VietNamNet Bridge – This month Vietnamese audiences will have a chance to enjoy 16 movies of all genres, from the US, Korea, Vietnam and China.
1. Insidious: Chapter 3
Release date: 5/6
Genre: Horror
Stars: Dermot Mulroney, Stefanie Scott, Angus Sampson
Director: Leigh Whannell
Version: English with Vietnamese Subtitles
When teenager Quinn Brenner (Stefanie Scott) senses that her late mother is trying to contact her, she seeks help from gifted psychic Elise Rainier (Lin Shaye). However, Elise's tragic past makes her reluctant to use her abilities. After Quinn is attacked by a malevolent entity, her father (Dermot Mulroney) pleads with Elise for help. With support from two parapsychologists, Elise ventures deep into The Further -- where she finds a powerful demon with an insatiable craving for human souls.
2. Lost and Love
Release date: 5/6
Genre: Psychological, drama
Stars: Andy Lau, Boran Jing, Wang Zhifei
Director: Peng Sanyuan Duration
Version: Mandarin with Vietnamese Subtitles
After his young son goes missing, Lei (Andy Lau) begins a 14-year quest to find him. On the road, he meets a repairman (Boran Jing) who suffered the same fate as Lei's son.
3. Obsession
Release date: 19/6
Genre: Horror
Stars: Yaya Trương Nhi, Hiếu Nguyễn, Trần Tuấn Lương, Hoàng Yến Chibi, Minh Thuận, Kim Xuân
Director: Bảo Nguyễn
Version: Vietnamese with English Subtitles
This is the latest horror movie for Vietnam cinema this summer. The film is about Thu (Yaya Truong Nhi), a shy and reticent girl from the countryside. Family problems caused Thu to seek quick wealth and success. Thu became a pragmatic and materialistic girl, who used her boyfriend Nam (Tran Tuan Luong) to achieve her purpose.
Seeing Hoang (Hieu Nguyen) - a player with stylish, wealthy look – Thu immediately left Nam for Hoang, who turned Thu’s life into a nightmare. Thu later died, leaving Hoang in doubt.
4. Always Watching
Release date: 19/6
Genre: Horror
Stars: Doug Jones, Alexandra Breckenridge, Jake McDorman
Director: James Moran
Version: English with Vietnamese Subtitles
On the hunt for an intriguing news story, a small-town news team follows a crew inspecting repossessed houses. Inside a particularly strange house, the news team discovers a box of video tapes inside a locked closet. Sensing a story, they decide to take them back to their studio. From the tapes, they learn that the family who had lived in the house was not pushed out by the banks, but fled the house in fear for their lives. Trying to decode the story, the crew keeps seeing a faceless figure dressed in a dark suit appear in the footage that causes the videotape to scramble. Their fear mounts when this figure, The Operator as he is deemed, starts to appear in their real lives, standing quietly and always watching them. Tortured and terrorized, the three crew members must track down the mystery of The Operator before it's too late.
5. Quyen
Release date: 19/6
Genre: Psychology, Action, Romantics
Stars: Vũ Ngọc Anh, Trần Bảo Sơn, Hiếu Nguyễn, David Trần, Gary Daniels, Hacker Bj
Director: Nguyễn Phan Quang Bình
Version: Vietnamese with English Subtitles
During the turbulent time when the Berlin wall collapsed, a Hanoi girl named Quyen struggled to survive. She had gone through trauma and loss to seek happiness with her love. Quyen represents a Vietnamese generation who lived through those stormy days.
6. Doraemon: Nobita's Space Heroes
Release date: 26/6
Genre: Comedy, Kids, Shounen, Space
The film was released in Japan on March 7 2015. This movie commemorates the 35th anniversary of the Doraemon (1979) anime series and 10th anniversary of the Doraemon (2005) anime.
One day Doraemon, Nobita, Shizuka, Gian and Suneo were shooting a film as space heroes. When they were shooting in an open lot, a boy named Aron alerted them of aliens attacking his planet. They agreed to help him by turning them into real superheroes, but it wasn't as easy as it looked.
