Kiều Chinh

Kiều Chinh

Born: January 1, 1939
in Hanoi, Vietnam

Movies for Kiều Chinh...

Title: The Sympathizer
Character: Crapulent Major's Mother
Released: April 14, 2024
Type: TV
An espionage thriller and cross-culture satire about the struggles of a half-French, half-Vietnamese communist spy during the final days of the Vietnam War and his resulting exile in the United States.
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Finding Julia
Title: Finding Julia
Character: Van Tran
Released: April 19, 2019
Type: Movie
An acting student is haunted by the early death of her mother.
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In Full Bloom
Title: In Full Bloom
Character: Cecile
Released: April 6, 2019
Type: Movie
In Full Bloom tells the story of Cecile, an older Vietnamese hoarder, whose life is upended when worms open a black hole in her house and threaten to take all her stuff.
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Title: The Neighborhood
Character: Tuyen
Released: October 1, 2018
Type: TV
The nicest guy in the Midwest moves his family into a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles where not everyone appreciates his extreme neighborliness. That includes their new next-door neighbor Calvin.
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Hollow
Title: Hollow
Character: Shaman Linh
Released: July 18, 2014
Type: Movie
A young girl falls into a river and drowns. When her body is found in a remote village along the river, her uncle arrives to claim her body, only to find that she is very much alive. But when she returns to her family, unexplainable occurrences lead them to believe she is possessed.
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Trade of Innocents
Title: Trade of Innocents
Character: (voice)
Released: September 27, 2012
Type: Movie
In the back streets of a tourist town in present-day Southeast Asia, we find a filthy cinder block room; a bed with soiled sheets; a little girl waits for the next man. Alex (Dermot Mulroney), a human trafficking investigator, plays the role of her next customer as he negotiates with the pimp for the use of the child. Claire (Mira Sorvino), Alex's wife, is caught up in the flow of her new life in Southeast Asia and her role as a volunteer in an aftercare shelter for rescued girls where lives of local neighborhood girl's freedoms and dignity are threatened. Parallel story lines intertwine and unfold twists against the backdrop of the dangerous human trafficking world, in a story of struggle, life, hope and redemption in the "TRADE of INNOCENTS."
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Pearls of the Far East
Title: Pearls of the Far East
Character: Kieu
Released: March 8, 2012
Type: Movie
Seven stories about Vietnamese women spanning different generations, exploring their inner lives and forbidden loves.
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Title: NCIS: Los Angeles
Character: Kim Nguyen
Released: September 22, 2009
Type: TV
The exploits of the Los Angeles–based Office of Special Projects (OSP), an elite division of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service that specializes in undercover assignments.
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21
Title: 21
Character: Chinese Woman
Released: March 27, 2008
Type: Movie
Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 tuition as he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor to a small but secretive club of five students, Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Fisher, who are being trained by Professor Rosa to count cards at blackjack.
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Journey From the Fall
Title: Journey From the Fall
Character: Ba Noi (Grandmother)
Released: February 22, 2006
Type: Movie
Thirteen years after the end of the Vietnam War, a family who was tragically affected by the war are forced to emigrate to America.
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Tempted
Title: Tempted
Character: Kehau
Released: March 10, 2003
Type: Movie
The strain of juggling her responsibilities as wife, mother, and successful paralegal have worn Emma Burke out. Thus it is that Emma welcomes the opportunity to briefly take leave of her Boston home and head for sunny Hawaii. It is not, however, a pleasure trip: Having promised to honor the dying wishes of her Hawaiian-born surrogate mother. Leaving her husband, Mike, behind to care for their two children, Emma arrives in Hawaii for the first time since childhood, where she is reunited with her childhood friend Kala, the handsome son of her late surrogate parent.
