Vic Silayan

Vic Silayan

Born: December 31, 1928
Died: August 30, 1987
in Nueva Ecija, Philippines

Movies for Vic Silayan...

Tigershark
Title: Tigershark
Character: Colonel Barro
Released: November 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A martial arts instructor sets out to rescue his girlfriend who is being held for ransom by a South American warlord.
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I Love You Mama, I Love You Papa
Title: I Love You Mama, I Love You Papa
Character: Don Lorico Villena
Released: May 29, 1986
Type: Movie
A divorced couple fight over their son.
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Ano ang Kulay ng Mukha ng Diyos?
Title: Ano ang Kulay ng Mukha ng Diyos?
Character: Prison Superintendent
Released: December 25, 1985
Type: Movie
A street hustler falls in love with a bar girl. They get married, but separate when the guy gets meted a death sentence after gunning down a rich customer of the bar in a fit of jealousy. The bar girl bears the hustler's child who becomes eventually blind.
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Vic Silayan: An Actor Remembers
Title: Vic Silayan: An Actor Remembers
Character: Himself
Released: November 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Silayan talks about his beginnings as an actor in the 1950s, his working method in front of the camera and on stage and the realities of working in mainstream Philippine movies.
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Sa Hirap at Ginhawa
Title: Sa Hirap at Ginhawa
Character: Abe Ventura
Released: November 29, 1984
Type: Movie
A young couple eloped, got married and then must cope with problems like money, living on their own, trying finish school and raising a baby. not to mention the fact that even young married couples do get bored sometimes.
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Dapat Ka Bang Mahalin?
Title: Dapat Ka Bang Mahalin?
Character: Victor
Released: February 16, 1984
Type: Movie
Myrna and Lito plunge into marriage at a very young age. Both unprepared and still immature. But their relationship suddenly collapses when Lito gets into an illicit relationship with an older woman, Glacilda.
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Of the Flesh
Title: Of the Flesh
Character: Gusting
Released: December 25, 1983
Type: Movie
When Narcing brings home his wife Puring to their hometown Mulawin in the 1930s, it sets off a series of events that include parricide, infidelity, betrayal, guilt and redemption.
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Tatak Ng Yakuza
Title: Tatak Ng Yakuza
Released: October 14, 1983
Type: Movie
In this action thriller, a local undercover agent fights the dreaded Japanese criminal syndicate that operates globally.
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Paano Ba Ang Mangarap?
Title: Paano Ba Ang Mangarap?
Released: June 9, 1983
Type: Movie
The story of Lisa & Eric and how they fought for their love. Lisa got pregnant with Benny, Eric's brother. However, Benny died in a motorcycle accident. Eric was kind enough to marry Lisa but Eric's mother disapproved of the relationship and makes life hell for Lisa.
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Friends in Love
Title: Friends in Love
Released: January 13, 1983
Type: Movie
A story of friends who got entangled in the ironies of falling in love. Fate decides to play a trick on the quartet. Sharron and Jackie are close friends with contrasting personalities. On the other hand William and Rowell are students in the same school who are close to one another as the two girls are. Sharon and Rowell fall for each other and jealousy rears its ugly head on their relationship. Jackie and Rowell felt left out.
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Master Samurai
Title: Master Samurai
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Not really note worthy action movie from the Philippines.
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Waywaya
Title: Waywaya
Released: March 12, 1982
Type: Movie
“Waywaya” is derived from “Waywaya” an Ilocano term meaning freedom. The film is adapted from the short story of the same title, an adventure-laden story of two Northern Luzon tribes. It stars Amy Austria and Ace Vergel.
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Kisapmata
Title: Kisapmata
Character: Sgt. Carandang
Released: December 25, 1981
Type: Movie
A retired police sergeant has an unnatural stranglehold over his wife and daughter. His claustrophobically enclosed world is threatened when his daughter Mila finds herself pregnant and was forced to marry Noel. He attempts to extend his influence over his son-in-law, who resists; there is a confrontation.
