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- A young woman chooses celibacy, turns to religion, and demonizes men in order to control her intense sexual desire. Her sister suddenly visits her seaside village, which opens many old wounds and leads to tragedies.
- IN THEIR FIRST TEAM-UP, AN ACTION-COMEDY FILM, MARICEL SORIANO PLAYS ROOKIE TO FPJ's PICKPOCKET KINGPIN OPERATING IN THE HEART OF MANILA.
- Two cousins, Lynette and Roselle, experience increasing sexual awareness leading up to their high school graduation.
- A young woman marries a security guard and gets entangled in the numerous debilitating problems of her husband's family.
- Teng Teng is an orphan who works by collecting junk from the streets. One day, as a reward for his good deeds, he is given the magic barbell (dumbbell) which empowers him to be Captain Barbell, who fights evil forces in the land.
- Elsa saw the blessed Virgin Mary who had changed her life and caused a hysteria in a poor isolated village.
- Five chaste adolescents attempt to navigate the wild and unpredictable drama of their final year of high school, only to discover that their friendship is what keeps them afloat.
- Hunters become the hunted when illegal dynamite disturbs the ageold slumber of a carnivorous lizardman. Resort owner Angela, joins forces with Sheriff Keefer to save tourists from the beast's path of death.
- Witness the soldiers who risk their lives to protect the people. Giving up their personal happiness to respond to the call of duty, the dedicated servicepeople encounter tremendous excitement on the battlefield as the conflict between Christians and Muslims rages on.
- The film revolves around Bumbo who is known as the "bad boy" for killing his father while trying to protect his mother, as a young boy.
- Group of kids explore an underground cavern and find a mystical land where they battle Lotus, an evil sorceress.
- Weng Weng is now working for the Manila branch of Interpol. The Chief sends him in the pursuit of Mr X, an arch villian with a white sock on his head, who is holding the Philippines to ransom. Two businessmen, Maolo and Simeon, pay the demands but Weng Weng suspects foul play and goes deep undercover to reveal the identity of Mr X.
- North American and Asian women are brainwashed into becoming suicide bombers in an evil Filipino POW camp
- A boatman wants more than just paddle his canoe for tourists in his town famed for its waterfalls. He moves to Manila, and lands a job as a live-sex performer, and his partner sees in him a way out of the slums and the red light district.
- Monique is a popular singer disguised as Digna to escape from her stepfather and her stepbrother Gilbert, who slowly killed her mother and also wanted to kill her to seize their wealth. Gilbert and his father thought Monique was dead until he met her in a restaurant as a waitress; Gilbert hunts Monique to kill her. Trying to escape his men, she accidentally meets Carding, a thief, in Ermita with his sidekick Libag. Their love story begins while she stays in Carding's slum along with the kids Carding is tending. Gilbert and his father are later caught during police operations and Monique recovered her house and wealth. In the end, Monique keeps Carding's kids in her house and they confirm their love for each other.
- Two teen stories in one film starring the talented Herbert Bautista. In one story (Dear Party Line), he is a houseboy who strikes up a friendship with a girl over the phone. In another story (Dear Killer), he and his friends play detective.
- A young girl is chosen by an angel to become superheroine to which she must face offer against a satanic worshipper and his lackeys.
- The hidden nightlife of ordinary people living in Manila unveils. Lovers and families' conflicts are radically pitted against each other as they live in the night streets rampant with drugs and prostitution. The outstanding narrative explicitly unravels the various characters and episodes. This landmark film of Ishmael Bernal depicts the darkness of city life so vividly that it was once prohibited to use the word 'Manila' on its title.
- Panday is a blacksmith whose real name is Flavio. When a meteor fell from the sky one night, he forged the metal from the meteor into a dagger, the balaraw. When he raises the dagger to the sky, it magically grows into a sword. He uses this magical sword to fight the evil Lizardo (Max Alvarado) and other supernatural beings. Eventually, Lizardo and his minions are destroyed.
- A mother and a daughter with a complex love-and-hate relationship keep and maintain a whorehouse on top of a hill.
- Ester Postigo (Nora Aunor) plays a social worker who cannot have a baby. Because of her infertility, her husband Luis (Raoul Aragon) goes to bed with her mother, Renata (Lolita Rodriguez) and she bears a child. Ester brings the matter to court.
