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1) On the job
Language
Filipino
Description
When a prominent drug dealer is murdered, Sergeant Acosta (Joey Marquez) and Federal agent Francis (Piolo Pascual) lead the investigation, but the trail goes immediately cold. What they discover is a conspiracy of massive scale. The killers (Joel Torre and Gerald Anderson) are inmates, temporarily released from jail as assassins before returning to incarceration.
Language
Filipino
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"Leonor Reyes was once a groundbreaking figure in the Filipino film industry during its ragtag action cinema glory days in the 1980s, but now she struggles with old age, mounting bills, and the untimely death of her son. While revisiting an unfinished script about a fearless protagonist trying to avenge his brother's murder, Leonor is struck on the head by a falling television set and knocked into a coma. As she lays unconscious in the hospital, fantasy...
Language
Filipino
Description
Filipino director Brillante Mendoza brings a frank, gritty immediacy to SERBIS, a multi-character, day-in-the-life portrait of a family-run movie house in the Philippines. The Pineda family operates and lives in a run-down adult movie house. Preoccupied with their own personal demons, the family is unmindful that inside their movie theater, their customers are engaging in another kind of business.
5) BuyBust
Language
Filipino
Description
After surviving the slaughter of her entire squad in a drug raid compromised by dirty cops, anti-narcotics special operative Nina Manigan, is eager to go head-to-head with the drug cartels that hold a bloody grip on Manila. But when her new mission in the city's most dangerous slum goes south, the angry civilians turn on her squad. Trapped between a brutal drug gang and hordes of bloodthirsty citizens, their only option is to fight their way out,...
6) Day zero
Language
Filipino
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After serving eight incident-free years in prison, a former elite soldier is released, finally free to reunite with his estranged wife and young daughter. However, he re-enters civilization only to discover that the outside world has been completely overtaken by a dangerous virus with terrifying effects on the human body. Chased by hordes of the undead, he races through the dangerous urban landscape in a final desperate attempt to redeem himself and...
8) Finding you
Language
Filipino
Description
"Nel never forgets, literally. His condition, called Hyperthymesia, makes him remember everything in the past, and he uses it for his work as a journalist. He is plunged into an enigmatic journey when, one day, his social media account pops up throwback posts he supposedly wrote about a girl who apparently broke his heart"--Container.
10) Ma' Rosa
Language
Filipino
Description
The film follows Rosa and her husband Nestor, owners of a tiny convenience store who supplement their meager income by selling small amounts of 'ice' (crystal meth). Eventually the couple gets caught and hauled away by police, who are more interested in collecting bribes than eradicating crime. With their parents locked away, it's left to Rosa's children to scrounge together the money to pay off the police and free their parents, by any means necessary....
11) BuyBust
Language
Filipino
Description
When a raid in Manila's most dangerous slum goes wrong, leaving an elite anti-drug squad trapped between a brutal cartel and hordes of bloodthirsty civilians, their only option is to fight their way out, turning each street into a symphony of apocalyptic violence.
Language
Filipino
Description
Jess, a 33-year-old valet parking attendant at The Manila Hotel, was given a reward for being an honest employee. Living like a king for three days, he met Veronica who has no idea that he is not rich. Afraid that revealing himself will make him lose Veronica, Jess starts to pretend the part. He keeps on doing this until his resources spill away.
Language
Filipino
Description
Leonor Reyes was once a groundbreaking figure in the Filipino film industry during its ragtag action cinema glory days, but now she struggles with old age, mounting bills, and the untimely death of her son. While revisiting an unfinished script about a fearless protagonist trying to avenge his brother's murder, Leonor is struck on the head by a falling television set and knocked into a coma. As she lays unconscious in the hospital, fantasy and reality...
16) Stranded
Language
Filipino
Description
"A typhoon changes the lives of two people forever. The priorities of a career-oriented girl have always been clear to her. When a typhoon worsens while she's at work, she finds herself trapped inside the building with a food delivery guy. While stranded, the two learn about each other's lives, and also learn some things about themselves and their feelings." --
17) Signal rock
Series
Language
Filipino
Description
Intoy takes care of his parents when his sister moved out to work overseas. Since he lives in a remote area in Samar, the only way he could contact his sister is by going to strange rock formations on the island.
19) The prenup
Series
Language
Filipino
Description
Wendy goes to the United States to meet her biological father. Onboard the plane, she meets Sean. Wendy and Sean initially have a cat-dog relationship but they eventually warm up to each other. When her biological father fails to accommodate her, Sean invites Wendy to stay in his apartment. They fall in love with each other and decide to get married. However, when they return to the Philippines, they become frustrated when their families don't get...
20) Time & again
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Series
Language
Filipino
Description
"Apol led a quiet life: by day she worked as a cashier at a small café. One day, the man who she thought would fulfill her destiny in life walked into the café. Much to her disappointment, Ozzi was already in a relationship. Mang Segundo, a watch repairman gave her a watch that gives her the power to turn back time. Will she able to use this opportunity to get the man of her dreams?" --