Jess Mendoza
Also Known As: Jesse Mendoza
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Department: Acting
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Barber's Tales
Overview: In the 1970s, a widow in a remote village takes over her husband’s barber shop. She becomes the laughing stock of the male-dominated community and in the process discovers freedom and liberation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2013-10-18
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Topografia
Overview: Set on the eve of a fictional inaugural of the Bangsamoro Government, the film revolves around Daud, a scion of a political dynasty who is reluctant to become a member of the Parliament, and his college buddy Marco, a struggling journalist assigned to cover the inaugural. The duo drive off to the countryside, reminiscing their days as student activists and discovering their deepest longings as hostages of a future they will inherit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2022-06-17
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Cargo
Overview: A woman relieves the heavy burden from her past when she finally exacts revenge on the man who murdered her entire family.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2022-08-06
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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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Swap
Overview: "Swap" takes us to the internal conflict of a young father, torn between solving a crime and committing another crime when one day his only son is kidnapped and the criminals demand him to steal another kid in exchange of his son's life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-18
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Sitio
Overview: The film depicts the troubles of Jonas and his sisters Carmina and Tricia , who have moved to their family’s old farm after Jonas’ real estate business sank. Jonas hires the help of some local men to put up a fence around their property, and while they all seem helpful at first, they become an indelible source of frustration for him and his sisters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2013-11-11
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Dark Is the Night
Overview: Filipino director Adolfo Alix Jr. returns to the Festival with this timely story of a couple caught up in Rodrigo Duterte’s violent war on drugs when their son goes missing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2018-08-15
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Once A Princess
Overview: A high school princess is cursed by the geek whose affections she toyed with.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2014-08-06
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Taxicab
Overview: Set at the inauguration of the new President is the inter-woven tales of people dealing with daily lives: their relationships, desires and their means of survival. A taxi driver trying to stop his best friend from leaving for the province while his ex-wife comes back to his life; a young actor doing extra job as male prostitute; a Fil-Am trying to fill his need for drugs; and a young cigarette vendor who also act as pimp at night. All of them get through their harsh realities with hopes of a better tomorrow while their fate awaits them to cross its path in the uncaring streets of Manila.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2011-05-11
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Ben & Sam
Overview: A college heartthrob meets a college newbie - a challenge, a tension, a discovery, and a love that will change everything between them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-16
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As One
Overview: A thriller about a never-ending war, a town ravaged by a devastating storm, and the woman caught in between.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2015-10-24
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The Natural Phenomenon Of Madness
Overview: Two years after she was raped, a woman agrees to meet with her rapist in the beautiful ruins of Intramuros. As they have the same blood type, her rapist asks her to donate blood for his operation claiming this will lengthen his life and will give him ample time to seek redemption. The woman refuses to do so as she rediscovers she is still a victim of unrequited love towards her rapist. Told in two separate perspectives, the story revolves around how the woman and man pick the pieces of their broken lives after the rape, meeting every so often at places that remind them of their past. They are confronted by the fact that they are both victims of each other: THE WOMAN struggles with loving no one but the man; THE MAN, struggles with his guilt knowing he can't love the woman the way she wants him to.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-17
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Pedicab
Overview: A tragic-comic portrait of a dysfunctional family and the disquieting blind faith they invoke as they dream of going home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2016-07-13
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Pektus
Overview: The story of a day in the lives of two men in the city -both proud, indifferent, and bound by the confines of their milieu and their choices in life- and their incidental yet preordained meeting in a one-way alley that would change their lives thereafter. Raising questions of how far people have control over what happens in their lives, the film seeks to explore circumstance versus choice, breaking points, and second chances.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-06
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Violator
Overview: Manila is besieged by the worst typhoon to hit the country. Talk of the world coming to an end hangs in the air. And five men find themselves stranded inside a police station with a prisoner who may o may not be the devil. It's going to be a long night.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2014-11-09
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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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The Sorrows of Sita
Overview: A woman returns to the village of Kagbunga in the Bikol region carrying the ashes of her only son via the old train that circles her universe like the tandayag, the primordial serpent. In a filial act of mourning, she will reckon and reconcile the thin line that exists between tragedy and transcendence and prove and that even the most broken life can be restored to its moments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2016-10-14
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Purgatoryo
Overview: A story of Ilyong, recently-dead man killed by the police, after he was caught stealing. This is the beginning of his story, his death. Soon after, he was brought into a sleazy funeral home, run by Violet, a greedy homosexual who has learned to survive by renting out the dead bodies in his funeral home to Simon. Along for the ride is Jojo, a police officer who is under the payroll of Simon and who supplies the dead bodies for Violet to take care of and make money from. Violet has two workers, On-on and Dyograd.
