Noel Vera's 100 Best Filipino Films
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- DirectorGerardo de LeonStarsRogelio de la RosaVirginia MontesEnrico PimentelA man has 48 hours to find the men who wronged him before a bullet lodged in his chest reaches his heart.
- DirectorCarlos Siguion-ReynaStarsMaricel SorianoDina BonnevieTonton GutierrezThis is the story of a peasant woman who is a victim of love and oppression: a servant seduced and impregnated by her employer, who has had difficulty conceiving with his neurosurgeon wife.
- DirectorPablo SantiagoStarsFernando Poe Jr.Vic VargasPaquito DiazA vigilante is hunting down criminal elements in the streets of Manila.
- DirectorCelso Ad. CastilloStarsChristopher De LeonCharo Santos-ConcioEddie GarciaJulian's wife was raped when she protested his arrest, and later gives birth to a son. When the son dares to love the daughter of a wealthy Spaniard, he is hunted down.
- DirectorMike De LeonStarsJohnny DelgadoJulio DiazMelissa De LeonA black comedy set in the semi-futuristic Philippines that now has a Ministry of Entertainment. To be able to find employment, one must not only possess the necessary skills, but to be entertaining as well.
- DirectorRico Maria IlardeStarsZanjoe MarudoNor DomingoDimples RomanaAnton is a former boxer who retired upon accidentally killing an opponent in the ring during a prizefight in the U.S. Returning to the Philippines, he finds himself destitute and jobless. He is hired by a mysterious foreman named Erning who assigns him and a companion named Lope to renovate a lone, decrepit house on a hill at the outskirts of Metro Manila. While working in relative isolation in the house, an apparition of a ghostly child appears to Anton seeking his help to release her from the clutches of a demonic-looking entity dressed in a cloak and mask, who enslaves the little girl inside the second-story room of the house. Despite specific instructions not to open the locked basement door of the house, the mischievous Lope's insatiable curiosity leads him to do the exact opposite. He inspects the contents of that peculiar cellar of the home. Standing against a corner wall of the room, he finds a large antique wooden altar on top of which is the carved bust of a strange dark woman, eyes shut, seemingly in peaceful prayer. One creepy event leads to another. The men make the acquaintance of a pair of pretty maids, Angie and Giselle, who work for one of the neighborhood's other households. Anton and Angie quickly develop a budding romance and he solicits her help to unlock the ghostly house's strange and dark mystery. Little does Anton know that his arrival in the house was never sheer coincidence, but the deliberate, nefarious plan of a mysterious figure doing the bidding of a truly terrifying and evil force. Bloodcurdling events occur, one after the other, till all these snowball towards a violent climax.
- DirectorLamberto V. AvellanaStarsRosa RosalTony SantosJoseph De CordovaA war hero meets a prostitute in the postwar ruins of Manila.
- DirectorCelso Ad. CastilloStarsFernando Poe Jr.Paquito DiazBarbara PerezA former school teacher leads a movement to fight for the rights of the working class.
- DirectorMario O'HaraStarsGardo VersozaYoyoy VillameLou VelosoIn a poor village by the Manila Bay breakwater, brothers Buboy and Basilio come to the city to escape from the violence at home. They meet a prostitute named Pakita and become close with her when Basilio treats her wounds. All they want is to lead normal lives, but the town's leader Dave has knavish interruptions that await them.
- DirectorMario O'HaraStarsAya MedelMike MagatAnita LindaA newly-wed movie stuntman and his wife resides in a cemetery where they become aquainted with an assortment of characters.
- DirectorTikoy AguiluzStarsHelen GamboaDennis MarasiganIrma AdlawanThis documentary takes a hard look at the facts about the Filipina domestic, an Overseas Contract Worker (OCW) hanged in Singapore for the murder of her friend and fellow OCW, the nursemaid Della Maga. It documents Flor's accusation, confession, four years spent in prison, the lack of quality defensive support from the Philippine government and subsequent inaction when new evidence raised doubt about her guilt and the suggestion that Maga may have been killed by her employer. The chilling story is told with a combination of dramatic reenactment and documentary footage.
