Amy Tan has established herself as one of America’s most respected literary voices. Born to Chinese immigrant parents, it would be decades before the author of The Joy Luck Club would fully understand the inherited trauma rooted in the legacies of women who survived the Chinese tradition of concubinage.

Journey from the Fall

2006

Vietnamese

7.2

♡ 5

Action

Drama

vietnam

Ham Tran Director

Kieu Chinh as Ba Noi

Jacquie Nguyen as Granddaughter On Boat

Lam Nguyen as Khanh

Long Nguyen as Long

Thirteen years after the end of the Vietnam War, a family who was tragically affected by the war are forced to emigrate to America.

Green Dragon

2001

English

6.1

♡ 9

63%

49%

Drama

War

Timothy Linh Bui Director

Forest Whitaker as Addie

Patrick Swayze as Gunnery Sergeant Jim Lance

Kieu Chinh as Kieu

Elyse Dinh as Red Cross Volunteer

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

Hamburger Hill

1987

English

6.7

♡ 40

100%

John Irvin Director

Kieu Chinh as Mama San

Don Cheadle as Pvt. Johnny Washburn

Michael A. Nickles as Pvt. Paul Galvan

Courtney B. Vance as Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson

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.

Trade of Innocents

2012

English

5.4

♡ 7

56%

Action

Adventure

child sex trafficking

Christopher M. Bessette Director

Dermot Mulroney as Alex Becker

Mira Sorvino as Claire Becker

Jonathan Isgar as Stan

Kieu Chinh as Voice Actor

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.