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Paul Gabriel was born in the USA but raised in the Philippines. Paul plans to return to America after his college graduation. But before he could graduate, he must pass one subject where his professor demands that he answer the question, "What's wrong with the Filipino?" Paul's effort to answer the question forces him to reflect on the question of Filipino identity.
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Brocka's potboiler about the rise of a starlet is the quintessential rags-to-riches, prey-turned-predator story, brimming with true-life anecdotes and an authentically acerbic sense of the seamier side of show business.
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Rain started to pour on Rene's smooth, sunny life when he went to Tokyo for a business trip and met the love of his life, a Japanese woman whose life was cut short after giving birth to their child Rene Gallardo Jr. On his lonely flight back home with little Rene, he met Cielo Martinez who offers to complete his life. Will it really solve the puzzle or will the rain just pour even harder on his life?
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A middle-aged married woman falls madly in love with a young painter half her age.
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A middle-aged married woman falls madly in love with a young painter half her age.
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This is the story of a man and his music and of a girl and her golden voice, how long can they resist the power of love.
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This is the story of millions of Filipinos for them to live a life of penury.
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Lamberto Avellana’s English-language film based on Nick Joaquin’s play about a painter, a painting, two sisters, and a crook.
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This adventure is set in the Philippines and chronicles the exploits of two men who survive a plane crash in the jungle. One of the men is an avaricious killer who has come to the islands to search for a fortune in diamonds. The other is an international adventurer. Now they must somehow overcome their vast personal differences and desires to survive in the steamy wilderness
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Director John Barnwell's 1959 WWII drama stars Keith Andes as an American soldier in the Philippines who trains a village of headhunters to fight the Japanese. Also in the cast are Susan Cabot and Paraluman.
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A man and a woman fight for the freedom of their country Marking with his gun Yay with her typewriter. Thrown together by a cause greater than either of them they share the suffering of the flesh and the spirit among the country's guerrilla fighters. They emerge, out of the crucible of war, heroes-and lovers.
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A coming-of-age story of a barrio lass in a patriarchal archipelago.
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Simon sets out to avenge his bride's death at the hands of the bandit Martinico and by accident, he captures Martinico's bride-to-be Belen and uses her to find Martinico.
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Hassan, the son of a tribe chief of the Badjaos, a pagan, sea-dwelling Filipino tribe, meets and falls for Bala Amai, the niece of the chief of the Tausugs, an Islamic, land-dwelling tribe. Although the Hassan is willing to give up his lifestyle for Bala Amai and vice versa, the Tausugs plot to break up the union of the happy couple.
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A war hero forced to participate in a smuggling ring meets a prostitute in the postwar ruins of Manila.
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A spoiled man gets punished by his father and gets disinherited, so he learns the value of hard work and money.
A hotheaded man becomes a firefighter and is morally tested by other firefighters to join them in an illegal racket.
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It is a supernatural melodrama of a woman's misfortune and suffering interwoven with the legend of the Pasig. The legend itself is inspired by the immortal kundiman of the director's brother, Nicanor Abelardo.
A heavy romance drama about a man poor man and his family who lives in the province. Due to the kind-heartedness of the couple found favor with their godparent, and gave the man an opportunity to work in the metro at a shoe factory. One day the owner of the factory fell ill and so the ownership was transferred to the owners' daughter, due to the man's kind-heartedness the daughter starts to fall in love with the man and so drama ensues.