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Tagalog
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Lav Diaz's epic reimagining of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is both an intimate human drama and a cosmic treatise on the origin of evil. In the northern Philippine province of Luzon, a law-school dropout commits a horrific double murder; a gentle family man takes the fall and receives a life sentence, leaving behind a wife and two kids. Unfolding across the sun drenched fields and dark city streets of the Filipino island of Luzon, this is a tale...
2) Graceland
Series
Drafthouse films volume 10
Language
Tagalog
Description
Family man Marlon Villar is the long-time driver of Manuel Chango, a corrupt Filipino politician. While he and his daughter accompany his boss' preteen daughter home, Marlon is ambushed and the wrong girl is kidnapped. The driver's life takes a sudden, terrifying turn which propels him into a horrifying downward spiral and, as events in his life unravel, Marlon, Changho, and their families become entangled in a game of deceit and betrayal that will...
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Tagalog
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A young fisherman from a provincial village arrives in the capital on a quest to track down his girlfriend, who was lured there with the promise of work and hasn't been heard from since. In the meantime, he takes a low-wage job at a construction site and witnesses life on the streets, where death strikes without warning, corruption and exploitation are commonplace, and protests hint at escalating civil unrest.
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Tagalog
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Insiang: Insiang leads a quiet life dominated by household duties, but after she is raped by her mother's lover and abandoned by the young man who claims to care for her, she exacts vicious revenge.
Mysterious object at noon: Apichatpong creates a film version of the corpse game, enlisting locals to improvise narration to create a combined story.
7) Mano po
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Tagalog
Description
"[About] a Chinese-Filipino family's search for identity and place in Philippine history. Told in the context of their struggles amid harsh contemporary realities and the ties that bind them to a land that has been good to them despite the life-threatening circumstances that have now begun to hover over their lives"--Container.
8) Arisaka
Language
Tagalog
Description
When Bataan police officer Mariano was assigned as a convoy escort for a narco-list vice mayor headed to a press conference that could shake the entire Philippine government, she knew it would be a dangerous mission. However, she did not expect her fellow cops to rub them out and shoot everyone dead in an attempt to stop the release of any damning information by the vice mayor. As the sole survivor of the rubout, a battered-and-bruised Mariano flees...
9) Mama's girl
Language
Tagalog
Description
The story of a mother and daughter who encounter struggles and conflicts in their relationship.
10) Forever my love
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Language
Tagalog
Description
A haunting film about ghosts and undying love, "Forever My Love" is about a pair of star-crossed lovers crossing paths with lonely little girl and a host of horrifying ghosts. It promises to be a genre-bender. It's a movie about loving another person to death and beyond.
11) When I met u
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Language
Tagalog
Description
En route to a wedding in Palawan, Jenny and her seaplane pilot Benjie crash land on a remote island. The two must learn to get along to survive.
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Tagalog
Description
A shy, reserved young man and a bubbly, impulsive girl find themselves partnered in a dance class. As they learn to complement each other in dance, they find a lot of what's missing in their lives in each other, and soon fall in love. Bur the real world intervenes and threatens to put an end to their romance.
13) Eternity
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Language
Tagalog
Description
Eternity is an epic romance about a pair of star-crossed lovers Crisanto and Milagros and how true love transcends different lifetimes. In the face of family hostilities and atrocities, the two continue to fight for their love until the bitter end. Cholo and Maegan are two different people with different backgrounds, finding each other as if by fate. It's as if they've known each other all their lives! But the young lovers' romance is thwarted by...
15) Once upon a time
Series
Language
Tagalog
Description
A fantasy-adventure where the "tikbalang" Puga searches for the magic crystal which will restore peace in his land. His dangerous quest leads him to earth where he meets three young men who can help him.
16) Homecoming
Language
Tagalog
Description
Five years of anticipating her homecoming, from Canada to where she considers her home, Abby reunites with her family in the Philipiines. But she brought something that will make her regret her coming home- SARS.
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Tagalog
Description
The story of a mother, Ruby, who dies on her 25th wedding anniversary and is trapped in Purgatory. When Catherine, a young, pretty woman comes into the life of Ruby's husband William and threatens to take her place, Ruby escapes back to Earth as a ghost to scare Catherine out of the family she left behind.
19) Baby Angelo
Language
Tagalog
Description
A four-month old fetus is discovered in the garbage of a humble apartment in Manila. Bong, one of the residents of the apartment, investigates the affair after the police ignore the incident. Searching for answers slowly falls by the wayside and the relationships between the tenants of the apartment propels the film.