Joe Batac

Movies

Videoke King
Cinematography
Overseas worker Ning Ning makes two separate favors to her fiancé King and her cousin Lally. Despite their low tolerance for each others' idiosyncrasies, they grudgingly carry out Ning Ning's wishes. But somewhere in the course of the homebuilding project, King and Lally develop feelings for each other. What they do not know is that Ning Ning actually has plans that they cannot deter.
Kahit Isang Saglit
Cinematography
College buddies Dexter, Annie, and Michael decided to form an architecture firm after college. When everything is going fine between Annie and Michael, Dexter accidentally fell into the construction site and was put into a comma. Michael supported Annie and became Anna’s crying shoulder. As they continue to go on with their architectural project, Annie never misses to visit her boyfriend, who can hear all of her stories. Annie is hopeful that she would soon wake up. But she also began to see Michael’s admirable traits.
Anak
Editor
A woman returns to the Philippines after working abroad to find that her family has fallen apart in her absence.
Labs Kita...Okey Ka Lang?
Director of Photography
Bujoy and Ned are childhood best friends. They stick with each other like a family. However, as time goes by Bujoy fell in love with Ned, who she thinks is the only person who accepts her imperfections that even her own family does not accept. Bujoy’s hobby which is clay sculpture is all dedicated for Ned. Ned, on the other hand finds inspiration in songwriting, to which he dedicates to the girl of his dreams, Marry Anne. Ned inherited his passion for music from his father Canor, who is a frustrated musician. However his mother Cora thinks that music will not help with their financial constraints. As Ned and Marry Anne became a couple, Bujoy started going out with Cenon, the newest member of Ned’s band.
Halik
Director of Photography
Hanggang Kailan Kita Mamahalin?
Cinematography
Lisa and Mike lives a happy life with a with a great family until one day when the promotions in the company they both work for chose Lisa instead Mike to be promoted. Due to this event their lives change when Mike's pride got the better of him causing both trouble in work as well as in the family.
The Stepmother
Director of Photography
The loving and nurturing Mariel marries Edward after his first wife abandons him and their three children. Mariel strives to win the acceptance and affection of her new stepchildren, even as she tries to define her role in the family.
Cedie
Director of Photography
An Earl disowns his son James for marrying Annie, a middle-class woman. The couple leaves England to start a life in New York with their son newborn child Cedie.
Mangarap Ka
Director of Photography
Childhood friends, Nonoy and Jenny, embark on their freshman year at a prestigious university together. However, bad company leads Nonoy astray. As he nearly loses everything, he works his way back to his path.
Patayin sa Sindak si Barbara
Director of Photography
Barbara loves her little sister Ruth deeply. When Ruth becomes devilishly manipulative by threatening to kill herself if her sister doesn't break up with her boyfriend Nick . The sisters end up engaging in black magic to get back at each other.
P're Hanggang Sa Huli
Director of Photography
A 1995 Filipino action comedy film starring Robin Padilla and Andrew E.
Basta't Kasama Kita
Director of Photography
While escaping her royal confinement, a European princess comes across and falls in love with a jeepney driver. However, things begin to change when her real identity gets revealed.
Separada
Director of Photography
Melissa, a successful advertising executive believed she has a perfect life with her husband Dodie and two children Vincent and Jenny. What she did not know is that her husband has fallen out of love with her and is seeing another woman named Sandy. Sandy confronted Melissa and told her to give up Dodie because she has been impregnated by him. Melissa tried to win her relationship with Dodie however, the latter chose Sandy over her. Their marital break-up almost shattered her. But with the help of her kids and friends Melissa learns to be self-sufficient. In the long run, she learns to move on with her life and overcoming the challenge of single parenthood.
Dark Crown
Director of Photography
Adana De Guia is a famous actress whose career is beginning to slip down the limelight while Eva Cristobal is a fanatic who loves Adana so much that she will do anything for her idol. Adana helped Eva to become her personal assistant, also gave her a break in one of her movie, unknowingly that Eva was just using her to be able to reach her dream of becoming a big star. Eva succeeded in her plans but cannot find true happiness that Adana has.
Mistah: Mga Mandirigma
Director of Photography
Witness the soldiers who risk their lives for the protection of the people. Giving up their personal hapiness to respond to the call of duty, the dedicated servicemen encounter tremendous excitement in the battlefield as the conflict between Christians and Muslims soar in Mindanao. A heartwarmng story about camaraderie and dedication.
