Ngọc Lan

Acting

Ngọc Lan

Born 1942-01-01 · Bắc Giang province, Vietnam

Ngoc Lan (born 1942), full name Phan Thi Ngoc Lan, is a Vietnamese film actress. In 1959, she was admitted to the first acting class at the Vietnam Film School, alongside Tra Giang, Lam Toi, The Anh, Kim Chi, Lich Du... She graduated in 1962 and was assigned to work at the Vietnam Feature Film Studio. In 1961, she was selected by director Pham Van Khoa to play the protagonist in the film Lua trung tuyen [Fire on the Middle Line], which became her most famous role.

Acting credits

A Quiet Little Town poster
9.0

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 Quiet Little Town

1986

89th Minute poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

89th Minute

1982

Life Is Not Simple poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Life Is Not Simple

1980

Stirring Dawn poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Stirring Dawn

1977

Patch of Sky poster
NR

Two pilots and their beloveds, all of whom are close friends, try to navigate their lives separate from one another as the men transition to combat.

Patch of Sky

1975

Narrow Alley poster
NR

The young & poor struggle to get by in the big city.

Narrow Alley

1988

Two Soldiers poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Two Soldiers

1962

Fire at the Rear poster
NR

Dũng, a well-accomplished leader of a platoon, is suddenly sent back to the rear to help the militia transport supplies and ammunitions to the frontlines. He reluctantly heeds his superiors’ order, and soon finds himself acquainted with Nhàn, one of the militia’s most hardworking members.

Fire at the Rear

1961

The Legend of the Mother poster
NR

At a maternity ward in South Vietnam, a midwife adopts three orphaned children after their mothers, undercover Communist spies, go missing or die in action.

The Legend of the Mother

1987

Fire in the Woods poster
NR

In mid-1960s, groups of American paratroopers arrive at a Hmong village near the Vietnam-Laos border. Among the troops are former villagers who collaborated with the French; having returned home , they seek to win over the village’s support.

Fire in the Woods

1966

Turn Over A New Page poster
NR

Vĩnh is a seventh-grade student whose disruptive nature and disregard for studying has greatly frustrated his parents and the school staff alike. When all the teachers end up refusing to take Vĩnh in out of fear of having to deal with his notorious tantrums, only a young teacher, Mrs. Hồng Vân, welcomes the boy into her class with open arms.

Turn Over A New Page

1976

Life of Harmony poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Life of Harmony

1981

Sea Of Fire poster
7.0

Vietnamese guerrillas move into a village adjoining a French/US airstrip and recruit locals to help them bring it down.

Sea Of Fire

1965

The Sea Calls poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Sea Calls

1967

Laughter Epidemic poster
NR

A director pays a visit to a hydroelectric plant construction site and gives a grandiose speech on the impending glory of its opening. His exaggerated body language soon becomes a running gag among the workers who pass around the rumour that he might have dropped the diamond ring during the speech, which the director ironically - and wholeheartedly- believes.

Laughter Epidemic

1988

Ephemeral Fate poster
NR

The battle for political power in the Trịnh clan continues after the death of Lord Trịnh Sâm in this sequel of "Night of Long Tri." The rivals are two famous concubines of Trịnh Sâm: Dương Thị Ngọc Hoan and Đặng Thị Huệ.

Ephemeral Fate

1990

Our Own Horizon poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Our Own Horizon

1983

Tempestuous Fate poster
NR

After a streak of betrayals in love, a scholar harbours a disdain for women and vows to stay away from their “venomous nature”. However, he soon grows increasingly obsessed with a prostitute he encountered one night, and falls deeply in love with her against the prejudices of his social class.

Tempestuous Fate

1989

August Star poster
9.0

The plot of the film revolves around revolutionary soldiers who come from different classes, but all share the same patriotism. They had to overcome many life-and-death challenges and enormous adversities in order to mobilise the masses to prepare for an uprising and seize power from the Japanese fascists, in a situation where the country fell into the tragedy of famine.

August Star

1977

A Visitor from the Countryside poster
NR

A woman running from her past meets a poor farmer who offers to marry her and raise her newborn as his own. After marrying they struggle to make a happy life together as their family grows and the war rages around them.

A Visitor from the Countryside

1993

I Have Only You poster
NR

After the war, a young man reuniting with his beloved must deal with the fact that she has gone insane.

I Have Only You

1992