Nanding Josef
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Patient X
Overview: After twenty years, local police captures the murderer of the older brother of a young boy. Now a doctor, he must go back to his old town and face the murderers himself. He then discovers that the murderers are Aswangs (folkloric Filipino vampire-like creatures) and they pose a deadly threat not only to him but also for the entire town.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-28
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Bakwit Boys
Overview: A supertyphoon ravages the hometown of a family band composed of four boys, putting a halt to their musical pursuits. While taking refuge in a distant farmland, they meet a rich girl who offers to help them record their songs and have them played on the radio. Individual interests and trauma caused by the calamity test the unity of the band, as they struggle to make sense of life’s ironies and tragedies.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2018-08-15
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Manila Skies
Overview: Inspired by a true news account, this is the astounding story of a lone deranged hijacker who has struggled to survive in the chaos of modern Philippine society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-19
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The Muse
Overview: In a community by the railroad, an old healer named Tatang performs a “miracle” when a young male lover is run over by a train. It is said that Tatang can heal with poetry and his Muse. Another cataclysmic event will make the community discover the next healer by the railroad.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2009-07-17
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Urban Rangers
Overview: Idealistic graduates of the police academy battle crime in their city.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-22
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Markova: Comfort Gay
Overview: Escaping the torment of growing up with an abusive older brother, he and his friends found further suffering at the hands of Japanese soldiers, forced into sex work to survive. But even after the war, Markova's struggle continued.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2000-12-25
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A Tale of Filipino Violence
Overview: With the imminent death of his autocratic grandfather, coinciding with the burgeoning oppressive regime of Ferdinand Marcos, Servando Monzon III, inheritor of the hacienda and businesses of his powerful clan, agonizes on becoming the new feudal lord and capitulating with Marcos’ designs to control the Philippines. He is aware of his clan’s long history of violence; he knows the very violent history of his county; and he foresees a very violent future with the Marcos dictatorship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2022-07-06
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Retirada
Overview: A retired government employee’s new hobby leads to existential desperation and financial complications.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2022-08-07
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Sisid
Overview: “Sisid” is the story of a videographer, played by Raymond Bagatsing, who was betrayed by women in the past and swears never to be betrayed again. He meets a nightclub performer played by de Rossi. The two have an affair, perhaps even fall in love, but Bagatsing hesitates to commit himself to her. De Rossi tells Bagatsing the story of one of her lovers, played by Rodel Velayo; Velayo was once chauffeur to the beautiful but spoiled daughter (again, de Rossi) of a wealthy fishpond operator. De Rossi is kidnapped, Velayo helps her escape; when she learns of his involvement in the plot, she leaves him. Velayo wanders about, until he meets de Rossi in the nightclub; he insists that nightclub de Rossi is really his long-lost de Rossi, and pursues her with fierce intensity. Bagatsing feels threatened by Velayo’s presence, even jealous, and the two struggle over the woman they both think they love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2001-10-01
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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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Babangon Ako't Dudurugin Kita
Overview: Salve, a content barrio lass, is married to Alfred, an aspiring politician. Alfred meets Via finds out that they can both be very useful to each other's lives. He is set on pursuing a political career and Via is from a powerful political family that wants to continue to govern the land. Together, Albert and Via plan a scheme to get rid of Salve. But Salve survives the carnage. Salve takes revenge.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1989-09-12
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Courts mais Gay : Tome 11
Overview: A collection of gay short films. The 8 short films are: Last Full Show (2005); An Eye for an Eye (2004); Build (2004); Gold (2005); Tell Me [Dis-moi] (2005); Lonely 15 (2004); Dessous (2000); Night Swimming (2005).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-04-19
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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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Lucia
Overview: A strong-willed matriarch and her family leave their fishing village for Manila after an oil spill.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Filipinas
Overview: Florencia, the matriarch of the Filipinas family, is in poor health, and Yolanda, the eldest of the Filipinas children, finds herself in the unenviable position of keeping her bickering family from disintegration. As the tension rises, Yolanda seeks refuge in a local church. She is critically injured trying to break up a nasty fight between brothers Emman and Samuel, forcing her family to make a life-changing decision.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2003-12-25
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Ouija
Overview: Half-sisters Aileen and Romina, along with first cousins Ruth and Sandra, reunite in Camiguin to bury their grandmother. Accompanied by Sandra's friend, Lucy, the five girls dare to call on the spirits of the dead when they find their old Ouija board from when they were kids. The Ouija board is burned by accident before they are able to finish the ritual, trapping a murderous entity around them. As they begin to realize the terror that they have brought upon themselves, Aileen and Romina's hostile relationship even become more strained, while Lucy's sanity brings a heavy burden on Sandra, and Ruth's boyfriend, Gino, is unknowingly pulled into the danger and horror that await all of them. Confronted by imminent Death, the girls have nowhere to go unless they can identify the spirit and find out where it is buried. It is only by leading the spirit to its burial ground that they will able to release the spirit from the Ouija board and survive its fatal hauntings.
