A classic dramatic piece on poverty and prostitution is transformed into a poignant take on failed celluloid dreams. A son of a late actor notorious for womanizing in his heyday aspires to be a big star someday but can't get past beyond being a stuntman. His meager income hardly suffices to support his family driving the wife to resort to selling her body.
An English-speaking manananggal (a malevolent, blood sucking monster) spreads terror in Manila. The manananggal is a Philippines mythical creature described as scary, often hideous, usually depicted as female, and always capable of severing its upper torso and sprouting huge bat-like wings to fly into the night in search of its victims.
Line Producer
This dramatic anthology of true-to-life stories of love and domestic problems based on letters sent by to the TV drama program hosted by Helen Vela who gives advice to troubled viewers.
Pulis 1
A retired police sergeant has an unnatural stranglehold over his wife and daughter. His claustrophobically enclosed world is threatened when his daughter Mila finds herself pregnant and was forced to marry Noel. He attempts to extend his influence over his son-in-law, who resists; there is a confrontation...
Romy
Mario O'Hara's melodrama about an aspiring singer and her ex-convict sweetheart.
Gerilya 1
A woman fell in love with a Japanese soldier, during the Japanese Occupation in the Philippines. The whole town turned against her.
Rapist
Mario O'Hara's surreal debut film about a man recovering from mental illness.
Mang Kadyo
브로카는 마르코스가 그의 연례 영화제에 거대 복합상영관을 날림으로 건설하는 과정에서 사망한 건설인부들의 착취당하는 모습을 그린다. 이 영화는 또한 마닐라의 빈민가에 사는 주민들과, 팔만한 물건을 찾기 위해서 쓰레기통을 뒤지는 아이들, 생계를 위해 바삐 움직이는 매춘부가 살아가는 도시 구석구석의 밤 풍경을 훑는다.
악덕한 중국인 포주에게 시달리는 그의 첫사랑를 찾기 위해 도시의 유곽을 누비는 소년에게 행복한 결말 따위는 없다. 소년은 매음굴의 주인을 살해하고 대도시의 다른 희생자들처럼 죽어가는데...
An adaptation of the same title serialized in Pilipino Komiks.
Fragile as a teardrop - Powerful as a God-given Right.
