Robert Arevalo
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Robert Ylagan Arevalo is a Filipino film and television actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dumaguete City, Philippines
Birthday: May 06, 1938
Deathday: August 10, 2023
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Siege of Firebase Gloria
Overview: A Marine patrol stops at Firebase Gloria at the start of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam war. With the firebase attacked, the patrol remains to help defend it.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-27
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Uubusin Ko Ang Lahi Mo
Overview: A 1991 Filipino action film starring Phillip Salvador.
Genres: Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1991-07-10
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Iwasan... Kabaret
Overview: A 1978 Filipino erotic drama starring Charito Solis, Elisabeth Oropesa, Beth Bautista, and Alma Moreno.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1978-02-17
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Working Girls
Overview: Women cope with various problems while earning a living in the city.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1984-06-07
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Basagulero
Overview: A 1992 Filipino action film starring Ronnie Ricketts and Rachel Lobangco.
Genres: Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1992-10-14
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Shame
Overview: A liberated and uninhibited stage actress involved with several men and a lesbian theater director.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1983-05-27
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Mga Hayop Sa Damo
Overview: A trilogy depicting the tragic lives of three different women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1977-06-17
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Sa Atin Ang Daigdig
Overview: Out of the gutter, the din, the squalor of the big city - A rousing story of 6 people seeking success that will startle you with its frankness and stir you its truth.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1963-03-07
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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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Madame X
Overview: The movie chronicles the life of a young woman caught in the middle of an ugly war between her fiance and his father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Sino'ng Pipigil sa Pagpatak ng Ulan?
Overview: Rain started to pour on Rene's smooth, sunny life when he went to Tokyo for a business trip and met the love of his life, a Japanese woman whose life was cut short after giving birth to their child Rene Gallardo Jr. On his lonely flight back home with little Rene, he met Cielo Martinez who offers to complete his life. Will it really solve the puzzle or will the rain just pour even harder on his life?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1979-08-03
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Inagaw Mo ang Lahat sa Akin
Overview: In a quiet, rural Filipino village, sibling rivalry continues through adulthood for two sisters and finally tears their family apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1995-09-13
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Stolen Moments
Overview: Lust and illicit affairs lead to jealousy – and ultimately, revenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1987-05-28
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Pangako Ng Kahapon
Overview: Three strong-willed sisters face tough choices.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1994-04-22
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Fuschia
Overview: A story about an old woman, a cool hip Lola who likes the color Fuchsia, must deal with her old siblings in matters of life.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-29
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Huwag Mo Akong Limutin
Overview: Arturo neglects the social life of his wife, who, in turn, is driven to the company of another man.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1960-06-08
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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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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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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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Miguelito
Overview: A young boy discovers his politician father's corruption and cruelty as he discovers his real mother is a victim of his own father's immorality and violence.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1985-06-14
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Where I Am King
Overview: A grandfather is on the brink of bankruptcy and brings his grandchildren back to the community that made nd shaped him, only to find that the place is no longer the same.
Genres: Family Drama Comedy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2014-08-02
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The Tenants
Overview: It proceeds to document the stages of sugar production once in the mill then shifts to the unrest outside where a sakada was shot to death by one of the hacienda's guards. A sakada is a farmer who works in a sugarcane field, harvesting it during the months of October to December.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1976-02-20
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Postcards from China
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1975-09-21
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Mga Huwad na Mananayaw
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1978-09-28
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The New King
Overview: Alvaro plays Addon, the quintessential Filipino anti-hero, the bastard son of a corrupt police officer who purposely meddles in the very dirty political war between the governor (Elvira Manahan) and a town mayor (Celso Ad Castillo) in an unnamed province.
