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- DirectorJun LanaStarsLJ ReyesAdrian AlandyAnthony FalconThe armed conflict between the Philippine military and the communist resistance at the beginning of the 1990s forms the backdrop to this study of three individuals who, for different reasons, are trying to resolve an untenable situation.
- DirectorIan WangStarsSue PradoMercedes CabralChanel LatorreLed by the country's first ever female, non-Caucasian president, the United States of America launches a Green Card video contest to attract new immigrants. Four applicants, from Japan, China and the Philippines, each desperate for a change of scenery, pour their hearts out in front of a video camera on the eve of the contest deadline.
- DirectorRaya MartinStarsSid LuceroTetchie AgbayaniAlessandra De RossiMimicking early silent films, Independencia creates a lush metaphor that plays with cinematic illusions and the cultural and mythical history of the Philippines.
- DirectorDon Gerardo FrascoStarsBaron GeislerIlona StruzikLeo PilapilWaves is a romantic drama about the intimate relationship between Ross & Sofia - two old friends passionately in love yet life's cultural, geographical, and emotional obstacles get in the way.
- DirectorAlvin YapanStarsMercedes CabralRK BagatsingMarc FelixMichelle has a strange love story with her house by the bamboo grove, with which she developed a language, with things functioning as words only she could understand.
- DirectorAlvin YapanStarsJoem BasconSandino MartinAlex CastroThe dead come alive as an ambulance driver and a nurse try to keep awake recounting road ghost stories on a Good Friday, the day of Christ's death.
- DirectorAuraeus SolitoStarsGammy LopezAnnicka DoloniusCarl John BarramedaAmidst the chaos of Martial Law in this Third World country in the 1980s, six teenagers in the top high school for the sciences discover themselves as they go through the joys and pains of adolescence. They were the top two hundred students from all over the Philippines who passed the examination for the Philippine Science High School, which was created for the purpose of giving an education highly enriched in the Sciences to exceptionally gifted Filipino children. Selected from the best and brightest from all over the country, they endure college-level courses in biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics from their sophomore year onwards. Those who can make it are hailed as the future science and technology leaders of the New Republic, those who don't are deemed unfortunate victims of natural selection. They all learn however that they are neither isolated from the real world, nor are they exempted from living real lives. They find the world outside, erupting into the People Power revolution in 1986 against the Marcos dictatorship, being replicated within the school as they struggle to graduate, contend with teachers, classmates, family, school officials, and a new classification to segregate students meeting the high standards of excellence from those who do not.
- DirectorTikoy AguiluzStarsAlbert MartinezAmanda PageRoy AlvarezJose Rizal is exiled to Dapitan by Spanish authorities. While he attempts to adapt to his surroundings, he helps a few local residents and provides free education to the children.
- DirectorIce IdananStarsAlessandra De RossiJay GonzagaPepe HerreraA series of mysterious hand-illustrated postcards take a young woman on a journey throughout the Philippines in search of its anonymous writer.
- DirectorJet LeycoStarsAmante PulidoLance RaymundoShielbert ManuelThe routine of the quaint rural town of Matangtubig is broken with the discovery of a girl's remains, defiled in an open grass field, another girl, missing. Claims for justice and a search ensues, the national media turns its attention, as the town is put on trial for the secrets it keeps, a local fisherman struggles with his conscience to admitting as witness. The townsfolk become entities for decency and sham, attempting to divert attention, the town put up its yearly festival by the lake, unknowing of a sleeping evil that has come to claim them.
- DirectorCarlos Siguion-ReynaStarsRobert ArevaloRez CortezCris VilloncoA grandfather on the brink of bankruptcy brings his grandchildren back to the community that made and shaped him, only to find out the place is no longer the same.
- DirectorLamberto V. AvellanaStarsRosa RosalTony SantosLeroy SalvadorHassan, the son of a tribe chief of the Badjaos, a pagan, sea-dwelling Filipino tribe, meets and falls for Bala-amai, the niece of the chief of the Tausugs, an Islamic, land-dwelling tribe. Although the Hassan is willing to give up his lifestyle for Bala-amai and vice versa, the Moros plot to break up the union of the happy couple.
- DirectorMarilou Diaz-AbayaStarsSharmaine ArnaizDante RiveroJoel TorreMilagros is a prostitute who becomes the maid of a family of four men. With them, she finds the family she never had. With her, each man finds the salvation he needs. Together, they begin to tear each other apart.
- 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.
