[Philippine cinema - dekada/decade] 1980s PHILIPPINE CINEMA - BEST OF / ICONIC - SEEN/WATCHED

A groom takes his city bride to his hometown to settle in his father's house. Struck by her uncanny resemblance to his dead wife, the patriarch is driven to lust after his daughter-in-law. When things come to a head, a violent family quarrel ensues and leads to tragedy. A middle-aged spinster recounts the tale to reveal her identity and trace the downfall of the landowning clan trapped in the past.

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

Crispin is a 29-year old bachelor who lives alone in his apartment and works in a bank. His life is filled with pain and suffering as he wants to find a woman to love as he approaches his 30s.

A devoted fan is groomed to bring down her idol's career. A classic story of love, success, and what people are willing to sacrifice to achieve them.

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.

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

A crime-drama-suspense genre film not often seen in Philippine cinema. A controlling patriarch loses it over his daughter's marriage and her attempts to escape from their incestuous household.

Five chaste adolescents attempt to navigate the wild and unpredictable drama of their final year of high school, only to discover that their friendship is what keeps them afloat.

This sequel of the youth-oriented film chronicles the boys' final year of high school, culminating in their graduation.

Abandoned by his American lover, a handsome teenager from the mountains journeys to Manila in an effort to support his family. With a popular call boy as his mentor, Paul enters the glittering world of male strippers, prostitution, drugs, sexual slavery, police corruption and murder. Teeming with sex and Asian beefcake, Macho Dancer is a searing indictment of the hypocrisy and police corruption rampant under both the Marcos and Aquino regimes.

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.