 23K
The Lover (1992)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings ...
Style: sexy, erotic, sexual, sensual, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: forbidden love, older man younger woman relationship, age difference, lolita, interracial romance, lust, sex with a minor, nymphet, love affair, loss of virginity, erotica, asian man white woman relationship ...
Time: 1920s, ancient times, year 1992, 20th century, year 1929
Place: vietnam, indochina, southeast asia, china, saigon ...
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 6.1
 1K
Green Dragon (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A tale about Vietnamese refugees sent to an orientation camp on the Camp Pendleton Marine Base in California, 'Green Dragon' focuses on a young boy and his sister. Set in 1975, the film chronicles the stories told to the two children by ...
Style: psychological, sincere, emotional, touching, independent film ...
Plot: military, vietnam war, interracial relations, military life, friendship, self discovery, coming of age, homecoming, culture clash, translator, human nature, immigrant ...
Time: year 2001, 70s
Place: vietnam, usa, asia, california
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The Beautiful Country (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: 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.
Style: touching, emotional, serious, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: vietnam war, immigrant, family drama, stereotypes, life philosophy, loneliness, betrayal, secrets, self discovery, social misfits, social differences, society ...
Time: year 2004, 90s, year 1990
Place: vietnam, texas, usa, new york, asia ...
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Saigon Eclipse (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, sentimental, tense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: woman in danger, true love, heroes, destiny, impossible love, chases and races, love and romance, young lovers, lovers on the run, family problems, strong female presence, truth ...
Place: vietnam, asia, saigon
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