- DirectorMario O'HaraStarsDan AlvaroCarmi MartinJoel TorreBorn into poverty, Addon Labrador (Dan Alvaro), a tugboat worker, embarks on a life-threatening journey when his genial presence is shattered by his mother's sudden illness. Damaged and burdened by a huge hospital bill, he reluctantly agrees to participate in a death game that offers a substantial amount of money to the winner. Defeating his opponent only infuriates Rex (Joel Torre).
- DirectorMario O'HaraStarsNora AunorDennis RoldanAlicia AlonzoIt was almost a perfect love, but a love doomed from the start--a love that society would never understand.
- DirectorLav DiazStarsYul ServoJoel TorreGloria DiazA Filipino teenager is shot to death on a New Jersey, USA sidewalk: an investigation starts and his family and friends are interviewed. Along the way, more about him is revealed and so is more about the Filipino community in America in general, including the destructive effect of the drug "shabu" on its youth. The detective who handles the case also has his own personal demons to settle with his violent past.
- DirectorMike De LeonStarsMark GilSandy AndolongWard LuarcaThe lives of seven neophytes as they strive to enter a Greek letter fraternity through a difficult hazing process. The entire experience is seen through the eyes of Sid Lucero, one of the neophytes.
- DirectorLino BrockaStarsPhillip SalvadorGina AlajarVenchito GalvezAn 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.
- DirectorRaymond RedStarsJulio DiazRaymond AlsonaGrace AmilbangsaA tale about the rise, fall and resurection of the "Katipunan" and its Supremo. A semi-biography of Philippine hero Andres Bonifacio.
- DirectorMike De LeonStarsRicky DavaoJoel TorreCris VillanuevaPart-investigative documentary, part-satire and shot entirely in black-and-white, the film tackles the mystery that surrounds the life and death of the Filipino hero, Jose Rizal.
- DirectorMike De LeonStarsJoel TorreCherie GilRio LocsinMike de Leon screen adaptation of John Fowles' creepy film The Collector.
- DirectorManuel SilosStarsRosa RosalTony SantosLeroy SalvadorA young married couple, Maria and Jose (Rosa Rosal and Tony Santos) start life together creating a lanzones orchard in the countryside. They have four children - Miguel (Leroy Salvador), Arturo (Carlos Padilla Jr), Angelita (Marita Zobel), and Lito (Danilo Jurado). The eldest, Miguel, is a deaf-mute. Life is good to them and the children grow up and bring joy to the community. But trouble enters their lives when Jose makes an enemy of Bruno (Joseph de Cordova). Bruno, a widower, is much feared in the village, for it is rumored that he caused the death of his wife. And yet he wants to remarry and is courting Choleng (Mila Ocampo), Jose's niece. But Choleng avoids Bruno and one day, in trying to get away from him, she slips and falls off a cliff and dies. The village is outraged and Bruno hides in the mountains. There, he plots his revenge on the village, particularly on Jose's family.
- DirectorTikoy AguiluzStarsSarsi EmmanuelleSuzanne LoveJosephine ManuelA 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.
- DirectorIshmael BernalStarsVilma SantosChristopher De LeonOrestes OjedaA WORKING WIFE, A PRODUCTION ASSISTANT IN A TELEVISION NETWORK, AND A JOURNALIST SUCCUMB TO THE PRESSURES AND DEMANDS OF THEIR CAREERS AND GIVE UP ON THEIR MARRIAGE.
- DirectorMario O'HaraStarsNora AunorGina AlajarCelia RodriguezThe 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.
- DirectorCelso Ad. CastilloStarsVilma SantosRosemarie GilRolly QuizonTo support her paralytic father, Chato works as a utility girl for a burlesque star Virgie Nite. But when Virgie gets drunk on the night of her scheduled show, Chato pitches in for her. And she becomes an instant sensation. Enthused by the initial acceptance of the audience, she defies her father's admonitions and presents herself to the manager. And thus, becoming the new burlesque queen.
- DirectorIshmael BernalStarsCharito SolisAlma MorenoLorna TolentinoThe 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.