7. The Age of Adaline
Release date: 26/6
Genre: Drama, Romance
Stars: Blake Lively, Michiel Huisman, Harrison Ford
Director: Lee Toland Krieger
Version: English with Vietnamese Subtitles
After miraculously remaining 29 years old for almost eight decades, Adaline Bowman has lived a solitary existence, never allowing herself to get close to anyone who might reveal her secret. But a chance encounter with charismatic philanthropist Ellis Jones reignites her passion for life and romance. When a weekend with his parents threatens to uncover the truth, Adaline makes a decision that will change her life forever.
8. Love and Mercy
Release date: 26/6
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Stars: John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks
Director: Bill Pohlad
Version: English with Vietnamese Subtitles
In the 1960s, Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson struggles with emerging psychosis as he attempts to craft his avant-garde pop masterpiece. In the 1980s, he is a broken, confused man under the 24-hour watch of shady therapist Dr. Eugene Landy.
9. The Stranger
Release date: 26/6
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Stars: Lorenza Izzo, Aaron Burns, Cristobal Tapia Montt
Director: Guillermo Amoedo
Version: English with Vietnamese Subtitles
A mysterious man arrives in a small Canadian town seeking his wife, though his presence plunges the community into a bloodbath.
10. Pound of Flesh
Release date: 5/6
Genre: Action, Criminal
Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Darren Shalavi, Charlotte Peters, John Ralston
Director: Ernie Barbarash
Version: English with Vietnamese Subtitles
A former black-ops agent (Jean-Claude Van Damme) begins a blood-soaked quest to find the organ thieves who stole his kidney before he could donate it to his dying niece.
11. Jurassic World
Release date: 12/6
Genre: Action, Adventure
Stars: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ty Simpkins, Nick Robinson, Irrfan Khan, Vincent D’Onofrio, Jake Johnson, Omar Sy, BD Wong, Judy Greer
Director: Colin Trevorrow
Version: English with Vietnamese Subtitles
Steven Spielberg returns to executive produce the long-awaited next installment of his groundbreaking Jurassic Park series, Jurassic World. Colin Trevorrow directs the epic action-adventure from a screenplay he wrote with Derek Connolly. Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley join the team as producers.
12. Admiral
Release date: 12/6
Genre: Action, Biography, History
Stars: Charles Dance, Rutger Hauer, Barry Atsma
Director: Roel Reiné
Version: English with Vietnamese Subtitles
When the young republic of The Netherlands is attacked by England, France and Germany, and the country itself is on the brink of civil war, only one man can lead the county's strongest weapon, the Dutch fleet: Michiel de Ruyter.
13. Chronicles of Evil
Release date: 19/6
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Stars: Daniel Choi, Son Hyun-joo, Dong-seok Ma
Director: Baek Woon-hak
Version: Korean with Vietnamese Subtitles
Detective Squad Chief Choi is set for a promotion for his work and his reputation. After a party with his colleagues he falls victim to the wrong taxi-driver who tries to rob him, but is killed accidentally by Chief Choi. Choi fears about his promotion and decides to cover up the murder. He hides the body and the car and then goes home. But the next day the body he thought to be hidden is hanging from a crane and appears in the newspapers. Chief Choi is shocked and takes on the investigation in order to erase all traces that could lead to him. But at the same time, a mysterious phone call brings Choi to the edge.
14. Spooks: The Greater Good
Release date: 19/6
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Stars: Kit Harington, Jennifer Ehle, Tuppence Middleton
Director: Bharat Nalluri
Version: English with Vietnamese Subtitles
When a terrorist escapes custody during a routine handover, Will Holloway must team with disgraced MI5 Intelligence Chief Harry Pearce to track him down before an imminent terrorist attack on London.
15. Infini
Release date: 19/6
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Stars: Daniel MacPherson, Grace Huang, Luke Hemsworth
Director: Shane Abbess
Version: English with Vietnamese Subtitles
An elite 'search and rescue' team travel to an off-world mining facility to rescue Whit Carmichael, the lone survivor of a biological outbreak.
16. Terminator: Genisys
Release date: 26/6
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney
Director: Alan Taylor
Version: English with Vietnamese Subtitles
After finding himself in a new time-line, Kyle Reese teams up with John Connor's mother Sarah and an aging terminator to try and stop the one thing that the future fears, "Judgement Day".
T.Van