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Face
Title: Face
Character: Mrs. Liu
Released: January 12, 2002
Type: Movie
Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
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Green Dragon
Title: Green Dragon
Character: Kieu
Released: May 17, 2001
Type: Movie
A tale about Vietnamese refugees sent to an orientation camp on the Camp Pendleton Marine Base in California, 'Green Dragon' focuses on a young boy and his sister. Set in 1975, the film chronicles the stories told to the two children by other refugees in the camp and of Tai Tran, who dares to introduce himself to Sergeant Jim Lance. In developing a relationship with Lance, Tran is able to improve
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What's Cooking?
Title: What's Cooking?
Character: Grandma Nguyen
Released: January 20, 2000
Type: Movie
Four families of different ethnicities prepare for a potentially explosive Thanksgiving dinner.
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Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
Title: Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
Character: Thanh
Released: April 14, 1999
Type: Movie
An African American couple (Winfield and Alice) adopt two orphans from a Vietnamese refugee camp. After twenty-two years, the children are reunited with their birth mother, bringing deeply submerged resentments and misconceptions to the surface and forcing the characters to reexamine their identity and relationships in both comical and poignant situations.
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City of Angels
Title: City of Angels
Character: Asian Woman
Released: April 10, 1998
Type: Movie
When guardian angel Seth – who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles – becomes captivated by Maggie, a strong-willed heart surgeon, he ponders trading in his pure, otherworldly existence for a mortal life with his beloved. The couple embarks on a tender but forbidden romance spanning heaven and Earth.
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Riot
Title: Riot
Character: Mrs. Lee
Released: April 27, 1997
Type: Movie
In April 1992, following the notorious Rodney King verdict, the streets of Los Angeles became a battlefield, the backdrop to four personal intertwined stories.
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Title: Promised Land
Character: Mrs. Kim
Released: September 17, 1996
Type: TV
Promised Land is an American drama series which aired on CBS from 1996 to 1999. It is a spin-off from another series, Touched by an Angel.
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Title: ER
Character: Mrs. Chen
Released: September 19, 1994
Type: TV
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
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The Joy Luck Club
Title: The Joy Luck Club
Character: Suyuan Wong
Released: September 8, 1993
Type: Movie
Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts.
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Vietnam Texas
Title: Vietnam Texas
Character: Mallan
Released: March 9, 1990
Type: Movie
A priest (Robert Ginty) learns that he fathered a child during his tour of duty in Vietnam and that the mother and child has relocated to Houston, Texas in the Little Saigon quarters. Searching for them, he also finds massive prejudice against the Vietnamese people, particularly among the fishing community in which they are trying to work. Setting out to right the wrongs, the priest tends to use more fisticuffs than friendly, priestly persuasion.
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Welcome Home
Title: Welcome Home
Character: Leang
Released: September 29, 1989
Type: Movie
An Air Force officer returns to his father, son and remarried wife in Vermont after 17 years in Vietnam.
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Gleaming the Cube
Title: Gleaming the Cube
Character: Madame Trac
Released: January 13, 1989
Type: Movie
An Orange County teenager's carefree life of ditching class and skateboarding abandoned pools comes to a screeching halt when someone close to him dies. The cops rule the death a suicide, but the bereaved skater believes he was murdered. It's up to him to solve the case, with a skateboard.
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Hamburger Hill
Title: Hamburger Hill
Character: Mama San
Released: August 7, 1987
Type: Movie
The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They are fighting for their country, their fellow soldiers and their lives. War is hell, but this is worse. Hamburger Hill tells it the way it was, the way it really was. It's a raw, gritty and totally unrelenting dramatic depiction of one of the fiercest battles of America's bloodiest war. This happened. Hamburger Hill - war at its worst, men at their best.
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The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
Title: The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
Character: Sai Luhn
Released: April 18, 1986
Type: Movie
After two attempts to kidnap a little girl Mike Hammer is hired to protect her.
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The Girl Who Spelled Freedom
Title: The Girl Who Spelled Freedom
Character: Phoen Yann
Released: February 23, 1986
Type: Movie
A Cambodian family is given sponsored immigration to the United States where one daughter becomes a spelling bee champion.
