Skylark in the City

Defectors from Hitler's army join the French Foreign Legion and end up in Vietnam in the late '40s.

Two classmates volunteer to work in logistics across the forests of Trường Sơn mountains.

Vĩnh is a seventh-grade student whose disruptive nature and disregard for studying has greatly frustrated his parents and the school staff alike. When all the teachers end up refusing to take Vĩnh in out of fear of having to deal with his notorious tantrums, only a young teacher, Mrs. Hồng Vân, welcomes the boy into her class with open arms.

Two talented swimmers from a small village are invited by a factory to compete for their team in national tournaments, but soon discover they are being used as a publicity ploy by the factory.

After the war ends, Luy returns home and is now assigned as Commune Secretary of his coastal village. However, his wife is now wedded to Son, a soldier of the formerRepublic of Vietnam regime.

A young wife awaits the return of her husband from the war. But when he arrives, mutilated and sick, she is repulsed.

A soldier (Hien) survives the war and comes back to live with his brother's family (Tien). He can't seem to adjust to civilian life after the war and feels increasingly alienated from other people, whom he finds calculating, selfish and materialistic.

An old man chances upon a ceramic teapot while working as a gravedigger. Fervently believing that the teapot is a valuable piece of antique, he risks life and death to protect it against the concern of his family.

No one can understand why a successful and seemingly happily married actress killed herself, but some think that it has to do with what happened to her during the war.

The film is about a family of fishermen. The father, lost in passion, devoted himself to finding treasures in a ship wrecked at sea, who inadvertently deprived the happiness and the lives of his children.

A South Vietnamese soldier deserts the army and comes back to find his girlfriend, only to find out she has moved to Saigon. Dejected, he leaves to seek hiding in Da Lat, where he befriends an amateur singer with a special voice.