Jaclyn Jose
Also Known As: Mary Jane Guck, Mary Jane Santa Ana Guck, 재클린 호세, Ms. Jaclyn Jose, Jackielyn San Jose, Jocelyn, 賈桂琳·荷西
Biography: Mary Jane Santa Ana Guck (21 October 1963 - 02 March 2024) was a Filipino actress. She was best known for her roles in the films White Slavery (1985), Macho Dancer (1989), The Flor Contemplacion Story (1995), Service (2008), A Secret Affair (2012), Ma' Rosa (2016), Patay Na Si Hesus (2016), among others. For her work in the film Ma' Rosa, she won the Best Actress Award at 69th Cannes Film Festival in 2016, becoming the first Filipino and Southeast Asian actress to win the award.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines
Birthday: October 21, 1963
Deathday: March 02, 2024
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Seventeen.... So Kaka
Overview: A 1999 Filipino teen romance film starring Angelika dela Cruz, Gerald Madrid, and Arman de Guzman.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1999-06-16
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Service
Overview: A struggling family owns a Filipino porn theater where prostitutes conduct their business.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2008-06-24
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Feast
Overview: A hit-and-run accident transpires two families. When her husband succumbs to death, Nita files a criminal case. Alfredo is sent to jail after pleading guilty in place of his son Rafael, but Rafael cannot be released from the burden of guilt.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2023-04-08
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The Masseur
Overview: Iliac works in a massage parlor where the gay clients are given more than a shoulder kneading and back rub. When Iliac's father dies he must reconcile his job as a sex worker with the rest of his family.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2005-10-19
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Call Me Alma
Overview: Alma, Azi Acosta, is a high-end bar girl. She has decided that prostitution is her profession, her life, her means to achieve her dreams and her happiness. She caters to all men who can afford her price. But she favors two men: a rich lawyer and a bank executive whom she calls Tiger Joe and Kabayo respectively. Another regular customer is a student who has professed his undying love for her. Alma's routine life is disturbed when Sheila, Jaclyn Jose, an aging street prostitute, introduces herself to Alma as her mother who sold her to strangers after birth. This meeting will open the door to Alma's past that she has refused to confront. A long-lost ailing mother, the search for a father, and the truths of a painful past will test the values of these two women who have become victims of poverty and men. In the end, Alma and Sheila will make choices that will define them not only as individuals but as women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2023-08-10
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Macho Dancer
Overview: Pol moves to Manila for better opportunities after his American lover leaves. However, he gets drawn into the gritty world of gay prostitution and sexual slavery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1989-01-18
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Larger than Life
Overview: A mother and her daughter—who are both victims of incest-rape perpetrated by the same man now languishing in jail—are approached by a couple of filmmakers with an offer to produce a movie based on the two women’s true story. They hesitate on the idea at first but agree eventually for the sum of money they will be paid in exchange for selling the rights to the material. When the finished film is finally shown in theaters, they proceed to the city all the way from their hometown to catch the screening. They are elated at the prospect of seeing the larger-than-life versions of themselves. But as the motion picture gradually unfolds before their very eyes, they instead go through another harrowing experience of a lifetime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2001-02-20
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Bahay ng Lagim
Overview: Taking place in a convent, we follow the story of Sister Sofia whose life takes a grave turn upon the arrival of, the troubled and haunted, Fatima. (Shown in the Sineng Pambansa National Film Festival) A masters' master tribute seeks to honor the memory of Celso Ad. Castillo with the showcase of the last film he directed.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2013-09-10
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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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Lino: His Art and Life
Overview: A documentary TV special on the life of Lino Brocka, released in 1998 for Pinoy Blockbuster Original.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Broken Hearts Trip
Overview: Five brokenhearted LGBTQ individuals will be given a chance to heal in the most beautiful places, and there’s a million-peso prize at the end. Can they stay single and prove to everyone that their lives will still go on? Or will their hearts open up to loving once more?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2023-12-25
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Tahan
Overview: When Elise falls in love, she decides to stop being an escort. But her manipulative mother won’t let her and would make her life more chaotic.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2022-07-22
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Echoserang Frog
Overview: An industry veteran is given a chance to produce and star in his own movie. But he quickly finds movie production isn't quite as glamorous as it seems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-02
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Pacquiao: The Movie
Overview: Jericho Rosales portrays Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao as he struggles out of poverty to become a champion and national hero. Yet when the pressures of his sport, his personal life and the high expectations of his countrymen take their toll, he falls from grace. With the help of his wife (Bea Alonzo), will he be able to rise once more to be worthy of being called "the People's Champion"?
