Như Quỳnh

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

Film credits

2020s · 6 titles

The Journey of Heroes poster
6.7

The 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

Between shadow and soul poster
8.8

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 reworking of 'The Third Wife' with no dialogue and a newly composed score.

Between shadow and soul

2020

Spirit Guardians: The Last Secret of the First Emperor poster
5.0

Set 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

White Butterfly poster
NR

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.

White Butterfly

2024

Touch Happiness poster
10.0

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.

Touch Happiness

2023

Trading Happiness poster
NR

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.

Trading Happiness

2020

2010s · 7 titles

The Third Wife poster
6.5

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.

The Third Wife

2019

Noble poster
6.4

Christina Noble overcomes the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny on the streets of Saigon. A true story.

Noble

2014

Pearls of the Far East poster
NR

Seven stories about Vietnamese women spanning different generations, exploring their inner lives and forbidden loves.

Pearls of the Far East

2012

Blood Curse poster
6.0

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.

Blood Curse

2012

Vũ Điệu Đam Mê poster
NR

The first movie about Vietnamese hip-hop.

Vũ Điệu Đam Mê

2010

Rise poster
6.4

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.

Rise

2014

Eleven Men poster
NR

Eleven 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

The Vertical Ray of the Sun poster
6.6

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.

The Vertical Ray of the Sun

2000

The Chinese Botanist's Daughters poster
6.4

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.

The Chinese Botanist's Daughters

2006

Long Legged Girls poster
3.0

In an attempt to break into the Saigon fashion scene, an emerging model becomes the mistress of a famous photographer.

Long Legged Girls

2004

The White Silk Dress poster
6.3

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.

The White Silk Dress

2007

Adrift poster
5.8

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.

Adrift

2009

The Story of Pao poster
7.5

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.

The Story of Pao

2006

Bride of Silence poster
8.0

A 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

Wharf of Widows poster
8.0

At 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

The Girl from the Mountain Village poster
NR

A 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

No artwork available
7.5

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

1980s · 9 titles

A Love Will Come poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Love Will Come

1983

Time in the Jungle poster
NR

Defectors from Hitler's army join the French Foreign Legion and end up in Vietnam in the late '40s.

Time in the Jungle

1988

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NR

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

Cơn Lốc Biển poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cơn Lốc Biển

1984

Quiet Night poster
NR

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

Quiet Night

1984

The Population Planning Minister poster
NR

The 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

The Last Hope poster
NR

In 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

Lady of the Flowers poster
NR

In 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

Money, Money! poster
NR

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.

Money, Money!

1989

1970s · 5 titles

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