Stranglehold
Cinematography
Deep inside the nation's top chemical weapons facility, a brilliant terrorist takes a Congresswoman hostage. The Navy can't stop him. The Air Force can't reach him. The Coast Guard can't kill him. Only one man can do the job: special agent Ryan Cooper. He's in a race against time to save the world, facing his greatest challenge yet!
Caged Heat II: Stripped of Freedom
Director of Photography
King Lim is the oppressive ruler of a country on the verge of revolution. The CIA arranges a fake assassination to get him safely out of the country, but his daughter is captured in the ensuing melee and sent to The Rock, an island penitentiary known for its harshness. Agent Amanda commits a local crime in order to infiltrate the prison and rescue Princess Marga. Within, she predictably encounters official corruption, shifting allegiances, and a sleazy warden that make her task more challenging.
Angel of Destruction
Director of Photography
Undercover cop Jo Alwood is out to avenge her sisters death at the hands of a serial killer.
Angelfist
Director of Photography
An assassination in the Philippines is caught on film by kickboxer Christy, which leads to her death at the hands of radicals intent on disrupting peace talks. Her sister Kat, a Los Angeles police officer, comes to Manila to try and bring justice to the people responsible. She enters the kickboxing tournament in order to get closer to the nefarious agents, and begins unravelling the twisted plan while narrowly evading the wrath of the Death Brigades.
Kung Kailangan Mo Ako
Director of Photography
They're two people whose paths are unlikely to cross. She's (Sharon Cuneta) a rich balikbayan who has returned home to do business; he's (Rudy Fernandez) a just released ex-convict who's trying to build a new life. But fate does work in strange ways
Sana'y Ikaw na Nga
Director of Photography
This love triangle story is about love, music, and drugs. Jessica was an upcoming singer who met Gary, a lead singer of a band, and Karlo, Gary's older brother who was an ex-convict.
Firehawk
Director of Photography
During a daring mission in Vietnam, a helicoptor squadron is downed. While the soldiers try to escape capture by the Viet Cong, clues that the copter was sabotaged lead to brutal infighting, as they search for the traitor among them.
Live by the Fist
Cinematography
A man is unjustly convicted of a brutal crime. In prison he must fight for survival, justice and freedom.
Raiders of the Sun
Cinematography
Bloodthirsty factions rule the barren earth. It's the 21st Century and a biological disaster has ruined the planet. Here, in a world where gunpowder is more valuable than gold, a few hundred survivors wage the final conflict for power and control. Yet among them rises a new warrior, destined to shape the aeons which will follow -- a man who stops at nothing to achieve his ends, and for whom courage is the only commodity
Terror In Paradise
Director of Photography
Jason Kirby and Vickie Evans encounter something other than paradise when their tropical vacation unwittingly meets up with a terrorist force. Soon a quiet romantic getaway has turned into a highstakes thriller of life and death.
Dune Warriors
Director of Photography
After the end of the world, Earth is a thirsty planet ruled by vicious warlords. One woman is brave enough to fight back; she bands together five warriors to save her town and their precious water
Immortal
Cinematography
Vilma Santos and 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.
Last Stand at Lang Mei
Cinematography
Vietnam, 1968. Army Headquarters has written off Captain Fahey's men as Missing In Action after they were fighting deep over enemy lines. Cut off from their platoon, they must fight their way back, or die! A true story of bravery and courage set amidst the chaos of war, and witness the gripping conclusion to the bloodiest day in American war history
Si Aida, si Lorna, o si Fe
Director of Photography
A 1989 romantic comedy starring Miguel Rodriguez, Carmi Martin, Jackie Lou Blanco, and Aurora Sevilla.
Kung Kasalanan Man
Director of Photography
Irma (Dina Bonnevie) was the innocent wife who was caught in a web of evil woven by the people she loved. Confused, alone, and penniless, she had only Dan (Tonton Gutierrez) to turn to—that is, if he would believe her.
Puto
Director of Photography
A puto vendor had been selling cakes everyday after school to help his widowed mother. That was why all the kids in school had been calling him Puto. Puto was the constant butt of jokes but he remained good-natured helpful and kind to everybody. Taking pity on him a dwarf decided to give him special powers. This gave Puto the chance to realize his dream of winning the track and field race.