- DirectorGil PortesStarsJomari YllanaMylene DizonKenji MotokiSet in WWII Philippines during the Japanese occupation. This is the story of Pilar, a young woman who is both a loving wife and a wet nurse for the enemy's child. In the course of the war, her true devotion is put to the test.
- DirectorDante Nico GarciaStarsJudy Ann SantosGina PareñoMylene DizonPloning, is a story of one mans search for the enigmatic woman who has deeply wounded him in the past. Having grown up in an illegal Taiwanese fishing vessel, Rodrigo (30 years old) returns to the beautiful island of Cuyo and is given from sunrise to sunset to look for his Ploning. In his search, he discovers that the woman he loved and adored as a boy is not the woman he thought he knew. Ploning has displayed her maternal love for Digo ( the 6-year old Rodrigo) but is shrouded in her mysterious love and devotion for Tomas, her childhood sweetheart who left her when she was 16. This 30-year-old spinster who has held a special place amongst the people as a dutiful daughter, a devoted friend, a caring sister and a loving maternal figure is slowly unveiled through Rodrigos memory and an emotional meeting with Plonings confidante, Seling. Through his search, Ploning will be revealed as the islands most bittersweet source of selfless love.
- DirectorAdolfo Alix Jr.StarsSid LuceroHilda MetriWarren MunarAbout two lonely people who met during the whaleshark watching season in Donsol, Sorsogon.
- DirectorJohn Paul SuStarsSid LuceroBembol RocoBibeth OrtezaWhen a young Filipino hotel worker schemes to attain a U.S. visa put the lives of his loved ones in danger, he is forced to question the extremity of his actions and re-evaluate the cost of fulfilling his dreams.
- DirectorIda Anita Del MundoStarsMara LopezRK BagatsingErlinda VillalobosWhen Kana, a young T'boli woman, becomes a dreamweaver, she has the chance to weave together her village's warring clans. But, will she give up true love to do so?
- DirectorLeo AbayaStarsEugene DomingoYuki MatsuzakiAdrian AlandyThe story of Bechayda, a two-months-pregnant wardrobe assistant . In the fear of losing her Japanese lover and her dreams of a better life, she embarks on a plan that will get herself out of her predicament. Or so she thinks.
- DirectorJ.E. TiglaoStarsYssa RamosRonnie LazaroA young girl named Onang became a part of a choir which will represent their town for a competition in Manila. Her Tatang disapproves this. She ran away and reached the city of Manila. For her, the only thing more impossible than leaving is staying.
- DirectorMikhail RedStarsRonnie QuizonBelle MarianoMike LlorenRekorder is the story of Maven, a tragic drifter who with his old camcorder records movies currently showing in theaters to sell the footage to pirates. The parting image shows Ronnie in the movie theater without his camcorder in hand. For the first time, he isn't asleep while the movie is playing. He is just there, sitting alone and motionless, completely engrossed by the movie he is watching. As it turns out, the movie is not the commercial features he has been recording throughout the years for the enterprising pirates, but security camera footage of a robbery that culminates in violence.
- 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.
- DirectorBen YalungStarsMat Ranillo IIIFernando Poe Jr.Ruel Vernal
- 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.
- DirectorBrillante MendozaStarsNora AunorBembol RocoLovi PoeAn infertile midwife and her husband find a surrogate mother so that they can have a child.
- DirectorGerardo de LeonStarsBarbara PerezRobert ArevaloLeni AlanoThis is the story of millions of Filipinos for them to live a life of penury.
- 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.
- DirectorPeque GallagaLore ReyesStarsRene MarianoJestoni AlarconRita AvilaWhat is the mystery behind the "Lady in White" at Balete Drive? Beware of the "third eye"--it will reveal your inner secrets.
- DirectorArnel MardoquioStarsFe GingGing HydeGlorypearl DyIrish Karl MonsantoSet in Mindanao, Philippines, it tells of a boy's (Faidal) journey to safety after his parents are killed in a gun battle. On his way, overwhelming discoveries are made in his travel.
- DirectorNelson CaguilaLee MeilyStarsJM De GuzmanJohn Wayne SaceErich GonzalesDJ has a tremendous passion for painting and when his parents die, he moves to a shanty town made of garbage. DJ uses the island as his personal canvas and teaches its residents how to dream.
- DirectorAdolfo Alix Jr.StarsAnita LindaJason AbalosJoem BasconAdela celebrates her 80th birthday in the slums of Manila. Alone and without support, she longs for the family and stability of years gone by. Mundane events take on heightened meaning as Adela gauges her life against those of the sea of humanity.