Genres: Mystery Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-25
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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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Fairy
Overview: A teenage band headed for a gig in a remote province is lost in a thick forest. With their bus out of gas, they seek refuge in an abandoned resort. Unknown to them, they have trespassed into the territory of an alluring and beautiful "engkanto" and has now cast a menacingly deathly spell upon them.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2007-12-25
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Bona
Overview: A young, middle-class girl from the Philippines, Bona drops out of high school to follow Gardo, a minor actor in low-budget films. This decision angers her father, who kicks her out. Hoping for romance, Bona moves in with Gardo, but is treated like a maid, forced to endure his flings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-25
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Spirit Warriors
Overview: In this eerie thriller from the Philippines, a group of high schoolers finds themselves contending with more than the usual teen angst issues. It seems they've run afoul of Ulanaya, a menacing, shape-shifting ghost bent on creating terror and pandemonium throughout the land. Can these adolescent, amateur ghost hunters summon the mettle to square off against -- and vanquish -- such a formidable otherworldly nemesis?
Genres: Action Fantasy Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-25
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An Errand
Overview: A driver is sent on a simple errand: to pick up a designer t-shirt and a tin of viagra for his boss, who is shacked up in a hotel with his lover. Simple as it sounds, the road trip crisscrosses the chasms of time, class, and character.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2024-08-02
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Shake, Rattle and Roll 9
Overview: This ninth installment in the classic horror series offers up a trio of spine-chillers from the Philippines. In Christmas Tree, a rampaging Christmas tree is out for blood as it terrorizes a family during the holidays; next, in Bangungot, three people in a love triangle find themselves ensnared in a supernatural nightmare. Finally, a teenage Goth band is cursed by a temptress's lethal spell in Engkanto.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Horror
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2007-12-25
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White Lady
Overview: Pearl,a simple and smart girl who just arrived in the city to attend college. For reasons she cannot explain and understand, Pearl is haunted by the ghost of a white lady said to be frequenting the school grounds.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-19
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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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Cinco
Overview: A creative horror movie made up of five unique short films tied together by a similar theme.