- Alyas Baby Tsina/Alias Baby China (1984) is based on the true legal story of Evelyn Duave Ortega, aka Baby Tsina (She was called this in court documents because she looked Chinese. Otherwise there are no references to anything Chinese in her story or the film.) Duave was found guilty of murder in 1971 and several appeals while on death row culminated in a Supreme Court decision seven years later that declared her innocent and released her from prison.
- Contented barrio lass Salve is married to aspiring politician Alfred. Alfred meets Via and finds out that they can be very useful to each other's lives; he is set on pursuing a political career, and she is from a powerful political family who wants to continue to govern the land. Together, Albert and Via plan a scheme to get rid of Salve, but she survives--and takes revenge.
- A devoted fan is groomed to bring down her idol's career. A classic story of love, success, and what people are willing to sacrifice to achieve them.
- How the daily lives of seven women working different jobs in a big commercial bank in Makati are affected by their ambition for success in their chosen career paths and how this drive affects their personal lives.
- Leonardo de los Reyes gets framed by some hoodlums for murder, he escapes from prison and gets revenge to the people who harmed him.
- HERBERT BAUTISTA IS A YOUNG aswang-buster SUPERHERO IN THIS FARCE, THAT COMBINES COMEDY, HORROR, FOLKLORE,
- Kristine is a teenager living an affluent life with her mother and auntie. Her mother is the only one managing the hacienda of her late father. Since her mother is not used to managing the business, the hacienda, which was made as a collateral in a bank, has a risk of getting confiscated by the bank due to unpaid debts. Meanwhile, high-schooler Kristine meets Mark at school and they start going together. She introduces him to her mother--who realizes that Mark is the son of her former boyfriend, whom she dumped in favor of a wealthy man. Mark's father is also the manager in the bank where Kristine's mother's hacienda is mortgaged. So the mother suspects that her former boyfriend is using his son Mark in his revenge, so she secretly tries to break up Kristine and Mark, and later she forbids Kristine to see or talk to Mark. Kristine gets confused, and her aunt tells her about her mother's past with Mark's father. Kristine feels that her mother's attitude towards Mark is unfair. Kristine leaves her house to spend some time in their hacienda. The mother realizes that she shouldn't do to Kristine what her parents did to her; she never fought for her true love, the small-time businessman who is now the high official in a bank and wealthier than her parents. In front of her husband's tomb, the mother gives Kristine and Mark her blessing.
- Berting (FPJ), a good cop tries his best to keep the oath that he made to his duty. After being convicted and jailed for twelve years for avenging his wife's death, he swore to evade trouble and live a peaceful life with his daughter Angela (Julie Vega). But how long can he remain inaction if good people and the law do nothing as criminal elements continue to victimize innocent people.
- An honest policeman dishonorably removed from the service takes the law in his own hand--with a .45 gun in his hand. With nothing left but his honor and integrity, he's out to prove his innocence.
- Two women are in love with the same man: one is his wife, the other is his mistress, and between them is the man whose love and time they share. But even the most discreet of affairs can be laid open, and even the most submissive of wives can lost her patience. Vilma Santos, Hilda Koronel and Dindo Fernando lend their thespic talents to this moving tale of love, betrayal, and retribution.
- A mysterious, deadly rapist and murderer spreads terror and chaos among women in the city. But in the midst of intrigues, tensions, and dangers, a lawyer is attracted to a mysterious man and wonders if she will be his next target as she tries to get a congressman's son convicted of rape.
- An assassination attempt by rebels on a police officer was foiled by the real-life ex-convict (for illegal possession of firearms) and now the number one senator in the Philippines (during the 2022 elections) Robin Padilla.
- Alabang, an upscale suburb on the south of Manila, was the setting for this wacky tale of boys from the wrong side of the tracks, who easily fall for rich and pretty girls, who lived, of course, in Alabang.
- They're two people whose paths are unlikely to cross. She's (Sharon Cuneta) a rich balikbayan who has returned home to do business; he's (Rudy Fernandez) a just released ex-convict who's trying to build a new life. But fate does work in strange ways
- A fruit vendor uses her beauty and seductive charm as an advantage to attract customers. However, she soon finds herself tasting sweet sorrow upon meeting a young stranger.
