Arthur Acuña

Arthur Acuña

Arthur Acuña is a Filipino-American film, TV, and stage actor.

Movies for Arthur Acuña...

An Errand
Title: An Errand
Character: Sir
Released: December 31, 2024
Type: Movie
A driver is sent on a simple errand: to pick up a designer t-shirt and a tin of viagra for his boss, who is shacked up in a hotel with his lover. Simple as it sounds, the road trip crisscrosses the chasms of time, class, and character.
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Title: High Street
Character: Emil Concha
Released: May 13, 2024
Type: TV
Five years after, Sky is reunited with her high school friends through Sanya and Kenjie's engagement. However, things head south when Z suddenly disappears, with Sky and her loved ones being targeted by a vengeful puppeteer.
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Sugapa
Title: Sugapa
Character: Sarge Teodoro
Released: August 25, 2023
Type: Movie
Young lovers chase their big city dreams but get tested by lust, addiction, and the hunger for money. Will their love survive, or will reaching for their dreams tear them apart?
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Title: Pira-Pirasong Paraiso
Character: Julius Lamadrid
Released: July 25, 2023
Type: TV
A con artist takes on the job of pretending to be one of the long-lost sisters of a young and rich woman. As she navigates a world of cunning and lies, she learns about right and wrong, love and family, and spectacular truths about herself.
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Title: The Write One
Character: Edmond
Released: March 20, 2023
Type: TV
It centers on a frustrated writer who finds a typewriter that allows him to rewrite his life story.
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Title: What We Could Be
Character: Bruno Panlilo
Released: August 29, 2022
Type: TV
Cynthia, a hopeful young woman filled with dreams and love for the people around her. Currently working as a nurse to sustain the needs of her poor but happy family, she has not given up on her greatest dream: to rebuild their family panaderia burnt to ashes in a fire incident years ago. In an unfortunate event, Cynthia is suddenly laid off from her job. This leads her to take on a new gig, a homecare nurse for a grumpy old lady. As she navigates a new job, challenges come along the way. Confused, Cynthia finds support from her family and a stranger named Franco.
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Title: The Broken Marriage Vow
Character: Fred Lucero
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: Stories From The Heart: Never Say Goodbye
Character: Bernard Flores
Released: October 18, 2021
Type: TV
A story about the reunion of former lovers a man who is in a marriage of convenience and a woman who is diagnosed with a terminal illness.
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Arisaka
Title: Arisaka
Character: Torejon
Released: October 15, 2021
Type: Movie
A witness under police escort is attacked. A policewoman, the only one who survives, is sheltered by indigenous people, but assailants hunt her down... An action thriller set in Bataan.
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Title: He's Into Her
Character: Daniel Enrile
Released: May 28, 2021
Type: TV
A coming-of-age story that tackles what the young and the young at heart must be brave enough to fight for: family, friendship, and love.
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Title: Walang Hanggang Paalam
Character: Gabriel
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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Title: Almost Paradise
Character: Ernesto Alamares
Released: March 30, 2020
Type: TV
A former DEA agent forced into early retirement runs a gift shop in in the Philippines. Despite his best efforts to begin a tranquil new life, he’s pulled back into a world of dangerous people and deadly situations, either through his friends in the local police department or running into people from his old life. And the problem is: he likes it.
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Watch List
Title: Watch List
Character: Alvin
Released: September 11, 2019
Type: Movie
Set against the drug wars in the Philippines, Maria's husband is murdered in mysterious circumstances and is left to fend for her three children in a police state. As she delves into Manila’s dark underworld of cops, criminals, and drugs to find answers, she realizes the truth is never black and white, and that she must explore her own darkness to keep her family safe.
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The Gift
Title: The Gift
Character: Mr. Mendoza
Released: January 11, 2019
Type: Movie
A young man with Asperger's Syndrome falls in love with a sheltered young woman who suffers from Mitral Valve Stenosis, a congenital heart condition. Will his condition cause her demise or will his love be the greatest gift she can ever receive?
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Goyo: The Boy General
Title: Goyo: The Boy General
Character: Manuel Bernal
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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Kasunduan
Title: Kasunduan
Released: March 1, 2018
Type: Movie
Despite being orphaned at an early age, August was once a kind and idealistic young boy, but became a detested criminal when he got himself involved in the seedy world of organized crime. Will this path in life bring him closure, or will it forever change his life and those of the people around him?
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Triptych
Title: Triptych
Character: Jalanjani
Released: August 16, 2017
Type: Movie
A yuppie who just got lucky is struck by a string of unlucky circumstances; a male model's life is upended because of evil boils appearing on his body; a folk singer's romantic ideals are put to the test as his beloved slowly changes into something he does not understand. These three funny, sometimes absurd, sometimes terrifying, and ultimately compelling stories make up "Triptiko."
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Angelito
Title: Angelito
Character: Manuel Bernal
Released: February 15, 2017
Type: Movie
A short film about Antonio Luna’s aides-de-camp Jose and Manuel Bernal during the aftermath of Luna’s assassination.
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Whistleblower
Title: Whistleblower
Released: April 6, 2016
Type: Movie
Inspired by the much-publicized travails of Benhur Luy and Janet Lim Napoles, the film opens with a police operation that leads to the recovery of a certain Zeny Roblado who has been unduly detained by her boss Lorna Valera. From there, Zeny spills whatever she knows of Lorna's shady operations to Teresa, a journalist.
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Heneral Luna
Title: Heneral Luna
Character: Manuel Bernal
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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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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Tila
Title: Tila
Released: November 3, 2014
Type: Movie
In a world where the rain never stops, illegal multivitamin supplements are all the rage and bulalo' is a most precious commodity, two people - a flood control worker and a call center agent who sells summer vacation packages abroad - meet and find a sens of intimate normalcy and unfamiliar ease in each other.
