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Nars (2007)
Character: N/A
Jennylyn Mercado, Jodi Sta. Maria, Agot Isidro, Coco Martin, and Jon Avila portray five graduating nursing students who are at a crossroads in their lives and their careers. Their different stories are a cross-section of society's nurses. Each character reflects the Pinoy's aspirations, motives, realities, ambivalence, and fears in becoming a nurse.
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Homecoming (2003)
Character: N/A
The movie tells the story of Abigael Edades who returns to her Philippine hometown from her five-year stint as a nurse in Canada. Her town mates rousingly welcome her as a hero, the crass moniker ascribed by the government to hundreds of thousands of Filipinos working abroad. She finds her family in tatters, her parents estranged and living apart and her brother Jepoy living the life of drugs. But she basks in the welcome of her mother and youngest brother Noel and the devotion of her boyfriend, who proposes marriage. Her happiness is short-lived. She is diagnosed with SARS and contaminates Noel. They cause a national scare, are quarantined in Manila and are shunned by their own townspeople and the municipal government. Even her boyfriend leaves her. The hero becomes a heel. "Just a month after my return, my views on life and the people around me have irrevocably changed," she says at the start of the movie.
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Ad Ignorantiam (2012)
Character: N/A
When Donna Reyes is robbed in the middle of a bustling Quezon City overpass, she’s hard pressed to find the thief. But with the help of a friend, Donna is able to track down Robert Igawad, an ill-tempered messenger that becomes the prime suspect in the robbery.
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Hayok (Ipaglaban Mo) (2018)
Character: Macario
Rina’s (Miles Ocampo) happy and peaceful life takes a turn for the worse when her quarrelsome uncle named Mike (AJ Muhlach) enters her family’s life. Despite her initial objection, Beth (Glenda Garcia) soon lets her brother-in-law live with them as he vows to change for the better. Fortunately, Mike keeps his promise and eventually earns Beth and Macario’s (Alan Paule) trust. Soon after, the couple leaves to handle their business and places Rina under Mike’s care. Much to their horror, Beth and Macario come home to an empty house, clueless where Mike and their beloved daughter are.
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Angels (2007)
Character: Tatay Nanding (segment "Angel of Love")
"Angels" is a trilogy. The three episodes featured in the movies are: "Angel of Mine", "Daddy's Angel" and "Angel of Love". "Angel of Mine,"
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Karera (2009)
Character: N/A
LV and her family make their living by operating an illegal off track betting outlet. But things haven't been going well for them lately, and the future is uncertain with Sta. Ana Park closing down.
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Karera (2009)
Character: Danny
LV and her family make their living by operating an illegal off track betting outlet. But things haven't been going well for them lately, and the future is uncertain with Sta. Ana Park closing down.
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Sa Paraiso ni Efren (1999)
Character: Melvin
Melvin, a social worker, meets handsome stripper Efren and they become friends. When Melvin's mother dies, he moves in with Efren and his three female roommates.
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Isla: The Young Version (1996)
Character: N/A
A story of an innocent young lass desperate to leave her homeland to escape her adoptive father's lustful desires.
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Madilim ang Gabi (2018)
Character: N/A
Filipino director Adolfo Alix Jr. returns to the Festival with this timely story of a couple caught up in Rodrigo Duterte’s violent war on drugs when their son goes missing.
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Bomba (2018)
Character: Ben
Pipo makes ends meet by taking on the toughest jobs. Life is more difficult because he’s deaf. He supports himself and his teenage lover Cyril. His irate boss is getting difficult and Ben, his childhood friend wants his daughter Cyril back. Like a bomb, Pipo’s ticking to explode, anytime soon.
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Agawan Base (2011)
Character: N/A
A documentary film director whose agnosticism wavers while covering a 12-year old boy from the slums whose blind faith in God helped them fight back at the two most corrupt, but leading candidates in the coming presidential elections.
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Dumating Ka Lang Ba Para Umalis? (1999)
Character: N/A
An AIDS-afflicted man returns to the country to reconcile with his girlfriend only to find out that they had a love child but she is now married to his brother.
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The Vigil (2023)
Character: Minister Ignacio
Set in a secluded retreat house, a group of young boys undergo an initiation into a secret organization connected to their parents—a distorted rite of passage. When the ritual leads to an unforgivable act, the consequences follow them beyond the initiation, manifesting as overwhelming guilt, fear, and a haunting presence they cannot escape.
