Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 22, 1969
Deathday: N/A
Popularity:
1998-04-01
Overview: The life and faith of a priest was put into test when his family was killed by the military who wrongly accused them of supporting the communist rebels. After being tortured by the military, he joined the rebels to avenge his family's death. Will he finally get the justice he never got when he was still a servant of God?
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1998-04-01
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2000-06-29
Overview: Due to a delayed flight a group of German flight passengers have to wait in the hall of the airport of Manila. The crowd is quite mixed, ranging from an cultivated east German teacher couple up to sleazy sex tourists. As the waiting prolongs, more and more aggressions and long repressed behaviors shed their way to the surface.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-06-29
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1998-06-24
Overview: In a remote fishing island in the 50's, Pepito grows up learning the trade of his mother, Rosa, the only midwife capable of delivering the newborn babies of their community. At first, the young son doesn't mind the unusual arrangement, but as he grows older, he begins to resist the role traditionally meant only for women. In time, Pepito's coming of age intersects with the lives of the other islanders, whose beliefs and struggles become critical impetus to his maturity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1998-06-24
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1998-12-25
Overview: Accused of treason, Dr. Jose P. Rizal awaits trial and meets with his colonial government-appointed counsel, Luis Taviel de Andrade. The two build the case and arguments for the defense as significant events in the central figure's life prior to his incarceration unfold. Upon hearing Rizal's life story, Taviel begins to realize that the accused not just is innocent but exhibits in fact all the qualities of an extraordinary man. When the mock trial unreels, Taviel is all set to act as the prime advocate for his client as Rizal himself is about to give an earth-moving speech to defend his honor and address his countrymen. Meanwhile, the Spanish authorities have worked out the vast political machinery to ensure a guilty verdict. A revolution waits in the wings.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1998-12-25
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1999-01-01
Overview: Potrait of director Marilou Diaz-Abaya
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
Popularity:
2007-09-06
Overview: A boy and a girl who have wildly divergent personalities yet share the name, Alex Reyes, decide to team up for a cycling contest. But while female Alex is focused on winning the prize money, male Alex is more concerned with his parents breaking up. Through their intense training sessions, the two become closer than friends and eventually help each other confront their biggest problems.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-06
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2001-12-25
Overview: A ritual performed by women to invoke the gods to grant the blessing of fertility by dancing around a Balete tree that was already a century old.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2001-12-25
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1994-06-22
Overview: As part of the third anniversary of the program, a film version was created. Ana, a young girl who took the responsibility of being the mother of her cousin Marrisa's son while the latter spent her life in Japan as an entertainer.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1994-06-22
Popularity:
2007-08-15
Overview: Ian Montes is a picture of success. Despite being a son of a shipping tycoon, Ian refused to just ride in his father's empire. He built his own real estate company and earned his first million at a very young age. He never looked back since then. Driven by his ambition to become better, if not as good as his father, Ian managed to make it on his own. But behind all the glory is a man yearning for love and recognition.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2007-08-15
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2008-11-09
Overview: A suspense thriller directed by Juan Miguel Sevilla.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2008-11-09
Popularity:
1998-03-25
Overview: A 1998 Filipino comedy film directed by Jun Urbano.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-25
Popularity:
1996-03-21
Overview: A serial killer preying on unfaithful wives sets his eyes on an investigator's wife.The culprit is a debonair director, whose compulsion to prey on married women stems from a deep psychological trauma.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1996-03-21
Popularity:
1996-05-29
Overview: Childhood best friends Beverly and Maxine's picture-perfect relationship is strained when one of them is suddenly thrust into the world of marriage and motherhood.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-29
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1994-09-28
Overview: Filipino action star Eddie "Lagalag" Fernandez is convicted and jailed for his role in a homicide.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-28
Popularity:
1995-03-29
Overview: The melding together of two separate stories that share a similar premise - each detail the account of a young Filipino woman who becomes a victim of sexual violence and takes her attacker to court.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1995-03-29
Popularity:
2000-03-15
Overview:
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2000-03-15
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1997-11-19
Overview: A Filipino romance drama film directed by Jose Javier Reyes.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1997-11-19
Popularity:
1998-03-25
Overview: A story about three friends, a simple housewife with a bad tempered husband, a busy career wife whose husband want a child, and one who desperately wants to become a wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1998-03-25
Popularity:
1997-01-21
Overview: Three women who come from different backgrounds work hard to earn a living in Manila, but realize that they are victims of sexual exploitations. A television producer is forced to have sex with her boss in exchange for an opportunity to produce a new programme. That almost costs her marriage. A temporary teacher and her colleagues are sent by their principal to give a dance performance at a ministry officer's birthday party. They are gang-raped or almost gang-raped by the officer and his guests. A bus ticket seller accidentally kills one of the men who tries to gang-rape her, but all the bus passengers who witness the scene refuse to go to court to help her defending the charge of murder. Although the three women do not know each other, they end up taking the same bus leaving Manila and heading to the rural area.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1997-01-21
Popularity:
2006-11-24
Overview: Pandanggo has three stories with parallel themes converging in one event, the Kasilonawan Festival in Obando: a career woman learning to dance tango who is torn between her dance partner and live-in partner has to choose the man who will satisfy her dream of raising a family; a wife whose wish to conceive a baby boy to make her husband happy brings her feet to the festival, but fate has other plans of bringing the child into her life; and a modern woman who, amidst her medical condition that might render her childless for the rest of her life, finds connection with an ancient lore about fertility.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2006-11-24
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1993-11-25
Overview: An action and romantic movie starred by Robin Padilla and Sharon Cuneta.
Genres: Romance Action Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1993-11-25
Popularity:
2006-03-19
Overview: Rigodon follows the spiritual journey's of three Filipino immigrants in New York City whose lives intertwine in the age of racial profiling and government crackdowns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-19
Popularity:
1992-12-25
Overview: This movie is Lea Salonga's first movie in the Philippines after her Miss Saigon stint. It was an acid test if Salonga has the acting ability that Filipino critics are demanding. The Tony-awardee did not win any awards for this movie, but her two leading men grabbed major awards. Aga Muhlach won the best actor in the 1992 MMFF, while singer Ariel Rivera, in his movie debut, grabbed the 1992 MMFF best supporting actor award. The movie is produced by Octo Arts, the same company that produced Lea's 1988 self-titled album.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1992-12-25
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