Joseph de Cordova
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: August 27, 1918
Age: 106 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 16, 1990
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Wrong Ranger
Overview: A 1984 Filipino Western film by Angel Labra.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1984-02-02
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Huwag Kang Papatay!
Overview: "Thou shall not kill" is God's command that tortures the mind of David everytime he is in the brink of killing out of anger and revenge. But until when is the challenge of the said commandment?
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-24
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Four Aces
Overview: Four masked men fighting against the evils of this world. A costume picture about a medieval swashbuckler who redeems his family's honor.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-20
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Anak ng Sultan
Overview: A 1983 Filipino action film about the Bangsamoro struggle and Mindanao.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-09-22
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Kung Tawagin Siya'y Bathala
Overview: A 1980 Filipino action film from Carlo J. Caparas
Genres: Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1980-04-11
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Lost and Found Command: Rebels Without Because
Overview: A group of farcical elite of mercenaries made up of dysfunctional members was hired and formed to rescue a group of kidnapped beauty queens and a gay pageant organizer from the hands of a retarded rebel group led by an insane insecure queen Madame Butterfly whose initial plan was only to kidnap Angela Mo Ray from the Kingdom of Kwe Kwe for a hefty amount of money as ransom.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1987-04-19
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Kristo Zapata
Overview: A 1980 Filipino action film starring Lito Lapid and Melanie Marquez.
Genres: Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1980-08-01
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Because of a Flower
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1967-06-18
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Barkada
Overview: Is society to blame for the bruised and twisted minds of a city's slums snarling, growling, and grumbling as they are? "Barkada" awaits your verdict.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1958-05-09
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Lovingly Yours, Helen: The Movie
Overview: This dramatic anthology of true-to-life stories of love and domestic problems based on letters sent by to the TV drama program hosted by Helen Vela who gives advice to troubled viewers.
Genres: Comedy Drama Horror Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1984-07-19
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Anak Ng Berdugo
Overview: A king dreams, and his wisemen interprets his dream in which he will be overthrown. So his conniving jester suggests to kill all the babies but two survives, grows up and fulfills the king's dream.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1955-12-11
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Tininti del Baryo
Overview: A man in 50's Philippine society.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1950-06-15
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Parola
Overview: A story about an innocent man who was tried for murder but while being transported by ship to a prison sank and luckily he escapes to an island inhabited by another man and his daughters and a sister who abandon city life and settles on a quiet island to ease the pain and hatred.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1949-02-20
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12 Pares
Overview: Twelve adventurers set out to seek the holy grail.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1954-08-29
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Dama Juana Gang
Overview: A story about a mischievous youth group.
Genres: Drama Action Music
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1956-09-01
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No Money No Honey
Overview: A spoiled man gets punished by his father and gets disinherited, so he learns the value of hard work and money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1955-01-15
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Sakay
Overview: The story of the life and death of Macario Sakay, the President of the Tagalog Republic and one of the last Filipino generals to surrender to the American forces during the American colonial period.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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Ganyan Lang Ang Buhay
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1953-05-13
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Pasikat
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1955-06-09
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Virtuoso
Overview: Glorious… as his love! Inspired… as his Music!
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1954-04-17
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Enkantada
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1948-07-23
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Mga Paru-Parong Buking
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1985-02-28
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Blessings of the Land
Overview: Maria and Jose, a young married couple begin life together in an orchard in the countryside. It isn't long until they have four children: Miguel, Arturo, Angelita, and Lito. The eldest, Miguel, is a deaf-mute. Life is good for the family and the children grow up and bring joy to the community. But trouble enters their lives when Jose makes an enemy of Bruno, a widower, much feared in the village.
