Migrante (2012)
The Filipino Diaspora
Género : Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 0M
Director : Joel Lamangan
Sinopsis
The film portrays the true stories of Filipinos, who, due to poverty in their country, are forced to go abroad to look for work, hoping they would find a better life.
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Estamos en el área del Sudeste de Asia durante un fin de semana. Un grupo de chicos y chicas deciden pasar unos días en un hotel en la orilla del río. Pero algo terrible va a suceder. Una nube contaminada de origen desconocido transporta un virus que ataca a todo tipo de animales. Pájaros, perros, mascotas y bestias salvajes atacan a los humanos contaminándoles. Este virus tiene un devastador efecto en los humanos. Cualquiera que haya sido infectado muere con un espantoso dolor y revive de nuevo en el horrible estado de zombie, “un muerto viviente”...
Desperate to provide a comfortable life for her children, Ina willingly takes all kinds of jobs available to her. But what happens when Ina's family continues to fall apart despite all her sacrifices?
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Everything is falling into place for Alan Alvarez. With an impending high ranking promotion and four years of stable relationship with his dream girl, Daphne Recto, he is at the cusp of getting everything he's always wanted. Mia Samonte is getting tired of her forlorn life. She is back in Manila for the holidays after working hard for two years as a front desk officer in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. With the hopes of getting the chance to finally have a break, her family gets into another crisis that leaves her hopeless and fated. Two individuals with seemingly predestined lives suddenly find their paths crossing on a ferry boat ride that will change the course of their journeys forever.
When Lara lost her husband of five months, she didn't think she could go on living, much less love again. Now, seven months later, Lara is still in mourning. Every time a loved one died, someone else was there to cushion the blow. When her mother followed six years later, there was the rest of the family. But when her husband died, no one could offer any consolation - not her siblings, not her in-laws, not her friends. Not only was he the love of her life, he had also become her life. It would have been better if she died with him. In the meantime, her business -has taken a nosedive. She's also deep in debt with her unpaid condo and car mortgages. With all her predicament, how would Oliver and Chris figure in her life? Will she finally move on?
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Duro relato antibélico que narra la desesperada situación, abocada a la derrota, que sufrió el ejército japonés en Filipinas, en 1945, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. (FILMAFFINITY)