Himself
The documentary serves as a tribute to National Artist for Cinema Gerardo de Leon in celebration of his Centennial Year. “Salamat sa Alaala.” is inspired by the music composed by the late film director when he was a teenager playing background music for silent movies in Manila theatres. The video opens up with a capsulated history of the birth of the Filipino movies followed by a series of shots of veteran actresses, the academe and the young generation of filmmakers affirming his unique qualities as a world-class film figure. Then we unravel his private life as a family man. The documentary is one way of thanking him for his lasting legacy in the art form he left behind.
Dominican Friar
Accused of treason, Dr. Jose P. Rizal awaits trial and meets with his colonial government-appointed counsel, Luis Taviel de Andrade. The two build the case and arguments for the defense as significant events in the central figure's life prior to his incarceration unfold. Upon hearing Rizal's life story, Taviel begins to realize that the accused not just is innocent but exhibits in fact all the qualities of an extraordinary man. When the mock trial unreels, Taviel is all set to act as the prime advocate for his client as Rizal himself is about to give an earth-moving speech to defend his honor and address his countrymen. Meanwhile, the Spanish authorities have worked out the vast political machinery to ensure a guilty verdict. A revolution waits in the wings.
Ninong Jose
An action film by Phillip Salvador
Tony Carreon
Tomboyish Zsa Zsa (Klaudia) has just taken over a big business where Federico is a part-owner. Federico wants to buy Zsazsa out but she refuses. So he loses control of the company and hires Bobby to win Zsazsa's heart and later sell her stocks to him
Lolo
After many years of imprisonment, Miguel is finally freed. On the day of his liberation, Miguel promises himself a clean and honest life to win back the family he has lost during his incarceration. However, nobody wants to take in an ex-convict, his steadfast resolution finally breaks, and to find urgent money Miguel joins his former partner Roy in his latest venture. Miguel does not realize, however, that Roy's company actually involves a criminal activity which implicates Miguel in an abduction and ransom crime. Even worse, Roy's gang is competing against Castro's gang, so Miguel's life, and his family's, are put in constant danger. - Artemis-9
Don Roberto Mondragon Sr.
A clumsy young man named Andong earns the ire of his uncle who has been the unlucky recipient of his bunglings. Left with no choice but to leave home, he sets off for manila where he meets Roberto, a rich young man suffering from amnesia. Ignorant of the ways of the city they encounter four cunning juveniles who eventually becomes their friend and in one of their mischief s, they meet the apples of their eyes.
Senior Mondragon
Andrew and Redford do not let their skin color affect their friendship.
Señor Francisco
Sarah Crewe is the only daughter of the wealthy Capt. Crewe. They are based in India. However, Sarah is sent by her father to a boarding school in England. He gives her a doll named Emily and a young horse. Because of Sarah’s charm and innate kindness, she instantly earns popularity in school. She is also an excellent student and a good friend to everyone, including Becky, a maid. However on Sarah's birthday, she learns that her father gets killed in the war. Suddenly, Miss Minchin’s fondness to her turns into meanness. She takes all of Sarah’s possession and throws her out of her room to join Becky in the attic. From being a princess, Sarah turns into a maid. Despite the tragedy that happens to her Sarah, maintains her good girl disposition and keeps her positive outlook in life. But will someone save her from her miseries?
Sharon Cuneta plays the biographical account of the murder case of Filipina movie actress Lilian Velez during the 1950's.
Minister of Foreign Affairs
While escaping her royal confinement, a European princess comes across and falls in love with a jeepney driver. However, things begin to change when her real identity gets revealed.
Minggoy
Boy and Dennis are ex-convicts who are trying to start a new life with their girlfriends. But soon their criminal past catches upon them.
Mr. Carrion
An assassination in the Philippines is caught on film by kickboxer Christy, which leads to her death at the hands of radicals intent on disrupting peace talks. Her sister Kat, a Los Angeles police officer, comes to Manila to try and bring justice to the people responsible. She enters the kickboxing tournament in order to get closer to the nefarious agents, and begins unravelling the twisted plan while narrowly evading the wrath of the Death Brigades.
After he was released from prison, Bombo vowed never to allow himself to take part in any form of violence again. He just wants to live a simple life and spend all his time watching over his wife Cecile and his daughter. Now he stays in the remote town of Sta. Fe where two warring families are at the height of attacking each other. And just when he was mending his ways and trying his best to be good an incident involving his wife and daughter forces him to turn back from being upright. Now Bombo cries for justice and he's out to get it at all cost.
Judge
Pura goes to Manila in search of her dream. She falls into the wrong hands and ends up a prostitute, until she meets a rich man who becomes instrumental in the realization of all her dreams.
