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Filipino
Description
Filipino director Brillante Mendoza brings a frank, gritty immediacy to SERBIS, a multi-character, day-in-the-life portrait of a family-run movie house in the Philippines. The Pineda family operates and lives in a run-down adult movie house. Preoccupied with their own personal demons, the family is unmindful that inside their movie theater, their customers are engaging in another kind of business.
2) Day zero
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Filipino
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After serving eight incident-free years in prison, a former elite soldier is released, finally free to reunite with his estranged wife and young daughter. However, he re-enters civilization only to discover that the outside world has been completely overtaken by a dangerous virus with terrifying effects on the human body. Chased by hordes of the undead, he races through the dangerous urban landscape in a final desperate attempt to redeem himself and...
5) Islands
Author
Language
Filipino
Description
Joshua, a shy middle-aged Filipino immigrant, has lived in the comfort of his parents' home his entire life. As their health declines he longs for a partner, terrified of being alone after they pass.
Author
Language
Filipino
Description
A young, female writer gets teamed up with a male writer to create the perfect romantic movie. Their clashing personalities and different perspectives on relationships lead them through a journey of self-discovery, ultimately finding out what it really takes to write about love.
9) General Luna
Author
Language
Filipino
Description
Set during the Philippine-American war, a short-tempered Filipino general faces an enemy more formidable than the American army: his own treacherous countrymen.
Author
Language
Filipino
Description
"Bonifacio: The First President" is a historical action epic that brings to light the powerful, true-to-life story of Filipino revolutionary Andres Bonifacio-one of our country's national heroes-with his virtues and humanity, unfolding through the eyes of a young man in this day and age.
11) Tandem
Author
Language
Filipino
Description
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.
12) Water Lemon
Author
Language
Filipino
Description
Set in Mauban Quezon, a group of characters cope with the small town blues, longing for life in a lifeless milieu.
13) On the job
Language
Filipino
Description
When a prominent drug dealer is murdered, Sergeant Acosta (Joey Marquez) and Federal agent Francis (Piolo Pascual) lead the investigation, but the trail goes immediately cold. What they discover is a conspiracy of massive scale. The killers (Joel Torre and Gerald Anderson) are inmates, temporarily released from jail as assassins before returning to incarceration.
Language
Filipino
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"Leonor Reyes was once a groundbreaking figure in the Filipino film industry during its ragtag action cinema glory days in the 1980s, but now she struggles with old age, mounting bills, and the untimely death of her son. While revisiting an unfinished script about a fearless protagonist trying to avenge his brother's murder, Leonor is struck on the head by a falling television set and knocked into a coma. As she lays unconscious in the hospital, fantasy...
15) BuyBust
Language
Filipino
Description
After surviving the slaughter of her entire squad in a drug raid compromised by dirty cops, anti-narcotics special operative Nina Manigan, is eager to go head-to-head with the drug cartels that hold a bloody grip on Manila. But when her new mission in the city's most dangerous slum goes south, the angry civilians turn on her squad. Trapped between a brutal drug gang and hordes of bloodthirsty citizens, their only option is to fight their way out,...
16) Our mighty yaya
Series
Language
Filipino
Description
Virgie who is a hideous-looking but sympathetic woman from the province is hired as a nanny for an affluent family in Manila.
18) Ma' Rosa
Language
Filipino
Description
The film follows Rosa and her husband Nestor, owners of a tiny convenience store who supplement their meager income by selling small amounts of 'ice' (crystal meth). Eventually the couple gets caught and hauled away by police, who are more interested in collecting bribes than eradicating crime. With their parents locked away, it's left to Rosa's children to scrounge together the money to pay off the police and free their parents, by any means necessary....
19) Finding you
Language
Filipino
Description
"Nel never forgets, literally. His condition, called Hyperthymesia, makes him remember everything in the past, and he uses it for his work as a journalist. He is plunged into an enigmatic journey when, one day, his social media account pops up throwback posts he supposedly wrote about a girl who apparently broke his heart"--Container.
20) Signal rock
Series
Language
Filipino
Description
Intoy takes care of his parents when his sister moved out to work overseas. Since he lives in a remote area in Samar, the only way he could contact his sister is by going to strange rock formations on the island.
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