Joel Saracho
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Biography: Joel Saracho is a Filipino actor, writer, dramaturg, and activist.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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Birthday: Not available
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Gender: Male
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Tibak
Overview: The film is based on the progressive and nationalist youth organization “Kabataang Makabayan” (KM), founded in 1964. Kabataang Makabayan was led and co-founded by Prof. Jose Ma. Sison, four years before they also reestablished the Communist Party of the Philippines
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2016-08-28
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Nakalimutan Ko Nang Kalimutan Ka
Overview: A romantic comedy story on how to move on with heartaches and painful memories. A tale full of tears and laughter as Jaz Cruz deals with different stages of moving on.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2018-09-19
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Out of Body
Overview: Elle, a young model new to the industry, arrives to the set of her first commercial job to discover that the initial idea was scrapped. A mysterious new concept has been developed, but the crew and director keep forgetting to let her know what it is. However, after an afternoon of tight costume fittings, rough prop work, and meetings with creepy producers, Elle begins to suspect something else might be afoot.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2021-08-06
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Sex Games
Overview: A rich couple often spices up their sexual relationship by doing their so-called Sex Games. But when they meet a new set of "playmates"- a conservative couple, their game becomes more challenging.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2023-04-28
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2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten
Overview: Felix is a friendless achiever in high school whose life changes after the arrival of the half-American Snyder brothers, entangling him in their dark ambitions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2016-11-17
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Portraits of Mosquito Press
Overview: The documentary about the history and struggle for Press Freedom of Mosquito Press during the dark days of Marcos dictatorship.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2015-03-22
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Bela Luna
Overview: When Luna, a battered wife, and Bela, an empowered artist, meet for the first time, their hearts will be freed by the people and society that chain them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2023-01-27
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The ExorSIS
Overview: The film follows Gina, who must find an exorcist after her younger sister gets possessed by a dead woman’s spirit.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2021-12-25
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The Cradle of the Brave
Overview: A collection of interwoven stories about life and violence in the Philippines, following a college professor, a university chancellor, a social worker, a police chief, two students, two mothers, and a lawyer.
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Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2023-08-04
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Tawa Na Lang Tayo
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Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2023-08-06
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Metamorphosis
Overview: An evil spirit that changes faces infiltrates one family placing one brother in danger while the other tries to save him.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-08-21
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The Baseball Player
Overview: A Moro child soldier aspires to become a baseball player amidst an all-out war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2022-08-07
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New Queer Visions: Seeing is Believing
Overview: In a world where men hide their true love and feelings, where a mother turns a blind eye to her son's identity, and where religion dictates that a man may only lie with a woman — is everything we see truly what it seems to be? The latest release from New Queer Visions takes a look at representations of boys and men, how desires are hidden from those around them, and how self-belief conquers doubt. The short films are: Adult (2017); Hello, Stranger [Dag vreemde man] (2016); Little Potato (2017); Juan Gabriel is Dead [Se murió Juan Gabriel] (2018); The Guest [Le convive] (2017); Contestant #4 (2016).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-06
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Mañanita
Overview: An ex-military sniper who was honorably discharged accepts a mission that will indefinitely change her life in the attempts to make ends meet. It is a quiet character study of when your life’s purpose is stripped away, but you still pursue it, only to realise that it could kill you.
Genres: Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2019-10-29
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From What Is Before
Overview: The Philippines, 1972. Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio. Wails are heard from the forest, cows are hacked to death, a man is found bleeding to death at the crossroad and houses are burned. Ferdinand E. Marcos announces Proclamation No. 1081 putting the entire country under Martial Law.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2014-07-03
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GomBurZa
Overview: A powerful and moving historical drama that tells the courageous story of three Filipino Catholic priests: Mariano Gomez, José Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2023-12-25
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Trigger
Overview: A young soldier comes home after a siege and faces a different war.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2022-08-06
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Pride and Honor
Overview: When the people of Maratabat finally realize that their time under the corrupt politician clan of the Abubakars has to come to an end— a series of violent acts occur one after another. The people rally behind another clan –the Mahardikas – to end the violence and place a new leader in their region. Will the Mahardikas choose a path of violence or peace? Will it be for honor or will it be for pride?