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Bakas ni Yamashita (2022)
Character: N/A
Tom and Ric are cousins who search for the Yamashita treasures when a map was given to them by Tom's professor. The map was also being chased by a group of Japanese who are also interested with the treasures. With Tom's and Ric's effort and with the professor helped, they were able to find the treasure even though they've faced challenges and difficult situations.
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Sisa (2008)
Character: Rizal
Narcisa "Sisa" Dalangin is a young Filipina during the Spanish Occupation & is a childhood friend of Jose Rizal.
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Eto Na Naman Ako (2000)
Character: Gregory Valdez
Abet Razalo and Ana Maria Gomez were childhood sweethearts. They find each other again, only this time they have to deal with each other on a professional level - Abet is now Anas bodyguard, and he is tasked to watch over her, now a phenomenally successful singer-actress because she is threatened by an obsessed fan. Abet also learns of Anas engagement to Vince Madrigal, a handsome billionaire. As the situation turns more complicated, the two of them are obliged to spend more time with each other, tempting them to rekindle their old flame. But Abet finds out that Ana is no longer the simple girl he promised marriage to ten years ago. Will love be lovelier the second time around for Ana and Abet or will Ana be spending the rest of her life.
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MNL 143 (2012)
Character: Ramil
On a commuter's trip from Manila's business district to the suburbs, the director finds a myriad of possibilities, ranging from miniature ironic situations to a love story that is finally finding its unexpected closing.
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Boy Tokwa: Lodi ng Gapo (2019)
Character: N/A
Based on a true story, from the accounts of Rodrigo Morelos’ (aka Boy Tokwa) friends, the movie sees Boy’s grandson, Andy Morelos Woods, head back to the Philippines to search the truth about his grandfather.
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Tuksó (2010)
Character: Sir Paul
When teenage pregnancies alarm the principal of the high school where Mayette teaches biology, Mayette is tasked to incorporate sex education into her lesson. How can she teach her students about sex when, at 32, Mayette is still a virgin?
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Happy Hearts (2007)
Character: Sarah's Lover
Happy Hearts is about true love between a young man and a young woman, a son's love for his father, a father's love for his son, and true love between a man and a man. Alvin (Rayver Cruz) returns to the Philippines with her mom Sarah (Jean Garcia) to visit his father, Enrico (Rustom Padilla) a respected professor of an exclusive university for boys and his godfather Louie (Wendell Ramos), a sing-along master and who happens to be Enrico's live-in partner. Alvin falls in love with Kristine (Shaina Magdayao), a rich and talented girl who lives under the strict hand of a very influential father (Tirso Cruz III). Can love survive the odds? Will Alvin fight for his true love? Will the man get to keep his romance with the man? Will everybody's hearts indeed be happy?
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My Kontrabida Girl (2012)
Character: Ishmael Bernal
Isabel Reyes (Rhian Ramos) is an infamous soap opera villain in the country. Everyone simply loathes Isabel which makes her the most condemned personality in the world of television. But by some weird twist of fate, Isabel's life turns upside down when she encounters a near-death accident. The wicked antagonist experiences a sudden change of heart and being the top kontrabida of her soap opera, Isabel couldn't just deliver her heartlessness and cruelty in front of the camera. Her over-the-top villainous persona disappears and she finds herself powerless to kick and slap the lead star. Isabel's show hits a major ratings slump and the network advises her to take a break from work with hopes of reigniting her passion. To solve her dilemma, Isabel seeks the help of the biggest kontrabida icon in the country, no less than Ms. Bella Flores. She finds her on YouTube and says that for Isabel to get herself back, she needs to find the person who hurt her the most.
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Damaso (2019)
Character: N/A
A musical film protraying Padre Damaso, Jose Rizal's famous villain in his book 'Noli Me Tangere.
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Kapag Iginuhit Ang Hatol Ng Puso (1993)
Character: N/A
The serial tells the tragic love story of Vina, a single woman who wants to have a baby despite her advanced age. With the help of her best friend, she met Dave, the man she will eventually fall in love and have a child with. Unknown to Vina, Dave was her best friend's lover, and in the end, Vina would discover that her best friend and the man she loved plotted together to ruin her and her son's lives.
