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- BASED IN A TRUE-TO-LIFE STORY, THE FILM SHOWS HOW A PRISONER, ARMED WITH AN AMULET, ESCAPES FROM IMPRISONMENT AND ELUDES ARREST FOR 25 YEARS.
- BASED IN THE TRUE-TO-LIFE STORY OF ULYSSES 'BOBBY' ALEGA, THE FUGITIVE LEADER OF CEBU CITY'S MOST DREADED GANG.
- The adventures of a man of a thousand identities and his brushes with the law. The story begins when Giancarlo (Danilo Jurado) is orphaned at a young age when his mother, Graziella (Priscilla Ramirez), is killed in a shooting incident in Macau. He blames his mother's death on an agent known only as "Palos" (Bernard Bonnin) and vows to do whatever it takes to avenge her death. The young Giancarlo is taken in by his mother's friend, Alesandro (Willie Sotelo), who later helps him join a secret agency known as "Neptune". Driven by his thirst for revenge, he trains hard and uses every opportunity to hone his skills. Eventually, he emerges as one of the top agents of Neptune.
- A man avenges the death of his father. Now the son of the man he killed is seeking vengeance.
- Acting as a local chieftain leader in behalf of his ailing father, Herman (Ben Perez) made a relentless call to his people to unite and help build the road to transport their goods when the government falls deaf on their petition to do the project. His call at first was responded hesitantly by his people but with the help with his former girlfriend Nita (Erlinda Cortez) people heeded the call and helped with the road construction. With Ofelia making amends with her father and saying sorry to her teacher, the movie ends with Herman and Nita realizing their dreams. Released in 1953, Gerardo de Leon's "Ang Bagong Maestra" shows the harsh realities and images, the sad truth of the plights of our impoverished people, the poor of the poorest living in the remote barrios and the government's inaction and neglect on their basic needs. The movie is a social commentary and indictment on government insensitivity. But it also shows how the people rise by working side by side, in the spirit of bayanihan and unity.
- In his numerous incarnations, Pedro Penduko is an ordinary human being with no superpowers. He is, however, resourceful and quick-witted in battling evil forces. He is aided by a magical amulet.
- This is a great fantasy film about a legendary bandit and his python-guarded treasure trove.
- A street hustler Fidel (Michael de Mesa) falls in love with a bar girl named Lani (Gina Alajar). They got married but separated when the guy gets meted a death sentence after gunning down a rich customer of the bar in a fit of jealousy. The bar girl bears the hustler's child named Maripi (Katrin Gonzales). The child becomes blind at a tender age because she fails to get timely medical care when she contracts an illness. The kid sleeps on church pews at times. The bar girl plies the flesh trade to make ends meet. She befriends a beat reporter Rudy (Edu Manzano) who shows genuine care for her and the child. The reporter somewhat plans a reunion with the convicted hustler, the bar girl and the child in prison. The hustler comes to his senses and belatedly realizes the importance of life. He takes his own life, but not without first donating his eyes to his blind daughter. After an eye operation, the child regains her eyesight and the bar girl and the reporter fall in love.
- STRICTLY FOR ADULTS ONLY - THE RAGS-TO-RICHES BRIDE OF A HOMOSEXUAL TRIES TO MAKE HER MARRIAGE WORK BUT FINALLY SUCCUMBS TO THE TEMPTATION OF A VILE LOVER.
- THIS IS A SEX-DRAMA FILM THAT TRIES TO PROBE INTO THE HEART AND MIND OF A PROSTITUTE. THEY ARE THE WOMAN WITHOUT SHAME.
- A hilarious satire of people who have suddenly become rich. Mariano (Pugo) and Andres (Togo) are balut (duck embryo) vendors who fortuitously save Rosa's (Rosa Rosal) life. They adopt her and care for her as their own daughter. Armando (Jaime de la Rosa) is a rich suitor who falls in love with Rosa, although his father cannot accept her poverty. But Rosa turns out to be the orphaned daughter of a rich couple. A huge hit when it was released.
- Mike de Leon screen adaptation of John Fowles' creepy film The Collector.
