Ronnie Lazaro

Ronnie Lazaro

Born: November 14, 1957
in Fabrica, Sagay, Negros Occidental, Philippines

Movies for Ronnie Lazaro...

GomBurZa
Title: GomBurZa
Character: Francisco Mercado
Released: December 25, 2023
Type: Movie
A powerful and moving historical drama that tells the courageous story of three Filipino Catholic priests: Mariano Gomez, José Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora.
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Title: Araro
Character: Sir Luis
Released: November 19, 2023
Type: TV
Edgar plans to exact revenge to Leon by charming and seducing all the women in his life.
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Tamgohoy
Title: Tamgohoy
Character: Tamblot
Released: November 18, 2023
Type: Movie
Synopsis: Dagohoy plays a flute near a river when disrupted by an ethereal voice and the tragic news of his brother's death. Desperate for a proper burial, he pleads with the reluctant Friar for blessing, leading to a disagreement and Dagohoy's injury. A kind villager found Dagohoy helplessly and tended his wound. Afterwards, a 'spirit' visited Dagohoy in his dream. The following day, they seek Tamblot, a male Babaylan and revolutionary leader, to further heal Dagohoy's wounds. While performing the ritual of renewal and baptizing the new resistance fighters, the Friar saw the traditional baptism. He disapproves and challenges Tamblot, leading to a fight. After some time, while still constantly visited by the 'spirit,' the revolutionaries prepare for a significant uprising led by Dagohoy. Their battle cry for justice signals the beginning of 85 years of revolution.
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The Gospel of the Beast
Title: The Gospel of the Beast
Released: October 28, 2023
Type: Movie
A teenage boy who, while searching for his father and accidentally killing his best friend, gets his life turned upside down and learns the destructive realities about life, death, and beasthood.
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When the Waves Are Gone
Title: When the Waves Are Gone
Character: Primo Macabantay
Released: August 16, 2023
Type: Movie
Lieutenant Hermes Papauran, one of the best investigators of the Philippines, is at a deep moral crossroad. As a member of the police forces, he is a first-hand witness of the murderous anti-drug campaign that his institution is implementing with dedication. The atrocities are corroding Hermes physically and spiritually, causing him a severe skin disease resulting from anxiety and guilt. As he tries to heal, a dark past haunts him and has eventually come back for a reckoning.
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Kahit Maputi na ang Buhok Ko
Title: Kahit Maputi na ang Buhok Ko
Released: April 8, 2023
Type: Movie
Rey Valera relives the inspirations - people, situations, communities, and times - that spurred him to compose some of his most popular and deeply meaningful Original Pilipino Music hits across the decades of his iconic career.
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Title: AraBella
Character: Hadji
Released: March 6, 2023
Type: TV
AraBella is the story of Roselle, the owner of a known chocolate confectionery business, and her search for her long-lost daughter.
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Title: Batang Quiapo
Character: Lucio
Released: February 13, 2023
Type: TV
A young man rises to be one of the biggest outlaws in the neighborhood while he navigates his way in life to survive in Quiapo. Hoping to earn the affection of his parents, his feat draws him closer to the truth about his identity.
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In My Mother's Skin
Title: In My Mother's Skin
Character: Antonio
Released: January 20, 2023
Type: Movie
Stranded in the Philippines during World War II, a young girl finds that her duty to protect her dying mother is complicated by her misplaced trust in a beguiling, flesh-eating fairy.
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Title: Big Bet
Released: December 21, 2022
Type: TV
Cha Moosik runs a casino bar, only to flee to the Philippines due to a crackdown by the National Tax Service. He launches a full-fledged casino business, and strategizes winning over the political and business circles in the Philippines. However, he is suddenly framed as a suspect in Min Seokjun's death, and is tracked by Oh Seunghoon of the Korean Desk. Betrayal is rampant in the presence of money.
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Title: The Iron Heart
Character: Lito
Released: November 14, 2022
Type: TV
An undercover agent goes on a dangerous mission to bring down a crime ring. Fueled by a bitter and painful past, he along with his allies faces the grueling task that will challenge his resolve and strength.
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Unsolved Equation
Title: Unsolved Equation
Character: as
Released: September 16, 2022
Type: Movie
During the annual Division Math Olympiad, a 4th-year high school achiever, Andrew, faces his estranged relationship with his father as he tries to find the solution to the equation of a line.
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Cargo
Title: Cargo
Released: August 6, 2022
Type: Movie
A woman relieves the heavy burden from her past when she finally exacts revenge on the man who murdered her entire family.
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Gensan Punch
Title: Gensan Punch
Character: Coach “Rudy”
Released: June 10, 2022
Type: Movie
Nao Tsuyama, a disabled athlete, refuses to let his articifical leg hinder his dream to become a professional boxer. His remarkable journey takes him from Japan to the Philippines, and specifically the celebrated ‘Gensan’ quarter which has spawned worldwide stars such as the legendary Manny Pacquiao.
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Ikaw Lang Ang Mahal
Title: Ikaw Lang Ang Mahal
Character: Erik Salamanca
Released: May 20, 2022
Type: Movie
Lira, a prize-winning author, spends a week to finish her final novel. But when she meets Andrei, a young documentarist, her plans start to change.
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Putahe
Title: Putahe
Character: Abel
Released: May 13, 2022
Type: Movie
When Euka arrives on the island, Jenny, a young barrio lass aspires to be like her. When Euka teaches her everything, Jenny realizes she has taken a dose of her own medicine.
