Bembol
As the EDSA Revolution unfolds, a mother, son, and daughter who live in a slum near Malacañang Palace grapple with the murder of their patriarch in the hands of corrupt policemen, turning from passive victims of social injustice into active participants in the final hours of the uprising.
Things get chaotic when the gang leader falls madly in love with her. Will she be successful with her mission?
Dado and Estrella want to to start a family and forget their old work as sex workers. But when they meet Baby, their relationship turns shaky as Estrella finds out about Dado and Baby's affair.
The film revolves around the covert relationship of a woman with a corrupt police officer and "sugar daddy."
The story of the Mamasapano clash where 44 Special Action Force officers of the Philippine National Police (PNP) died on their mission from the point of view of then-PNP Deputy Chief of Operations Major General Benjamin Magalong as he was heading the investigation.
Robert and his wife have a daughter and an adopted son, Matthew, whose biological father is Robert's deceased best friend and former lover, Domeng. Conflict ensues as Robert becomes sexually attracted to a teenage Matthew while Matthew impregnates his stepsister much to the shame of the family matriarch.
Tom and Ric are cousins who search for the Yamashita treasures when a map was given to them by Tom's professor. The map was also being chased by a group of Japanese who are also interested with the treasures. With Tom's and Ric's effort and with the professor helped, they were able to find the treasure even though they've faced challenges and difficult situations.
She gets entangled with three men who want her: her suitor, her ex-boyfriend and her boss. But there's another one who wants to control and turn her into a sex monster.
Mang Canor (Killer Father)
A photographer is tasked to take a photo of a rare flower thriving in the mountain, but he discovers women trapped in a hidden brothel for illegal loggers.
A group of friends experiences terror because of a prank that went wrong.
Three stories of haunting secrets, folklore, and urban legends.
Manolo
A gay beautician is determined to clear his name after learning he's included in a drug watchlist.
A movie about acceptance, forgiveness, self discovery, and love.
Al comienzo de la pandemia de COVID-19, Danny es uno de los trabajadores filipinos que han perdido su trabajo a causa de la crisis. Al volver a casa, Danny se escapa del centro de cuarentena para reunirse con su familia solo para ser recibido por el terrible estado de su padre inválido, Gener. En busca de un trabajo decente, Danny busca la ayuda de su antiguo benefactor gay, Lito, para financiar la medicación de Gener. En lugar de ello, Lito endosa a Danny a su amigo René, que dirige un antro de sexo en línea que se hace pasar por una cafetería legítima. Esto abre a Danny al mundo del cibersexo.
Inno quiere huir del maltrato de su padre, un estríper retirado adicto a las drogas. Un día, la madre de Inno, le obliga a trabajar en un club de striptease masculino y allí conoce a Bambi, una ex prostituta que organiza fiestas privadas para satisfacer sexualmente a los ricos. Inno conocerá también a Jun Mallari, un acaudalado hombre de negocios gay. Inno seduce a Jun atraído por la vida llena de comodidades que le ofrece, convirtiéndose en su juguete y abandonando a su padre.
When Fernando was given the gift of healing at 16, he hid it for many years until he became a priest only to find himself in scandals and squabbles with the Catholic Church. Unfazed, he challenged head on but pauses when faced with the question - what if the gift is taken away from him? Based on the true to life story of Fr. Fernando Suarez.
Dodi
Mariel and Deena were strangers until they became the best of friends because of the similarities in the pain that they had experienced. Their friendship is put to the test when one of them decides to get married.
A musical film protraying Padre Damaso, Jose Rizal's famous villain in his book 'Noli Me Tangere.
Sonny
A department store saleslady has had enough of being an underdog. One night, she discovers a peculiar-looking gun right on her doorstep. Her life drastically changes as she discovers how much power owning a gun can give her.
Spanish-ruled Philippines, 1800s: A woman, raped and banished to the woods on a full moon’s night, sees her newborn child swallowed by animalistic shadows lurking in the foliage. Raised by the forest’s mysterious ghouls and demons — boars, wild cats and a many-eyed sage — the child grows.
