Ray Ventura
Also Known As: Raven
Biography: Ray Ventura was a stage, film and television actor and director who gained recognition from playing various supporting yet memorable roles. Born in Makati on Jan 3, 1944, Raven passed away on October 24, 2001 in his home in Makati City due to complications brought about by liver and bone cancer. He was married to Amelia Leaño, with whom he had three children, and six grandchildren.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Makati City, Phillipines
Birthday: January 03, 1944
Deathday: October 24, 2001
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Apoy sa Puso
Overview: A story of love, passion and infidelity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-14
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Yakapin Mo Akong Muli
Overview: A 1992 Filipino drama starring Snooky Serna and Albert Martinez.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1992-03-11
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Darna
Overview: A girl is granted a magical stone by an angel to become the superheroine Darna to combat evil and would later battle Valentina, her future nemesis.
Genres: Horror Action Comedy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1991-12-25
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Sana Kahit Minsan
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1992-06-24
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Leon Cordero
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Genres: Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Sakay
Overview: Sakay is a 1993 Filipino historical drama film directed by Raymond Red. The film stars Julio Diaz, Tetchie Agbayani, and Leopoldo Salcedo. The film covers the life of Filipino patriot and hero Macario Sakay, who was declared an outlaw and a criminal for continuing hostilities against the United States after the "official" end of the Philippine Insurrection.
Genres: History Drama Action War
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1993-12-25
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Escape
Overview: Set during the terrifying reign of Filipino despot, Marcos, two upper caste but very different strangers team up to try and survive the physical and mental torture they undergo after they are suddenly jailed. Geny is the conservative businessman while Serge is more sensitive and outgoing. Both of the young men's parents give all of their money, but the government refuses to free them. Even a mutual hunger strike fails to move their jailers. In desperation, Geny and Serge begin plotting their escape.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1995-01-25
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Miguel/Michelle
Overview: Young Miguel leaves the Philippines for the U.S, where he hopes to marry a nice girl. The person who returns home a few years later, however, is Michelle -- the former Miguel altered by surgery and cosmetics. Her/his father is stunned by this development, and other hostile reactions erupt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1998-05-26
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Midnight Dancers
Overview: Brothers Joel, Dennis and Sonny work together as dancers at a low-rent gay bar in downtown Manila, in the Philippines. Despite his mother's pleas, Sonny decides to quit college to work full-time at the bar, while Dennis has moved beyond dancing into prostitution at the urging of the manipulative club manager. Joel, the eldest, tries to balance his secret gay life with his socially respectable role as a husband and father.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1994-09-09
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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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Yesterday Children
Overview: It is the time of El Niño, a season ruled by superstition and fear. The rain is long in coming, the ground has cracked up dry. The ricestalks are thin and sickly. Villagers go hungry. And a boy dies from a snakebite. The adults splinter. Some pray. Others join a cult to appease earth spirits and wait for the ada, the ricefield spirit goddess of bountiful harvest who dances naked on moonlit nights and signals the need for a virgin’s sacrifice. There are fence sitters, equally pro-church and pro-cult. A landlord’s steward enforces his master’s usury on hapless farmers. A self-righteous priest says rain must first be deserved. Two young women fight for the right to do with their bodies as they please. A bastard boy and a blind girl come of age. Yesterday, they were children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-03
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Broken Marriage
Overview: Trapped in a world of hectic schedules, pressure, and little time for each other, married couple Ellen and Rene decide to have a temporary separation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1983-09-02
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Syota ng Bayan
Overview: Syota ng Bayan is Tanya Marquez, a bold star who quits showbiz and goes back to her hometown. Finding out that a cement factory is causing a lot of havoc in the environment and in the lives of her town mates, she challenges the incumbent of Mayor Golano to have it closed. When denied, Tanya rallies the people in protest but is silenced. The mayor's opponents prevail upon Tnays to run for mayor in the coming elections against Golano's son, Peter Lee. During the campaign period Tanya and Peter Lee meet and fall in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2001-01-31
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Hinugot sa Langit
Overview: A woman is thinking of abortion, against her firm faith and family's wants.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1985-06-06
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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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Anting-anting
Overview: a film by Ipe Pelino.
