Paolo Rivero
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Homecoming
Overview: The movie tells the story of Abigael Edades who returns to her Philippine hometown from her five-year stint as a nurse in Canada. Her town mates rousingly welcome her as a hero, the crass moniker ascribed by the government to hundreds of thousands of Filipinos working abroad. She finds her family in tatters, her parents estranged and living apart and her brother Jepoy living the life of drugs. But she basks in the welcome of her mother and youngest brother Noel and the devotion of her boyfriend, who proposes marriage. Her happiness is short-lived. She is diagnosed with SARS and contaminates Noel. They cause a national scare, are quarantined in Manila and are shunned by their own townspeople and the municipal government. Even her boyfriend leaves her. The hero becomes a heel. "Just a month after my return, my views on life and the people around me have irrevocably changed," she says at the start of the movie.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-25
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Live Show
Overview: Story revolves around the sad plight of the live sex performers Rolly (Paolo Rivero), Gigi (Klaudia Koronel), Rosita (Ana Capri), Sandra (Hazel Espinosa and Vio (Simon Ibarra) and what drives them to do the inexplicable.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Salo
Overview: The rich yuppie Rene lives in his grandmother's house, which he loves and adores. His driver Levi lives in the house, too. Rene focuses on his career entirely and goes to work every day. However, Rene has a dark secret: he loves men. One weekend he goes to his house by the sea with Levi. Overwhelmed by the masculine beauty and grace of Levi, Rene drops all restraints... it is a weekend that changes the lives of both forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2012-01-25
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Room Service
Overview: Two lovers, thirsty for sex... clash in one story to build an intense passion for love and aspiration.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2004-10-13
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Kabayo
Overview: A story about Laurene who wants to elevate her seven-year relationship with Conrad. When Easton comes inito the picture, she believes she is the perfect addition to their sexual relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2023-05-26
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Manay Po! 2: Overload
Overview: Luzviminda Dimagiba (Cherry Pie Picache) and her three gay sons: Oscar (Polo Ravales), Orson (John Prats) and Orwell (Jiro Manio) are back! And now they want to add a new member to their outrageous family – a cute little baby to make their new home happy and complete! But babies don’t just really just fall from heaven or can be fetched from a river, so when the Dimagibas are figuring out this dilemma, Bette (Rufa Mae Quinto) – the ditzy baby maker just came right on time to provide the answer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-16
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Prosti
Overview: Nanay Xedes runs her whorehouse with an iron fist and expects her employees to obey her rules — the most important of which is that her pimps and prostitutes can never be intimate with each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2002-10-02
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Daybreak
Overview: A married man is having an affair with another man. After some time apart, the two men spend a night together in a family vacation home in Tagaytay, Cavite. Together in such close quarters, the two are left with nothing to do but to confront the realities of their relationship.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2008-02-19
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Cuchera
Overview: Based on a true story, Cuchera is about Filipino drug mules, drug couriers and their recruiters. It follows the story of Isabel, a veteran drug mule, in her first attempt at running her own drug transshipment operation between Manila and China. Isabel’s character is based on the story of an actual Filipina drug mule who was caught with eight capsules of heroin lodged in her sex organ, 48 in the rectum and 11 in her abdomen after an x-ray was conducted by Chinese authorities. Cuchera presents an accurate depiction of how some Filipinos end up becoming entrenched in the world of illegal drugs. Currently, the Philippines leads all Southeast Asian countries in the number of nationals arrested for drug smuggling charges in China. As of 2009, there are currently 95 Filipinos languishing in various jails in Chinese territories---four of whom are on death row. Violators include minors who enter China with fake passports.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2011-07-11
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No Way Out
Overview: Joaquin, an unassuming fisherman, is forced to confront his homosexuality when his sex-starved wife Cynthia returns from her overseas job eager to get pregnant. His young and impulsive lover, Waldo, flees to Manila in disgust. After a month of hesitation, Joaquin leaves his wife to follow Waldo. His search takes him on a seamy yet colorful trip through Manila's gay underbelly. He discovers Waldo's dangerous flirtation with Rufo, a bisexual rogue cop who holds the clue to Waldo's disappearance. Rufo lures Joaquin into his home and introduces him to his submissive wife, Beng. A sadist who beats up Beng regularly, Rufo turns Joaquin into a prisoner and sex slave as he did to Waldo. When Joaquin is finally reunited with Waldo, he discovers that Rufo is about to sell them like fish to an international sex trafficking ring, along with his personal harem of male and female captives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2008-12-11
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SpEd Hearts
Overview: In the indie movie “SpEd Hearts”, she sleepwalks and wears a morose expression in all of her scenes, you wouldn’t know if she was happy or sad, angry or ecstatic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-10
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Loss of Innocence
Overview: The title "Binyag" translates to 'loss of innocence,' and this little-known film from the Philippenes shows, very effectively, the process in which one young person loses his own innocence. A boy living a quiet, picturesque life in the Filipino province, spending his days swimming in the sea, is offered a job as a "film star" when a shady "talent scout" visits his small village. He promises the naive Leo that he can "make him a star." Leo, excited at the idea of escaping his seemingly mundane life, accepts the offer, thus beginning his journey to the city of Manila, where he will learn some hard facts about the world he lives in.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2008-10-08
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Slay Zone
Overview: A rural area called Pulang Araw which is headed by newly-appointed Police Captain Corazon Fernandez (Pokwang) and being promoted by V (Glaiza De Castro), a famous vlogger and model, suddenly turns into a slay zone when a series of killings happen. Both their lives and the lives of the people around them are endangered in the course of finding out the truth behind the murders.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2024-02-14
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Next Attraction
Overview: Purports to document the production of a short about a young man’s first sexual experience while doubling as a coming-out film and a multiply layered making-of movie.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-20
