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Kieu Chinh is a Actor American born on 1 january 1939 at Hanoi (Vietnam)
Kiều Chinh (born Nguyễn Thị Chinh; 1937 in Vietnam) is a Vietnamese American actress best known for her role in The Joy Luck Club. She currently lives in Huntington Beach, California.
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Trade of Innocents (2012)
, 1h31Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Dermot Mulroney, Mira Sorvino, John Billingsley, Kieu Chinh
Roles (voice)
Rating54%
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 to use her. Alex, a human trafficking investigator plays the role of her next customer as he negotiates with the pimp for the use of the child. Claire, 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. She, and Alex both still are dealing with their grief of losing a child years earlier. As both of them struggle in their own way to overcome the pain of their past and realities of child exploitation where they now live and work, they find themselves being pulled together into the lives of local neighborhood girls, whose freedom and dignity are threatened.
21 and a Wake-Up (2009)
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Medical-themed films, Political films
Actors Amy Acker, JC Chasez, Danica McKellar, Faye Dunaway, Tom Sizemore, Todd Cahoon
Rating50%
The film is based on real events, focusing on the lives of three young nurses, one of whom undertakes a treacherous journey up the Mekong River to Cambodia to save a very young Vietnamese-American girl before her life is destroyed during the American bombing of Cambodia.
21 (2008)
, 2h3Directed by Robert Luketic
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about mathematics
Actors Kevin Spacey, Laurence Fishburne, Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Aaron Yoo, Liza Lapira
Roles Chinese Woman
Rating67%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) senior math major Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) is accepted into Harvard Medical School, but cannot afford the $300,000 fee. Despite a 44 MCAT score and top grades, Ben faces a fierce competition for the prestigious Robinson Scholarship that would pay entirely for the medical school. The director tells him that the scholarship would go to the student who would "dazzle" him.
Journey From the Fall (2006)
, 2h15Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Kieu Chinh, Diễm Liên
Roles Ba Noi (Grandmother)
Rating71%
The film traces the story of a family's struggle for survival in the aftermath of the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975 to North Vietnam's communist regime. After her South Vietnamese Army husband Long, is imprisoned in a North Vietnamese reeducation camp, Mai, her son Lai, and her mother-in-law escape Vietnam by boat in the hopes of starting a new life in Southern California. Believing his family is dead, Long gives up in the face of brutal conditions, while Mai struggles to keep her family from crumbling under the pressures of life in a new country. When Long learns his family is alive in America, he is reinvigorated and decides he must join them at any cost.
Tempted (2003)
Directed by Maggie Greenwald
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Virginia Madsen, Lainie Kazan, Jason Momoa, Kieu Chinh, Andrew McFarlane, Brooke Harman
Roles Kehau
Rating54%
Emma (Virginia Madsen) est une avocate qui, lorsqu'elle ne travaille pas, s'occupe de son mari et de ses deux jeunes enfants. Un jour, elle apprend le décès de Lily, la femme qui s'était occupé d'elle lors de son enfance et vivait avec son père. Dans une lettre, Lily lui demande de répandre ses cendres à Hawaï, la terre de ses ancêtres.
Cowboy Up (2002)
, 1h45Directed by Xavier Koller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Actors Kiefer Sutherland, Marcus Thomas, Daryl Hannah, Melinda Dillon, Molly Ringwald, Karina Logue
Rating56%
Rising rodeo star Ely Braxton (Marcus Thomas) is recovering from injuries that almost took his life. Against the wishes of his mother Rose Braxton (Melinda Dillon) and girlfriend Connie (Molly Ringwald), Ely starts riding bulls again to achieve his dream of becoming a champion bull rider like his estranged father, Reid Braxton (Pete Postlethwaite). Ely's older brother, Hank (Kiefer Sutherland), is a champion bullfighter and stock contractor, and the two use each other to better their rodeo skills and work together at their family ranch in Santa Maria, California. As Ely's rodeo career becomes highly successful, he starts a relationship with Celia Jones (Daryl Hannah), who is a barrel racer and Hank's love interest. Hank is consumed with anger and jealousy at Ely's betrayal and the brothers become estranged.
Green Dragon (2001)
, 1h55Directed by Timothy Linh Bui
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary, Action, Adventure
Themes Political films
Actors Patrick Swayze, Forest Whitaker, Đơn Dương, Billinjer C. Tran, Kieu Chinh, Kathleen Luong
Roles Kieu
Rating60%
The film follows the experience of Vietnamese refugees in the United States immediately following the Fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War. Tai Tran (Duong) has been appointed the camp translator by Gunnery Sgt. Jim Lance (Swayze). He has arrived with his sister's two young children. Their mother is believed to have been lost in the rush to leave Vietnam.