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Adarna Gang
Title: Adarna Gang
Character: Fernando
Released: March 11, 2022
Type: Movie
Alluding to the lore of Ibong Adarna. Seeking justice, Adriana vows to take revenge on the family that killed her father her target: the patriarch, and his three sons Juan, Diego, and Pedro.
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Title: The Broken Marriage Vow
Character: Dr. Jose Alindayo
Released: January 24, 2022
Type: TV
A seemingly perfect home gets shattered by broken trust and infidelity, bringing forth catastrophic effects into the lives of the couple, their son, and everyone else involved. This is a story about a woman scorned.
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Title: Walang Hanggang Paalam
Character: Nick
Released: September 28, 2020
Type: TV
Estranged couple, Emman and Celine, is brought together by the disappearance of their son, Robbie, only to find the love that they have lost in the past.
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Damaso
Title: Damaso
Released: November 20, 2019
Type: Movie
A musical film protraying Padre Damaso, Jose Rizal's famous villain in his book 'Noli Me Tangere.
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Mañanita
Title: Mañanita
Character: Priest
Released: October 29, 2019
Type: Movie
An ex-military sniper who was honorably discharged accepts a mission that will indefinitely change her life in the attempts to make ends meet. It is a quiet character study of when your life’s purpose is stripped away, but you still pursue it, only to realise that it could kill you.
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Pansamantagal
Title: Pansamantagal
Released: March 20, 2019
Type: Movie
Leo and Agnes two middle-aged people cross paths in a resort where they hope to clear their minds from their respective relationship woes.
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Maria
Title: Maria
Character: Greg
Released: March 7, 2019
Type: Movie
When a former BlackRose cartel assassin deliberately betrays them by refusing to complete her mission, the cartel orders her execution. Unbeknownst to them, she fakes her own death and is able to create a new life of her own. When the cartel discovers she is alive, the hunter becomes the hunted as she fights to get revenge on those who took her new life away from her.
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Goyo: The Boy General
Title: Goyo: The Boy General
Character: Lt. Garcia
Released: September 5, 2018
Type: Movie
With this film (the second war trilogy set during the Filipino-American war in the early 1900s), the revolution marches on against the Americans after the bloody death of General Antonio Luna. The conflicted philosophies behind the heroic struggle continue and become personified in the colorful character of General Gregorio "Goyo" del Pilar.
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Kamandag ng Droga
Title: Kamandag ng Droga
Released: December 6, 2017
Type: Movie
An all-too-real film on the country's current war on drugs, the film tackles the angle of the family members and community of addicts and pushers.
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The Barker
Title: The Barker
Character: Don Mauricio
Released: October 25, 2017
Type: Movie
A story of a barker who falls in love with a beautiful lady.
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Tatlong Bibe
Title: Tatlong Bibe
Released: March 1, 2017
Type: Movie
A story about love, hope, giving, sharing, forgiving and three ducks.
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Title: Someone to Watch Over Me
Character: Estoy Mercado
Released: September 5, 2016
Type: TV
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A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery
Title: A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery
Character: Sebastian Caneo
Released: March 26, 2016
Type: Movie
Andres Bonifacio y de Castro is considered to be one of the most influential proponents in the struggle against Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines during the late nineteenth century. Bonifacio’s widow is searching for her husband’s missing dead body; as she and her followers stumble deeper into the jungle, they become entangled in the dense thicket of their own guilt and responsibility. The Spanish governor tries to play off the various rebel factions and their utopian visions against each other. At the same time, a badly wounded companion of Bonifacio reflects upon the victims a revolution inevitably creates. Mythology, facts and a vibrant sense of history merge.
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The Last Pinoy Action King
Title: The Last Pinoy Action King
Character: Himself
Released: October 22, 2015
Type: Movie
An intimate and often heartbreaking portrait of one of the Philippines' most beloved screen icons.
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Heneral Luna
Title: Heneral Luna
Character: Lt. Garcia
Released: September 9, 2015
Type: Movie
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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Title: Pangako Sa 'Yo
Character: Francisco Macaspac
Released: May 25, 2015
Type: TV
Driven by the heartbreak from her ill-fated romance with Eduardo and the tragic loss of her loved ones, Amor seeks revenge against his family. Unbeknownst to Amor, her daughter is still alive and is in a similar love affair with Eduardo's son.
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Porferia
Title: Porferia
Released: November 9, 2014
Type: Movie
Porferia, who is 9 months pregnant, and her husband Felix, are abducted by the military and wrongfully accused of insurgency. Porferia's wild imagination and unsinkable hope carry them through the ordeal of torture, leading to their eventual escape.
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Tigbao
Title: Tigbao
Released: November 3, 2014
Type: Movie
Its been 16 years since Mang Celio's son has gone missing. When a forensic team arrives to investigat the disappearances, Mang Celio goes through a range of emotions as he unearth his truths.
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In the Can
Title: In the Can
Released: October 8, 2014
Type: Movie
A suspense film based on true cases of human trafficking, tells the story of Carlo, a 14-year old boy's daring attempt to escape slavery in a sardines factory.
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Ibong Adarna: The Pinoy Adventure
Title: Ibong Adarna: The Pinoy Adventure
Character: Dulangkaw
Released: October 1, 2014
Type: Movie
A young man sets out on a dangerous quest for a magical bird with the power to heal any ailment.
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Sparks
Title: Sparks
Character: Komander
Released: August 3, 2014
Type: Movie
While the marriage of two professors is on the verge of falling apart, the woman is dragged into a scandal involving a young student. On the other hand, the man falls in love with the subject of his research—a deity that appears to him as the ghost of an old flame.