A basketball-inspired movie starring Philippine basketball legends Alvin Patrimonio, Jerry Codiñera, and Paul Alvarez.
Don Alfredo
At the age of 21, Petra will transform into a horse. This is a fulfillment of the curse Silveria, the goddess of horses, put upon Kulas, Petra's father, after she caught him maltreated a horse. And the curse will only be lifted if Petra will do three heroic deeds.
The powerful industrial tycoon proposes a dangerous deal to the man sentenced to life imprisonment. He should find three people infected by a special drug and inject them with an anti-serum.
His reward for success is instant freedom.
Minister Figueroa
An American military advisor becomes disillusioned by the brutality and corruption of the Central American government which hired him. When his shift in sympathies becomes known, he's arrested and tortured but soon escapes, along with a beautiful American woman, in order to join the rebels.
When her boyfriend leaves for Japan on a singing contract, a dancer is so distraught she does not see the car that hits her. The driver pretends to be a helpful passer-by; they fall in love and gets married. Only bringing her to a more complicated life.
Don Eusebio
a film by Luciano B. Carlos.
Luis Sanchez
After suffering a concussion from a grenade blast in Vietnam, Sgt. Frank Johnson has been getting flashes of his childhood in which strangely he is a ninja. Because of this, he is given a codename: "Black Fire" by the US Army. He is sent to San Sebastian together with his buddy Sgt. Jim Anderson to work as U.S. military advisers. One night, Sgt. Johnson discovers Capt. Salcedo of the local corrupt army is trying to transport arms.
Don Julian
In the heart of Manila, a rookie pickpocket crosses paths with Baldo, the so-called "king of pickpockets".
A young man avenges his mother's fate in the hands of her philandering husband by seducing the latter's daughter from an earlier marriage.
Charo and Raffy are lovers when she starts seeing another man, Paul. Charo knows what she is doing is wrong. Enraged, one-night Raffy not finding Charo, drives his car to look for her. He met an accident and died instantly. Raffy's family blames Charo for their son's early demise. To save face, Charo avoids Paul. After all, it's her infidelity that drove Raffy crazy.
Tales of young, romantic love intertwine and reflect both the idealism and the naivete of youth.
An enchanted black blouse changes the usual uneventful life of Jessa by giving her the beauty she never thought she would have. With her good heart, she will have to choose whether to live with this beauty or stay true to what her appearance really is and see if Angelo loves her honestly.
An erring military officer is sent to jail but bolts with the other inmates to take the whole town in hostage.
Dean
A Filipino comedy film directed Ben Feleo.
Older Colombian
Joe Armstrong, an orphaned drifter with little respect for much other than martial arts, finds himself on an American Army base in The Philippines after a judge gives him a choice of enlistment or prison. On one of his first missions driving a convoy, his platoon is attacked by a group of rebels who try to steal the weapons the platoon is transporting and kidnap the base colonel's daughter.
Minister
A group of archaeologists unearth a snake god who then brings destruction on anything against his way.
The movie is typical of lower budgeted sexy-erotic films made in the Philippines at this time. There is no style, no visuals, no good story, nothing particularly memorable..
Antonio (segment "Baso")
Shake, Rattle and Roll is the first of the popular series of Filipino horror movies composed of three episodes. 'Baso' talks about the adventure of three friends who performed Spirit of the Glass and discovered the tale of a tragic love triangle. 'Pridyider' revolves around a refrigerator that seemed to be "alive". 'Manananggal' is about a teenager who courts a barrio lass without his knowledge that this lass is a monster. She eventually causes chaos to his family.
Erpat
Set in the immediate summer after the events of the first movie, and deals with more of the guys' misadventures as they prepare for college.
Doctor
A young couple eloped, got married and then must cope with problems like money, living on their own, trying finish school and raising a baby. not to mention the fact that even young married couples do get bored sometimes.
Don Andres
This time, its Lauro's turn to doubt his wife fidelity. He chooses to stay in the house to keep an eye on his wife, who hired a hunky helper.
After a dangerous top-secret formula is stolen, a government agent traces the thieves back to a mysterious island and a secret-society of Ninjas.
Carlos
An auto mechanic who believes in honest hard work is the illegitimate son of a rich man. He proves to be better than his father's legitimate children.
A young couple's blossoming love against an adult romance gone sour.
After a doctor's wife died, a former patient charged him of parricide. Is he guilty or is the patient just jealous that the doctor married another woman?
The world's water supply has dried up due to some sort of apocalypse. A beautiful woman holds the secret to where one of the last springs being guarded by a group of Amazons. A "Road Warrior" like crew captures her and tries to make her talk through brutal torture. The hero (Stryker) unites with some of the remaining "good guys" and the Amazons and frees the woman. They go on to a "Road Warrior" type of concluding battle with the bad guys.