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Karma
Title: Karma
Released: December 25, 1981
Type: Movie
Sarah is assaulted by Eric on the eve of her wedding. Years later, their paths cross again, and the coincidence leads them to a shocking discovery: They are in fact reincarnations of Enrico and Guada, illicit lovers who lived 60 years ago. Are they destined to follow the path of the long-dead couple … and with what effects on their present-day marriages?
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I am Blushing
Title: I am Blushing
Character: Domingo de Jesus
Released: October 12, 1981
Type: Movie
"I am blushing" - Swedish comedy about a film crew traveling to the Philippines to find environments for a movie.
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Bantay-Salakay
Title: Bantay-Salakay
Released: January 8, 1981
Type: Movie
A story of three young, provincial highschool graduates who set sail for Manila with visions of fame and fortune, only to realize that reality is a far cry from their expectations.
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Langis at Tubig
Title: Langis at Tubig
Character: The Judge
Released: December 25, 1980
Type: Movie
After his secret crush, Connie discovers her boyfriend is married, Bobby steals her away and gives her the perfect marriage. However, when Bobby accepts a job in the province of Albay, he falls for the lovely local girl Pilar and finds himself flirting with bigamy.
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The Children of An Lac
Title: The Children of An Lac
Character: Dr. Dan
Released: October 8, 1980
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of film actress Ina Balin and her efforts with American Red Cross volunteer Betty Tisdale, as well as a compassionate Vietnamese woman running a Saigon orphanage, to rescue as many children as possible and fly them out of the country before South Vietnam's fall in the spring of 1975 through the An Lac baby-lift.
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The Last Reunion
Title: The Last Reunion
Character: Raoul Amante
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Several members of a platoon of American soldiers not only kill a Japanese general, but also rape and murder the man's wife. The couple's son, Kimon, witnesses these ghastly events and vows revenge. Thirty-three years later the platoon get back together in Manila for a reunion. The adult Kimon also shows up to pick off the platoon members who are responsible for butchering his parents.
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Pacific Inferno
Title: Pacific Inferno
Character: Fukoshima
Released: July 27, 1979
Type: Movie
After the fall of the Philippines in World War II, the Japanese discover that Gen. MacArthur ordered millions of dollars in silver dumped in Manila Bay in order that it not fall into enemy hands. Among the prisoners the Japanese have taken are two American U.S. Navy deep-sea divers, whom they then force to dive in search of the sunken treasure.
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Roberta
Title: Roberta
Released: July 5, 1979
Type: Movie
A young female hero is unjustly accused of murder and intimidated to say that she committed the crime so that her family would not be harmed.
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Menor de Edad
Title: Menor de Edad
Released: March 1, 1979
Type: Movie
A group of high school students navigate their lives and loves in this ensemble film from Ishmael Bernal.
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Katawang Alabok
Title: Katawang Alabok
Released: December 25, 1978
Type: Movie
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Project: Kill
Title: Project: Kill
Character: Chief Insp. Cruz
Released: October 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A former government assassin flees a mind-control program in the Philippines, pursued by his ex-partner, the local police and Asian gangsters.
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Ligaw na Bulaklak
Title: Ligaw na Bulaklak
Released: February 14, 1976
Type: Movie
An innocent young woman who sells flowers in a small-town cabaret frequented by down-and-out prostitutes is lusted after by the son of a school principal, played by Anita Linda. An aging gardener takes her in to try to protect her from the harsh world, though secretly, he too lusts after the young girl, in spite of his impotence cause by the war. She goes to school, where morality and empty platitudes are mouthed, but the attempts at life's lessons are foiled by the realities of the cabaret world. While the school and the gardener try to protect her innocence, the young girl is lured by the temptation of the worldly cabaret, and her womanhood is awakened.
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Scotch on the Rocks to Remember, Black Coffee to Forget
Title: Scotch on the Rocks to Remember, Black Coffee to Forget
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A lost film from Ishmael Bernal, originally released in 1976.
