Christopher De Leon

The everyday struggles of people trying to bridge two cultures, as well as their attempt to find happiness in their new homeland. Tere (Cherrie Pie Picache), mid-forties and single, hosts a dinner for a friend visiting from Manila, Lorna. Invited are their New York City-based friends and former college classmates -- Mike (Christopher De Leon), a newspaper editor in his forties, Gerry (Ricky Davao), an advertising copywriter and closeted gay, and Marissa (Dina Bonnevie).

A story of two brothers, who are heirs to a ranch run by their domineering mother. The mother has made a favourite of Ellis her more wayward son, which does not improve their relationship. (BFI)

Kuala and Bertong, a leper, live in a cemetery where a young man befriends them against the wishes of his lawyer father.

Mike de Leon's wittily demented musical satire about Japanese yakuza, Chinese gangsters, bohemian hedonism, and the Catholic Church. (Noel Vera)

A young man has an innate love for music that is being thwarted by a domineering father who wants him to become a biologist. Just as he is trying to come to grips with this contradiction, he meets a married woman visiting a friend of his and the two are attracted to each other. Unable to resist their feelings, they form a brief liaison that helps the woman face the inevitability of a divorce from her overbearing husband and equally helps the young man to look at himself in a different light. (All Movie Guide)

It is a story in the Philippines from 1942 through 1944, the time the Philippines suffered Japanese ruling. There are three main characters: Rosario is a young school-teacher. Chrispin is her fiancé. Masugi is a soldier of Japanese army. He was born in Manila as a son of a Japanese father and a Filipina mother. After Japan attacked the US at Pearl harbor his parents were confined in jail and killed by Filipinos in jail. (Furuya Shiro)

A Nun named Dolores become a victim of rape she is punished by cruel superiors. She become pregnant and gave birth. Dolores met Vince and married him but she discovered that Vince was the one who raped her.

Emil, a young executive, and his mistress Marilou, a planetarium guide, decide to be live-in partners. In the process, they discover each other's failing, which result in the strain in their relationship, bringing about their temporary separation. (manunuri.com)

After ten years and two children, Rene and Ellen find their marriage on the brink of breaking up. They seem to have fallen out of love and life has become a series of verbal hussies and conflicts. They decide that the only way out is a temporary separation. (starforallseasons.com)

Flashbacks encompass the history of the Philippines as well as the life story of the elderly Daniel Aguila. The Aguila family gathers to celebrate Daniel's 88th birthday, but the old man is nowhere to be seen -- he has been missing for a decade. Suspecting that his father is in Mindanao, one of his sons takes off for that region in a determined search. Along the way, his memories of the nation and his father's life tell the story of eighty tumultuous years of personal and historical development. (imdb)

An interesting documentary on the late, great Philippine director Lino Brocka. Hailed as the "Fassbinder of Asia", he was the first Filipino director of the Pinoy New Wave of the 1970s and 1980s, who became known in the West. (karagarga)

A teenage boy befriends a starlet who is having an affair with an ambitious mayor. As the elections are coming up, the mayor's wife wants him to get rid of his mistress. The starlet agrees to stop the affair on condition that the mayor help release her boyfriend from jail. The mayor does so, but wants the former jail-bird to kill his political rival ... (imdb)

When his son is kidnapped, a government official has to find the money to meet the ransom request. (imdb)

A team of exorcists are sent into an old theater that is rumored to have been the site of a great tragedy during its construction. (imdb)

A young woman works as a secretary for a high class escort service, and is drawn into the intrigues of a client and the man who has fallen in love with her.

Lia Marquez (Bea Alonzo) is a simple lass who is set to marry Cebu's most eligible bachelor Philip Cordero (Paulo Avelino), who is currently running to clinch the mayoral position after his father's term ends. However, things get complicated when Lia's ex-boyfriend Wado dela Costa (Derek Ramsay) returns to work for them in a project that will help Philip win the elections. Inevitably, feelings resurface and doubts arise.

A middle-class Filipino family struggles to survive in the era of dictatorship. (imdb)

Set at the turn of the 20th century during the Filipino revolution against the Spaniards and, later, the American colonizers, it follows a naive peasant through his leap of faith to become a member of an imagined community. (imdb)

The story is about an orphan named Anna who searched for her long-lost father. With the guardian angel Barbiel's help, Anna was able to see the latter's father even for a moment.

A 1978 Filipino romantic drama film about a man's guilt over his affair with another woman that hurt the feelings of his long time girlfriend. (imdb)

The life story of the first Philippine President. The story of the man who led the Filipino people to victory against its Spanish conquerors.

The real Darna in the Darna, Kuno? storyline became pregnant. Because of the pregnancy someone had to take Darna's place temporarily as the superheroine until she had given birth. The original Darna lent her magical stone (the stone that transforms Narda, Darna's alter-ego, into Darna when swallowed and the name Darna is shouted aloud) to Dolphy who will become the male Darna dressed up in the female Darna costume.

It doesn't matter that in many cases the pictures are magenta or oddly pixellated, as Khavn gets at 'em with every mad editing move he knows, plus all his accumulated grading ninjutsu to craft a cacophony of sounds and images that howls and hollers like the soul of the eternally oppressed Philippines, rising again and again for another battle to finally be free.