Tagalog

Three poor girls from the provinces of the Philippines are lured to the big city. In Manila they are tricked to work in the sex trade.Read More »

Inspired by Jose Rizal’s third, unfinished novel, discovered in 1987. A Spanish priest (Khavn) and a Filipino poet (John Lloyd Cruz) vie for the affections of an American woman (Lilith Strangenberg) who is going mad. Shot on expired film stock, which was then hand painted and scratched by the director, Makamisa: Phantasm of Revenge is made to feel like an unearthed relic; some newly discovered silent film from an experimental filmmaker from a century past.Read More »

PLOT: A wealthy man comes to terms with his stepsister.Read More »

A young girl goes through villages as a debt collector and in the process, lends herself to play roles to others, as an elemental, revolutionary, lover.Read More »

Shown at the Dalisay Theater, 23 April – 2 May 1949, GITANO is a costume picture with plenty of songs and dances.

The story deals with a gaieties and frolics of Gypsies led by Ricardo (Jaime De La Rosa), shown here dancing with Ramona (Rebecca Gonzales).

Through Don Rodolfo (Jaime Castellvi), Ricardo’s group were invited to perform for the former’s lady love, Pepita (Delia Razon), shown her joining the gypsies in their dance.Read More »

Synopsis: A female movie fan idolizes a movie bit-player who becomes her obsession. Her unrequited love for him leads to a nightmarish end.Read More »

Synopsis:
Kalel, 15 follows the plight of a boy who has to make choices no child should ever make.

“Kalel, 15” is a social drama that addresses several issues at the same time: the stigma surrounding HIV, the carelessness with which the youth in the Philippines approaches sex, the heavy-weight consequences of growing up with a troubled parent and the Christian double moral.Read More »

PLOT: In 2013 typhoon Haiyan (also called Jolanda) hit Tacloban Island, causing the death of 7 thousand people. Few months later, Diaz visited the Island to film children lives.Read More »

From Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino website:
Daniel Aguila, a Filipino born in 1892, confronts and recoils from the weakness he sees among Filipinos at critical periods in our history. As a boy, he sees his revolucionario father betrayed by the man who eventually becomes his stepfather. As a young officer in Mindanao, he protects his stepfather who has come to grab lands from the Muslims, who retaliate by killing his mother and step-brother. He also has a son by a Muslim lass, whom he is forbidden to marry. As a PC officer, he gets involved in a legal tussle between an anti-American mass religious sect and the pro-American town-elite. Read More »