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Bang Bang Alley
Title: Bang Bang Alley
Character: Felix Magat
Released: April 9, 2014
Type: Movie
Three stories of people driven to extremes as the reality of violence creeps into their lives.
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Woman of the Ruins
Title: Woman of the Ruins
Released: November 12, 2013
Type: Movie
On a storm-ravaged island that has seen its share of tragedy, a person who had been assumed dead reappears and ignites a frenzy of reactions, ranging from ecstatic religious fervor to fear.
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Kabisera
Title: Kabisera
Character: Jose Romualdez
Released: November 10, 2013
Type: Movie
Andres is a well-liked, respected, and middle-aged fisherman who rents out commercial spaces to people in the town market. Ge seems to have everything a man could ever need: a loving family, a home, sustenance, and good friends he can trust. One day, he discovers several bricks of shabu floating in the sea. With his discovery, everything begins to change.
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Bingoleras
Title: Bingoleras
Released: September 18, 2013
Type: Movie
Six single women and a priest's lives intersect when a bingo marathon is launched in their church for the barangay fiesta, turning expectations and relationships upside down and inside out.
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David F.
Title: David F.
Released: July 27, 2013
Type: Movie
Black is scientifically the absence of color, but not all who see it is color-blind, figuratively. David F. weaves three stories that look into the lineage of African-Americans in the Philippines--from American soldiers in the Fil-Am war to the “Amboys” in the former Clark Airfield. In the course of history, the “F” in “David F.” may spell different levels of discrimination. But would we also admit that we Filipinos are bigots ourselves?
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The Diplomat Hotel
Title: The Diplomat Hotel
Released: July 27, 2013
Type: Movie
Victoria Lansang is a popular news reporter who has been requested to mediate a hostage crisis. And in front of a national television audience, something horribly goes wrong and people are killed while Victoria suffers a mental breakdown. A year later, she’s eager to get back into the game. However, the only assignment she can get is to do a documentary on the last night of The Diplomat Hotel in Baguio City, a crumbling and abandoned building infamously known for its bloody past and its hauntings. Looking for redemption, she arrives there with her crew and they start filming. But as they get deeper into the night, the place starts to exert its will on them and they find out exactly what monstrous evil awaits at The Diplomat Hotel. By daybreak, their lives will never be the same again.
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The Bourne Legacy
Title: The Bourne Legacy
Character: Manila Driver
Released: August 8, 2012
Type: Movie
New CIA operative Aaron Cross experiences life-or-death stakes that have been triggered by the previous actions of Jason Bourne.
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Shackled
Title: Shackled
Character: Inspector Domingo
Released: July 21, 2012
Type: Movie
Stealing a middle-class woman’s smartphone is the biggest mistake in the petty-criminal life of Jestoni "Jess" Biag . It not only gets him locked up and waterboarded, but also gives him a crash-course in the workings of the deeply corrupt system personified by his nemesis Inspector Domingo. The phone’s memory contains an embarrassing video, which makes the owner Grace Rosuello determined to get it back; her persistence lands Jess in custody.
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Niño
Title: Niño
Released: July 16, 2011
Type: Movie
The once illustrious Lopez-Aranda family has faded. Celia, once the darling of Philippine opera, and Gaspar, a distinguished ex-congressman, lacked the shrewdness to maintain their once elegant status. Saddled with a failed marriage, a vanishing career and mounting debt, Celia sold her share of their house to Gaspar, now bedridden. She managed to stay for free in exchange for being Gaspar’s caregiver. Gaspar loves listening to Celia’s arias. This idyllic arrangement is shattered when he slips into a coma. His daughter, Raquel, comes home from the US, determined to sell the house to salvage her own economic woes abroad. This signals Celia’s impending homelessness. With only a few heirlooms to sell, she is at her wits’ end. A fervent believer of the Sto. Nino, she hopes for a miracle. She dresses up her grandson, Antony, in Sto. Nino robes to prepare him for the coming fiesta.
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Amigo
Title: Amigo
Character: Locsin
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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The Crimson Mask
Title: The Crimson Mask
Character: Mr. Kuo
Released: March 26, 2009
Type: Movie
Two desperate men find themselves unwitting pawns in an ancient ritual.
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Room 213
Title: Room 213
Character: The Newscaster
Released: September 24, 2008
Type: Movie
The story follows the endangered relationship of an architect and his wife, a photographer. After being married for 10 years, they have lost all emotional connections with each other. However,they both still want to save their marriage so they resort to extreme measures to revive their attraction for one another and rekindle their dying passions. They experiment with other partners and what happens is a matter of exchanging partners that resorts into an explosive climax of uncontrolled carnal desires.
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Rigodon
Title: Rigodon
Released: March 19, 2006
Type: Movie
Rigodon follows the spiritual journey's of three Filipino immigrants in New York City whose lives intertwine in the age of racial profiling and government crackdowns.
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Title: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Character: Johnny Santos
Released: September 30, 2001
Type: TV
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
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West Side Avenue
Title: West Side Avenue
Character: Bartolo
Released: April 5, 2001
Type: Movie
A Filipino teenager is shot to death on the sidewalk of New Jersey, USA. An investigation starts into his death. His family members and friends are interviewed. Along the way, we find out not only more about him but about the community of Filipinos in America in general, including the destructive effect of the drug "shabu" on its youth. The detective who handles the case also has his own personal demons to settle with his violent past.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Pharmacy Clerk
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Title: The Bagman
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Convicted prisoner and former governor, Benjo Malaya, learns the tragic news about his missing family, he is left with no choice but to return to the vicious underworld that he turned his back on, and take on a new mission, this time, as a fixer for the sitting president of the Philippines to stop an impending and civil war.