Genres: Drama Crime Family
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1959-12-15
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Child of Sorrow
Overview: A war hero forced to participate in a smuggling ring meets a prostitute in the postwar ruins of Manila.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1956-03-20
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₱10,000 Pag-ibig
Overview: Claudo thought that money was everything until Loida taught him that love is not on a cash and carry basis.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1957-09-07
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Cry Freedom
Overview: A man and a woman fight for the freedom of their country Marking with his gun Yay with her typewriter. Thrown together by a cause greater than either of them they share the suffering of the flesh and the spirit among the country's guerrilla fighters. They emerge, out of the crucible of war, heroes-and lovers.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1959-07-01
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Anak Ng Tulisan
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Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1982-06-23
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Huk sa Bagong Pamumuhay
Overview: Carding, the anti-Japanese guerrilla turned Huk rebel when his family's land is taken over by the greedy landlord while Maxie, the communist recruiter who assures Carding that only a communist can be a true Filipino; however it was Jesus, Carding's brother-in-law who shoots Carding in the arm foiling his attempt to escape the military.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1953-08-03
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Bad Boy
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Genres: Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1957-11-22
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Walang Takot
Overview: A story about two feuding families, whose loves and hates are as big as the great outdoors, a drama of cattle barong, of men fast on the draw and ladies just as deadly as they are charming.
Genres: Western Action Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1959-01-15
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No Man Is an Island
Overview: The true story of George Tweed, an American sailor who became the only serviceman on the island of Guam to avoid capture by the Japanese during the early years of World War II.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-20
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Casa Grande
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1958-08-13
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The Moises Padilla Story
Overview: About an aspiring Negros Occidental mayoral candidate (Leopoldo Salcedo) tortured and killed during election season.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1961-01-02
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Viva Santiago
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Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1981-07-10
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Noli me Tángere
Overview: Based on the revolutionary novel by Jose Rizal.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1961-08-01
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Mr. Announcer
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1959-07-19
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Sa Paanan ng Bundok
Overview: A doctor finds love in a remote resort when he was asked by a friend to be his best man at the wedding. Ric and Gloria met accidentally while fishing at the foot of the mountain. They soon fall in love.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1953-08-18
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Atorni Agaton: Agent Law-Ko
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Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1969-11-14
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Linda Mora
Overview: A story of two brothers and their fight for the love of a beautiful princess.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1959-09-12
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Takbo... Peter... Takbo!
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Genres: Comedy Horror Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1981-03-06
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Ethan
Overview: Ethan, a missionary priest in the Phillipines, falls in love and falls from grace. He sinks into a world of alcohol, loneliness and self-doubt, but dies a hero fighting for the life of the woman he loved.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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El Filibusterismo
Overview: Gerardo de Leon's masterpiece of an adaptation of Jose Rizal's gothic revenge novel.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1962-03-30
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Walang Pangalan
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1960-07-23
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Nagalit Ang Patay sa Haba ng Lamay
Overview: Two families are rivals in the funeral business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1985-04-19
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Kundiman ng Lahi
Overview: A coming-of-age story of a barrio lass in a patriarchal archipelago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Batang Salabusab
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Genres: Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1979-04-04
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The Sea Gypsies
Overview: Hassan, the son of a tribe chief of the Badjaos, a pagan, sea-dwelling Filipino tribe, meets and falls for Bala Amai, the niece of the chief of the Tausugs, an Islamic, land-dwelling tribe. Although the Hassan is willing to give up his lifestyle for Bala Amai and vice versa, the Tausugs plot to break up the union of the happy couple.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1957-06-03
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Satur
Overview: Cristina, a pretty young neighborhood girl, is pursued by the mysterious Satur, a wealthy but mysterious young man. Cristina, however, is engaged to Sendong, a young farmer. When Cristina's mother is taken suddenly ill and there appears to be no hope of recovery, Satur says that can cure her in exchange for Cristina being promised to him. Desperate, Cristina agrees and her mother pulls through. Cristina and Sendong soon find out that she may have well made a deal with the devil.
