Leo Martinez

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On the Job: The Missing 8
Gen. Pacheco
Inspired by true events, the film chronicles the story of Sisoy Salas, a corrupt journalist seeking justice for his colleagues, and convict Roman Rubio, a hired gun who is regularly brought out of prison to perform assassinations.
Pakboys: Takusa
Four married men living in a condominium often go out with women who are not their wives. Their wives try to catch them red-handed but often rather fail as they think of ingenious ways to hide their cheating. In the end all took a toll to them as their lives were put in danger that they needed their wives to save them.
Damaso
A musical film protraying Padre Damaso, Jose Rizal's famous villain in his book 'Noli Me Tangere.
Portrait of my Love
Loving couple Miguel and Monay lay victims after a group of gunmen shot them. While Miguel is in a coma, Monay's ghost wanders off to find justice for the both of them.
Rain
In this coming-of-age-film about self-love, Maya is a girl who has always held a pessimistic view of the rain, reminding her of failed love and other depressing things. Will the rain ever stop her in her journey to overcome past heartaches?
Goyo: The Boy General
Pedro Paterno
With this film (the second war trilogy set during the Filipino-American war in the early 1900s), the revolution marches on against the Americans after the bloody death of General Antonio Luna. The conflicted philosophies behind the heroic struggle continue and become personified in the colorful character of General Gregorio "Goyo" del Pilar.
Si Tokhang at ang Tropang Buang
The story revolves around a hermit named Tokhang. People ridicule her because of her eerie look and scary demeanor. As a bearer of bad tidings, she manages to expose and criticize the foolishness and corruption of the people around her and the society in which they lived in.
Across The Crescent Moon
The story revolves around a SAF exemplary Agent, Abbas Misani a Muslim who is married to Emma, whose parents with strict Christian upbringing would not accept both Abbas and Emma to their family.
Working Beks
Five gay men from different walks of life are confronted with important choices that could change everything for them.
Manila's Finest
Manila’s Finest is inspired and based on the life and career of retired Western Police District (WPD) Col. Jimmy Tiu who last served as the Sta. Mesa police station commander of WPD. The film focuses on the dual functions of a city policeman as he inter-acts with the people in his jurisdiction and as an intrepid cop battling criminal elements with guns blazing.
Heneral Luna
Co-Executive Producer
A Filipino general who believes he can turn the tide of battle in the Philippine-American war. But little does he know that he faces a greatest threat to the country's revolution against the invading Americans.
Heneral Luna
Pedro Paterno
A Filipino general who believes he can turn the tide of battle in the Philippine-American war. But little does he know that he faces a greatest threat to the country's revolution against the invading Americans.
#EwanKoSau Saranghaeyo
A young man struggles with the unwanted attention of his school's crazy, KPOP-obsessed bully.
Gangster Lolo
Five Aging ex-cons are trying to go straight after being release from prison. But unable to find work, they pin their hopes on a treasure map left to them by an inmate.
Tres
"Faith, Love, Time, and Dr. Lazaro," "Tata Selo," and "Sandaang Damit;" three short stories written by three multi-awarded Filipino fiction writers, Gregorio Brillantes, Rogelio Sicat, and Fanny Garcia, transformed into three short films.
Bacao
Bacao is about the torment of a young wife, Mayet, struggling to become pregnant. As their village is in the midst of a corn bountiful harvest, their sensual partnership also flourishes, though it is paradoxically fruitless. Mayet’s anxiety and paranoia grows as pregnancy evades her. To what extent will Mayet go to fulfill her desire of having a child?
Ibong Adarna: The Pinoy Adventure
Datu Maimbot
A young man sets out on a dangerous quest for a magical bird with the power to heal any ailment.
So It's You
Tiyo Carding
A pair of broken-hearted people meet and begin a relationship, but their painful pasts hang over their romance.
Boy Golden: Shoot-To-Kill
Mr. Hu
The film is very, very loosely based on the life of Arturo Porcuna (Jeorge Estregan). Once upon a time, he was known as Boy Anino, notorious leader of the Bahala Na gang. But rival gangster Tony Razon (John Estrada) attacked him in his home, leaving his entire gang and his family dead in the ruins. But Porcuna survived, and now he returns under a new alias, Boy Golden, and he seeks revenge against those that did him wrong. Along the way, he meets Marla D (KC Concepcion), a dancer who also has a bone to pick with Razon. Together, the two carry out a dangerous plan to take on Manila’s toughest gangsters.