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Mumbai Love
Title: Mumbai Love
Character: Mang Mando
Released: January 22, 2014
Type: Movie
An Indian raised in the Philippines falls in love with a Filipina on business in Mumbai. She leaves unexpectedly, and he travels back to the Philippines to find her.
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Bahay ng Lagim
Title: Bahay ng Lagim
Released: September 10, 2013
Type: Movie
Taking place in a convent, we follow the story of Sister Sofia whose life takes a grave turn upon the arrival of, the troubled and haunted, Fatima. (Shown in the Sineng Pambansa National Film Festival) A masters' master tribute seeks to honor the memory of Celso Ad. Castillo with the showcase of the last film he directed.
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Onang
Title: Onang
Released: July 31, 2013
Type: Movie
A 12-year-old girl named Onang (Yssa Ramos) found herself at the doorstep of reaching her dreams – to becom a performer. Onang, who lived all her life with her widowed father Tatang (Ronnie Lazaro) at the mountaintop in Ilocos Sur, joined a choir that would represent their town at a competition in Manila. Despite her father’s disapproval, she went on and left for the city. With hopes of realizing her dreams and living a new life, Onang learned that staying was more impossible than leaving.
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The Pirate
Title: The Pirate
Released: July 3, 2013
Type: Movie
A story of greedy businessman on how they make their own money.
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Juana C. The Movie
Title: Juana C. The Movie
Released: June 5, 2013
Type: Movie
A young woman from a far off province is sent to study in a prestigious Manila university. But she gets caught up in the wrong crowd and ends up becoming a high class prostitute. Her surprising skill gives her access to the most powerful figures in the government, which exposes her to corruption at the highest levels.
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El Presidente
Title: El Presidente
Character: Gen. Candido Tirona
Released: December 25, 2012
Type: Movie
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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Lost Command
Title: Lost Command
Character: Linda's father
Released: December 25, 2012
Type: Movie
When the government sends soldiers to Mindanao, the soldiers never came back, so another group of soldiers have been sent there to retrieve the lost group of soldiers. Shockingly, the missing soldiers have been transformed into aswangs or 'zombies'. While searching for them, some infected soldiers that were missing, got angry to the rescuers for abandoning them for years. So, the humans are in hot pursuit from the monsters
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Shake Rattle and Roll Fourteen: The Invasion
Title: Shake Rattle and Roll Fourteen: The Invasion
Character: Linda's Father (segment "Lost Command")
Released: December 24, 2012
Type: Movie
Shake, Rattle and Roll 14 : The Invasion is a 2012 science fiction horror film directed by Chito S. Roño. The film stars an ensemble casts including Janice de Belen, Herbert Bautista, Dennis Trillo, Lovi Poe, Paulo Avelino, Martin Escudero and Vhong Navarro. The film was produced by Regal Entertainment, Inc. The film is an official entry in the Metro Manila Film Festival and the film's scheduled release is on December 25, 2012 in Philippine Cinemas nationwide. This fourteenth installment also serves as the Most Independent throughout the entire series for its sole director, Chito S. Roño. This Installment features the comeback of Janice de Belen and Herbert Bautista which both starred in past Shake, Rattle and Roll installments, especially Shake, Rattle and Roll I which included both of them but in different episodes.
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Boundary
Title: Boundary
Character: Limuel Alcantara
Released: December 5, 2012
Type: Movie
A guilt-ridden and disheveled taxi driver named Limuel Alcantara picks up a mild-mannered businessman named Emmanuel Lazaro as his last passenger for the night. Limuel's conspiracy to bring Emmanuel to the hideout of robbery gang leader Diego Gawaran takes a wrong turn. Their journey together from Manila to the foothills of Antipolo becomes a tension-filled and claustrophobic experience. The only way out of this seemingly eternal ride is to face their damnation.
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Huling Biyahe
Title: Huling Biyahe
Character: Mang Victor
Released: November 22, 2012
Type: Movie
Two aging couple who work in the Filipino film industry, a linear editor and an ex-dubber, who, at the twilight of their lives, decide to part ways to know what’s missing in their lives. They both explore things they haven’t explored before as they both undergo a sexual awakening in their lives. The wife finds comfort in a local school janitor whom she sees a slight parallelism to her life. On the other hand, the husband gets enamored on a shy barrio lass whose face elicit the same weakness he has for women chinita eyes.
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Pridyider
Title: Pridyider
Character: Detective Albay
Released: September 19, 2012
Type: Movie
Years ago, Tina (Andi Eigenmann) was sent away to the United States to live with her aunt because of an incident involving her parents that has never been explained to her. She moves back to the Philippines into their old home, hoping for a new start. Unfortunately for her, shes not alone in the house. The kitchen is home to a demonic, human-eating refrigerator. Tina must dig into the past to discover the truth about what happened to her parents, and to find a way to defeat the infernal appliance.
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Captive
Title: Captive
Character: Abu Azali
Released: September 5, 2012
Type: Movie
A dozen foreigners are kidnapped by a terrorist group in the Philippines.
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The Reunion
Title: The Reunion
Character: Mang Ben (Shirley's Dad)
Released: August 15, 2012
Type: Movie
Four young men who were friends in high school reunite several years later to discover that they all have failed professionally and their love lives haven't really gone anywhere. They go on a quest to find and reconnect with their school sweethearts and finally achieve happiness.