Genres: Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1986-01-10
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Manila Kingpin
Overview: Mobster Asiong Salonga (ER Ejercito) rules the mean streets of Manila with an iron fist—until he is betrayed by a trusted friend. Manila Kingpin is based on the story of the notorious Tondo, Manila, gang leader Nicasio “Asiong” Salonga, whose true-to-life accounts had been portrayed in several movie versions since 1961 (starring Joseph Estrada). It is also the first Filipino major film produced in black-and-white in the 21st century as well as the returning action genre movie. Before the film was shown, Tikoy Aguiluz requested the producers, through his lawyers, that his directorial credits in the film and promotional tools be removed because the final version of the film can no longer be described as his after the producers made a reedit, re-shoot and music mixing without his involvement. He also demanded that he be allowed to make a director's cut of the film.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2011-07-15
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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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Nena
Overview: Ike Jarlego Jr. and writer Lualhati Bautista's noir about a nightclub waitress raped while in prison.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Isusumbong Kita sa Tatay Ko
Overview: Badong (FPJ) is an auto repair shop owner and a doting father to Joey (Judy Ann Santos), his pretty but tomboyish daugther. The protective father that he is, Badong disheartens every young man who tries to woo Joey.The real test in their father-daugther relationship comes when Badong meets and falls in love with a beautiful doctor. Thinking that she is losing her father's love to another woman, Joey agrees to go out with her boastful suitor to spite Badong.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1999-06-09
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Sosy Problems
Overview: The problems of 4 rich, beautiful women from Manila.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2012-12-25
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Salamat sa Alaala
Overview: The documentary serves as a tribute to National Artist for Cinema Gerardo de Leon in celebration of his Centennial Year. “Salamat sa Alaala.” is inspired by the music composed by the late film director when he was a teenager playing background music for silent movies in Manila theatres. The video opens up with a capsulated history of the birth of the Filipino movies followed by a series of shots of veteran actresses, the academe and the young generation of filmmakers affirming his unique qualities as a world-class film figure. Then we unravel his private life as a family man. The documentary is one way of thanking him for his lasting legacy in the art form he left behind.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2015-08-09
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The Jessica Alfaro Story
Overview: An account of the controversial Vizconde Massacre case in 1992, by the self-confessed star witness Jessica Alfaro.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1995-06-08
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Paraiso: Tatlong Kwento ng Pag-asa
Overview: Three uplifting stories of faith, compassion and courage provide the framework for this inspirational film. First, Jocelyn (Maricel Soriano), a victim of the mudslides in Leyte, finds strength in the face of tragedy; next, a family's adoption of a neglected young boy brings healing; and in the final chapter, widower Rudy Abad (Cesar Montano) decides to build a village in the Philippines in memory of his wife, who died in the Sept. 11 attacks. - Maricel Soriano, Cesar Montano, Ricky Davao
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Katawang Alabok
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1978-12-25
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Dukot
Overview: Junix Etrata and his girlfriend Maricel Salvacruz being abducted by military intelligence agents. Junix is a student activist who decided to dedicate all of his time to the movement. He takes refuge in the mountains to live with the indigenous people. Maricel, on the other hand, left the movement to lead a normal life. Their captors identified them as leaders of the New People's Army (NPA). In order to extract information from them, they were subjected to inhumane torture and despicable harassment.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-02
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Maalaala Mo Kaya: The Movie
Overview: As part of the third anniversary of the program, a film version was created. Ana, a young girl who took the responsibility of being the mother of her cousin Marrisa's son while the latter spent her life in Japan as an entertainer.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1994-06-22
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Ispiritista: Itay, May Moomoo
Overview: A sudden widower, Victor finds himself solely responsible for raising his son, Tom Tom. To make money, he claims to be a medium who can speak with the dead and, for a price, soothe restless spirits. Tom Tom, however, discovers that he actually has the powers his father only pretends to possess. Will Victor be exposed as a fraud, or will Tom Tom help his lonely dad win the heart of the lovely, ghost-troubled Lalaine?
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Horror
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2005-10-26
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In My Own Hands
Overview: A serial killer preying on unfaithful wives sets his eyes on an investigator's wife.The culprit is a debonair director, whose compulsion to prey on married women stems from a deep psychological trauma.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1996-03-21
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Batas Ng Lansangan
Overview: Army Major RUBEN MEDRANO was once a part of an elite anti-kidnapping task force. An unfortunate incident during an operation got him suspended and sent back to Manila. There he tries to renew ties with his daughter MARISSA who has been living with his dead wives sister MARIEL. Marissa refuses to recognize her father because of all his shortcomings in the past. Nevertheless, Ruben decides to remain in the area. He soon discovers the presence of drug pushers and decides to do something about them. The drug lord who controls these pushers hires a hit-man named CARLOS to hunt down Ruben for meddling in his affairs. Soon the small community turns into a war-zone a Ruben tries to defend himself and those close to him from the attacks of these gangsters.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2002-02-27
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Matimbang Pa Sa Dugo
Overview: Carlos is to put to jail for several years because a young boy named Boying witnessed him fatally stab Totoy, his attacker and the brother of his girlfriends Ellen. After ten years in prison, Carlos has been freed and is now ready to start anew. He also befriends Boying who helps him defend their weak neighborhood. All is well until Boying’s father gets killed by a group of corrupt policemen. Boying finds a friend in Carlos who teams up with him to hunt his father’s killers. As they learn to let go of their bitter experiences in life, they will also develop a new friendship stronger than blood ties.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-27
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Amanos: Patas Ang Laban
Overview: Man kidnaps agency owner's daughter after being let down by the agency, while someone else takes advantage of the chaos.
