Lualhati Bautista

Amanda and Julian are doing their best to rear their five sons during the repressive dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. Though the parents view themselves as apolitical, most of their sons bristle at life under martial law and turn to various forms of activism -- or to simple teenage rebellion -- for release. After the family becomes the victim of extremist violence, Amanda begins to find her own dissident voice.

Amanda and Julian are doing their best to rear their five sons during the repressive dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. Though the parents view themselves as apolitical, most of their sons bristle at life under martial law and turn to various forms of activism -- or to simple teenage rebellion -- for release. After the family becomes the victim of extremist violence, Amanda begins to find her own dissident voice.

Amanda and Julian are doing their best to rear their five sons during the repressive dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. Though the parents view themselves as apolitical, most of their sons bristle at life under martial law and turn to various forms of activism -- or to simple teenage rebellion -- for release. After the family becomes the victim of extremist violence, Amanda begins to find her own dissident voice.

Annie, an alluring lady, catches the eye of old widower Leoncio. The old man marries her after a short period of acquaintance. Leoncio's son Robert and daughter Marites disapprove of their father's single-handed decision, leading to a conflict that causes the old man's fatal heart attack. After Leoncio's death, Robert feels terribly sorry for Annie especially when he discovers that she is suffering from schizophrenia. Soon, Annie's condition helps Leoncio's children realize the essence of a family.

Christine is a university guidance counsellor trapped in a loveless marriage. Leo, her husband, a cruel and vicious politician refuses to set Christine free as he needs her when he runs for public office and hires Orlando, a private detective to get solid evidence against Christine's infidelity.

Sutla starring Priscilla Almeda

Sutla starring Priscilla Almeda

A film about sexual frustrations, middle-aged problems, workplace tensions, and other challenges that beset married and unmarried couples.

A film about sexual frustrations, middle-aged problems, workplace tensions, and other challenges that beset married and unmarried couples.

A fiercely independent and unflinchingly candid woman connected with a women's crisis and survival center has to raise her two kids with different fathers. Her first husband has left her when their career options failed to converge. She is now stuck in an extramarital arrangement with another man who cannot bring himself to respect and commit to their quite unorthodox relationship.

Dr. Jose Rizal was exiled in Dapitan from 1892-1896. These were his last four years. Dapitan served as his prison cell. He always compared it to “a beautiful cage” where he is imprisoned. This was the longest imprisonment Rizal ever had. He became so lost by those times, but still he did not lose his mind. Even there, he continued studying and discovering things. He continued his conversation with his friends, scientists and doctors outside the country.

A surreal melodrama about a deranged woman raising a child.

Ike Jarlego Jr. and writer Lualhati Bautista's noir about a nightclub waitress raped while in prison.

Jasmin, Violy, Baby and Daisy are sisters that were separated in their youth.

Jasmin, Violy, Baby and Daisy are sisters that were separated in their youth.

A 1993 Filipino film starring Snooky Serna, Gabby Concepcion, Ruffa Gutierrez, and Miguel Rodriguez.

The quest for truth about the plight of a Filipina entertainer who went to Japan for greener pastures and was brought back to Manila dead.

A 1992 Filipino comedy film directed by Ed Palmos.

A 1992 Filipino comedy film directed by Ed Palmos.

A pregnant woman arrested for frustrated murder is sent to the Manila City Jail where she meets several women with shocking pasts.

Catherine goes through all the travails of a young woman who must deal with a scheming stepfather out to dupe her of her inheritance.

It proceeds to document the stages of sugar production once in the mill then shifts to the unrest outside where a sakada was shot to death by one of the hacienda's guards. A sakada is a farmer who works in a sugarcane field, harvesting it during the months of October to December.

It proceeds to document the stages of sugar production once in the mill then shifts to the unrest outside where a sakada was shot to death by one of the hacienda's guards. A sakada is a farmer who works in a sugarcane field, harvesting it during the months of October to December.