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Ang Katiwala
Title: Ang Katiwala
Character: Gimo
Released: July 25, 2012
Type: Movie
Ruben loses his job as a carpenter in a small town in Zambales where he lives with his wife Eden and their 10-year old son, Budoy. Desperate to make ends meet, he accepts a job as a caretaker of an abandoned property in Quezon City. Ruben soon finds out that the previous owner of the house is an important figure in the country’s history. When he is interviewed by a TV reporter about this historical figure, Ruben feels embarrassed that he knows nothing about him. Ruben soon starts reading up to get to know more about the life of this person, his accomplishments and what he has done for the people. Ruben’s fascination about the person’s life and his inevitable hero-worship irks the only friend he has in the sprawling compound, the night-shift security guard, Gimo, who jokes that Ruben is slowly being possessed by the soul of his new hero.
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The Kidnappers of Ronnie Lazaro
Title: The Kidnappers of Ronnie Lazaro
Released: June 29, 2012
Type: Movie
"ANG MGA KIDNAPER NI RONNIE LAZARO" is about a group of down and out-of-luck men who decided to make a film starring Ronnie Lazaro, the most sought-after indie actor in the Philippines. Things get complicated when Lazaro decides to beg-off from acting on their supposed "indie film" and the guys were forced to abduct the actor." - Agimat Project
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Title: Kung Ako'y Iiwan Mo
Character: Cito
Released: April 16, 2012
Type: TV
Kung Ako'y Iiwan Mo was a Philippine daytime television drama airing on ABS-CBN's Kapamilya Gold, in association with The Filipino Channel. .
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Tamawo
Title: Tamawo
Character: Lando
Released: December 25, 2011
Type: Movie
A family transfers into an isolated town where the family man tends to his blind wife and illegitimate son. Soon they find out that extraordinary creatures lurking outside their house are looking for something they claim stolen from them.
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Shake, Rattle & Roll 13
Title: Shake, Rattle & Roll 13
Character: Lando (segment "Tamawo")
Released: December 25, 2011
Type: Movie
An old man Lando (Ronnie Lazaro) has buried something under his house. When he is finished, he encounters a group of white people. The chieftain (Manu Respall) demands Lando to give back something that belongs to them which he refuses. Angered, he and his tribesmen savagely killed him.
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Manila Kingpin
Title: Manila Kingpin
Character: Zapanta
Released: July 15, 2011
Type: Movie
Mobster Asiong Salonga (ER Ejercito) rules the mean streets of Manila with an iron fist—until he is betrayed by a trusted friend. Manila Kingpin is based on the story of the notorious Tondo, Manila, gang leader Nicasio “Asiong” Salonga, whose true-to-life accounts had been portrayed in several movie versions since 1961 (starring Joseph Estrada). It is also the first Filipino major film produced in black-and-white in the 21st century as well as the returning action genre movie. Before the film was shown, Tikoy Aguiluz requested the producers, through his lawyers, that his directorial credits in the film and promotional tools be removed because the final version of the film can no longer be described as his after the producers made a reedit, re-shoot and music mixing without his involvement. He also demanded that he be allowed to make a director's cut of the film.
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Ishmael
Title: Ishmael
Character: Ishmael
Released: November 8, 2010
Type: Movie
An ex-convict who is ostracized by his neighborhood. Little does he know that this neighborhood he once knew is set to awaken his past. Ishmael decided to come back home to find peace and solitude in a place familiar to him. But his dream of rebuilding his shattered past is shaken when a mysterious innocent girl ends up in his front yard. A powerful religious cult headed by an enigmatic leader known as the Ama, is running the town.
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Amigo
Title: Amigo
Character: Simon
Released: July 14, 2010
Type: Movie
Rafael is a village mayor caught in the murderous crossfire of the Philippine-American War. When U.S. troops occupy his village, Rafael comes under pressure from a tough-as-nails officer to help the Americans in their hunt for Filipino guerilla fighters. But Rafael's brother is the head of the local guerillas, and considers anyone who cooperates with the Americans to be a traitor. Rafael quickly finds himself forced to make the impossible, potentially deadly decisions faced by ordinary civilians in an occupied country.
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Title: Gumapang Ka Sa Lusak
Character: Falcon
Released: February 8, 2010
Type: TV
Gumapang Ka Sa Lusak or Secret Affairs is a Sine Novela offering produced by GMA Network starring Dennis Trillo and Jennylyn Mercado. From October 15, 2012 until February 19, 2013, GMA Life TV aired its English-dubbed version worldwide.
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Manila Skies
Title: Manila Skies
Released: October 19, 2009
Type: Movie
Inspired by a true news account, this is the astounding story of a lone deranged hijacker who has struggled to survive in the chaos of modern Philippine society.
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Title: Nagsimula sa Puso
Character: Mario Bernardo
Released: October 12, 2009
Type: TV
Nagsimula sa Puso is a top rated afternoon drama that aired on ABS-CBN's afternoon block, replacing Kambal Sa Uma. It is a remake of the 1990 film the same title starring Hilda Koronel.
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Villa Estrella
Title: Villa Estrella
Character: Gusting
Released: July 1, 2009
Type: Movie
How come people who go there are never seen again? Does the villa "eat" people alive? The movie tells the story of Ana who has always been having nightmares about certain people getting killed of Madre Na Aswang. Things become scarier when her ex-boyfriend brings her to Villa Estrella where she meets a girl named Gisele who seems to be very familiar to her.
