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Ode to Nothing AKA Oda sa wala (2018) Dwein Baltazar, Dido de la Paz, Anthony Falcon, Joonee Gamboa
Sonya, an old maid is about to give up on herself until one day Read More »
Ma’ Rosa (2016) Brillante Mendoza, Jaclyn Jose, Julio Diaz, Baron Geisler
Ma’ Rosa has four children. She owns a small convenience store in a poor neighborhood of Manila where everybody likes her. Read More »
Blood Debts (1985) Teddy Page, Richard Harrison, Mike Monty, Jim Gaines
Enjoying a picnic Sarah Collins and her boyfriend are surprised by a gang of juvenile hunters. Read More »
Tough Cops (1988) Eddie Rodriguez, Romano Kristoff, Jimmy Bridges, Kenneth Peerless
Vietnam War vet turned police detective on the edge Nick Carpenter partners up with slick police detective with cat skills Pete Logan Read More »
City After Dark (1980) Ishmael Bernal, Charito Solis, Alma Moreno, Lorna Tolentino
The hidden nightlife of ordinary people living in Manila unveils. Read More »
The Rites of May AKA Itim (1977) Mike De Leon, Tommy Abuel, Mario Montenegro, Mona Lisa
During a homecoming to his provincial home, a young man gets involved with a woman strangely haunted Read More »
Weighed But Found Wanting AKA Tinimbang ka ngunit kulang (1974) Lino Brocka, Lolita Rodriguez, Lilia Dizon, Eddie Garcia
The son of a wealthy man, Junior has everything he could possibly want. Read More »
The Woman Who Left AKA Ang babaeng humayo (2016) Lav Diaz, Charo Santos-Concio, John Lloyd Cruz, Michael De Mesa
After 30 years of wrongful imprisonment, a woman plans to take revenge on her former lover. Read More »
Jay (2008) Francis Xavier Pasion, Baron Geisler, Coco Martin, Flor Salanga
Jay is the name of the two protagonists in the film, one is living, the other dead. Read More »
War Bus (1986) Ferdinando Baldi, Daniel Stephen, Romano Kristoff, Urs Althaus
A group of soldiers in Vietnam, saving some missing in action soldiers in a schoolbus. Read More »
Terror Is a Man (1959) Gerardo de Leon, Eddie Romero, Francis Lederer, Greta Thyssen, Richard Derr
William Fitzgerald finds himself shipwrecked on an island whose native inhabitants have recently fled. Read More »
Surrender – Hell! (1959) John Barnwell, Keith Andes, Susan Cabot, Paraluman
An officer leads a band of Filipino guerrillas against the Japanese in anticipation of Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s return. Read More »
An Investigation on the Night That Won’t Forget (2012) Lav Diaz, Hazel Orencio, Erwin Romulo
Erwin Romulo, the best friend of the late film critic Alexis Tioseco, recalls the events after the critic Read More »
Whiteforce (1988) Eddie Romero, Sam J. Jones, Kimberley Pistone, Tim Hughes
Johnny Quinn has been set up by a drug lord Read More »