Mario O'Hara

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.

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)

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)

This is a compelling 3 movies-in-1 feature, with established and (then) emerging actors. (imdb)

In a poor village by the Manila Bay breakwater, two brothers, Buboy and Basilio, come to the city to escape from the violence at home. They meet a prostitute named Pakita and become close with her when Basilio treats her wounds. All they want is to lead normal lives, but the town's leader Dave has knavish interruptions that await them. (imdb)

Two young boys discovered an ancient book in a dilapidated mansion. Unaware, they have unleashed the cursed warrior (halimaw) character in the book upon reading. The bloodthirsty demon went on a killing spree in the darkness of night. Discovering that the murders were done by the halimaw in the book, Kokoy, the protagonist, must act fast to put an end to the unwanted trespasser and protect his home and family. (imdb)