Drama Movies
Carol Jeffries is a naive American woman staying in the Philippines. She is given ten years in prison after being set up by her drug-dealer boyfriend, Rudy. She endures the…
A stripper and taxi driver are fished out of poverty and anonymity by a commercial film director. The obsession with success forces them to affect images as movie stars, which…
Lino Brocka’s adaptation of Mars Ravelo’s “komiks” melodrama about a successful businessman who is terrified of being exposed as a homosexual.
A story about a girl who needs to find a husband so that her family can get half a million peso inheritance from their dying grandfather. So the father finds…
Set at the backdrop of the colonization of pre-Hispanic Philippine, this historical epic revovles around the story of Ramir, a half-caste warrior falls in love with Princess Mahalina. Ramir has…
Siblings discover that their father has their vampire mother chained up in the cellar. The mother bites her son and soon everyone in the community is either dead or a…
A story of a man who joined the guerilla in World War 2.
Lamberto Avellana’s English-language film based on Nick Joaquin’s play about a painter, a painting, two sisters, and a crook.
A story about a silent man who was part of the guerilla who escaped the Japanese and seeks aid and rest in the vicinity of a father who lives with…
A boy’s life turned around when one night a man shot and killed his widower father. He then grows up and becomes a vagrant till his fateful meeting with an…
Gerardo de Leon’s masterpiece of an adaptation of Jose Rizal’s gothic revenge novel.
Based on the revolutionary novel by Jose Rizal.
A working-class man gets embroiled in an illegal syndicate while trying to make a living.
Malvarosa is the poignant story of a family’s struggles in life. It tells of Rosa who lives in the slums near the railroad tracks, with her mother and five brothers….
Is society to blame for the bruised and twisted minds of a city’s slums snarling, growling, and grumbling as they are? “Barkada” awaits your verdict.
This strikes straight at the heart because it is a tender story of four people, each deserving a Purple Heart.
A mother and her four children are alone in a cruel world. Is it the mother’s fault if her loved ones go astray after all her sacrifices and concern for…
Hassan, the son of a tribe chief of the Badjaos, a pagan, sea-dwelling Filipino tribe, meets and falls for Bala Amai, the niece of the chief of the Tausugs, an…
An incorruptible and dedicated judge, known as Hukom Roldan, whose once quaint and quiet family life was shattered when he handed a verdict unfavorable to his erstwhile and powerful friend,…
Based on a true story about a valiant Vietnamese Military Officer whose family and fiancé fell victim to injustice and ruin during the Communist insurgency in Vietnam. The film was…
An actress Chrisy gets tired of her onscreen partner, so the studio made a nationwide search for a new lead actor. One day Robert gets scouted by Chrisy the only…
A war hero forced to participate in a smuggling ring meets a prostitute in the postwar ruins of Manila.
A touching drama of parental love that prolific filmmaker Susana de Guzman adapted from her own serialized novel in Liwayway magazine.
Salome, a seductive and alluring daughter of Herodias and stepdaughter to King Herodes, discovers faith and Christianity through her love for a Roman centurion named Cornelius.
“Pasiya ng Langit” is the 1954 remake of “Sawing Gantimpala” (1940), now lost.
A man would receive an inheritance from his uncle but under one condition to stay away from music.
A story about a grandfather who is a landowner and a granddaughter whos an aspiring writer who pretends to be squatters to know why the people are disgruntled with them.
A doctor finds love in a remote resort when he was asked by a friend to be his best man at the wedding. Ric and Gloria met accidentally while fishing…