Businessman Lucky Loc has finally gained a respectable position in society. However, his winning streak comes to a sudden halt when he pays with "funny money" to an unsuspecting salesgirl, Quyen. Believing it to be his lucky charm, he's convinced giving away the bill caused his misfortune. At the same time, Quyen's fortune plummets and she blames the cursed "funny money" for it. When Lucky tries to retrieve the bill and Queyen holds it for ransom, Lucky must do his best to survive this increasingly materialistic world, while keeping his soul and sanity intact.
In modern-day Saigon, three lonely strangers form a unique family as a ten-year old orphan plays matchmaker to a zookeeper and a beautiful flight attendant.
In French ruled Vietnam in 1922, the French and Vietnamese officers plot to sniff out arch-rebel De Canh.
Typically you know what you are getting into when you go see a movie billed as "romantic comedy." And often they lack romance or comedy and sometimes both. Not to mention that the simplicity of the characters often make the movie very predictable. That said, romantic comedies often don't work overall and viewers are left with a few good moments here or there. All that is said to explain what you won't find in "Fool For Love." That is because the two main characters, in particular Dustin Nguyen's character "Dung" have a complexity to them that creates a real life foundation from which the romance and comedy can be built.
Tri, a romantic and idealistic music producer, finds himself in a talent raising competition against Minh, an aggressive and pragmatic producer. During this race, Tri falls in love with Linh, his singer and only ticket to dreamland.
Assigned to protect a small town in Vietnam, Dao arrives to fight against the crime boss; but soon his past catches up with him, threatening to destroy the cherished village.
Three teachers run together an elementary school for local Hmong children in a remote mountain village. One day, an incident turns their life upside down, revealing the secrets and feelings they have been hiding for a long time.
On May 1, 1975 with Viet Cong troops march through Saigon celebrating their victory. Tham, caretaker of Victory Hotel, a relatively small establishment in downtown Saigon, nervously observes these celebrations. The owners have fled Saigon and the hotel is to be requisitioned by the new government. Tham wonders what his fate will be under the new regime. The next day he is told that that the hotel is to be transformed into a collective flat for the Viet Cong cadre and their families now entering the city. Tham is not hostile to this but is concerned about his place in the new set up. Will he still have a job? Will he be treated as an enemy?
Nguyet is an orphaned child living with her grandma in a seaside village of devout Catholics. When the village becomes a battlefield, the grandma, enraged by the fact her son died due to Vietcong mine traps, begins throwing grenades against the winning Vietcong soldiers. To ensure a strategical victory, Dung, a young combatant, is deployed to gun down the old woman.
In post-war Vietnam, a talented piano student and doctor in training begin a doomed love affair.
In 1981, six years after the withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam, Tan, a young former Vietcong officer, goes to take the ashes of his dead comrade, Thai, to his family in a remote area. On the overcrowded train out of Ho Chi Min City, he meets Mien, a former female soldier and witness to Thai's death.
Hai Cũ, a notorious outlaw robbing from the rich to give to the poor, writes to Hồ Chí Minh hoping to secure pardon for his subordinates and is then sent to work as a foreman for a military company. The company's officer turns out to be the student who has accidentally helped him to escape the police many years ago.