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-21
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You to Me Are Everything
Overview: Rafael - a rich guy whose luck suddenly turned upside down after losing everything. When he needed to get his life back on track, he met Isak - the instant rich girl from the province. Rafael becomes her business adviser and uses her to become rich again only to find out that she'll change him more than he expected
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-12
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A Secret Affair
Overview: Rafi (Anne Curtis) is happily committed to her lovely partner in life, Mark (Derek Ramsay). She's a bachelorette from a rich family, who belongs to the "Friday Club", the regular get-together of her college friends. Rafi is an attention-getter because of her in and out beauty and impressive credentials. But one day, a major life decision shifts everyone's impression of her. Sam (Andi Eigenmann), a rebellious, carefree and happy-go-lucky woman, who thinks that she can get away with her every dilemma. However, her perspectives turn 180 degrees when she meets the man who unexpectedly changes her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-24
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Flames Of Love
Overview: A multi-plot story that tackles the pressing issues surrounding the modern-day family – drug addiction, infidelity, promiscuity and even abortion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-12
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Loretta
Overview: A movie about Loretta and her struggles as a woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1994-06-22
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Jack & Jill
Overview: When the old man became ill Jack took over her father's job of chauffeuring for a handsome millionaire whose rather eccentric mother had decided to adopt Jill so she could fulfill her dream of having a daughter. But Jill was really Jack's sister or brother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1987-06-10
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One Night
Overview: A man's friends hire a prostitute on his birthday for him to lose his virginity. But after finding out that she is a middle-aged woman, they decide to ditch her, except for the birthday boy, who likes older women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2005-07-15
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Mula Sa Puso
Overview: Via, the only daughter of Don Fernando, was raised as his darling princess. On her eighteenth birthday, she found out that her father has promised her hand in marriage to her childhood friend, Michael, and before the birthday party was over, she got kidnapped. She was rescued by a good Samaritan named Gabriel, whom she fell in love with. As the story unfolds, Via ended up having to decide between the two men in her life, while learning more about her mother Magda and fighting off her evil aunt Selina.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1999-02-10
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Shadow
Overview: A family of siblings moves into their new apartment but little did they know of a tragedy that occurred within its walls.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1994-12-25
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In the Can
Overview: A suspense film based on true cases of human trafficking, tells the story of Carlo, a 14-year old boy's daring attempt to escape slavery in a sardines factory.
Genres: Family Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-08
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Escort Girls
Overview: a film by Tony Cruz.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-04-26
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White Slavery
Overview: Three poor girls from the provinces of the Philippines are lured to the big city. In Manila they are tricked to work in the sex trade.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1985-07-25
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Barang
Overview: A heart-pounding fright movie about a provincial lass whose life and death is shrouded by inexplicable and ghastly events so affecting the whole community of Sta. Barbara. Igan suffers a gruesome death in the hands of a devil worshipper, Nana Ursula. After young Igna incurs the wrath of a spiteful witch, a strong spell leaves the unlucky provincial woman cursed for the rest of her life and her death. Eager to exact revenge from the grave, Igna targets three young visitors. The trio must fight for their lives.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2006-10-18
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Pieta
Overview: Pieta follows Isaac who tries to navigate the outside world after spending years in jail for killing his father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2023-12-22
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Pusakal at mga yagit
Overview: An adult and three young people from the city have teamed up to pursue their own brand of social justice.