Genres: Fantasy Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-14
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Ping Lacson: Super Cop
Overview: Based on the life story of director general Panfilo 'Ping' Lacson as the spotlight is put on the general as he handles controversial cases.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-25
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Joyful Mystery
Overview: The fortunes of three impoverished friends and their families abruptly change after an airplane crashes in a nearby mountain. They rush to the crash site along with all the villagers, not to help the victims but to plunder their valuables. A dead American passenger carried a large amount of money in his briefcase which Mesiong, Ponsoy, and Jamin find and avariciously keep for themselves. But the town mayor gets greedy and with his hirelings abducts the three to divest them of their booty.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1984-12-25
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Kiss the Sky
Overview: Two professionals, Jeff and Marty, take a business trip to the Philippines. Their deep dissatisfaction with their lives leads them to forsake their friends and families for a return to the alcohol and drug-induced wanderings of their youth.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-26
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NBI: The Mariano Mison Story
Overview: A Filipino police story about Mariano Mison one the head of bureau who investigated the Vizconde massacre.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-26
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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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Calvento Files: The Movie
Overview: This movie has two episodes depicted from investigative crime show. Each episode speaks of grotesque deaths, betrayal, and the family members of the victims’ pursuit for justice. Episode 1 : Balintuwad It is the story of an epileptic fifteen-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted and later on drowned to death by a group of unknown men. As the rape-slay case comes to close, investigation reveals that the suspects are schoolteachers, who are expected to enhance a good future for children. Episode 2: Inay, May Momo, A young mother and her daughter’s nightmare begin when the husband is man-slaughtered by the mother’s other lover. The widowed wife files criminal case to imprison to killer however instead of surrendering the murderer chases down the mother and her distraught daughter to make them drop the charges against him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-14
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Flames: The Movie
Overview: FLAMES is former TV a teen-oriented drama series and becomes a movie that is divided into two separate episodes. Episode 1: Tameme Leslie is a rich highschool student, who longs for her absentee parents. She has a cynical perception of love thus when she learns of her classmate Butch’s feelings for her, she takes it negatively. Butch on the other hand, is a poor boy who is too nervous to handle his feelings for Leslie believing he does not have any chance of making her like him. Episode 2: Pangako Karina is a young breadwinner who raised her family when her mother Dona Amparo stopped taking care of them at the death of her husband. Joel is a young delivery boy who falls in love with Karina’s meekness. As their love blooms Karina’s responsibility as a sister and daughter will stand in their way.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-09
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Ipaglaban Mo: The Movie II
Overview: This second feature film based on the popular television series features two true legal cases. The first is of a nanny accused of kidnapping the child in her care, and the second is about how a rich family tries to cover up the murder of a poor man.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-05
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Why Paris?
Overview: Monique, a Belgian girl, comes to Paris to learn painting and become an artist. She took courses at the Academy and found a studio in Montmartre.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-06-24
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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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Virgin Forest
Overview: A story set in the Philippine Republic in the 1900s where a lass, a Spanish mestizo, and a fisherman are caught up by Macabebe soldiers who are trying to capture Emilio Aguinaldo.
Genres: War Drama Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1985-01-22
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Gimik: The Reunion
Overview: A year after college, seven friends Diane Villaruel, Ricky Salveron, Ese Aragon, Joey Fajardo, Gina de Leon, Garry Ballesteros, Melani Suntay, and Brian Lorenzo get together to take a memory down the lane and attempt to relive the past filled with challenges, victories and problems. Things are not anymore as they seemed to be as each of them treads on different path to self-discovery and accomplishment. Gina and Gary are preparing for their wedding when they learn about Gina’s troublesome reproductive system. On the other hand, just when Melanie finally gave her yes to Brian, the latter met an accident and fell in coma. Ese and Joey learned to be sweeter with each other until Joey got his dream car. And lastly, Ricky, who has been long waiting for his Diane lacked the enough courage to confess when Diane came in.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-28
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Desire
Overview: Three women who come from different backgrounds work hard to earn a living in Manila, but realize that they are victims of sexual exploitations. A television producer is forced to have sex with her boss in exchange for an opportunity to produce a new programme. That almost costs her marriage. A temporary teacher and her colleagues are sent by their principal to give a dance performance at a ministry officer's birthday party. They are gang-raped or almost gang-raped by the officer and his guests. A bus ticket seller accidentally kills one of the men who tries to gang-rape her, but all the bus passengers who witness the scene refuse to go to court to help her defending the charge of murder. Although the three women do not know each other, they end up taking the same bus leaving Manila and heading to the rural area.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1997-01-21
