Lino Brocka

Julio, a young man from a rural village, goes to Manila in search of his girlfriend who went there a year earlier.

Mother, Sister, Daughter (Ina, Kapatid, Anak) tells the story of half-sisters competing for the love of men. Emilia, played by Charito Solis, seeks the love that her father shows to the more favored daughter, Pura. Played by Lolita Rodriguez, Pura is after the attention of a man seduced by Emilia into marriage to spite her. (cinefilipino.com)

A story of two brothers, who are heirs to a ranch run by their domineering mother. The mother has made a favourite of Ellis her more wayward son, which does not improve their relationship. (BFI)

The first Filipino film to show at the Cannes Film Festival is set in the slums of Manila. A beautiful girl gets raped by her mother's lover, and then learns how to exact revenge. (imdb)

Kuala and Bertong, a leper, live in a cemetery where a young man befriends them against the wishes of his lawyer father.

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)

A Nun named Dolores become a victim of rape she is punished by cruel superiors. She become pregnant and gave birth. Dolores met Vince and married him but she discovered that Vince was the one who raped her.

This is a compelling 3 movies-in-1 feature, with established and (then) emerging actors. (imdb)

Abandoned by his American lover, a handsome teenager from the mountains journeys to Manila in a n effort to support his family. With a popular call boy as his mentor, Paul enters the glittering world of male strippers, prostitution, drugs, sexual slavery, police corruption and murder. Teeming with sex and Asian beefcake, Macho Dancer is a seering indictment of the hypocrisy and police corruption rampant under both the Marcos and Aquino regimes. (imdb)

Vilma Santos, Gabby Concepcion, Eric Quizon and Snooky Serna star in this dramatic tale about two cousins whose marriages couldn't be more different, prompting a battle between true love and selfish passion. While Teresa (Serna) married Renato (Concepcion) for love, Lucinda (Santos) dumped Renato long ago to bulk up her bank account by wedding Gerald (Quizon). But trouble begins to brew when Lucinda wants Renato back and Gerald falls for Teresa. (KG)

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)

Jaguar is slang for bodyguard, and the hero guards a smart apartment block, supports his family, and stays out of trouble. But when he intervenes in a fight, saving the life of a wealthy playboy and landowner, he gets hired as the man's personal guard and falls for his girlfriend. (timeout.com)

Dioscoro Derecho, a.k.a. Coring (Dolphy) has nurtured a crush for his handsome young friend Dennis (Philip Salvador, Brocka's then newfound protégé). When Dennis appears at Coring's door with a baby and a need to disappear for a while, Coring has no choice but to take in the child, and raise him as best he can. (cinefilipino.com)

Bona is a grave-looking woman who drops out of school to pursue her crush on the narcissistic Gardo by moving in with him, more as a servant than anything else. Gardo, in the estimation of Bona's enraged father, is either a second- or third-rate actor in Philippine action movies. (imdb)

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)

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)

Three poor girls from the provinces of the Philippines are lured to the big city. In Manila they are tricked to work in the sex trade. (imdb)

An UNICEF omnibus on the rights of children.