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1st Sem (2016)
Character: N/A
The love-hate relationship between mother and son intensifies when the latter decides not to pursue college education in Manila after suffering from separation anxiety.
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Prinsipe Sabong (2009)
Character: Jeffrey
It's a story about the search for Prinsipe Sabong. The best gamecock that beat Joey's 12-time Champion cock. He went back home to look for it. But Joey found Love instead. Love of his father. Love of his brother Love of his adoptive siblings... But the forbidden love of a woman prompted him to leave his home once again. So when he finally found Prinsipe Sabong, The search ended. But not the quest
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Oras de Peligro (2023)
Character: Bembol
As the EDSA Revolution unfolds, a mother, son, and daughter who live in a slum near Malacañang Palace grapple with the murder of their patriarch in the hands of corrupt policemen, turning from passive victims of social injustice into active participants in the final hours of the uprising.
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Forever My Love (2004)
Character: Troy's Dad
A hunting film about ghosts and undying love. Its a movie about loving another person to death… and beyond.
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Say That You Love Me (2005)
Character: Bob
When a message in a bottle finally reaches its intended target, two unlikely lovers discover they're meant for each other. Working side by side with his depressed father at their family-owned business, Stephen isn't used to doing much talking. On the flip side, the spunky Kristine has never had any problems saying exactly what's on her mind. Can these two polar opposites make their love connection work?
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El Presidente (2012)
Character: Gen. Tomás Mascardo
The film begins with his capture by Philippine and US forces under Frederick Funston's command in 1901, then flashes back to 1886, when an old woman gives Aguinaldo and his childhood friend Candido Tirona cryptic prophecies. Ten years later, Aguinaldo is inducted into the Katipunan and later assumes leadership of its Cavite chapter while becoming mayor of Cavite El Viejo. When the trouble breaks out in Manila in late August 1896, Aguinaldo tries to assure the Spanish provincial government of non-interference and covertly marshals his forces despite a lack of weapons. Learning that the Spanish mostly put their forces in Manila, Aguinaldo finally mobilizes his troops and take the command of the Katipunan forces in Cavite
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Sakay (1993)
Character: Party Guest
The film covers the life of Filipino patriot and hero Macario Sakay, who was declared an outlaw and a criminal for continuing hostilities against the United States after the "official" end of the Philippine Insurrection.
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Iadya Mo Kami (2016)
Character: N/A
Father Greg, a diocesan priest, is reassigned to a parish up in the mountains. He embarks on a mission to help solve the crime, a mission which leads him to the discovery of his own personal salvation.
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Kinatay (2009)
Character: Leo
A young man tries to make some money so he can marry his girlfriend. He takes a job for $2,000 and then soon realizes that this job involves killing a woman.
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UPCAT (2008)
Character: Joaquin - adult
A story of two high school senior students who believes passing the UPCAT will help make their dreams of becoming successful come true.
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Kahit Ayaw Mo Na (2018)
Character: N/A
Joey, a fashion designer, Mikee, a food and travel vlogger, and Ally, an aspiring composer cross their paths in Samar. What seemed to be an ordinary trip for Joey and Mikee turned out to be something more than they presume.
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Nanahimik ang Gabi (2022)
Character: Colonel
The film revolves around the covert relationship of a woman with a corrupt police officer and "sugar daddy."
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Mano Po III: My Love (2004)
Character: Melencio (Fujian China 1959)
Anti-crime crusader Lilia Chiong Yang seems to have everything a woman could want and need: a husband who pampers her; children whom any parent would be proud of; and the respect & admiration of the most powerful people in the land. But just as Lilia prepares for her 25th wedding anniversary celebration, a chance encounter in Thailand with her first love Michael throws Lilia's life into chaos. So begins the resumption of a relationship that threatens to unravel the delicate threads connecting Lilia to the other people in her life. - Written by regalfilms
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Hangga't May Hininga (1996)
Character: Tony Boy
Ellis is imprisoned for seeking revenge for his brother's death, gets hired as an assassin, and later discovers that the child he is supposed to abduct is actually his own from a past relationship.
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Siphayo (2016)
Character: Dante
A self-made farmer and rice mill owner who faces a rebellion by his two sons when he installs his young mistress as the new woman of the house immediately after the death of his wife. Complicating matters further is the fact that the older son is already living with his common-law wife in the same house.
