Totoy Bato is a boxing-themed Philippine drama from GMA Network, based on the graphic novel created by Carlo J. Caparas, that depicts the remarkable story of an ordinary person named Totoy Magtanggol, played by Robin Padilla, becoming a skillful boxer and conquering injustice with bravery and compassion. The series premiered on February 23. This is considered to be the first Indie Television Show for Robin's own crew in the production and blocking the powers of the management to control the show...
Dahil Sa Pag-Ibig is a Philippine television drama series that aired on ABS-CBN from March 12, 2012 to June 29, 2012...
Got to Believe is a 2013 Philippine romantic comedy-drama television series directed by Cathy Garcia-Molina and starring Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel Padilla. The series was aired on ABS-CBN and worldwide on The Filipino Channel from August 26, 2013 to March 7, 2014,[1] replacing Huwag Ka Lang Mawawala. The series finale, dubbed as the Best Ending Ever, ranked #1 by Kantar Media nationwide TV rating....
Kahit Konting Pagtingin is a Philippine television drama that aired on ABS-CBN from January 28 to April 12, 2013 replacing Aryana and worldwide on TFC on January 29, 2013. Starring Angeline Quinto, Paulo Avelino, and Sam Milby....
The final years of the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos' rule, from the assassination of Benigno Aquino, Jr. in 1983 to the People Power EDSA Revolution in 1986 that ousted Marcos. The film focuses on American TV journalist (Gary Busey), who finds himself in the middle of key events that lead to the downfall of the Marcos regime....
A celebrity vlogger involved in a sex scandal and a tough female agent chasing an elusive killer. Two women. Two worlds connected by one scandalous crime....
Ordinary humans led by King Bantayan are being annihilated by the all-powerful evil king Bagulbol and his creatures of the dark. To end their tribulation, mankind’s leaders paid a mercenary with exceptional fighting skills to defend them. That mercenary is Exodus. Nearing their extinction, King Bantayan and the leaders of men dispatched Exodus on a quest to capture five elementals to aid them in the final battle against King Bagulbol....
A young man, jilted by his girlfriend, join forces with an older man in avenging the death of his brother and fighting the ruling powers in their community....
A fashion photography assignment teams three American models and inadvertently pitches them into the mystery and danger of international espionage, when an invaluable roll of microfilm secreted into one of the girls' fashion gowns, draws them into the violence and intrigue of a spy-vs-counterspy conspiracy....
Filipino director Willy Milan's first entry into the Maxsploitation sub-sub-genre....
A 1993 Filipino drama anthology film by Joey Gosiengfiao....
A stage mother drives her younger son to his ‘stardoom’ to make up for her downward slide from her bourgeois origins....
Julio, a young fisherman from a provincial village, descends into social alienation as he arrives in Manila to search for his loved one....
A cyclist aims to win a championship trophy for his son separated from his rich mother....
This dramatic anthology of true-to-life stories of love and domestic problems based on letters sent by to the TV drama program hosted by Helen Vela who gives advice to troubled viewers....
A woman encounters thugs and drug dealers after traveling to Hong Kong to search for her missing brother....
Ramona is ecstatic when she marries Rommel. But Ramona remains a virgin wife as Rommel turns out to be a closet homosexual with a boyfriend, Alex. Will she ever be successful in converting her gay husband into a straight heterosexual and leaving his lover or will she find herself single and looking for another husband?...
A doting father, terminally ill with cancer, spends the remaining days of his life with his young daughter....
Police officer Mediavillo finds himself pursued by multiple assassins instigated by a prominent businessman, who happens to be the brother of the drug dealer accidentally died on the hand of Mediavillo....
A rich mother and a poor father fight for the custody of their son....
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A 1979 Filipino action drama starring and directed by Fernando Poe Jr....
After finding a Feng Shui amulet, Joy starts to see a string of fortunate events come her way. Soon, she realizes it is, in fact, a curse. Now she must break the cycle of good fortune and death in order to save her family....
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Dr. Tsu is a brilliant surgeon with her own exotic island off the coast of Manila. Using her sexy, all-girl army of martial-arts experts, Tsu kidnaps some of the world's greatest athletes. She is able to transplant any body part, so she uses the athletes for spare parts to sell to the world's richest men. Mike Harber is a womanizing, wise-cracking insurance investigator for Lloyd's of London sent to Manila to investigate the disappearance of a jai-alai player, and becomes involved with Dr. Tsu's...
