Roxlee

Roxlee

Born: August 16, 1950
in Naga City, Camarines Sur, Philippines

Movies for Roxlee...

Tamgohoy
Title: Tamgohoy
Character: Friar, the masked friar, and the Spirit guide
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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Book of Birdman
Title: Book of Birdman
Character: Birdman
Released: May 12, 2023
Type: Movie
Based on the book of pen and ink illustrations and drawings with written verses. A mixture of monologues and performances from the Birdman as he confronts his enemies who are trying to destroy him and his environment.
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Balangiga: Howling Wilderness
Title: Balangiga: Howling Wilderness
Character: Father Puray
Released: October 20, 2017
Type: Movie
1901, Balangiga. Eight-year-old Kulas flees town with his grandfather and their carabao to escape General Smith's Kill & Burn order. He finds a toddler amid a sea of corpses and together, the two boys struggle to survive the American occupation.
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Ang Pagbabalat ng Ahas
Title: Ang Pagbabalat ng Ahas
Released: November 13, 2013
Type: Movie
It is 1989. After losing his home, Allan Borromeo moves back into his mother’s house in Eden Homes, an upper middle class subdivision, with his wife Donna and teenage son Jasper. Here, their lives will change—Allan gets involved in a marijuana grow-op, Donna has an affair with their gardener, and Jasper experiences his first love and heartbreak. But unknown to the homeowners, a half-man, half-snake creature lurks and peers into their lives via home videos secretly recorded by Its creator, Waldo, a mad scientist.
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Neither Man nor Beast
Title: Neither Man nor Beast
Character: The Abortionist
Released: February 19, 2013
Type: Movie
The lives of a matriarch, her two sons, and her niece are never the same again as they come to terms with an indiscretion in the family. A pivotal decision is made and a downward spiral ensues wherein the outcome can be no less than earth-shattering.
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Jingle lang ang Pahina
Title: Jingle lang ang Pahina
Released: June 29, 2012
Type: Movie
Jingle Chordbook Magazine, first published in 1970, promptly taught a generation of Filipinos to play the guitar. Its story also explores how a small independent publication survived the weight of its time – the dark Martial Law years – and how it inspired the Filipino youth to think for themselves and wield the guitar like a weapon. The documentary “Jingle Lang Ang Pahina” tells the story of Jingle, its ragtag crew, and its loyal fans in a rambling, multi-layered narrative told in different voices and perspectives by the writers, artists, fans, collectors, musicians, freaks.
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Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
Title: Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Documentary profiling the directors involved in the loose Philippine New Wave filmmaking movement.
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Bahag Kings
Title: Bahag Kings
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
A post-silent film on the travails and camaraderie of King Black, King Red, King Blue, King Yellow, King Green, King Purple, & King Orange, the seven rainbow [bahag-hari] kings [hari] of ethnic g-string [bahag] descent. Bouncing in their kombi van, from nature’s forest to the city’s jungle, the Bahag Kings descend from being noble rulers to village idiots as they search high & low for the missing “Wala” [Nothing]. And see how they handled a true-to-life police arrest.
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Pandanggo
Title: Pandanggo
Character: Kutsero (segment "Agogo")
Released: November 24, 2006
Type: Movie
Pandanggo has three stories with parallel themes converging in one event, the Kasilonawan Festival in Obando: a career woman learning to dance tango who is torn between her dance partner and live-in partner has to choose the man who will satisfy her dream of raising a family; a wife whose wish to conceive a baby boy to make her husband happy brings her feet to the festival, but fate has other plans of bringing the child into her life; and a modern woman who, amidst her medical condition that might render her childless for the rest of her life, finds connection with an ancient lore about fertility.
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Pepot Superstar
Title: Pepot Superstar
Character: Assistant Director
Released: July 13, 2005
Type: Movie
A story about a ten-year-old boy whose dream is to become a movie star. Pepot, the dreamer, is surrounded by people who are equally dazzled by the movie world from his own mother to the principal in his school to the impersonators in the neighborhood carnival. Coming from a poor family, Pepot overcomes adversity to have a chance at fulfilling his dream. He tackles school bullies, a strict teacher, and an unwelcoming world that fail to comprehend his intense desire to become a star. The story happens in the '70s when superstars brightened the film world in Pepot's country.
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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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Evolution of a Filipino Family
Title: Evolution of a Filipino Family
Character: Conrado Baltazar
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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1st Time
Title: 1st Time
Character: Himself
Released: September 17, 2003
Type: Movie
Three stories, all first times
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Piso Dalawang Piso
Title: Piso Dalawang Piso
Character: Party Scene Person #3
Released: October 22, 2002
Type: Movie
A wounded activist ends up in a toilet and meets two members of the oppressed masses whose only reality is living on toilet fees.
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Johnny Veggie
Title: Johnny Veggie
Character: as
Released: January 5, 2000
Type: Movie
Juan shared his food to a man. But the man wants more and steals his food while he was asleep.
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Cesar Asar
Title: Cesar Asar
Character: Max
Released: December 31, 1999
Type: Movie
Starting out as a cartoonist for Jingle Magazine, Roxlee became a household name through the widely popular 'Cesar Asar' strip for Manila Bulletin. This film version includes footage from the short film Tito's Wedding, vividly portraying an aimless, idle life set in the small town in the Philippines, interwoven with keen observation on the social-political dilemma of the nation.