Lolita Rodriguez
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Born Dolores Marquez Clark, the versatile actress better known as Lolita Rodriguez is considered one of the greatest actors in Philippine Cinema.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Urdaneta City, Pangasinan
Birthday: January 29, 1935
Deathday: November 28, 2016
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Kilabot Sa Makiling
Overview: A 1959 Filipino action drama starring Mario Montenegro and Lolita Rodriguez.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1959-12-11
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Diegong Tabak
Overview: A 1962 Filipino action drama starring Vic Vargas and Lolita Rodriguez.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1962-11-30
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The Big Broadcast
Overview: Two teenagers gatecrash a movie studio to see their idols who promised to choose them as their next leading lady.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1962-01-04
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Veronica
Overview: The intriguing story of a strange love affair. Too thrilling for her to resist. Too lovely for him to forget. Too painful for one to remember.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1957-05-29
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Batas Ng Alipin
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Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1955-05-25
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Dumagit
Overview: A story of the boy Dumagit who grows up in the jungle with his guardian and animal friends. Dr. Joaquin Olivar and his pregnant wife Marina hide in a remote island after Olivar was accused of a crime and Marina feared being ostracized. Marina dies after giving birth to a baby boy, David. Olivar takes care of the baby on his own and gives him the nickname Dumagit. Later, Olivar is killed by a group of men who came into the island to hunt animals. Twenty years later, Federico Olivar, brother of Joaquin Olivar, comes to the island to look for his brother. This film is the Philippine version of Tarzan.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1954-12-11
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Jack and Jill
Overview: Siblings Benita and Gorio play twisted roles: she drives a jeepney, he does all the household chores; she gets into brawls with men, he prefers to be called "Glory." All these they do in support of their father, Mang Ambo, a driver for the rich and reckless Gardo, son of the elite Don Quinito and Doña Teresita. When Mang Ambo's health fails him, he introduces Benita to the family, disguised as a boy named Itoy. Gorio, on the other hand, runs away to look for a job and ends up being taken in and mistaken for an actual girl by Doña Teresita as her own "daughter." Living in totally new circumstances and with each bearing the secret of the other, how long can they keep up playing their game?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1954-06-02
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Nakasakdal sa Langit
Overview: Lolita Rodriguez plays multiple characters in this Sampaguita production.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1961-02-13
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Ang Ating Pag-ibig
Overview: Pancho Magalona stars as twin doctors commissioned by a hospital, all the while falling in love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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Happy Days Are Here Again
Overview: A compilation of film clips featuring dance and song performances culled from various films of the so-called big three - Sampaguita, LVN, Premiere.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1974-11-15
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Pilya
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1954-03-23
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Busabos
Overview: Adapted from Hiwaga Komiks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1957-09-21
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Talipandas
Overview: Adapted from Espesyal Komiks.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1958-10-17
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Sino ang Maysala?