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Title: Totoy Bato
Character: Podong Magtanggol
Released: February 23, 2009
Type: TV
Totoy Bato is a boxing-themed Philippine drama from GMA Network, based on the graphic novel created by Carlo J. Caparas, that depicts the remarkable story of an ordinary person named Totoy Magtanggol, played by Robin Padilla, becoming a skillful boxer and conquering injustice with bravery and compassion. The series premiered on February 23. This is considered to be the first Indie Television Show for Robin's own crew in the production and blocking the powers of the management to control the show.
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Love Me Again
Title: Love Me Again
Character: Mang Dodong
Released: January 15, 2009
Type: Movie
Arah dreams of a better life different from the life she knows in Bukidnon. Ranches everywhere are closing one by one. The glory her hometown once knew was slowly disappearing in favour of life abroad, particularly in Australia. Arah believes this too. Australia will save them from poverty. But Migo does not share this belief. He believes that Bukidnon’s glory will return if only people didn’t leave. Migo is Arah’s first love.
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Affliction
Title: Affliction
Character: Junior Villacin
Released: December 1, 2008
Type: Movie
A young girl develops an unknown infection that causes her to evolve into a horrifying monster.
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Brutus, Ang Paglalakbay
Title: Brutus, Ang Paglalakbay
Released: August 14, 2008
Type: Movie
Shot in Oriental Mindoro, Philippines, Brutus follows two kids smuggling logs from the mountains. It is about the journey that opens their eyes to a 'world' that is ruled by greed and torn by the political conflicts.
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Namets!
Title: Namets!
Character: Farmer
Released: July 11, 2008
Type: Movie
Follows the flirtation between Manuel and Lourdes, two Negrosanon whose lives revolve around food. Along the way, we are treated to the full panorama of Negrosanon cuisine and the idiosyncrasies of Negrosanon eating.
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Ploning
Title: Ploning
Character: Old Veling
Released: April 30, 2008
Type: Movie
In the picturesque island of Cuyo, Palawan, an illegal Taiwanese fishing vessel docks carrying the fisherman named Muo Sei, a man looking for something or someone with the name Ploning. He has from sunrise to sundown to look for this "Ploning".
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Casket For Rent
Title: Casket For Rent
Character: Batul
Released: November 7, 2007
Type: Movie
Ataul for Rent is a narrative social satire movie depicting the lives of the slum dwellers of "Kalyehong Walang Lagusan", a very narrow, congested, miserable alley/compound in a typical squatter's area. The story revolves around the lives of a live-in couple who owns a small-time funeral parlor renting out coffins of four different sizes, small, medium, large and extra small. Guido, the owner, doubles as the embalmer, while his partner, Pining, does the make-up and uses the same implements for both the dead and the living and is the jueteng kubrador of the neighborhood. Gossipers, gamblers, drunkards, drug addicts, ex-convicts, prostitutes, snatchers and other notorious characters regularly hang out in the funeral wake/s of the alley either drinking alcohol, in the gaming table, or just gossiping around. These personalities, having been born and growing up in this kind of environment, see themselves as having the right to abuse their own bodies and cause untold miseries to others.
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Temptation
Title: Temptation
Released: October 3, 2007
Type: Movie
The mysterious death of a young village lass leads to the investigation of those who knew her and what they may have to gain from her death. Told from the perspectives of the different characters, the film examines how one's view may lead to varying interpretations of the same incidents.
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Title: Natutulog Ba ang Diyos?
Character: Bernardo Ramirez
Released: July 16, 2007
Type: TV
Natutulog Ba Ang Diyos? was the fourth installment of Sineserye Presents, an ABS-CBN production. It is based on the 1988 film, Natutulog Pa Ang Diyos which, in turn, is based on the original novel of the same name by Ruben R. Marcelino. The story revolves around a young woman who was switched at birth. As a result, what could have been a life of prosperity became a life of poverty. Meanwhile, the baby boy who was put in her rightful place has grown up to be spoiled and irresponsible, but is secretly caught up in his feelings for her.
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Ang M.O.N.A.Y ni Mr. Shooli
Title: Ang M.O.N.A.Y ni Mr. Shooli
Released: March 21, 2007
Type: Movie
A 2007 Filipino satire written and directed by Jun Urbano
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Green Rocking Chair
Title: Green Rocking Chair
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
Juan Baybayin searches for the early alphabet of the Filipino and the journey takes him to different kind of adventures. A personal insights of the filmmaker regarding the baybayin-the early Filipino writings before the Spanish colonizers came to the island.
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Heremias: Book One - The Legend of the Lizard Princess
Title: Heremias: Book One - The Legend of the Lizard Princess
Character: Heremias
Released: November 3, 2006
Type: Movie
A wandering peddler separates from his fellow salesman and becomes involved with criminals in the jungle.
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Secret of San Joaquin
Title: Secret of San Joaquin
Character: Blind Man
Released: December 25, 2005
Type: Movie
A pregnant woman fears for the life of her unborn child.
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Shake Rattle & Roll 2k5
Title: Shake Rattle & Roll 2k5
Character: Bulag (segment "Lihim ng San Joaquin")
Released: December 25, 2005
Type: Movie
The second installment of episodes from this classic horror series scares up even more screams than the first. In "Poso," a wealthy client tempts a hack occultist out of retirement. In "Aquarium," a family moves into their new home only to discover that the previous occupants left something terrible behind. And in "Lihim," a pregnant woman fears for the life of her unborn child.
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Be Mine Again
Title: Be Mine Again
Character: Nonoy Cruz
Released: December 18, 2005
Type: Movie
The film explores the tension between human freedom, what people decide to do with their lives, and divine wisdom, what God asks for each person. Also starring Noel Trinidad and Sandy Andolong.
