Lolita Rodriguez
Birth : 1935-01-29, Urdaneta City, Pangasinan
Death : 2016-11-28
History
Born Dolores Marquez Clark, the versatile actress better known as Lolita Rodriguez is considered one of the greatest actors in Philippine Cinema.
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It is about a group of investigative journalists from a sub-par TV station who accidentally scores a scoop that a 21-year-old boy is looking around for his identity… he claims to be the son of the late director Lino Brocka, a known gay filmmaker.
Lucia
A strong-willed matriarch and her family leave their fishing village for Manila after an oil spill.
Ester
Paradise Inn is more than a watering hole, a gambling den cum-brothel frequented by the menfolk. It is a notorious landmark. Ester Paraiso, a retired prostitute, runs the place with help from her own daughter, Daria, whom she is preparing for the job, and from influential politicos. Her daughter, however, decides to run away but is later spurned by her suitor and his offer of a respectable life. Even the timely arrival of a two-beat magician, Rey, who hastily proposes marriage, fails to prevent the escalating tension as the mother-daughter conflict takes its worst turn culminating in the characters' fiery destruction.
A story about a husband who falls in love with his mother-in-law.
Pura Villasenor de los Santos
When her half-sister Emilia succeeded in seducing her boyfriend 20 years ago, Pura decided to fly to the United States. Now, she returns to her hometown to see her ailing father. Her surprise visit opens up old wounds and revives the sibling rivalry between her and her half-sister who will not let her forget that she is a bastard.
The setting is an Olongapo bar. Lolita Rodriguez is an ex-movie queen trying to earn a living for her son and herself. He is mortally embarrassed by her livelihood and sometimes refuses to acknowledge her as his mother. Bembol Roco is the son of a prostitute who has disappeared from his life. He is looking for his mother in the honky tonk bars. He meets Lolita Rodriguez whom he fancies as his lover. However, he thinks of her as a decent woman. But Lolita has financial problems. In order to pay for her debts, she is forced to perform a striptease. Bembol happens to be in the bar when she starts to gyrate, but she ignores his presence. This destroys his illusions. When they are alone together, she berates him and teaches him the value of survival and acceptance of one’s fate.
Anino
Mario O'Hara's surreal debut film about a man recovering from mental illness.
Rosenda
"Tatlo, Dalawa, Isa" is a compilation of three intimate stories directed by Filipino cinema legend Lino Brocka. The films show the perseverance of hope despite a sense of despair. Featuring a drug addict, an abandoned daughter and a repressed catholic.
Kuala
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, and he reaches out to the village outcasts.
Toyang
A stage mother drives her younger son to his ‘stardoom’ to make up for her downward slide from her bourgeois origins.
Emma
Lino Brocka's adaptation of Mars Ravelo's "komiks" melodrama about a successful businessman who is terrified of being exposed as a homosexual.
A film that stars Eddie Rodriguez, Lolita Rodriguez and Marlene Dauden.
A story about the Philippine revolutionary Andrés Bonifacio, the founder and Supremo of the Katipunan.
A 1962 Filipino action drama starring Vic Vargas and Lolita Rodriguez.
Two teenagers gatecrash a movie studio to see their idols who promised to choose them as their next leading lady.
Octavia
A generation feud between three stars.
Second Story
Laura
A nightclub singer fools around with a hapless suitor.
Sofia
Lilian
A 1959 Filipino action drama starring Mario Montenegro and Lolita Rodriguez.
Savage passions run wild - as violent as a condemned man on the loose.
Adapted from Espesyal Komiks.
Adapted from Hiwaga Komiks.
The intriguing story of a strange love affair. Too thrilling for her to resist. Too lovely for him to forget. Too painful for one to remember.
Caridad
Lolita
Bankruptcy drove Don Ramon to commit suicide leaving nothing to the family his wife, Rosa, and four children, Carmen, Gloria, Lolita, and Bobby. Carmen, the eldest, filled the gap left by her father and swore to send her siblings to school.
Destroyed during a fire that ravaged Sampaguita’s archives. Gilda tells the story of a poor squatter who carried her invalid mother while begging on the streets for money. As she lives under the abusive hand of her mother’s lover, Gilda dreams of becoming a singer.
Eloisa
A funny movie about a tomboyish girl and the pursuit of her crush.
A story of the boy Dumagit who grows up in the jungle with his guardian and animal friends. Dr. Joaquin Olivar and his pregnant wife Marina hide in a remote island after Olivar was accused of a crime and Marina feared being ostracized. Marina dies after giving birth to a baby boy, David. Olivar takes care of the baby on his own and gives him the nickname Dumagit. Later, Olivar is killed by a group of men who came into the island to hunt animals. Twenty years later, Federico Olivar, brother of Joaquin Olivar, comes to the island to look for his brother. This film is the Philippine version of Tarzan.
Jock
Siblings Benita and Gorio play twisted roles: she drives a jeepney, he does all the household chores; she gets into brawls with men, he prefers to be called "Glory." All these they do in support of their father, Mang Ambo, a driver for the rich and reckless Gardo, son of the elite Don Quinito and Doña Teresita. When Mang Ambo's health fails him, he introduces Benita to the family, disguised as a boy named Itoy. Gorio, on the other hand, runs away to look for a job and ends up being taken in and mistaken for an actual girl by Doña Teresita as her own "daughter." Living in totally new circumstances and with each bearing the secret of the other, how long can they keep up playing their game?