Paolo Rivero

Películas

Slay Zone
A rural area called Pulang Araw which is headed by newly-appointed Police Captain Corazon Fernandez (Pokwang) and being promoted by V (Glaiza De Castro), a famous vlogger and model, suddenly turns into a slay zone when a series of killings happen. Both their lives and the lives of the people around them are endangered in the course of finding out the truth behind the murders.
Showroom
Liezl, an ambitious agent, learns that her colleague, Susanah, uses her body to sell condo units; so she imitates her scheme. When the tables turn, Liezl begins to face her punishments one by one.
Fallback
Michelle is not one to let herself get hurt in love. With this fear, she thrusts herself in the midst of plan Bs, second options, and back-up plans - one which involves her present boyfriend and her ex.
Salo
Rene
Filipinas /// Rene, es un chico rico que vive en casa de su abuela, a la que ama y adora. Su capataz Levi, vive en la casa, también. René se centra en su carrera por completo y se va a trabajar todos los días a la empresa que le dejaron sus padres. Sin embargo, René tiene un oscuro secreto, él ama a los hombres. Un fin de semana va a su casa de descanso, que tiene junto al mar con Levi. Abrumado por la belleza masculina y la gracia de Levi, René rompe con todas las reglas, se trata de un fin de semana que cambiará las vidas de ambos para siempre.
Cuchera
Based on a true story, Cuchera is about Filipino drug mules, drug couriers and their recruiters. It follows the story of Isabel, a veteran drug mule, in her first attempt at running her own drug transshipment operation between Manila and China. Isabel’s character is based on the story of an actual Filipina drug mule who was caught with eight capsules of heroin lodged in her sex organ, 48 in the rectum and 11 in her abdomen after an x-ray was conducted by Chinese authorities. Cuchera presents an accurate depiction of how some Filipinos end up becoming entrenched in the world of illegal drugs. Currently, the Philippines leads all Southeast Asian countries in the number of nationals arrested for drug smuggling charges in China. As of 2009, there are currently 95 Filipinos languishing in various jails in Chinese territories---four of whom are on death row. Violators include minors who enter China with fake passports.
Indie Boys
A come backing filmmaker finds love and satisfaction in one of his male talents.He battles emotionally that he is not gay, only to discover that his true happiness lies within his hidden nature.
Romeo at Juliet
An unconventional love story between two souls. Their past catches up on them as their affection for each other goes stronger...
SpEd Hearts
Jonathan
In the indie movie “SpEd Hearts”, she sleepwalks and wears a morose expression in all of her scenes, you wouldn’t know if she was happy or sad, angry or ecstatic.
Standing Room Only (S.R.O.)
In a run down adult theater, all manner of perversion happens in the darkness. The most popular young man in the theater has his position threatened when a younger guy comes on the scene.
Araro
Araro tells the story of the sanctity of marriage of Andoy and Elena. Like Adam and Eve, their vows were tempted by a stranger named Steve, figuratively playing the snake in the paradise. Will their love prevail over temptations? Will morality and sexuality defines their humanity? In the end, the temptations lead them to become better persons and stick to the sanctity of their marriage vow.
Bayaw
Danilo Vergara
Bayaw is a movie that combines action, mystery suspense with the gay genre. It ultimately looks deep into the unique and complex relationship of two brothers-in-law that borders between family ties, brotherhood, camaraderie and love.
Little Boy Big Boy
"Little Boy Big Boy" tells the story of a carefree graphic artist named Raymund and how he is filled with doubt as he is suddenly faced with the responsibility of looking after his seven-year-old nephew Zach. But while taking care of Zach, Raymund finds himself in the middle of building a relationship with his new lover Tim where he teaches him the value of acceptance and self-respect.
Squalor
Seaman
Four men, four stories, all intersect in Manila. Episode one is about Ariel, a con-man. Episode two is about Boy, an expectant father. In the third episode, Ronald goes to Manila to sell a building. And in the fourth story Baste saves his sister from Ariel.
Heavenly Touch
Sandy
Jonard is having trouble making ends meet. His mother is suffering from depression, and he and his sister are forced to quit school in order to take care of her. One day, Jonard meets up his friend Rodel, and Rodel introduces him to the world of massage parlors. Rodel teaches him massage, and brings him to Heavenly Touch, a syndicate-run massage parlor that mostly caters to homosexuals.
