Spanky Manikan
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Philippines
Adult: No
Birthday: March 22, 1942
Age: 83 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 14, 2018
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Amok
Overview: The bustling and sweltering rugged intersection of Pasay Rotonda serves as the main setting for this story of interconnected fate and destiny. As a raging man's bullets strays into different directions, the fate of several different characters are sealed and determined. As the temperature rises, the tension escalates and the story unravels with unforgiving immediacy and explodes in the end as each one struggles to survive and escape their inevitable end.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2011-07-16
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The Reaper
Overview: A group of prisoners was secretly commissioned by Gen. Torre to fight those who intend to destabilize the government. And after successfully ridding the system of scalawags, they were promised that their records will be cleared as well as reinstatement in the police service. After the media questioned the existence of the group, the general decides to get rid of them by execution. The group found out about this and decided to fight back.
Genres: Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2001-10-15
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Amigo
Overview: Rafael is a village mayor caught in the murderous crossfire of the Philippine-American War. When U.S. troops occupy his village, Rafael comes under pressure from a tough-as-nails officer to help the Americans in their hunt for Filipino guerilla fighters. But Rafael's brother is the head of the local guerillas, and considers anyone who cooperates with the Americans to be a traitor. Rafael quickly finds himself forced to make the impossible, potentially deadly decisions faced by ordinary civilians in an occupied country.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-19
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Himala
Overview: When plain orphan Elsa begins having visions of the Virgin Mary, the rest of the residents of her isolated village find themselves questioning their own beliefs and values. Soon, Elsa is healing people with a variety of ailments. As word of this phenomenon spreads, tourists, pilgrims, patients and a documentary filmmaker all arrive on a quest to partake in the miracle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1982-12-25
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Dung-Aw
Overview: Diego and Gabriela Silang are landed Ilocos natives disaffected with the imposition of the indulto de comercio (a law giving right to Spanish officials to buy rice and tobacco at the price they prefer). The year is 1762 and the British invade Manila, the childless couple is among the landowners denying aid to the Spaniards in thwarting the British. When the Spaniards in retaliation jail Diego, his wife gathers their confederates and leads the uprising herself.
Genres: Drama Music History
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1975-08-05
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Kulimlim
Overview: A man takes the law into his own hands when his wife's rapists are released from prison on a technicality, only to be possessed by the spirits of the criminals.
Genres: Thriller Action Horror
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2004-06-23
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Alienasyon
Overview: A retired university professor who refused to leave his home in the campus despite an administrative order for eviction. With his whole life bearing witness to Diliman estate's evolution, he is the only remaining gatekeeper of the histories of his homeland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2014-11-05
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Bona
Overview: A young, middle-class girl from the Philippines, Bona drops out of high school to follow Gardo, a minor actor in low-budget films. This decision angers her father, who kicks her out. Hoping for romance, Bona moves in with Gardo, but is treated like a maid, forced to endure his flings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-25
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Broken Marriage
Overview: Trapped in a world of hectic schedules, pressure, and little time for each other, married couple Ellen and Rene decide to have a temporary separation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1983-09-02
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Ploning
Overview: In the picturesque island of Cuyo, Palawan, an illegal Taiwanese fishing vessel docks carrying the fisherman named Muo Sei, a man looking for something or someone with the name Ploning. He has from sunrise to sundown to look for this "Ploning".
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-30
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Forever and a Day
Overview: Eugene arrives in Bukidnon with only one intention: to forget his problems at work. But when he meets Raffy and as they travel and go on ridiculous and death-defying activities together, they start to form a friendship that goes beyond Euge’s original plan. Raffy helps Euge appreciate himself more and to look at things in a positive way. With Raffy, Euge begins to believe in himself again. Soon, against his own expectations, he admits to himself that has fallen in love with this girl. But life is truly ironic. The moment Euge expresses his feelings for her, Raffy suddenly starts to push him away. She admits that he can never have her, and she doesn’t want Eugene to hope for a happy ending with her, because she cannot be loved.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2011-06-15
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Deathrow
Overview: A neglected and unloved orphan raised by poor relatives in the slums of Manila is wrongfully convicted of murder that resulted from a heist he was compelled to join. Unable to prove his innocence and his minor age, he is thrown into the cruel, perilous and horrifying world of death row where he is introduced to other inmates all awaiting their execution by lethal injection. One of them is a 70-year-old man who detests the jungle of jail and is feared by all the convicts. He would serve as the boy’s protector and savior and in the process touch and shape enormously the violated youth’s life in prison and beyond.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2000-12-25
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Au bout du rouleau
Overview: An aging captain who has spent his life sailing the China Sea agrees to do one last race for a crooked shipowner.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-11-29
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Himala Ngayon
Overview: A 2012 documentary about the making and the legacy of the 1982 drama masterpiece directed by Ishmael Bernal that ended up being one of the greatest Asian films of all time. The revelations about the theory of "Who killed Elsa?" will be answered and also, the impact of the film to the Filipino culture and society.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2012-12-04
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The Strangers
Overview: A family becomes trapped in a village full of mysterious people and transforms into black dogs.
Genres: Horror Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2012-12-25
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Fatal Vacation
Overview: A pleasent trip to the Phillipines is turned into tragedy when the tour bus is kidnapped by a group of rebels that want to exchange the prisoners for the Rebel Leader's brother...
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1990-01-06
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Buhay Kamao
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-06
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Alfredo S. Lim: The Untold Story
Overview: Alfredo S. Lim has just been awarded as one of Manila's ten most outstanding policemen. The celebration has abruptly ended when one of his co-honorees is killed while trying to stop a robbery. Lim tracks down these criminals which ruffles the feathers of powerful people. His work takes a personal toll on his marriage and also puts his family in danger.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2013-02-27
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Saigon Commandos
Overview: 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 vengeance before it is too late.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Fatal Vacation
Overview: A pleasent trip to the Phillipines is turned into tragedy when the tour bus is kidnapped by a group of rebels that want to exchange the prisoners for the Rebel Leader's brother...
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1990-01-06
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Bullet
Overview: Bullet, a skilled marksman, accidentally films gangsters beating up a kidnap victim. He and his cousins witness a gangland murder, putting them in danger.
Genres: Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1999-07-09
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Behind Enemy Lines
Overview: An ex-marine returns to Vietnam when he learns his former mercenary partner whom he thought was killed is being held by a sadistic general.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-23
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Lure of the Nest
Overview: An American woman hopes to have a happy reunion with her long-lost Filipino father and finds instead an aloof and unforgiving stranger who hasn't gotten over the painful past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Manila in the Claws of Light
Overview: Julio, a young fisherman from a provincial village, descends into social alienation as he arrives in Manila to search for his loved one.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1975-07-16
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