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The Fantastic Sword
Title: The Fantastic Sword
Released: November 19, 1975
Type: Movie
Shot in the Philippines with a largely Filipino cast, the film is set in a mythical kingdom called Barangbang, which appears to be just a normal rural Filipino village but for the fact that it is ruled over by a sultan and has a princess.
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Diligin Mo ng Hamog ang Uhaw na Lupa
Title: Diligin Mo ng Hamog ang Uhaw na Lupa
Released: September 21, 1975
Type: Movie
A 1975 action film directed by Augusto Buenaventura. It is distinguished for being the movie to win the Best Picture award in the very first Metro Manila Film Festival.
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Hiwaga
Title: Hiwaga
Released: September 5, 1975
Type: Movie
Filipino horror movie from 1975.
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Dugo at Pag-ibig Sa Kapirasong Lupa
Title: Dugo at Pag-ibig Sa Kapirasong Lupa
Character: Vicente Zarcan (segment 4)
Released: June 12, 1975
Type: Movie
The greatest, longest, most expensive film produced in the film history of the Philippines. Five segments with an all-star cast, directed by five directors with a running time of 3 hours and 20 minutes.
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Mister Mo, Lover Boy Ko
Title: Mister Mo, Lover Boy Ko
Released: March 28, 1975
Type: Movie
A Filipino aristocrat loves his wife but he has a little fun with a chorus girl.
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The Bells of San Jose
Title: The Bells of San Jose
Released: March 8, 1974
Type: Movie
The film tells a story of large rural families suffering from economic insecurity in a remote part of the town of Magdalena, Laguna, where major life events are punctuated by the tollling of the church bells, and the coastal community of Dalahican, Quezon. Both places are homes of large families dealing with the reality of poverty.
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Ransom!
Title: Ransom!
Released: February 22, 1974
Type: Movie
This Filipino action thriller concerns a crime syndicate which specializes in holding people for ransom. Their most recent foray into crime succeeds in two cases but runs into difficulties when the kidnappers rape the daughter of their latest victim, a doctor. The doctor enlists the help of police Captain Alvaran (Joseph Estrada), who hunts the villains down with the able support of his loving wife.
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Ambrose Dugal
Title: Ambrose Dugal
Released: April 25, 1973
Type: Movie
Filipino horror movie from 1973.
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Daughters of Satan
Title: Daughters of Satan
Character: Dr. Dangal
Released: November 17, 1972
Type: Movie
A man buys a painting depicting witches being burned at the stake, one of whom bears an uncanny resemblance to his wife.
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Kill the Pushers
Title: Kill the Pushers
Released: August 25, 1972
Type: Movie
A film that stars Joseph Estrada, Pilar Pilapil and Rosemarie Gil based on Marcos' war on drugs.
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Night of the Cobra Woman
Title: Night of the Cobra Woman
Character: Dr. Tezon
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
After being bitten by a cobra in the Philipines, Lena can turn herself into a snake and she stops aging. The curse comes with a price. The priestess Lena must consume cobra venom and vital young men to stay young.
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Blood Thirst
Title: Blood Thirst
Character: Calderon
Released: May 14, 1971
Type: Movie
A sex-crimes specialist from New York travels to the Philippines to help his friend, a Manila homicide detective, solve a series of murders.
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Lilet
Title: Lilet
Character: Anton
Released: January 29, 1971
Type: Movie
An unstable young woman finally blows the cover of her repressive family's dark secrets when her memories where unlocked with the help of an ardent suitor.
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Perlas ng Silangan
Title: Perlas ng Silangan
Released: May 17, 1969
Type: Movie
Set at the backdrop of the colonization of pre-Hispanic Philippine, this historical epic revovles around the story of Ramir, a half-caste warrior falls in love with Princess Mahalina. Ramir has to reckon with another brave native, Kiram.
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Masquerade
Title: Masquerade
Released: December 31, 1967
Type: Movie
Danny Zialcita's mystery thriller
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This Is a Filipino
Title: This Is a Filipino
Released: December 30, 1966
Type: Movie
This is a Monumental Epic in the History of Filipino Movies.
