Filipino
see all genres ›Boasting a healthy film industry from the 1930s onward, the Philippines became a hub for foreign investors and exploitation cinema in the 1960s and then found its filmmakers growing both more socially conscious and subject to censorship in the '70s. Today, a shrunken marketplace has hurt commercial production but also encouraged a new generation of independents who's fostered new interest amongst adventuresome cineastes.
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Ruined Heart
What happens when you take one of the most punk rock filmmakers on the planet, Khavn de la Cruz (a filipino lo-fi maestro who elevates shambolic to an art form) and put him together with acclaimed cinematographer Christopher Doyle and Japanese acting icon Asano Tadanobu? RUINED HEART is what...Watch Movie
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The Scavengers
Vince Edwards first screen appearance (uncredited) was in Delmer Daves' DARK PASSAGE, a gritty noir adapted from a novel by David Goodis. Edwards is arguably best known as the lead in MURDER BY CONTRACT. THE SCAVENGERS, directed the following year by the underrated John Cromwell, is a solid B...Watch Movie
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Mansyon
A middle-aged couple, housemaid Dolores and her gardener Ambo, is hired to take care of a large, opulent house while its owners are away on vacation. This old, disconnected couple finds themselves inhabiting a space far removed from their normal reality, surrounded by a life beyond their reach....Watch Movie
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The Raiders of Leyte Gulf
This rugged location-shot war actioner dramatizes events leading up to one of the key Pacific battles between Allied and Japanese forces. U.S. Army intelligence officer Major Wilson (played by Jennings Sturgeon, an expat painter, actor and former U.S. military officer who died...Watch Movie
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Daybreak
A beautiful and poignant love story from acclaimed director Adolfo Alix Jr., starring festival favorite Coco Martin. DAYBREAK happens entirely in one place: a gorgeous modern house in the Filipino countryside and with only two characters. William and JP spend one night contemplating whether to...Watch Movie
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The Walls of Hell
This gritty, atmospheric war movie dramatizes a chapter of World War II history in which 10,000 Japanese soldiers, fearing execution if they surrendered, disobeyed their own superiors' orders and barricaded themselves in Manila's Intramuros section along with a thousand or so...Watch Movie
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Storm Children
With striking black & white photography, this critically-acclaimed observational documentary from Philippine master Lav Diaz takes stock of the devastation wrought by typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) on the Philippine coastal town of Tacloban. The film, which follows three children as they cope with the...Watch Movie
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Wretched Lives
WRETCHED LIVES focuses on Vanessa, a cosmetics consultant who is forced to care for her troubled and mentally-challenged sister after the sudden death of their mother. Her hustler boyfriend, Olivier, seems unreliable and Vanessa soon abandons him for Uno, an ostensibly liberal and caring...Watch Movie
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The Ravagers
It's WWII in the Philippines and the last of the Filipino guerrillas take a stand against the Japanese forces on their island. Soldiers sent by the Japanese Imperial High Command to retrieve a great treasure of gold from its hiding place, take over the island and torture the residents, including...Watch Movie
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Brides of Sulu
This curio from "Exploitation Picture Corp." offers one part invaluable anthropological record to one part endearingly cloddish, staged "exotic" romance. The filmmakers traveled to the Sulu Islands in the southwestern Philippines (which were then a U.S. "protectorate”) though, as our hokey,...Watch Movie
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Big Time
Danny and Jonas are two petty crooks with big dreams. When their carefully-planned kidnapping goes all wrong, Danny and Jonas find themselves in a tangle they can't handle. Two small-time criminals, a wannabe actress, the son of a crime lord and the felony that brings all of them together for...Watch Movie
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The Bet Collector
Amy, the family matriarch, makes ends meet by running a small convenience store out of her home. In a struggling economy, customers are scarce and without the help of her husband or pregnant daughter, she is forced to supplement the family income by collecting bets for an...Watch Movie