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The Story of a People's Enduring Hope...In a Portrait of Blood and Tears Where the Brave Fought and Fell - and the Ruthless Died in Shame....
The year is 2036 and Earth has been invaded: hope lies with the last Robo Warrior - a towering fighting machine....
Hector learns about his parents' tragic past, including his father's death at the hands of a traitor....
A 1991 Filipino satirical comedy starring Joey de Leon....
A wandering peddler separates from his fellow salesman and becomes involved with criminals in the jungle and ends up doing a pact with god to save a girl from rape....
Muslims and Christians clash in this thoughtful Filipino war movie. Kiram Sali and his Muslim rebels launch a series of attacks on the army but his brother Omar would just rather see his country in peace. Following the rebel's murder of Army General Basco, holy war follows. Omar turns to violence and ends up in a showdown with General Basco's best man Captain Reyes....
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Two filmmakers try to create a film venturing on the life of Jose Rizal. Before they do that, they try to investigate on the heroism of the Philippine national hero. Of particular focus is his supposed retraction of his views against the Roman Catholic Church during the Spanish regime in the Philippines which he expressed primarily through his two novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. The investigation was done mainly by "interviewing" key individuals in the life of Rizal such as his mot...
"Pag-puti ng Uwak, Pag-itim ng Tagak" is a pulsating love story that recaptures the nostalgic fifties, the exciting era of mass hysteria, and the golden years of the rock and roll fever inflicted by screaming, wiggling hip-shaking foreign pop idols dominated by Elvis Presley, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Pat Boone, Doris Day and the Platters. It is more than a love story. It is also a commentary - a satire rich with humor injected into a moral, psychological, sociological, and cultural aspect, ou...
When Narcing brings home his wife Puring to their hometown Mulawin in the 1930s, it sets off a series of events that include parricide, infidelity, betrayal, guilt and redemption....
A documentary TV special on the life of Lino Brocka, released in 1998 for Pinoy Blockbuster Original....
Mel Chionglo's directorial debut revolves around a mother and daughter who play the rules of the game in the world by selling their bodies for the desires of flesh....
A historian travels through time from the swampland that one day turned into the squalor that it has become in contemporary time....
An action film starring Jestoni Alarcon based on the radio drama by Rey Langit serialized in DZRH....
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Three sisters live in a paradise where men are metaphorically and literally serpents of temptation....
When unjustly imprisoned in a South American jail, a tough cop and a renegade arms dealer must set aside their differences to escape....
A story about Lorelei a mermaid and Paing a fisherman....
Soriano brothers Dennis, Chip, and Jeff are bums who do odd jobs to earn a living, including driving a jeepney. Their lives take a different turn after meeting Atty. Aga Agaton, who told them that they are long-lost grandsons of a USA-based millionaire. According to the will, the brothers would get the inheritance when they finish high school. The brothers enroll at Rajah Putih High School where their age turns them into the butt of their classmates' jokes. They eventually befriend a group of st...
A 1979 drama film starring Christopher de Leon, Rudy Fernandez and Alma Moreno. Originally serialized in Wakasan Komiks...
a film by Tony Y. Reyes....
A nighttime attempt to sabotage a Japanese munitions store in the little town of Santiago goes wrong when Gonzalo (Fernando Poe, Jr.) discovers that the schoolhouse they are about to blow up is filled with women, old men, and schoolchildren....
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Daniel Aguila's son recounts memories of the Philippines as he searches for his father....
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It focuses on Lester who, upon getting the cursed bagua, starts to get all the luck and prosperity he could get in his life, but with deadly consequences....
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Two U.S. Marine investigators looking into a series of grisly murders in Manila discover that the crimes are tied to an amulet with a 400-year-old curse on it that has unleashed supernatural forces....
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Long ago, the evil wizard Lizardo sent an army of monsters to subjugate the land and its people. Lizardo succeeded, but a prophecy tells of a comet that will fall to Earth, and a man who will wield a weapon that will free the people from Lizardo's tyranny. Flavio is a blacksmith content with living a quiet, uneventful life in a town mostly untouched by Lizardo's evil. But when the comet of prophecy lands on the outskirts of town, Flavio's destiny is immediately made clear. Around the peace-lovin...