- DirectorEddie GarciaStarsLorna TolentinoAlbert MartinezNida BlancaAbakada ina is a film dedicated to all women who strive to be the best for their children. It is about an illiterate woman named Estella who married Daniel and had three beautiful daughters. Since Estella had stopped studying when she was still a child, she always had an argue with her mother-in-law named Matilda. Matilda loves her grandchildren very much that she didn't want them to become illiterate like their mother. Matilda taught everything she knew to Estella's children. She tried to be a mother to them. Matilda wanted to raise them the way she raised her children, Daniel and Jojo. Because of this, Estella felt that she doesn't have a place in them, that she cannot do anything but to sell in the market. Daniel came back home from his work on the ship and he tried to live with his family away from his mother. It was a very tough decision for them but they did it because they believe that they could fulfill their dreams in a place far from where they grew up. Unfortunately, many bad things had happened so they decided again to go back to Matilda though Estella knew that she would be hurt again by her. Daniel and Estella broke up and they both struggle to make their family get back again. Estella studied again and Daniel chose to pursue the course he really wanted. They wrote letters to each other and promised to one another that no matter what happen, the "Daniel and Estella" they knew would be together and love each other with all their hearts all over again.
- DirectorMarilou Diaz-AbayaStarsMarvin AgustinNonie BuencaminoShamaine BuencaminoVangie Cruz (Ina Feleo) is a rebellious woman whose family life and career as a video editor are disrupted when her only brother, a newly ordained priest, Fr. Johnny (Marvin Agustin), is diagnosed of Acute Myeloid Leukemia. As a sibling, Vangie is called upon to be a donor for Fr. Johnny's bone marrow transplant. At first, Vangie is very reluctant. She has a clinical phobia for medical procedures, the reasons for which are rooted in an attempted, but botched, abortion which she suffered through many years earlier and has since been troubled about. Her life is saved by Dr. Joey Lucas (Jomari Yllana) with whom she has a love child, and whom she eventually marries. Vangie's dysfunctional family gravitates around Fr. Johnny, and in their struggle to cope with his illness, find themselves drawn to Ina, begging for her intercession. Their prayers are answered, not so much by way of a miraculous cure for Fr. Johnny, but by the grace of conversion, of love, of forgiveness, reconciliation, and hope.
- DirectorCharliebebs GohetiaStarsJess MendozaOpaline SantosCes AldabaTwo years after she was raped, a woman agrees to meet with her rapist in the beautiful ruins of Intramuros. As they have the same blood type, her rapist asks her to donate blood for his operation claiming this will lengthen his life and will give him ample time to seek redemption. The woman refuses to do so as she rediscovers she is still a victim of unrequited love towards her rapist. Told in two separate perspectives, the story revolves around how the woman and man pick the pieces of their broken lives after the rape, meeting every so often at places that remind them of their past. They are confronted by the fact that they are both victims of each other: THE WOMAN struggles with loving no one but the man; THE MAN, struggles with his guilt knowing he can't love the woman the way she wants him to.
- DirectorRalston JoverStarsZaijian JaranillaTherese MalvarSamuel QuintanaRalston Jover's unique blend of special and magic realism takes a look at the lives of four street children whose world is about to be turned upside down and inside out. Life begins where innocence ends.
- DirectorEddie GarciaStarsVilma SantosChristopher De LeonCherie GilStar for All Seasons Vilma Santos and Pinoy Cinema Icon Christopher De Leon portray two star crossed lovers, meeting each other across several lifetimes, hoping that in each cycle they can break down the walls that keep them apart.
- DirectorEmmanuel H. BorlazaStarsSharon CunetaChristopher De LeonCherie GilA 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.
- DirectorRoderick CabridoStarsElora EspañoBarbie FortezaNora AunorElena fights for Letty's right to live her own life, confronting the ghosts of a tradition that shackled her into solitary confinement.
- DirectorLemuel LorcaStarsAngeli BayaniMax EigenmannBiboy RamirezAn itinerant tattoo artist joins a talent reality show for lesbians in the hopes of winning the prize money that will enable her to get artificially inseminated and achieve her lifelong dream of becoming a mother.
- DirectorMel ChiongloStarsAllen DizonEddie GarciaAiko MelendezFather Greg, a diocesan priest, is reassigned to a parish up in the mountains. He embarks on a mission to help solve the crime, a mission which leads him to the discovery of his own personal salvation.