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Cocaine: One Man's Seduction
Title: Cocaine: One Man's Seduction
Character: Mrs. Marchais
Released: February 27, 1983
Type: Movie
A 47 year old real estate salesman gets trapped in the insidious web of cocaine addiction.
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The Letter
Title: The Letter
Character: Chinese Woman
Released: May 3, 1982
Type: Movie
The wife of a Malaysian planter kills an employee of her husband one night, but her motive begins to appear not entirely truthful.
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The Other Victim
Title: The Other Victim
Character: Mrs. Troung
Released: November 4, 1981
Type: Movie
After his wife is raped, a man struggles to find ways to express the anger and helplessness which the crime has instilled in him.
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Fly Away Home
Title: Fly Away Home
Character: Anh
Released: September 18, 1981
Type: Movie
Ambitious pilot to a prospective series revolving around a combat cameraman in Vietnam. Carl Danton is in Saigon on assignment at the start of the 1968 Tet offensive with a cynical boss in the local bureau chief. His love interest is a Vietnamese doctor whose brother happens to be a leader in the Viet Cong and whose influential parents are involved in high-level corruption.
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The Children of An Lac
Title: The Children of An Lac
Character: Thuy
Released: October 8, 1980
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of film actress Ina Balin and her efforts with American Red Cross volunteer Betty Tisdale, as well as a compassionate Vietnamese woman running a Saigon orphanage, to rescue as many children as possible and fly them out of the country before South Vietnam's fall in the spring of 1975 through the An Lac baby-lift.
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My Husband Is Missing
Title: My Husband Is Missing
Character: Lu-An
Released: December 5, 1978
Type: Movie
A young wife journeys to North Vietnam in an effort to find her husband, an American flier reported missing in action, and is joined by a cynical Canadian correspondent on the trail of a human interest story.
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The Lucifer Complex
Title: The Lucifer Complex
Character: Major Chinn Lee
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
An intelligence agent discovers a Nazi plot to revive the Third Reich by using clones.
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The Hostage Heart
Title: The Hostage Heart
Character: Flor Aquino
Released: September 9, 1977
Type: Movie
When billionaire industrialist goes into a hospital for a heart operation, some people who claim to be revolutionaries enter the operating room and draw guns and holds the man and the entire surgical staff hostage. They then demand 10 million dollars. The administrator calls the police and the FBI. The police claim jurisdiction over the matter and the man in charge is intent on taking them even if some of the hostages get killed. Eventually they learn that some of the people in hospital are with them.
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The Shadow on the Roadside
Title: The Shadow on the Roadside
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A girl who made a mistake, fell in love with a man that she can never have - a married soldier.
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Warrior, Who Are You
Title: Warrior, Who Are You
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
The story of My Lan, a beautiful reporter who goes to the front line to find a soldier with whom she fell in love through correspondences. The film won Best War Film at the Taipei International Asian Film Festival in 1973.
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The Evil Within
Title: The Evil Within
Character: Kamar Souria
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Interpol follows a fat man from Tokyo to Hong Kong to Manila as he takes care of business for an opium empire.
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Operation C.I.A.
Title: Operation C.I.A.
Character: Kim-Chinh
Released: September 8, 1965
Type: Movie
A young CIA agent is assigned to Saigon to stop a planned political assassination.
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A Yank in Viet-Nam
Title: A Yank in Viet-Nam
Character: Kieu Chinh
Released: February 5, 1964
Type: Movie
A U.S. Marine Corps pilot is shot down over the Vietnamese jungle. In his endeavor to get to safety, he meets a female guerrilla fighter and a nationalist named Hong.
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Control Freak
Title: Control Freak
Character: Aunt Thuy
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
After a motivational speaker contracts a mysterious infection originating from her homeland, she desperately attempts to halt the parasitic creature's torturous control over her mind and body.
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Title: Sinking Spring
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Two lifelong friends from Philadelphia pose as DEA agents to rob a country house, but the small-scale grift quickly becomes a matter of life and death. The friends soon unravel as they find one of the biggest narcotics corridors on the East Coast.