Carlo Aquino
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Biography: Carlo Jose Liwanag Aquino (born 3 September 1985) is a Filipino actor and musician known for being the lead singer of the band Kollide and formerly on JCS with John Prats and Stefano Mori. Aquino achieved critical recognition for his performance in the 1998 film Bata, Bata… Pa'no Ka Ginawa? with veteran actress Vilma Santos based on the award-winning novel by Lualhati Bautista. Aquino started his showbiz career as a child actor and rose to popularity as a teen actor during the late 1990s to the early 2000s. Formerly an exclusive contract star of ABS-CBN's Star Magic, he also appeared in some shows of rival station GMA Network as a contract artist under GMA Artist Center. As of 2012, he exclusively works for ABS-CBN again.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Quezon City
Birthday: September 03, 1985
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Gender: Male
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Love You Long Time
Overview: While recovering from heartbreak, a screenwriter finds new inspiration when she makes an unexpected connection with a man via an old walkie-talkie.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2023-04-08
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Ang Tanging Ina
Overview: Desperate to provide a comfortable life for her children, Ina willingly takes all kinds of jobs available to her. But what happens when Ina's family continues to fall apart despite all her sacrifices?
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2003-05-28
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Tumbok
Overview: Bad fortune and strange events plague newlyweds (Cristine Reyes, Carlo Aquino) who recently inherited a condominium located in a place many consider unlucky.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2011-05-04
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The Missing
Overview: When an alien comes back to take him, a mouthless young man's life twists and turns as his memories untangle.
Genres: Animation Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2023-08-04
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Resbak
Overview: A father learns that his teenage son is heading down to the same path he treaded. In order to stop his son from being a criminal, he returns to his old ways so that his son may live.
Genres: Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2016-06-25
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Lea's Story
Overview: A fiercely independent and unflinchingly candid woman connected with a women's crisis and survival center has to raise her two kids with different fathers. Her first husband has left her when their career options failed to converge. She is now stuck in an extramarital arrangement with another man who cannot bring himself to respect and commit to their quite unorthodox relationship.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-26
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Mater Dolorosa
Overview: A woman runs her criminal syndicate all the while taking care of her family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2012-11-30
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Porno
Overview: An assassin, a porn dubber and a transgender. Three souls. One explicit illusion. To find the ultimate joy in their empty lives. A safe haven, where passion and love mean humanity, ecstasy means enlightenment; and the soul is the ultimate arbiter of the truth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2013-07-27
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I-Libings
Overview: A coming of age story about Isabel’s lessons and realizations on life and death as a funeral videography intern. Due to her family situation, Isabel is cynical and skeptical of everything that comes her way. When she enters the I-libings for her required college internship, she sees it as the worst internship her college adviser could suggest to her. Later as she accumulates her required hours, she realizes that the company is not just a place where videographers make money out of other people’s misfortunes but is a place where the dead and the grieving receive special attention. It all comes full circle when Isabel is faced with an unusual family tragedy. Isabel realizes that her internship might have been just 200 hours, but the lessons that the I-libings left her would last a lifetime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2011-07-16
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Diablo
Overview: Every night, Nana Lusing lies on her bed sleepless because she sees a dark figure looming in her room. Who is this shadow? Is this the devil? Her late husband? A manifestation of her anxieties? Or simply a figment of her imagination?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2012-10-21
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Working Girls
Overview: Continuing the tradition of national artist Ishmael Bernal's benchmark film Working Girls after 25 years, Working Girls of 2010 depicts the role of women in the new millennium. Seven women of different backgrounds, stories and personalities entwined in a colorful story of family, love and life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2010-04-21
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Patrol
Overview: A policewoman roams the city of Manila to fulfill her duties as a police patrol to look for her son.
Genres: Crime Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-03
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Mano Po III: My Love
Overview: Anti-crime crusader Lilia Chiong Yang seems to have everything a woman could want and need: a husband who pampers her; children whom any parent would be proud of; and the respect & admiration of the most powerful people in the land. But just as Lilia prepares for her 25th wedding anniversary celebration, a chance encounter in Thailand with her first love Michael throws Lilia's life into chaos. So begins the resumption of a relationship that threatens to unravel the delicate threads connecting Lilia to the other people in her life. - Written by regalfilms
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-25
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Jologs
Overview: Jologs portrays the intersecting stories of various working-class people who are all tied to one coffee shop and are struggling to make ends meet in the Philippines.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2002-08-22
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Expensive Candy
Overview: Candy is a sex worker. A poor teacher, Toto, falls in love with her and she becomes his motivation to work hard.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2022-09-14
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Ang Tanging Ina Mo: Last na 'to!
