Escape (1995)
The Sergio Osmena-Geny Lopez Story
Gênero : Ação, Drama, Thriller
Runtime : 1H 57M
Director : Chito S. Roño
Escritor : Jose F. Lacaba, Roy Iglesias
Sinopse
Set during the terrifying reign of Filipino despot, Marcos, two upper caste but very different strangers team up to try and survive the physical and mental torture they undergo after they are suddenly jailed. Geny is the conservative businessman while Serge is more sensitive and outgoing. Both of the young men's parents give all of their money, but the government refuses to free them. Even a mutual hunger strike fails to move their jailers. In desperation, Geny and Serge begin plotting their escape.
In a crowded, multi-appartment house, a young student peeps on his neighbours making love and subsequently develops a steamy affair with the neighbour's wife. The affair slowly becomes an obsession and spins out of control.
A heartbroken young woman begins a sexual relationship with a struggling artista, not knowing that her new beau is already married. As the truth comes out, obsession and jealousy bring pain into all their lives.
Yuddy (Leslie Cheung) é um homem diletante que seduz mulheres mas mantém uma relação conturbada com a mãe adoptiva (Rebecca Pan), a quem pressiona para saber a identidade e o paradeiro da mãe verdadeiro. Uma das mulheres com quem ele se relaciona é Li zhen (Maggie Cheung), que termina a relação e fica destroçada quando ele não a aceita de volta. O guarda da zona, Tide (Andy Lau), torna-se seu confidente e desenvolve silenciosamente uma particular afeição por ela. Entretanto Yuddy enceta uma relação com Mimi (Carina Lau), mulher extrovertida a quem também acaba por deixar. Para Yuddy a única mulher que interessava conhecer era a mãe incógnita.
When a terrorist's body, infected with a stolen chemical, is recovered by the US military, the corpse is cremated, unintentionally releasing the virus/bacteria into the atmosphere over a small island. Soon the infected populace mutate into flesh-hungry zombies, and a trio of soldiers on leave must team up with a group of tourists and board themselves up in an abandoned hotel as they try to fend off the agile and aggressive living dead.
Baseado em fatos reais o longa conta a história de um grupo de soldados espanhóis que continuavam trancados numa igreja da aldeia de Baler por causa de um cerco. Os militares estavam lá por quase um ano com a convicção de que a guerra nas Filipinas ainda não tinha terminado.
Registro das tumultuadas filmagens do épico 'Apocalypse Now', realizado pelo cineasta entre 1975 e 1978 nas Filipinas. Contém cenas do documentário sobre as filmagens realizado por Eleanor Coppola, esposa do diretor. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Uma comédia da 2 ª Guerra Mundial sobre um comandante de submarino que se encontra 'amarrado' com um decrépito e cor-de-rosa submarino, um oficial de suprimentos vigarista e um grupo de enfermeiras do exército.
Um submarino recentemente comissionado é danificado logo no início da WW II. Um capitão, à procura de um comando insiste que pode leva-lo para um estaleiro e consertar. Indo lentamente nessa viagem, eles encontram um grupo de enfermeiras do Exército 'encalhadas' numa ilha e devem dar uma carona. Mulheres a bordo. Pode piorar? Tentando aplicar uma camada de tinta primer no submarino, eles têm que misturar branco e vermelho, a fim de ter tinta bastante para o serviço. Quando forçados a fugir da doca durante um ataque aéreo, eles se veem no único submarino cor-de-rosa do mundo, e com cinco mulheres nas cabines apertadas de um submarino.
Half-sisters Aileen and Romina, along with first cousins Ruth and Sandra, reunite in Camiguin to bury their grandmother. Accompanied by Sandra's friend, Lucy, the five girls dare to call on the spirits of the dead when they find their old Ouija board from when they were kids. The Ouija board is burned by accident before they are able to finish the ritual, trapping a murderous entity around them. As they begin to realize the terror that they have brought upon themselves, Aileen and Romina's hostile relationship even become more strained, while Lucy's sanity brings a heavy burden on Sandra, and Ruth's boyfriend, Gino, is unknowingly pulled into the danger and horror that await all of them. Confronted by imminent Death, the girls have nowhere to go unless they can identify the spirit and find out where it is buried. It is only by leading the spirit to its burial ground that they will able to release the spirit from the Ouija board and survive its fatal hauntings.