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2014-12-17
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Kawalan
Overview: Tomas, the old venerable mayor of the remote town of Kawalan, learns that the invading Japanese will set up a garrison there. He organizes willing members in his community to set up a hidden settlement in the middle of the forest, where they can live unaffected by the horrors of war. As a young revolutionary during the 1896 fight against Spain and then as a soldier fighting against the Americans, Tomas had witnessed the effects of violence on people and become a pacifist. Now, he must see if inhabitants of the hidden settlement can escape the sufferings wrought by the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
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Trophy Wife
Overview: A woman falls in love with a man, but is wronged by him and his brother. She then tries to exact revenge on him, his brother and his new lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2014-07-30
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My Valentine Girls
Overview: The Valentine offering starts with a loveless bespectacled author pondering over possible themes for his trilogy of love stories. He gets a ribbing from his precocious little sister for wasting too much time writing on the computer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-13
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Salvage
Overview: A news team investigating rumors of aswang killings in a remote barrio are attacked by a group of soldiers, forcing them to run for their lives in the deeps of the forest, where more mystery and danger lay in wait.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2015-11-14
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The Healing
Overview: A community rushes to a faith healer after learning that one of them was miraculously healed from a deadly disease by the same person. They are torn apart afterwards as the healing brings them a terrible curse that wreaks harm and death.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2012-07-25
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Mga Kwentong Tsubibo
Overview: Mga Kwentong Tsubibo revolves around the individual stories of 8 strangers: a frustrated medical student on the verge of quitting her studies; a dewy-eyed boy who, pressed by poverty and desperation, searches for medicine for his ailing grandmother; a well-loved city mayor whose critically-ill son urgently needs a kidney transplant; a young, engaged couple planning their future together; and an older couple in a fishing village scrambling to raise money for the medical bills of their hospitalized son. The film offers a critical look at the social determinants of health, and how they affect the lives of Filipinos.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-28
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Matangtubig
Overview: A story of how a violent crime disrupts a quaint rural town in Batangas. A girl’s dead body is discovered and puts the whole town on trial while the former’s companion remains missing. The ensuing media spectacle slowly exposes the town’s secrets. As they celebrate its yearly festival by the lake, an unknowing sleeping evil unravels and haunts the townsfolk.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2015-10-23
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A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery
Overview: Andrés Bonifacio is celebrated as the father of the Philippines Revolution against Spanish colonial rule. This eight-hour epic examines this myth, undertaking an expedition into history through various interwoven narrative threads, held together by an exploration of the individual’s role in history.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Adventure History
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2016-03-26
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Ballot
Overview: A land-grabbing tycoon and a former sexy male actor are in a tight race for mayor in a small town. When violence erupts, Emmy, a teacher, runs into the wilderness with a ballot box, the last copy of the election result.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2024-08-02
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Tandem
Overview: In the traffic-laden streets of Metro Manila, two brothers use the chaos of the city roads as a smokescreen for their shady occupation tandem robbers on motorbike. But when a robbery goes sour, the brothers are forced to graduate from low level thieves to high profile hit men in an act that tests both their resolve and their relationship.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2015-12-17
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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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Ballad of a Blind Man
Overview: Living alone as a caretaker to her ailing but overbearing dad, a demure and loving daughter unravels the secrets of her estranged mom as her dad’s grip on her life tightens.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2024-06-04
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Fruitcake
Overview: In modern-day Metro Manila, a diverse group of Filipinos faces life's lows as their destinies collide on a fateful train ride, unfolding a heartwarming and comedic tapestry of interconnected stories.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2024-06-12
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Paglipay
Overview: An Aeta from Baytan village in Zambales makes a living from cutting down and burning of trees and hunting on the foothills of Mt. Pinatubo.
Genres: Romance Drama
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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Bullet Day
Overview: Diego Loyzaga and Joel Torre go head to head in this action-packed movie about a former hit man trying to live a normal life when someone from his past sees him and puts his family and friends in danger. Can he sacrifice his new life to fight for the ones he loves?
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2024-08-07
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Singing in Graveyards
Overview: Pepe, a 68-year-old impersonator of a Filipino rock legend, lives alone on the borders of reality, imagination and mysticism. One day, he is finally given the chance to open for the rock legend’s concert but he must do something neither of them has done before – write a love song.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-08
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Contestant #4
Overview: A young boy frequently visits an old man who lives alone, keeping him always in good company. One night, he chances upon the old man watching a dated clip of himself as a cross-dressing boy. This sparks within the young boy an interest to find out more about the old man's past. What he ultimately discovers aids both him and the old man towards a richer understanding of how the weight of life and identity should be carried.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2016-10-16
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Ilawod
Overview: A story of a family's breakdown in the midst of a demonic attack. Dennis, a reporter, accidentally invites the ilawod which is a water spirit into his home where it attaches to his son, Ben.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2017-01-18
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Instalado
Overview: A social science fiction set in a farming village in the not-so-distant future. Victor lives in a time when the dominant form of education is through installation, a process wherein bodies of knowledge can be installed directly into people's brains using technology owned by big corporations. However, like many others in the agricultural town of Porac, Victor cannot afford the sky-high cost of installation; which he believes is the key to escape his rural life. To raise money for installation, Victor abandons farming and works as the housekeep of a wealthy childhood friend who has become extremely successful after undergoing a series of installations.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2017-07-12
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Season of the Devil
Overview: Philippines, late 1970s. A military-controlled militia is oppressing a remote village, spreading terror both physical and psychological. The fearless young doctor Lorena who opened a clinic for the poor disappears without a trace. Her husband, activist poet Hugo Haniway, attempts to find her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2018-05-22
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Bomba
Overview: Pipo makes ends meet by taking on the toughest jobs. Life is more difficult because he’s deaf. He supports himself and his teenage lover Cyril. His irate boss is getting difficult and Ben, his childhood friend wants his daughter Cyril back. Like a bomb, Pipo’s ticking to explode, anytime soon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2018-03-07
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Drunkaraoke
Overview: Drunken customers of a small bar end up fighting over a song in the karaoke machine.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2018-05-09
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Liway
Overview: The true story of a young mother who uses story-telling to protect her child from the reality of growing up in prison and the difficult life she endured.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2018-10-10
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Heaven's Waiting
Overview: Lisang’s soul is trapped in purgatory due to her bad behavior. Once again, her name is picked and reconsidered. Will she be able to make it this time?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2018-10-21
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BuyBust
Overview: A special forces team is sent to snuff out a drug den, but find themselves trapped inside it after being set-up and betrayed.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2018-08-01
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Signal Rock
Overview: Intoy was left to take care of his parents when his sister Vicky leaves to work overseas. Eventually, like many women in the island, Vicky married a foreigner thinking it will solve all her family’s problems. Living in a remote area, Intoy can only get in touch with his sister by scrambling atop strange rock formations on the island.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2018-08-15
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The Halt
Overview: Madmen control Manila in 2034 after massive volcanic eruptions have plunged Southeast Asia into darkness.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Thriller
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2019-06-01
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Feng Shui 2
Overview: It focuses on Lester who, upon getting the cursed bagua, starts to get all the luck and prosperity he could get in his life, but with deadly consequences.