Overview: A few months after Ina left the position as the President of the Philippines, she is back in the media limelight as she releases a book of her life in her journey as a mother to her children and as a mother to the people of the Philippines. Ina now lives a simple life with her beloved children, together with her long-time best friend, Rowena.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2010-12-25
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Unwanted
Overview: On December 21, 2012, Hank and Kate decide to go to the mall to pick up their presents for Kate's parents, while Hank is in the middle of shopping, an explosion causes the mall to collapse. When he wakes up he meets some survivors and asks for help from them to find his wife Kate. After finding Kate, they encounter something they did not expect.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-25
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I Do? I Die!! D'yos Ko Day!
Overview: Babalu & Mokong can't find a job so they decide to rob their old boss.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1997-04-16
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Carnivore
Overview: Student wants to join a fraternity and has to endure live endangering tests in order to do so.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-18
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Sugatang Puso
Overview: A divorced man who marries a widowed wife. De Leon's previous wife suddenly develops problems, and De Leon is forced to bring his son back home to live with him, his wife and her own son.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2000-12-25
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Yesterday Children
Overview: It is the time of El Niño, a season ruled by superstition and fear. The rain is long in coming, the ground has cracked up dry. The ricestalks are thin and sickly. Villagers go hungry. And a boy dies from a snakebite. The adults splinter. Some pray. Others join a cult to appease earth spirits and wait for the ada, the ricefield spirit goddess of bountiful harvest who dances naked on moonlit nights and signals the need for a virgin’s sacrifice. There are fence sitters, equally pro-church and pro-cult. A landlord’s steward enforces his master’s usury on hapless farmers. A self-righteous priest says rain must first be deserved. Two young women fight for the right to do with their bodies as they please. A bastard boy and a blind girl come of age. Yesterday, they were children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-03
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Tuli
Overview: The daughter of a circumciser rebels and challenges the status quo when she is asked to take over her father's job.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-12
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Ang Tanging Ina N'yong Lahat
Overview: With the one, big, happy family that she has, any woman would admire Ina Montecillo as the embodiment of a perfect mother. But after more than 30 years of doing everything for her family, she realizes she hasn’t done anything for herself. Ina then embarks on a journey of finding her self-worth that surprisingly lands her as the President of the Philippines!
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2008-12-25
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Enteng ng Ina Mo
Overview: Enteng wants to retire as the hero of Engkantasya and have a normal life with his family without the magical elements. Ina longs to have the right partner to be with her for the rest of her life. One day, Enteng is placed under a powerful evil spell by the evil witch Satana to fall in love with another woman. And when he meets Ina, he exerts all the effort Ina to fall for him. Ina, on the other hand, slowly opens her heart for this new opportunity of love. Enteng then tries his best to be a father to Ina’s children even if they are not fully supportive of him. But when their relationship gets serious, Ina discovers the truth – Enteng already has a family.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure Drama Fantasy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2011-12-25
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I Love Lizzy
Overview: It follows the story of a seminarian who meets and falls in love with Lizzy.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2023-01-18
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Nandito ako... Nagmamahal sa 'yo
Overview: Tata went back to his hometown, Bohol with his mother from their poor life in Quiapo. He suddenly realize that his father is still alive. He fell in love with the girl he met named Stephanie who is about to get married to his stepbrother named Prince.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2009-10-02
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Shake Rattle and Roll Fourteen: The Invasion
Overview: Shake, Rattle and Roll 14 : The Invasion is a 2012 science fiction horror film directed by Chito S. Roño. The film stars an ensemble casts including Janice de Belen, Herbert Bautista, Dennis Trillo, Lovi Poe, Paulo Avelino, Martin Escudero and Vhong Navarro. The film was produced by Regal Entertainment, Inc. The film is an official entry in the Metro Manila Film Festival and the film's scheduled release is on December 25, 2012 in Philippine Cinemas nationwide. This fourteenth installment also serves as the Most Independent throughout the entire series for its sole director, Chito S. Roño. This Installment features the comeback of Janice de Belen and Herbert Bautista which both starred in past Shake, Rattle and Roll installments, especially Shake, Rattle and Roll I which included both of them but in different episodes.
Genres: Action Comedy Horror
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2012-12-24
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Third World Romance
Overview: An outspoken cashier and laidback grocery bagger navigate the path to being happy despite the challenges of their blue-collared living in a world where nothing comes for free.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2023-08-16
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Awaken
Overview: One night the docile teenager Rey is mauled as he passes by a drinking spree of street toughies: Pogi, Jopet, Kahoy and Taba. Pogi hates Rey for the simple reason that he secretly loves Rey’s girlfriend. Jopet, a self-claimed police asset, finds Rey a convenient substitute for pouring out his hatred for his handler, a sadistic cop. Kahoy and Taba join in for the sake of camaraderie. Rey regains consciousness and finds his tormentors drunk and asleep… The director: “In the Philippines we see all these things and we don’t even recognize it, because we’re used to it. We’re very passive. But we need to wake up!”
