Peping, a criminology student, is recruited by his schoolmate, Abyong, to work as a part-time errand boy for a local syndicate that collects protection fees from various businesses in Manila. The easy money Peping earns is spent mostly on his girlfriend, Cecille, who’s also a student. Peping decides to marry her, but in order to do so he’ll need more money. Abyong contacts Peping to join a “special project” that pays more than normal…

1.74GB | 1h 44m | 1013×570 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/CFAA37F497C5531/Kinatay.2009.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language:Filipino,Tagalog
Subtitles:English

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Quote:
“Filipinas, farewell! Long live the Republic and may our independence be born in the future!”

Those were Macario Sakay’s last words before he was executed by hanging on September 13, 1907 for treason. His real crime was patriotism, breaking rank with the leaders who sold out the Philippine Revolution to the United States and waging a guerrilla resistance against the American colonial government. They called he and his soldiers “banditos,” a label which has stuck in the minds of many Filipinos generations later (that is, if they even remember his name). His existence in Philippine history negates the official narrative that the Philippine-American war ended in 1902. True patriots continued to invoke his name as a symbol of the unfinished revolution. It would take nearly 90 years after his death before director Raymond Red’s “Sakay” (1993), one of the most accessible and well-crafted bio-pics ever made in the Philippines.

Julio Diaz plays the stoic revolutionary heartthrob who stubbornly refuses to quit even after being jailed and watching the leaders of the Katipunan capitulate to the Americans. So he and his crew take to the hills and form a new revolutionary government, refusing to sell out and sacrificing family, romance and haircuts to finish what the Filipino people started against Spain. If any of this at all sounds like Steven Soderbergh’s Che, it’s no accident. Their stories are similar, and I’d bet Soderbergh came across this film before filming his. Sakay is more conventional, not deviating much from the action-drama template. For a film about a unfairly maligned person belatedly being reintroduced to public as a hero, the concessions are excusable, perhaps even necessary. Throughout the film, Sakay engages in conversation, sometimes heated debate, with Filipinos across the political spectrum. Red never casts Sakay as unquestionably right, but rather as the embodiment of a question himself: is this fight worth fighting for?

1.46GB | 1h 45mn | 704×384 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/657D788C832519B/Sakay.avi
https://nitro.download/view/B8DD792027DC4EB/Sakay_subbed_DVD-R_corr.srt

Language:Filipino, Tagalog, English
Subtitles:English

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Quote:
Ma’ Rosa has four children. She owns a small convenience store in a poor neighborhood of Manila where everybody likes her. To make ends meet, Rosa and her husband, Nestor, resell small amounts of narcotics on the side. One day, they get arrested. Rosa and her children are ready to do anything to buy her freedom from the corrupt police.

1.77GB | 1h 46mn | 1024×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/85DC2CC186C72B7/Ma’Rosa.2016.DVDRip.x264-gooz.mkv
https://nitroflare.com/view/2E478A48330B5AC/Ma’Rosa.2016.DVDRip.x264-gooz.srt

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

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Plot:
A drama that follows the travails of the Pineda family in the Filipino city of Angeles. Bigamy, unwanted pregnancy, possible incest and bothersome skin irritations are all part of their daily challenges, but the real “star” of the show is an enormous, dilapidated movie theater that doubles as family business and living space. At one time a prestige establishment, the theater now runs porn double bills and serves as a meeting ground for hustlers of every conceivable persuasion. The film captures the sordid, fetid atmosphere, interweaving various family subplots with the comings and goings of customers, thieves and even a runaway goat while enveloping the viewer in a maelstrom of sound, noise and continuous motion.

Quote:
“one of the highlights of the (Cannes) festival. Shooting inside a beautiful Art Deco theatre, Mendoza not only shows a flair for evoking its strange and glamorous interiors, but offers high-end soap opera, at once nuanced, funny and melancholic, about this religion-soaked, sexually ambiguous world governed by sad-eyed matriarchs.”
Telegraph, UK – Sukhdev Sandhu

Serbis.2008.WEB-DL.720p.h264.AAC-DEEP.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 28mn
Size: 	2.57 GiB
Video
Codec: 	h264
Resolution: 	1280x698 
Aspect ratio:  	1.85:1
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	4 020 Kbps
BPP: 	0.188
Audio
#1:  	Tagalog 2.0ch AAC @ 121 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/CB18904680EC2B1/Serbis.2008.WEB-DL.720p.h264.AAC-DEEP.mkv

Language(s):Tagalog
Subtitles:English hardsubs

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