Victor is a single father who falls in love with Elisa who turns out to be an Aswang. But even so, Victor love Elisa so much that he accepted who she is and even live with her as his second wife. But the problem comes when the leader of the Aswang clan finds out that Elisa and her mother are not eating humans anymore. She sends out other Aswangs to hunt down Elisa and her mother, and also for Victor and his family. Victor then will face the leader of the Aswang clan to save his beloved Elisa....
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Young Hilario was nearby a rubber tree when it was struck by a meteorite. This incident gave Hilario the powers of elasticity and morphing. To honor his dead parents he vowed to use his powers for good. Hilario grows up and becomes Professor Larry, a teacher in Physics. He transforms into the superhero Lastikman to protect people from injustice and oppression....
The film begins with his capture by Philippine and US forces under Frederick Funston's command in 1901, then flashes back to 1886, when an old woman gives Aguinaldo and his childhood friend Candido Tirona cryptic prophecies. Ten years later, Aguinaldo is inducted into the Katipunan and later assumes leadership of its Cavite chapter while becoming mayor of Cavite El Viejo. When the trouble breaks out in Manila in late August 1896, Aguinaldo tries to assure the Spanish provincial government of non...
It is about a group of investigative journalists from a sub-par TV station who accidentally scores a scoop that a 21-year-old boy is looking around for his identity… he claims to be the son of the late director Lino Brocka, a known gay filmmaker....
Señor Manuel is an elderly gentleman who falls in love with the charming Luisa, a confidence trickster posing as a rich socialite. In preparation for their upcoming wedding, Señor Manuel takes Luisa back to see his hacienda and introduces his new fiancé to the staff. Among which is Gabriel, Manuel's right-hand man, who is not only well respected by the town’s people, but is also the one person that Señor Manuel trusts the most. Likewise, Gabriel cares deeply for the old man and is very protectiv...
A woman after killing her husband and his friends goes into post-traumatic shock and withdraws from any form of communication. A feminist journalist becomes interested in the case and resolves to unravel the truth behind the murders....
Angelo dreams of creating a medicine that could cure his father’s illness. With some knowledge about medicinal herbs, he makes a living as a faith healer. Everyone believes him, except Cielo Delos Santos, a doctor who swears to do everything to uncover Angelo’s secret. Things get a little complicated when Angelito, an exiled angel comes down to earth to help Angelo become a better man. As the three of them try to achieve their own goals, they realize that they need each other more than they are ...
Based on the life story of director general Panfilo 'Ping' Lacson as the spotlight is put on the general as he handles controversial cases....
A sudden widower, Victor finds himself solely responsible for raising his son, Tom Tom. To make money, he claims to be a medium who can speak with the dead and, for a price, soothe restless spirits. Tom Tom, however, discovers that he actually has the powers his father only pretends to possess. Will Victor be exposed as a fraud, or will Tom Tom help his lonely dad win the heart of the lovely, ghost-troubled Lalaine?...
An ex-marine used by police in a drug bust. He escapes a rub-out, and goes after the group who double-crossed him....
Ambush is a 1988 Filipino action film directed by Francis 'Jun' Posadas and written by Jerry O. Tirazona. It stars Ronnie Ricketts, Dick Israel, Sonny Parsons, E.R. Ejercito, Leo Lazaro, Bobby Zshornack, and Beverly Vergel. The film depicts an armed struggle between the New People's Army's Sparrow Unit and the Armed Forces of the Philippines....
The movie was based from a popular komiks serial by Carlo J. Caparas. It was serialized in Modern Romances and True Confessions magazine....
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After completing his training of ninjutsu within Japan, an American Angolan Bush War veteran by the name of Cole visits his war buddy Frank Landers and his newly wed wife Mary Ann, who are the owners of a large piece of farming land in the Philippines. Cole soon finds that the Landers are being repeatedly harassed by a CEO named Charles Venarius....
Made pregnant by Ric, Estella was forced to marry his brain-damaged younger brother played by Val to save herself from the shame of having an illegitimate child. But what was intended as a marriage of convenience became a fulfilling relationship that eventually opened the eyes and hearts of everybody into the beautiful soul hidden inside the young man nobody wanted....
A young couple eloped, got married and then must cope with problems like money, living on their own, trying finish school and raising a baby. not to mention the fact that even young married couples do get bored sometimes....
A story about a separated woman and the challenges she encounters when she faces the real world alone with her son....
Famous TV commentator Maia Robles finds herself caught between having an affair with a politician and reporting on social issues, especially corruption....