Genres: Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1997-06-25
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Birador
Overview: Mike Santana, a police officer, ruthlessly kills individuals and mistreats his wife, Gina. While attempting to expose and eliminate the actual perpetrators, he faces the imminent danger of losing his own life.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1998-06-03
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‘Wag Na ‘Wag Kang Lalayo
Overview: A corrupt prison officer plans a bank robbery, blackmailing a parolee. During the heist, a hostage is taken, and the robbers are ordered to kill both of them. The hostage and the parolee fall in love while escaping.
Genres: Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1996-10-02
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The Maggie dela Riva Story (God... Why Me?)
Overview: The 1967 story of young rising actress Maggie De La Riva's abduction and rape, and the trial against her 4 abductors.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1994-07-13
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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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Wild Grass
Overview: A confused and angry farm boy brought up under the strict and seemingly unforgiving guidance of an exacting and domineering father gains initiation to both romance and heroism during the Philippine Revolution of 1896.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-04
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Hubad na Bayani
Overview: Hubad na Bayani explores the world of peasant revolts, cult organizations, talismans, and the fight for socio-economic reforms. The story revolves around Ruben a peasant who dreams of saving enough money to pay for the treatment of his sick mother, the education of his sister Pilar, as well as his own marriage to Luisa. His modest dreams are never realized as he and his family are exploited, harassed and victimized by the greedy landowners and loan sharks.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1977-06-17
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Abot Hanggang Sukdulan
Overview: The abduction and rape of the eldest daughter Agnes shattered the once happy Paredes household by the rich and spoiled Romano Barredo. They vowed to get justice for their daughter but changed their plan when Romano offered marriage after it was discovered that Agnes was pregnant. As expected life with Romano was hell and Agnes only managed to keep her sanity for the sake of her baby and peace within her family .But even that was soon to end thanks to Romano's evil schemes. Agnes has a deaf mute sister which Romano was very interested with.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1989-06-09
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Pangako... Ikaw Lang
Overview: In the hospital, Vince, a womanizer, is comatosed and mistakes Cristina as his guardian angel when he sees her as he opened his eyes. Little did he know that Cristina nearly killed him when she accidentally pulled his life plug. When he got well, he vowed to treat women better and find his guardian angel. One day, Cristina sees Vince with his friends. Cristina was so happy and relieved to see him alive that she hit him on the head. When Vince saw his ‘guardian angel,’ he tracked her down to get to know her better.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2001-07-04
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Ang Lahat ng Ito'y Para Sa'yo
Overview: Ariel escaped being run over by a chauffeur-driven car with Cathy and her sister. The movie moved on with the main characters meeting for the second time in the restaurant where Ariel worked as a waiter. She was so smitten she did everything to win him over.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-17
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You Cannot Trample Me
Overview: During World War II, the "dark years" in the Philippine history, Tacing is a woman involved in different love affairs which resulted in endless trials and tribulations.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1984-06-27
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The Ravagers
Overview: A story about a Filipino guerilla Sargent who was tasked to ambush a company of Japanese soldiers staying at a convent.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-08
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Kaaway Hanggang Hukay
Overview: Two police officers who used to be the best friends are now torn between friendship and the call of duty. Cols. Baltazar and Ricarte graduated from the same class in Philippine Marine Academy. They even worked on the same assignment right after graduation. But that was the last news they heard about each other until they were caught in an awkward situation. Col. Ricarte is now considered a rebellious while Col. Baltazar is tasked to go after him. Now he has to set aside his personal interest for the welfare of the country.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-07
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Two Funerals
Overview: After a horrific collision between a passenger bus and an 18-wheeler truck in Nueva Ecija claimed two dozen casualties, two families await the arrival of their dead.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-08
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Star?