- DirectorLino BrockaStarsNora AunorPhillip SalvadorMarissa DelgadoA female movie fan idolizes a movie bit-player who becomes her obsession. Her unrequited love for him leads to a nightmarish end.
- DirectorMario O'HaraStarsNora AunorGina AlajarGloria RomeroA hired killer is hounded by the head of his own criminal group as he gradually unravels the syndicate's tightly-guarded secret.
- DirectorLav DiazStarsElryan de VeraAngie FerroPen MedinaThe collapse and the struggle of a poor farming clan in Philippines.
- DirectorChito S. RoñoStarsChristopher De LeonRichard GomezDina BonnevieSerge Osmeña and Geny Lopez are wrongly accused of plotting to assassinate President Ferdinand Marcos.
- DirectorLamberto V. AvellanaGerardo de LeonCirio H. SantiagoStarsNora AunorDindo FernandoRuben RustiaA trilogy featuring Nora Aunor giving life to the stories of 3 women: Fe, an emerging movie Superstar who has an invalid husband; Esperanza, a young wife living in a middle-class neighborhood in the city; and Caridad, a young novice who was seduced by the devil himself.
- DirectorGerardo de LeonStarsPancho MagalonaCharito SolisTeody BelarminoJuan Crisostomo Ibarra has changed his name and identity to rich jeweler Simoun. In disguise, he travels the world amassing wealth, which he intends to use to topple the corrupt and abusive regime in his native land. But Simoun's real motive is personal. He wants to rescue his beloved, Maria Clara, from the convent and avenge the death of his father. In a forest on Christmas Eve, medical student Basilio recognizes Simoun as the man who helped bury his mother Sisa under a tree over 10 years ago. Simoun is in the forest to retrieve the gems he buried near Sisa's grave. As the film progresses, all the secrets and intrigues are revealed, and the plotters' plan fails. A good Filipino priest throws Simoun's jewels away, thereby eliminating the greed, violence, and other evils they might have provoked.
- DirectorManuel CondeStarsManuel CondeElvira ReyesInday JalandoniTemujin, who later became Genghis Khan is wise, or sometimes cunning. He goes through several heroic episodes; competing at the Man of Men contest, falling in love with the enemy commander's daughter, and struggling to restore his demolished hometown. Meanwhile his steps guide him to be a great conqueror. Khan's witty, humorous side in his adolescent years before he takes the throne.
- DirectorLav DiazStarsMark Anthony FernandezDonita RoseJoel LamanganHesus Mariano is caught in a deadly match between his mentor Rebel Leader Miguel Reynante and military Colonel Arnold Simon. Drawing inspiration from his childhood sweetheart Hilda, Hesus decides to change the rules and take control of the game.
- DirectorIshmael BernalStarsNora AunorSpanky ManikanGigi DueñasElsa saw the blessed Virgin Mary who had changed her life and caused a hysteria in a poor isolated village.
- DirectorMike De LeonStarsChristopher De LeonLorna TolentinoDina BonnevieA wealthy man comes to terms with his stepsister.
- DirectorIshmael BernalStarsMaricel SorianoCharito SolisDante RiveroYoung Carmen Castro (Maricel Soriano) is unmarried and pregnant and informs her cousin Stella (Amy Austria) about her situation. Stella scoffs and recommends abortion, as does Jerry, the child's father. Her overly-religious landlady Juling (Charito Solis), who is busy juggling her religious aims and her legal quarrel with the poor families illegally living on her land, strongly suggests that she keep the baby, as killing it would be a sin against God. Carmen sees signs that would seemingly suggest an answer to her difficult decision. Her poor neighbors struggle for money to feed their children. She sees a physically malformed child vending goods outside the church. She loses her job at a financing company due to the struggling economy during that time. Carmen eventually decides to have an abortion in a deeply moving scene with close-up shots of the cold steel utensils.
- DirectorGerardo de LeonStarsAmalia FuentesRomeo VasquezEddie GarciaSiblings discover that their father has their vampire mother chained up in the cellar. The mother bites her son and soon everyone in the community is either dead or a vampire.
- DirectorIshmael BernalStarsNora AunorVilma SantosChristopher De LeonA 1978 Filipino romantic drama film about a man's guilt over his affair with another woman that hurt the feelings of his long time girlfriend.
