Acting
Kieu Chinh
Born July 3, 1937 · Hanoi, Vietnam (age 89)
Kieu Chinh (born September 3rd, 1937) is a Vietnamese-American actress, producer, humanitarian, lecturer and philanthropist. One of the most prominent film stars in South Vietnam during the 60s and 70s, she immigrated to America after 1975 and eventually settled in California where she resumed acting with the help of Tippi Hedron; her first credit in America was as Hawkeye’s South Korean love inte…
Known For
City of Angels · 1998City of Angels
★ 6.81998
MovieRomanceDrama
When a guardian angel – who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles – becomes captivated by 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.
21 · 200821
★ 6.72008
MovieDramaCrime
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.
Hollow · 2014Hollow
★ 7.52014
MovieMysteryHorror
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.
Trade of Innocents · 2012Trade of Innocents
★ 5.22012
MovieDramaThriller
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, 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 where lives of local neighborhood girl's freedoms and dignity are threatened.
Hamburger Hill · 1987Hamburger Hill
★ 6.61987
MovieWarAction
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.
The Joy Luck Club · 1993The Joy Luck Club
★ 7.11993
MovieDrama
Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts.
The Shadow on the Roadside · 1973The Shadow on the Roadside
★ 1.01973
MovieDrama
In the countryside of South Vietnam during the war, a local woman falls in love with a soldier stationed nearby, not knowing he had already married and a confrontation with his wife would soon break off the dalliance. 10 years later, a fateful event brings them all back together to determine once and for all what their future paths would be.
ChrysalisChrysalis
MovieAdventureDrama
In war-torn 1970s Vietnam, a resourceful young boy navigates his place in a chaotic world, guided by his grandmother’s wisdom while haunted by memories of his fractured family.
Movies
City of Angels · 1998City of Angels
★ 6.81998
MovieRomanceDrama
When a guardian angel – who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles – becomes captivated by 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.
21 · 200821
★ 6.72008
MovieDramaCrime
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.
Hollow · 2014Hollow
★ 7.52014
MovieMysteryHorror
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.
Trade of Innocents · 2012Trade of Innocents
★ 5.22012
MovieDramaThriller
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, 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 where lives of local neighborhood girl's freedoms and dignity are threatened.
Hamburger Hill · 1987Hamburger Hill
★ 6.61987
MovieWarAction
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.
The Joy Luck Club · 1993The Joy Luck Club
★ 7.11993
MovieDrama
Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts.
The Shadow on the Roadside · 1973The Shadow on the Roadside
★ 1.01973
MovieDrama
In the countryside of South Vietnam during the war, a local woman falls in love with a soldier stationed nearby, not knowing he had already married and a confrontation with his wife would soon break off the dalliance. 10 years later, a fateful event brings them all back together to determine once and for all what their future paths would be.
ChrysalisChrysalis
MovieAdventureDrama
In war-torn 1970s Vietnam, a resourceful young boy navigates his place in a chaotic world, guided by his grandmother’s wisdom while haunted by memories of his fractured family.
Pearls of the Far East · 2012Pearls of the Far East
2012
MovieRomanceDrama
Seven stories about Vietnamese women spanning different generations, exploring their inner lives and forbidden loves.
Love Storm · 1972Love Storm
1972
MovieRomance
A law student and a navy officer fosters a beautiful love, but soon get separated by war.
Face · 2002Face
★ 5.32002
MovieDrama
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.
What's Cooking? · 2000What's Cooking?
★ 5.72000
MovieComedyDrama
Four families of different ethnicities prepare for a potentially explosive Thanksgiving dinner.
The Eyes I Used to Know · 1964The Eyes I Used to Know
1964
MovieDrama
A doctor is distraught to find out the newly-admitted patient in his shift is the daughter of his childhood sweetheart.
Gleaming the Cube · 1989Gleaming the Cube
★ 6.01989
MovieCrimeThriller
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.