Overview: Bankruptcy drove Don Ramon to commit suicide leaving nothing to the family his wife, Rosa, and four children, Carmen, Gloria, Lolita, and Bobby. Carmen, the eldest, filled the gap left by her father and swore to send her siblings to school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Mga Anak ng Diyos
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1957-04-19
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Sa Dulo ng Landas
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1955-04-25
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Stardoom
Overview: A stage mother drives her younger son to his ‘stardoom’ to make up for her downward slide from her bourgeois origins.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1971-10-07
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Three, Two, One
Overview: "Tatlo, Dalawa, Isa" is a compilation of three intimate stories directed by Filipino cinema legend Lino Brocka. The films show the perseverance of hope despite a sense of despair. Featuring a drug addict, an abandoned daughter and a repressed catholic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1974-11-28
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Laura
Overview: A nightclub singer fools around with a hapless suitor.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1960-06-18
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Cofradia
Overview: Cofradia is the subject of ridicule and humiliation from people around her. However, Cofradia turns into a beautiful young lady with the lighting of a mysterious candle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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Gilda
Overview: Destroyed during a fire that ravaged Sampaguita’s archives. Gilda tells the story of a poor squatter who carried her invalid mother while begging on the streets for money. As she lives under the abusive hand of her mother’s lover, Gilda dreams of becoming a singer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1956-07-13
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Pitong Pagsisisi
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1959-03-21
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5 Yugto ng Buhay
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1961-02-28
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Lupa sa Lupa
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1960-01-10
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Condemned
Overview: Savage passions run wild - as violent as a condemned man on the loose.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1958-12-16
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Weighed But Found Wanting
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1974-05-30
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Dipped in Gold
Overview: Lino Brocka's adaptation of Mars Ravelo's "komiks" melodrama about a successful businessman who is terrified of being exposed as a homosexual.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1970-12-25
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From Tokyo with Love
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Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1964-09-07
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Tanikalang Apoy
Overview: A wife's in-laws are a nightmarish thing to deal with.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1959-04-10
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Tres Ojos
Overview: A thrilling actioner of a meathead swashbuckling adventurer with a sensitive heart
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1954-12-16
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Sabungera
Overview: Yessiree, she's here. The film scream who will throw entire laughdom into a topsy-turvy condition: none other than that riotous, naughty-but-loveable "SABUNGERA".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1954-08-08
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Gabi at Araw
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1957-09-11
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Wen Manang
Overview: It's G.I.BIDAY" verses "FIGHTING MEKENI" in the most EXPLOSIVE atomic comedy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1961-12-15
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Halik sa Lupa
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1961-07-06
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Ina, Kapatid, Anak
Overview: After 20 years, Pura returns to her ancestral home to meet her father. However, this soon reignites a bitter rivalry between her and Emilia, her half-sister, that impacts the entire household.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1979-06-08
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Ina Ka ng Anak Mo
Overview: A story about a husband who falls in love with his mother-in-law.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1979-12-25
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Sa Bilis, Walang Kaparis
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Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1964-04-18
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The Son of Brocka
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2005-07-30
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Paradise Inn
Overview: Paradise Inn is more than a watering hole, a gambling den cum-brothel frequented by the menfolk. It is a notorious landmark. Ester Paraiso, a retired prostitute, runs the place with help from her own daughter, Daria, whom she is preparing for the job, and from influential politicos. Her daughter, however, decides to run away but is later spurned by her suitor and his offer of a respectable life. Even the timely arrival of a two-beat magician, Rey, who hastily proposes marriage, fails to prevent the escalating tension as the mother-daughter conflict takes its worst turn culminating in the characters' fiery destruction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1985-12-25
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Mortal
Overview: Mario O'Hara's surreal debut film about a man recovering from mental illness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1976-03-05
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Lucia
Overview: A strong-willed matriarch and her family leave their fishing village for Manila after an oil spill.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Andres Bonifacio Ang Supremo
Overview: A story about the Philippine revolutionary Andrés Bonifacio, the founder and Supremo of the Katipunan.
Genres: History Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1964-02-28
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Octavia
Overview: A generation feud between three stars.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1961-05-19
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Binibining Kalog
Overview: A funny movie about a tomboyish girl and the pursuit of her crush.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1955-10-02
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Kapag Puso'y Sinugatan
Overview: A film that stars Eddie Rodriguez, Lolita Rodriguez and Marlene Dauden.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1967-10-12
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Lunes, Martes, Miyerkules, Huwebes, Biyernes, Sabado, Linggo
Overview: The setting is an Olongapo bar. Lolita Rodriguez is an ex-movie queen trying to earn a living for her son and herself. He is mortally embarrassed by her livelihood and sometimes refuses to acknowledge her as his mother. Bembol Roco is the son of a prostitute who has disappeared from his life. He is looking for his mother in the honky tonk bars. He meets Lolita Rodriguez whom he fancies as his lover. However, he thinks of her as a decent woman. But Lolita has financial problems. In order to pay for her debts, she is forced to perform a striptease. Bembol happens to be in the bar when she starts to gyrate, but she ignores his presence. This destroys his illusions. When they are alone together, she berates him and teaches him the value of survival and acceptance of one’s fate.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-14
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