Overview: The story of Tony (Rudy Fernandez) is not only a reminder to actors or actresses, but to everyone. It teaches a lesson about humility and the so-called "debt of gratitude." It features the lives of some actors such as Vicky Villareal (Lorna Tolentino) and Vina Amor (Celia Rodriguez). Their lives roll around the wheel of fame, especially that of Tony's.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1979-12-04
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Sangley Point Robbery
Overview: A sensational bank robbery inside the U.S. naval base in the Phillipines.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-14
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Tirad Pass: The Story of Gen. Gregorio del Pilar
Overview: The Battle of Tirad Pass was fought between Filipino revolutionary forces and Americans of the 33rd Infantry Regiment in Ilocos Sur. Brigadier General Gregorio del Pilar led the Filipinos, while Major Peyton March led the Americans. The battle resulted in the death of Del Pilar, along with 51 Filipino soldiers.
Genres: Action War History Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1996-07-12
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Mana sa Ina
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-30
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Lipa 'Arandia' Massacre: Lord, Deliver Us from Evil
Overview: After her husband goes to work abroad, Helen Arandia and her daughter must handle her jealous neighbour, who plans to do something to her.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1994-04-11
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Sagrada Familia
Overview: A mother works abroad to fulfill the dreams of her family, but when she returns, she finds that her husband and daughter have disappeared. Thus begins a search for her family, leading the mother down shady roads, only to discover a devastating truth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2009-12-23
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The Untold Story: Vizconde Massacre II - May the Lord Be with Us!
Overview: Follow-up to the previous year's sensationalist hit The Vizconde Massacre: God, Help Us! (based on a real, gruesome, then-unsolved triple murder that was hogging Filipino newspaper space at the time), this includes new evidence in the case.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1994-06-16
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The Vizconde Massacre: God, Help Us!
Overview: A gruesome look into the infamous and seemingly neverending 1991 Vizconde murder case in the Philippines where a woman, her teen daughter, and a 6-year-old were all viciously stabbed to death while the husband was away in America on business.
Genres: Crime Horror Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1993-06-24
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Ama... Bakit Mo Ako Pinabayaan?
Overview: After her mother dies in childbirth, a blind little girl has to learn to live with her wealthy father’s new wife—her new stepmother—and her two children. After her stepmother purposely leaves her alone outside a crowded church, she is found by an old fisherman, who raises her as his own daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1990-12-25
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Ang Daigdig Ng Mga Api
Overview: This is the story of millions of Filipinos for them to live a life of penury.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1965-12-05
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The Portrait
Overview: A musical tale about two impoverished sisters' anguish over whether or not to sell the final masterpiece of their recluse father days before the second world war, in Manila.
Genres: Drama Family History Music
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2017-12-25
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Bocaue Pagoda Tragedy
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1995-02-14
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The Lilian Velez Story: Till Death Do Us Part
Overview: Sharon Cuneta plays the biographical account of the murder case of Filipina movie actress Lilian Velez during the 1950's.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1995-02-08
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Anabelle Huggins Story: Ruben Ablaza Tragedy - Mea Culpa
Overview: She was a popular actress during the 1960s who starred with Jack Nicholson in “Back Door To Hell”. Unfortunately, she meets a man in a billiard hall who kidnapped her twice.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1995-01-04
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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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Cordillera
Overview: DESTROY THIS MAN and a fortune in diamonds is yours. A Filipino version of 1964's FLIGHT TO FURY, filmed back-to-back with that film.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-24
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Aguila At Guerrero
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1992-07-22
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Wanted: Johnny L
Overview: The biggest anti-crime picture of the year.
Genres: Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1966-07-28
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Divorce: Pilipino Style
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1976-12-03
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Mga Tinik ng Babae
Overview: Secret muna.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-03
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Walang Iwanan... Peksman!
Overview: A Filipina meets a man in hiding.
Genres: Comedy Action Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2002-01-09
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Flight to Fury
Overview: This adventure is set in the Philippines and chronicles the exploits of two men who survive a plane crash in the jungle. One of the men is an avaricious killer who has come to the islands to search for a fortune in diamonds. The other is an international adventurer. Now they must somehow overcome their vast personal differences and desires to survive in the steamy wilderness
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-07
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