Genres: Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1986-02-21
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Masikip, Masakit, Mahapdi
Overview: Masikip, masakit, mahapdi: Directed by Behn Cervantes. With Jaclyn Jose, Julio Diaz, Joel Torre, Rita Avila.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-11
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Next Attraction
Overview: Purports to document the production of a short about a young man’s first sexual experience while doubling as a coming-out film and a multiply layered making-of movie.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-20
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Takaw Tukso
Overview: After an exasperating fight with her mother, Debbie (Anna Marie Gutierrez) decides to leave home and elopes with Boy (Gino Antonio), the cousin of her boyfriend, Nestor (Julio Diaz). They get married and stay in the house where Boy and Nestor live, distressing Nestor even more. Debbie’s friend, Letty (Jaclyn Jose), has been in love with Nestor for a long time and she seizes the opportunity to get closer to him. After a night of sex, they tie the knot and live in a room next to Boy and Debbie’s.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-26
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Nars
Overview: Jennylyn Mercado, Jodi Sta. Maria, Agot Isidro, Coco Martin, and Jon Avila portray five graduating nursing students who are at a crossroads in their lives and their careers. Their different stories are a cross-section of society's nurses. Each character reflects the Pinoy's aspirations, motives, realities, ambivalence, and fears in becoming a nurse.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2007-12-05
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Soliloquy
Overview: A bus takes-off from urban Manila to the rural southeastern side of the country, carrying a group of mixed passengers from all walks of life, each one has a personal story to tell and they are telling it in their own voice. During the long journey, as the passengers mentally sort out their past & their future, things happen in the present, by choice or by providence, that make their journey memorable—the bus blows a tire, a song elicits tears, a butterfly causes commotion, a picture gets lost, someone's head is stoned, some hearts are broken, some mended. The bus ride poetizes the life journey and poses questions on issues of life and death and where exactly the line is drawn between free will and destiny.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-18
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Itanong Mo sa Buwan
Overview: A robbery goes wrong and the bank's teller, Josie is abducted by lone gunman Angelito Asuncion. A few weeks pass and Josie escapes to tell a tale of terror and mayhem. She asserts to have faked falling for him in order to win his trust while Angelito surfaces to claim otherwise. Josie is not really a victim but has been his lover for some time. In fact, they planned the whole thing so they could start a new life together. Who is telling the truth?
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1988-12-25
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Private Show
Overview: About virginal barely-legal Myrna, who was forced to work as a torera (live sex worker).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-01
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Misis Mo, Misis Ko
Overview: A film about changing partners and how the ensuing events affect the people involved. Cynthia Villanueva is an idealistic wife whose life revolves around making a happy home for her family where Rafael, her husband, plays the major role. This illusion is shattered when her husband becomes attracted to a flirtatious woman leading to an eventual erosion of her long-held values and her descent to adultery.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1988-02-10
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The Flor Contemplacion Story
Overview: The story of the Filipina domestic who was hanged in Singapore for allegedly killing her fellow maid is chronicled in a film which operates on various personal, social and political levels. Both controversial and critically acclaimed, it has brought Nora Aunor numerous citations for her intense portrayal as the fallen heroine of the story.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1995-06-07
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Donsol
Overview: About two lonely people who met during the whaleshark watching season in Donsol, Sorsogon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2006-09-02
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Labyu with an Accent
Overview: Trisha spent about 20 years living and working in the US, while Gabo has been working in different jobs to make ends meet in the Philippines. The two will cross paths when Trish returns to the country.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2022-12-25
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Pamahiin
Overview: Noah comes home from the States to look into the real reason behind his best friend Damian's death. With his clairvoyant girlfriend Eileen, he meets old folks who shed light on pervasive superstitious beliefs about death and ghosts. Noah's skepticism is challenged as four souls trail him and Eileen.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2006-04-19
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My Little Bossings
Overview: Torky is a bookkeeper working for Baba a millionaire cash management specialist. Because of some conflict in her business that puts her life in danger, Baba entrusts the safety of her son Justin to Torky who takes him home to meet his daughter Ice and Ching the street urchin that the latter took under her wing. Given that Justin is not particularly fond of Torky, how all four of them would get along under one roof becomes the focus of the story.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2013-12-25
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Madonna and Child
Overview: A woman searches for the child she put up for adoption.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1996-01-25
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Shake, Rattle & Roll V