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Sutla
Overview: Sutla starring Priscilla Almeda
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1999-09-27
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Beautiful Girl
Overview: Inspired by Jose Mari Chan's hit song
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1990-06-28
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Bago Matapos ang Lahat
Overview: A big screen adaptation of a story serialized in Superstar Komiks
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1991-02-14
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Kailangan Ko'y Ikaw
Overview: Francine Natra is a popular singer enjoying the peak of her career. But due to stardom and her hectic schedules she suffers from enjoying a simple life on her own. Meanwhile Guillermo "Gimo" Talumpati lives his ordinary life as an auto mechanic taking care of his family and specially Ging-Ging, her sister with down syndrome. Their fate crossed when a promo contest called "Date With A Star" makes Gimo the winner to take the popular Francine on a special date.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2000-10-10
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Stella Magtanggol
Overview: Femme fatale causing death to anyone she ever crossed paths with.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1992-06-02
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Mumbaki
Overview: Joseph is a young doctor who returned to his hometown in the Mountain Province to bury his father, an Ifugao chieftain, who was killed during a tribal dispute. While there, he discovers his rich heritage and acquires pride in his being an Ifugao. Though the lure of a career in America remains strong, he is unable to resist the urge to help his village, which has resisted modern medicine and is now in the midst of a pneumonia epidemic and a civil war.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-14
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Live by the Fist
Overview: A man is unjustly convicted of a brutal crime. In prison he must fight for survival, justice and freedom.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-07
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Ang Pinakamagandang Hayop sa Balat ng Lupa
Overview: A strange but beautiful young woman washed ashore on an island becomes the desire of all men. Her presence causes jealousy, intrigue, and a series of deaths in the town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1996-01-18
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Himala
Overview: When plain orphan Elsa begins having visions of the Virgin Mary, the rest of the residents of her isolated village find themselves questioning their own beliefs and values. Soon, Elsa is healing people with a variety of ailments. As word of this phenomenon spreads, tourists, pilgrims, patients and a documentary filmmaker all arrive on a quest to partake in the miracle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1982-12-25
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Evolution of a Filipino Family
Overview: Depicting the struggles of Filipinos in rural areas under the brutal Marcos regime, a family of poor farmers tries to overcome the challenges brought on by corruption and greed for power.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2004-09-17
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Still Lives
Overview: An intriguing look into a world of drugs and crime, dynamically moves through the lives of the different characters – the drug lord Enteng, his minions, the police, and customers.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1999-01-12
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Dino... Abangan ang Susunod na...
Overview: A Filipino comedy movie starring Anjo Yllana in the title role.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1993-07-29
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Isang Araw Walang Diyos
Overview: A cult called Wakwak headed by Papa Mundo is ready to kill and be killed to fight for their beliefs. It is a religious battle for their leader, clad in priest's robes, who they believe has supernatural powers to extinguish life out of anyone. Outnumbered, Lt. Cary Altamonte's group fights for the safety of the civilians. The situation unfolds in a battle of faith.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1989-08-31
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Dahas
Overview: Luisa is raped by an unknown assailant a few nights before she is wed to Jake. When Jake discovers Luisa's prenuptial chastity is in question on their first night, violent events unfold. Poor Luisa is a battered victim and reacts chillingly. Tit for tat. Fire against fire. Dreams become nightmares, love turns to rage.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1995-12-25
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Dirty Affair
Overview: A teenage boy befriends a starlet who is having an affair with an ambitious mayor. As the elections are coming up, the mayor's wife wants him to get rid of his mistress. The starlet agrees to stop the affair on condition that the mayor help release her boyfriend from jail. The mayor does so, but wants the former jail-bird to kill his political rival.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1990-05-17
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Mga Batang City Jail
Overview: Angelito leads a group of young ex-convicts who will risk going back to prison in order to fight a notorious syndicate.
Genres: Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1991-12-20
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Sana'y Ikaw na Nga
Overview: This love triangle story is about love, music, and drugs. Jessica was an upcoming singer who met Gary, a lead singer of a band, and Karlo, Gary's older brother who was an ex-convict.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1993-01-19
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