Genres: Horror Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-14
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In the Name of Love
Overview: Former dance instructor Emman Toledo was employed as a dance instructor for a governor’s ball. He finds himself in a passionate love affair with Cedes Fernandez who happens to be engaged to Dylan Evelino son of the governor. The couple finds themselves in a dangerous situation. The Evelino Clan is too powerful that nothing gets in their way to get what they want. Despite her hatred for the dirty politics, Cedes has no choice but to succumb to the decision of Dylan out of her indebtedness towards the family. Emman is drawn towards Cedes from the first time she catches his eye. As their lives intertwine through dance, Emman and Cedes find themselves resisting an affair: one that holds the truths to their painful pasts, and the memories of a boundless love. Pursuing their feelings for each other will only set fire to the dangers and trappings of their love, so much so that their love could cost them their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-27
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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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Mano Po
Overview: During the Chinese Revolution in 1949, young Chinese copra trader named Fong-Huan marries Elisa, a young and pretty Filipina. The couples children, Daniel and Linda, were raised in a mixture of Chinese and Filipino-Hispanic tradition. These richly cultured people are the ancestors of a dysfunctional third-generation family whose daughters tell their own stories of joy, struggle, and the complex realities in the life of Filipino Chinese families.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2002-12-25
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José Rizal
Overview: Accused of treason, Dr. Jose P. Rizal awaits trial and meets with his colonial government-appointed counsel, Luis Taviel de Andrade. The two build the case and arguments for the defense as significant events in the central figure's life prior to his incarceration unfold. Upon hearing Rizal's life story, Taviel begins to realize that the accused not just is innocent but exhibits in fact all the qualities of an extraordinary man. When the mock trial unreels, Taviel is all set to act as the prime advocate for his client as Rizal himself is about to give an earth-moving speech to defend his honor and address his countrymen. Meanwhile, the Spanish authorities have worked out the vast political machinery to ensure a guilty verdict. A revolution waits in the wings.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1998-12-25
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The Son of Brocka
Overview: It is about a group of investigative journalists from a sub-par TV station who accidentally scores a scoop that a 21-year-old boy is looking around for his identity… he claims to be the son of the late director Lino Brocka, a known gay filmmaker.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2005-07-30
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Let the Love Begin
Overview: Their paths always cross but they never seem to meet. Eric is a very smart young man. Though he doesn't have the financial capabilities, he is strong-willed to succeed. He even takes a job as the school's janitor to work his way through night school. He finds inspiration in Pia, the most beautiful and wealthiest girl in their school. But all Eric could do is become Pia's "savior." When will Pia realize that Eric is more than her knight in shining armor? Maybe only them can they let the love begin.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2005-02-09
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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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Walang Kapalit
Overview: Dennis leaving his wife,Joanna to follow his first love Celine in America.That happened eight years ago.Joanna was had difficulty coping up with the separation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2003-05-14
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Hour of Danger
Overview: As the EDSA Revolution unfolds, a mother, son, and daughter who live in a slum near Malacañang Palace grapple with the murder of their patriarch in the hands of corrupt policemen, turning from passive victims of social injustice into active participants in the final hours of the uprising.
Genres: Drama History Crime
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2023-03-01
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That Boy in the Dark
Overview: A boy living in the dark struggles to find light as he encounters weird and eerie things when he lives with his grandfather. As he investigates the hauntings, dark secrets will be revealed.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2023-01-08
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The Bet Collector
Overview: Middle-aged Manila storeowner Amelita supplements her tiny income by collecting bets for the popular numbers game of jueteng. While looking out for police crackdowns, the masterfully persuasive Amelita cajoles all comers into placing wagers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2006-01-11
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The Madonna and the Dragon
Overview: Exposé of two news photographers covering the People's Revolution in the Philippines.
Genres: Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-01
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The Madonna and the Dragon
Overview: Exposé of two news photographers covering the People's Revolution in the Philippines.
