Spanky Manikan

Spanky Manikan

Born: March 22, 1942
Died: January 14, 2018
in Philippines

Movies for Spanky Manikan...

Alienasyon
Title: Alienasyon
Released: November 5, 2014
Type: Movie
A retired university professor who refused to leave his home in the campus despite an administrative order for eviction. With his whole life bearing witness to Diliman estate's evolution, he is the only remaining gatekeeper of the histories of his homeland.
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Alfredo S. Lim: The Untold Story
Title: Alfredo S. Lim: The Untold Story
Character: Lolo Nardo
Released: February 27, 2013
Type: Movie
Alfredo S. Lim has just been awarded as one of Manila's ten most outstanding policemen. The celebration has abruptly ended when one of his co-honorees is killed while trying to stop a robbery. Lim tracks down these criminals which ruffles the feathers of powerful people. His work takes a personal toll on his marriage and also puts his family in danger.
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The Strangers
Title: The Strangers
Released: December 25, 2012
Type: Movie
A family becomes trapped in a village full of mysterious people and transforms into black dogs.
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Himala Ngayon
Title: Himala Ngayon
Released: December 4, 2012
Type: Movie
A 2012 documentary about the making and the legacy of the 1982 drama masterpiece directed by Ishmael Bernal that ended up being one of the greatest Asian films of all time. The revelations about the theory of "Who killed Elsa?" will be answered and also, the impact of the film to the Filipino culture and society.
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Amok
Title: Amok
Released: July 16, 2011
Type: Movie
The bustling and sweltering rugged intersection of Pasay Rotonda serves as the main setting for this story of interconnected fate and destiny. As a raging man's bullets strays into different directions, the fate of several different characters are sealed and determined. As the temperature rises, the tension escalates and the story unravels with unforgiving immediacy and explodes in the end as each one struggles to survive and escape their inevitable end.
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Forever and a Day
Title: Forever and a Day
Character: Euge's Dad
Released: June 15, 2011
Type: Movie
Eugene arrives in Bukidnon with only one intention: to forget his problems at work. But when he meets Raffy and as they travel and go on ridiculous and death-defying activities together, they start to form a friendship that goes beyond Euge’s original plan. Raffy helps Euge appreciate himself more and to look at things in a positive way. With Raffy, Euge begins to believe in himself again. Soon, against his own expectations, he admits to himself that has fallen in love with this girl. But life is truly ironic. The moment Euge expresses his feelings for her, Raffy suddenly starts to push him away. She admits that he can never have her, and she doesn’t want Eugene to hope for a happy ending with her, because she cannot be loved.
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Amigo
Title: Amigo
Character: Tuba Joe
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: Midnight Phantom
Character: Don Hernando
Released: July 12, 2010
Type: TV
Midnight Phantom is the 10th installment of the afternoon soap opera based on the pocket book of the same title by Martha Cecilia. and is also the first installment to simultaneously air with the 11th installment, Impostor. The series premiered on July 12, 2010, in ABS-CBN's afternoon block. This also marks TV Comebacks of Rafael Rosell, and Denise Laurel and Ina Raymundo. This also marks Ina Raymundos comeback to the Television scene after 8 years both Ina and Denise will play a mother daughter duo after being cast on the Second Book and Season of Pangako Sa'yo in 2001.
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Lure of the Nest
Title: Lure of the Nest
Character: Apin
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
An American woman hopes to have a happy reunion with her long-lost Filipino father and finds instead an aloof and unforgiving stranger who hasn't gotten over the painful past.
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Title: Tayong Dalawa
Character: Stanley King, Sr.
Released: January 19, 2009
Type: TV
Tayong Dalawa is a Philippine primetime drama series broadcast on ABS-CBN and worldwide on TFC in 2009. It premiered on April 6, 2010 in Malaysia on Astro Prima followed by August 31, 2010 in Singapore on Channel 5. The story revolved around two brothers who share the same name, the same aspirations, and the same lady-of-interest. The title of the series was taken from one of Rey Valera’s classic songs, in a manner similar to most Filipino soap operas.
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Ploning
Title: Ploning
Character: Tsuy
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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Kulimlim
Title: Kulimlim
Released: June 23, 2004
Type: Movie
A man takes the law into his own hands when his wife's rapists are released from prison on a technicality, only to be possessed by the spirits of the criminals.
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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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Buhay Kamao
Title: Buhay Kamao