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2005-07-15
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New Moon
Overview: Ahmad belongs to the Bangsamoro people. While many of his kind are bent on fighting, thinking that Mindanao is only for the Muslims, Ahmad prefers to live a simple and peaceful life. He works as a doctor in Manila while his wife, Fatima, and his only son, Ibrahim, stay in Mindanao with his mother, Farida. Ahmad is shocked and devastated when Fatima breaks the confounding news. Ibrahim was killed by a stray bullet when vigilantes indiscriminately fire at their village. Ahmad goes back to where he came from Mindanao. Ibrahim’s death did not cause Ahmad to stop striving to live a peaceful life, much to the consternation of his brother, Musa. His brother takes an exactly opposite stand. Musa believes in waging a war against all the Kaafir (unbelievers) who may impede the Moro’s goal of independence. He even trains his young son, Rashid to a Muslim warrior’s life.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2001-07-20
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Minsan May Isang Puso
Overview: Boyet Palacios is a teenage boy whose family used to be middle class. Reversal of fortune happens after the father gets sick and becomes a vegetable confined to his bed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2001-05-09
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Cedie
Overview: An Earl disowns his son James for marrying Annie, a middle-class woman. The couple leaves England to start a life in New York with their son newborn child Cedie.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-08
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Magic Temple
Overview: The magical world of "Samadhi" is threatened by the evil forces of Ravenal and Sifu sends out three teenage boys to journey on the Magic Temple. Jubal, Sambag, and Omar, each with their own unique power battle the threat to the world of Samadhi and along the way face many extraordinary things. The boys are sure to face a huge battle ahead of them but with the help of magical creatures they met along their journey, evil is eliminated and they learn the true value of camaraderie and believing in themselves to face any problem.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1996-12-25
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Kokey
Overview: On their way home, Bong and Anna discover Kokey, an extraterrestrial whose space ship explodes upon landing on earth. Without the knowledge of their parents, the children keep Kokey at home. The three soon become the best of friends with Kokey turning out to be a big help to the family and their business, attracting customers using his extraterrestrial powers. But Kokey becomes homesick, pointing to the sky in silent tears, missing his parents. He tries to contact them but with no success. Will he ever be reunited to his family? How long can the children keep Kokey a secret?
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1997-11-26
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Baler
Overview: In 1898, a band of Spanish soldiers heroically defended Baler against Filipino forces for 337 long and grueling days. The battle, now referred to as the Siege of Baler, is the setting of a forbidden love between a Mestizo soldier and a Filipina lass who lived at the end of the 19th century.
Genres: History Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-25
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Hiling
Overview: Anna is an ordinary girl who receives an extraordinary birthday gift from a mysterious old woman. Anna discovered that she has given the power to grant any kind of wishes through touching. However, Anna could not do anything to grant her own wishes. She made Trinket’s family rich, who used to get ridiculed by the neighbourhood because of their debts. She also touches a gay who desires to become a real woman. She also touched her hopeless romantic friend Elwood who eventually became the chick magnet of their neighbourhood. She also helped a morose middle-aged woman grow plants that would eventually choke anyone who came across the old lady’s house. She also granted the children’s wish to have a swimming pool on a vacant lot that would cause trouble to the whole people in their community; and a lot, lot more wishes. Anna granted all of her neighbour’s wishes and even the most impossible ones.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Drama Family
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1998-12-18
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Daddy O! Baby O!