Overview: "MALIGNO" A couple takes a vacation on a secluded island and strange forces are at work that seems to keep them on that island. When her boyfriend suddenly grows ill, Ruffa Gutierrez finds a handsome young man (Monsour del Rosario) in the woods who seems to exhibit magical powers. He offers to cure her sick friend on one condition that she stay with him forever. Will she accept any foods from that handsome man to save her loved one? "ANINO" A family of siblings moves into their new apartment but little did they know of a tragedy that occurred within its walls. A ghost of a murderer manifests itself in a form of a shadow and has now set its sight on them. They need to leave that house before they were killed.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Horror
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1994-12-25
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Broken Blooms
Overview: Broken Blooms explores the travails of a young man dealing with the challenges of a blooming young marriage and his carefree and careless attitude towards morality and friendship—tested to the brink at the time the world cringes in the claws of a global pandemic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2022-04-05
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Padre de Pamilya
Overview: Padre De Pamilya is a story about a father Joselito Mirasol (Ariel Rivera) whose only wish is for his children to grow up as good Catholic Christians. Unfortunately, his salary as a government officer is not enough to make ends meet. And because he is working under a corrupt mayor (Tessie Tomas), the temptation to become a corrupt government official are always there.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-29
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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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Mano Po 5: Gua Ai Di
Overview: A culinary romance set in Binondo, where Chinese traditions are still very much observed, Mano Po 5: Gua Ay Di is a touching story of how a young Chinese woman fights for the man she loves. She is doomed by strict family traditions to only wed someone of pure Chinese descent. But Charity finds love where she was not supposed to find it... at least according to her cold-hearted mother. Despite being met with resistance by her traditional Chinese family, most especially her mother, Charity continues her relationship with Nathan. Nathan, on the other hand, proves himself and his love to her by making an effort to learn about her background, culture and language resulting into various mishaps, sometimes comical and other times just plain disastrous. Charity finds solace in the kitchen, her cooking interwoven with the story of her ill-fated romance. Will true love prevail in the end? And will she be able to come up with the perfect recipe for love?
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2006-12-25
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Shake, Rattle and Roll 9
Overview: This ninth installment in the classic horror series offers up a trio of spine-chillers from the Philippines. In Christmas Tree, a rampaging Christmas tree is out for blood as it terrorizes a family during the holidays; next, in Bangungot, three people in a love triangle find themselves ensnared in a supernatural nightmare. Finally, a teenage Goth band is cursed by a temptress's lethal spell in Engkanto.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Horror
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2007-12-25
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Sundo
Overview: Romano and his men are ambushed in one military operation. Romano almost gets killed but wakes up after staying in coma for several days. His life will never be the same again. He resigns from the military and goes into seclusion in their Baguio ancestral house after realizing that he now has a supernatural gift.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2009-03-11
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Eternity
Overview: Eternity is an epic romance about a pair of star-crossed lovers Crisanto and Milagros and how true love transcends different lifetimes. In the face of family hostilities and atrocities, the two continue to fight for their love until the bitter end. Cholo and Maegan are two different people with different backgrounds, finding each other as if by fate. It's as if they've known each other all their lives! But the young lovers' romance is thwarted by their respective families' deep-rooted dislike for each other. Will history repeat itself? Or will love finally conquer all the odds this time around?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-30
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Angels
Overview: "Angels" is a trilogy. The three episodes featured in the movies are: "Angel of Mine", "Daddy's Angel" and "Angel of Love". "Angel of Mine,"
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2007-06-13
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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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Dahil Mahal na Mahal Kita
Overview: A straight-laced student and the campus bad girl shock the people around them with news that they are dating. But when misunderstandings and arguments come their way, they realize that it takes more than physical attraction to achieve lasting love.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1998-06-28
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Aishite Imasu 1941: Mahal Kita
Overview: Inya, a heroine of the Philippine resistance against the Japanese during World War II, recalls events involving her husband Edilberto and their childhood friend Ignacio, a transvestite who, masquerading as a woman also named Inya, becomes the lover of the local Japanese commander, Ichiru, and is caught between a duty to be a spy for his country and friends and his reluctant but growing love for Ichiru.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-25
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Pedrong Palad
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Genres: Fantasy Adventure Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2000-03-15
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Good Midnight
Overview: Be careful what you wish for… otherwise you will suffer the same fate of this group of young people who are overtly fun-loving and death defying adventure seekers. As they decide to take a quick break from their impulsive roadtrip, ghastly things start to frighten them for real. A gruesomely deformed man named fatman starts telling them three sets of hair raising stories.
