Benjie De Guzman

Movies

Pahiram Kahit Sandali
Production Design
Tess is a bored businesswoman who is married to Andy, a processed meat salesman. She learns to cook good food from Alice. Unknown to both of them, they shared the same man all the time.
Woman by the Window
Production Design
Abandoned by his wife, Mitch finds respite from his depression by spying on beautiful new neighbor Jack; next thing you know, the pair becomes intimately acquainted. But trouble lies ahead: It seems that Jack's lover has ties to Manila's underworld, and Mitch soon finds himself in grave danger.
Sa Kabilugan Ng Buwan
Production Design
Villagers have been disappearing since a new neighbor moved in.
Minsan Lamang Magmamahal
Production Design
A single mom struggles to raise her son.
Manananggal in Manila
Production Design
An English-speaking manananggal (a malevolent, blood sucking monster) spreads terror in Manila. The manananggal is a Philippines mythical creature described as scary, often hideous, usually depicted as female, and always capable of severing its upper torso and sprouting huge bat-like wings to fly into the night in search of its victims.
Bayarang Puso
Production Design
Jose Javier Reyes' dramatic thunderbolt from Regal Films, "Bayarang Puso" which stars Aga Muhlach, Lorna Tolentino, and Carmina Villaroel is a movie about decadence and materialism set against a backdrop of the most recent leisure class craze, ballroom dancing. Although the film makes obviously wild pirouettes around this very interesting subject-dance instructors and their willing and able clientele and whatever relationships they have in between- it is in fact an intriguing drama about love, avarice, and betrayal.
In the Name of Love
Production Design
When Mae finds out that her husband Spanky is having an affair, Mae confronts the other woman which results in tragedy.
Vampira
Production Design
Cara is on a mission to break the curse that has haunted her family for generations. During her efforts to break the curse and save her family, Cara falls in love.
The Secrets of Sarah Jane: Sana'y Mapatawad Mo
Production Design
The life story of Sarah Jane, a person with AIDS.
The Fatima Buen Story
Production Design
Based on an actual case, Fatima Buen Story mixes tabloid sensationalism with paranormal symbolism and features O’ Hara’s trademark qualities: sudden violence and heroic love against a background of cinematic magic.
Binibini Ng Aking Panaginip
Production Design
The romance starts with a million peso bet of a rich, handsome bachelor willing to pay his friends if he fails to win a girl within 2 weeks. The girl happens to be Ruffa who holds the key to soften the heart of the bachelor.
Loving Someone
Production Design
Only son, Carlitos, suddenly finds himself the man of an all-female household when his father dies of a heart attack. He falls in love with an offbeat girl and is forced to make a choice between following his heart or risk losing the love of the family which has nurtured him all his life.
Huwag Mong Salingin ang Sugat Ko
Production Design
Delfin is a doctor who returns to his hometown in the hopes of giving medical assistance to the people of Buena Vista who are suffering from leprosy. He also returns to find out the real reason why his father was killed. The longer he stays, the more he realizes that leprosy is not the town's incurable disease but the hatred that lies in the heart of its people.
Makiusap sa Diyos
Production Design
A nun is ostracized by her superiors after a brutal encounter with a rapist leaves her pregnant.
Spark in the Dark
Production Design
The lives of a newly married couple and their mutual friend unravel after the wife becomes the victim of a gang rape during a honeymoon.
Above Everything Else
Production Design
Famous TV commentator Maia Robles finds herself caught between having an affair with a politician and reporting on social issues, especially corruption.
Ama... Bakit Mo Ako Pinabayaan?
Production Design
After her mother dies in childbirth, a blind little girl has to learn to live with her wealthy father’s new wife—her new stepmother—and her two children. After her stepmother purposely leaves her alone outside a crowded church, she is found by an old fisherman, who raises her as his own daughter.