Tuhog
Tonio
Due to a road rage incident between two buses, an accident occurs which puts the lives of its passengers in jeopardy. But the ones greatly affected by such event are a middle-aged woman named Fiesta, an old and retired family patriarch Tonio, and a lad named Caloy. These three people are pierced through a single steel bar – a dangerous situation that even their doctors find hard to solve. But even before this unfortunate circumstance, these three have their share of ill-fated lives.
On the Job
Gen. Pacheco
On The Job is about the ambitions and passions of four men trying to make a living, for themselves and their families. It shows the parallels between two prison inmates who are contract killers, and the two agents of the law investigating the murders. As they get caught in a web of machination of corrupt government officials, their jobs lead them on a head-on collision against each other with their loved ones as collateral damage.
Breakaway
It’s all about emotion in this small but powerful drama about a father’s search for his missing son in the perilous backstreets of the Philippines
Sexual Tension: Volatile
"El otro"
A pulsating, thrill ride that weaves six scintillating experiences of men in various forms of male bonding, Sexual Tension: Volatile will leave you wanting more! A young man feels the adrenaline rush of his sexy tattooist’s needle in ‘Ari’ while in ‘The Cousin,’ a cute boy has a taboo attraction for a family member. Two ‘straight’ buddies literally show, each other, how to make love to a woman in ‘The Other One,’ while a man with ‘Broken Arms’ receives a sensual sponge bath from a male nurse. ‘Love’ is questionable when a broken shower brings a married man and an innkeeper together and in ‘Workout’ two muscular men begin to explore each other chiseled bodies. Voyeuristic pleasures await you as the camera penetrates and caresses the men’s bodies while exploring the mysterious and electrifying nature of male intimacy.
Sta. Niña
When Paulino Mungcal and his co-worker in a lahar-filled quarry unexpectedly dig up the remains of his 2-year daughter Marikit, they discover that she showed no signs of decay. Could this be a miracle, and could she -- despite death – cure the sick? Inspired by whatever healing power the deceased child may have, Pol asks the church to declare her a saint. But how, when her resurgence stirs up emotions buried by time, and shores up questions about pure love, guilt, sin and salvation?
Law Law Gang
Law Law Gang is about a group of petty thieves who found themselves incarcerated for petty crimes they did trying to survive their respective hard lives. While inside the jail, the five men find resolve and bonded together with common conviction never again to commit anything illegal when they get the chance to get out. Instead, they all feel they should be doing their share in improving the lives of their brethren, especially the poor people they meet along the way.
Nobody Nobody But Juan
taxi driver
A story of a U.S.-based senior citizen named Juan who lives in a senior citizens' home run by his son and daughter-in-law. Juan's favorite pastime is watching Wowowee on The Filipino Channel, though he does not watch the show just for entertainment's sake. Aside from wanting to connect with the Philippines that he dearly misses, Juan is lonesome for his first love Aida, with whom he lost touch during the Japanese occupation of Manila. Wowowee is Juan's way of coping with homesickness and reliving the past.
Wapakman
Dr. Turibio Jingle
Wapakman is a Philippine superhero film directed by Topel Lee and starring eight-division world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao.
Yaya & Angelina: The Spoiled Brat Movie
Principal
Angelina is a 7 year old brilliant and talented girl who is spoiled and a bully. Her first yaya (nanny) was hospitalized because of the girl's disobedience (A fire happened before she was hospitalized. Angelina was the cause of the fire because her yaya tried to teach her how to grill). Her parents decided to find her another yaya which would fit for her attitude.
Love on Line (LOL)
Love Online (LOL) is a modern comedy featuring the story of Samson and Lily, two individuals with different cultural backgrounds who managed to forge a connection through the Internet.
Baler
Col. Calixto Villacorte
In 1898, a band of Spanish soldiers heroically defended Baler against Filipino forces for 337 long and grueling days. The battle, now referred to as the Siege of Baler, is the setting of a forbidden love between a Mestizo soldier and a Filipina lass who lived at the end of the 19th century.
