Nhu Quynh

Nhu Quynh

Born: January 1, 1954
in Hanoi, Vietnam
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.

Movies for Nhu Quynh...

Touch Happiness
Title: Touch Happiness
Released: September 1, 2023
Type: Movie
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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Between Shadow and Soul
Title: Between Shadow and Soul
Released: May 5, 2020
Type: Movie
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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Trading Happiness
Title: Trading Happiness
Character: Nghi
Released: January 21, 2020
Type: Movie
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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The Third Wife
Title: The Third Wife
Character: Ba Lao
Released: January 11, 2019
Type: Movie
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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Rise
Title: Rise
Character: Diệu’s Grandma
Released: October 31, 2014
Type: Movie
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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Noble
Title: Noble
Character: Madame Linh
Released: September 19, 2014
Type: Movie
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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Pearls of the Far East
Title: Pearls of the Far East
Character: Mrs. Da Quy
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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Blood Curse
Title: Blood Curse
Released: January 12, 2012
Type: Movie
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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Adrift
Title: Adrift
Released: November 13, 2009
Type: Movie
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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Saigon Eclipse
Title: Saigon Eclipse
Character: Ba Tu
Released: April 26, 2007
Type: Movie
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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The White Silk Dress
Title: The White Silk Dress
Released: October 13, 2006
Type: Movie
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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The Chinese Botanist's Daughters
Title: The Chinese Botanist's Daughters
Character: Director
Released: April 26, 2006
Type: Movie
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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Pao's Story
Title: Pao's Story
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
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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Long Legged Girls
Title: Long Legged Girls
Released: June 15, 2004
Type: Movie
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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Wharf of Widows
Title: Wharf of Widows
Character: Mrs. Hon
Released: December 1, 2001
Type: Movie
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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The Vertical Ray of the Sun
Title: The Vertical Ray of the Sun
Character: Suong
Released: May 17, 2000
Type: Movie
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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Cyclo
Title: Cyclo
Character: Madam
Released: March 22, 1996
Type: Movie
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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Dumb Luck
Title: Dumb Luck
Character: Mrs. Văn Minh (Mrs. Civilized)
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
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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Money, Money!
Title: Money, Money!
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
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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Time in the Jungle
Title: Time in the Jungle
Released: April 14, 1988
Type: Movie
Defectors from Hitler's army join the French Foreign Legion and end up in Vietnam in the late '40s.
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Debt of love
Title: Debt of love
Character: Hiên
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
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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Quiet Night
Title: Quiet Night
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
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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A Love Will Come
Title: A Love Will Come
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
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Nesting Season in Hanoi
Title: Nesting Season in Hanoi
Character: Nguyệt
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
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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First Love
Title: First Love
Character: Diễm Hương
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
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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The Holy Day
Title: The Holy Day
Character: Ái
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
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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Until We Meet Again
Title: Until We Meet Again
Character: Nết
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
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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March to the Front
Title: March to the Front
Character: Mai
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
March to the Front depicts the Resistance War Against America (Vietnam War) through the lens of romance.
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White Butterfly
Title: White Butterfly
Character: Bác Vy
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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.