Filipino Films - Philippines

Ang Tanging Ina (English: The Special Mother; The Only Mother; The Special Ina; The Only Ina) is a 2003 Filipino comedy film, starring Ai-Ai de las Alas. The movie was the highest grossing locally produced Philippine film ever made, until it was...

x Equalizer 2000

1986

Cirio H. Santiago

Equalizer 2000, also known as Defender 2000, is a 1986 action movie, filmed in the Philippines, featuring an early appearance by Terminator 2: Judgment Day star Robert Patrick. The film is best described as one of the many Mad Max ripoffs which were...

x Gagamboy

2004

Erik Matti

Gagamboy is a Filipino science fiction film made in 2004 directed by Erik Matti and starring Vhong Navarro. It is of the same ilk as the Spider-Man films, with a mutated spider that causes Gamaboy to gain his superpowers. It is about two ice cream...

x I Will Always Love You

Feb 8, 2006

Mac Alejandre

I Will Always Love You is a Philippine movie starring Richard Gutierrez and Angel Locsin. Justin (Richard Gutierrez) is a rich, smart, confident mestizo from a private school in Manila while Cecille (Angel Locsin) is a simple scholar from a rural...

x Let the Love Begin

Feb 2005

Mac Alejandre

Let the Love Begin is a 2005 romantic film released by GMA Films in the Philippines. The film was directed by Mac Alejandre. It starred Richard Gutierrez, Angel Locsin, Jennylyn Mercado and Mark Herras. The film was shown in the Philippines on...

Mac Alejandre

x Mulawin The Movie

Dec 25, 2005

Dominic Zapata

Mulawin: The Movie is the film sequel to the Mulawin television series that was shown on GMA Network. The movie was released on December 25, 2005 and is produced by Regal Films and GMA Films in the Philippines. It is also an official entry to the...

Mark Reyes

Dominic Zapata

Mark A. Reyes

x Muro Ami

Dec 25, 1999

Marilou Diaz-Abaya

Muro Ami (Reef-Hunters) is a film that depicts one of the worst forms of child labor in the illegal fishing system. Fredo is the ruthless captain of 150 Muro Ami divers. The illegal fishing is done by pounding and crushing corals underwater to scare...

Marilou Diaz-Abaya

x Alyas Batman en Robin

1993

Alyas Batman en Robin is an unauthorized 1993 Filipino Batman comedy film produced by Regal Films spoofing the 1960s Batman television series. It stars comedian Joey de Leon as Batman, his son Keempee as Robin (the logo on his costume is actually...

x Batman Fights Dracula

1967

Batman Fights Dracula is a 1967 color Philippines film directed by Leody M. Diaz and written by Bert R. Mendoza.

x Blood Debts

1983

Blood Debts (1983) is a Philippines action movie directed by Teddy Page starring Richard Harrison. While enjoying a picnic, Sarah Collins (Catherine Miles) and her boyfriend (Tom Dulaney) are surprised by a gang of juvenile hunters. They rape her...

x Darna

May 31, 1951

Darna is the first film featuring the Filipino comics character Darna. The film was released on May 31, 1951 by Royal Films. It was directed by Fernando Poe, Sr. and was written by Mars Ravelo, the creator of Darna.

x Ang Panday

1980

Ang Panday (The Blacksmith) is a series of fantasy films shown in the Philippines. The first four films were shown during Metro Manila Film Festivals from the early 1980s, which Fernando Poe, Jr. plays Flavio, the protagonist of the series. The...

x Dalagang Bukid

1919

Jose Nepumuceno

Dalagang Bukid, created in 1919, was the first Filipino movie. It was created by Jose Nepumuceno, the so-called "Father of Philippine Movies".

x Dalagang Ilocana

1954

Dalagang Ilocana (Lady Ilocana) is a 1954 Filipino romantic comedy film produced by Sampaguita Pictures. The film is in black and white and was directed by Luciano Carlos. This film was Gloria Romero's first. She won in her first Best Actress Famas...

