
Acting
Như Quỳnh
Born
1954-01-01 (72)
Place of birth
Hanoi, Vietnam
Known for
Acting
Credits
47 titles
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 foreig…
Known for
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Hương vị tình thân
2021
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.
Dumb Luck
1990
6.7The Journey of Heroes follows Ny (Steven Nguyễn), who, after rescuing his younger sister from a human trafficking ring along the Western border, is captured alongside his best friend and forced into slavery inside a brutal scam compound. There, together with undercover investigators and fellow victims suffering in silence, they secretly devise a daring plan to escape.
The Journey of Heroes
2026
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Không thời gian
2024
6.9Follows 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.
Cyclo
1995
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Hành trình công lý
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Film credits
2020s · 6 titles
6.7The Journey of Heroes follows Ny (Steven Nguyễn), who, after rescuing his younger sister from a human trafficking ring along the Western border, is captured alongside his best friend and forced into slavery inside a brutal scam compound. There, together with undercover investigators and fellow victims suffering in silence, they secretly devise a daring plan to escape.
The Journey of Heroes
2026
8.8Mây, 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 reworking of 'The Third Wife' with no dialogue and a newly composed score.
Between shadow and soul
2020
5.0Set in the Dinh Dynasty of the 10th century, the period film follows seven loyal warriors who must race against time to transport 99 coffins to different parts of the kingdom as a decoy to the enemy and keep the final resting place of the first emperor a secret.
Spirit Guardians: The Last Secret of the First Emperor
2026
NRUpon 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.
White Butterfly
2024
10.0The 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.
Touch Happiness
2023
NRThe 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.
Trading Happiness
2020
2010s · 7 titles
6.5Though 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.
The Third Wife
2019
6.4Christina Noble overcomes the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny on the streets of Saigon. A true story.
Noble
2014
NRSeven stories about Vietnamese women spanning different generations, exploring their inner lives and forbidden loves.
Pearls of the Far East
2012
6.0The 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.
Blood Curse
2012
NRThe first movie about Vietnamese hip-hop.
Vũ Điệu Đam Mê
2010
6.4A 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.
Rise
2014
NREleven Men combines footage from a range of Vietnamese classic feature films produced by the state-owned Vietnam Feature Film Studio with Franz Kafka’s short story Eleven Sons. Focusing on a single actress, Nhu Quynh, and spanning three decades of her career, Eleven Men transposes Kafka’s male family imaginary to the analysis of a woman’s relation to her lovers.
Eleven Men
2016
2000s · 10 titles
6.6Hanoi 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.
The Vertical Ray of the Sun
2000
6.4At 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.
The Chinese Botanist's Daughters
2006
3.0In an attempt to break into the Saigon fashion scene, an emerging model becomes the mistress of a famous photographer.
Long Legged Girls
2004
6.3A 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.
The White Silk Dress
2007
5.8Soon 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.
Adrift
2009
7.5Set 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.
The Story of Pao
2006
8.0A gorgeous young woman endures the wrath of her strict family and fellow villagers when she becomes pregnant out of wedlock and refuses to name the father. 17 years later, her son strives to learn the truth about his birth and the mystery surrounding the disappearance of his long-missing mother.
Bride of Silence
2005
8.0At a rural village where most men have perished in the revolutions against French colonisers, their remaining widows and grieving mothers must bear the brunt of rigid patriarchal expectations placed upon them.
Wharf of Widows
2001
NRA young Khmer woman becomes the first in her village to pass the university entrance test. With her husband’s support, she moves to the city and studies film to pursue her lifelong dream of being a director.
The Girl from the Mountain Village
2007
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.
Saigon Eclipse
2007
1990s · 4 titles
6.9Follows 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.
Cyclo
1995
Struggling to secure a job and make ends meet after her graduation, a young woman slowly gives way to advances made towards her from a well-off company director.
Tears in the New Era
1996
NRAfter Thi's mother died, her father was unable to raise her, so she lived with her aunt-in-law and grandmother. Thi's grandmother left her a ring when she died. While packing her things, Mrs. Mai discovered it and scolded Thi, causing her to run away from home.
Runaway
1996
NRWhile still heartbroken after her new boyfriend leaves to marry another woman, Đan Linh gets into a serious car accident and is rushed to the hospital where she is treated by Phan, a distant and grumpy surgeon. Despite significant initial distaste from both sides, the pair soon grow a profound appreciation for each other's wisdom and bond over their shared experience of family turbulence.
Broken Space
1998
1980s · 9 titles
NRNo synopsis available yet.
A Love Will Come
1983
NRDefectors from Hitler's army join the French Foreign Legion and end up in Vietnam in the late '40s.
Time in the Jungle
1988
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.
Debt of love
1987
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Cơn Lốc Biển
1984
NRQuiet 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
Quiet Night
1984
NRThe president of a small village is appointed to be the minister for population planning, a controversial decision for the residents and his wife who is trying for another baby.
The Population Planning Minister
1984
NRIn early-80s' Hanoi, a director of a state-owned factory welcomes his wife, a journalist, into a changed home after she spent some time away. As she struggles to make sense of their new wealth, he struggles to avoid embezzlement charges by a poor inspector—who turns out to be an old friend of hers.
The Last Hope
1981
NRIn early 20th century, a Vietnamese aristocratic socialite falls in love with a poor scholar though her father, a powerful governor, is determined to separate them, even with extreme measures.
Lady of the Flowers
1989
NRReturning 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.
Money, Money!
1989
1970s · 5 titles
NRStudent Ba Duy sinks deep into heartbreak and a nihilistic street life when his sweetheart, Diem Huong, suddenly leaves him to marry an American diplomat.
First Love
1977
7.0On 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.
We Will Meet Again
1974
NRHanoi 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.
Nesting Season in Hanoi
1978
NRMarch to the Front depicts the Resistance War Against America (Vietnam War) through the lens of romance.
March to the Front
1973
NRA 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.
The Holy Day
1976
Series credits
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Hương vị tình thân
2021
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.
Dumb Luck
1990
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Không thời gian
2024
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Hành trình công lý
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NRNo synopsis available yet.
Đừng bắt em phải quên
2020
NRNo synopsis available yet.
12A và 4H
1995