A married couple who try to make their marriage work despite the fact that both of them are career-oriented and that there are tensions created by the prescence of their first-born child, Mike Jr., who turns out to have autism....
A rich girl dies in childbirth, leaving the baby with her grief-stricken husband. Her parents kidnap the infant but he abducts the little boy back. Poor and jobless, the father is now faced with the responsibility of providing for his son....
Set in 1965, the film follows the everyday lives of the students and the faculty....
The passenger ship Doña Paz collided with an oil tanker in the Philippines. 4,000 passengers died in the tragedy. Just five days before Christmas in 1987, the passenger ship Doña Paz collided with an oil tanker off Mindoro Island in the Philippines. 4,000 passengers died in the tragedy. It was the world's worst peacetime maritime disaster. Through dramatic first hand accounts from survivors and rescuers, transcripts from the Philippine congressional inquiry into the tragedy, archival footage an...
Leonardo de los Reyes gets framed by some hoodlums for murder, he escapes from prison and gets revenge to the people who harmed him....
A political family tries to hold on to their integrity and reputation as they face a difficult crisis....
Funny man Kenkoy courts Rosing the Manileña in this remake of the popular comics strip by Tony Velasquez....
Pepe upon the order of his father did not want anything to do with boxing, after all it was boxing which took his brother’s life. But the easy money involved in the sport attracted him when he was desperate to pay off a long standing debt he incurred during the accident of his dad....
A privileged teenager, disillusioned with the hypocrisy he witnesses in his small town, forms a bond with a lonely leper and a mentally unstable homeless woman....
To support her paralytic father, Chato works as a utility girl for a burlesque star Virgie Nite. But when Virgie gets drunk on the night of her scheduled show, Chato pitches in for her. And she becomes an instant sensation. Enthused by the initial acceptance of the audience, she defies her father's admonitions and presents herself to the manager. And thus, becoming the new burlesque queen....
Three human females born of snake eggs on a secluded island are integrated into a nearby village but are soon showing their true colors....
Satan saves Joseph Ashley from death on the condition that he become his disciple (and, as it turns out, a hairy murderous beast)....
A corrupt General plans on smuggling one million US dollars out of the Banana Republic he dominates. Local revolutionaries plan on stealing the cash but are thwarted when a bandit leader they are working with double crosses them. A tough cop and her boyfriend help two of the female revolutionaries escape from prison hoping that they will lead them to the cash, which they plan on keeping for themselves....
American servicemen are still being held captive in Vietnam and it's up to one man to bring them home in this blistering, fast-paced action/adventure starring martial arts superstar Chuck Norris. Following a daring escape from a Vietnamese POW camp, Special Forces Colonel James Braddock (Norris) is on a mission to locate and save remaining MIAs....
A series of drug-related murders haunt Saigon. Ex-Green Beret Mark Stryker and his MP's must find the culprits. With the help of Jean Lassiter, a nosey reporter covering the crime beat, Stryker uncovers the involvement of corrupt politicians in the heroin trade and in the killings. But before he can pin them down, Stryker is framed for the murder of his commanding officer and now he must clear his name, free Lassiter from her captors, and stop his men from carrying out their own kind of vengeanc...
James Iglehart is Doug Russell, an American who steals a shipment of gold in the Philippines with two Vietnam War buddies, who cut his throat and throw him overboard. Russell washes ashore an island inhabited by two Japanese soldiers stranded there since World War II. They nurse him back to health and he is taught martial arts and the art of the samurai. Back in the States, his treacherous pals, Marelli and Maghee, use their loot and viciousness to muscle their way into Los Angels mafia turf....
Living a simple lifestyle in the barrio of Maisan farming a small-sized field, Sebyo has no other inspiration aside from Coring. Her homecoming to serve as their new Municipal Health Officer (as a full-pledge doctor) started the thrill, excitement and a slight complication to Sebyo's life not to mention the hidden treasure said to be buried at the backyard of Coring and Tiya Belen's house....
In the battle for life you have to kill or be killed. Forced to fight against his friends in the deadly arena, Rex seeks revenge on the evil Malzon for killing his family in this post-apocalyptic action adventure....
Satan commissions Demonyita to destroy the souls of four young men but San Pedro also sends an angel to thwart the plan. Demonyita succeeds in creating havoc in the lives of the men but when one of them falls in love with her, things take an unexpected turn....
