Discoveries from Philippines World Cinema

Mental hospital patients mysteriously dies one by one.

A film about family planning discusses Filipino values like family togetherness, generosity, sacrifice, and compassion.

A movie musical based on the life of Jose Rizal.

A story of a man with two different personalities. One is a blind cook accused of mass poisoning that killed his older lover, and the other is the smart, jolly imaginary friend of his six-year-old son.

The unfinished movie of the late Celso Ad Castillo now a Cinema One Originals documentary film.

A 6-year old girl, Nik-Nik, develops her first crush in first grade with her beautiful math teacher named Anna. The story will revolve on Nik-Nik's attempt on solving the rubik's cube together with her family that eventually represents her identity.

Cain joined in an illegal underground fight, a fight to the death for a huge money hoping the huge prize will change his life. But in the ring, the contender was his long lost friend. After years separated, they meet on the ring that they cannot leave until the other one is dead.

Iggy, an up-and-coming screenwriter is almost done with his story. Aware of what is going to happen once the script is finished, Iggy and his boyfriend, Michael decide to cherish their last moments together. Their last anniversary celebration. Their last song. Their last dance.

A father and daughter tandem (both exceptional scallop divers) sold a clam allegedly containing a pearl worth millions. Blinded by his insatiable desire to find another gem of the same worth, the father makes thoughtless decisions compromising the only thing worth holding his breath for–his daughter.

A nun leaves the monastery and experiences the pain of loving a man.

Shireen Seno’s video essay explores the transformation and commodification of nature through archival photographs from the American colonial occupation of the Philippines in the first half of the 20th century. These images testify to what the voiceover calls “the sticky relationship between humans and nature and their entanglements with empire”—an ambivalent dependence on natural resources that drives the colonial project and implicates photography, with its concurrent processes of preservation, transmutation, and destruction.

A young man from the province is ripped off by the petty crook. He disguises himself and gets a room at the crook's house, waiting for the chance to get his revenge.

After burying their deceased parent beneath the farmland, they used to call home, a devoted loving sister saves the ultimate dream of her suffering sister in a disease who suffers from ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) that is about to take over her life.

Filipino version of the stage play.

Tata went back to his hometown, Bohol with his mother from their poor life in Quiapo. He suddenly realize that his father is still alive. He fell in love with the girl he met named Stephanie who is about to get married to his stepbrother named Prince.

A 27-year-old doctor in her junior residency tests positive for COVID-19. She stays in a quarantine facility, regularly calling her father to ease his worries. Alone, she is haunted by visions of her patients. Following her recovery, she immediately returns to the hospital and once again faces the realities that her patients endure. The physical and mental burden takes a toll on her. Will she survive?

Two trans best friends tear through their town in search of the person who stole half of the cash prize they won in a miss gay competition.

Suffering from blindness since childhood, Tatay Ening continues his life pursuits from climbing bamboo shoots to selling bamboo coin banks alone in a city, kilometers away from his home. His light to the darkness keeps him safe during unimaginable times.

A young woman is left alone to take care of her sick older brother. She struggles to cope with the responsibility of providing his ravenous appetite while fearing what he might do to her.

An Aeta from Baytan village in Zambales makes a living from cutting down and burning of trees and hunting on the foothills of Mt. Pinatubo.

The story is about a teenage boy living in the Philippines who is being persuaded by his family to go to the U.S. to live a better life but continues to be caught in a web of bad choices. The plot is close to my heart because it tells the story of so many of my friends and family living there now and the struggles they face with poverty, drugs, and violence.

Pempem, a 15- year old high school student raised in a conservative and religious household suddenly finds an adult magazine inside her school backpack. The discovery of Bomba Magazine aroused Pempem to explore her true self.

After raping and killing a local woman, an army captain from the conquerors falls under the spell of a witch who turns him into a monstrous demon. Half a century later, an archaeological expedition digs up an enormous stone coffin and 'El Capitan' returns to sow terror while he searches for 'La Koronel' a curvaceous, green-eyed virgin whose blood will allow him to rest eternally. Monsour del Rosario, the undesputed Philippine action movie hero, will be in charge of putting an end to the undead's reign in this entertaining film by Ilarde, generous in action, nude women and gothic horror.

