Eddie Garcia
Total Credits at Criticker: 36 (Actor), 1 (Director)
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The story revolves around Ben Mercado, a talented high school senior who has rejected his Filipino heritage. The long-simmering feud between Ben and his immigrant father Roland threatens to boil over and ruin the 18th birthday party of Ben's sister Rose. But to Ben's surprise, his sister's celebration challenges his sense of misplaced identity, and the way he regards his father and grandfather... (imdb)
When two troublemaking female prisoners (one a revolutionary, the other a former harem-girl) can't seem to get along, they are chained together and extradited for safekeeping. The women, still chained together, stumble, stab, and cat-fight their way across the wilderness, igniting a bloody shootout between gangsters and a group of revolutionaries. (imdb)
Satan saves Ashley from death on condition he become his disciple (and, as it turns out, a hairy murderous beast). (imdb)
A band of adventurers invade a native island determined to grab a reported fortune in buried treasure. The islanders are just as determined to keep their sacred treasure. Complications ensue. (imdb)
A scientist kidnaps a man and transports him to an island, intent on turning him into a super-being. The man obviously doesn't like this idea, so he tries to escape with the help of the scientist's daughter and a band of half-human, half-animal creatures. (imdb)
A mad scientist creates a monster, but after its head is cut off, he keeps it alive in a serum he has invented. (imdb)
The Jefferson's honeymoon night in Hong Kong will be troubled by a number of people wishing to get hold of a Bouddha statuette that the husband offered her when window-shopping that day. When the going gets rough, it helps that Cal Jefferson is a top American boxer... (imdb)
Kuala and Bertong, a leper, live in a cemetery where a young man befriends them against the wishes of his lawyer father.
An ornery old retiree -- who only came to terms with his homosexuality tragically late in life -- leads an isolated existence with only his faithful dog for company, until a chance encounter offers him a final chance for happiness. (tiff.net)
Flashbacks encompass the history of the Philippines as well as the life story of the elderly Daniel Aguila. The Aguila family gathers to celebrate Daniel's 88th birthday, but the old man is nowhere to be seen -- he has been missing for a decade. Suspecting that his father is in Mindanao, one of his sons takes off for that region in a determined search. Along the way, his memories of the nation and his father's life tell the story of eighty tumultuous years of personal and historical development. (imdb)
Tony, the only son of a Mafia Boss from San Francisco gets murdered in the Phillipines during a street robbery. Raymond, his best friend flies to the States and joins the Boss's organization. The Boss adopts him. In a Mafia meeting the members wanna kill the Boss 'coz he brought in Raymond. Ray takes revenge and kills everybody his own way. He also needs to find Anita his girlfriend from way back in the Phillipines (she's working as a nurse now in San Francisco).
It tells of a frustrated and ambitious stage mother, Toyang (played by Lolita Rodriguez), who forces her son, Joey, into a showbiz career and ultimately ends up in a tragedy. 70s teenage heartthrob, handsome, clean-cut and the boy-next-door type, Walter Navarro starred as the son, Joey Galvez, who at the peak of his stardom was gunned down by his erstwhile girlfriend Nina (Lotis Key), in a fit of jealousy and anger. (KG)
When a civil war in the Philippines breaks out, a gay man born into a military family is forced to enlist in place of his ailing father.
The bizarre history of Filipino B-films, as told through filmmaker Andrew Leavold's personal quest to find the truth behind its midget James Bond superstar Weng Weng. (imdb)
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 ... (imdb)
Barber's Tales is a pensive tale of the self-discovery of a voiceless woman as propelled by personal crisis, in an age of political upheaval. (rappler.com)
A bourgeois filmmaker who sought out a stripper to act in his film, subsequently catalyzing her career as an actress. On her rise to fame, she introduced her taxi driver boyfriend to the world of showbiz with the hope of improving his downtrodden life, and he soon became her leading man on the silver screen. At the height of their stardom, glamor, and wealth, their souls became corrupt--the couple morally conflicted and wounded by the on screen façade of their love and selves. (themoviedb.org)
A coalition of anti-narcotics brigades from many countries make a daring attempt to halt the flow of opium and heroin from the part of Southeast Asia, known as the Golden Triangle. The major syndicate operating in the area is led by Big Boss Norton, who is the target of their raid. (Wu Tang Collection)
Two Hong Kong cops try to bring down an international king pin, however he has other police on his payroll so it's not going to be an easy task. IFD films answer to Internal Affairs. (Wu Tang Collection)
Anino (2000) - Short Film
In Manila, a solitary man from a far-away province lives in poverty. The only thing he has is a camera, and he stays at churches hoping people will hire him to take their photographs. During one day, he has three encounters that change his life.
A young blacksmith realizes his destiny when a malevolent demon bent on ruling the world unleashes an army of creatures on humanity.
Shi-Eun (Su-jeong Lim) is a woman whose love for riding horses makes her face trials and tribulations. (imdb)
Three troublesome friends learns that one of them is actually rich when his father passes away and leaves him a hacienda.
Set at the turn of the 20th century during the Filipino revolution against the Spaniards and, later, the American colonizers, it follows a naive peasant through his leap of faith to become a member of an imagined community. (imdb)
The film addresses several issues at the same time: the stigma surrounding HIV, the carelessness of the youth in the Philippines when it comes to sex, the heavy-weight consequences of growing up with a troubled parent and the Christian double moral. - IMDb
The true story of Andres Bonifacio, a man who rose as a leader in the fight against the Spanish oppressors, and would gain the enmity of even those fighting for the same cause.
A story of a sad and insecure woman, who feels a need to win in a beauty pageant to prove herself worth and to fulfil her mother dying wish. (themoviedb.org)
An old woman's decision to leave her husband after years of constant bickering upsets the couple's children. (themoviedb.org)
A story about poor man who met a rich woman and her wooer which he bested in a fight. That fight led the poor mans parents to be mistreated and killed. After being ambushed and scarred by the wooer he flees and meet someone who would change his life.
An old man living in a nursing home in the States finds joy in watching a Filipino afternoon variety show on cable. His secret wish is to use the variety show to reconnect with an old love, but his cynical son is standing in his way.
"Sa isang sulyap mo Tita" dubbed as one of the biggest and spectacular musical movies in the 50s and starring the country's popular reel-and real life sweetheart and husband-and-wife tandem in Philippine movie, Pancho Magalona and Tita Duran. With the backdrop and setting in the life in the navy. It looks of two Hollwood musical classics - "Anchors Aweigh" (1945) and "On the Town" (1949). Pancho Magalona and Dolphy as navy men or sailors, ala-Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly, are in days of and they
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.
St. Peter is exasperated with the antics of Kerubin, a mischievous little angel, so he sends her to Earth with the proviso that she cannot return to Heaven until she makes one sad soul happy. Kerubin settles on Anastacia, a young homemaker who wants to have a child but cannot; meanwhile, her husband's eye is beginning to wander.