Acting
Tiana Alexandra
Born August 11, 1961 · Saigon, Vietnam [now Ho Chi Minh City] (age 65)
Tiana Alexandra-Silliphant (born Du Thi Thanh Nga; August 11, 1956) is a Vietnamese-American actress and filmmaker. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tiana Alexandra, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
A Dangerous Method · 2011A Dangerous Method
★ 6.32011
MovieDrama
Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient. Jung’s weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud. Both men fall under Sabina’s spell.
The Killer Elite · 1975The Killer Elite
★ 5.81975
MovieCrimeAction
Mike Locken is one of the principal members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the CIA, and while on a case for them one of his friends turns on him and shoots him in the elbow and knee. His assignment, to protect someone, goes down in flames. He is nearly crippled, but with braces is able to again become mobile. For revenge as much as anything else, Mike goes after his ex-friend.
Catch the Heat · 1987Catch the Heat
★ 4.81987
MovieDramaAction
Gorgeous Checkers Goldberg, a police detective, goes undercover as a stripper in order to stop a ruthless kingpin who has been using unsuspecting starlets in order to smuggle drugs into the United States. With her hot looks, street smarts and martial arts prowess, Goldberg seems to have everything she needs to catch this violent criminal -- and will stop at nothing to get the job done.
Fly Away Home · 1981Fly Away Home
★ 6.01981
MovieDramaTV Movie
Ambitious pilot to a prospective series revolving around a combat cameraman in Vietnam. Carl Danton is in Saigon on assignment at the start of the 1968 Tet offensive with a cynical boss in the local bureau chief. His love interest is a Vietnamese doctor whose brother happens to be a leader in the Viet Cong and whose influential parents are involved in high-level corruption.
The Three Kings · 1987The Three Kings
★ 4.01987
MovieFamilyFantasy
The made-for-TV film stars Jack Warden, Lou Diamond Phillips and Stan Shaw as three patients in a Los Angeles-area mental institution. Dressed as the Three Wise Men for a Christmas pageant, the trio is suddenly struck with the delusion that they are really their Biblical counterparts on a quest to find the Baby Jesus. As TV cameras grind away, the three ersatz Kings surreptitiously ride out of the gates of the asylum—on camels—and into the mean streets of LA. As the story draws to its conclusion, the three escapees find themselves providing a Christmas miracle (but not in the form of rap) for a group of homeless people on the outskirts of the city.
The General And Me · 2017The General And Me
2017
MovieWarDocumentary
Over the period of 25 years the director met General Võ Nguyên Giáp, a legendary hero of Vietnam’s independence wars, a number of times. She was the first American who entered the home of the “Red Napoleon”. The fruit of this friendship is a film, personal and politically involved at the same time. Travelling across the country and talking to important figures as well as ordinary people, the director finds out more about her roots and offers the audience a unique perspective on Vietnam’s present and past.
From Hollywood to Hanoi · 1993From Hollywood to Hanoi
★ 8.01993
MovieDocumentary
In 1988, a Vietnamese-American woman returns to her homeland for the first time since childhood against the wishes of her anti-communist father and the US trade embargo.
Pearl · 1978Pearl
★ 6.01978
SeriesWar & PoliticsDrama
Miniseries about the events leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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