Regret to Inform (1999), Boat People (1983), Indochine (1992), The Lover (1992), The Quiet American (1958), Off Limits (1988), Lady of the Tropics (1939), Green Eyes (1977) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Saigon, Vietnam movies.
Storyline: At the age of 24, American director Barbara Sonneborn lost her husband in the Vietnam War. Twenty years after his death, Sonneborn sets out to interview other American and Vietnamese women whose spouses died in the conflict. Along the way she meets a Vietnamese woman who was forced into prostitution during the war, an American woman whose husband died of chemical poisoning years after the conflict ended and a woman who worked as a North Vietnamese spy.
Plot Keywords: widow, soldier, filmmaker, vietnam vet, vietnamese woman, moving, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Japanese reporter arrives in Vietnam hoping to capture the essence the society under the rule of the Communist Party. With the help of a vietnamese girl, he eventually opens his eyes to the painful truth of postwar Vietnam.—Cha <cha@hk.super.net>
Plot Keywords: photojournalist, villager, peasant, government official, child, mistress, disheartening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This story is set in 1930, at the time when French colonial rule in Indochina is ending. A widowed French woman who works in the rubber fields, raises a Vietnamese princess as if she was her own daughter. She, and her daughter both fall in love with a young French navy officer, which will change both their lives significantly.
Plot Keywords: mother, daughter, lover, grandchild, revolutionary, colonist, brutal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It is French Colonial Vietnam in 1929. A young French girl from a family that is having some monetary difficulties is returning to boarding school. She is alone on public transportation when she catches the eye of a wealthy Chinese businessman. He offers her a ride into town in the back of his chauffeured sedan, and sparks fly. Can the torrid affair that ensues between them overcome the class restrictions and social mores of that time? Based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras.
Plot Keywords: virgin, playboy, businessman, parent, dreamy, dark, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this adaptation of Graham Greene's prophetic novel about U.S. foreign policy failure in pre-war Indochina, Audie Murphy plays an innocent Young American opposite the older, cynical Brit Sir Michael Redgrave. They play out their widely different views on the prospects struggle for the hearts and minds of the Vietnamese people in their competition over a young woman. Murphy wants to reform her and make her a typical middle class American housewife; Redgrave accepts her inability to formulate or retain a political ideal and while promising her no real future, he objects to Murphy's attempts to change her. It's not clear whether Murphy is just what he appears - a bungling Yankee do-gooder, or a deliberate agent of U.S. covert operations.—Rita Richardson <RRichar790@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: woman, journalist, undercover agent, assistant, police officer, economist, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: McGriff and Albaby are probably doing the worst law enforcement job in the world - they are plain clothes U.S. military policemen on duty in war-time Saigon. However, their job becomes even harder when they start investigating the serial killings of local prostitutes. Their prime suspect is high ranking U.S. Army officer which brings their lives in danger.—Dragan Antulov <dragan.antulov@altbbs.fido.hr>
Plot Keywords: detective, partner, nun, commanding officer, prostitute, suspect, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A party of yachting jet-setters visit French Saigon, where they meet lovely Manon deVargnes, a second-class citizen not allowed to leave the country due to her part-Oriental ancestry. When the others leave, playboy Bill Carey stays behind to woo Manon; but all his efforts to get her out of the country with him run into a brick wall. And Pierre Delaroch, her wealthy former admirer, waits for him to give up...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: beautiful woman, american, millionaire, adventurer, priest, colonel, moving ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lloyd Dubeck (Paul Winfield) is a Vietnam vet who, having been back in the states for a few years, just can't get the hang of civilian life. Feeling marginalized and misunderstood, he decides to return to Vietnam. His hope is that he'll find purpose in his life if he can locate the child that he fathered with a Vietnamese woman years before. Knowing only that he child has green eyes, his search proves difficult, and stirs up many old memories of the war.
Plot Keywords: vietnam vet, government agent, orphan, brooding, uneasy, sad, saigon, vietnam ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Le Ly (Hiep Thi Le) lives in a small Vietnamese village whose serenity is shattered when war breaks out. Caught between the Viet Cong and the South Vietnamese army, the village is all but destroyed. After being both brutalized and raped, Le Ly resolves to flee. She leaves for the city, surviving desperate situations, but surviving nonetheless. Eventually she meets a U.S. Marine named Steve Butler (Tommy Lee Jones) who treats her kindly and tells her he would like to be married -- maybe to her.
Plot Keywords: girl, marine, victim, villager, refugee, intense, brutal ...
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