Discoveries from Philippines World Cinema

A film with Rita Magdalena.

As their wedding day approaches, Joel and Grace open up about their past lovers, and just before the wedding day, their ex-lovers meet up with them.

After finding out that their family’s matriarch has only little time left to live, they use love as their ultimate compass to navigate the ordeal—gradually testing and reshaping their bonds.

When young sisters Lala and Marlin were orphaned, nobody was there to help them except for an old woman rumored to be an Aswang.

The "king" and the "child wonder" of local cinema appear together in a family-oriented comedy.

Nangungupahan follows the different lives of people who occupy a room of an apartment through different points in time. The room may mean differently to each occupant; and by overlapping these timelines, we gain insight about our shared space and history, as well as the bigger structures outside that affect us.

After being persuaded by his uncle to join the police force, a previously carefree man gains a newfound appreciation of the seriousness of the job and makes a commitment to make a positive impact for himself and his fellow officers.

A liaison between an older woman and her young lover is threatened when he fancies a young, rising actress.

A Filipino drama film directed by Kristina Syfu.

Two totally different strangers get entangled with each other’s fate as a single winning lotto ticket brings them together in luck and love.

A story set in a coastal Quezon town where the mundane lives of a grieving widow, her socially-handicapped son and a helpless grandfather interconnect to create bumps in their flatline lives.

A straight A-student deals with her biggest obstacle in a group project yet: an extremely eccentric group leader who fancies herself a tortured auteur and seeks to make their bar soap commercial her shining magnum opus.

A dark experimental war movie though the war has been long gone. A woman lives and re-lives the memories day after day. Again and again her memories bring her back to the Manila Massacre by Japanese soldiers at the end of World War II. A sensual song about cruelty.

A fantasy story about a man who acquires a copper ring that grants three wishes.

Leo and Agnes two middle-aged people cross paths in a resort where they hope to clear their minds from their respective relationship woes.

Tagged as the first 'bomba' film in the Philippines, it follows the tale from the famous stories of Pogi Magazine.

Tomboyish Zsa Zsa (Klaudia) has just taken over a big business where Federico is a part-owner. Federico wants to buy Zsazsa out but she refuses. So he loses control of the company and hires Bobby to win Zsazsa's heart and later sell her stocks to him

The story revolves around Maxi dela Cerna, a young, aspiring New York-based fashion designer who returns to the Philippines shortly after her mother’s death to find her father. She had been swindled by her ex-boyfriend and hopes to pay off her debts by selling the piece of provincial land that her parents co-owned. But this means spending time with her father whom she hates for walking out on her and her mother 15 years ago. As the uptight and guarded Maxi struggles to immerse herself in farm life and deal with a father she despises, she crosses paths again with Tommy, her childhood friend, now an architect who is trying to heal from his own mistakes in the past with his 7-year-old son.

Former film extra Hilda uses her acting talent to con people for loose change. She unapologetically does this to raise money for her husband's medication. When her scam is exposed to the public, a young writer picks up her story and gives her the chance to tell her side of the story. Will this be another act, or is she finally telling the truth?

Herminia, a woman heavy with children, with her four children in tow witnesses her husband being forcibly taken, tortured, and murdered by henchmen of an unscrupulous, land-grabbing politician due to disputes in land ownership. After being hunted down by these henchmen, they flee their hometown and in the process, Herminia's eldest son and only daughter get separated from them. Herminia and her three boys end up living in the city's slums. 15 years later, each of the boys turns to a life of crime one gets incarcerated for killing his wife, one becomes a robber and kidnapper and the other one becomes a drug dealer.

A mysterious and powerful being in the river catches the attention of the people living around it.

It is like any other day in Artiaga Street when men eat dogs and get drunk and women have to succumb to their husbands’ aggressiveness. Mariana, pregnant with her second child has been planning for this day. She is fed-up. She wants to break loose. On the ground floor, her husband’s dog barks incessantly. Upstairs the baby cries constantly waiting to be fed. She has to fight. A woman, too, has rights. Confronting her drunken husband and the dog, she makes one last bid for freedom that might finally set her free.

An avenging aswang killer teams up with a hybrid and a team of demon hunters to attack the lair of the most powerful underworld warlords, only to find themselves in a twisted trap and a fight to the death.

This movie is about the story of Luis "Chavit" Singson (born 1941), a Philippine politician, and the Governor of the Ilocos Sur province in the Philippines. Singson started EDSA II in October 2000 when he alleged he gave Philippine President Joseph Estrada 400 million pesos as payoff from illegal gambling profits.