Genres: Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-01
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Wag Kang Lilingon
Overview: Wag Kang Lilingon is a twin-bill horror movie In the first story "Uyayi," Anne plays Melissa, a young nurse with a bright future ahead of her. But will the future turn to her favor as strange and violent events occur at the hospital she works for. Together with her boyfriend James, they try to uncover the killer behind the rising number of deaths among the patients in the hospital. In the second story "Salamin," Kristine plays Angel, a beautiful young family breadwinner whose only aspiration is to see her family live a better life. When her father left her and her mother and younger sister for another woman, Angel decided to move into a new place. Little did they know the danger that lies ahead. As she discovers an old mirror, she makes a wish at the stroke of midnight by the candlelight-to know her future.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2006-11-15
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In My Life
Overview: Shirley is a woman who wants to be in control of everything. Working as a librarian in a public school, a firm "Sshhh!" from her makes the students tremble in fear. But in her family, her unwarranted intervention in the lives of her children and their families keeps her emotionally detached from them. Realizing that she has lost the command she once had, she goes to New York to reunite with Mark , her estranged gay son who is now suffering from colon cancer. But Shirley doesn't know this and living with Mark in New York comes with a cost. She has to live with her son's lover Noel who is an illegal immigrant. Everything is going right until circumstances forces Shirley to go back to the Philippines. Now that she's back with her family, she realizes that something is wrong she is not happy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2009-09-16
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Hiblang Abo
Overview: Infinite struggles among four men in their twilight years, confined in a hospice facility or home for the aged. Their gray hair grows and fades unnoticed, their lives enter the void of oblivion. Everything unfolds so naturally into their swan song until their body pains and heartaches yield the same intensity, when their hearing and their feelings become permanently impaired; and when their blurry vision and memories become “clear” signs that the inevitable state of death is as fleeting as the vibrancy of life itself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2016-08-05
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Bugbog Sarado
Overview: The story opens with Brandon and Shy, negotiating for a lease of an old room owned by Stella. Brix, a travelling salesman and Stella's live-in partner deals with the couple in behalf of the landlady. Little do they know that inside the mysterious house lies a perplexed truth. Bugbog Sarado" shapes up the frames of sadism and masochism. It intensified the sounds of pain and protest in discovering the real encounters inside the bedroom of abused women.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Amorosa: The Revenge
Overview: After suffering from a vehicular accident, Rosa and her sons transfer to the province. She hopes that the new place will heal the rift between her and her younger son, Rommel. Little does she know that their lives will be at risk when the vengeful ghost of the woman without face threatens them. As she struggles to find a way to end the hauntings, she discovers a truth that will change her life forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2012-08-29
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Bloody Crayons
Overview: A group of friends goes to an island for a short film project when they are attacked by a mysterious killer after playing a game of bloody crayons.
Genres: Crime Horror Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2017-07-12
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The Ghost Bride
Overview: To save her family from being homeless and her father suffering from a heart condition, Mayen desperately agrees to take the offer of a Chinese matchmaker for a huge amount of money. In exchange, Mayen must submit herself as a Ghost Bride to a wealthy but dead Chinese man. This deal, however, happens to be a deadly curse when the deceased groom's ghost becomes jealous and possessive of Mayen.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2017-11-01
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Sukdulan
Overview: Elaine and Orly are a young couple whose marriage is in shambles because of a dysfunctional sex life. He works as a delivery van driver during the day while she works as a tollbooth clerk at night... each one barely having time for the other. But while Orly finds solace in the routine, Elaine feels trapped. Until she meets Miguel, a young playboy, who introduces her to an exciting and exhilarating world that liberates her from an otherwise boring existence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2003-01-29
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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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Last Full Show
Overview: A high school student learns the meaning of love at an underground Manila movie theatre.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2005-03-05
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Journey
Overview: This is a Filipino omnibus film about three different journeys.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2019-04-03
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Himala: A Dialectic for Our Times
Overview: To this day, Ishmael Bernal's movie Himala is still in our town, in our world. This will be reflected in the broader perspective of the majority, of the surrounding events. Beliefs still lie in the truth. Consciousness is still dominant at the level of illusion. The naive, savage, cruel, and selfish politics still prevail.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2020-04-21
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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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Heneral Rizal
Overview: Heneral Rizal uncovers the story of Paciano Rizal, usually regarded as the ever-supportive elder brother of the Filipino National Hero, Dr. Jose Rizal. Unknown to many, Paciano was a proficient general who fought the colonizers, together with Andres Bonifacio and Emilio Jacinto. He was instrumental in liberating Calamba during the Philippine Revolution.
Genres: History
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2020-08-07
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Sta. Niña
Overview: When Paulino Mungcal and his co-worker in a lahar-filled quarry unexpectedly dig up the remains of his 2-year daughter Marikit, they discover that she showed no signs of decay. Could this be a miracle, and could she -- despite death – cure the sick? Inspired by whatever healing power the deceased child may have, Pol asks the church to declare her a saint. But how, when her resurgence stirs up emotions buried by time, and shores up questions about pure love, guilt, sin and salvation?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2012-09-26
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