Barako
100 years after the defeat of the local troops under Gen. Miguel Malvar in the Philippine-American War, the people of a Batangueño town would have lost its character typified by the Tagalog term "barako", meaning brave or courageous. Much worse, they have become subservient to their corrupt leaders who have been taking advantage of their ignorance and poverty. But they are slowly swayed to a new liberal direction by a small coffee club called "barakuhan" whose organizers see in it a reawakening of their native courage.
Ang M.O.N.A.Y ni Mr. Shooli
A 2007 Filipino satire written and directed by Jun Urbano
Fantastic Man
David
A story about Fredo, a naive and gawky laboratory assistant to Professor Manalo. Fredo is also the professor's regular guniea pig for his experiments which are often disastrous to any human being. Then one time a librarian, Helen who is frustrated super hero wanabe, tells both Fredo and Prof. Manalo about an article she read of an orb located in Intramuros that was said to give out powers to whoever posesses it. They all journeyed to Intramuros in search for the orb and found inside a dead alien's body. Because of Fredo's clumsiness, the orb got lost. But it actually went into Fredo's shirt pocket. He then absorbs all the powers when he accidentally touched the orb and he became Fantastic Man! With superpowers, transformations and quickness can Fantastic Man save his town in the hands of his arch-enemy Diabolica whose powers can absorb almost anything?
Mana-mana Tiba-tiba
Don Segundo concedes he's been a scoundrel all his life that he is expecting no one to attend his wake. His last will and testament therefore states that he will give P100 million pesos each to the first two people who will sign the official guest book in his wake.
Weder-weder lang 'yan
Don Emilio
Arrogant Don Emilio is a rich man who have maids, a private nurse Nikki, and later a sexy, personal secretary Susie at his disposal. He has two brothers, Dodong and Egay who have sinister thoughts on him, as they want his riches. After some slapstick mishaps and when the Don seemingly went bankrupt, he left his mansion to live with the two but experiences unfair treatment. He ended up living with his stepbrother Edwin in the slum, but his arrogance and his annoying cohorts resulted to differences with Edwin and his girlfriend Girlie. Unbeknown to them, Don Emilio is actually playing a scheme of his own to determine which brother really cares for him the most.
Ala Eh con Bisoy, Hale Hale Hoy!
Bill
Bill and Clinton, are garbage collectors who struggle to finance their daily needs from their job; yet Clinton’s soft heart could not help but adopt more homeless children. Bill, who is totally against of his brother extreme charitableness always ends up accepting the children in their congested tiny home. Now Clinton finds another homeless child named Ana. As expected Bill disproves of having additional mouths to feed as they barely make ends meet. But the adorable Ana charms them both by her wit thus she ends up living with her new family. But Bill and Clinton get to discover that Ana is not just another ordinary orphan kid when a group of harmful goons start to go after them. They get to learn that Ana manages to sneak away from her abductors one of which is her stepfather Jack and the latter’s real lover Rose.
Dr. X On The Air
Joe Deliryo
Joe de Liryo hosts a radio show called Dr. X and girls call him to ask for advice on their sex lives, one day a Ms. Lonely Girl calls, whom is the wife of a colonel and puts his life on the line.
Muling Ibalik Ang Tamis Ng Pag-ibig
Lass
Millet hired Jay, who pretended to be a gay, as as her pseudo-husband in order to avoid a fixed marriage which she totally opposes to. Together, Millet and Jay presented themselves as a newly-wed couple in Millet’s family in Paete, Laguna. In the long run, Jay and Millet started to really fall for each other. However, Millet learns about Jay’s faked sexual orientation and his initial intention why he took the offer which is to earn money to finance his dreams of flying away from the Philippines all the way to Japan. This is a tale of true love between two ambitious persons, which started out from chains of lies and deception. In the end the main characters will be given the chance to express their ulterior motives.
Matinik Na Bading, Mga Syokeng Buking
Boyong / Vicky
A story about Boyong, the master barber, and Apolinario, Boyong's nephew and apprentice. They man their shabby barbershop, dreaming of hitting the big time someday. Their grandmother becomes ill, and they are in desperate need of money. They learn that gay beauticians make more money, so they disguise themselves as such and get hired in a posh beauty salon. With so many gorgeous female customers, how long can they keep up the act?
