Hilda Koronel

Meet the last of the professional mourners of Manila's Chinatown. These are the crying ladies - three women who decide to accept a part-time job to be the professional mourners for a traditional Chinese funeral for the late George Washington Chua. A heartwarming comedy, Crying Ladies sheds light on the struggles and little dreams of ordinary people living in the back streets of Chinatown. (Unitel Films)

This film explores the theme of the biblical Magdalene - the prostitute who becomes a saint. This modern-day Magdalene story is about a very young and sinful girl who is suddenly confronted by the evil in her life when she receives the stigmata in her dreams. (Unitel Pictures)

Julio, a young man from a rural village, goes to Manila in search of his girlfriend who went there a year earlier.

The first Filipino film to show at the Cannes Film Festival is set in the slums of Manila. A beautiful girl gets raped by her mother's lover, and then learns how to exact revenge. (imdb)

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

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)

About a pair of children who grow up near the Negros' tropical forests, fall in love, and fall into the currents of history and tumultuous change - a coming of age film, a war atrocity drama, a supernatural horror film, a love story, and a celebration of Filipino poetry. (Noel Vera)

It tells of a frustrated and ambitious stage mother, Toyang (played by Lolita Rodriguez), who forces her son, Joey, into a showbiz career and ultimately ends up in a tragedy. 70s teenage heartthrob, handsome, clean-cut and the boy-next-door type, Walter Navarro starred as the son, Joey Galvez, who at the peak of his stardom was gunned down by his erstwhile girlfriend Nina (Lotis Key), in a fit of jealousy and anger. (KG)

Ishmael Bernal and writer Amado Lacuesta's biting comedy about shenanigans in a Makati City bank. (criticafterdark.blogspot.com)

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.

The decision of three siblings to sell their ailing mother's property causes deeply burried resentment to resurface as each of them also faces difficulties within their own families.