Beauty and the Bestie (2015)
Género : Drama, Acción, Comedia
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 59M
Director : Wenn V. Deramas
Escritor : Mel Mendoza-Del Rosario
Sinopsis
For an important case, a policeman needs the help of his former best friend to impersonate the daughter of a foreign dignitary in a beauty pageant.
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Matt T. Sherman y Nicholas Holden son el capitán y el primer oficial de un submarino en el que tienen lugar diversas aventuras, especialmente cuando un grupo de mujeres de la Marina americana se ve obligado a formar parte de la tripulación.
Documental que relata el largo y problemático rodaje de "Apocalypse Now", la obra maestra de Francis Ford Coppola sobre la guerra de Vietnam. Incluye abundante material inédito rodado por Eleanor Coppola, la mujer del director, con una cámara de 16 mm. El título alude a la novela de Conrad "Hearts of Darkness" (El corazón de las tinieblas), en la que se inspira la película. Obtuvo excelentes críticas.
Como un virus contagioso, varias chicas adolescentes, guapas y atléticas, desaparecen una tras otra en diferentes partes del país sin que la policía pueda hacer nada. Detrás de estas desapariciones está Madam M, líder de un grupo de asesinos internacionales. Su plan: convertirles en asesinas profesionales, asesinas que utilicen su cuerpo desnudo como arma letal. Después de cinco años de duro entrenamiento sólo tres chicas sobreviven...
Shirley is a woman who wants to be in control of everything. Working as a librarian in a public school, a firm "Sshhh!" from her makes the students tremble in fear. But in her family, her unwarranted intervention in the lives of her children and their families keeps her emotionally detached from them. Realizing that she has lost the command she once had, she goes to New York to reunite with Mark , her estranged gay son who is now suffering from colon cancer. But Shirley doesn't know this and living with Mark in New York comes with a cost. She has to live with her son's lover Noel who is an illegal immigrant. Everything is going right until circumstances forces Shirley to go back to the Philippines. Now that she's back with her family, she realizes that something is wrong she is not happy.
Después de la invasión de las islas Filipinas por tropas japonesas, los Estados Unidos intentan recuperarlas. Trece soldados defienden con sus vidas una posición estratégica en la península de Bataan, último baluarte de la resistencia norteamericana frente a Japón.
Best Friends Forever (BFF) is the 16th year anniversary presentation of Star Cinema starring the Megastar Sharon Cuneta and the Comedy Queen Ai Ai delas Alas. Sharon and Ai Ai will be playing as best friends in this comedy film helmed by box-office director Wenn Deramas of Tanging Ina and Ang Tanging Ina N’yong Lahat.
What follows is a black-and-white silent film set in the 1890s during the brewing Filipino revolution against Spanish colonialism. A series of tragic and comic sequences tells the Three Ages of an Indio (“common man”) as he progresses from boy bell ringer in a village church to teenage revolutionary to adult theater actor rehearsing a popular Spanish play.
A 12-year-old gay who comes from a criminal family falls in love with a handsome policeman.
Jericho Rosales portrays Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao as he struggles out of poverty to become a champion and national hero. Yet when the pressures of his sport, his personal life and the high expectations of his countrymen take their toll, he falls from grace. With the help of his wife (Bea Alonzo), will he be able to rise once more to be worthy of being called "the People's Champion"?
Gigi from Arakan Valley is a woman rebel who teaches young comrades the facets of their struggle as they remain to be in waiting after they were ambushed. In a nearby village, Junjun and his fellow soldiers take a rest. He attempts to chance upon a girl he longs for, but instead encounters a balyan/tagbawian (shaman) in a very disturbing situation. Somewhere, two kids, Abyan and Busaw, trek the forest back to their mother. Huling Balyan ng Buhi : O Ang Sinalirap nga Asoy Nila weaves the tales of rebels in waiting, playful soldiers at rest and a troubled balyan (village healer) in a very ambiguous predicament. A quandary that will usher them all to one encounter that can bring to light the questions of transcendence.
A grade school English teacher Sarah Gonzales joins the 150,000 Pinoy OFWs working in the United Kingdom to support her Husband, Teddy Gonzales in making a better living for their family. More than just a chronicle of the Filipinos experience working as nurses and caregivers in the UK, this story also charts Sarah's journey to self-discovery from a submissive wife who makes sacrifices for her Husband; Teddy's aspirations to an empowered woman who finds dignity and pride in a humbling job as a Caregiver in London.
Dos profesionales, Jeff y Marty, realizan un viaje de negocios a Filipinas. Sienten una profunda insatisfacción en sus vidas, que los lleva a abandonar a sus amigos y familia, buscando revivir las andanzas de su juventud en el alcohol y las drogas. (FILMAFFINITY)
Amy Sanchez (Bebe Pham) is a champion free diver who breaks a crucial free diving record. Her boyfriend, Tony dela Cruz (Jack Prinya), an Air Force Pilot, mysteriously disappears along with his plane that carries gold worth millions of dollars that was to be taken to the Central Bank. Determined to unearth the truth, she goes off to find out what has actually happened accompanied by her sister Jess Sanchez (Jaymee Ong). She moves on her adventurous journey not knowing that she herself is going to get entangled into a trap of lies that leads her to a much complex conspiracy.
Set in December 2021, Resiklo is the story of Crisval Sarmiento, an ex-military Colonel who leads a rag-tag group of survivors in the Philippines against the insect-like alien invaders known as the Balangs. Because of the enormous expenditures in resources during the invasion, the humans are forced to scavenge the destroyed landscape for anything that could be recycled and put to use at their secret sanctuary, called Paraiso. However, they are in a race against time, as in addition to the resource gathering, the survivors are fighting to eliminate the Balangs and their human collaborators, the Mutanos, while keeping Paraiso's location secret and along the way, uncovering the truth behind the invasion as well.
Laida Magtalas is a modern-day Belle who works hard to provide for her family while hoping that someday she will meet her prince charming and that they will live happily ever after together. That would-be prince charming is none other than "Miggy", the youngest member of the Montenegro clan — a well established family in the business world. Moony Laida's desire to finally meet Miggy leads her to apply as an Editorial Assistant at his newly launched men’s magazine, "Bachelor". In spite of the fact that a relationship with Miggy may prove to be a long shot, Laida revels working in such close proximity with the man of her dreams.
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?
Melinda Uy is a half-Filipino, half-Chinese struggling mother to four children married to a full-Chinese blood man. Her family was believed to bring curse to Olive's famiily. Because of this, Melinda was not accepted by Uy's family as one of their members. Melinda's struggling as a mother begand when she has nothing else to do but to strive and work more.
Una ingenua mujer norteamericana, engañada por su novio traficante de drogas, deberá permanecer diez años en prisión en las Filipinas. Allí las condiciones son muy duras, sufriendo el sadismo de las guardias y varios atentados contra su vida. Por eso convence a sus compañeras de celda para tratar de escapar a través de la selva.
Women cope with various problems while earning a living in the city.