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Romeo at Juliet
Overview: An unconventional love story between two souls. Their past catches up on them as their affection for each other goes stronger...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2010-03-24
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Ang Lihim ni Kurdapya
Overview: A lone woman near the edge of the sea lures the men to her nipa hut to be her customer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2000-07-05
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Heavenly Touch
Overview: Jonard is having trouble making ends meet. His mother is suffering from depression, and he and his sister are forced to quit school in order to take care of her. One day, Jonard meets up his friend Rodel, and Rodel introduces him to the world of massage parlors. Rodel teaches him massage, and brings him to Heavenly Touch, a syndicate-run massage parlor that mostly caters to homosexuals.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2009-05-12
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Showroom
Overview: Liezl, an ambitious agent, learns that her colleague, Susanah, uses her body to sell condo units; so she imitates her scheme. When the tables turn, Liezl begins to face her punishments one by one.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2022-11-11
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Squalor
Overview: Four men, four stories, all intersect in Manila. Episode one is about Ariel, a con-man. Episode two is about Boy, an expectant father. In the third episode, Ronald goes to Manila to sell a building. And in the fourth story Baste saves his sister from Ariel.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2009-07-18
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Sanib
Overview: Melissa is a young woman blessed with great fortune she has a blossoming career in fashion design, a slew of adoring friends, and a fiancé who is no less than the man of her dreams. Everything seems favorable until the night of her engagement party, for she is suddenly beset by visions of her dead sister, Magda. Soon, Melissa realizes that Magda's soul wishes to claim her life, believing that it was the life meant for Magda, had she not died. As Magda takes control of her body, Melissa sees her perfect life crumble.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2003-06-11
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Little Boy Big Boy
Overview: "Little Boy Big Boy" tells the story of a carefree graphic artist named Raymund and how he is filled with doubt as he is suddenly faced with the responsibility of looking after his seven-year-old nephew Zach. But while taking care of Zach, Raymund finds himself in the middle of building a relationship with his new lover Tim where he teaches him the value of acceptance and self-respect.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2009-08-05
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Bahid
Overview: As a ramp and commercial model and a swinging teenager in this movie of sex,wealth and power, Assunta de Rossi as Erika is a sexy appealing face on billboards and on the catwalk but,at home, with her sister Loida, she shares a dark secret with her surrogate father,Mr. Lorenzo Lavares, who is wed to her sister. The house of Lavares features a strange quartet father and son married to the sisters with warped emotions and shocking happenings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-27
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Bayaw
Overview: Bayaw is a movie that combines action, mystery suspense with the gay genre. It ultimately looks deep into the unique and complex relationship of two brothers-in-law that borders between family ties, brotherhood, camaraderie and love.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2009-09-23
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Amorseko: Damong Ligaw
Overview: Bambi was neglected and deprived of love as a child. As an adult, she used sex with men as a way to forget her troubled childhood, until she met and fell in love with Rafael...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Fallback
Overview: Michelle is not one to let herself get hurt in love. With this fear, she thrusts herself in the midst of plan Bs, second options, and back-up plans - one which involves her present boyfriend and her ex.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2017-11-15
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Tampisaw
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2002-06-26
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Tag-ulan Ngayon Ang Bukid Ay Basa 2
Overview: A girl named Sabel lives with her parents who depend on unirrigated fields as the only source of living. Their lives become even harder when they cannot plant rice due to drought. Sabel's childhood sweetheart Rafael, like her family, also depends on the rice fields for a living. Due to poverty and insinuation of her mother, Sabel was forced to marry Joey, a rich bachelor. In the twist and turn of the story, Joey was killed. Sabel returned to her hometown and finally reunite with her real love of her life, Rafael. A story of love, deceit and forgiveness.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2005-07-30
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Araro
Overview: Araro tells the story of the sanctity of marriage of Andoy and Elena. Like Adam and Eve, their vows were tempted by a stranger named Steve, figuratively playing the snake in the paradise. Will their love prevail over temptations? Will morality and sexuality defines their humanity? In the end, the temptations lead them to become better persons and stick to the sanctity of their marriage vow.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Sex Files
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2002-11-13
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The Masseur
Overview: Iliac works in a massage parlor where the gay clients are given more than a shoulder kneading and back rub. When Iliac's father dies he must reconcile his job as a sex worker with the rest of his family.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2005-10-19
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Standing Room Only (S.R.O.)
Overview: In a run down adult theater, all manner of perversion happens in the darkness. The most popular young man in the theater has his position threatened when a younger guy comes on the scene.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2010-02-03
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Indie Boys
Overview: A come backing filmmaker finds love and satisfaction in one of his male talents.He battles emotionally that he is not gay, only to discover that his true happiness lies within his hidden nature.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2010-09-15
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M2M 3: Versus
Overview: A tale of two male hunks undergoing the different stages of realization and of falling in and out of love. Their story reels off in their minds and is carried out in a rather sensual and provocative manner. What actually goes on...? And what are the complexities in the process of carrying out, staying in and moving on from this kind of relationship? Masterfully crafted as the previous M2M features- this video shows the intricacies and dynamics of male to male relationship.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2008-12-10
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Eskandalo
Overview: A sex drama by Joven Tan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-27
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