Elise's Dad
As their paths cross again several years later, Bert has a hard time acknowledging that he is still in love with Elise.
Governor
The dramatization of the life of General Ronald dela Rosa.
Based on a true story, from the accounts of Rodrigo Morelos’ (aka Boy Tokwa) friends, the movie sees Boy’s grandson, Andy Morelos Woods, head back to the Philippines to search the truth about his grandfather.
Eddie
El barco de pasajeros Aurora se estrella en una isla rocosa, destruyendo el sustento de toda la isla y obligando a Leana, la dueña de una vieja posada a trabajar para los familiares de las víctimas buscando los cuerpos desaparecidos a cambio de una recompensa. Arriesgando su vida y la de su hermana, los muertos llegan hasta la orilla y encontrarán refugio en su hogar.
Joey, a fashion designer, Mikee, a food and travel vlogger, and Ally, an aspiring composer cross their paths in Samar. What seemed to be an ordinary trip for Joey and Mikee turned out to be something more than they presume.
Mike
It revolves around Glory, a 52-year-old woman who falls in love with Niko, a guy 30 years her junior. They start a risqué May-December love affair, but will struggle to keep their relationship intact amidst social disapproval and judgment.
Shirley is a caregiver and finds herself working for a strange family living in fear of her father.
Seven friends with different backgrounds face their respective problems to join a talent competition.
Filipino director Adolfo Alix Jr. returns to the Festival with this timely story of a couple caught up in Rodrigo Duterte’s violent war on drugs when their son goes missing.
Migs needs to settle a huge debt to a loan shark. When Migs explains that he doesn't have the money yet, the loan shark proposes that he could settle the bill if Migs could find Lovi Poe and introduce him to the actress. How does a regular guy who knows no one in show business meet a celebrity?
Ben
Pipo makes ends meet by taking on the toughest jobs. Life is more difficult because he’s deaf. He supports himself and his teenage lover Cyril. His irate boss is getting difficult and Ben, his childhood friend wants his daughter Cyril back. Like a bomb, Pipo’s ticking to explode, anytime soon.
Mario
Young girl learns life lessons from loving mother.
Primo, gifted with a good eye for production design, ventures into the working world with a great desire to succeed. Unprepared for the harsh realities of the real world, Primo experienced failure, heartbreak and regret in a series of unfortunate events. Life didn’t turn out as he had expected: He wasted away, wallowing in grief, and jumped from one odd job to another for more than a decade. While trying to make ends meet at the peak of his misfortunes, he experiences a technological glitch with his old desktop computer and gets a chance to re-write his life.
It tells the story of four friends: a single mom hoping to complete her family, a martyr wife who will do anything to keep her family from falling apart, a mistress who is desperate to have her own family, and a young woman who fully supports them.
Pastor Luis Aguila and his family are seemingly tested with their faith. Luis is an ex-convinct who is now the head of his church. Mildred, his wife, tries to hide her secret as she grapples between her family and church duties. Their youngest son Carlo wrestles with growing up and tying up his family together. All of them try to overcome these obstacles but things intensify when Pastor Aguila's daughter, Katrina defies her family when she falls in love with the mysterious Jigo.
A depiction of Philippines war on drugs.
The film is based on Vince and Kath, an online series written by Jenny Ruth Almocera, which went viral, that told the story of two lovestruck teens, Vince and Kath, through text messages.
Ma’ Rosa has four children. She owns a small convenience store in a poor section of Manila where everybody knows her. To make ends meet, Rosa and her husband, Nestor, resell small amounts of narcotics on the side. One day, they get arrested. Rosa’s children are ready to do anything to buy their parents’ freedom from the corrupt police.
A self-made farmer and rice mill owner who faces a rebellion by his two sons when he installs his young mistress as the new woman of the house immediately after the death of his wife. Complicating matters further is the fact that the older son is already living with his common-law wife in the same house.
