Vietnamese Queer-Related Movies
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- DirectorTrinh Dinh Le MinhStarsHong DaoLanh ThanhVo Dien Gia HuyNau Van returns home several years after staying in America on the anniversary of his father's death to meet his family. Unbeknownst to them, he returns with his long-term boyfriend, Ian.
- DirectorLeon LeStarsKim ChiIsaacVu T. Le ThiAn unlikely bond forms between an underground debt collector and a cai luong "Vietnamese opera" performer against the backdrop of Saigon in the 90s.
- DirectorNgoc Dang VuStarsManh Hai LuongVinh Khoa HoLinh Son NguyenKhoi, a naive twenty-year-old, travels to Ho Chi Minh City from the countryside to begin a new life. It's his first time in the big city and he's looking for a place to live. He befriends Dong, a handsome extrovert who offers to share his apartment. When Khoi goes to check the place out, he meets Lam, who also appears to be living there. Khoi decides to stay, but while he showers, Dong and Lam - who turn out to be boyfriends - run off with all his cash and belongings. It's not long before Lam is himself abandoned by Dong, and winds up back on the street as a prostitute. Meanwhile the penniless and disillusioned Khoi takes on menial jobs to survive. Lam and Khoi are eventually reunited, and despite Lam's past actions, the two become closer and closer - even though Khoi becomes more and more troubled by Lam's dangerous source of income. At the same time, Cuoi, a mentally handicapped man abandoned by his family, attempts to befriend a female prostitute. Her pimps do not take kindly to his hanging around and scaring away customers, but she takes pity on him and ultimately becomes his protector.
- DirectorNgoc Dang VuStarsTran Huy AnhNguyen Trung DanLa Quoc HungContinuing the story of the first part, Lam returned to Saigon to continue callboy, after 4 years of searching for Khoi in vain. Here, he meets Long again. Long also worked as a prostitute and secretly loved Lam. Thinking that Lam was dead, Long quit his job but did not give up his unrequited love. Another character named Cuoi is a one-sided lover of Long.
- DirectorNguyen Huu TienStarsBinh LyTran Ngoc VangTrinh Xuan NhanCuong is an admirable man. He has a successful career, a beautiful wife, and a good son. However, his life begins to turn upside down when he discovers Thang - a friend of his son is related to Trung, his gay lover in the past.
- DirectorBui Thac ChuyênStarsDo Thi Hai YenLinh-Dan PhamDuy Khoa NguyenA young newlywed couple in Hanoi begin to experiment with their sexual desires.
- DirectorKathy UyenStarsThanh HangTrang LeTruong Thanh LongA late night radio host offers a room at her opulent home to a runaway teen, not suspecting that her guest has ulterior motives that will force her to face her darkest secrets.
- DirectorHuynh Tuan AnhStarsThanh LocQuang MinhLien Binh PhatThe relationship between a gay nightclub owner and his drag queen partner becomes complicated when their son becomes engaged to a girl from a conservative family.
- DirectorDang Di PhanStarsDo Thi Hai YenHa Phong NguyenHoang Le CongIt is the late nineties, Vietnam is in economic turmoil and overpopulation has sparked political concern. Vu, a photography student, arrives in the sprawling metropolis of Saigon and moves into a slum neighborhood where he meets a mix of eccentric characters including Thang, a charismatic young man, who convinces Vu to get a vasectomy in order receive money from the government.
- DirectorQuang Dung NguyenStarsThai HoaDuc ThinhHong-AnhIn a group meeting of close friends, a member suddenly proposed a game of sharing the phone to increase the spirit of "solidarity".
- DirectorCharlie NguyenStarsThai HoaCory JacksonHuy KhanhA transgender Vietnamese businessman who becomes poor every time he falls in love with someone.
- DirectorCharlie NguyenStarsDustin NguyenKathy UyenThai HoaEarnest bathroom clerk Dung falls in love with lounge singer Mai, but she's being pursued by a tycoon who offers her a job in exchange for dating him
- DirectorAsh MayfairStarsHong Chuong NguyenLong Le VuNu Yên-Khê TranIn 19th century rural Vietnam, May is ready to become the third wife of a wealthy landowner. Little does she know that her hidden desires will force her to decide between living in safety and being free.
- DirectorHuynh Tuan AnhStarsNam EmTrinh Xuan NhanHai Trieu
- DirectorTham Nguyen ThiWhere does theatre begin and real life end? Endearing Madame Phung and her transvestite singers travel around Vietnam, sparking fascination and hostility from the local people.