Pipti-pipti: 1 Por U, 2 Por Me
Jack and Popoy are escaped convicts on the trail of twenty million pesos. Their guilty conscience soon bothers them when they finally discover where the money is located.
A E I O U
Kapitan Juan
Five misbegotten but witty kids try to survive their cold-heart community and find their hero in the person of Captain Juan, a funny but dedicated cop.
Indecent Professor
Epifanio, Ang Bilas Ko: NB-Eye
Epifanio and his brother-in-law are faulty detectives who must redeem themselves by solving a major kidnapping case.
Batangueño, Kabitenyo
This is a story of Magno, played by Leo Martinez, who is from Batangas and has the ability to attract women like flies. Magno and his wife (Anjanette Abayari) want to have children but are unable to. For as long as Magno continues to fool around, they will never have any. He goes to Manila hoping to change.
Ober Da Bakod: The Movie
Don Robert
A comedy about two feuding families. Unable to cope, one family decides to move the America. Their plane crashes, depositing them on an island. The other family, however, become stranded on the same island when their boat crashes.
Swindler's List
Two wacky men pursue a list of society’s criminals and scammers.
Ang Pagbabalik ni Pedro Penduko
Lucifero
Third adaptation of the tale of Pedro Penduko
Pinagbiyak Na Bunga: Lookalayk
Teborsio
The resemblance between Urot (Andrew E) and Berto (Chiquito) is undeniable that people cannot help but think that they are related to each other. Out of their need to survive they would get into desperate acts like donating blood. One day, Urot bumped into Dorie (Nida Blanca), a prosperous business woman with a generous heart. She hired him to work as a janitor in her office. And just when they were in search of an image model, Urot was looked at and considered.Little did they know that the career opportunity would open a lot of doors for him, including discovering his true identity as well as his roots. - Written by ledster
Pusoy Dos
Billy and Jack are modern-day Robin Hoods who engage in petty scums to earn money for the upkeep of a daycare center for indigent and underprivileged children.
Teacher... Teacher I Love You
A 1993 Filipino comedy film starring Redford White.
Dugo ng Panday
Flavio is the Panday, the savior of mankind from the evil Lisardo. Panday goes against all odds to fight all of Lisardo's greed so that goodness will once again prevail over their land.
Gagay: Prinsesa ng Brownout
Don Leon
Gagay (Gelli de Belen) and her family are gathering woods which they make into coal. Though they were poor, they already saw some improvement in their lives. This is the Cinderella story for the brown-out plagued generation of this country.
Buddy en Sol (Sine ito)
Director
Buddy & Sol join together to solve a murder.
Alyas Pogi 2
Teng-Teng
A 1992 Filipino film starring Bong Revilla, Rita Avila, Charito Solis, and Jay Ilagan.
Working Students
A 1992 Filipino comedy film directed by Ed Palmos.
Aswang
Dr. Abraham
This Filipino vampire film co-directed by Peque Gallaga and Lore Reyes tells the story of an aswang, the traditional shape-shifting creature of local legend. Here, the vampire makes appearances as a giant snake, a young woman (Alma Moreno), and a withered old hag (Lilia Cuntapay). The aswang has a lengthy cinematic history, having been the subject of the first sound film ever produced in the Philippines (1932's Ang Aswang) and migrating, in somewhat altered form, to films in Hong Kong, India, Japan, and, in 1994, to the United States. Aiza Seguerra co-stars with Janice de Belen, Aljon Jimenez, John Estrada, and Alma Moreno.
Si Lucio at si Miguel: Hihintayin Kayo sa Langit
Sam & Miguel (Your Basura, No Problema)
Joe Prit
Sam and Miguel are your typical come-what-may laborers, collecting garbage in flashy subdivisions. In their workplace, they get maltreated by two of their co-workers, sometimes getting them into trouble.
Lazy Juan and Mr. Shooli in Mongolian Barbecue: The Movie
Primary Target
A team of Vietnam vets, who now work as mercenaries, faces off against their former wartime comrade turned warlord, who's kidnapped the wife of a US diplomat and is holding her in his base of operations somewhere in the jungles of Laos.