- DirectorLino BrockaStarsLolita RodriguezNora AunorRaul AragonEster 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.
- DirectorLaurice GuillenStarsLorna TolentinoDindo FernandoJoel TorreAbout a woman who changes personality to please the man she's with, and about the man who brings her sexuality to full bloom.
- DirectorLino BrockaStarsHilda KoronelMona LisaRez CortezThe life of a young girl living with her mother in the slums of Manila becomes unbearable when her mother's young boyfriend moves in with them.
- DirectorMike De LeonStarsTommy AbuelMario MontenegroMona LisaDuring a return to his provincial home, a young man gets involved with a woman who is ultimately possessed by her sister's spirit, paving the way to revealing the painful truth about her unsolved disappearance.
- DirectorLino BrockaStarsPhillip SalvadorAmy AustriaJohnny DelgadoHe has battled with the screen's heavies, starred opposite its most desirable beauties, lived through the full range of human emotions. Now he is ready for the big time. Phillip Salvador takes the big role in "Jaguar."
- DirectorMike De LeonStarsChristopher De LeonCharo Santos-ConcioJay IlaganThe film revolves around two couples who find themselves in conflict with the foreign commercial giants that control the Philippine economy, the Japanese and the Chinese.
- DirectorLaurice GuillenStarsChristopher De LeonHilda KoronelJay IlaganJoel and Grace are about to get married, but they recall their past loves--how they met and how their relationships ended. And just before their wedding, their former loves meet them.
- DirectorMike De LeonStarsCharo Santos-ConcioJay IlaganVic SilayanA crime-drama-suspense genre film not often seen in Philippine cinema. A controlling patriarch loses it over his daughter's marriage and her attempts to escape from their incestuous household.
- DirectorLamberto V. AvellanaStarsCharito SolisEddie RodriguezRosa AguirreA coming-of-age story of a barrio lass in a patriarchal archipelago.
- DirectorMike De LeonStarsChristopher De LeonHilda KoronelLaurice GuillenThe coming-of-age story of young college student, Joey (Christopher de Leon), who has lost all sense of direction and meaning in life, waking up every morning to the same old day that went before; fruitless, senseless, lifeless. He's a carefree kind of guy who just bums around with his friends. The only thing that inspires him is music. The problem is, he has yet to finish writing a song, which turns out to be the movie's theme song, and the theme song of his awakening. Then Joey meets Ana (Hilda Koronel), who immediately sweeps him off his feet. A very sweet friendship develops between them. Suddenly, Joey's world is turned upside-down and his mornings are never the same again.
- DirectorCelso Ad. CastilloStarsSunshine CruzCelia RodriguezTonton GutierrezA mother and her infant child resides in an old mansion where a ghost from her troubled past drives her to insanity.
- DirectorMaryo J. de los ReyesStarsAlbert MartinezElizabeth OropesaYul ServoThe triangle that develops between a man, his wife, and his best friend.
- DirectorGerardo de LeonStarsCelia RodriguezRonaldo ValdezParalumanAn unstable young woman finally blows the cover of her repressive family's dark secrets when her memories where unlocked with the help of an ardent suitor.
- DirectorMario O'HaraStarsNora AunorLito LapidTonio GutierrezOscar (Lito Lapid) and Laura (Nora Aunor) have been close ever since they were very young. When Laura was little her aunt and uncle abused her; one day when Oscar was trying to save Laura, he accidentally killed Laura's uncle and was taken to DSWD, where he finished growing up while Laura was raised by Oscar's mother after her aunt rejected her. She went on with her studies to achieve her life's goals. Does Oscar still have a chance of returning to his normal life? Will their hopes and dreams still come true?
- DirectorMaryo J. de los ReyesStarsLorna TolentinoAlbert MartinezGloria RomeroEven though he is not good in school and belongs to a poor and unfortunate family, Magnifico still has a big heart and a large amount of optimism that enabled him to help not only his family, but also the community.
- DirectorRaymond RedStarsBoy CanlasJon Red
- DirectorRaya MartinStarsThe Barasoain Kalinangan Theater GroupLemuel GalmanMark Joshua MaclangThe lives of three people change during and after the 1986 Philippine revolt.
