Known for Acting
Trần Mạnh Cường (born 4 September 1960) is a Vietnamese actor.
After a Vietnamese woman dies in a car crash in Saigon, her brother-in-law and her young son transport her body back to the former’s hometown in rural Vietnam, where they plan to give her a funeral.
A charismatic yet deranged pharmacist, Vũ, lures young women into his opulent mansion under the guise of salvation, only to subject them to psychological manipulation and abuse. As his victims grapple with their harrowing reality, they must find the strength to escape his twisted grasp.
A young woman leaves Ho Chi Minh City to start a new career. She has to face many problems in a new life alone.
After losing her daughter in an accident, Carmen loses all incentive to keep going, until she receives an unexpected letter from the adoption agency: her daughter was finally granted the Vietnamese girl she had asked for adoption and whose name is Thi Mai.
Eleven-year-old Linh shows great grace under pressure. When her mother, who’s raising her kids on her own, has to return unexpectedly to Vietnam, Linh looks after her little sister Tien and the family restaurant on her own. Of course, no one is supposed to find out, not the school, not the neighbours, and definitely not child protective services. But Linh’s biggest problem has red hair, a telescope and a sly grin: Pauline. The daredevil from across the street has the whole neighbourhood under surveillance and can’t imagine anything cooler than a life without parents. When Pauline blackmails the Vietnamese sisters into starting a gang with her, the three girls set off on a daring adventure.
A theater troupe reunites in excitement for a new production after having been out of work for a long time, with the performers and their mentor having gone their separate ways to make ends meet. But the bitter fallout from the failed romance between the lead actor and the lead actress—a romance as long ago as her famously beautiful hair—threatens the play's success.
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 residents of Ho Chi Minh City face modernization amid widespread poverty. A retired American Marine arrives on a search for his daughter, whom he abandoned at the end of the Vietnam War. Elsewhere, a cyclo driver falls for a troubled prostitute and schemes to raise money so he can spend time with her. Additionally, a young women begins harvesting lotuses for a writer suffering from leprosy, and a child trinket seller loses his traveling case.
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.
In Chase Of The Windy Devil Gang tells the story of a group of criminals under the notorious titular group —one of the city’s most feared. On land and waters alike, even within the walls of ordinary homes—nowhere seems safe from their reign of terror. Like shadows riding the wind, they appear and vanish, always waiting for the next moment to strike. We follow the footsteps of Lieutenant Bình, a policeman tracing the elusive maneuvers of the Windy Devil Gang: from bustling city streets and chaotic nightclubs to river docks and towering mountain caves, encountering the faces of good and evil, past and present, deceit and innocence. As the chase seems to know no bounds, the possibilities of discovery dissolve into infinity.