- In 1985, in the obscure town of Santa Filomena, the Orapronobis, a cult under the leadership of Kumander Kontra (Roco), murders a foreign priest who gave the last rites to an alleged rebel, who was also executed by the same group. At the success of the 1986 EDSA revolt, political detainees, led by Jimmy Cordero (Salvador), celebrate the fall of the dictatorship. All political prisoners are released, including Jimmy, an ex-priest-turned-underground revolutionary. Not long, after, Jimmy marries a human rights activist, Trixie (Bonnevie). Jimmy becomes an advocate of human rights. Despite Trixie's protests, her brother, Roland (Lorenzo), and Jimmy go on a fact-finding mission to Santa Filomena to investigate the latest crime committed by the Orapronobis. Jimmy meets Esper (Alajar), his ex-girlfriend. He finds out that he has a son with her, Camilo (Herrera). They agree to keep Jimmy's true identity a secret form the boy. Conniving with the military, the Orapronobis step up their acts of terror. Jimmy's group helps evacuate the townspeople to the town church, then later to Manila. Back in Manila, Jimmy turns down a friend's invitation to rejoin the underground movement. Later, he and Roland are ambushed. Jimmy survives, but Roland does not. He recovers and shortly after that, Trixie gives birth to their child. Soldiers raid the refugee center with a masked man who identifies several of the barrio folk as rebels. The refugees and the human rights activists complain to the government. Esper and her son are abducted by the Orapronobis who accuse Esper of helping the rebels. She is raped and beaten up by Kumander Kontra in front of Camilo. Fighting back, she shoots at Kontra. In a hysterical rage, Kontra goes on a shooting rampage, killing Esper, Camilo and the captured barrio men. Later, the military bring the casualties to the town where Jimmy weeps over the bodies of Esper and his son. The film ends with Jimmy contacting his old colleague from the underground.
- A family's source of joy becomes the cause of all their grief. After years of trying to have a son, a couple finally decides to adopt one. While Shayne their only child is receptive at first, she finds herself getting increasingly jealous of Joel who has become the couple's center of attention. Shayne realizes that her adopted brother is no threat at all when he demonstrates his affection for her. But just when harmony is restored in the family, tragedy strikes during a beach excursion. Acting on a dare by Joel, Shane's father drifts afar from the shore and drowns. Shane's mother suffers a breakdown and blames Joel for the tragedy. Albeit Shane tries to hold the family together, the mother becomes inconsolable and demands that she return the boy to the orphanage. Now, Shayne must make the painful choice whether to keep her brother or submit to her mother's wishes.
- An apolitical worker in a printing press who works as a scab during a company strike belatedly realizes that everyone is affected by the evils of society.
- The story of a woman named Angela who was accused of aggravated murder finds herself in difficult desperate situation inside prison while meeting different kinds of women who were penalized for different kinds of crimes. She soon finds out that she is pregnant and escapes the prison to deliver her baby, but when the police realize that she's gone, they chase after her, and when they find her, to their surprise she is delivering her baby in a zoo.
- Florida (Vilma Santos) concocts a plan to avenge the abuse she suffered from devilish matriarch Octavia (Gloria Romero), only to discover that the child she used to exploit for her revenge is her own child. An oppressed housemaid has transformed herself into a wealthy and powerful business mogul through sheer dint of talent, ambition, and driving need to get revenge on her tormentors. She returns to the scene of her most abject debasement with the sole intent of humiliating the family who once made her life such a living hell. Unknowingly, she gets to exact revenge on the very person who turns out to be her own daughter by the son of her former mistress. Guillen's Kapag Langit Ang Humatol (1990) was based on a radio serial about the vindictive story of rags to riches, Florida.
- BOYS DEEMED DELINQUENT STAY IN A HALFWAY HOUSE WHERE THEY ARE TRAINED AND DISCIPLINED.
- The modern-day Robin Hood collects greasy money from jeepney drivers on behalf of the criminal syndicate. He then gets a meager amount in return which he uses to feed his adoptive parents who he loves dearly.
- AN HONEST COP AND A RUTHLESS JUDGE USE THE LAW AND VIOLENCE AS THEY ENGAGE IN MORTAL COMBAT.
- An amnesia-stricken heir and a country bumpkin tag along with four street hustlers to survive city living. But trouble awaits them when shady men are hunting their forgetful friend.
- A woman after killing her husband and his friends goes into post-traumatic shock and withdraws from any form of communication. A feminist journalist becomes interested in the case and resolves to unravel the truth behind the murders.