x Humanap Ka ng Panget

1991

Humanap Ka ng Panget (Tagalog for You, Find Some Ugly) is a 1991 Filipino comedy film directed by Ben Feleo of Viva Films. The story focuses on the three brothers Andrew E., Jimmy Santos, and Keempee de Leon. They live in the slums of Manila as ...

x Bituing Marikit

1938

Bituing Marikit is the first full-length film produced by Sampaguita Pictures, released in 1938. Its stars were the "Singing Sweetheart of the Philippines" Elsa Oria and "King of the Philippine Movies" Rogelio de la Rosa.

x Tres Muskiteros

Movie Studio: Sampaguita Pictures Country: Philippines

x MN

1954

MN is a 1954 Filipino movie produced by Sampaguita Pictures and written by ace comic writer Pablo Gomez. This film starred Sampaguita players including Carmen Rosales, Oscar Moreno, Alicia Vergel, Cesar Ramirez & Aruray. The movie was a box-office...

x Kundiman ng Puso

1958

Kundiman ng Puso (Song of the Heart) is a 1958 Filipino romantic film produced by Sampaguita Pictures. The film is in black and white. Lolita Rodriguez Eddie Arenas Marlene Dauden Tony Marzan Nori Dalisay Rod Navarro Rodriguez and Dauden play...

x Rodora

1956

Rodora is a 1956 movie from Sampaguita Pictures about a man (Juancho Gutierrez) who falls in love with a girl (Amalia Fuentes).

x Feng Shui

2004

Feng Shui is a 2004 Filipino horror movie starring Kris Aquino about an old bagua mirror that showers luck and prosperity to its owner and brings death to those near her.Feng Shui grossed a whooping 137.56 million Joy a typical mother. She has a...

x Mga Bituin ng Kinabukasan

1952

Mga Bituin ng Kinabukasan was a Philippine movie released in 1952, a story of orphaned children who seek the love of parents. It starred Ike Lozada (also known as the Dambuhalang DJ) and Susan Roces in her first film, where she played an 11-year-old...

x Balisong

1955

Balisong (Folding Knife) is a 1955 Filipino film produced by Sampaguita Pictures. The film is in black and white. Balisong at the Internet Movie Database

x Blood Thirst

1971

Blood Thirst, also known as Blood Seekers and The Horror from Beyond, is a 1971 Horror film directed by Newt Arnold and shot in the Philippines. It tells of an American detective investigating a series of vampiric murders linked to a Manila...

x ABC ng Pag-ibig

ABC ng Pag-ibig (English: ABC of Love) is a 1978 film in the [[Tagalog language|Tagalog]] language.

x Ging

1964

Ging is a film produced in the Philippines and released in 1964. The film is in the Filipino and Tagalog languages. The title of the movie is a girl's name. The film is a family drama and was released by People's Pictures on 20 January 1964. It was...

x Sa Bilis Walang Kaparis

Apr 6, 1964

José de Villa

Sa Bilis Walang Kaparis is a 1964 Tagalog language black and white action movie made in the Philippines. It was directed by Jose de Villa and distributed by Sampaguita Pictures.

x Moments of Love

2006

Mark Reyes

Moments of Love is a 2006 Filipino romance film directed by Mark Reyes, and released in March as a summer offering by GMA Films. It is a classic romantic tale between two people from different timelines. The film stars Dingdong Dantes, Iza Calzado...

Mark A. Reyes

x Bituing Walang Ningning

Mar 16, 1985

Bituing Walang Ningning (A Star Without Shine) was a Filipino television serial drama that began airing in May 15, 2006, and ended on October 6 of that same year on the ABS-CBN television network. For most of its run, the soap opera was the network...

x Sa Pusod ng Dagat

1998

Marilou Diaz-Abaya

Sa Pusod ng Dagat (En. In the Navel of the Sea) is a 1998 Filipino film directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya. Starring Jomari Yllana with Chin Chin Gutierrez and Elizabeth Oropesa, it was released by GMA Films and Film Experts, Inc. The film, was...

