"Indochine, 1945-195?, by antonivakin
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- DirectorClaude Bernard-AubertStarsBruno PradalJean-François PoronKarina VerlierAfter a nurse is captured in Vietnam and held prisoner in a small jungle village, a group of soldiers is tasked with rescuing her.
- DirectorSerge BourguignonStarsHardy KrügerNicole CourcelPatricia GozziStory of a lonely young girl who is befriended by an innocent but emotionally disabled veteran of the French Indochina War.
- DirectorClaude Bernard-AubertStarsAlain BouvetteJean-Claude MichelJean PontoizeauA somber meditation on a war already lost.
- DirectorPierre SchoendoerfferStarsJacques PerrinNicole GarciaCharles DennerDuring a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the methods of Captain Caron, killed in action in 1957. The widow of the captain, Patricia, decided to file a defamation suit.
- DirectorPierre SchoendoerfferStarsFlorence DarelBruno CremerClaude RichHenri Lanvern is shooting a film in Thailand. One evening, at the end of the shooting, he sees a friend of the war, General Cao Ba Ky, escaped from a communist re-education camp. No more news from Lanvern since.
- DirectorRobert FloreyStarsDick PowellMärta TorénVincent PriceA post World War 2, US Army agent is assigned to join the Foreign Legion in search of high ranking Nazi war criminal who may have also enlisted.
- DirectorMark RobsonStarsAnthony QuinnAlain DelonGeorge SegalFrench Army colonel Raspeguy leads his paratroopers in battle against the Communist Viet Minh in Indochina and against Algerian guerrillas during the Algerian War.
- DirectorVan Thong NguyenVu TranStarsLan NgocVinh ThúyUyen ToLittle Nga and her father earn their living by fishing on a riverbank. He father also carries a secret duty of transporting revolutionary cadres across the river to do their mission. Little Nga also helps her father with that secret duty. French troops have suspected little Nga's family for a long time of coordinating with people of the resistance war. When hearing that there will be a group of cadres crossing the river, the French tied little Nga's father and forced her to pretend doing her daily routine in order to trick the cadres. However, little Nga used her cleverness, wisdom, and bravery to rush to the riverbank to alert the cadres of the French troops. While doing that, she was shot down. Just before her last breath, little Nga releases a passerine bird - a dear friend of hers - whom she has been taking care of.
- DirectorLuu HuynhStarsThien Tu TranTruong Ngoc AnhKhanh Quoc NguyenWartime epic involving a poverty-stricken family who struggle to make ends meet, and the mother who does the unthinkable to provide her daughters with the traditional silk dresses required to attend school.
- DirectorDuc Hinh NguyenHai NinhStarsDuc HongCu SyDuc MinhAbout a young soldier Chinh Lan Cu, who was one of the first heroes of the People's Army of Vietnam, fighting against the French colonialists.
- DirectorManuel CondeStarsManuel CondeAida CariñoDing TelloAfter the Vietnamese war of liberation against the French, Vinh (Manuel Conde) comes home to find his village dominated by communists who execute his parents and incarcerate him. He also discovered that his sweetheart, Lan (Aida Carino), has joined the tyrants. Vinh rejects Lan and eventually escapes from Vietnam.
- DirectorSamuel FullerStarsGene BarryAngie DickinsonNat 'King' ColeIn 1954, during the French Indochina War, an Eurasian female smuggler and a group of French Foreign Legion mercenaries, infiltrate the enemy territory in order to destroy an arms depot.
- DirectorKy Nam PhamStarsGiang TraDu BaTri MinhTu Hau is a common woman from a fishing village whose husband has gone away to fight in the revolution. She takes care of her young daughter as well as her aging father-in-law. Soon, her peaceful village is attacked.
- DirectorLoc MaiStarsHoan DucPhuong TranTrinh TuyetFeature film on romance and social life of the minority ethnic in the Northwest of Vietnam. Mi and A Phu, a Meo couple, freed themselves with the aid of communist leadership and joined the rising against the French in August 1945.
- DirectorWallace GrissellStarsJohn ArcherDouglas DickJean WillesMulvaney (John Archer) and Cling Marshall (Douglas Dick), operators of a small-cargo airline which flies food into French and Viet Namese forces fighting the Communists invaders, are asked by the local American consul to keep an eye out for a lost American geologist, Professor William Marlow (Rory Mallison), and a secret Red base. No sooner said than done. Returing to their base, the Americans are captured by the Reds and in their escape and recapture, come upon the geologist, who is a prisoner at the secret base. Complications are added by the additions to the American party of a Chinese orphan boy, Jake (Hayward Hoo Soo), a pregnant widow, Ellen Philips (Maura Murphy), of a third airline employee Swede Philips (Don C. Harvey) , and the American's pretty French secretary Cleo (Jean Willes). With some difficulty, the Americns escape from the base, with information vital to the success of the French cause. In a finale of mostly newsreel clips, Mulvaney and Marshall return with French paratroopers to destroy the Communist base and revenge the murder of Jake.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsJacques SernasKurt KasznarArnold MossFour young French Army officers volunteer to join the Foreign Legion to fight in Dien Bien Phu (Vietnam) in 1954.
- DirectorPaul CarpitaStarsAndré MaufrayJeanine MorettiRoger ManuntaMarseille, 1953. Robert Fournier, a docker, wants to live with Marcelle, employed in a biscuit factory. But the apartments are inaccessible to the finances of the young couple. To get a home easier, Robert will reduce his union activities.
- DirectorJames ClavellStarsDolores MichaelsPatricia OwensNeville BrandA small group of Red Cross doctors and nurses are held captive by Chinese guerrillas in Vietnam.
- DirectorLéo JoannonStarsJacques HardenAlain SauryJean RochefortA refugee crisis in Vietnam occurs which complicates an French army captain's primary mission of securing a fort.
- DirectorClaude Bernard-AubertStarsCharles AznavourDaniel CeccaldiHelmuth SchneiderThe unsuspecting Parisian postman Thibon accepts a transfer as army mailman in Indochina. In the hospital, after his mail van is blown up by a mine, he falls in love with his Indochinese nurse Vang.
- DirectorMinh Tuan DoStarsKieu AnhPham Quang AnhIsaak LeMade in time to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu victory, Do Minh Tuan's film focuses on personal relationships as they manifest during turbulent political times. While fighting for the liberation of Dien Bien Phu, Bernard a young French soldier switches allegiance and joins the Vietnamese soldiers out of fear. Bao (Pham Quang Anh) guides Bernard on his journey and helps him as he's been wounded in combat. May (Kieu Anh), a nurse, is sent along with them to look after Bernard and help Bao. The journey has a profound impact on all three inadvertent companions - Bao and May gradually develop love for each other and Bernard's perceptions of the Vietnamese dramatically shifts through his time spent with them
- DirectorOumarou GandaStarsOumarou GandaZalika SouleyBalarabiCabascabo, a veteran of the French colonial army in Indochina, returns to his home town in Niger, acclaimed by friends and relatives. In fragmented flash-backs, he tells the story of his adventure and the battles in that distant land.