- DirectorChe TagyamonStarsLui ManansalaMariel UrbiztondoInna TuasonThe film revolves around a young woman's recollection of her Grandmother Loleng, a distant relative and a senile parol(Christmas lantern) artisan in the barrio. Together, they exploreGrandma Loleng's landscape of memories only to unearth her innermost secrets and wartime experiences. It is about memory and forgetting, both in the context of the personal and of the national consciousness.
- DirectorEddie GarciaStarsDina BonnevieChristopher De LeonNida BlancaAn embittered mother sends her daughter away when the girl reestablishes a relationship with her estranged father.
- DirectorGabriel FernandezStarsFides Cuyugan-AsensioTetchie AgbayaniRicky DavaoThe matriarch of a prominent Negros family lies on her death bed. Her children return to their ancestral home to deal with issues of inheritance and their dark family history.
- DirectorEduardo de CastroStarsFernando PoeRosa Del RosarioTells the tale of a seafaring tribe and its conquests.
- 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?
- 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.
- DirectorJohn TorresStarsLiz AlindoganAnna LunaElora EspañoA mystery dreamlike portrait of a movie star's harrowing ordeal in the making of a film. This is about Liz Alindogan, then 19-year old naive newbie star, and director Celso Ad Castillo dubbed as Philippine cinema's messiah. It is structured as a mystery film, making viewers question whether to believe the account of Liz Alindogan.
- DirectorCelso Ad. CastilloStarsRizzaPhilip GamboaBella FloresNympha is a young girl reared and morally sheltered by a hypocritically pious elder female relative. The girl's blind piety, however, is ripped apart by her sudden awareness of the sexually-charged environment and by her own first love affair. Eventually, she goes from man to man driven by her demonic desires. Her unwanted pregnancy finally leads to a gory, fatal abortion.
- DirectorJose Javier ReyesStarsRustica CarpioRyan AgoncilloJackie Lou BlancoConcerned with themes of loyalty, old age, mortality, and memories, the film traces the life of Teresa, a nanny who has dedicated 60 years of service to a middle-class family at the expense of her own happiness and fulfillment. Upon the death of the family patriarch, Teresa's fate is now up in the air as the family decides their future.
- DirectorAdolfo Alix Jr.StarsSam MilbyZanjoe MarudoJason Abalos
- DirectorAdolfo Alix Jr.StarsAnanda EveringhamZanjoe MarudoAdrian AlandyJulian, a Filipino soldier stationed in Kota Island, is ready to leave Kalayaan. He already completed his three months of service. News of a pending coup in Manila orders him to stay in the island until further notice.
- 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.
- DirectorIsabel SandovalStarsMylene DizonJodi Sta. MariaRaquel VillavicencioFilipina director Isabel Sandoval follows her transgender drama Señorita with a story about nuns living in a remote convent during the Marcos years.
- DirectorKiri DalenaSari Raissa Lluch DalenaStarsJervis AdrianoAlbert AguilarZee CapaceteOn December 12, 1888, twenty (20) young women from the leading mestizo-sangley clans of Malolos signed a letter asking permission from governor-general Valeriano Weyler to open a night school where they could learn the Spanish language. The women, accompanied by a relative, trooped to the Convento of Malolos and personally presented the letter to Weyler, who was then visiting Malolos, to the chagrin of the Augustinian friar curate of the town, Felipe Garcia, who was deliberately kept in the dark about the women's plan. They are the forerunners of feminist movements in the Philippines. This event reached Jose Rizal while he was in London, England, and was so moved by it that he wrote an essay dedicated to these women of Malolos.
- DirectorSunshine Lichauco De LeonSuzanne RichiardoneStarsDavid BradleyCarlos CeldranSunshine Lichauco De LeonA 106-year old woman shares the history she has witnessed and life lessons gathered since journeying alone to the Philippines from America at age 18.
- DirectorManny PaloStarsEula ValdezSid LuceroArthur AcuñaBlack is scientifically the absence of color, but not all who see it are color-blind. David F. weaves three stories that take a look at the lineage of African-Americans in the Philippines--from American soldiers in the Philippine-American war to the Amerasians in the former Clark Air Base, and how we Pinoys take to them. It begins with the Philippine-American war in the early 1900's when two Filipinos want to get the reward money for capturing David Fagen, the African-American soldier who deserted the U.S. army to join the Filipino revolutionaries against the new colonizers. Another thread of the film looks at the life of a Filipina during the Japanese occupation before the return of General Douglas MacArthur in 1944 who gives birth to a baby that turns out to be black-skinned. Finally, in contemporary times, a black gay impersonator in a comedy bar, whose father is an African-American soldier based in Clark Air Base in Angeles City, tries to find his father who abandoned him. In the course of history, the "F" in "David F." may spell different levels of discrimination. But would we also admit that we Filipinos are bigots ourselves?