In a lifeless morgue, an embalmer is consumed by a strange desire to secretly taste corpses he prepares, searching for something beyond the ordinary. His morbid obsession spirals when he’s sent to retrieve a body—only to discover that the corpse is his own.

An editorial news writer is challenged to write an article that will be published in their school newspaper.

Coming back from a mission in Mindanao, Lt. Nicolas Aguirre finds the butcher of his family by a criminal syndicate

After his son's sudden disappearance. A single father searches day and night to find him. How far can he go?

Abner lives a drab, downcast, solitary existence. His wife has abandoned him for good. Working for pest control company Panther, his job remains his sole connection to the outside world. It seems going nowhere until he meets Viola, a client who is existence is as sad as his. Wife of a vain college teacher Dodie, Viola is a trapped bird. And meeting Abner seems to give her a chance to fly free. The house, infested with rats all around, becomes a powder keg of emotions and danger as sexual tension between Abner and Viola turns to illicit affair, all happening under Dodie’s nose. In order to extend their relationship, Abner devices something that will eventually lead to a tragedy that will change their lives forever.

Kaloy, a 22-year-old embalmer who illegally moonlights for a corrupt syndicate, extracting bullets from bodies and replacing them with counterfeits for extra cash. But when he finds a familiar face buried within the violence, the reality of his younger brother’s death jolts back his senses.

Funny man Kenkoy courts Rosing the Manileña in this film adaptation of the popular comics strip by Tony Velasquez.

Isha wonders why their company building has no 13th floor. Is it because of the belief that the number 13 is cursed? As she tries to find the answer, she discovers the shocking truth linked to the death of a colleague - a tragedy Isha has been trying to forget.

Two young girls travel through time to assassinate a barangay dictator to revise history. This is Babylon.

A religious man who does petty crimes, PONCHING, gets into a new venture, text scamming, thinking it will not really hurt anyone. One day, his seemingly "innocent" text scam accidentally cons a recipient into thinking he is the bastard child of their late relative.

Ombre tells the story of Jake, an aspiring actor who went to Baguio City for a reality star search audition. There, he meets Dennis, a photographer from Manila. Both stay in a transient house owned by Dennis' gay best friend, Brix.

Two young boys who have met by fate are bound by the irony of their lives. Can two different people share the same story? And can each of them find his own escape?

On the day of her long-awaited job interview, Phearl's only pair of heels was stolen. She must race against time to find them (or another pair) and make it to the interview before she loses this opportunity once and for all.

In 2044, a middle-aged gay man finds himself ageing out of the Manila rave scene. A chance encounter with a mischievous ex-lover changes the tune of his last dance.

Jed, a graduating college student whose mind is bugled by his financial problem due to his remaining school balance. One fateful day he got a work offer from his friend, without any inkling that the offer will lead him to his demise.

A young father is imprisoned for accidentally killing his boss who insults him instead of helping him bring his sick child to the hospital.

A woman fears she'll consume her lover, haunted by her mother's cannibalistic legacy and love's dark hunger.

In defending his brother and himself, a good-hearted man transforms into a hardened criminal.

This is a story of a girl unwilling to embrace her family’s grip on witchcraft.

A group of friends dare each other to stay in a haunted house.

At daybreak, a mother and daughter muse over loss, pain, and absence.

Brian, a young child, has been traumatized by the punishments of his alcoholic and violent mother. One day, while trying to defend himself against another violent punishment, Brian unintentionally kills his mother.

Clarissa, the newly-hired maid, is under the watch of Dolor, the senior maid, for she acts suspiciously. Unknown to everyone in the house, Clarissa is being bothered by a Taglugar, a malevolent creature from her hometown in Visayas.

A 2005 comedy movie directed by Willy Milan starring Mikey Arroyo, Ethel Booba and Katrina Halili.

An action film based on an Aguila Komiks series.

Ryan, a struggling college student, tracks someone from his childhood through Grindr for a certain request.

Infatuated high schooler Toni gets close to her crush, the varsity stud Kim, only to find out that he only wants her help in winning the heart of her older sister, popular influencer George.