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Ang Anak ni Brocka (2005)
Character: N/A
It is about a group of investigative journalists from a sub-par TV station who accidentally scores a scoop that a 21-year-old boy is looking around for his identity… he claims to be the son of the late director Lino Brocka, a known gay filmmaker.
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Selda (2007)
Character: Boy P.
Set in two contrasting environments that underline the same premise of imprisonment, Selda tells the story of Rommel, a young man who accidentally kills a boy, resulting in his incarceration. Inside the jail, he befriends another inmate, who becomes his rock and protector. Seven years later, Rommel is living in the province as a farmer together with Sita his wife. Esteban tracks down Rommel in hopes of renewing a brewing love affair. Rommel and Sita welcome Esteban into their lives until their intimacy crosses borderlines and results in the undeniable scourge of self-discovery
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Stag (2024)
Character: N/A
Gold reappears after vanishing for months. His car breaks down in a remote area. He meets peculiar people in a house. Waking up in his car, he questions if it was a dream or reality.
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Donselya (2024)
Character: Benicio
Iris, an 18-year old virgin marries Joaquin, a rich widower, because of money. However, when he learns that Iris is not really a virgin, their honeymoon turns to a bloodbath.
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Babae at Baril (2019)
Character: Sonny
A department store saleslady has had enough of being an underdog. One night, she discovers a peculiar-looking gun right on her doorstep. Her life drastically changes as she discovers how much power owning a gun can give her.
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Bahay ni Lola 2 (2005)
Character: Priest
Rupert and Nina, a recently married couple with a newborn, buy a their dream house at a bargain price. As they settle into their home, they glimpse the ghost of an old woman and make a shocking discovery when they dig up the backyard.
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Bes and the Beshies (2017)
Character: N/A
It tells the story of four friends: a single mom hoping to complete her family, a martyr wife who will do anything to keep her family from falling apart, a mistress who is desperate to have her own family, and a young woman who fully supports them.
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Ang Lalaki sa Buhay ni Selya (1998)
Character: Carding
Selya is disappointed with Bobby who only wants sex but no real relationship nor marriage. So she leaves and decides to marry the gay Ramon who, she is convinced, is definitely different.
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Isda (2011)
Character: Turing
Impoverished, childless and living in a garbage dump, Miguel and Lina become instant celebrities when Lina miraculously becomes pregnant. But Lina gives birth to a fish, which increases her celebrity but leaves Miguel humiliated and the couple at odds. What follows is an illuminating examination of how this unusual family copes and compromises in the face of a modern-day miracle.
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Ang Lalake sa Parola (2007)
Character: Young Tisho
Mateo is a lighthouse caretaker dating a teacher Suzette. The small town they are in is trying to increase tourism. Jerome stumbles across Mateo and Suzette having sex, whilst he is on holiday from Manila. A local a gay man, who pays local teenage boys for sex, talks to Mateo about the negative aspects of being gay in the Philippines. According to local legend, a lighthouse fairy seduces desirable men who then never marry. Mateo's relationship with Jerome leads to self reevaluation
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Lockdown (2021)
Character: N/A
The struggles of a young man to survive the pandemic and the naked truth about the life he chose to live in.
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My Father, Myself (2022)
Character: Domeng / Robert's friend
Robert and his wife have a daughter and an adopted son, Matthew, whose biological father is Robert's deceased best friend and former lover, Domeng. Conflict ensues as Robert becomes sexually attracted to a teenage Matthew while Matthew impregnates his stepsister much to the shame of the family matriarch.
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Unbreakable (2019)
Character: Dodi
Mariel and Deena were strangers until they became the best of friends because of the similarities in the pain that they had experienced. Their friendship is put to the test when one of them decides to get married.
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Bato (2019)
Character: Governor
The dramatization of the life of General Ronald dela Rosa.
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Ang Babaeng Nawawala sa Sarili (2022)
Character: Fidel
She gets entangled with three men who want her: her suitor, her ex-boyfriend and her boss. But there's another one who wants to control and turn her into a sex monster.
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The Time That Remains (2025)
Character: Juan Pablo
Surrounded by a string of deaths, an older woman relives her romance with a mysterious, ageless lover as an inspector closes in on their dark secret.