x José Rizal

1998

Marilou Diaz-Abaya

José Rizal is a 1998 award winning Filipino film biopic directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya. It was GMA Films' entry to the 1998 Metro Manila Film Festival. It is touted as one of the biggest films ever made in the history of Philippine cinema with a...

x Saranggola

1999

Gil Portes

Saranggola (international title: The Kite) is a 1999 Filipino film directed by Gil Portes, starring Ricky Davao, Lester Llansang and Jennifer Sevilla and produced by GMA Films and Teamwork Productions. It is a chilling morality tale, showing murder...

x Deathrow

Dec 25, 2000

Deathrow is GMA Films' entry to the 2000 Metro Manila Film Festival. Directed by Joel Lamangan, featuring Cogie Domingo and Eddie Garcia. Sonny Corpus (Cogie Domingo), an inhabitant the slums of Manila, frequently hangs out with his friends Celso,...

x Super Ranger Kids

1997

Super Ranger Kids is a Filipino film. Originally released in 1997, the film is a pastiche of the American television series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, the first Power Rangers series, and, by extension, the Japanese Super Sentai series Kyōryū...

x Kubrador

2006

Kubrador (English title: The Bet Collector) (2006), is a film that centers on jueteng, the game of numbers dating back to the Philippines' Spanish colonial period from (1521 to 1898). An ordinary meaningless existence can suddenly be challenged by...

x Blue Moon

Jan 1, 2006

Joel Lamangan

Blue Moon is a 2006 Philippine romantic drama film released by Regal Films directed by Joel Lamangan. The first title choice of this movie was "Nasan ka Man" (Wherever you are) and "Nasaan ka Nang Kailangan Kita" (Where Were You when I Needed You)...

x Masahista

2005

Masahista (English Title: The Masseur) is a 2005 Filipino film written and directed by Brillante Mendoza. This film is about a young man who gives massages to gay men in Manila for a living. Iliac is a young masseur who went home to Pampanga to find...

x Aishite Imasu 1941: Mahal Kita

2004

Joel Lamangan

Aishite Imasu 1941 (from the Japanese 愛しています meaning I Love You; Tagalog title Mahal Kita 1941, “Mahal Kita” also meaning I love You) is a drama, romance, and war movie released in Philippines in 2004 and is a compelling story of love, betrayal and...

x Milan

2004

Milan is a 2004 romantic film released under Star Cinema, ABS-CBN film productions, in the Philippines. It stars Claudine Barretto and Piolo Pascual. It's a love story written by Raymond Lee, and under Olivia Lamasan's direction. This story follows...

x ANG PAMANA

Ang Pamana: The Inheritance is a 2006 Filipino supernatural thriller film. Romeo Candido directed and wrote the script for the film while his wife Caroline Mangosing produced it and plays the role Lola (Grandmother) Nena. The movie was filmed in...

x Miguel/Michelle

1998

Miguel/Michelle is a story about a transsexual who left the Philippines as a man and came home as a woman, challenging her family to reexamine their feelings about homosexuality/transsexuality along with family values and religion. Miguel, a young...

x Macho Dancer

1988

Lino Brocka

Macho Dancer is a provocative film that explores the lives of teenage male prostitutes fighting to survive in Manila's seamy red-light district. Based on a true story and directed by internationally acclaimed Lino Brocka, Macho Dancer depicts a...

x Ang Lalaki Sa Buhay Ni Selya

1997

Ang Lalaki Sa Buhay Ni Selya (English Title: "The Man in Selya's Life") is a controversial 1997 Filipino movie about a woman who confronts her own prejudice among the community of intolerant and homophobic gossipers when she chooses between two men....

x Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros

2005

Auraeus Solito

The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (Filipino: ''Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros) is a story about a gay teen who is torn between his love for a young cop and his loyalty to his family. Maxi (Nathan Lopez) is a 12-year-old effeminate gay boy who...

