AMIGO, the 17th feature film from Academy Award-nominated writer-director John Sayles, stars legendary Filipino actor Joel Torre as Rafael, a village mayor caught in the murderous crossfire of the Philippine-American War. When U.S. troops occupy his village, Rafael comes under pressure from a tough-as-nails officer (Chris Cooper) to help the Americans in their hunt for Filipino guerilla fighters. But Rafaels brother (Ronnie Lazaro) is the head of the local guerillas, and considers anyone who cooperates with the Americans to be a traitor. Rafael quickly finds himself forced to make the impossible, potentially deadly decisions faced by ordinary civilians in an occupied country. A powerful drama of friendship, betrayal, romance and heartbreaking violence, AMIGO is a page torn from the untold history of the Philippines, and a mirror of todays unresolvable conflicts.

Amigo.2010.WEBRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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Runtime: 	2 h 2 min
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https://nitro.download/view/9C2857D72110AA3/Amigo.2010.WEBRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):English, Filipino
Subtitles:English forced hardsubbed, English SDH

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When a Filipino teenager is shot to death in New Jersey, a probe takes place and reveals the struggles of the Filipino community in the USA and the horrifying effects of methamphetamine on its youth.

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The first major epic in the oeuvre of Lav Diaz (b. 1958) is a powerful contemporary portrait of the Filipino diaspora in New York and New Jersey: A Filipino-born detective investigates the murder of Hanzel Harana, a Filipino teenager, and must plod along with tenacity to break through the wall of silence surrounding the boy’s death. The trail of the designer drug “shabu” runs through the film like a bloody trickle, but Diaz delegates the accounts of crime, domestic violence, and the discontent in the souls of his characters to the background for the most part, instead relying on the hypnotic portrait of a decaying life as a symbol of alienation from home. The more we learn about the protagonists, the more complex, intangible, and contradictory our image of them becomes.

Batang.West.Side.2001.576p.BluRay.DD2.0.x264-KG.mkv

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Runtime: 	5 h 1 min
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Language(s):Filipino, Tagalog, English
Subtitles:English, German

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Isla (Maria Isabel Lopez), is an island maiden who has all the men, including her father, lusting after her. Her dream was to leave her primitive island village and find another life in the big city.

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Language(s):Filipino, Tagalog
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Part-investigative documentary, part-satire and shot entirely in black-and-white, the film tackles the mystery that surrounds the life and death of the Filipino hero, Jose Rizal.

3rd.World.Hero.2000.1080p.BluRay.FLAC2.0.x264-XTA.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 34 min
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#1:  	Tagalog 2.0ch FLAC @ 686 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/F9275645D69E8E8/3rd.World.Hero.2000.1080p.BluRay.FLAC2.0.x264-XTA.mkv

Language(s):Filipino, Tagalog
Subtitles:English, French

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The first major epic in the oeuvre of Lav Diaz (b. 1958) is a powerful contemporary portrait of the Filipino diaspora in New York and New Jersey: A Filipino-born detective investigates the murder of Hanzel Harana, a Filipino teenager, and must plod along with tenacity to break through the wall of silence surrounding the boy’s death. The trail of the designer drug “shabu” runs through the film like a bloody trickle, but Diaz delegates the accounts of crime, domestic violence, and the discontent in the souls of his characters to the background for the most part, instead relying on the hypnotic portrait of a decaying life as a symbol of alienation from home. The more we learn about the protagonists, the more complex, intangible, and contradictory our image of them becomes.

7.58GB | 4h 49m | 720×558 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/42FC892D4F388C3/Batang_West_Side_2001_PAL_DVD_DD2.0_x264-Kururun.mkv

Language(s):Filipino, Tagalog, English
Subtitles:English (Forced), English, German

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