Genres: Romance Horror Comedy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1998-11-04
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Lahar: Paraisong Abo
Overview: In the aftermath of the eruption of Mount Pinatubo, a volcano dormant for more than 400 years, the residents of the whole town of San Simon in Pampanga was engulfed by dust and thick mudflow called lahar. The whole surviving residents of the devastated community are relocated to transitional evacuation center, a tent city, where different and unique personalities meet: Sheila, a migrant worker from Germany who is struggling to keep her family intact at all costs; Sonia who is looking for her missing husband while pretending as a handicapped so she can beg on the streets; Ditas, who returns in Pampanga after getting pregnant in Manila; and Elena, a mother who lost her whole family in the eruption, yet she keeps a positive outlook in life that as long as she remembers her relatives no amount of tragedy could keep her from reminiscing of their once peaceful lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-12
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Felix Manalo
Overview: Felix Yzagun Manalo is a sprawling historical epic that traces the origin of Iglesia Ni Cristo (The Church of Christ) which is established in the Philippines from its humble beginnings in 1914 through the present day.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-04
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Puso Ng Pasko
Overview: Christopher cannot help but think that he is jinxed, but his luck changes when an impish Christmas elf appears, offering him and his siblings a wish.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1998-12-25
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Alabok sa Ulap
Overview: Eva is a dancer in a nightclub where Dom frequently stays. One night, Dom brings with him his best friend Winston to show Eva. Winston is smitten with her beauty and decides to pursue her without knowing that Dom is secretly in love with her. Eva and Winston eventually become a couple and Dom become their most trusted friend
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1987-03-26
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Magdusa Ka!
Overview: An illegitimate daughter of a maid is welcomed by her rich father to live with him in the mansion. But her life becomes a nightmare when her new grandmother learns of her unplanned pregnancy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-22
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Gabi Na, Kumander
Overview: Gabi Na Kumander is the story of two brothers with opposite beliefs who suddenly find themselves in a fight for what each one believes is right. Ramil Macan had been assigned to fight the rebels in Sto. Nio and he discovers that the rebel leader is no other than his younger brother, whom he had given up for dead years ago. Ronald Macan, former law student and activist, took to the hills with the imposition of martial law. He is known as Kumander Kobra. Ramil had been assigned to put a stop to his activities and in the name of the law to take him dead or alive.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1986-11-20
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Idol: Hope of the Nation
Overview: Idol reveals a serious story about honesty, honor and integrity. Elly is a working student, scholar and is now a candidate to become the class valedictorian. His father is quite idealistic and incorruptible, which explains why his family still remains so poor. Charismatic Elly works part-time as a student assistant and he has indirect access to confidential school papers. He has earned the trust of the school staff, and because of this, it would not be difficult for him to get hold of this year's final exams-the one which his best buddy Simon and their other friends need to pass in order to graduate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2007-08-01
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Olongapo... The Great American Dream
Overview: The musty smell of a dingy hostess bar in Olongapo is an unlikely and dangerous place for dreams to come true.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1987-12-25
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Casket For Rent
Overview: Ataul for Rent is a narrative social satire movie depicting the lives of the slum dwellers of "Kalyehong Walang Lagusan", a very narrow, congested, miserable alley/compound in a typical squatter's area. The story revolves around the lives of a live-in couple who owns a small-time funeral parlor renting out coffins of four different sizes, small, medium, large and extra small. Guido, the owner, doubles as the embalmer, while his partner, Pining, does the make-up and uses the same implements for both the dead and the living and is the jueteng kubrador of the neighborhood. Gossipers, gamblers, drunkards, drug addicts, ex-convicts, prostitutes, snatchers and other notorious characters regularly hang out in the funeral wake/s of the alley either drinking alcohol, in the gaming table, or just gossiping around. These personalities, having been born and growing up in this kind of environment, see themselves as having the right to abuse their own bodies and cause untold miseries to others.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2007-11-07