Inspired by the much-publicized travails of Benhur Luy and Janet Lim Napoles, the film opens with a police operation that leads to the recovery of a certain Zeny Roblado who has been unduly detained by her boss Lorna Valera. From there, Zeny spills whatever she knows of Lorna's shady operations to Teresa, a journalist.
The love-hate relationship between mother and son intensifies when the latter decides not to pursue college education in Manila after suffering from separation anxiety.
Father Greg, a diocesan priest, is reassigned to a parish up in the mountains. He embarks on a mission to help solve the crime, a mission which leads him to the discovery of his own personal salvation.
Ella's Father
A group of high school students who are spending the night in a old mansion. When they learn that the house is haunted they set to look out for ghosts just for fun , but they find out soon enough that the urban legends are real.
Alba
In the traffic-laden streets of Metro Manila, two brothers use the chaos of the city roads as a smokescreen for their shady occupation tandem robbers on motorbike. But when a robbery goes sour, the brothers are forced to graduate from low level thieves to high profile hit men in an act that tests both their resolve and their relationship.
Juan Luna
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.
Perry
A journalist investigates a woman with the name of China Doll. Soon, he discovers his knowledge of her turns out to be dangerous.
An assassin, a porn dubber and a transgender. Three souls. One explicit illusion. To find the ultimate joy in their empty lives. A safe haven, where passion and love mean humanity, ecstasy means enlightenment; and the soul is the ultimate arbiter of the truth.
Gen. Tomás Mascardo
The film begins with his capture by Philippine and US forces under Frederick Funston's command in 1901, then flashes back to 1886, when an old woman gives Aguinaldo and his childhood friend Candido Tirona cryptic prophecies. Ten years later, Aguinaldo is inducted into the Katipunan and later assumes leadership of its Cavite chapter while becoming mayor of Cavite El Viejo. When the trouble breaks out in Manila in late August 1896, Aguinaldo tries to assure the Spanish provincial government of non-interference and covertly marshals his forces despite a lack of weapons. Learning that the Spanish mostly put their forces in Manila, Aguinaldo finally mobilizes his troops and take the command of the Katipunan forces in Cavite
When Donna Reyes is robbed in the middle of a bustling Quezon City overpass, she’s hard pressed to find the thief. But with the help of a friend, Donna is able to track down Robert Igawad, an ill-tempered messenger that becomes the prime suspect in the robbery.
Fred Siazon
Therese Bourgoine, una voluntaria francesa que participa en una misión humanitaria en la isla de Palawan, un territorio salvaje de junglas y montañas, es secuestrada por el grupo Abu Sayyaf, un movimiento separatista yihadista que preconiza la independencia de un estado fundamentalista islámico que englobaría el oeste de Mindanao y el archipiélago de Sulu. (FILMAFFINITY)
Ruben
A community rushes to a faith healer after learning that one of them was miraculously healed from a deadly disease by the same person. They are torn apart afterwards as the healing brings them a terrible curse that wreaks harm and death.
Ramil
On a commuter's trip from Manila's business district to the suburbs, the director finds a myriad of possibilities, ranging from miniature ironic situations to a love story that is finally finding its unexpected closing.
A documentary film director whose agnosticism wavers while covering a 12-year old boy from the slums whose blind faith in God helped them fight back at the two most corrupt, but leading candidates in the coming presidential elections.
Turing
Impoverished, childless and living in a garbage dump, Miguel and Lina become instant celebrities when Lina miraculously becomes pregnant. But Lina gives birth to a fish, which increases her celebrity but leaves Miguel humiliated and the couple at odds. What follows is an illuminating examination of how this unusual family copes and compromises in the face of a modern-day miracle.
About a mythical earth goddess named Mercedita, a powerful wandering earth-bound diwata who watches over the brokenhearted of Binangonan, Rizal.
Sir Paul
When teenage pregnancies alarm the principal of the high school where Mayette teaches biology, Mayette is tasked to incorporate sex education into her lesson. How can she teach her students about sex when, at 32, Mayette is still a virgin?