- DirectorShireen SenoStarsJana AgoncilloAngge SantosSid LuceroEight year-old Yael, shy to a fault, lives in her own private world. One day she finds out about a pen that can "translate" the thoughts and feelings of nervous people.
- DirectorHF YambaoStarsAngela CortezJulio DiazKristoffer King
- DirectorLeonardo Q. BelenQuin BaternaStarsSusan HensonBernard BonninRosemarie GilThe story of a woman (Susan Henson) orphaned at a young age by her mother who works as a prostitute. Despite her attempts to improve her life, she stumbles into a series of misfortunes and finds herself living the same life her mother had lived. This is the story of a woman (Susan Henson) who grew up in the slums. Although she is given a chance with a decent family, she stumbles into a series of misfortunes, enslaving herself in the company of characters in the underworld. She teeters on the brink of self- destruction until a man she refuses to love intervenes.
- DirectorMiko LiveloStarsJoem BasconJun SabaytonDimples RomanaIn 1990 George Bustamante leaves his family in the Philippines and emigrates to Japan, where he finds work as a stunt double in the famous TV series, Force Five.
- DirectorPepe DioknoStarsCelso Ad. CastilloFelix RocoDaniel Medrana"Engwkentro" follows two teenage brothers attempting to escape an unnamed city controlled by an iron-fisted mayor. They must first break away from the cycle of crime, while trying to run from rival gang leaders and the state's murderous vigilantes.
- DirectorLawrence FajardoStarsMark GilSarsi EmmanuelleArchi AdamosMimosa accepts a job as a nude model to pay the medical bills of her child. What began as an economic necessity turns into reliving the past when she learns the painter is a former flame who she could not make things work with.
- DirectorYam LaranasStarsCarmina VillaroelRhian RamosTJ TrinidadA 12 year old cold case is reopened when three teens are missing in an old abandoned road where a gruesome murder is left undiscovered for three decades.
- DirectorLuis NepomucenoStarsCharito SolisRic RodrigoParaluman
- DirectorZig Madamba DulayStarsAngeli BayaniBoots Anson-RoaShamaine BuencaminoTwo days after arriving to the Philippines, a former Overseas Filipina worker is being implicated in a crime that occured during her return and is brought by authorities to the country's capital to prove her innocence.
- DirectorDing M. De JesusCesar GallardoArmando A. HerreraStarsEddie Del MarRuben RustiaBarbara PerezThe greatest, longest, most expensive film produced in the film history of the Philippines. Exact running time: 3 hours and 20 minutes.
- DirectorRaymond RedStarsBoy CanlasJon Red
- DirectorRaymond RedStarsRaul ArellanoJohn ArcillaRonnie LazaroInspired by a true news account, this is the astounding story of a lone deranged hijacker who has struggled to survive in the chaos of modern Philippine society.
- DirectorRaymond RedStarsFelix RocoJeffrey QuizonNicco ManaloA youth drama film revolving on the aftermath of the 1986 People Power Revolution which spawns a group of young dreamers who immerse themselves in the culture of independent and alternative cinema.
- DirectorRuben AbalosStarsMerle FernandezTito GallaLito LegaspiAn impotent husband, his sex-starved bride, and a male friend become embroiled in a love triangle that ends in tragedy. Uhaw was the first "bomba" (soft-core porno) film in the Philippines and kicked off a popular genre for the next few years.
- DirectorCesar MontanoStarsCesar MontanoJuliana PalermoJacky WooThe story is set in Bohol, Central Visayas during World War II before, during, and immediately after, the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines.
- DirectorArmando De GuzmanStarsFernando Poe Jr.Susan RocesNello NayoTwo identical sisters vying for the attention of one man they both love.
- DirectorJobin BallesterosStarsMax EigenmannJordan CastilloRaffy AlonsoAries and Chai sign up for a couple's retreat program where they are given free rein to fix their marriage in whatever way possible or impossible.
- DirectorTony CruzJoey Del RosarioStarsLito LapidJohnny DelgadoPerla BautistaTHIS IS AN ACTION-DRAMA FILM.