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Hati Tayo Sa Magdamag
Overview: Gerry and Rochelle are childhood sweethearts. Although Rochelle wants to settle down, Gerry wants his ambitions fulfilled first. The couple's relationship is threatened by the arrival of their childhood friend Tonette. Tonette seduces Gerry away from Rochelle by giving him a job, an apartment and herself. She agrees to share him with Rochelle at the same time hiring Rochelle as a maid. Things soon come to a head when Rochelle decides to leave Tonette's household after repeated attempts by Tonette's father, Don Teofilo, to defile her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1988-03-09
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Naglalayag
Overview: After a chance decision sends her home in a taxicab, Dorinda (Nora Aunor), a widowed judge, strikes up a friendship with the young and charming driver, Noah (Yul Servo), who's overcome with respect for her profession. But soon enough, their fondness for each other results in love -- and an unexpected surprise: At 47 years old, Dorinda becomes pregnant. Will her scandalous romance ruin her future?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-23
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Curacha, Ang Babaeng Walang Pahinga
Overview: A story about a torera (a live sex performer) who finds herself trapped in an anomalous game of association between sex, life and death, and its political equivalent of sleaze, subservicence and power in drug-addled world. Every night, she sets off to join her fellow toreras for a midnight show of fun and kitschy live sex act. In one tuning point of her life, she bumps into a long-lost friend, Myrna, a former torera, who seems to have a lost grip on life. Curacha makes it her personal mission to save Myrna as she does some sou-searching herself. In the end, we see traces of hope glimmering somewhere, somehow, in a manner that escapes the restless Curacha.
Genres: Thriller Drama Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1998-05-27
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Ma' Rosa
Overview: Ma’ Rosa has four children. She owns a small convenience store in a poor section of Manila where everybody knows her. To make ends meet, Rosa and her husband, Nestor, resell small amounts of narcotics on the side. One day, they get arrested. Rosa’s children are ready to do anything to buy their parents’ freedom from the corrupt police.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2016-11-09
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Dama de Noche
Overview: A woman (Ynez Veneracion) who was maltreated during her younger years (Aiza Marquez played the young role) gets revenge on the people who abused her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-21
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Kamada
Overview: A music student rents a room in a boarding house hoping he could have the peace and quiet he needs to compose. He is unaware that other strange personages lurk in the other rooms in the mysterious house. Eerie silence alternate with disturbing noises. Echoes of coughing and moaning by an unknown someone intrude. Amidst such arcane setting, the principal character is entangled in a web of deceit, betrayal and crime.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1997-07-09
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Jesus Is Dead
Overview: When Iyay, a single mother, learns that her estranged husband has died, she drags the entire family on a road trip from Cebu to Dumaguete to attend the funeral.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2017-08-16
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Inay
Overview: A happy marriage goes wrong when the husband is accused of raping his stepdaughter who eventually died. The wife, feeling hopeless from the courts, takes justice into her own hands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-25
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Mother Ignacia: Ang Uliran
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1998-10-20
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Mang Kepweng Returns
Overview: A remake of a funny quack doctor who was originally portrayed by the late comedian Chiquito in 1979. Its a story of the quack doctor's son and his adventures with the magical bandana.
Genres: Action Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2017-01-04
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Flesh Avenue
Overview: After the death of her father, Nelia (Jaclyn Jose) goes to find her mother and discovers that she owns a whorehouse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-24
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Dyesebel
Overview: After years of hiding from a cruel, suspicious society on the land, a mermaid, Dyesebel returns and falls in love with a man named Fredo. However, she becomes the target of Fredo's jealous ex girlfriend.