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The Son of Brocka
Title: The Son of Brocka
Released: July 30, 2005
Type: Movie
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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Sandalang Bahay
Title: Sandalang Bahay
Character: Mang Anong
Released: July 30, 2005
Type: Movie
A story of three sisters in a family home by the beach in the province.
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Baryoke
Title: Baryoke
Released: July 13, 2005
Type: Movie
Sexually frustrated Perla wants out of her marriage; servant Lea yearns for power; streetwalker Joan has a secret; and Diana is lost in grief. They find escape and salvation in the only place that inspires hope: the karaoke bar. Music is the only way they're able to feel whole once more, but will it work in the long run?
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Last Take, Last Shot
Title: Last Take, Last Shot
Released: July 13, 2005
Type: Movie
A black comedy film, which focuses on two film workers, Raffy, the clapper, and Dido, a utility boy. Both share the same dream: to direct their own films someday. Their lives as mere "small production people" took a different turn when, together with the people in the unit van they were riding,had an encounter with armed men. Their co-workers were killed, and the two of them were forced to drive the unit van out of fear until it ran out of gas. The van contains equipment for movie production like cameras, lights and film stocks. They ended up in a secluded barrio not yet reached by modern technology, and therefore, the townsfolk knew nothing of the movie industry.
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Boso
Title: Boso
Released: April 13, 2005
Type: Movie
Jake (Jeffrey Quizon) is a caretaker at a boarding residence that houses a whole array of characters. But one day his life changes when he hovers over the lives of newlyweds Cecilia (Katya Santos) and Ding (Allen Dizon).
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Illusion
Title: Illusion
Character: Pablo
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Set in Philippine post-American colonialist era, where the American influence was still apparent, Ilusyon tells the story of Miguel, a young man from the countryside, who decides to visit his father, Pablo, a Modernist painter in Manila. Upon his arrival, he discovers that his father has decided to leave for the province but he opted to stay in Manila for a vacation. One day, he meets Stella, a nude model originally scheduled to pose for Miguel's father. Struck by her beauty, Miguel does the unthinkable - he pretends to be his father the painter. Developing a relationship based on a lie, things turn for the worse as Stella begets a strange skin disease that turns off Miguel. Surrounded by strange characters - a talking cow, a talkative mailman and a nosy landlady - Miguel is driven into a frenzy realization about beauty, lust, love and being true to oneself. An ambiguous ending underlines the surreal tone of the film.
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The Echo
Title: The Echo
Character: Caretaker
Released: December 25, 2004
Type: Movie
After moving into his new digs a ratty apartment in a decrepit building Marvin senses that something is amiss. Every night, domestic violence occurs at the home of his neighbors: an alcoholic cop, his wife, Anna, and their daughter, Lara. When bloody apparitions of Anna and Lara flash before Marvin's eyes, he begins to question his sanity in this atmospheric horror film.
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The Call of the River
Title: The Call of the River
Character: Kuwanggol
Released: December 24, 2004
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of a (somehow) love-triangle set in Bohol during World War II; though the main underlying themes deals with Filipino nationalism and the legacies of colonialism.
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Evolution of a Filipino Family
Title: Evolution of a Filipino Family
Character: Fernando
Released: September 17, 2004
Type: Movie
An intimate epic made with uncompromising and austere seriousness that patiently and methodically observes the collapse and hopeful revival of a poor farming clan, meant to symbolize a nation’s history spanning 1971 to 1987.
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Astigmatism
Title: Astigmatism
Character: Manong Gerry
Released: July 17, 2004
Type: Movie
Astigmatism an experimental digital film written and directed by independent filmmaker Jon Red. Shot on mini-digital video it stars Robin Padilla and tells the story from the point of view and through the eyes of Bien an assassin who suffers from astigmatism.
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Au bout du rouleau
Title: Au bout du rouleau
Released: November 29, 2002
Type: Movie
An aging captain who has spent his life sailing the China Sea agrees to do one last race for a crooked shipowner.
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Title: Kay Tagal Kang Hinintay
Character: Mirdo Orbida
Released: July 8, 2002
Type: TV
Kay Tagal Kang Hinintay is a Filipino soap opera, produced by ABS-CBN and Star Cinema. It started in the year 2002 and ended in the year 2003. The critically acclaimed and top-rating teleserye won the CMMA Best Drama Series and the PMPC Star Awards Best Primetime Drama Series. It is the first local soap opera that became a finalist to the Best Drama Series category of the International Emmy Awards. It was also part of the top five drama series of the Asian TV Awards. The series currently re-airs internationally this 2012 via The Brand New Cinema One Global after 8 years.
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Utang Ni Tatang
Title: Utang Ni Tatang
Character: Al
Released: June 12, 2002
Type: Movie
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Jesus the Revolutionary
Title: Jesus the Revolutionary
Character: Miguel Reynante
Released: February 6, 2002
Type: Movie
A man named Jesus takes on the ruling military junta.
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Radio
Title: Radio
Character: Peter
Released: August 8, 2001
Type: Movie
A female DJ is stalked by a serial-killing listener.
