Once Upon a Time in Vietnam (2013)

Actors: Roger Yuan (actor), Dustin Nguyen (actor), Dustin Nguyen (writer), Dustin Nguyen (director), Dustin Nguyen (producer), Danny Do (miscellaneous crew), Vance Null (editor), Thai Hoa (actor), Thanh Van Ngo (actress), Bao Tranchi (costume designer), Jason Ninh Cao (actor), Van Hai Bui (actor), Nguyen Hau (actor), Ngoc Hiep Nguyen (producer), Ngoc Diep (actress),

Genres: Action,

Mother's Milk (Sua Me) (2011)

Actors: Andy DeJohn (writer), David Paul Dorn (composer), Andy DeJohn (director), Phan Xine Linh (producer), Thai Ha Nguyen (editor), Vu Quynh Ha (producer), Nguyen Ngoc Trang Vy (actor), Nguyen Hoang Thien Kim (actor), Hoang Tran Minh Duc (actor),

Genres: Drama, Family, Short,

Englishes (2009)

Actors: Joon Sung (director), Joon Sung (editor), Neal Williams (composer), Jun Inomata (actor), Sefika Varajic (actress), Anh Nguyen (actor), Wieb Vandermeer (actor),

Plot: Inspired by the uniqueness of the variety of English pronunciations spoken by non-native speakers whose mother tongues are other than American English. This film attentively captures the distinctive accents and diverse proficiency in English language skills of the people who have learned English as a second language.

Genres: Comedy, Documentary,

Der gestohlene Mond (2003)

Actors: Lisa Martinek (actress), Dietmar Bär (actor), Ivan Shvedoff (actor), Birol Ünel (actor), Sabine Vitua (actress), Jürgen Knoll (costume designer), Mareike Fell (actress), Peter Scherer (composer), Thomas Stiller (writer), Thomas Stiller (director), Liane Jessen (producer), Rezo Chkhikvishvili (actor), Takuya Matsumoto (actor), Uwagboe Rydl (actor), Hien Tarrago (actress),

Genres: Comedy,

Green Dragon (2001)

Actors: Patrick Swayze (actor), Elie Samaha (producer), Benjamin Sacks (miscellaneous crew), Mychael Danna (composer), James D. Dever (miscellaneous crew), Jeff Danna (composer), Forest Whitaker (producer), Andrew Stevens (producer), Forest Whitaker (actor), James D. Dever (actor), Gerald Ford (actor), William B. Steakley (producer), Kieu Chinh (actress), Alison Semenza (producer), Roy Ruiz (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: 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 other refugees in the camp and of Tai Tran, who dares to introduce himself to Sergeant Jim Lance. In developing a relationship with Lance, Tran is able to improve conditions and communication for all in the refugee camp.

Keywords: 1970s, animal-in-title, color-in-title, cultural-misunderstanding, independent-film, marriage, marriage-ceremony, military, polygamy, polygyny
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: A story from a war that had been forgotten

Quotes:

Addie: [explaining his drawing of a whipped slave] What's wrong, kid? Don't worry, that's not me. That's not me. See, that's an America you don't understand yet. It's bigger than those Sears and Roebuck's catalogs they been giving you, or those movies they're showing you, and your Mighty Mouse comics.

Heaven & Earth (1993)

Actors: Arnon Milchan (producer), Robert Kline (producer), Debbie Reynolds (actress), Mario Kassar (producer), Marianne Muellerleile (actress), Joan Chen (actress), Tommy Lee Jones (actor), Conchata Ferrell (actress), Dale Dye (actor), Vivian Wu (actress), Jeffrey Jones (actor), Tim Guinee (actor), Marshall Bell (actor), Oliver Stone (writer), Oliver Stone (producer),

Plot: The final movie in Oliver Stone's Vietnam trilogy follows the true story of a Vietnamese village girl who survives a life of suffering and hardship during and after the Vietnam war. As a freedom fighter, a hustler, young mother, a sometime prostitute, and the wife of a US. marine, the girl's relationships with men suggests an analogy of Vietnam as Woman and the U.S. as Man.