- Bilanggong Birhen (Imprisoned Virgin), is a story about a young woman (Amalia Fuentes) who suffers from amnesia and can't remember anything. Her friend (Jean Lopez) works as a living-mannequin model in a Manila store. A man (Rod Navarro) attempts to rape her on the orders of his ugly, sickly, anorexically-skinny mother (Etang Discher).
- AN ERRING MILITARY POLICE OFFICER IS SENT TO JAIL BUT BOLTS WITH SOME OTHER INMATES TO THE THE WHOLE TOWN AS HOSTAGES. BASED ON A TRUE-TO-LIFE STORY OF RET.COL.ANTONIO BANTA.
- Raffy, Bingbong and Ricky are three men who like to womanise a lot. Because of this corruption, they always pretend to be somebody they're not and do crazy things to attract beautiful women.
- Don't Miss This Heart-touching Story Of A Girl Who Was Afraid To Love Because - She Was Black.
- Four bumbling warriors are recruited as protectors of Barangay La Loma. Getting the job may be easy, but they may have a problem with the actual.
- DOLPHY SPOOFS IN A GRAND, HUMOROUS WAY THE AMERICAN WESTERN FILM GENRE.
- In order to satisfy the needs of her growing child, Laura (Delia Razon), widowed by the war, accepts the dubious attentions of Adolfo (Joseph de Cordova), a mysterious character who stays away from home most of the time on alleged business trips, and who makes Laura's life a continuous torture. After a lingering illness which she keeps to herself, she dies on the grave of her late husband, Renato, leaving her child in the care of Aling Enyang, a kindly woman. Feeling a presentiment that all is not well with her twin sister, Laura, Lydia (Delia Razon in a dual role) goes to Palawan, finds her dead, takes the child to Manila and posing as the legitimate widow of the dead officer, presents herself to Roberto (Rogelio dela Rosa), the brother of Renato who falls in love with his niece and grows interested day by day with Lydia. Sofia (Rosa Rosal) who for sometime has been trying to catch Roberto's interest in vain, dissent the competition of the supposed widow, and finds a valuable ally in the person of Adolfo who comes to Manila and demands Lydia to return to him, thinking her to be Laura. After a series of difficult situations, the real facts of the case are brought out into the open by the sudden appearance of Aling Enyang, and Roberto is happy to have Lydia for his wife, after his doubts have been cleared out.
- Two teen stories in one film starring the talented Herbert Bautista. In one story (Dear Party Line), he is a houseboy who strikes up a friendship with a girl over the phone. In another story (Dear Killer), he and his friends play detective.
- Diego Sebastian (Jestoni Alarcon) is a member of an elite crop in the military. However, when his group decided to stage a coup against the government, he defied his head leader. What danger lurks in the jungle that makes Diego a stark study of human fortitude and courage?
- The enchantment of a thousand-and-one delights are now yours to behold in this rare and magnificent fantasy.
- The greatest, longest, most expensive film produced in the film history of the Philippines. Exact running time: 3 hours and 20 minutes.
- Based on Francisco V. Coching's adventure comics novel, it tells the story of Fernando (Cesar Ramirez), a handsome and dashing colored (probably mulatto) Spanish mestizo who went back to the Philippines to exact revenge on his father whom he believed abandoned him and his mother Blanquita (Tita Muñoz). There, he discovered the cruel and oppressive colonial government and joined the rebels in the fight against the oppressors as El Indio.
- A story of young love set against a backdrop of complex family relationships.
- Three young brothers are feared for the arms that they carry.
- A skeptical man of science meets his classmate's devout sister.
- A story about Anna (Gloria Romero) a daughter of Chinese royalty who was going to be betrothed; escaped, hid, and lived with a poor boat rowing family. Distraught over her upcoming arranged marriage, Ana (Gloria Romero), the daughter of a wealthy magnate, flees her home, choosing to live in poverty rather than relinquish control of her fate.
- THE LOVE BETWEEN TWO SISTERS SURVIVES THEIR LUST FOR POWER.