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New Moon
Title: New Moon
Character: Datu Ali
Released: July 20, 2001
Type: Movie
Ahmad belongs to the Bangsamoro people. While many of his kind are bent on fighting, thinking that Mindanao is only for the Muslims, Ahmad prefers to live a simple and peaceful life. He works as a doctor in Manila while his wife, Fatima, and his only son, Ibrahim, stay in Mindanao with his mother, Farida. Ahmad is shocked and devastated when Fatima breaks the confounding news. Ibrahim was killed by a stray bullet when vigilantes indiscriminately fire at their village. Ahmad goes back to where he came from Mindanao. Ibrahim’s death did not cause Ahmad to stop striving to live a peaceful life, much to the consternation of his brother, Musa. His brother takes an exactly opposite stand. Musa believes in waging a war against all the Kaafir (unbelievers) who may impede the Moro’s goal of independence. He even trains his young son, Rashid to a Muslim warrior’s life.
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Shadows
Title: Shadows
Character: Photographer
Released: November 9, 2000
Type: Movie
In Manila, a solitary man from a far-away province lives in poverty. The only thing he has is a camera, and he stays at churches hoping people will hire him to take their photographs. During one day, he has three encounters that change his life: the first, with a smooth-talking young man who's standing by the church door who berates him for wasting his life in church, the second with a boy who offers to take his picture, and the third with a Mercedes-driving man who's been stuck in traffic and has no patience left. Is there any deliverance from the soullessness of the city?
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Naked Under the Moon
Title: Naked Under the Moon
Released: September 8, 1999
Type: Movie
A young woman recalls how her father (a fallen priest), her mother (a woman with a secret past) and her teenage sister returned with her to live in their ancestral home after the family business failed. She was plagued with mysterious problems of sleepwalking and began a romance with a young man who tried to cure her.
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Brokedown Palace
Title: Brokedown Palace
Character: Security
Released: August 13, 1999
Type: Movie
Best friends Alice and Darlene take a trip to Thailand after graduating high school. In Thailand, they meet a captivating Australian man, who calls himself Nick Parks. Darlene is particularly smitten with Nick and convinces Alice to take Nick up on his offer to treat the two of them to what amounts to a day trip to Hong Kong. In the airport, the girls are seized by the police and shocked to discover that one of their bags contains heroin.
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Yesterday Children
Title: Yesterday Children
Character: Nonong
Released: March 3, 1999
Type: Movie
It is the time of El Niño, a season ruled by superstition and fear. The rain is long in coming, the ground has cracked up dry. The ricestalks are thin and sickly. Villagers go hungry. And a boy dies from a snakebite. The adults splinter. Some pray. Others join a cult to appease earth spirits and wait for the ada, the ricefield spirit goddess of bountiful harvest who dances naked on moonlit nights and signals the need for a virgin’s sacrifice. There are fence sitters, equally pro-church and pro-cult. A landlord’s steward enforces his master’s usury on hapless farmers. A self-righteous priest says rain must first be deserved. Two young women fight for the right to do with their bodies as they please. A bastard boy and a blind girl come of age. Yesterday, they were children.
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José Rizal
Title: José Rizal
Character: Andres Bonifacio
Released: December 25, 1998
Type: Movie
Accused of treason, Dr. Jose P. Rizal awaits trial and meets with his colonial government-appointed counsel, Luis Taviel de Andrade. The two build the case and arguments for the defense as significant events in the central figure's life prior to his incarceration unfold. Upon hearing Rizal's life story, Taviel begins to realize that the accused not just is innocent but exhibits in fact all the qualities of an extraordinary man. When the mock trial unreels, Taviel is all set to act as the prime advocate for his client as Rizal himself is about to give an earth-moving speech to defend his honor and address his countrymen. Meanwhile, the Spanish authorities have worked out the vast political machinery to ensure a guilty verdict. A revolution waits in the wings.
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In the Navel of the Sea
Title: In the Navel of the Sea
Character: Berto
Released: June 24, 1998
Type: Movie
In a remote fishing island in the 50's, Pepito grows up learning the trade of his mother, Rosa, the only midwife capable of delivering the newborn babies of their community. At first, the young son doesn't mind the unusual arrangement, but as he grows older, he begins to resist the role traditionally meant only for women. In time, Pepito's coming of age intersects with the lives of the other islanders, whose beliefs and struggles become critical impetus to his maturity.
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Wild Grass
Title: Wild Grass
Character: Andres Bonifacio
Released: December 4, 1997
Type: Movie
A confused and angry farm boy brought up under the strict and seemingly unforgiving guidance of an exacting and domineering father gains initiation to both romance and heroism during the Philippine Revolution of 1896.
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Ipaglaban Mo: The Movie II
Title: Ipaglaban Mo: The Movie II
Character: Albert (episode 1)
Released: November 5, 1997
Type: Movie
This second feature film based on the popular television series features two true legal cases. The first is of a nanny accused of kidnapping the child in her care, and the second is about how a rich family tries to cover up the murder of a poor man.
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Behind Enemy Lines
Title: Behind Enemy Lines
Character: Airport Policeman
Released: May 23, 1997
Type: Movie
An ex-marine returns to Vietnam when he learns his former mercenary partner whom he thought was killed is being held by a sadistic general.
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Separada
Title: Separada
Character: Hector
Released: October 12, 1994
Type: Movie
Melissa, a successful advertising executive believed she has a perfect life with her husband Dodie and two children Vincent and Jenny. What she did not know is that her husband has fallen out of love with her and is seeing another woman named Sandy. Sandy confronted Melissa and told her to give up Dodie because she has been impregnated by him. Melissa tried to win her relationship with Dodie however, the latter chose Sandy over her. Their marital break-up almost shattered her. But with the help of her kids and friends Melissa learns to be self-sufficient. In the long run, she learns to move on with her life and overcoming the challenge of single parenthood.
