Như Quỳnh

Như Quỳnh

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 foreign audience.

  • Title: Như Quỳnh
  • Popularity: 0.1648
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1954-01-01
  • Place of Birth: Hanoi, Vietnam
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  • Also Known As: NSND Như Quỳnh, Nguyễn Như Quỳnh, Nhu Quynh
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Như Quỳnh Movies

  • 2006
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    The Chinese Botanist's Daughters

    The Chinese Botanist's Daughters

    6.331 2006 HD

    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.

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  • 2000
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    The Vertical Ray of the Sun

    The Vertical Ray of the Sun

    6.569 2000 HD

    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.

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  • 1996
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    Cyclo

    Cyclo

    6.982 1996 HD

    Follows 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.

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  • 1989
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    Money, Money!

    Money, Money!

    1 1989 HD

    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.

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  • 1983
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    A Love Will Come

    A Love Will Come

    1 1983 HD

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  • 2020
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    Trading Happiness

    Trading Happiness

    1 2020 HD

    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.

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  • 1984
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    Quiet Night

    Quiet Night

    1 1984 HD

    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

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  • 2023
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    Touch Happiness

    Touch Happiness

    10 2023 HD

    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.

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  • 2024
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    White Butterfly

    White Butterfly

    1 2024 HD

    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.

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  • 2006
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    Pao's Story

    Pao's Story

    7.5 2006 HD

    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.

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  • 2006
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    The White Silk Dress

    The White Silk Dress

    6.3 2006 HD

    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.

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  • 1990
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    Dumb Luck

    Dumb Luck

    1 1990 HD

    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.

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  • 1977
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    First Love

    First Love

    1 1977 HD

    Student Ba Duy sinks deep into heartbreak and a nihilistic street life when his sweetheart, Diem Huong, suddenly leaves him to marry an American diplomat.

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  • 1974
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    We Will Meet Again

    We Will Meet Again

    1 1974 HD

    On 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.

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  • 2020
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    Between Shadow and Soul

    Between Shadow and Soul

    9 2020 HD

    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 version of The Third Wife with no dialogue and new music.

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  • 2004
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    Long Legged Girls

    Long Legged Girls

    3 2004 HD

    Thuy is a country girl. She met Hoang, who is photographer for a fashion company. Thuy entered the fashion field. Thuy's older sister protested so Thuy left home. In fierce competition, Thuy accepted a date with a famous photographer to become a vedette.

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  • 2012
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    Blood Curse

    Blood Curse

    6 2012 HD

    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.

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  • 2009
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    Adrift

    Adrift

    5.8 2009 HD

    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.

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  • 2007
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    Saigon Eclipse

    Saigon Eclipse

    5 2007 HD

    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.

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  • 2014
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    Rise

    Rise

    6.4 2014 HD

    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.

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  • 2014
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    Noble

    Noble

    6.417 2014 HD

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

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  • 2012
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    Pearls of the Far East

    Pearls of the Far East

    1 2012 HD

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

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  • 2019
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    The Third Wife

    The Third Wife

    6.447 2019 HD

    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.

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  • 1976
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    The Holy Day

    The Holy Day

    1 1976 HD

    A 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.

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  • 2001
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    Wharf of Widows

    Wharf of Widows

    1 2001 HD

    Based on a well-known novel of the same title by author Duong Huong, “Wharf of Widows” reflects stories in the context of a rural Village called Dong – a typical North Vietnamese village with bamboo ramparts, communal house roofs, banyan trees and wharves. It was a time when the north hurried to build up the countryside and support the southern battlefield. The movie takes us back to the olden days of peaceful northern villages and women waiting for their men to return from the battlefield. The war robbed the village of healthy strong men leaving behind the women who waited at the water’s edge.

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  • 1978
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    Nesting Season in Hanoi

    Nesting Season in Hanoi

    1 1978 HD

    Hanoi 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.

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  • 1987
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    Debt of love

    Debt of love

    1 1987 HD

    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.

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  • 1988
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    Time in the Jungle

    Time in the Jungle

    1 1988 HD

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

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  • 1973
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    March to the Front

    March to the Front

    1 1973 HD

    March to the Front depicts the Resistance War Against America (Vietnam War) through the lens of romance.

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  • 1981
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    The Last Hope

    The Last Hope

    1 1981 HD

    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.

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  • 1996
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    Runaway

    Runaway

    1 1996 HD

    After 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.

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  • 2016
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    Eleven Men

    Eleven Men

    1 2016 HD

    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.

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  • 2005
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    Bride of Silence

    Bride of Silence

    8 2005 HD

    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.

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  • 1989
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    Lady of the Flowers

    Lady of the Flowers

    1 1989 HD

    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.

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  • 1998
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    Broken Space

    Broken Space

    1 1998 HD

    While 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.

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  • 2007
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    The Girl from the Mountain Village

    The Girl from the Mountain Village

    1 2007 HD

    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.

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  • 1984
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    The Population Planning Minister

    The Population Planning Minister

    1 1984 HD

    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.

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  • 2010
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    Vũ Điệu Đam Mê

    Vũ Điệu Đam Mê

    1 2010 HD

    The first movie about Vietnamese hip-hop.

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  • 2026
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    Hộ Linh Tráng Sĩ: Bí ẩn mộ vua Đinh

    Hộ Linh Tráng Sĩ: Bí ẩn mộ vua Đinh

    1 2026 HD

    Based on the folklore about the 7 warriors and the mystery of the tomb of Emperor Dinh.

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