Saigon Commandos
Prosecutor
A series of drug-related murders haunt Saigon. Ex-Green Beret Mark Stryker and his MP's must find the culprits. With the help of Jean Lassiter, a nosey reporter covering the crime beat, Stryker uncovers the involvement of corrupt politicians in the heroin trade and in the killings. But before he can pin them down, Stryker is framed for the murder of his commanding officer and now he must clear his name, free Lassiter from her captors, and stop his men from carrying out their own kind of vengeance before it is too late.
Silk
Yamamoto Tanaka
Silk, the toughest cop in Honolulu, busts small time smugglers only to reveal a larger syndicate smuggling Asian mobsters into the States by buying the identities of Hawaiian citizens.
Unfaithful Wife
Mayor
The film concerns the attempts of Fidel to resume a normal life after the devastation wrought by his wife's death. He returns to his old friend Crispin and wife Irene. A tentative effort with another woman fails, and Fidel finds himself in Irene's arms. That same evening a young girl is brutally murdered. Fidel, unable to account for his whereabouts, is named the principal suspect, which later leads to his imprisonment. Crispin, meanwhile, learns of Irene's infidelity; his friendship is put to the test when Fidel escapes, gets wounded, and asks Crispin to kill him and put him out of misery.
Virgin Forest
Hepe Sales (San Mateo)
A story set in the Philippine Republic in the 1900s where a lass, a Spanish mestizo, and a fisherman are caught up by Macabebe soldiers who are trying to capture Emilio Aguinaldo.
Bagets 2
Erpat
Set in the immediate summer after the events of the first movie, and deals with more of the guys' misadventures as they prepare for college.
Caged Fury
Doctor
At a hidden prison camp deep in the jungles of South East Asia, some devious Vietnamese commies are kidnapping beautiful women and brainwashing them into becoming subliminally-activated suicide bombers to further their evil aims abroad. Help isn't going to be coming anytime soon, so the all-female inmates must engineer their own escape any which way they can...
Init sa Magdamag
Mr. Perez
About a woman who changes personality to please the man she's with, and about the man who brings her sexuality to full bloom.
Enter the Ninja
Pee Wee
After completing his training of ninjutsu within Japan, an American Angolan Bush War veteran by the name of Cole visits his war buddy Frank Landers and his newly wed wife Mary Ann Landers, who are the owners of a large piece of farming land in the Philippines. Cole soon finds that the Landers are being repeatedly harassed by a CEO named Charles Venarius.
Kakabakaba Ka Ba?
Fr. Blanco
In a spoof on the contemporary sacred cons, two yuppy couples get entangled with warring smugglers of dope that include fake priests and nuns as well as Japanese and Chinese agents.
Death Force
Leon Isaac Kennedy is Doug Russell, an American who steals a shipment of gold in the Philippines with two Vietnam War buddies, who cut his throat and throw him overboard. Russell washes ashore an island inhabited by two Japanese soldiers stranded there since World War II. They nurse him back to health and he is taught martial arts and the art of the samurai. Back in the States, his treacherous pals, Marelli and Maghee, use their loot and viciousness to muscle their way into Los Angels mafia turf.
Vampire Hookers
Assistant Director
This horror film revolves around a sinister vampire who sends out a horde of undead beauties to bring back victims for his dinner.
Vampire Hookers
Julio
This horror film revolves around a sinister vampire who sends out a horde of undead beauties to bring back victims for his dinner.
Once a Moth
Cora de la Cruz, a Filipino nurse, dreams of moving to America. When her brother is killed, her ideas change.
Ebony, Ivory & Jade
An American track team has just arrived in The Philippines for an international competition. Among the competitors are Ginger and Pam, nicknamed "Ivory" and "Ebony", who meet up with another friend, Jackie, nicknamed "Jade". After they arrive at their hotel, a gang of thugs kidnaps them, along with some other girls from the team. To get away, the trio are going to have to use all their fighting skills.
South Seas
Writer
Two shipwrecked men on South Sea island help natives battle vicious modern pirates bent on rape and mayhem.
TNT Jackson
A woman encounters thugs and drug dealers after traveling to Hong Kong to search for her missing brother.
Impossible Dream
Rufo