My Favorite Philippines Films + Series

Elsa saw the blessed Virgin Mary who had changed her life and caused a hysteria in a poor isolated village.

Two affluent families struggle and learn to survive during the Japanese occupation in the Philippines.

The lives of seven neophytes as they strive to enter a Greek letter fraternity through a difficult hazing process. The entire experience is seen through the eyes of Sid Lucero, one of the neophytes.

A college student has an affair with a security guard's passive wife. The husband finds out that his wife is cheating on him, when one day he walks in on them while they are having sex, and shoots them both.

The life of a young girl living with her mother in the slums of Manila becomes unbearable when her mother's young boyfriend moves in with them.

This riveting crime thriller follows Oscar, a recent emigrant to Manila who gets pulled into a harrowing world of corruption and violence when he takes a job as an armored car driver to support his family (in Tagalog w/ English subtitles).

The movie follows a seemingly-usual day in the life of Loida Malabanan as she embarks on yet another shooting day of a soap opera as an extra. As the shoot goes on we get a glimpse of truth in the ruling system of the production as well as the exploitation of marginalized laborers like Loida.

Inspired by a real-life scandal in which prison inmates are temporarily released from prison to work as contract killers on behalf of politicians and high ranking military officials.

A young man tries to make some money so he can marry his girlfriend. He takes a job for $2,000 and then realizes that this job involves killing a woman.

In this story, three sisters are raised in a world where men are metaphorically and literally serpents of temptation by their God-fearing father. The girls are educated enough to read from the Bible.

When Rodrigo Duterte is voted president of the Philippines, he sets in motion a machinery of death to execute suspected drug dealers, users, and small time street criminals. ASWANG follows people whose lives entwine with the growing violence.

A 14-year-old farm boy's life is suddenly upended when a video of him brutally attacking a classmate goes viral.

A sexploitation flick that leaves the women feeling violated again.

Battered wife Joy stands up for justice against her alcoholic husband Dante in a turmoil process of the justice system.

Jane and Aries are teenage parents. They make a living out of stealing on the streets... until fate hits back at them.

Filipino horror anthology in three parts.

A man enters an adult film theatre, a writer gets a naughty massage, a porn star satisfies an intern, and a couple kill a man while making love.

Júlio Madiaga, a 'provinciano', arrives in Manila to search for his beloved, Ligaya.

Even though he is not good in school and belongs to a poor and unfortunate family, Magnifico still has a big heart and a large amount of optimism that enabled him to help not only his family, but also the community.

A young couple's sex acts are witnessed by a young man through a hole in the wall. When the wife seduces him, they engage in an illicit affair. Chaos ensues when the husband learns about them.

In this starkly realistic narrative, director Jeffrey Jeturian presents a captivating portrait of a once-proud woman, haunted by memories of a dead son and hounded by the police, and her fragile and lonely life as a "kurador".

A Spanish Mestizo and a fisherman fight over a woman but ally to assist natives in preventing General Aguinaldo's capture by Americans during the Philippine-American War.

A woman falls in love with a Japanese soldier during the Japanese Occupation in the Philippines; the whole town turns against her.

Set in the imaginary Barangay Husay, Eman teams up with his two friends, Toto and Carlo who start as the underdogs, failing at every opportunity to succeed in their small-time scams. They then meet Nicoy who becomes part of Eman's group breaking the tradition of having only 3 members per gang.

When a couple finds out they hit the biggest jackpot in the lottery, they make a quiet exit in their sleepy town; however, things don't go as planned.