Genres: Drama Crime Horror
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2016-10-15
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Talahib
Overview: Police officers Bong and Roman investigate paranormal killings in ominous talahib grass fields, unraveling a chilling mystery.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2024-09-04
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Baconaua
Overview: After a turbulent squall in the night, villagers wake up to the astonishing sight of the sea that has turned red.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2017-08-04
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Sa Gabing Nanahimik Ang Mga Kuliglig
Overview: A priest is caught up in a situation, which will compel him to choose between the mandate of the church and his obligations as a citizen under the law of the people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2017-08-04
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Smaller and Smaller Circles
Overview: A serial killer in Payatas leaves the bodies of young boys in the dump as two Jesuit priests try to solve the murders.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2017-12-06
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Neomanila
Overview: Toto, a teenage orphan, is recruited by a notorious death squad. Irma, the groups leader, soon becomes a maternal figure to the young boy. As the two form a familial bond, their loyalties will be put to the test when one of their targets turns out to be a familiar face.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2017-10-20
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Historiographika Errata
Overview: A disillusioned and suicidal Rizal, a cross-dressing Bonifacio gripped with paranoia, an ex-Katipunero who joins the US army to save his own neck, and a widow whose sex-for-food errands lead her to become the first ever Makapili. These are the historical mosaics that will form a singular hypothesis as to why we are like this as a people and up to now still reeling from our damaged culture.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2017-11-13
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We Will Not Die Tonight
Overview: Kray, an underappreciated and underpaid stuntwoman, takes on one last job with her former gang only to be trapped in a hellish underworld.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2018-08-15
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Bamboo Dogs
Overview: This is not a film by Khavn. A crime-thriller retro-road movie based on the Kuratong Baleleng Rubout Massacre of 1995.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2018-10-14
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Tres
Overview: It is a trilogy which follows the story of three individuals must go through desperate measures to hide their secrets.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2018-10-03
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Empire Hotel
Overview: The Empire Hotel is a 30-year-old landmark in Macau's old quarter, inhabited by characters with their own stories and struggles. It is also Maria's home. One day, the burden of keeping lives together and the hotel standing falls on her shoulders. A young man who left Macau two decades ago returns, intent on revenge and reclaiming his mother's fortune – half the hotel. Inside the casino, Maria sings Fado and exotic dancers perform. It is against this illusory backdrop that the man lays eyes on Maria for the first time; they’re both mesmerized. The film cuts back and forth between film noir-style scenes of Macau’s past and present.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-10-13
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Bato
Overview: The dramatization of the life of General Ronald dela Rosa.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2019-01-30
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Watch List
Overview: Set against the drug wars in the Philippines, Maria's husband is murdered in mysterious circumstances and is left to fend for her three children in a police state. As she delves into Manila’s dark underworld of cops, criminals, and drugs to find answers, she realizes the truth is never black and white, and that she must explore her own darkness to keep her family safe.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2019-09-11
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The Girl and The Gun
Overview: A department store saleslady has had enough of being an underdog. One night, she discovers a peculiar-looking gun right on her doorstep. Her life drastically changes as she discovers how much power owning a gun can give her.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2019-10-13
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Tenement 66
Overview: Teban, a troubled teen who recently got out of jail for petty theft, moves to tenement 66 with his older brother Tony and cousin Ron-ron, hoping to start a new life away from the people who influenced him to commit crimes. But soon find out that there are far more sinister figures at the tenement whose crimes are worse than they could have imagined.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2021-07-09
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My Amanda
Overview: Two unusually close friends share every aspect of their lives together. As their lives evolve, their bond remains the only constant.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2021-07-15
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