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Elise (2019)
Character: Elise's Dad
As their paths cross again several years later, Bert has a hard time acknowledging that he is still in love with Elise.
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Pinay Beauty (2018)
Character: N/A
Migs needs to settle a huge debt to a loan shark. When Migs explains that he doesn't have the money yet, the loan shark proposes that he could settle the bill if Migs could find Lovi Poe and introduce him to the actress. How does a regular guy who knows no one in show business meet a celebrity?
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Bugso (2022)
Character: Boss
Dado and Estrella want to to start a family and forget their old work as sex workers. But when they meet Baby, their relationship turns shaky as Estrella finds out about Dado and Baby's affair.
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Whistleblower (2016)
Character: Archie Valera
Inspired by the much-publicized travails of Benhur Luy and Janet Lim Napoles, the film opens with a police operation that leads to the recovery of a certain Zeny Roblado who has been unduly detained by her boss Lorna Valera. From there, Zeny spills whatever she knows of Lorna's shady operations to Teresa, a journalist.
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Big Night! (2021)
Character: Manolo
A gay beautician is determined to clear his name after learning he's included in a drug watchlist.
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The Healing (2012)
Character: Ruben
A community rushes to a faith healer after learning that one of them was miraculously healed from a deadly disease by the same person. They are torn apart afterwards as the healing brings them a terrible curse that wreaks harm and death.
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All Souls Night (2018)
Character: N/A
Shirley is a caregiver and finds herself working for a strange family living in fear of her father.
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Tandem (2015)
Character: Alba
In the traffic-laden streets of Metro Manila, two brothers use the chaos of the city roads as a smokescreen for their shady occupation tandem robbers on motorbike. But when a robbery goes sour, the brothers are forced to graduate from low level thieves to high profile hit men in an act that tests both their resolve and their relationship.
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Celestina: Burlesk Dancer (2024)
Character: N/A
Set in the Philippines during the 1940's, Celestina is a story about a woman, a burlesk dancer, who struggles to provide for her family while her husband is a gambling and womanizing drunkard. Despite the hardships, Celestina perseveres and finds strength in her love for her son.
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Tikim (2001)
Character: N/A
A typical bar girl sells flesh just to augment a living. A typical school teenager fell in love with her despite being a prostitute. Both share the course of bodily fascination and enjoy the intensity of lustful obsession...until one day, guilt feelings envelop her conscience.
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Pastor (2017)
Character: N/A
Pastor Luis Aguila and his family are seemingly tested with their faith. Luis is an ex-convinct who is now the head of his church. Mildred, his wife, tries to hide her secret as she grapples between her family and church duties. Their youngest son Carlo wrestles with growing up and tying up his family together. All of them try to overcome these obstacles but things intensify when Pastor Aguila's daughter, Katrina defies her family when she falls in love with the mysterious Jigo.
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The Flor Contemplacion Story (1995)
Character: Gilbert
The story of the Filipina domestic helper who was hanged in Singapore for allegedly killing her fellow maid is chronicled in a film that operates on various personal, social, and political levels. Both controversial and critically acclaimed, it has brought Nora Aunor numerous citations for her intense portrayal as the fallen heroine of the story.
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Deathrow (2000)
Character: Cenon
A neglected and unloved orphan raised by poor relatives in the slums of Manila is wrongfully convicted of murder that resulted from a heist he was compelled to join. Unable to prove his innocence and his minor age, he is thrown into the cruel, perilous and horrifying world of death row where he is introduced to other inmates all awaiting their execution by lethal injection. One of them is a 70-year-old man who detests the jungle of jail and is feared by all the convicts. He would serve as the boy’s protector and savior and in the process touch and shape enormously the violated youth’s life in prison and beyond.
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Pieta (2023)
Character: Isaac's Father
Pieta follows Isaac who tries to navigate the outside world after spending years in jail for killing his father.
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Pula (2024)
Character: Canor
When the brutal murder of a teenage girl devastates his sleepy town, a troubled police officer begins an investigation that tests his limits.
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The Super Parental Guardians (2016)
Character: Dylan Dioko
A family movie that revolves around unlikely "parents" Arci and Paco. Arci gains custody of his best friend's children Megan and Ernie just before she dies. The children's uncle, Paco, has no choice but to join this newfound family. Arci and Paco will now embark on the craziest and greatest adventure of their lives as they play the roles of Momshie and Popshie to both Megan and Ernie.