Overview: A middle aged bachelor Mario spent his life taking care of his eccentric sister Brenda. He sells goodies in a mobile cart for a living. His daily routine gets a sudden turnaround when his dying friend Arnold made him promise to take care of his daughter Ana. But Ana is not just an ordinary little girl, despite her angelic look; she is cunning and mischievous who is in search of her estranged mother. Mario and Ana agreed that they would earn money to look for Ana’s mother in Cebu, but Ana should tame down. Mario performs his new task as a father to the orphan child in a very unconventional way. But through the help of a beautiful teacher named Maribel, he would always keep things going.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-10
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Alyas Pogi: Ang Pagbabalik
Overview: Ex-con wants to reconnect with son after 12 years, but must defend town against corrupt mayor's golf course plans.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1999-07-03
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Always Be My Maybe
Overview: After being dumped by their respective lovers, Jake and Tintin cross paths at a resort and discover they have much in common.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2016-02-24
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Whistleblower
Overview: Inspired by the much-publicized travails of Benhur Luy and Janet Lim Napoles, the film opens with a police operation that leads to the recovery of a certain Zeny Roblado who has been unduly detained by her boss Lorna Valera. From there, Zeny spills whatever she knows of Lorna's shady operations to Teresa, a journalist.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2016-04-06
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Crosspoint
Overview: An illegal Filipino entertainer in Japan, Manuel, meets a bankrupt Japanese businessman, Shigeru. After knowing the whereabouts of a high-profile serial killer at large, the two men decide to capture the killer to get a big bounty.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2024-10-16
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Dyamper
Overview: Three friends wait along Dalton Pass every dawn to jump at the back of rice delivery trucks to steal the goods and sell it at the wet market as their means of income. One of them accidentally gets a pack of drugs in one of the trucks they jumped and finds themselves in jeopardy when its owners track them down to retrieve the stash, and gives them a chance to get off the hook by means of taking on a risky mission.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2016-04-22
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The Legend of China Doll
Overview: A journalist investigates a woman with the name of China Doll. Soon, he discovers his knowledge of her turns out to be dangerous.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2013-11-14
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Whispers in the Wind
Overview: In a Japanese town devastated by a tsunami, two newfound friends make sense of their grief and a curious phone booth that sends messages to the dead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2024-08-21
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Amorosa: The Revenge
Overview: After suffering from a vehicular accident, Rosa and her sons transfer to the province. She hopes that the new place will heal the rift between her and her younger son, Rommel. Little does she know that their lives will be at risk when the vengeful ghost of the woman without face threatens them. As she struggles to find a way to end the hauntings, she discovers a truth that will change her life forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2012-08-29
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Angelito
Overview: A short film about Antonio Luna’s aides-de-camp Jose and Manuel Bernal during the aftermath of Luna’s assassination.
Genres: History
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2017-02-15
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Bar Boys
Overview: The misadventures of three young men who try their luck in the college of law. As their friendship, families, relationships and convictions are brought to breaking point, they must keep their heads and emotions together as they prepare for the big day.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2017-08-16
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Throwback Today
Overview: Primo, gifted with a good eye for production design, ventures into the working world with a great desire to succeed. Unprepared for the harsh realities of the real world, Primo experienced failure, heartbreak and regret in a series of unfortunate events. Life didn’t turn out as he had expected: He wasted away, wallowing in grief, and jumped from one odd job to another for more than a decade. While trying to make ends meet at the peak of his misfortunes, he experiences a technological glitch with his old desktop computer and gets a chance to re-write his life.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2017-11-13
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Meet Me in St. Gallen
Overview: The story of Jesse and Celeste who meets at an unexpected time in their lives. They then realize their names are the same as the characters in the popular break-up romantic comedy, Celeste and Jesse Forever.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2018-02-07
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Goyo: The Boy General
Overview: With this film (the second war trilogy set during the Filipino-American war in the early 1900s), the revolution marches on against the Americans after the bloody death of General Antonio Luna. The conflicted philosophies behind the heroic struggle continue and become personified in the colorful character of General Gregorio "Goyo" del Pilar.
Genres: History
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2018-09-05
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Exes Baggage
Overview: After a chance encounter, Pia and Nix instantly hit it off. Natural conversations eventually develop into deep attraction. Despite their wounds from previous relationships, both decide to take a chance on each other. But when their love blossoms into a relationship, their differences will test their love and will make them question: Are they ready for love when they're still carrying baggage from their past?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2018-09-26
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Ulan
Overview: In this coming-of-age-film about self-love, Maya is a girl who has always held a pessimistic view of the rain, reminding her of failed love and other depressing things. Will the rain ever stop her in her journey to overcome past heartaches?
Genres: Drama Romance Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2019-03-13
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Isa Pa, with Feelings
Overview: Despite their differences, an aspiring architect falls for her deaf neighbor, who teaches her basic sign language.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2019-10-16
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Death March
Overview: The story of its namesake - the forcible transfer of 76000 American and Filipino prisoners of war by the Japanese Army in 1942.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2013-05-26
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Seasons
Overview: After a string of failed relationships, two best friends make a deal to take risks and look for love again — but they might just find it in each other.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2023-07-07
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Hold Me Close
Overview: After seven years of traveling the world in search of a place to settle, Woody arrives in Japan. There, he meets Lynlyn, who has a unique ability: with just a touch, she can sense whether someone will bring her happiness or harm.
Genres: Romance Drama Fantasy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2024-12-25
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Bar Boys: After School
Overview: Set ten years after the events of the first film, the story explores the impact of time on institutions, relationships, and individuals, delivering a poignant yet inspiring tale about the invisible costs of pursuing one's dreams.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
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