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Rating: 7.5 stars

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international film series 35mm vietnam sister poverty murder arson gangster

All movies seen on 10/03/2025

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Cyclo (1996)

Directed by Tran Anh Hung

Drama | Crime

Overview

Follows a young cyclo driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy’s struggles to scratch out a living for his two sisters and grandfather in the mean streets of the city lead to petty crime on behalf of a mysterious Madame from whom he rents his cyclo.

Length 123 minutes

Actors

Le Van Loc | Tony Leung Chiu-Wai | Như Quỳnh Nguyễn | Hoang Phuc Nguyen | Quang Hai Ngo | Tuyet Ngan Nguyen | Doan Viet Ha | Bjuhoang Huy | Vo Vinh Phuc | Le Kinh Huy | Trần Nữ Yên Khê | Trịnh Thịnh | Lê Công Tuấn Anh | Le Tuan Anh | Chu Hung | Nguyen Van Day | Mạnh Cường

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Not a horror movie but I will make an exception for movies on 35mm during October. Also a movie that no longer has distribution rights in the USA, which is why they couldn’t promote the title on the website or calendar.

Not a horror movie but definitely has horrific scenes, very violent. 99 percent sure all the animal violence was real. Also understandable why this film was banned in Vietnam; not exactly the prettiest portrait of the country and its people.

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