- DirectorViet MaxStarsPhuong BellaPho Dac BietHuynh DongLOVE explores the relationship between friends, family, and lovers. This story begins with the origins of a blossoming friendship between two 10-year-old girls. Unfortunately, the childhood friends are suddenly separated due to the death of one of their brothers, then later reunited as young adults. Nhi is now a university student and the lead singer of a girl band. She has a handsome but uptight boyfriend, Hoang. On the other hand, Tu comes from a family whose father is struggling with depression and whose mother is working very long hours just to make ends meet. Tu is secretly loved by Mien, a colleague of Nhi. As the story progresses, the girls soon discover feelings that they did not know they had. They must decide if their feelings for one another are just as friends, or perhaps something more.
- DirectorNgoc Dang VuStarsVinh Khoa HoNam, 22, fled to Saigon for a murder. In one accident, Nam reached the sights of Huy, 25, a mysterious character completely unknown. Knowing Nam need money to survive, so Huy promised Nam that he will pay 200 million in exchange for he can own Nam for 20 hours. And Nam has to do everything except things that are illegal. Nam were secretly sent back to the mysterious mansion of Huy, and from here Nam has to face the dangerous game and this guy's craziness. In this house, Nam is not alone like Huy told him before, but also with one young girl was stabbed to death and 1 grave. And when Nam want to escape the ghost house, only to discover Huy also stabbed to death. The killer is somewhere in the house? Who is she? Huy's relationship with the girl like? Can Nam safely escape with 200 million or not?
- DirectorSwann DubusPhuong Thao TranStarsLê Ánh PhongPhong grew up in a small town in the center of Vietnam - the youngest of six children. From the time he was a young boy, Phong felt like he was a girl with a mismatched boy's body. Not until he moved to Hanoi to attend university at age 20 did Phong discover that he was not the only one in the world with this predicament. His dream to 'find himself' by physically changing sex becomes a reality several years later. The movie follows Phong's struggle during these years, with excerpts from his intimate video journal, along with his encounters with family, friends and doctors - all of whom must come to terms with the boy's determination to become a complete girl.
- DirectorPhi Tien SonStarsBinh AnTrung DungMai Thu HuyenThe story revolves around the relationship of the three main characters is China - a place criminals in prison, Kim - a nurse and Customs - one guy in particular illness. Us people delve into the lives of bisexual people living in modern society. Just like the other love in the world, through many storms, many challenges, China and new customs to be together, but between them is an emotional relationship weird. Starring Kim also created a complex emotional triangle between three characters.
- DirectorHoang LeStarsBui Ngoc ThuanVu Duc HaiPhan Thi Mai Phuong
- DirectorQuang Dung NguyenStarsMinh HangThanh HangLeon LeA group of staff and employees from a resort cheat a famous boy-band to perform for them in order to keep their business when one of the members stay in their resort. However, things turn out not they way they want. Therefore, these people have to do the show themselves and everybody has a chance to show their talents.
- DirectorKay NguyenStarsKiko ChanHuu ChauHuong GiangAn Action-Comedy about a gay stuntman whose wish of becoming a woman got accidentally fulfilled when he has to run away from a deadly gang after witnessing a murder. After the operation, she could have lived a low-key life if her father had not gotten so sick, and the only opportunity presents to her is the chance to enter a beauty contest. Thus our hero's journey begins when she fights her way to the top prize, while diverting the gangster's assassin, the disgruntled ex girlfriend, bitchy fellow contestants and nosy fashion bloggers.
- DirectorRony HoaBui Thai NhienStarsNguyen Thi Nguyet AnhHuu ChauViet HaFollowing his father's diary, Dr. Truong goes to a small village in The Central to work voluntarily. There, he meets Nguyet and a gay guy, named Hai. Hai falls in love with Truong and tries his best to charm him, but Truong likes Nguyet. In predestination, Truong and Nguyet discover their fathers' love.
- DirectorCuong NgoStarsTruong Ngoc AnhKieu ChinhKris DuangphungSeven stories about Vietnamese women spanning different generations, exploring their inner lives and forbidden loves.
- DirectorKay NguyenBuu Loc TranStarsNinh Duong Lan NgocHong VanVeronica NgoThe re-enactment of the traditional dress (ao dai) era in 1960s, Saigon, thought to be the heyday of traditional Vietnamese costumes. Interwoven into that transformation in fashion and style of the ao dai in modern times which told through the story of the character named Miss Ba (Cô Ba). Audiences will also see somewhere the image of the 60s, 70s full of honest women. An image of Saigon in the past, gentle and steeped in contrast to the rush of a dynamic city will be described by fashion, namely the traditional dress in Vietnam. All of them are cleverly nested in the story between two families, between mothers and daughters, between a tailor and a fabric shop filled with dramatic rage.
- DirectorTuan-Duc DoanStarsTuan-Duc DoanDaniel JenkinsNu Tam TonOn an early spring day, a young man voluntarily comes to his death.