- The story starts out 19 years ago when Barbara Rosales (Carmi Martin) arrived at their enormous villa to find her stepsister Corazon Rosales (Cherrie Pie Picache) with her ex-boyfriend Edgardo Perez (Julio Diaz) talking to Corazon's father and Barbara's stepfather as he gave them his blessings regarding their relationship. Barbara was furious after Gardo chose her stepsister over her and begged him to rekindle their romance in exchanged of her, changing her old ways for him. But Gardo refused, and expressed he loved Corazon because she knew how to love unlike Barbara who only loved herself. Bound to get her revenge, Barbara resorted in a series of schemes against her stepsister Corazon. But the secret won't be kept for long when her stepfather learned what she was doing to his only daughter that's why he threw her out from the house. At Blanca's (Angelu de Leon) 18th birthday celebration, they will burn the tree causing Blanca to spontaneously burn. But unknown to them, a friend of Corazon was into the occult and sensed that the child was cursed. She gave Blanca a charm to protect her so when Barbara and the witch set the tree on fire Blanca will not die. The charm although it was weak protected her and only half of Blanca's face got burned. After the tree was burned, a seed remained. Like the tree, whatever happens to the seed, Blanca will feel it. From then on, Barbara kept the seed and will use it to torment Blanca at her will.
- THIS IS AN ANTI-WARACTION-DRAMA MOVIE.
- A TRIBUTE TO FLASH ELORDE.
- PABLO SAMO, WHOSE TRUE-TO-LIFE STORY IS THE SUBJECT OF THIS FILM, WAS A BARANGAY CAPTAIN AND A DREADED VIGILANTE FROM CAVITE.
- In this hilarious, riotous comedy, Zamora and Mulach parody operations against crime syndicates depicted in many local movies.
- Kurdapya (Gloria Romero) is an ugly girl with crook teeth and is in love with a muscular handsome man a character played by Ramon Revilla. Unknown to her, she has a twin sister which is exactly opposite her - beautiful woman with very long silky hair. The riotous comedy begins.
- Introverted Quinito and candid, outgoing Trixie find themselves attracted to each other despite them being polar opposites.
- TWIN BROTHERS ARE SEPARATED AT BIRTH BUT MEET AND RECONCILE WHEN THEY GO AFTER THE SAME WOMAN.
- A classic love story between a composer and a singer, and the song they put together. Celso's (Rogelio dela Rosa) mother's eyesight is failing. Celso, an undiscovered pianist, puts his fortune to the test and goes to the city for his mother's sake, leaving behind his true love Pilar (Carmen Rosales). A nameless figure in the city, all he has with him is a song, fruit of the labor of love between him and Pilar and his funny friend Menes (Dolphy). He finds a producer named Patria del Mar (Patria Plata) who is instantly attracted to him.
- Magkaibang Lahi tells the story of two sisters, Corazon del Rio (Corazon Noble), a former movie star before the war and Nenita (Rosita del Cielo). Cora was among the victims of Japanese atrocities during the last few weeks before the fall of Manila in 1945. She was bayoneted in the arm something that really happened to actress Corazon Noble. In the hospital while recuperating and being cared for by Charlie, the American officer who saved her life (the ubiquitous Art Cantrell) Nenita, Cora's sister meets the dashing American and a love affair develops. In the meantime the wealthy Fidel (Ely Ramos) resurfaces and is frantically searching for Cora. He is trying to rekindle a romantic past that was ruined by Fidel's mother (Isa Bonita) who looks down on movie actresses. Nenita and Charlie got married but the American officer has to remain in Manila to await his discharge. Nenita travels to the U.S. with Cora and both women receive the shock of their lives when they are given a frosty or chilly welcome by Charlie's family. Unable to endure their stay in the United States any longer, the sisters prepare to leave and return to the Philippines but Charlie accompanied by Fidel arrive in the nick of time. Charlie' s two haughty sisters are immediately chastised by their brother. They are charmed by the debonair Fidel now believing perhaps that Filipinos do not have tails and live in the trees. Charlie leaves his American family and comes back to the Philippines and Fidel and Cora are reunited and they live happily ever after. A happy ending all around. Magkaibang Lahi tackled the controversial and almost taboo "serious" interracial relationships that occasionally developed between American officers or G.I.s and Filipino women.
- It's the laff-cry-laff riot of the year.
- THIS IS A COMEDY-ROMANCE FILM.