Genres: Mystery Horror Thriller
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2014-12-25
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Lola Igna
Overview: Lola Igna is a foul-mouthed and stubborn woman who is eager to die but her neighbors are hung up on her winning "the oldest living grandmother in the world." Her long-lost great-great-grandson, Tim, is an aspiring vlogger who wants to latch on her now-famous grandma but ends up giving her a new reason to live.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2019-09-13
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Genus Pan
Overview: Three illegal miners journey back to their island after months of toiling in hellish conditions. With their hard-earned money, they traversed the sea, the mountains and the forest until they reached their destination. Or did they really reach their cursed place?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2020-09-11
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Dama de Noche
Overview: Daisy Resurrection, an overseas Filipino worker, comes home from years of working broad, but her homecoming is unlike any other OFW story you’ve heard of.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2020-08-07
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Doors: Team B Terror
Overview: A nightmare of a basketball team during their stay at an old dormitory.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-07
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Six Degrees of Separation from Lilia Cuntapay
Overview: A professional horror movie extra prepares for her first ever acting award nomination.
Genres: Drama Comedy Documentary
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2012-10-31
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What You Did
Overview: Arvin and Ace, haunted by past traumas and dreams shattered by the pandemic, collide as they chase online fame, forcing them to confront buried secrets and redefine their identities.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2024-09-04
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Ghosts of Kalantiaw
Overview: Delving into figures like the pseudohistorical Kalantiaw and President Bongbong Marcos, this documentary is a deep exploration of the post-truth era.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2023-12-02
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If I Were A Voice
Overview: A gay student leader finds himself in the collective voices of an ensemble to avenge and reclaim the voice once taken from him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2024-09-20
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Sa Oras ng Paghuhukom
Overview: On the eve of an imminent apocalypse, daughter helps her father prepare for a religious event of their sect. But as the hours tick, sinister events unravel that endanger her own safety.
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Original Language: tl
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Metamorphosis
Overview: Born with both male and female genitals, but raised like a boy by his conservative family, Adam goes through all the things prepubescent boys go through, including a fascination with strange animals he takes for pets and being smitten by a lovely girl. His bucolic world turns upside down when he gets his first menstrual period setting him off on a journey that tests the spiritual and physical limits of sexual identity and into a new world of ambiguity and desire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2019-11-08
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Isang Himala
Overview: Amid drought and famine in Cupang, a young woman named Elsa claims to have seen the Virgin Mary and been blessed with the ability to heal the sick. As people flock to witness her powers, the village becomes consumed by faith, prosperity, greed, and deceit. Is Elsa a true symbol of hope in a world desperate for salvation? “Isang Himala” is a rousing adaptation of “Himala” (1982), written by National Artist Ricky Lee.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2024-12-25
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Moneyslapper
Overview: In dreary Porac Pampanga, a young man, Daniel, abandons his motherland after winning the biggest cash prize in the history of Philippine lottery. Five years later, he is searching for home and redemption through the people that make up his past. With each visit, his story unfolds like the last digit of a winning combination.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2024-11-09
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Sampung Utos Kay Josh
Overview: Josh, a devout loan executive who believes his faith and adherence to the Ten Commandments have brought him a good life. However, when a series of misfortunes strike. Josh begins to feel abandoned by his faith. In his frustration, he decides to rebel by breaking each commandment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2025-01-29
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Paquil
Overview: "Paquil" tells the story of Christina, a once-celebrated actress who, after experiencing several career flops and being diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, returns to her hometown of Pakil. This town holds deep childhood memories for her and is known for the long-lost tradition of Komedya, a local theatrical performance. Now at a crossroads in her life, Christina becomes determined to revive this cultural art form as she grapples with her fading health and inner struggles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2025-02-12
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Only We Know
Overview: upcoming Philippine romance film
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2025-06-11
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