- DirectorHam TranStarsKathy UyenJayvee Mai The HiepPhuong MaiA neurotic junior fashion designer from New York discovers her fiancé, KIET, working overseas in Vietnam may be having an affair with a supermodel. With jealousy burning and her wedding date on the horizon, she conjures up a scheme to achieve the ultimate makeover, investigate the supermodels and infiltrate the high-fashion world of Saigon in order to catch him in the act. But her plan backfires when she really befriends the three supermodels and discovers that there is more to life than living through a series of checklists.
- DirectorVo Dang KhoaStarsLe GiangHoài LinhVo Dang Khoa
- DirectorCharlie NguyenStarsJohnny Tri NguyenNgoc DiepThai HoaKhanh Linh, a fashion magazine editor, is on the verge of losing her job if her next project is not a hit. She finds herself having to work with Son, a successful photographer who she injured in a car accident.
- DirectorHoang Tuan CuongStarsMinh NhíViet HuongHong Van
- DirectorNam CitoStarsKhanh LeNinh Duong Lan NgocLe Xuan TienScandalous TV host Quyen travels to her fiance's hometown hoping to uncover a mysterious showbiz secret. But she just might uncover more than she had bargained on.
- DirectorDiep Hoang NguyenStarsNguyen Thuy AnhThanh DuyHoang HaWhen young Hanoi couple, Tung and Huyen, discover they are going to have a baby, it inspires two desperate quests to raise money for an abortion. While Tung looks to illegal cockfighting, Huyen resorts to prostitution with a client that results in some surprising personal realizations.
- DirectorQuang Dung NguyenStarsKim DzungTang Thanh HaThanh HangWhen a kidnapped girl from an elite family is saved by a trio of tavern owners, she slowly realizes they are not what they seem; uncovering their secret training as assassins, she joins them as they use their home base to exact treasure and revenge from those who would dare visit.
- DirectorNgoc Dang VuStarsMinh AnhThu AnhNgoc Duong YenThuy 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.
- DirectorMinh Thang LyStarsSinger Doan TrangNgoc GiauLap HuynhLike a poem of this beautiful city, four love stories happen in Saigon will show you how lovely Saigonese and their Love could be.
- DirectorAnh Dq NguyenThis Vietnamese fable brought to life shows how a young boy's naïveté threatens the precious relationship with his uncle.
- DirectorNgo Thanh PhatStarsThien TungPong NguyênPhi Pa
- DirectorThi Trinh NguyenStarsNgoc Duc LuuIn this documentary, the filmmaker follows Master Luu Ngoc Duc, one of the most prominent spirit mediums in Hanoi, and his vibrant community through their rituals and everyday life. The film explores how effeminate and gay men in homophobic Vietnam have traditionally found community and expression in the country's popular Mother Goddess Religion, Dao Mau.
- DirectorNguyen Ngoc LamStarsThai Hoa
- DirectorViet VuStarsPham Thanh BinhNguyen Thi ToThe Ant-Man is about the search for freedom, depicting the daily life of a homosexual man whose body is inhabited by ants.
- DirectorViet VuStarsPierre GhislainViet VuWhile making a portrait of a single gay man in Lisbon, a Vietnamese filmmaker offers his character a little gift from the bottom of his heart. This is a film about the act of filming.
- DirectorCesar EspadaStarsCesar EspadaKien Kk XenonAlfonso MangoLife, dreams and nightmares of a Vietnamese transvestite in Hanoi during the era of capitalist Communism: Independence, Freedom, Happiness.
- DirectorNicolas GrauxMinh Quy TruongStarsMinh Quy TruongNicole BonewAnne-Marie LoopIn an abandoned hospital, an encounter between a lonely sex streamer and a grieving old lady unleashes a flood of memories and virtual data.
- DirectorMinh Quy TruongStarsJean-François GenesteSouleymane SanogoGérard ThomasIn mining, a slag heap refers to an artificially raised hill consisting of the cleared waste that accumulates during the extraction of raw materials.
- DirectorHong Anh NguyenStarsNguyen Vu Truc NhuThuong LeNi LeMo navigates rush hour traffic to dodge an unwanted call. When she meets Vicky by the side of the street with her broken motorbike, a visceral chance encounter unfolds between the two young queer women on the loud streets of Saigon.
- DirectorMinh Quy TruongStarsThi Nga NguyenDaniel Viet Tung LeIn the underground coal mines, Nam and Viet, young miners, face danger and darkness. One prepares to leave for a new life, but they must find Nam's father's remains, a soldier lost in a faraway forest, retracing the past through memories.
- DirectorAsh Mayfair1990s Saigon, San wants to have enough money for a sex-change operation that will fulfil her dream of living in a woman's body. San's lover, Nam, must work as an underground dog-cage fighter to support this dream. The young lovers are unaware that the dark forces they will have to battle may cost them their relationship and test the limit of their humanity.