- DirectorAuraeus SolitoStarsRowena BascoEury ZuluetaAimee Santos
- DirectorBrillante MendozaStarsJonalyn AblongEdgar AblongCarol AblongJonalyn and her father go on a search for Apong Bisen, her grandfather who went hunting in the forest and did not return to cast his vote for the election. Throughout the journey, Manoro depicts the relationship between Jonalyn and her fellow villagers, her eagerness to help the people, as well as the various traditional fractions of the Aetas.
- DirectorMarilou Diaz-AbayaStarsLorna TolentinoAriel RiveraClaudine BarrettoA woman who has a child out of wedlock decides to give him away to an orphanage; years later, when she goes back to the orphanage, she discovers that the place does not exist anymore.
- DirectorLino BrockaStarsHilda KoronelBembol RocoLou Salvador Jr.Júlio Madiaga, a 'provinciano', arrives in Manila to search for his beloved, Ligaya.
- DirectorGil PortesStarsNora AunorBembol RocoMarilyn ConcepcionThe dramatic film is a perceptive study on how Filipino expatriates in the USA cope with loneliness and homesickness.
- DirectorSadhana BuxaniDitsi CarolinoThis is a documentary about child labor in the Philippine provinces. The directors recorded small children working under excruciating conditions in slaughterhouses, sugarcane fields, and ship docks in order to add to their family income.
- DirectorAbbo Dela CruzStarsTony SantosJohnny DelgadoRonnie LazaroThe fortunes of three impoverished friends and their families abruptly change after an airplane crashes in a nearby mountain.
- DirectorGerardo de LeonStarsLeopoldo SalcedoJoseph EstradaLilia DizonBased on actual events, "The Moises Padilla Story" tells of a man's gallant stand, courage and struggle to fight an oligarchic governor who commands a private army to enforce his repressions of freedom.
- DirectorMarilou Diaz-AbayaStarsLorna TolentinoGina AlajarSandy AndolongJoey, Kathy, Sylvia, and Maritess, best friends from 1979 to 1982, navigate drug use, singing dreams, unconventional relationships, and housewife roles, depicting personal battles and societal challenges during that period.
- DirectorMario O'HaraStarsAlicia AlonzoEric AmbatYuri ArceoTrue to life story film, O'Hara's film debut about a young man named Antonio recovering from a mental illness.
- DirectorIke Jarlego Jr.StarsSharmaine SuarezJoel TorreAmy AustriaArticle 201 of the Revised Penal Code of the Philippines is the law on offenses against decency. This is the law that Nena, a stripper, has violated. Poor and uneducated, Nena sees her work as the only way in order for her family to survive.
- DirectorGerardo de LeonStarsEddie Del MarEdita VitalJohnny MonteiroEpic screen adaptation of the great Jose Rizal's novel, Noli Me Tangere (otherwise known as Touch Me Not or The Social Cancer) and was taken from a Bible verse.
- DirectorNick DeocampoStarsPaul AlantisTony ÁlvarezThis is Nick Deocampo's masterpiece, a documentary about a gay nightclub performer with an especially lurid "Spider-man" act. Oliver is a female impersonator who supports his family by performing in Manila's gay bars.
- DirectorLino BrockaStarsPhillip SalvadorDina BonnevieGina AlajarIn 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.
- DirectorAuraeus SolitoStarsNathan LopezSoliman CruzJR ValentinA young boy falls in love with a handsome policeman who is investigating his family's criminal activities.
- DirectorIshmael BernalStarsRita GomezVic VargasEddie GarciaA taxi dancer (Rita Gomez) and taxi driver (Vic Vargas) are fished out of poverty and anonymity by a commercial film director (Eddie Garcia). The obsession with success forces them to affect images as movie stars, which suppress and eventually destroy them as persons and lovers.
