A nun who acts as a counselor in a home for unwed mother undergoes political awakening when her friend and namesake belonging to the same congregation as hers inspires her to get involved in the struggle for justice and freedom of striking workers in a cooking oil company.
It proceeds to document the stages of sugar production once in the mill then shifts to the unrest outside where a sakada was shot to death by one of the hacienda's guards. A sakada is a farmer who works in a sugarcane field, harvesting it during the months of October to December.
Korea is a 1952 Philippine war film about the Korean War directed by Lamberto V. Avellana. Produced by LVN Pictures, the film is considered to be lost. Benigno Aquino Jr. wrote the script who based it on his experiences in the war as a correspondent.
A young Pina was traumatized when her family was murdered while she had her first menstruation. She grows up into a serial killer transforming herself to different personalities as she seduced one man at a time grossly killing them while in the act of sexual pleasure.
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...
Aning is a maid in the Cuevas household. She is raped by an unknown assailant and comes home to the province pregnant. Her older sister Dinya serves the Cuevas household to search for the culprit. She catches the culprit but at the cost of her own vitrue.
A story about a man who killed an intruder who tried to rape his pregnant wife, after doing so he ran away to the mountains and became the leader of outlaws, years later the son becomes a police officer.
Jun, an art student, moves away from his family after a fight with his father about his college program. He meets Menchu in class and they fall in love, but Jun struggles to fully commit due to his past trauma. Singing becomes his solace and brings him closer to Menchu. However, a revelation after...
A story about a grandfather who is a landowner and a granddaughter whos an aspiring writer who pretends to be squatters to know why the people are disgruntled with them.
Lieutenant Diego, a government intelligence officer, a G-2, becomes a double agent to gain entry into the sinister world of the smugglers of firearms, jewelry, and opium.
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...
Prince Teñoso who is exiled by his father, the king after freeing the pitiful giant from jail. In gratitude, the giant gives Teñoso a magic handkerchief that can tame animals and can give him his wishes. As a beggar, Teñoso is despised by the princes, the king's soon-to-be sons-in-law, but...
The story starts as a seemingly simple crime of passion, Jimmy, the persistent suitor, is stabbed to death by Salome, the young and pretty wife of Kario, an ordinary farmer. But as the story unfolds, conflicting versions of the crime are given.