A bus takes-off from urban Manila to the rural southeastern side of the country, carrying a group of mixed passengers from all walks of life, each one has a personal story to tell and they are telling it in their own voice. During the long journey, as the passengers mentally sort out their past & their future, things happen in the present, by choice or by providence, that make their journey memorable—the bus blows a tire, a song elicits tears, a butterfly causes commotion, a picture gets lost, someone's head is stoned, some hearts are broken, some mended. The bus ride poetizes the life journey and poses questions on issues of life and death and where exactly the line is drawn between free will and destiny.
Leo
A young man tries to make some money so he can marry his girlfriend. He takes a job for $2,000 and then soon realizes that this job involves killing a woman.
Danny
LV and her family make their living by operating an illegal off track betting outlet. But things haven't been going well for them lately, and the future is uncertain with Sta. Ana Park closing down.
LV and her family make their living by operating an illegal off track betting outlet. But things haven't been going well for them lately, and the future is uncertain with Sta. Ana Park closing down.
Jeffrey
It's a story about the search for Prinsipe Sabong. The best gamecock that beat Joey's 12-time Champion cock. He went back home to look for it. But Joey found Love instead. Love of his father. Love of his brother Love of his adoptive siblings... But the forbidden love of a woman prompted him to leave his home once again. So when he finally found Prinsipe Sabong, The search ended. But not the quest
Joaquin - adult
A story of two high school senior students who believes passing the UPCAT will help make their dreams of becoming successful come true.
Rizal
Narcisa "Sisa" Dalangin is a young Filipina during the Spanish Occupation & is a childhood friend of Jose Rizal.
Jennylyn Mercado, Jodi Sta. Maria, Agot Isidro, Coco Martin, and Jon Avila portray five graduating nursing students who are at a crossroads in their lives and their careers. Their different stories are a cross-section of society's nurses. Each character reflects the Pinoy's aspirations, motives, realities, ambivalence, and fears in becoming a nurse.
Young Tisho
Mateo is a lighthouse caretaker dating a teacher Suzette. The small town they are in is trying to increase tourism. Jerome stumbles across Mateo and Suzette having sex, whilst he is on holiday from Manila. A local a gay man, who pays local teenage boys for sex, talks to Mateo about the negative aspects of being gay in the Philippines. According to local legend, a lighthouse fairy seduces desirable men who then never marry. Mateo's relationship with Jerome leads to self reevaluation
Tatay Nanding (segment "Angel of Love")
"Angels" is a trilogy. The three episodes featured in the movies are: "Angel of Mine", "Daddy's Angel" and "Angel of Love". "Angel of Mine,"
Sarah's Lover
Happy Hearts is about true love between a young man and a young woman, a son's love for his father, a father's love for his son, and true love between a man and a man. Alvin (Rayver Cruz) returns to the Philippines with her mom Sarah (Jean Garcia) to visit his father, Enrico (Rustom Padilla) a respected professor of an exclusive university for boys and his godfather Louie (Wendell Ramos), a sing-along master and who happens to be Enrico's live-in partner. Alvin falls in love with Kristine (Shaina Magdayao), a rich and talented girl who lives under the strict hand of a very influential father (Tirso Cruz III). Can love survive the odds? Will Alvin fight for his true love? Will the man get to keep his romance with the man? Will everybody's hearts indeed be happy?
Boy P.
Set in two contrasting environments that underline the same premise of imprisonment, Selda tells the story of Rommel, a young man who accidentally kills a boy, resulting in his incarceration. Inside the jail, he befriends another inmate, who becomes his rock and protector. Seven years later, Rommel is living in the province as a farmer together with Sita his wife. Esteban tracks down Rommel in hopes of renewing a brewing love affair. Rommel and Sita welcome Esteban into their lives until their intimacy crosses borderlines and results in the undeniable scourge of self-discovery
The story is set in Guagua, Pampanga a decade after the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo which ravaged the province with lahar. It follows the lives of Rodolfo "Mang Rudy" Manansala, a woodcarver, and his three daughters and their relationships with the people close to them in the span of seven summers.
