VietNamNet Bridge - Four Vietnamese movies and the film Fifty Shades of Grey, ready for the Valentine Day season, are among the most-awaited films this month.

1. Unbroken

Release date: 6/2

Genre: Action, Fantasy

Stars: Garrett Hedlund, Jai Courtney, Jack O'Connell, Domhnall Gleeson

Director: Angelina Jolie

Language: English with Vietnamese Subtitles

Academy Award® winner Angelina Jolie directs and produces Unbroken, an epic drama that follows the incredible life of Olympian and war hero Louis “Louie” Zamperini (Jack O’Connell) who, along with two other crewmen, survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII - only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.

Adapted from Laura Hillenbrand’s Seabiscuit: An American Legend, an enormously popular book, Unbroken brings to the big screen Zamperini’s unbelievable and inspiring true story about the resilient power of the human spirit.    

2. Superman X

Release date: 6/2

Genre: Comedy, Action

Stars: Viet Anh, Huy Khanh, Pham Anh Khoa, Ngo Kien Huy, Diep Lam Anh, Lam Vinh Hai, Phuong Thanh

Director:  Nguyen Quang Dung

Language: Vietnamese with English Subtitles    

In the magnificent city of Saigon, there is a group of dangerous criminals led by notorious robber (Pham Anh Khoa) and Thuy Tien (Michelle Lam Anh). After the theft of the diamond of the "overly- confident lady" (Thanh Hang), they are captured by a "superhero". No one knows his name so people call him "Superman X."

3. The Lost Dragon

Release date: 6/2

Director: Cuong Ngo

Cast: Ngo Thanh Van, Le Khanh, Thanh Loc, Petey Majik Nguyen

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Language: Vietnamese with English subtitle

On the journey to the Earth for the mission of finding the lost treasure, Dan Nuong and Tieu Duyen, two beautiful fairies from Heaven are completely amazed by brand new things in the human world. They occasionally fall into many funny situations when trying to “transform” themselves into normal people.   

4. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

Release date: 6/2

Director: Paul Tibbitt, Mike Mitchell

Cast: Antonio Banderas, Seth Green, Clancy Brown

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Language: English with Vietnamese subtitles

SpongeBob goes on a quest to discover a stolen recipe that takes him to our dimension, our world, where he tangles with a pirate.

5. Trung So

Release date: 12/2

Director: Dustin Nguyễn

Cast: Dustin Nguyễn, Chí Tài, Thu Trang, Ninh Dương Lan Ngọc, Tấn Beo

Genre: Comedy

Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

Trung So is a funny story about the people in a small village of Vietnam. When Mr. Tu, who is struggling to return to his life after his time in jail and suddenly wins the lottery, this small place becomes noisy and chaotic, with many funny stories.

6. Quy Tu Bat Dac Di

Release date: 12/2

Director: Ngoc Giau

Cast: Hoai Linh, Viet Huong, Hoai Lam, Huy Khanh, Tran Thanh

Genre: Comedy

Language: Vietnamese with English Subtitles

The movie is about the love of an older couple, Mr. Minh and Mrs. Hai Mui. One day, they suddenly win a great fortune from the lottery, which makes them think of finding their lost son of 18 years ago. To take advantage of this family, many strange men showed up as their son, which leads to many crazy situations.

7. Fifty Shades of Grey

Release date: 13/2

Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson

Cast: Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Jennifer Ehle

Genre: Drama, Romance

Duration: 124 minutes

Language: English with Vietnamese subtitles

Literature student Anastasia Steele's life changes forever when she meets handsome, yet tormented, billionaire Christian Grey.

8. Kingsman: The Secret Service

Release date: 13/2

Director: Matthew Vaughn

Cast: Colin Firth, Michael Caine, Taron Egerton

Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Duration: 129 minutes

Language: English with Vietnamese subtitles

Based upon the acclaimed comic book and directed by Matthew Vaughn, Kingsman: The Secret Service tells the story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.

9. Detective K: Secret of the Lost Island

Release date: 13/2

Director: Kim Suk-Yoon

Stars: Kim Myung-Min, Oh Dal-Su, Lee Yeon-Hee

Genre: Comedy, Adventure

Duration: 115

Language: Korean with Vietnamese Subtitles

Joseon's top detective Kim Min (Kim Myung-Min) attempts to track down those responsible for circulating massive amounts of counterfeit silver bullion in Joseon. He also tries to find the missing sibling of a young girl.

10. Dragon Blade

Release date: 27/2

Director: Daniel Lee

Cast: Adrien Brody, John Cusack, Jackie Chan

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama

Duration: 126 minutes

Language: English with Vietnamese subtitles

Set in China during the Han dynasty (206-220 AD), Dragon Blade follows Huo An (Chan), an official framed and enslaved for a crime he didn’t commit. Soon thereafter, however, he meets Roman soldier in Cusack’s Lucius and the pair begin to form an unlikely alliance.

11. The Lazarus Effect

Release date: 27/2

Director: David Gelb

Stars: Evan Peters, Olivia Wilde, Mark Duplass

Genre: Thriller

Language: English with Vietnamese Subtitles

The movie follows a group of researchers led by Frank and his fiancé Zoe who've achieved the unimaginable - bringing the dead back to life. After a successful, yet unsanctioned, trial on a newly deceased animal, the team is ready to unveil their breakthrough to the world. When the dean of their university learns of their underground experiments, their project is unexpectedly shut down and their materials confiscated. Frank, Zoe and their team take matters into their own hands, launching a rogue attempt to recreate their experiment, during which things go terribly wrong and one of their own, Zoe, is horrifically killed. Fueled by terror and grief, Frank pushes them to do the unthinkable: attempt to resurrect their first human test subject. Initially, the procedure appears a success, but the team soon realizes something is wrong with Zoe. As her strange new persona reveals itself, the team quickly becomes stuck in a gruesome reality. They are no longer faced with the question.

12. Vice

Release date: 27/2

Director: Brian A Miller

Stars: Thomas Jane, Bruce Willis, Ambyr Childers

Genre: Action, Adventure

Duration: 96 minutes

Language: English with Vietnamese Subtitles

Julian Michaels (Bruce Willis) has designed the ultimate resort: VICE, where anything goes and the customers can play out their wildest fantasies with artificial inhabitants who look, think and feel like humans. When an artificial (Ambyr Childers) becomes self-aware and escapes, she finds herself caught in the crossfire between Julian's mercenaries and a cop (Thomas Jane) who is hell-bent on shutting down Vice, and stopping the violence once and for all.

13. Project Almanac

Release date: 27/2

Director: Dean Israelite

Stars: Amy Landecker, Sofia Black-D'Elia, Virginia Gardner

Genre: Sci-fi, Thriller

Duration: 106 minutes

Language: English with Vietnamese Subtitles

As a group of friends discover plans for a time machine, they build it and use it to fix their problems and personal gain. But as the future falls apart with disasters, and each of them disappear little by little, they must travel back to the past to make sure they never invent the machine or face the destruction of humanity.

14. Shaun the Sheep

Release date: 27/2

Directors: Mark Burton, Richard Starzak

Stars: Andy Nyman, Nick Park, Justin Fletcher

Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family

Duration: 85 minutes

Language: English with Vietnamese Subtitles

When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for. A mix up with the Farmer, a caravan and a very steep hill lead them all to the Big City and it's up to Shaun and the flock to return everyone safely to the green grass of home.

T. Van