Gina Alajar

Gina Alajar plays a woman who dominates illegal activities in an old district of Manila. Her family's welfare has to be weighed against the interests of the criminal business she runs with her children. (Film Festival Rotterdam)

Narrated through the eyes of a child named Bobet, whose mother, Charing, has an overwhelming reaction upon hearing of the death of her father Juanito. Bobet's relatives all gathers together to mourn the loss of the patriarch. However, their superstitions about the dead and the family's inability to deal with their issues in a civilized manner get in the way. (film.com)

Melinda (Alessandra de Rossi) is a new substitute teacher at the Malawig Elementary School, located in a poor remote barrio. A young university graduate, her family expects her to look for work abroad, but in her idealism she takes on a challenging job in the provincial public school, which lacks resources and has corrupt personnel. The heavy monsoon rains and the nearby NPAs also add to her difficulties.

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)

The fourth installment of the popular Filipino horror series.

Lino Brocka's most intense political thriller, about the radicalization of a former priest cum political prisoner as he witnesses post-Martial Law the unceasing violation of human rights surrounding him through the government's support for "vigilantes" supposedly fighting communism. (Noel Vera)

Good-hearted circus magician Jamir accidentally causes his daughter to disappear. Jamir has to venture into a dangerous alternate dimension in order to rescue his wife, daughter and oafish chubby kid assistant from the vile clutches of evil, ugly, powerful witch Mikula and her grotesque army of freakish animal people minions. (imdb)

Arturo and his wife, Luz Manalastas, both work in a printing press. After Luz becomes pregnant, Arturo ("Turing") is forced to ask for a raise. When he does so, his boss asks him to sign a waiver stating that he is not part of any Labor Union. Soon after, his friends inform him that they are starting a labor union and that they are inviting him to join them. Because of the waiver, he cannot. (imdb)

Angela, a nightclub singer, is plunged into an affair with a married man. She finds herself in the city jail on a charge of frustrated murder filed by her lover's wife. She soon discovers that prison is the place where the most vicious elements of the city are housed together, and that in the women's quarters, all sorts of physical and sexual abuses take place. When she finds out that she is pregnant, she falls prey to bureaucratic imbroglio on the matter of the custody of her baby. (manunuri.com)

North American and Asian women are brainwashed into becoming suicide bombers in an evil Filipino POW camp (imdb)

The hidden nightlife of ordinary people living in Manila unveils. Lovers and families' conflicts are radically pitted against each other as they live in the night streets rampant with drugs and prostitution. The outstanding narrative explicitly unravels the various characters and episodes. This landmark film of Ishmael Bernal depicts the darkness of city life so vividly that it was once prohibited to use the word 'Manila' on its title. (imdb)