- DirectorCelso Ad. CastilloStarsVilma SantosBembol RocoRobert TalabisAs a young woman born in a tradition-bound town but raised in the modernizing atmosphere of Manila, Julie gropes towards maturity without benefit of guidance from understanding elders. Home for the traditional town fiesta, she meets poor boy-next-door Dido Ventura (Bembol Rocco), whose passion and impulsiveness rush them into elopement, but his family has a long-standing grievance against the Monserrats, who through fraudulence in the past had grabbed the Ventura property. When the young lovers ask for permission to marry, Julie's snooty aunts make her choose between her present status as a rich single Monserrat, and an uncertain future as Dido's wife. In a moment of indecisiveness, Julie gives up Dido and returns to her music studies. At university, Julie is visited by the elderly violinist from her hometown whom she idolizes, Maestro Juan Roque (Jonee Gamboa), who has learned she is pregnant and come to announce he is her father--then walk out. When she gives birth, against her aunts' wishes she decides to give the baby to its father. But by this time, it's become impossible for the baby to have its father. Dido has joined the band of Huks headed by Kumander Salome (Lito Anzures). Driven by the desire to help his daughter, Maestro Juan Roque goes to the Huk hideout to effect reconciliation between Dido and Julie. A quick night visit for Dido is arranged, and the lovers reunite--too late, for government agents have learned of the Huks rebel's presence, and a bloody shootout affirms the nihilism of the film's title.
- DirectorMario O'HaraStarsHilda KoronelAnita LindaMatet De LeonA story about young lovers, rich girl Nena and Jose, a poor boy who works in the fishponds owned by Nena's family. The film traces their relationship as it develops, from prosperity into recession, from a time of peace into a time of political turmoil.
- DirectorJeffrey JeturianStarsAna CapriMarcus MadrigalHarold PinedaA slice of daily life in the slums of the Philippines. Gina, a poor but honest young girl sells banana slices. She lives with her grandmother and her younger brother and sister, her father being in jail. Nonoy, a water boy, delivers water up six floors to the rich Mrs. Alano. Nonoy is in love with Gina, but she desires her classmate, Jimboy, a handsome flirt, who is the son of Mrs. Alano.
- DirectorIshmael BernalStarsVilma SantosChristopher De LeonJimi MelendezThe story follows the trials of a woman as she risks to build a meaningful relationship with a married man despite the different hurdles that abound.
- DirectorDennis MarasiganStarsJohn ArcillaIrma AdlawanMadeleine NicolasA man and a woman play 10 different characters in 10 scenes, all of which take place in a car traveling along the North Diversion Road. Together, they go on a journey to self-discovery, summing up everything known about love and redemption.
- DirectorIshmael BernalStarsRio LocsinRita GomezJay IlaganA witty sex comedy about two young cousins who trade places for their courtship strategies which ends up hilarious. One of the most quotable Filipino films ever due to its sexual innuendos and ambiguity.
- DirectorLaurice GuillenStarsGina AlajarJohnny DelgadoDennis RoldanA persistent suitor is stabbed to death by Salome, the wife of a coconut farmer. From the simple crime of passion three conflicting versions of the truth are given - by Salome herself, by the people of the small fishing village, and by her own husband. Each version contributes a piece and facet of the truth, and slowly reveals to us the real character of Salome and her husband, and the true nature of their relationship.
- DirectorGerardo de LeonStarsJose Padilla Jr.Lilia DizonDanilo MontesIn a remote fishing village, a wealthy landowner calls on the Snake Devil to protect his priceless family treasures, but this isn't enough to stop the bandit Sanda Wong from attempting the raid when he learns about the treasure.
- DirectorGerardo de LeonStarsJose Padilla Jr.Anita LindaTony TolmanThis is a great fantasy film about a legendary bandit and his python-guarded treasure trove.
- DirectorPeque GallagaStarsDaniel FernandoAnna Marie GutierrezOrestes OjedaA college student has an affair with a security guard's passive wife. The husband finds out that his wife is cheating on him, when one day he walks in on them while they are having sex, and shoots them both.
- DirectorTikoy AguiluzStarsMichelle AldanaGary EstradaRuby MorenoBy day, Karen is an insurance saleswoman in Manila, but by night she works as an escort in a club. She is very successful at selling insurance to her escort clients. On the weekends she returns to her husband and daughter in the provinces, who are living amongst the volcanic ash from Mount Pinatubo. She is forced to take stock of her life when Sonny, a rich car dealer, offers to set her up in an apartment.