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Appointment at Mount Manunggal
Title: Appointment at Mount Manunggal
Character: Narrator
Released: March 17, 1966
Type: Movie
This documentary paints the life of former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay (1953-1957), from being a simple mechanic, a wartime guerilla leader, and as president of the Philippines, leading up to his death in a plane crash in Mount Manunggal, Cebu.
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Anghel sa Aking Balikat
Title: Anghel sa Aking Balikat
Released: December 26, 1965
Type: Movie
A story about an orphan girl who thinks that a guerilla leader is an angel.
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Pilipinas Kong Mahal
Title: Pilipinas Kong Mahal
Character: Saitou
Released: November 2, 1965
Type: Movie
A story of a man who joined the guerilla in World War 2.
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A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino
Title: A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino
Character: Bitoy
Released: March 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Lamberto Avellana’s English-language film based on Nick Joaquin’s play about a painter, a painting, two sisters, and a crook.
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The Ravagers
Title: The Ravagers
Character: Captain Mori
Released: January 8, 1965
Type: Movie
A story about a Filipino guerilla Sargent who was tasked to ambush a company of Japanese soldiers staying at a convent.
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No Man Is an Island
Title: No Man Is an Island
Character: Major Hondo
Released: September 20, 1962
Type: Movie
The true story of George Tweed, an American sailor who became the only serviceman on the island of Guam to avoid capture by the Japanese during the early years of World War II.
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Mr. Announcer
Title: Mr. Announcer
Character: Lundagin Mo Baby
Released: July 19, 1959
Type: Movie
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Kundiman ng Lahi
Title: Kundiman ng Lahi
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
A coming-of-age story of a barrio lass in a patriarchal archipelago.
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Malvarosa
Title: Malvarosa
Character: Melanio
Released: May 19, 1958
Type: Movie
Malvarosa is the poignant story of a family’s struggles in life. It tells of Rosa who lives in the slums near the railroad tracks, with her mother and five brothers. Her mother wallows in guilt and depression, when her drunkard father is run over by a train. Though she is set to marry her fiancé, Rosa chooses to put her family’s needs before her own. Rosa’s brothers also carry their own burdens, except for one, the youngest, Avelino who helps Rosa shoulder the weight of the family’s problems.
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The Sea Gypsies
Title: The Sea Gypsies
Character: Jikiri
Released: June 3, 1957
Type: Movie
Hassan, the son of a tribe chief of the Badjaos, a pagan, sea-dwelling Filipino tribe, meets and falls for Bala Amai, the niece of the chief of the Tausugs, an Islamic, land-dwelling tribe. Although the Hassan is willing to give up his lifestyle for Bala Amai and vice versa, the Tausugs plot to break up the union of the happy couple.
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Troop 11
Title: Troop 11
Released: June 3, 1957
Type: Movie
A story about Boy Scouts going on a camping, having fun and getting into deep trouble.
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Child of Sorrow
Title: Child of Sorrow
Character: Father Fidel
Released: March 20, 1956
Type: Movie
A war hero forced to participate in a smuggling ring meets a prostitute in the postwar ruins of Manila.
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Higit sa Lahat
Title: Higit sa Lahat
Character: Totoy
Released: April 30, 1955
Type: Movie
A story about a father's love for his family, making a supreme sacrifice to give them a new lease on life.
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Lapu-Lapu
Title: Lapu-Lapu
Character: Vic Silayan
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Lapu-Lapu who defeated Spanish invaders on then land of Mactan.
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Huk sa Bagong Pamumuhay
Title: Huk sa Bagong Pamumuhay
Character: Capt. Mendoza
Released: August 3, 1953
Type: Movie
Carding, the anti-Japanese guerrilla turned Huk rebel when his family's land is taken over by the greedy landlord while Maxie, the communist recruiter who assures Carding that only a communist can be a true Filipino; however it was Jesus, Carding's brother-in-law who shoots Carding in the arm foiling his attempt to escape the military.
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American Guerrilla in the Philippines
Title: American Guerrilla in the Philippines
Released: November 8, 1950
Type: Movie
American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2001.