The Evil Within · 1970The Evil Within
★ 9.01970
MovieDramaThriller
Interpol follows a fat man from Tokyo to Hong Kong to Manila as he takes care of business for an opium empire.
Control Freak · 2025Control Freak
★ 5.62025
MovieHorror
A motivational speaker, plagued by an uncontrollable itch on her head, becomes infected with a parasitic demon from her homeland.
In Full Bloom · 2019In Full Bloom
★ 6.42019
MovieAnimationFantasy
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.
The Lucifer Complex · 1978The Lucifer Complex
★ 3.01978
MovieTV MovieScience Fiction
An intelligence agent discovers a Nazi plot to revive the Third Reich by using clones.
The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer · 1986The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
★ 6.31986
MovieCrimeMystery
After two attempts to kidnap a little girl Mike Hammer is hired to protect her.
Tempted · 2003Tempted
★ 6.02003
MovieDramaRomance
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.
Green Dragon · 2001Green Dragon
★ 6.22001
MovieDrama
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
Vietnam Texas · 1990Vietnam Texas
★ 6.01990
MovieAction
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.
Welcome Home · 1989Welcome Home
★ 6.61989
MovieDrama
Jake died in Vietnam; his family mourned him, then moved on. When he reappears, quite alive, the question is, what must he do and how will his family respond to him?
The Other Victim · 1981The Other Victim
★ 8.01981
MovieDramaCrime
After his wife is raped, a man struggles to find ways to express the anger and helplessness which the crime has instilled in him.
TV Shows
NCIS: Los Angeles · 2009NCIS: Los Angeles
★ 7.52009
SeriesDrama
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.
ER · 1994ER
★ 7.81994
SeriesDrama
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.
Chicago Hope · 1994Chicago Hope
★ 7.21994
SeriesDrama
Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The series is set in a fictional private charity hospital in Chicago, Illinois.
The Neighborhood · 2018The Neighborhood
★ 7.62018
SeriesComedy
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.
Touched by an Angel · 1994Touched by an Angel
★ 7.21994
SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama
Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.
Cybill · 1995Cybill
★ 5.91995
SeriesComedy
Cybill is an American television sitcom created by Chuck Lorre, which aired on CBS from January 2, 1995, to July 13, 1998. Starring, Cybill Shepherd, the show revolves around the life of Cybill Sheridan, a twice-divorced single mother of two and struggling actress in her 40s, who has never gotten her big show business break.
Martial Law · 1998Martial Law
★ 7.11998
SeriesComedy
Sammo Law spins, kicks, and chops his way through crime as a one-man police force in Los Angeles. He's a tough law enforcer who comes to the U.S. in search of a former friend and protegée — and gets drafted as part of the LAPD.
Dope Thief · 2025Dope Thief
★ 6.42025
SeriesCrimeDrama
Two lifelong friends in Philadelphia pose as DEA agents to rob small-time drug dealers. It's a perfect grift—until they choose the wrong mark and become targets of a massive narcotics enterprise.
Promised Land · 1996Promised Land
★ 6.51996
SeriesDrama
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.
The Sympathizer · 2024The Sympathizer
★ 6.82024
SeriesDrama
Near the end of the Vietnam War, a spy who was embedded in the South Vietnam army flees to the United States and takes up residence in a refugee community, where he continues to gather intelligence and report back to the Viet Cong.
Roots: The Next Generations · 1979Roots: The Next Generations
★ 7.51979
SeriesDrama
Roots: The Next Generations is a television miniseries, introduced in 1979, continuing, from 1882 to the 1960s, the fictionalized story of the family of Alex Haley and their life in Henning, Lauderdale County, Tennessee, USA. This sequel to the 1977 miniseries is based on the last seven chapters of Haley's novel entitled Roots: The Saga of an American Family plus additional material by Haley.
Roots: The Next Generations was produced with a budget of $16.6 million, nearly three times as large as that of the original.