Sin salida
Gerard
Un humilde pescador llamado Joaquín (Polo Ravales), se ve forzado a admitir que es gay, cuando su esposa Cynthia (Althea Vega) regresa a casa.
M2M 3: Versus
A tale of two male hunks undergoing the different stages of realization and of falling in and out of love. Their story reels off in their minds and is carried out in a rather sensual and provocative manner. What actually goes on...? And what are the complexities in the process of carrying out, staying in and moving on from this kind of relationship? Masterfully crafted as the previous M2M features- this video shows the intricacies and dynamics of male to male relationship.
Next Attraction
Purports to document the production of a short about a young man’s first sexual experience while doubling as a coming-out film and a multiply layered making-of movie.
Loss of Innocence
Filipinas /// Ran es un joven de provincia, que creció lejos de las grandes ciudades y se utilizó para la vida simple, sin estudios ni ambiciones. Con simples esperanzas y sueños, está contento con su vida junto a su amiga de la infancia, Ynez. Pero todo cambió cuando un manager vino a su pueblo como un gestor de talentos que lo convenció para ir a Manila a probar suerte como actor. Poco sabía él de la experiencia de todo tipo de explotación y eventualmente lo llevó a conocer su verdadero yo y lo que su cuerpo y alma es para el anhelo.
Eskandalo
A sex drama by Joven Tan.
Manay Po! 2: Overload
Mr. Rivera
Luzviminda Dimagiba (Cherry Pie Picache) and her three gay sons: Oscar (Polo Ravales), Orson (John Prats) and Orwell (Jiro Manio) are back! And now they want to add a new member to their outrageous family – a cute little baby to make their new home happy and complete! But babies don’t just really just fall from heaven or can be fetched from a river, so when the Dimagibas are figuring out this dilemma, Bette (Rufa Mae Quinto) – the ditzy baby maker just came right on time to provide the answer.
Daybreak
William
Un hombre casado está teniendo una aventura con otro hombre. Después de un tiempo separados, los dos hombres pasan una noche juntos en una casa de vacaciones familiar en Tagaytay, Cavite. Juntos, en lugares tan cercanos, los dos se quedan sin nada más que hacer frente a las realidades de su relación.
The Masseur
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
Tag-ulan Ngayon Ang Bukid Ay Basa 2
A girl named Sabel lives with her parents who depend on unirrigated fields as the only source of living. Their lives become even harder when they cannot plant rice due to drought. Sabel's childhood sweetheart Rafael, like her family, also depends on the rice fields for a living. Due to poverty and insinuation of her mother, Sabel was forced to marry Joey, a rich bachelor. In the twist and turn of the story, Joey was killed. Sabel returned to her hometown and finally reunite with her real love of her life, Rafael. A story of love, deceit and forgiveness.
Homecoming
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.
Sanib
Fr. Zapiro
Melissa is a young woman blessed with great fortune she has a blossoming career in fashion design, a slew of adoring friends, and a fiancé who is no less than the man of her dreams. Everything seems favorable until the night of her engagement party, for she is suddenly beset by visions of her dead sister, Magda. Soon, Melissa realizes that Magda's soul wishes to claim her life, believing that it was the life meant for Magda, had she not died. As Magda takes control of her body, Melissa sees her perfect life crumble.
Bahid
Nathan
As a ramp and commercial model and a swinging teenager in this movie of sex,wealth and power, Assunta de Rossi as Erika is a sexy appealing face on billboards and on the catwalk but,at home, with her sister Loida, she shares a dark secret with her surrogate father,Mr. Lorenzo Lavares, who is wed to her sister. The house of Lavares features a strange quartet father and son married to the sisters with warped emotions and shocking happenings.
Sex Files
Prosti
Bong
Nanay Xedes runs her whorehouse with an iron fist and expects her employees to obey her rules — the most important of which is that her pimps and prostitutes can never be intimate with each other.
Tampisaw
Amorseko: Damong Ligaw
Bambi was neglected and deprived of love as a child. As an adult, she used sex with men as a way to forget her troubled childhood, until she met and fell in love with Rafael...
Ang Lihim ni Kurdapya
Dante's Lover
A lone woman near the edge of the sea lures the men to her nipa hut to be her customer.
Live Show
Rolly
Story revolves around the sad plight of the live sex performers Rolly (Paolo Rivero), Gigi (Klaudia Koronel), Rosita (Ana Capri), Sandra (Hazel Espinosa and Vio (Simon Ibarra) and what drives them to do the inexplicable.