Nora Aunor

A trilogy featuring Nora Aunor giving life to the stories of 3 women: Fe - an emerging movie Superstar who has an invalid husband, Esperanza - a young wife living in a middle class neighborhood in the city & Caridad - a young novice who was seduced by the devil himself. (imdb)

The film is set in the dry town of Cupang. The locals believe the drought to be a curse placed on them for driving away a leper. However, after Elsa claims to see an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the sad, forgotten town is consumed with commercialism and exploitation. Elsa mysteriously acquires healing powers and the whole village becomes a bustling venue for mass-produced statues of saints, tours, bottles of miraculous water, and souvenir T-shirts. (wikipedia)

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 childless couple eking out a hardscrabble existence on a remote island makes a fateful decision in order to obtain the child they yearn for, in this moving drama from the Cannes-honoured Filipino master Brillante Mendoza (Kinatay). (tiff.net)

Angela, a nightclub singer, is plunged into an affair with a married man. She finds herself in the city jail on a charge of frustrated murder filed by her lover's wife. She soon discovers that prison is the place where the most vicious elements of the city are housed together, and that in the women's quarters, all sorts of physical and sexual abuses take place. When she finds out that she is pregnant, she falls prey to bureaucratic imbroglio on the matter of the custody of her baby. (manunuri.com)

Bona is a grave-looking woman who drops out of school to pursue her crush on the narcissistic Gardo by moving in with him, more as a servant than anything else. Gardo, in the estimation of Bona's enraged father, is either a second- or third-rate actor in Philippine action movies. (imdb)

After the Supertyphoon Haiyan, which changed the city of Tacloban in the Philippines into its horrendous state, the lives of Bebeth, Larry and Erwin intertwine. The survivors are left to search for the dead, while keeping their sanity intact, and protecting what little faith there may be left. A series of events continue to test their endurance. (imdb)

Noel who has to assume the responsibility of being the breadwinner of the family after his father went missing. (imdb)

Nelia leaves her poor town to work as a maid in the city. Perceived as a lower-class citizen, Nelia gets harsh treatment that she does not deserve from her employer. She toils day and night to fulfill the wishes of her family at the expense of working herself to death. Ultimately, it is also in the city where she discovers an opportunity to move to a better life in the arms of a lover. (imdb)

A powerful politician enforces her ideal lifestyle to the masses. Causing dismay to the public, she founds a way to handle it.

A Filipino domestic helper is accused of murdering her fellow domestic helper and her employer's son in Singapore. (imdb)

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.

A sexy dancer who has been accused of homicide is defended by a female lawyer who tries to keep their relationship professional as the latter struggles with the confusion of thoughts and emotions brought about by her budding affections for the dancer.

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.