- DirectorLav DiazStarsRaymond BagatsingTonton GutierrezAngel AquinoA man appears to a female reporter and claims that he is the famous kidnapper who has the world astir and promises to turn himself in if she listens to his story. Though she is suspicious of him, she starts to fall more and more into his story.
- DirectorGerardo de LeonStarsAnita LindaReynaldo DanteEddie Del MarA mother makes sense of the realities in the Philippine islands under colonial times.
- DirectorMario O'HaraStarsGardo VersozaPatrick GuzmanAya MedelSisa (Aya Medel) is a servant in the Mercado family. She falls deeply in love with one of her bosses, Pepe (Gardo Versoza). Will her feelings be reciprocated?
- DirectorMike De LeonStarsVilma SantosJay IlaganGina AlajarA nun becomes involved in an on-going labor strike. She starts out non-politicized, but later learns about the plight of the simple working man and inevitably, the government's neglect of the poor masses. Filipino Tagalog movie.
- DirectorJose Javier ReyesStarsLorna TolentinoChristopher De LeonCarlo AquinoThis drama centers around the bitterness of loss and gnawing resentment. Noel and his second wife Gina are forced to take in his son from a previous marriage, Eric. Eric seems to perennially take on the role of the rotten kid. The reckless Eric and the dutiful and talented Sonny (Gina's son) get involved in a car accident, afterwards life drastically changes. Philippines Filipino Tagalog movie.
- DirectorLino BrockaStarsDolphyNiño MuhlachPhillip SalvadorCoring, a gay beautician, is left with a baby by his former ward, Dennis (Philip Salvador). The baby grows up (the boy is played by a very young Niño Muhlach) thinking that Coring is his real father. Everything seems to be smooth until the kid's mother (Marissa Delgado) suddenly shows up to claim her son.
- DirectorLino BrockaStarsJay IlaganPerla BautistaLaurice Guillen(Tagalog with English subtitles) Filipino cinema lenged, Lino Brocka, directs this compilation of three intimate stories about the perseverance of hope featuring a drug addict, an abandoned daughter and a repressed catholic.
- DirectorMario O'HaraStarsNora AunorChristopher De LeonBembol RocoA woman falls in love with a Japanese soldier during the Japanese Occupation in the Philippines; the whole town turns against her.
- DirectorJoey GosiengfiaoStarsDina BonnevieAzenith BrionesJennifer CortezThis is a story about a group of beauty-contest finalists stranded on a desert island without food, water, or shelter.
- DirectorGerardo de LeonEddie RomeroStarsFrancis LedererGreta ThyssenRichard DerrA mad scientist transforms a panther into a man-like creature that escapes and goes on a murderous rampage.
- DirectorLino BrockaStarsLolita RodriguezLilia DizonEddie GarciaThis landmark film is considered by many to be one of the most important in Philippine cinema. The son of a wealthy man, Junior has everything he could possibly want. But the emptiness of his extravagant lifestyle and the hypocrisy of the town's so-called leading citizens weigh heavily on him, pushing him to reach out to the village outcasts.
- DirectorJohn TorresStarsOlga AliseichykPusong BughawEarl Drilon
- DirectorLino BrockaStarsLolita RodriguezEddie GarciaLuis GonzalesMarried businessman Don Benito (Eddie Garcia) has a steamy affair with driver Diego (Mario O'Hara).
- DirectorKidlat TahimikStarsHomer AbiadIñigo VitoMaria PehipolKadu, a boy from Pakil, Laguna, experiences the dissolution of tradition as it gives way to capitalism in the form of Madame, a foreigner who initially came to their village as a customer during the Festival of Turumba.
- DirectorMario O'HaraStarsEdgar MandePatrick Dela RosaLito PimentelA WOMAN COLLECTS A STRING OF LOVERS AND HER MORE SERIOUS INVOLVEMENTS MYSTERIOUSLY BECOME VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE.
- DirectorIshmael BernalStarsHilda KoronelRio LocsinChanda RomeroHow 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.