Alfredo / Marina Hidalgo
Llíaco es un chico de 20 años que trabaja como masajista en un sauna con clientela Gay. Al morir su padre Llíaco emprende un viaje a su lugar de origen enfrentándose al dolor pero sobre todo a las preguntas sobre el amor, la vida y la supervivencia
It is about a group of investigative journalists from a sub-par TV station who accidentally scores a scoop that a 21-year-old boy is looking around for his identity… he claims to be the son of the late director Lino Brocka, a known gay filmmaker.
Bob
When a message in a bottle finally reaches its intended target, two unlikely lovers discover they're meant for each other. Working side by side with his depressed father at their family-owned business, Stephen isn't used to doing much talking. On the flip side, the spunky Kristine has never had any problems saying exactly what's on her mind. Can these two polar opposites make their love connection work?
Priest
Rupert and Nina, a recently married couple with a newborn, buy a their dream house at a bargain price. As they settle into their home, they glimpse the ghost of an old woman and make a shocking discovery when they dig up the backyard.
Melencio (Fujian China 1959)
Anti-crime crusader Lilia Chiong Yang seems to have everything a woman could want and need: a husband who pampers her; children whom any parent would be proud of; and the respect & admiration of the most powerful people in the land. But just as Lilia prepares for her 25th wedding anniversary celebration, a chance encounter in Thailand with her first love Michael throws Lilia's life into chaos. So begins the resumption of a relationship that threatens to unravel the delicate threads connecting Lilia to the other people in her life. - Written by regalfilms
Troy's Dad
A hunting film about ghosts and undying love. Its a movie about loving another person to death… and beyond.
Gusting
One mystery envelops a group of friends who goes out on a vacation. Will they find the real criminal or be caught with their own mesh?
Santi
After enduring a troubled childhood, a woman struggles to find herself in this provocative tale about life's vagaries and ultimate redemption. The film follows the emotional journey of Sabel, a complex woman portrayed as both bad and good, who permanently alters the lives of those in her orbit and who is eventually charged with murder.
The movie tells the story of Abigael Edades who returns to her Philippine hometown from her five-year stint as a nurse in Canada. Her town mates rousingly welcome her as a hero, the crass moniker ascribed by the government to hundreds of thousands of Filipinos working abroad. She finds her family in tatters, her parents estranged and living apart and her brother Jepoy living the life of drugs. But she basks in the welcome of her mother and youngest brother Noel and the devotion of her boyfriend, who proposes marriage. Her happiness is short-lived. She is diagnosed with SARS and contaminates Noel. They cause a national scare, are quarantined in Manila and are shunned by their own townspeople and the municipal government. Even her boyfriend leaves her. The hero becomes a heel. "Just a month after my return, my views on life and the people around me have irrevocably changed," she says at the start of the movie.
Tonyo
During the Chinese Revolution in 1949, young Chinese copra trader named Fong-Huan marries Elisa, a young and pretty Filipina. The couples children, Daniel and Linda, were raised in a mixture of Chinese and Filipino-Hispanic tradition. These richly cultured people are the ancestors of a dysfunctional third-generation family whose daughters tell their own stories of joy, struggle, and the complex realities in the life of Filipino Chinese families.
A typical bar girl sells flesh just to augment a living. A typical school teenager fell in love with her despite being a prostitute. Both share the course of bodily fascination and enjoy the intensity of lustful obsession...until one day, guilt feelings envelop her conscience.
Gregory Valdez
Abet Razalo and Ana Maria Gomez were childhood sweethearts. They find each other again, only this time they have to deal with each other on a professional level - Abet is now Anas bodyguard, and he is tasked to watch over her, now a phenomenally successful singer-actress because she is threatened by an obsessed fan. Abet also learns of Anas engagement to Vince Madrigal, a handsome billionaire. As the situation turns more complicated, the two of them are obliged to spend more time with each other, tempting them to rekindle their old flame. But Abet finds out that Ana is no longer the simple girl he promised marriage to ten years ago. Will love be lovelier the second time around for Ana and Abet or will Ana be spending the rest of her life.