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Rooftop (2022)
Character: N/A
A group of friends experiences terror because of a prank that went wrong.
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Lakambini, Gregoria de Jesus (2025)
Character: Daniel Tirona
Beloved by revolutionaries Andres Bonifacio and Julio Nakpil, Lakambini Gregoria de Jesus' quest for justice mirrors the film's journey to reclaim the legacy of a forgotten heroine.
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Halik sa tubig (2010)
Character: N/A
About a mythical earth goddess named Mercedita, a powerful wandering earth-bound diwata who watches over the brokenhearted of Binangonan, Rizal.
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Magandang Hatinggabi (1998)
Character: Rene (segment "Killer Van")
Be careful what you wish for… otherwise you will suffer the same fate of this group of young people who are overtly fun-loving and death defying adventure seekers. As they decide to take a quick break from their impulsive roadtrip, ghastly things start to frighten them for real. A gruesomely deformed man named fatman starts telling them three sets of hair raising stories.
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Heneral Luna (2015)
Character: Juan Luna
A Filipino general who believes he can turn the tide of battle in the Philippine-American war. But little does he know that he faces a greatest threat to the country's revolution against the invading Americans.
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Alamat ni China Doll (2013)
Character: Perry
A journalist investigates a woman with the name of China Doll. Soon, he discovers his knowledge of her turns out to be dangerous.
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Boso Dos (2023)
Character: Erpat
Things get chaotic when the gang leader falls madly in love with her. Will she be successful with her mission?
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Tag-init (2004)
Character: Gusting
One mystery envelops a group of friends who goes out on a vacation. Will they find the real criminal or be caught with their own mesh?
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Captive (2012)
Character: Fred Siazon
A dozen foreigners are kidnapped by a terrorist group in the Philippines.
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Mamasapano: Now It Can Be Told (2022)
Character: N/A
The story of the Mamasapano clash where 44 Special Action Force officers of the Philippine National Police (PNP) died on their mission from the point of view of then-PNP Deputy Chief of Operations Major General Benjamin Magalong as he was heading the investigation.
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Virgin Forest (2022)
Character: Mang Canor (Killer Father)
A photographer is tasked to take a photo of a rare flower thriving in the mountain, but he discovers women trapped in a hidden brothel for illegal loggers.
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Macho Dancer (1989)
Character: Pol
Pol moves to Manila for better opportunities after his American lover leaves. However, he gets drawn into the gritty world of gay prostitution and sexual slavery.
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Biyaheng Lupa (2009)
Character: N/A
A bus takes-off from urban Manila to the rural southeastern side of the country, carrying a group of mixed passengers from all walks of life, each one has a personal story to tell and they are telling it in their own voice. During the long journey, as the passengers mentally sort out their past & their future, things happen in the present, by choice or by providence, that make their journey memorable—the bus blows a tire, a song elicits tears, a butterfly causes commotion, a picture gets lost, someone's head is stoned, some hearts are broken, some mended. The bus ride poetizes the life journey and poses questions on issues of life and death and where exactly the line is drawn between free will and destiny.
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Sabel (2004)
Character: Santi
After enduring a troubled childhood, a woman struggles to find herself in this provocative tale about life's vagaries and ultimate redemption. The film follows the emotional journey of Sabel, a complex woman portrayed as both bad and good, who permanently alters the lives of those in her orbit and who is eventually charged with murder.
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Mano Po (2002)
Character: Tonyo
During the Chinese Revolution in 1949, young Chinese copra trader named Fong-Huan marries Elisa, a young and pretty Filipina. The couples children, Daniel and Linda, were raised in a mixture of Chinese and Filipino-Hispanic tradition. These richly cultured people are the ancestors of a dysfunctional third-generation family whose daughters tell their own stories of joy, struggle, and the complex realities in the life of Filipino Chinese families.
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Lola Barang (2025)
Character: N/A
In exchange for her stories, renowned horror director Joey Perez promised to give folk healer Lola Barbara a break as an actress in one of his films. As Joey attains more success as a filmmaker, his promise has slipped his mind. This leaves Lola Barbara to come up with her next plot: revenge a promise unfulfilled.