Keywords: based-on-book, buddhism, child-nudity, cultural-assimilation, cultural-conflict, culture-clash, culture-shock, dog, evil-man, helicopter
Genres: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War,
Taglines: An amazing true story of survival. From Vietnam to America, one woman's journey from hope, to love, to discovery. Lasting victories are won in the heart.

Quotes:

Mama: Tears are God's way of paying you back for what He's taken.

Mama: If war produces one thing, it's many cemeteries. And in cemeteries, there are no enemies.

Le Ly: [leading her children through the panicking crowds] Don't separate!

Papa: Right is only the goodness you carry in your heart...wrong is all that comes between you and the love.

Steve Butler: [motioning the helicopter] Get the fuck outta here!

Soldier: We are the soldiers of liberation!

Steve Butler: [showing Le Ly some photographs] This is Mom's eighth dog. She has the eight ugliest dogs in the United States! [he and Le Ly laugh]

Steve Butler: [notices a little photograph on table] Is this your little brother?::Le Ly: What?::Steve Butler: Is this handsome little boy your relative?::Le Ly: My son.::Steve Butler: Ah, of course he is! [laughs] He looks a lot like you. A lot of spirit around the eyes.

Le Ly: I am insulted at the insolence of men. They don't respect women. I cannot believe such men have known a mother's love.::Buddhist Monk: If I show you a tiny baby killed by a bayonet and say it is his karma, we may cry for the baby, for the baby's karma and the bad karma of the soldier who killed it. But we must never use our emotion to deny the wheel of incarnation that caused the act. It is as natural as the movement of the sun and the moon.::Le Ly: Master, how can I tell him we must be friends and soul mates without being husband and wife?::Buddhist Monk: He has created much soul debt for himself. But if you fail to give him the opportunity to redeem himself, you will only increase your own soul debt. The man hate that blinds you will blind any man you find in a future life. If you turn Steve away, you will be rejecting your own redemption. Child, you have forgiven the man who raped you, destroyed your country, harmed your family. And this is how it should be. Your karma is mixed with Steve, to Tommy and Alan. The future, the past are all the same. If you divorce, you will only have to come back again and work it out again. The path to Nirvana is never being safe, but tricky and steep. And if you walk only on sunny days you'll never reach your destination. Choose well my peach blossom. [Recites an Asian proverb, then translates in English] A child without a father is like a house without a roof.

Le Ly: You still here?::Steve Butler: You said I could rest.

Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder (1982)

Actors: Peter Werner (director), Maurice Jarre (composer), Paquito Salcedo (actor), Ken Metcalfe (actor), Robert Englund (actor), Peter Werner (actor), Lisa Lu (actress), Dennis Christopher (actor), Roger Aaron Brown (actor), Susan Saint James (actress), James Whitmore Jr. (actor), Ann Gray Lambert (costume designer), Lope V. Juban Jr. (miscellaneous crew), Barbara Pokras (editor), Travis Swords (actor),

Genres: Drama,
Taglines: In a time without heroes and a place without hope a man found a reason to survive.

Fly Away Home (1981)

Actors: Michael Fairman (actor), Bruce Boxleitner (actor), Meshach Taylor (actor), Stirling Silliphant (producer), Lee Holdridge (composer), Keye Luke (actor), Stirling Silliphant (writer), Brian Dennehy (actor), Donfeld (costume designer), Louis Giambalvo (actor), Ira S. Rosenstein (miscellaneous crew), Kieu Chinh (actress), Mark Carlton (actor), Wayne Heffley (actor), Edward Winter (actor),

Genres: Drama, War,

Mort en fraude (1957)

Actors: Lucien Callamand (actor), Daniel Gélin (actor), Michel Audiard (writer), Michel Audiard (writer), Jacqueline Thiédot (editor), Marcel Camus (writer), Marcel Camus (director), Jean Combal (actor), Jean-Paul Guibert (producer), Jean Hougron (writer), Jean Hougron (writer), Nguyen Phuong (actress), Anne Méchard (actress), Trinh Trac (actor), Luong Van Vuong (actor),

Genres: Drama,