Genres: Romance Horror Fantasy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1951-01-01
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Isla
Overview: Isla, a island maiden who has all the males, including her father, lusting after her. Her dream was to leave her primitive surroundings and find another life in the big city. However, it would not be easy. To be able to escape, she must use her body to pay off all the men who would help her.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-04-25
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Ibulong Mo Sa Diyos
Overview: When her boyfriend leaves for Japan on a singing contract, a dancer is so distraught she does not see the car that hits her. The driver pretends to be a helpful passer-by; they fall in love and gets married. Only bringing her to a more complicated life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1988-02-04
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Apoy sa Lupang Hinirang
Overview: A big-screen adaptation of D.G. Salonga's novel serialized in Tagalog Klasiks
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1990-09-26
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Paradise Inn
Overview: Paradise Inn is more than a watering hole, a gambling den cum-brothel frequented by the menfolk. It is a notorious landmark. Ester Paraiso, a retired prostitute, runs the place with help from her own daughter, Daria, whom she is preparing for the job, and from influential politicos. Her daughter, however, decides to run away but is later spurned by her suitor and his offer of a respectable life. Even the timely arrival of a two-beat magician, Rey, who hastily proposes marriage, fails to prevent the escalating tension as the mother-daughter conflict takes its worst turn culminating in the characters' fiery destruction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1985-12-25
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Diyablo - sagrado
Overview: Filipino horror movie from 1980.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1980-12-18
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Dagohoy
Overview: Dedicated to the valiant Boholano hero Francisco Dagohoy, this film shows the real causes that impelled the Dagohoy Uprising.
Genres: History
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1953-06-04
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Adiong Sikat ng Tondo
Overview: A True-To-Life Story of "Adiong" The Terror of Tondo...A Story of Bravery in Action.
Genres: Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1962-03-02
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Sonny Boy
Overview: A touching drama of parental love that prolific filmmaker Susana de Guzman adapted from her own serialized novel in Liwayway magazine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1955-08-28
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Hawayana
Overview: Two people from two different Polynesian groups fall in love at first sight.
Genres: Romance Music Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1953-06-11
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Kambal Tuko
Overview: Kambal Tuko is undoubtedly one of Pugo and Togo's best vehicles with the comic tandem as the conjoined twins Momoy and Popoy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1952-04-25
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Venganza
Overview: Simon sets out to avenge his bride's death at the hands of the bandit Martinico and by accident, he captures Martinico's bride-to-be Belen and uses her to find Martinico.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1958-12-06
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Banal o Makasalanan?
Overview: Salome, a seductive and alluring daughter of Herodias and stepdaughter to King Herodes, discovers faith and Christianity through her love for a Roman centurion named Cornelius.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1955-03-31
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An Actor Remembers
Overview: In 1988 and 1989, the late Cesar Hernando, writer Ian Victoriano and I started a series of interviews of LVN actors, directors and technicians with the intention of publishing a book on the story of LVN Pictures, one of the major studios of the studio era. One of our interviewees was the great character actor, Joseph de Cordova. In 2006 I made a short documentary using excerpts from that thoroughly engaging interview and included it as an added feature to the privately authored DVD of “Biyaya ng Lupa,” where Joseph plays Bruno, one of the actor’s most memorable roles.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2006-04-07
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The Omegans
Overview: When an artist discovers his wife is having an affair with their jungle guide, he lures them into posing for him in a radioactive jungle river.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-18
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Alega Gang: Public Enemy No.1 of Cebu
Overview: In 1985, jeepney driver Ulysses "Boboy" Alega loses his vehicle just as he needed money to pay his rent and buy medications for his child. After he accidentally shoots and kills a person during a fight, Boboy is then imprisoned and tortured by the police. With his release from prison, Boboy eventually joins a group involved in arms smuggling, and after some time its members come to consider him as their leader.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1988-07-01
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Billy the Kid & The Sunshine Gid plus The Nevermind Company
Overview: A 1984 Filipino film starring Jess Lapid Jr. and Redford White
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1984-05-16
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Ermitaño
Overview: His bad fate and past life drove him to find another life in the mountain. He obtained his power from an old hermit who gave him his magic cane before he died. He faced a lot of trials and saved the barrio from the mercy of bandits.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1981-01-29
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Payaso
Overview: Official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1986 directed by Celso Ad. Castillo and starred German Moreno and the All-Star Cast
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1986-12-25
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Zigzag
Overview: Lost Filipino thriller by Ronald Remy, Al Zugsmith producing. George Nader stars.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-12
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