Based on a true kidnapping event, Carlo Sandoval was kidnapped instead of his sister.
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.
Gumapang Ka sa Lusak
1990
6
Charlotte is from a family of beauty queens, but she has yet to win a title of her own. Her final chance is the Hiyas ng Dalampasigan Pageant, and her mother has taken steps to make sure that she wins. But her chances are dashed when the mysterious Samantha suddenly joins the contest. The two become bitter enemies following the contest, but they are soon forced by destiny to team up. It turns out the two have a hidden connection to a mystical past, and must work together to discover the truth about their heritage.
Kung Fu Divas
2013
0
An honest to goodness cop who labors to keep the honor of his badge. Fighting ruthless criminals, he has acquired the fury of the syndicates he is fighting. But despite all the threats that are coming his way he does not give up.
Afuang: Bounty Hunter
1988
6
A mysterious woman, known as Madame M, kidnaps forty pre-teen girls and transports them to a remote island to train them as the most deadly assassins. CIA operative Jack Chen follows the case for 6 years with no leads, but when a series of assassinations begin to occur, Jack suspects that Madame M is back in business.
赤裸特工
2002
6
Ma Barker and sons Mad Max, Machinegun Nonong and Pretty Boy Fredo want to be the number one criminal family in the land. They think this is going to be their ticket to fame and fortune. But plans go awry when Pretty Boy falls in love with Sheila, a pretty young lounge singer/owner. It turns out that she is the grandaughter of Don Vito , the family's main competitor. Don Vito learns of the relationship and decides to hit two birds with one stone. He sets up Ma Barker and her sons as the fall guys of their criminal operations hoping Pretty Boy will voluntarily leave his precious grandchild alone. But Pretty Boy learns of the plot against his family. His only hope is to convince Shiela of her grandfather's evil ways and help her get him arrested.
The Untouchable Family
1988
0
Set at the backdrop of the 1969 congressional elections, Banta ng Kahapon unravels the story of men as pawns in a millue of political power - men best described as beholden only to amorality and the highest bidding politicos who pay their services.
Banta ng Kahapon
1977
0
Johnny Quinn has been set up by a drug lord and must find a way to clear his name before the bad guys and his own agency put him in the ground.
Whiteforce
1988
7
The film tells the story of a former 1980’s film cameraman who now currently works as a movie pirate operating in present day Manila. He routinely smuggles a digital camcorder into movie theaters in order to illegally record films. One night he records something else... And the footage goes viral.
Rekorder
2013
7
The moment the doctor confirms his wife's pregnancy Carlo felt a sign of a curse coming to life. It's the curse caused by his errant grandfather, the curse that doomed his father. The same curse that's about to destroy him. Advised by his doctor to rest, Carlo returns to his family's villa in Lucban and there, he meets Carmen, the woman destined to kill her.
Katawan
1999
2
Story about five people who wanted something so badly that they’ll do anything, even to deal with the devil. As they finally get what they want, no one has mentioned that their dream will cost them their lives.
Buy Now, Die Later
2015
5
An agent partners with the heiress of a Japanese crime syndicate to put an end to the centuries-old curse that could be responsible for the spate of serial murders taking place in Manila.
Nilalang
2015
5
For an important case, a policeman needs the help of his former best friend to impersonate the daughter of a foreign dignitary in a beauty pageant.
Beauty and the Bestie
2015
4
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.
Deathrow
2000
8
The ill-fated clash between the Philippine National Police-Special Action Force (PNP-SAF) police commandos and Moro rebels.
Mandirigma
2015
0
In the traffic-laden streets of Metro Manila, two brothers use the chaos of the city roads as a smokescreen for their shady occupation tandem robbers on motorbike. But when a robbery goes sour, the brothers are forced to graduate from low level thieves to high profile hit men in an act that tests both their resolve and their relationship.
Tandem
2015
2
Exposé of two news photographers covering the People's Revolution in the Philippines.
Tinikling ou La madonne et le dragon
1990
6
About a woman who changes personality to please the man she's with, and about the man who brings her sexuality to full bloom.
Init sa Magdamag
1983
6
A young woman gets married but her authoritarian father refuses to let her out of his sight.
Kisapmata
2023
8
Manila’s Finest is inspired and based on the life and career of retired Western Police District (WPD) Col. Jimmy Tiu who last served as the Sta. Mesa police station commander of WPD. The film focuses on the dual functions of a city policeman as he inter-acts with the people in his jurisdiction and as an intrepid cop battling criminal elements with guns blazing.
Manila's Finest
2015
0
A group of high school students who are spending the night in a old mansion. When they learn that the house is haunted they set to look out for ghosts just for fun , but they find out soon enough that the urban legends are real.
Haunted Mansion
2015
3