- X-PLOSIVE - X-OTIC - X-CITING - X-STATIC. THE BEAUTY IS ALSO A BEAST.
- The tight relationship of two sisters shatter when one becomes tired of her sister controlling her life. The sisters then become rivals.
- She's naughty. She's capricious. She's lovely and lovable: Niña Bonita.
- Pugo is Mang Nano Batekabesa, the wily, scheming but lovable 'manggagantso' or swindler who concocts the most ingenuous scams to finance his little vices, like jueteng or cockfighting. Bentot is Bitoy, his overgrown child who unwittingly exposes the scams perennially getting his father into trouble with Aling Rosa (Rosa Aguirre). Sylvia La Torre is Mang Nano's daughter, Sebya whose trademark is her fine singing voice and habitual use of cliche English expressions. Eddie San Jose is Aling Rosa's dim-witted son Eddie Biscocho married to Sebya, a fact Mang Nano never fails to exploit in perpetrating his scams.
- The movie version of the popular TV sitcom, Ober da Bakod. This is a story of two families, always in competition -- they are actually neighbors. In this movie, the parents continue to fight and outdo each other, while the children are falling in love with each other. They went for a vacation one day on a tropical island only for their respective modes of transportation to meet unfortunate tragedy, the airplane crashed while the ship caught fire and both families end up on a desolated island owned by an indigenous tribe. The island is threatened to be taken over by a wealthy tycoon who wants to put up a huge business and real estate investment properties on the island. The tribes resist their aggressive claiming but only with grease money and bribes the chief was easily persuaded but only for a short while. The tribe asks for help from both families to fight the wealthy landlord and foil their attempt of claiming the entire island.
- AFTER LEANING THAT SHE TERMINAL CANCER, A SINGLE-PARENT PREPARES FOR HER DEATH BUT DISCOVERS INSTEAD THE BEAUTY AND VALUE OF LIFE.
- Fisherman/farmer Nanding (Rogelio dela Rosa) also happens to possess a fine singing voice. He's never without his guitar: either he's singing in church with the local choir or at the village store owned by Kapitan Bestre (Jose Cris Soto). Bestre's store also happens to be the only source of news and gossip, local or otherwise. And the barrio is astir with the return of Marina (Mila del Sol), the daughter of the despotic Cabesang Berong (Engracio Ibarra), the town's richest resident. A flashback reveals that Marina and Nanding were childhood friends; Marina's father never approved because Nanding was only a fisherman's son. Berong's wife Doray (Rosa Mia), on the other hand, was a saintly woman, loved and respected as much as her husband was despised. Marina and Nanding renew their old friendship, which inevitably turns into love. Berong tries his best to destroy the relationship, but Marina defies him and moves into the village store to be near Nanding--and learns to live like the rest of the rural folk, working and saving up so she and Nanding can get married and set up home.
- The true story and historical accounts of one of the country's heroes during the Spanish colonial period and the youngest of the three martyred priest under the moniker Gomburza executed through garrote for the false accusations of inciting the Cavite mutiny of 1872.
- Celing (played by Priscilla Cellona in her first starring role) and her kid brother Piding (Ike Jarlego Jr) are recently orphaned and they come to Manila to find work in the home of their late parents' hacienda landlord (Paco Zamora). But they are treated miserably by the landlord's ill-tempered wife, Doña Esperanza (Naty Bernardo). One night Celing and Piding run away and end up in an amusement park where they meet Victor (Armando Goyena). He takes pity on them and brings them home to his mother (Rosa Aguirre). The old woman is quickly won over by the innate decency of Celing as well as the endearing self-confidence of the young boy, Piding. Celing turns out to have a good singing voice and Victor's uncle (Gregorio Ticman) convinces the young woman to join an amateur radio singing contest. Celing becomes a success. Meanwhile, after reading about Celing's success in the papers one day, the scheming Doña Esperanza decides she must get her back. She threatens to sue and so Celing consents to return especially because she thinks she means nothing to Victor at all. Victor's mother is furious at Victor: "Kung dangan kasi, nandito na, di mo pa niligawan!" But the young boy, Piding, upon learning that he is to return to Doña Esperanza, becomes hysterical and tries to run away - only to meet an accident that will forever change their lives.