Nobody can stop them from falling in love....
When a conservative woman is possessed by a vengeful spirit, she becomes sexually promiscuous and seduces a lot of men....
Sonya, an old maid, is about to give up on herself until, one day, she meets a corpse in her family's embalming business that changes her life....
Best friends Alice and Darlene take a trip to Thailand after graduating high school. In Thailand, they meet a captivating Australian man, who calls himself Nick Parks. Darlene is particularly smitten with Nick and convinces Alice to take Nick up on his offer to treat the two of them to what amounts to a day trip to Hong Kong. In the airport, the girls are seized by the police and shocked to discover that one of their bags contains heroin....
Australian journalist Guy Hamilton travels to Indonesia to cover civil strife in 1965. There—on the eve of an attempted coup—he befriends a Chinese Australian photographer with a deep connection to and vast knowledge of the Indonesian people, and also falls in love with a British national....
Harry leaves Olongapo, the former site of American bases, with his best friend James. They end up in Manila where they soon find work as macho dancers in a gay bar run by Mama Odette. Harry has a troubled past -- his American father used to pimp him and his mother, Betty. When his father accidentally killed his mother, Harry struck out on his own. He made a vow to kill his father....
Throw Away Child is a 1982 Tagalog-language Drama movie written and directed by Arsenio Bautista....
A stripper and taxi driver are fished out of poverty and anonymity by a commercial film director. The obsession with success forces them to affect images as movie stars, which suppress and eventually destroy them as persons and lovers....
"Batas Militar" is a definitive documentary about martial law under the dictatorship of former President Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines....
A team of Vietnam vets, who now work as mercenaries, faces off against their former wartime comrade turned warlord, who's kidnapped the wife of a US diplomat and is holding her in his base of operations somewhere in the jungles of Laos....
An unstable young woman finally blows the cover of her repressive family's dark secrets when her memories where unlocked with the help of an ardent suitor....
Lino Brocka's adaptation of Mars Ravelo's "komiks" melodrama about a successful businessman who is terrified of being exposed as a homosexual....
Newly trusted to take over the management of a rich family's business, a poet rekindles his love for the matriarch's only daughter, a spinster who is harboring a horrific secret....
A 2000 action film from the Philippines....
A 1989 Filipino comedy film starring Redford White....
Closer to Home weaves a universal, haunting tale of two people inexorably drawn together for vastly different reasons. Dalisay struggles to journey from the Philippine countryside to New York City to marry Dean, a disillusioned ex-merchant marine. She's hoping to buy a cure for her dying sister and, ultimately, a future for her debt-ridden family, while he hopes to escape his disintegrating American family through love and a family of his own. A powerful, controversial film that quietly builds t...
A young blacksmith realizes his destiny when a malevolent demon bent on ruling the world unleashes an army of creatures on humanity....
This is a dramedy that tackles the friendship of five ageing prostitutes who live together in an old house despite their ripe age, they continue being sex trade workers along the bridge that serves as a hang-out spot for customers who are oftentimes tagged as “outcasts”. the story unfolds from the viewpoint of dalena, the central character. by day, she works as an albularyo (traditional healer) outside church, but works as hooker by nighttime. they say she is possessed by mary magdalene. in the ...
When Canadian diplomat Carl Pimmler sends his friend Peter Kernan and his wife Johanna to deliver medicine to the deep jungles of Cambodia, but Peter gets more than he bargained for when the journey ends in a fight for survival. Peter must use his experience and knowledge of South East Asia to get them out of this dangerous mess....
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Official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1986 directed by Celso Ad. Castillo and starred German Moreno and the All-Star Cast...
Silk, the toughest cop in Honolulu, busts small time smugglers only to reveal a larger syndicate smuggling Asian mobsters into the States by buying the identities of Hawaiian citizens....
Compilation film of episodes 27 through 30 of the 1977 Anime Series Voltes 5. Released exclusively in the Philippines in 1981...
A compilation of the final 5 episodes of the 1977 anime series "Voltes 5" This compilation was released 13 years after the series prior 35 episodes were seen on Phillipines TV in 1986. It's about the end of the Bozanian empire and a reunion between a father and his sons....
Ben Gazzara and Paul Winfield play Vietnam veterans turned mercenaries who are hired to rescue a kidnapped executive....
This is the life story of Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, a Chinese-Filipina nun who founded the Congregation of the Sisters of the Religious of the Virgin Mary....