Mike De Leon

A complex film within a film that attempts to explore the myth of Philippine national hero Jose Rizal, director Mike De Leon's study in manufactured mythology attempts to explore the life of Rizal while simultaneously investigating his influence on modern Philippine society. (Fandango)

The long-recognized excesses in the "hazing" season at American fraternities is escalated several notches in this Philippine version of the same theme. The young men who rush Alpha Kappa Omega are not all of the same stripe, nor are their prospective frat brothers who when taken as a whole, represent a streak of sadism that reaches into the realm of severe psychosis. (allmovie)

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)

De Leon's personal adaptation of John Fowles' novel about a man who abducts women and keeps them in his isolated mansion, trying to subject them to his will. (Noel Vera)

Mike De Leon's first feature, an atmospheric tale of revenge from beyond the grave. (mubi.com)

A controlling patriarch struggles with his daughter's marriage and her attempts to escape from their incestuous household.