A look into the underground world of trafficking human body parts.

A group of campus journalists joined a jeepney modernization protest to cover a story. Unbeknownst to them, they would soon be the subjects of the story they were set out to cover.

There was a robbery in the bank where Joselito Joseco was employed, and having adapted the guts and bravery of his idol, he was able to save the loot and shoot down the robbers.

Her name is Angela and she’s a woman of the world. Daring and defiant, she works as a stripper in a night club to support her family. Her work, she thinks, has made her indiffirent to love. But the day comes when she meets the guy who makes her frigid heart beat again.

Aevan, an artist in her twenties grapples with the anxieties of making art and making money out of it. In this comedic noir experimental film, Aevan placed a camera to capture herself putting down drawings from the wall when the recurring spark of existential creativity came to her.

During the annual Division Math Olympiad, a 4th-year high school achiever, Andrew, faces his estranged relationship with his father as he tries to find the solution to the equation of a line.

Basketball star Benjie Paras and funny man Herbert Bautista play cousins Donato and Buknoy, star player and coach of the Brgy. Maligaya basketball team. The team needs to win the league championship to help their barangay.

Haunted by loss, Rina journeys through haunting visions of grief, where letting go becomes the truest act of love.

Because his mother is too poor to feed her young children, Empoy is sent to work for his exploitative and cruel aunt.

To overcome bullying and defy expectations, an Aeta girl teams up with a folk healer’s son to compete against a 10-year champion in the Agri-Quiz Bee - Finals.

Raquel did not hesitate to break off her engagement with Mon when he asked her to go beyond her limitations. Even with all daring endeavors as a doctor, Raquel still believed in chastity. She longed for the man who would respect her ideals during these modern times. Soon enough she meets Brian, an attractive bachelor who showered her with love and affection. Undoubtedly, Raquel found the man of her dreams in Brian so she decides to marry him. But it was only after they tied the knot that Raquel discovered that Brian was no knight in shining armor but a nightmare who will haunt her for the rest of her life.

A short documentary on the making of Mike de Leon's 1980 film Kakabakaba Ka Ba? (Will Your Heart Beat Faster?), starring Christopher de Leon, Charo Santos, Sandy Andolong and Jay Ilagan.

You're still the one... even in the next lifetime.

Manang Biring is a feisty but terminally-ill old lady who has learned to accept her imminent demise. Until one day, she receives a letter from her long-estranged daughter abroad announcing of her return for the holidays.

It’s all about emotion in this small but powerful drama about a father’s search for his missing son in the perilous backstreets of the Philippines

A story about siamese twin brothers.

Two desperate lovers snatching every bit of forbidden time.

Ace Vergel stars in this action film as an attorney thrust into a world of unlawful gangsters and unfulfilled romance.

Ramon (18) woke up in a dark and cramped room. Beside him was an old man named Fredo (63) who was desperately carving at the wall to make a hole. The place they were in was dimly lit, and the only sounds they could hear were their breathing and the scraping noise of the nail against the wall. As they spent long hours making the hole, they also got to know each other and reminisced about their experiences that led them to their current situation. The hole exposed how thirty people managed to fit into a small jail cell behind a bookshelf, unveiling the mystery of the confinement and injustice system.

Three gorgeous roommates lead challenging lives as modern and liberated women. Despite this, they still find the time to party on the weekend.

A story about a son and his rich overbearing widow mother who's a vocal coach, one day he finds love in his mother's student.

A boy born with catlike powers is adapted by a policeman and his wife. He uses his gifts to do good and protect the ones that he loves.

Directed by Mike Relon Makiling. With Dolphy, Gretchen Barretto, Romnick Sarmenta, Joonee Gamboa.

An expert Army sniper armed with his tactical knowledge and deadly skills, goes on a quest to protect his family from the man who masterminded the attempt on his life and his loved ones.

A story about a family whose mother passed away and the father whose an inventor who built a time machine in search of a new mother for his children.

A pregnant woman was accidentally hit by an ambulance car killing her unborn child. Soon after, hospital patients disappear one by one. Along with her husband, they seek the truth. Meanwhile, the other hospital "tenants" must warn others about an aswang's terrible rampage.

The life story of a kid diagnosed with Down syndrome. He dreams of being an artista; his family has to make ends (and dreams) meet.

When Marie takes a job as a maid in Singapore to support her family in the Philippines, she trades one set of hardships for another. Betrayed by her husband, she begins to build a new life for herself. As she gets caught up in the new life she is building in Singapore, she is forced to choose between her personal aspirations and family responsibilities back home.