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce (2000)
, 1h59Directed by Chi Muoi Lo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Paul Winfield, Sanaa Lathan, Chi Muoi Lo, Mary Alice, Lauren Tom, Kieu Chinh
Roles Thanh
Rating65%
The story begins with Dwayne (Chi Muoi Lo), Dolores (Mary Alice), and Harold (Paul Winfield) playing a game of cards with Dolores trying to convince Dwayne to take a cat Harold found on the way home. Dwayne thinks there is clearly something wrong with the cat and refuses to take it. One afternoon, Dwayne in his living room with his girlfriend Nina (Sanaa Lathan). Dwayne excuses himself claiming he forgot something. We see a frantic Dwayne rushing to his bedroom. He grabs a small red box (obviously an engagement ring) a rose and some champagne. When he returns to the living room however he finds his roommate, Michael (Tyler Christopher), and his new transgender girlfriend (Wing Chen) waiting there. He quickly puts the ring away as he and Nina head to Dwayne’s parents’ house for a barbecue.
What's Cooking? (2000)
, 1h49Directed by Gurinder Chadha
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Cooking films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Mercedes Ruehl, Kyra Sedgwick, Joan Chen, Victor Rivers, Julianna Margulies, Douglas Spain
Roles Grandma Nguyen
Rating67%
On Thanksgiving day, four ethnically diverse families -- Vietnamese, Latino, Jewish, and African American — gather for the traditional meal. Each family has its own distinct way of cooking the traditional holiday meal and its own set of problems.
City of Angels (1998)
, 1h54Directed by Brad Silberling
Origin German
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about angels, Ghost films
Actors Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan, Andre Braugher, Dennis Franz, Colm Feore, Kim Murphy
Roles Asian Woman
Rating67%
Seth (Nicolas Cage) is one of many angels who watch over humans and protect them in unseen ways. Seth's main responsibility is to appear to those who are close to death and guide them to the next life. As part of this task, Seth and one of his fellow angels, Cassiel (Andre Braugher), like to ask people what their favorite thing in life was. Despite these daily encounters, they have trouble understanding human beings and their ways.
Riot (1997)
, 2hDirected by Galen Yuen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Hip hop films, Gangster films
Actors Luke Perry, Dante Basco, Mario Van Peebles, Lucy Liu, Alexis Cruz, Cicely Tyson
Roles Mrs. Lee
Rating61%
The film dissects the aftermath of the Rodney King verdict and the ensuing riots through four narratives. A Chinese liquor store owner tries to come to an understanding with his assimilating teenage son who sees his father's old world ways and non-aggressive Buddhism as signs of weakness. A Hispanic teenager tries to live a straight life and do well in school so he will not make the same mistakes his older brother had made, and be able to provide as best he can for his current and future family. A white LAPD officer struggles with obligations from his new girlfriend and not-quite-ex-wife, while confronting a surprisingly gung ho attitude from his fellow officers. An African American middle class man who has recently moved his new family out of "the ghetto", visits the store his father used to own in the old neighborhood and seeks to give some good news to his mother who has vivid memories from living through the Watts riots less than thirty years prior. These four stories are nominally separate vignettes, but interact with each other throughout the film.
The Joy Luck Club (1993)
, 2h19Directed by Wayne Wang
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Feminist films, Films about sexuality, Political films
Actors Ming-Na Wen, Rosalind Chao, Lauren Tom, France Nuyen, Tamlyn Tomita, Kieu Chinh
Roles Suyuan Wong
Rating76%
The Joy Luck Club was formed by four women in San Francisco: Lindo Jong (Tsai Chin), Ying-Ying St. Clair (France Nuyen), An-Mei Hsu (Lisa Lu), and Suyuan Woo (Kieu Chinh). The members have mainly played mahjong and told each other's stories over the years. They emigrated from their native country, China, remarried, and gave birth to children in America. Suyuan's daughter June (Ming-Na Wen) replaced her when Suyuan died four months before the time the film is set. The mothers have high hopes for their daughters' success, but the daughters struggle through "anxieties, feelings of inadequacy, and failures." Throughout the film, the mothers and daughters bond by learning to understand each other and by overcoming their conflicts.
Gleaming the Cube (1989)
, 1h45Directed by Graeme Clifford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Sports films
Actors Christian Slater, Steven Bauer, Stacy Peralta, Richard Herd, Max Perlich, Ed Lauter
Roles Madame Trac
Rating62%
Brian Kelly is an underachieving high school student living in Orange County, California. An avid skateboarder along with many of his friends, Brian is frequently at odds with his parents for his increasingly reckless behavior, which has landed him in jail on more than one occasion. The only person in the family Brian can relate to is his adopted Vietnamese brother Vinh, who works as a shipping clerk for the Vietnamese Anti-Communist Relief Fund (VACRF), an organization whose stated purpose is to send medical supplies to Vietnam.
Welcome Home (1989)
, 1h32Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Kris Kristofferson, JoBeth Williams, Sam Waterston, Brian Keith, Kieu Chinh, Thomas Wilson Brown
Roles Leang
Rating57%
Jake Robbins went off to Vietnam, leaving his wife behind to mourn when he is reported missing, presumed dead. Seventeen years later, he unexpectedly returns.