Corações em Conflito gira em torno do bem sucedido casal de Nova York formado por Leo e Ellen. Leo, criador de um conhecido website, entrou de cara no mundo do dinheiro e de grandes decisões. Ellen é uma dedicada cirurgiã que dedica seus plantões ao salvamento de vidas. A filha deles, Jackie, tem oito anos e passa a maior parte do tempo com a babá filipina, Glória, situação que tem feito Ellen repensar suas prioridades.
Carol Jeffries is a naive American woman staying in the Philippines. She is given ten years in prison after being set up by her drug-dealer boyfriend, Rudy. She endures the harsh conditions, sadistic head matron and attempts on her life, then convinces her cell-mates to try to escape with her through the jungle, in spite of the knowledge that ruthless trackers will be sent out after them.
O coronel do Exército norte-americano Joseph Madden é alocado nas Filipinas, onde seu grupo é obrigado a sair pelas tropas japonesas. Apesar da situação, Madden lidera uma guerrilha que inclui o neto de um herói de guerra contra os inimigos.
Dorina Pineda is a Sampaguita vendor idolizing the most famous singing sensation in the country, Lavinia Arguilles. Lavina with her ego getting big, drives away her fans and even her boyfriend Nico Escobar. He later discovers Dorina as a wonderful singer and eventually falls in love with her. A simple die-hard fan at first, Dorina rose to the ranks and become the biggest singing star in the country, even becoming more famous than her idol Lavinia.
Um relato dramatizado do papel dos barcos americanos PT na defesa das Filipinas durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Pouco depois de Pearl Harbor, um esquadrão de tripulantes de Torpedeiros PT na Filipinas tem de lutar contra a burocracia da Marinha entre escaramuças com os japoneses. O título diz tudo sobre a atitude da Marinha para com as PTs e suas tripulações.
A story about Manuel man who's just been conned out of his savings when he meets up with Nanding a Jeepney driver who has a plan for how the two of them can find riches, billiards.
Kevin (Dolphy) and his family suddenly find themselves prospective millionaires. What happens when they move into a bigger house and leave their real "home along da riles"?
The story about a teenage boy, Antonio, whose emerging gay sexuality alienates him from his friends and family, until his libertine uncle, Jonbert, comes to live with him and his mother...
Melinda Uy is a half-Filipino, half-Chinese struggling mother to four children married to a full-Chinese blood man. Her family was believed to bring curse to Olive's famiily. Because of this, Melinda was not accepted by Uy's family as one of their members. Melinda's struggling as a mother begand when she has nothing else to do but to strive and work more.
Digs a no fuss, no frills kind of guy and idealistic achiever Sam who are friends turned lovers turned exes. Their relationship as a couple lasted for almost eight years until they both decided on an amicable breakup.
In the final decades of the 20th century, the Philippines was a country where low-budget exploitation-film producers were free to make nearly any kind of movie they wanted, any way they pleased. It was a country with extremely lax labor regulations and a very permissive attitude towards cultural expression. As a result, it became a hotbed for the production of cheapie movies. Their history and the genre itself are detailed in this breezy, nostalgic documentary.
On the eve of his 25th birthday, the day he’s set to receive money from his trust fund, Rocco (Xian Lim) parties, gets drunk and loses all his money on a poker match. His dilemma: He has to produce the amount, otherwise he will lose the client he needs to defeat his father’s TV commercial production company. Meanwhile, Rocky (Kim Chiu) also needs money to pay the rent, otherwise her family will be homeless. There’s only one way for Rocco to be able to get money from his trust fund: Fulfill the conditions set by his grandmother and that is to get married. Rocky agrees to act as Rocco’s pseudo wife in exchange for a “talent fee.” They seal the deal. As they live like a married couple, Rocco and Rocky face one problem after another, forcing them with no alternative but to reconcile their differences and work with each other. Complication arises when they start to feel for each other, with their bond getting closer.