Genres: Romance Fantasy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1996-01-04
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Working Girls 2
Overview: In this sequel, which assumes a more political bent, are blue-collar workers, salesladies, and common laborers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1987-07-22
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Immortal
Overview: Vilma Santos and Christopher De Leon portray two star crossed lovers, meeting each other across several lifetimes, hoping that in each cycle they can break down the walls that keep them apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1989-12-25
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The Nursery
Overview: Cocoy, 12, takes on a great responsibility of taking care of his older siblings while his mother, Mai, goes to the province to get money to pay the expensive hospital bills for her three mentally sick children. His mother is gone for two weeks and Cocoy’s struggle in managing his personal, school and home life is a nerve-racking challenge. In the end he faces truth and life head-on as he fights for his own sanity
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2009-07-13
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Fantastica
Overview: Belat, her mother Fec and adopted siblings Daks, Pepe and Junjun face the possibility of being evicted from their land as they struggle to save their carnival. Hoping to prevent the carnival from closing, they turn to Prince, a man from Belat`s past, for help. He promises to give them a hand if they first help him look for the lost princesses Rapunselya, Maulan and Ariella so they can save the magical land, Fantastica.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2018-12-25
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Kalel, 15
Overview: Surrounded by tensions and secrets, a teenage boy searches for validation and navigates life with a dysfunctional family following an HIV diagnosis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2019-12-18
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Circa
Overview: Doña Atang, a once celebrated film producer from the earlier years of Filipino cinema, celebrates her one hundredth birthday. For her wish, she wants a reunion with all the actors and staff that she has worked with in the past. She is also looking for an unfinished film from one of her directors. Her grandson Michael decides to take the task of finding them. As he does, we remember the glorious years of cinema from its workers–fragments of a colorful past filled with faded memories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2019-09-13
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Mama Dito sa Aking Puso
Overview: This is an adaptation of the Palanca award-winning play written by Maria Angela Barrios about a mother and her Amerasian daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1997-12-25
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Mulanay: Sa Pusod Ng Paraiso
Overview: A doctor dedicated her life post-graduate to help the rural community of Mulanay, Quezon. Based on a true story.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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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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Mang Kepweng: The Mystery of the Dark Kerchief
Overview: Determined to save the world from the evil plans of a powerful "engkanto" who has the magical black bandana, Mang Kepweng, together with his friends, embarks on an exciting adventure to complete the magic ingredients needed to revive the powers of his magical red bandana to defeat the enemy.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2020-12-25
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Slingshot
Overview: A tribute to the real potential of digital cinema, Slingshot is a slum epic on steroids. It weaves stories left and right into a shocking tableau about life for the lowest of the low in the Philippines poorest and most crime-ridden districts. National elections are coming up so in the usual attempt to appear “tough-on-crime”, The Big Boys have been sent into crack down on the the local squatters, thieves and miscreants who litter the film like broken bottle. And since no sweep is ever a clean sweep, the cops brutal shock-force tactics quickly ripple outwards with jagged repurcussions.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2007-05-16
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Son of Macho Dancer
Overview: This is the story of Inno, the son of Pol, the original Macho Dancer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2021-01-30
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Paano ang Ngayon Kung Wala ang Kahapon
Overview: Two married couples find themselves in a constant tug-of-war as an office affair intensifies. Directed by the award-winning Danny Zialcita.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Maruja
Overview: Maruja, the daughter of a wealthy landowner, falls in love with the illegitimate son of a friar.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Roberta
Overview: Roberta is a young girl who cares for her ailing mother. When her mother dies, she is forced to live with her irresponsible father and his wicked girlfriend.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Magikland
Overview: On Christmas eve, four lonely kids are chosen to save Magikland, a fantastic and magical world where all the world’s toys and games come from.
Genres: Action Adventure Family
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2020-12-25
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The Housemaid
Overview: Daisy's task as a new maid to a wealthy family is to watch over a young kid, but unknowingly she's being watched by the kid's father. When temptation kicks in Daisy and the wealthy family's lives start to shatter in pieces.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2021-09-10
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Tatak ng Isang Api
Overview: Secret muna.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-19
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Ang Panday
Overview: A young blacksmith realizes his destiny when a malevolent demon bent on ruling the world unleashes an army of creatures on humanity.
Genres: Family Action Adventure
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2017-12-25
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