If You Take Everything Away From Me
Director of Photography
An intense rivalry has always existed between Gladys and her older sister Maureen whom her parents had adopted before she was born. The father Gilbert believed the girls should be treated as equals but Clara the mother thought otherwise. As a result Gladys grew up a scheming selfish brat who wanted everything for her particularly those belonging to Sharon. Eventually this would include getting the man Maureen learned to love.
Begging for Love
Cinematography
On the outside it looks like a marriage made in heaven. But inside the thick walls of what they call home theirs is a relationship waiting to crumble. They have been waiting a child for so long but the wife does not have the capacity to bear a child. And when her husband cannot take it any it any longer he decides to end his misery once and for all.
Sa Totoo Lang!
Director of Photography
A view on the lives of four woman, married, widowed, mistress and "missed."
Selfish Desires
Director of Photography
A story of an young girl who tries to escape from memories of the past and while doing so she alienates herself from her family. Since she was a little girl, Clarissa has always wanted to get out of the slums that she lives in. She has always been close to her rich god-mother Monina Gardamonte and to Monina's daughter, Therese. Too close in fact that she confides to her god-mother more than to her own mother, Naty and her elder sister, Nancy. Because of her closeness to her god-mother, Clarissa tasted the high life and has always wanted to be a part of it. When she grew up, she became more determined to be a part of high society, and Clarissa takes every opportunity at all cost to achieve her desires.
Apoy sa Iyong Kandungan
Director of Photography
The rags-to-riches bride of a homosexual tries to make her marriage work, but she succumbs to the temptation of a lover.
Bagets
Director of Photography
Experiencing the forbidden. Experiencing rejection. Hating your parents. Hating the world around you. Discovering what's hot. Discovering what's cool. Discovering your first true love. Discovering who you are. Growing up can be such a wild time. But not when you've got the best guys to hang out with. Five chaste young men immerse themselves in the superficialities and superfluity of adolescence over the course of their last year in high school. But as they make their gradual transition from boyhood to manhood, they realize it is their formidable bond that stands as the real deal.
Don't Cry For Me Papa
Director of Photography
Paeng loves Rosita but married Aida for money. The children of Rosita led by Nonoy and Julie Vega suffered the consequences of Paeng's two families. But the side of Aida and his only child was also portrayed, to sort of show the both sides of the story.
Schoolgirls
Director of Photography
Maricel, Dina, and Snooky are in for exciting times as they hit the college campus! They meet cute guys, join organizations, fall in love with their professor, and get into all sorts of mess.
Kastilyong Buhangin
Director of Photography
Mario O'Hara's melodrama about an aspiring singer and her ex-convict sweetheart.
Gabun
Director of Photography
Based on a play by Tony Perez, this drama tackles infidelity and its strain on relationships.
Annie Batungbakal
Director of Photography
The story of Annie Batungbakal, who dances in a disco bar.
High School Circa '65
Director of Photography
The life and times of teachers and students in the year 1965.
My Father, My Mother
Director of Photography
Coring, a gay beautician, is left with a baby by his former ward, Dennis. The baby grows up thinking that Coring is his real father. Everything seems to be smooth until the kid's mother suddenly shows up to claim her son.
Mananayaw
Director of Photography
A simple love story between two souls, a beerhouse dancer and her lover, intensely in search for their place in the sun
Ibalik mo ang araw sa mundong makasanan
Director of Photography
A Filipino action-drama directed by Lupita Aquino-Kashiwahara.
Inay
Director of Photography
Upon her retirement from being a school teacher, a mother slowly realizes that her children are already grown-up and she now is faced with the dilemna of being part of their lives
Tahan Na Empoy, Tahan
Director of Photography
Because his mother is too poor to feed her young children, Empoy is sent to work for his exploitative and cruel aunt.
Once a Moth
Director of Photography
Cora de la Cruz, a Filipino nurse, dreams of moving to America. When her brother is killed, her ideas change.
Alkitrang Dugo
Director of Photography
A group of Filipino teenagers survive a plane crash and cope to live in an island.
Weighed But Found Wanting
Director of Photography
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.
Seed
Director of Photography
A love story set against the backdrop of a coconut plantation
Batang Matadero
Cinematography
The big, brawling story of a crooked man, an honest man, and a young man called Batang Matadero.