Character: Poldo
Released: December 6, 2001
Type: Movie
Pepe upon the order of his father did not want anything to do with boxing, after all it was boxing which took his brother’s life. But the easy money involved in the sport attracted him when he was desperate to pay off a long standing debt he incurred during the accident of his dad.
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The Reaper
Title: The Reaper
Character: Gen. Tomas Roxas
Released: October 15, 2001
Type: Movie
A group of prisoners was secretly commissioned by Gen. Torre to fight those who intend to destabilize the government. And after successfully ridding the system of scalawags, they were promised that their records will be cleared as well as reinstatement in the police service. After the media questioned the existence of the group, the general decides to get rid of them by execution. The group found out about this and decided to fight back.
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Deathrow
Title: Deathrow
Character: Fajardo
Released: December 25, 2000
Type: Movie
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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Bullet
Title: Bullet
Released: July 9, 1999
Type: Movie
Bullet, a skilled marksman, accidentally films gangsters beating up a kidnap victim. He and his cousins witness a gangland murder, putting them in danger.
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Behind Enemy Lines
Title: Behind Enemy Lines
Character: Gen. Nguy
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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Title: In Naam Der Koningin
Released: November 19, 1996
Type: TV
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Title: Noli Me Tangere
Character: Lolo ni Elias
Released: July 6, 1993
Type: TV
Eddie Romero's miniseries adaptation of the novel from Filipino writer and activist Jose Rizal, published during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines in 1887. Noli Me Tángere (Latin for "Touch Me Not") explores perceived inequities in law and practice in terms of the treatment by the ruling government and the Spanish Catholic friars of the resident peoples in the late nineteenth century.
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Fatal Vacation
Title: Fatal Vacation
Released: January 6, 1990
Type: Movie
A pleasent trip to the Phillipines is turned into tragedy when the tour bus is kidnapped by a group of rebels that want to exchange the prisoners for the Rebel Leader's brother...
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Fatal Vacation
Title: Fatal Vacation
Character: Sam
Released: January 6, 1990
Type: Movie
A pleasent trip to the Phillipines is turned into tragedy when the tour bus is kidnapped by a group of rebels that want to exchange the prisoners for the Rebel Leader's brother...
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Saigon Commandos
Title: Saigon Commandos
Character: Jon Toi
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A series of drug-related murders haunt Saigon. Ex-Green Beret Mark Stryker and his MP's must find the culprits. With the help of Jean Lassiter, a nosey reporter covering the crime beat, Stryker uncovers the involvement of corrupt politicians in the heroin trade and in the killings. But before he can pin them down, Stryker is framed for the murder of his commanding officer and now he must clear his name, free Lassiter from her captors, and stop his men from carrying out their own kind of vengeance before it is too late.
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Broken Marriage
Title: Broken Marriage
Released: September 2, 1983
Type: Movie
Trapped in a world of hectic schedules, pressure, and little time for each other, married couple Ellen and Rene decide to have a temporary separation.
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Himala
Title: Himala
Character: Orly
Released: December 25, 1982
Type: Movie
When plain orphan Elsa begins having visions of the Virgin Mary, the rest of the residents of her isolated village find themselves questioning their own beliefs and values. Soon, Elsa is healing people with a variety of ailments. As word of this phenomenon spreads, tourists, pilgrims, patients and a documentary filmmaker all arrive on a quest to partake in the miracle.
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Bona
Title: Bona
Character: Bona's Brother
Released: December 25, 1980
Type: Movie
A scorned teenager gets revenge on the aging gigolo who took advantage of her while pursuing other women.
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Dung-Aw
Title: Dung-Aw
Released: August 5, 1975
Type: Movie
Diego and Gabriela Silang are landed Ilocos natives disaffected with the imposition of the indulto de comercio (a law giving right to Spanish officials to buy rice and tobacco at the price they prefer). The year is 1762 and the British invade Manila, the childless couple is among the landowners denying aid to the Spaniards in thwarting the British. When the Spaniards in retaliation jail Diego, his wife gathers their confederates and leads the uprising herself.
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Manila in the Claws of Light
Title: Manila in the Claws of Light
Character: Gido
Released: July 16, 1975
Type: Movie
Julio, a young fisherman from a provincial village, descends into social alienation as he arrives in Manila to search for his loved one.