Biktima
Production Design
The story of an unsuccessful attempt to convict a congressman's son of rape takes an unexpected twist, as the accused pursues a friendship with the victim. A mysterious and 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 him the mysterious man realized that he's not a murderer or a rapist. Yet she falls and be friendly with him, which in turn fearing that she'll be his next target and it is he that is going after her.
All Be Damned
Production Design
A corrupt, lonely couple manipulates a naive, young couple using money, power, and lies.
Dirty Affair
Production Design
A teenage boy befriends a starlet who is having an affair with an ambitious mayor. As the elections are coming up, the mayor's wife wants him to get rid of his mistress. The starlet agrees to stop the affair on condition that the mayor help release her boyfriend from jail. The mayor does so, but wants the former jail-bird to kill his political rival.
If Eternity Were Finished
Production Design
A young man achieves success as a singer, affecting everyone around him.
Babangon Ako't Dudurugin Kita
Production Design
Salve, a content barrio lass, is married to Alfred, an aspiring politician. Alfred meets Via finds out that they can both be very useful to each other's lives. He is set on pursuing a political career and Via is from a powerful political family that wants to continue to govern the land. Together, Albert and Via plan a scheme to get rid of Salve. But Salve survives the carnage. Salve takes revenge.
Fight for Us
Production Design
Set during the post-Marcos regime in a remote village of Dolores, chronicles the life of Jimmy Cordero, a political prisoner who have just been freed from prison after the decline of the Marcos dictatorship. From his revolutionary past, he got himself into human rights activism following his prison release. He and his wife’s brother once conducted a fact-finding mission to Dolores only to find out the terror brought about to its residents by the Orapronobis, a government backed anti-communist paramilitary troop deployed in the town of Dolores.
When Will Sin Be Washed Away?
Production Design
A driver sells his baby to his wealthy childless employers, causing consequences years later.
Macho Dancer
Production Design
Abandoned by his American lover, a handsome teenager from the mountains journeys to Manila in an effort to support his family. With a popular call boy as his mentor, Paul enters the glittering world of male strippers, prostitution, drugs, sexual slavery, police corruption and murder. Teeming with sex and Asian beefcake, Macho Dancer is a searing indictment of the hypocrisy and police corruption rampant under both the Marcos and Aquino regimes.
Nasaan Ka Nang Kailangan Kita
Production Design
A young woman, Cristy, must reconcile the choices she makes for her future with the demands of her overbearing mother, Rosa, in this intricate Filipino drama. When Cristy's father, Julio, abandons the family for his rich mistress, Jenny, Rosa refuses to let Cristy attend college. Tension mounts when Cristy not only seeks help from her dad but also falls in love with Jenny's brother.
Ano ang Kulay ng Mukha ng Diyos?
Production Design
A street hustler falls in love with a bar girl. They get married, but separate when the guy gets meted a death sentence after gunning down a rich customer of the bar in a fit of jealousy. The bar girl bears the hustler's child who becomes eventually blind.
Working Girls
Production Design
Women cope with various problems while earning a living in the city.
Kung Mahawi Man ang Ulap
Production Design
Catherine goes through all the travails of a young woman who must deal with a scheming stepfather out to dupe her of her inheritance.
Init sa Magdamag
Production Design
About a woman who changes personality to please the man she's with, and about the man who brings her sexuality to full bloom.
Anak
Production Design
A daughter defies her mother to pursue her passionate yet ill fated relationship.
The Affair
Production Design
In a time in the Philippines when the concept of divorce does not exist, a young woman has an affair with a married man. Eventually, they move in together, and that is when the problems start.
Kontrobersyal
Production Design
Brocka's potboiler about the rise of a starlet is the quintessential rags-to-riches, prey-turned-predator story, brimming with true-life anecdotes and an authentically acerbic sense of the seamier side of show business.
Playgirl
Production Design
Mel Chionglo's directorial debut revolves around a mother and daughter who play the rules of the game in the world by selling their bodies for the desires of flesh.