x Twilight Dancers

2006

Twilight Dancers is the last installment of director Mel Chionglo and writer Ricky Lee's trilogy about Macho Dancers. The first part was Sibak: Midnight Dancers in 1994, and the second part was Burlesk King in 1999. The trilogy took inspiration from...

x Burlesk King

1999

Burlesk King is the second film in the gay-themed trilogy of Mel Chionglo and Ricky Lee about the lives of macho dancers, men who work as strippers in Manila's gay bars. The first is Sibak: Midnight Dancers; the third is Twilight Dancers. Other...

x Sibak: Midnight Dancers

1994

Sibak: Midnight Dancers is the first of a series of three gay-themed movies by Mel Chionglo and Ricky Lee about the lives of macho dancers (strippers) in the gay bars of Manila. The later two are Burlesk King and Twilight Dancers. All three follow...

x Markova:Comfort Gay

2000

Gil Portes

Markova: Comfort Gay is a film based on the life of Walter Dempster Jr., the last surviving Filipino comfort gay from World War II. It tells the story of his hardships during his childhood and his travails during the World War II Japanese Occupation...

x Pusong Mamon

1998

Joel Lamangan

Pusong Mamon (English Title: Soft Hearts) is a romantic comedy film directed by Joel Lamangan. Unaware of her co-worker's sexuality, Annie tries to seduce him. After learning she's pregnant, she moves in with him despite her discovery that he is gay...

x Super Noypi

Dec 25, 2006

Super Noypi is a Filipino fantasy film released on December 25, 2006 and was directed by Quark Henares. It was an official entry to the 32nd Metro Manila Film Festival. Six normal childhood friends bound together by friendship find themselves faced...

x So Happy Together

2004

Joel Lamangan

So Happy Together is a comedy film about friendship. Lianne played by Kris Aquino, whose relationships always fail while Osmond played by Eric Quizon is the gay best friend. Their friendship lasts for decades, even beyond Lianne's becoming a mother...

x Duda/Doubt

2003

Doubt (Tagalog: Duda) is a 2003 Filipino film about fidelity and deception in a gay relationship. Cris, a young director, meets Erick and developed a relationship with him. After being together for several months, their relationship began to fall...

x Sa paraiso ni Efren

1999

Sa Paraiso ni Efren (English Title: Efren's Paradise) is a film that tackles emotional entanglements that interweave when an unusual four-way relationship blossoms. Melvin, a Social worker meets handsome stripper Efren and became friends. When...

x Sukob

Jul 28, 2006

Chito Roño

Sukob (titled The Wedding Curse internationally) is a 2006 Star Cinema film starring Kris Aquino and Claudine Barretto. The movie was directed by Chito Rono who Kris worked with in the 2004 hit horror film Feng Shui. Sukob is considered as the...

x The Impossible Kid

1982

x For Your Height Only

1981

Eddie Nicart

x Pamahiin

Pamahiin is a 2006 Filipino horror film directed by Rahyan Carlos, the title translates into "Superstition in English. The film plays on the superstitious beliefs Filipinos have about death. The movie starred acclaimed TV and film actor Dennis...

x Shake, Rattle & Roll IV

1992

Shake, Rattle & Roll IV is a Filipino horror-comedy film released in 1992 and the fourth installment of the Shake, Rattle & Roll film series. It is also distributed by Regal Films. It is also directed by Peque Gallaga. ANG GURO Jodie (Manilyn Reynes...

x Shake, Rattle and Roll 2k5

Dec 25, 2005

Shake, Rattle & Roll 2k5 (also known as Shake, Rattle & Roll VII) is a 2005 Horror-Comedy released in Philippines. This is the seventh installment from its series Shake, Rattle & Roll It is also an official entry in 31st Metro Manila Film Festival....

x Ouija

Jul 25, 2007

Topel Lee

Ouija is an award-winning 2007 Filipino horror-thriller film from director Topel Lee, his first feature length, from the screenplay by Aloy Adlawan. The film stars Jolina Magdangal, Iza Calzado, Rhian Ramos and Judy Ann Santos as cousins, haunted by...

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