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Misterio de la Noche (2019)
Character: N/A
Spanish-ruled Philippines, 1800s: A woman, raped and banished to the woods on a full moon’s night, sees her newborn child swallowed by animalistic shadows lurking in the foliage. Raised by the forest’s mysterious ghouls and demons — boars, wild cats and a many-eyed sage — the child grows.
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Porno (2013)
Character: N/A
An assassin, a porn dubber and a transgender. Three souls. One explicit illusion. To find the ultimate joy in their empty lives. A safe haven, where passion and love mean humanity, ecstasy means enlightenment; and the soul is the ultimate arbiter of the truth.
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Throwback Today (2017)
Character: N/A
Primo, gifted with a good eye for production design, ventures into the working world with a great desire to succeed. Unprepared for the harsh realities of the real world, Primo experienced failure, heartbreak and regret in a series of unfortunate events. Life didn’t turn out as he had expected: He wasted away, wallowing in grief, and jumped from one odd job to another for more than a decade. While trying to make ends meet at the peak of his misfortunes, he experiences a technological glitch with his old desktop computer and gets a chance to re-write his life.
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The Blood Brothers (2024)
Character: N/A
The movie tells of Philippine history before Islam came in and is being told in the perspective of two brothers and how the education of the other drove a wedge between them but served as a catalyst to their cultural differences. According to Montano, this project was borne out of his most meaningful visit to the municipality of Upi in Maguindanao where he met Adamat.
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Ma' Rosa (2016)
Character: Oscar
Ma’ Rosa has four children. She owns a small convenience store in a poor section of Manila where everybody knows her. To make ends meet, Rosa and her husband, Nestor, resell small amounts of narcotics on the side. One day, they get arrested. Rosa’s children are ready to do anything to buy their parents’ freedom from the corrupt police.
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Bwakaw (2012)
Character: Berting
Gruff retiree Rene rejects most human contact, but begins to soften once he comes to terms with his homosexuality.
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Aurora (2018)
Character: Eddie
The passenger ship Aurora mysteriously collides into the rocky sea threatening an entire island. A young woman and her sister must both survive by finding the missing dead for a bounty.
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Still Lives (1999)
Character: Paul
An intriguing look into a world of drugs and crime, dynamically moves through the lives of the different characters – the drug lord Enteng, his minions, the police, and customers.
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Bubog (2017)
Character: N/A
A depiction of Philippines war on drugs.
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Gumapang Ka sa Lusak (1990)
Character: Jonathan
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.
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Suarez: The Healing Priest (2020)
Character: N/A
When Fernando was given the gift of healing at 16, he hid it for many years until he became a priest only to find himself in scandals and squabbles with the Catholic Church. Unfazed, he challenged head on but pauses when faced with the question - what if the gift is taken away from him? Based on the true to life story of Fr. Fernando Suarez.
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Haunted Mansion (2015)
Character: Ella's Father
A group of high school students who are spending the night in a old mansion. When they learn that the house is haunted they set to look out for ghosts just for fun , but they find out soon enough that the urban legends are real.
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Anak ni Baby Ama (1991)
Character: Mark
A boy grows up not knowing his real identity. One day, a mysterious lady, claiming to be his real mother, divulges the truth about his roots. He is caught between leaving his past and living his new life.
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Petmalu (2018)
Character: N/A
Seven friends with different backgrounds face their respective problems to join a talent competition.
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Kàleldo (2006)
Character: Andy
The story is set in Guagua, Pampanga a decade after the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo which ravaged the province with lahar. It follows the lives of Rodolfo "Mang Rudy" Manansala, a woodcarver, and his three daughters and their relationships with the people close to them in the span of seven summers.
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Glorious (2018)
Character: Mike
It revolves around Glory, a 52-year-old woman who falls in love with Niko, a guy 30 years her junior. They start a risqué May-December love affair, but will struggle to keep their relationship intact amidst social disapproval and judgment.
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Vince & Kath & James (2016)
Character: Kath's father
Vince is secretly in love with Kath, but reluctantly agrees to text her anonymously on behalf of his cousin James. Things get complicated when Kath begins to feel a connection with Vince.
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Masahista (2005)
Character: Alfredo / Marina Hidalgo
Iliac works in a massage parlor where the gay clients are given more than a shoulder kneading and back rub. When Iliac's father dies he must reconcile his job as a sex worker with the rest of his family.
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