Cenon
A neglected and unloved orphan raised by poor relatives in the slums of Manila is wrongfully convicted of murder that resulted from a heist he was compelled to join. Unable to prove his innocence and his minor age, he is thrown into the cruel, perilous and horrifying world of death row where he is introduced to other inmates all awaiting their execution by lethal injection. One of them is a 70-year-old man who detests the jungle of jail and is feared by all the convicts. He would serve as the boy’s protector and savior and in the process touch and shape enormously the violated youth’s life in prison and beyond.
Melvin
Melvin, a social worker, meets handsome stripper Efren and they become friends. When Melvin's mother dies, he moves in with Efren and his three female roommates.
Paul
An intriguing look into a world of drugs and crime, dynamically moves through the lives of the different characters – the drug lord Enteng, his minions, the police, and customers.
Masikip, masakit, mahapdi: Directed by Behn Cervantes. With Jaclyn Jose, Julio Diaz, Joel Torre, Rita Avila.
Rene (segment "Killer Van")
Be careful what you wish for… otherwise you will suffer the same fate of this group of young people who are overtly fun-loving and death defying adventure seekers. As they decide to take a quick break from their impulsive roadtrip, ghastly things start to frighten them for real. A gruesomely deformed man named fatman starts telling them three sets of hair raising stories.
Carding
Selya está decepcionada con Bobby, que solo quiere sexo, pero no una relación real ni matrimonio. Entonces se va y decide casarse con el gay Ramón que, está convencida, es definitivamente diferente.
Modelo (1997)
Mikaelo
Tony Boy
Ellis gets imprisoned from trying to avenge the death of his brother, who helped him expose the illegal engagements of a military general. Ellis tries to recover from the tragedies in his life by being a relentless inmate in the jail. Ellis becomes one of the best underground hitman after Leah pulls him out in the prison and hires him as an assassin. One day Ellis was assigned to abduct a politician and his child. Ellis realizes that the kid is his lovechild with his long lost lover, Beth.
A story of an innocent young lass desperate to leave her homeland to escape her adoptive father's lustful desires.
A doctor dedicated her life post-graduate to help the rural community of Mulanay, Quezon. Based on a true story.
The serial tells the tragic love story of Vina, a single woman who wants to have a baby despite her advanced age. With the help of her best friend, she met Dave, the man she will eventually fall in love and have a child with. Unknown to Vina, Dave was her best friend's lover, and in the end, Vina would discover that her best friend and the man she loved plotted together to ruin her and her son's lives.
Party Guest
Sakay is a 1993 Filipino historical drama film directed by Raymond Red. The film stars Julio Diaz, Tetchie Agbayani, and Leopoldo Salcedo. The film covers the life of Filipino patriot and hero Macario Sakay, who was declared an outlaw and a criminal for continuing hostilities against the United States after the "official" end of the Philippine Insurrection.
Femme fatale causing death to anyone she ever crossed paths with.
A boy grows up not knowing his real identity. One day a mysterious lady, claiming to be his real mother, divulges the truth about his roots. He is caught between leaving his past and living his new life.
Jonathan
A teenage boy befriends a starlet who is having an affair with an ambitious mayor. As the elections are coming up, the mayor's wife wants him to get rid of his mistress. The starlet agrees to stop the affair on condition that the mayor help release her boyfriend from jail. The mayor does so, but wants the former jail-bird to kill his political rival.
Pol
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.
Gregor
When Sylvia became a CIB officer, she swore to herself that she will do everything in her power to avenge the death of her father killed by five men and to find the culprits that left her brutalized and raped. But for her plans to succeed, she has to manipulate and pretend to be a different person. Sylvia must use all the skills she learned from years of training to capture the mastermind Armando and regain whatever self-respect is left with her.
Dumating ka lang ba para umalis is a 1999 Tagalog-language film. Dumating ka lang ba para umalis stars Daisy Reyes, Allan Paule and Leo Rabago. It was released on 7th April 1999.