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Lipa 'Arandia' Massacre: Lord, Deliver Us from Evil
Title: Lipa 'Arandia' Massacre: Lord, Deliver Us from Evil
Released: April 11, 1994
Type: Movie
After her husband goes to work abroad, Helen Arandia and her daughter must handle her jealous neighbour, who plans to do something to her.
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Heroes
Title: Heroes
Released: March 24, 1992
Type: Movie
Independent filmmaker Raymond Red's first crossover to full-length feature is a highly visual chronicle of the rise and fall of revolutionary hero Andres Bonifacio. Noted for its heavy stylistics and painstaking attention to filmic detail, the biopic also tackles the momentous events surrounding the Philippine struggle against Spanish colonialism. The historical epic is a most fitting cinematic memorial to the centenary of Philippine independence.
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Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection
Title: Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection
Character: Jos - Quiquina's Husband
Released: August 24, 1990
Type: Movie
When DEA agents are taken captive by a ruthless South American kingpin, the Delta Force is reunited to rescue them in this sequel to the 1986 film.
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Return from the River Kwai
Title: Return from the River Kwai
Character: Boonrod
Released: April 7, 1989
Type: Movie
A group of war prisoners has spilt blood, sweat and tears to construct a bridge over the river Kwai in Thailand. Just when the bridge is ready, an American bomber arrives and destroys it. Camp commander Tanaka wants to set an example and orders that some of the prisoners must be executed. Just in time major Harada arrives with orders that the healthiest prisoners must be transported to Japan by train and boat. A treacherous journey since the allied forces keep a close eye on railroads and practically own the seas.
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Flesh Avenue
Title: Flesh Avenue
Character: Elmer
Released: April 24, 1986
Type: Movie
After the death of her father, Nelia (Jaclyn Jose) goes to find her mother and discovers that she owns a whorehouse.
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Bilang Na Ang Oras Mo
Title: Bilang Na Ang Oras Mo
Released: April 6, 1985
Type: Movie
A mysterious vigilante singlehandedly and summarily eliminates criminals.
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Joyful Mystery
Title: Joyful Mystery
Character: Jamin
Released: December 25, 1984
Type: Movie
The fortunes of three impoverished friends and their families abruptly change after an airplane crashes in a nearby mountain. They rush to the crash site along with all the villagers, not to help the victims but to plunder their valuables. A dead American passenger carried a large amount of money in his briefcase which Mesiong, Ponsoy, and Jamin find and avariciously keep for themselves. But the town mayor gets greedy and with his hirelings abducts the three to divest them of their booty.
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Boatman
Title: Boatman
Released: March 27, 1984
Type: Movie
An erstwhile boatman wants to do a little more than paddle his own canoe in the town famed for its waterfalls. He leaves the village of his roots for the city and lands a job as a live-sex actor called toro in street lingo derived from the Spanish term for bull. Quick successes in his newfound profession delude him into regarding that the measure of a man is in his trousers. He has a partner on stage and off. Despite her cynicism and tough veneer, she sees in him a way out of the slums and the red light district.
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Batuigas II: Pasukuin si Waway
Title: Batuigas II: Pasukuin si Waway
Character: Tosan
Released: February 9, 1984
Type: Movie
Leonardo de los Reyes gets framed by some hoodlums for murder, he escapes from prison and gets revenge to the people who harmed him.
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Bad Bananas on the Silver Screen
Title: Bad Bananas on the Silver Screen
Character: Bar Goon
Released: December 25, 1983
Type: Movie
Zany foursome Errol, Herman, Tacio, and Peewee merely geared up for a short underwater dive towards Hundred Islands when a series of miscalculations cause them to resurface on the shores of Mexico.
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Hubad na Gubat
Title: Hubad na Gubat
Released: July 2, 1982
Type: Movie
Greed gradually destroys an indigenous community's traditions and their resources.
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Gold, Silver, Death
Title: Gold, Silver, Death
Character: Hermes Mercurio
Released: January 27, 1982
Type: Movie
Oro, Plata, Mata follows two aristocratic families in Negros during World War II. It is structured in three parts: Oro a life of luxury and comfort in the city, Plata a still-luxurious time of refuge in a provincial hacienda, and finally Mata a toilsome retreat deeper into the mountains.
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Pabling
Title: Pabling
Released: July 17, 1981
Type: Movie
A playboy and a simple girl from the provinces try to make it in the big city.
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Bilibid Boys
Title: Bilibid Boys
Character: Bisaya
Released: January 16, 1981
Type: Movie
=The movie portrays seven wayward men who suffer within the walls of the national penitentiary. They serve their sentences as if they are living their regular free, luxurious lives outside the cold bars of the prison, in open air, able to go where they want when they want. Four of the men - Nandong, Noel, Butch, and Caloy - are gay men who feel attracted to Steve Guanzon and eventually sodomize and rape him.
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Wake Up, Maruja
Title: Wake Up, Maruja
Character: Vergel
Released: September 4, 1978
Type: Movie
At the turn of the century, Maruja Isable Sevilla y Mira poisons herself when forced to marry a man she does not love. Several decades later, she is reincarnated as a young producer-actress, Nina Concepcion. Nina is hell-bent on filming the legend involving the couple of ill-starred lovers. However, wandering ghosts and possessions by entities in a haunted ancestral home keep Nina's cast busy. Events come to a height when the past collides with the present.
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Title: Sellblock
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
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Miss Pinoy
Title: Miss Pinoy
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A fiction inspired by a true story of a group of Overseas Filipino Workers who looked for a good investment in preparation for their eventual return to the Philippines but turned out to become victims of million dollar fraud.