One night with a total stranger. And fate brought them together once again. That's where their whirlwind romance started.
Don Alfonso
Forced by her father to marry a man she does not love in order to save him from financial ruin, Raffy runs away. Left with no choice but to fend for her own self, she takes on a secretarial job in a mining company. There she meets Bullet, an adventurous young man who, like her, has left home in order to save himself from a loveless arranged marriage. Together, Raffy and Bullet go through life. Coping up with it's ups and downs, learning about forgiveness, and discovering love in the process.
A 1983 Filipino comedy film starring Redford White as Johnny Tanggo.
A story of four people in love and how they come together.
Don Antonio
A woman is desired by all men and hated by all women.
Don Simeon
Weng Weng plays an agent, code-named “00” who works for the Manila branch of Interpol. The Chief sends him in pursuit of an arch villain, Mr X, whose white sock covered head is reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan’s pointed hoods. When Mr X holds the Philippines for ransom two businessmen, Maolo and Simeon, pay his demands. Weng Weng suspects foul play and goes deep undercover to reveal the true identity of the mysterious Mr X.
Manolo
This film probes into the minds and hearts of illegitimate children and their mothers.
Mr. Barretto
Billy and Cindy are teeners trapped in the conflicted world of their parents. Two children of two marriages gone sour. Young and confused by the whole situation, they try to look for answers, but the whole business of life is not as simple as it seems. Left with no choice but to come to terms with whatever it is that life presents, they rely on each other for emotional support. And in the process, they learn that despite their parents marital woes, much remains in life and love reserved for the two of them.
Dave
Kristine is a teenager living an affluent life with her mother whose managing the hacienda left them by her late husband. Since her mother is not used to managing the business, the hacienda risks getting foreclosed by the bank, which is managed by a former boyfriend she dumped to marry Kristine's father. Meanwhile, Kristine meets Mark in the school and they fall in love. Her mother finds out that Mark is the son of her former boyfriend.
Two convicts become friends because of their common goal, which is to plot revenge on their enemies.
Celso Ad. Castillo's film about villagers retelling the story of their hero and the revolt he waged in the countryside.
a film by F.H. Constantino.
Don Gonzalo
Angelita continues her journey in finding her real parents.
Dyesebel is unique among the merfolk for she is the only mermaid born of human parents from the surface world. A mermaid from birth, she is shunned by the superstitious due to her physical form. After her father is killed by an angry, superstitious mob, Dyesebel is taken to the ocean by her mother where she is sent into exile since her chances for survival are greater there than on land. The young girl-mermaid is found by Banak who adopts her and takes her to their kingdom where she is welcomed into their community.
Leon Isaac Kennedy is Doug Russell, an American who steals a shipment of gold in the Philippines with two Vietnam War buddies, who cut his throat and throw him overboard. Russell washes ashore an island inhabited by two Japanese soldiers stranded there since World War II. They nurse him back to health and he is taught martial arts and the art of the samurai. Back in the States, his treacherous pals, Marelli and Maghee, use their loot and viciousness to muscle their way into Los Angels mafia turf.
Don Gonzalo
Mga Mata ni Angelita was written by Ricardo Feliciano and became a number one hit radio drama from 1974 to 1978. It was made into a film by Larry Santiago Productions and catapulted Julie Vega into fame.
Eddie, a hot-blooded cop, after surviving a fatal accident was forced to undergo plastic surgery and eventually faked his own death. He then assumed a new identity and planned to exact revenge on the people who made his life miserable.
An action adventure film about a peaceful man who sets out on a mission of revenge against the people responsible for his family's misfortunes.
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.
Peter, a cute little boy who sells bread for his crippled mother meets Pete, an ex convict that wanted to have a new life.
Monteiro
A band of female pirates go undercover at a prison camp on a coffee plantation to rescue their leader's sister.
Lake Analyst
Ferry owner Benjamin has a regular passenger, Chedeng, who is studying to become a midwife. Chedeng has a friend and neighbour, Maria, and without either of them knowing about it they both have a relationship with Benjamin. When Mary finds out she’s pregnant, things get difficult.
Official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1975 directed by Romy Suzara and starred Ramon Revilla, Sr., Elizabeth Oropesa, Helen Gamboa, and Walter Navarro.
Marcelo
Maritess asked for help from Frankie a private investigator to investigate her father, who's foolishly in love with a young lady.
Lino Brocka's adaptation of Mars Ravelo's "komiks" melodrama about a successful businessman who is terrified of being exposed as a homosexual.