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Working Girls
Characters
Continuing the tradition of national artist Ishmael Bernal's benchmark film Working Girls after 25 years, Working Girls of 2010 depicts the role of women in the new millennium. Seven women of different backgrounds, stories and personalities entwined in a colorful story of family, love and life.
Mumbaki
Writer
Joseph is a young doctor who returned to his hometown in the Mountain Province to bury his father, an Ifugao chieftain, who was killed during a tribal dispute. While there, he discovers his rich heritage and acquires pride in his being an Ifugao. Though the lure of a career in America remains strong, he is unable to resist the urge to help his village, which has resisted modern medicine and is now in the midst of a pneumonia epidemic and a civil war.
Dead Sure
Screenplay
In the daytime, Karen is an insurance saleswoman in Manila, but in the evening she works as an escort in a club.
Marami Ka Pang Kakaining Bigas
Screenplay
After the death of his partner, Tikoy, a seasoned police officer armed with years of experience was forced to team up with Jun, an idealistic cop fresh from Academy.
Abrakadabra
Screenplay
Allading with his sidekicks Baste and Jojit were hired to work for an antique shop owned by the Monteros. One day, Mr Montero brought a hundred year old antique jar from a wrecked ship. While Allading was making the wooden case, the jar was accidentally broken. Two genies were freed from the jar and soon created chaos around the shop blaming everything to Allading. - Written by ledster
How Much I Love You
Screenplay
A man whose face is burned beyond recognition, facing multiple operations, despairs, but is brought back to the land of the living by the love of a woman and his faith in God.
Dunkin Donato
Screenplay
Basketball star Benjie Paras and funny man Herbert Bautista play cousins Donato and Buknoy, star player and coach of the Brgy. Maligaya basketball team. The team needs to win the league championship to help their barangay.
Dunkin Donato
Story
Basketball star Benjie Paras and funny man Herbert Bautista play cousins Donato and Buknoy, star player and coach of the Brgy. Maligaya basketball team. The team needs to win the league championship to help their barangay.
Tatak ng Kriminal
Screenplay
Gojo is an ex-con in search of his daughter and wife who is being kept by a gambling lord.
Alyas Pogi 2
Screenplay
A 1992 Filipino film starring Bong Revilla, Rita Avila, Charito Solis, and Jay Ilagan.
Alyas Pogi 2
Story
A 1992 Filipino film starring Bong Revilla, Rita Avila, Charito Solis, and Jay Ilagan.
Tag-araw, Tag-ulan
Screenplay
A woman who was running away from the pain of a broken love affair. A young man who was looking forward to a fun filled summer and his first sex experience.
Tag-araw, Tag-ulan
Story
A woman who was running away from the pain of a broken love affair. A young man who was looking forward to a fun filled summer and his first sex experience.
Hiram na Mukha
Screenplay
Alicia is an unattractive woman who is transformed into a beauty by a plastic surgeon. She soon realizes that beauty is not all that matters in this world.
Heaven's Judgment
Lyricist
An oppressed housemaid has transformed herself into a wealthy and powerful business mogul through sheer dint of talent, ambition and driving need to avenge herself on her tormentors.
Kahit Konting Pagtingin
Screenplay
Kahit Konting Pagtingin
Story
Kung Kasalanan Man
Screenplay
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.
Macho Dancer
Screenplay
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.
Afuang
Screenplay
An honest to goodness cop who labors to keep the honor of his badge. Fighting ruthless criminals, he has acquired the fury of the syndicates he is fighting. But despite all the threats that are coming his way he does not give up.
Puto
Writer
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.
Balweg The Rebel Priest
Writer
Conrado Balweg, dedicated himself to the service of God but while he was assigned as a parish priest in Cordillera in the Mountain Province, events transpiring around him forced him to take up arms to rescue his people from the greed of developers from the lowlands, and from a government who was unsympathetic to the plea of the indigenous tribes to save their ancestral lands. In the war which ensued with the arrival of the military forces, Fr. Balweg was forced out of his parish and into the mountains, where he later became one of the most charismatic of leaders, admired by the masses, hated by the government and loved by many women.
Kailan Tama Ang Mali?
Writer
A women in the underbelly of the city of Manila where making a living is always difficult for the poor and material things do not guarantee happiness. This is a place for adultery as Pilar kept her trysts with her lovers, for prostitution as Elizabeth descends into degradation, for excitement as Chat, the lonely wife keeps up her relationship with hired killer Edu and rape and death for the young sampaguita vendor, Lala. Amidst all these some ray of hope as Rio accepts the affections of her Chinese master.
Beware: Bed Sins
Screenstory
In acclaimed filmmaker Mario O'Hara's depiction of unabashed sexuality, Sarsi Emmanuelle plays Carla, a woman going through a traumatic experience that completely changed her life.
Hinugot sa Langit
Story
A woman is thinking of abortion, against her firm faith and family's wants.
Shake, Rattle & Roll
Screenplay
Shake, Rattle and Roll is the first of the popular series of Filipino horror movies composed of three episodes. 'Baso' talks about the adventure of three friends who performed Spirit of the Glass and discovered the tale of a tragic love triangle. 'Pridyider' revolves around a refrigerator that seemed to be "alive". 'Manananggal' is about a teenager who courts a barrio lass without his knowledge that this lass is a monster. She eventually causes chaos to his family.
Shake, Rattle & Roll
Story
Shake, Rattle and Roll is the first of the popular series of Filipino horror movies composed of three episodes. 'Baso' talks about the adventure of three friends who performed Spirit of the Glass and discovered the tale of a tragic love triangle. 'Pridyider' revolves around a refrigerator that seemed to be "alive". 'Manananggal' is about a teenager who courts a barrio lass without his knowledge that this lass is a monster. She eventually causes chaos to his family.
Working Girls
Writer
Women cope with various problems while earning a living in the city.