Bella Flores
Isabel Reyes (Rhian Ramos) is an infamous soap opera villain in the country. Everyone simply loathes Isabel which makes her the most condemned personality in the world of television. But by some weird twist of fate, Isabel\'s life turns upside down when she encounters a near-death accident. The wicked antagonist experiences a sudden change of heart and being the top kontrabida of her soap opera, Isabel couldn\'t just deliver her heartlessness and cruelty in front of the camera. Her over-the-top villainous persona disappears and she finds herself powerless to kick and slap the lead star. Isabel\'s show hits a major ratings slump and the network advises her to take a break from work with hopes of reigniting her passion. To solve her dilemma, Isabel seeks the help of the biggest kontrabida icon in the country, no less than Ms. Bella Flores. She finds her on YouTube and says that for Isabel to get herself back, she needs to find the person who hurt her the most.
The story revolves with Pura, (Melai) who plays the comedic role of a bubbly, caring, kind-hearted, very hardworking “dakilang ate” who wants nothing but only the best for her one and only beloved brother, Ulam, and uplift their dismal life. In all her endeavors, Pura’s best friend, Ruben (Jason Francisco), has always been by her side. Pura and Ruben then stumbles into a one-time big time opportunity to usher a Brazilian model who manages to escape them. With this unfortunate turn of event, Pura steps into the role … literally. She is now the model Pureza Mayriles! Basking in the promise of a better fortune plus a serendipitous love, little did Pura know that she has dragged herself into a life-threatening mess? Now running for their lives, Pura and Ruben has to detangle themselves from the dangers that faces them and how! Read More: The Adventures of Pureza: Queen of The Riles Trailer | Pinoymovieblog.com Under Creative Commons License: Attribution Share Alike
Angelo dreams of creating a medicine that could cure his father’s illness. With some knowledge about medicinal herbs, he makes a living as a faith healer. Everyone believes him, except Cielo Delos Santos, a doctor who swears to do everything to uncover Angelo’s secret. Things get a little complicated when Angelito, an exiled angel comes down to earth to help Angelo become a better man. As the three of them try to achieve their own goals, they realize that they need each other more than they are willing to admit.
Jessica Santiago & Ana Bartolome are two sisters who have lived in separate lives for 12 long years. Jessie, though an excellent student, has grown to feel sorrow of Ana’s lost while Ana, not knowing that she’s an orphan, grew up in a far-flung fishing village. When they meet in a swimming competition, the Santiagos exert effort to bring Ana back. But when Ana returns home, Jessie feels more abandoned & lovelorn. With their relationship turning sour, Jessie’s life is terribly put in danger. In the end, the two sisters find home where their hearts truly lie.
Messina, an outcast and failed fortuneteller returns to her hometown to save her daughter Claire from a syndicate that aims to exploit her gift of fortune telling. When Messina returns, she finds her daughter caught in debt and the squabble of a petty syndicate running a band of fortunetellers for the unwary, desperate answer-seekers. For years, their hometown has been grooming one great fortuneteller just as they had hailed Dorothea as the town's leader. Dorothea is the grandmother of Claire who appears in her dreams. A helpful fortuneteller named Rachel teaches Messina that the only way to save her daughter is to embrace a gift she has vowed to give up, the ability to see the future no matter how bleak and inescapable.
Set in Philippine post-American colonialist era, where the American influence was still apparent, Ilusyon tells the story of Miguel, a young man from the countryside, who decides to visit his father, Pablo, a Modernist painter in Manila. Upon his arrival, he discovers that his father has decided to leave for the province but he opted to stay in Manila for a vacation. One day, he meets Stella, a nude model originally scheduled to pose for Miguel's father. Struck by her beauty, Miguel does the unthinkable - he pretends to be his father the painter. Developing a relationship based on a lie, things turn for the worse as Stella begets a strange skin disease that turns off Miguel. Surrounded by strange characters - a talking cow, a talkative mailman and a nosy landlady - Miguel is driven into a frenzy realization about beauty, lust, love and being true to oneself. An ambiguous ending underlines the surreal tone of the film.
The Resurreccion's ancestral mansion is believed to have a portal to the other world. Every quarter of a century, it must be opened by a chosen member of the clan, known as "The One", to enable stranded ghosts to cross over to the afterlife. With no surviving clan member opening the portal in the past 100 years, ghosts have overcrowded the now-abandoned mansion. Hesus Resurreccion is about to find out that he is The One but he is afraid of ghosts. When he inherits the mansion, he wants to sell it immediately but it isn't that easy since people believe the mansion is haunted. He totally freaks out when he learns that the people he sees in the mansion are all ghosts. Hesus has no choice but to fulfill his mission as The One. As he spends more time with the ghosts, he realizes that they are not scary at all and even enjoys their company. In the end Hesus got the key and opened the portal
Three luckless cousins, estranged from one other, leave their province for Manila in search of their long lost grandfather. All three meet in an address where they find two equally zany guys taking care of their sickly grandfather. The old man dies and leaves an inheritance, but the land they inherit is in danger of being usurped by the father of their newfound girlfriends. Their only hope to save their land is to win five million in a popular noontime TV show.
A 2000 Filipino action comedy starring April Boy Regino, Ciara Sotto, Manilyn Reynes, and Manny Pacquiao.
Sandra is the daughter of an ex-club dancer who is trying to live a decent life. However, her stepdad has other plans for her so she rans away from home only to be lured back. How can she protect herself from all the evils that surround her?
A woman chose to have an affair to challenge her life's pains as a sister, as a daughter, as a wife, and as a woman.
A 1995 Filipino action film starring Phillip Salvador, Nanette Medved, Paquito Diaz, and John Regala.
A true-to-life story of Sarah Jane Abad, a PWA (Person-with-Aids) and the men in her life.
Flavio is the chosen one, the PANDAY, the savior of mankind from the evil Lisardo. Panday goes against all odds to fight all of Lisardo's greed that goodness will once again prevail over their land.
An uncle and his nephew go to Manila to find jobs. They venture to Manila because of their perception that money is everywhere in the city. Unfortunately, they come face to face with a group that peddles illegal drugs.
"GURO" Mr. Zerrudo is the newest teacher at Jodie's school. Unfortunately, Jodie discovered that her heartthrob professor transforms into a hideous monster. Jodie must find a way to undo the transformations before the school becomes the monster's prey. "KAPITBAHAY" One by one, the children who play at a neighborhood park are abducted by a Witawit, monstrous-looking creature who lives in the park’s trees. Little Nikkie and yaya Tising try to get to the bottom of the mystery and rescue the abducted children. "MADRE" A homeless family and their neighbors in the city of Manila are plagued by attacks from a Manananggal. A little boy named Teks suspects a nun working at a free clinic, to be that flying creature but no one believes him. Will he be able to prove his suspicions before he becomes the creature's next victim?
The follow-up to Petrang kabayo at ang pilyang kuting (1988) where a homosexual turns into a horse. A film by Luciano B. Carlos.
An anthology film featuring the biggest tandem love teams in Philippine cinema.
A triology about love starring the hottest love teams of the time: Lotlot de Leon and Ramon Christopher star in Till Death Do Us Part; Tina Paner and Cris Villanueva team up in Invisible Lover; and Manilyn Reynes and Janno Gibbs pair up in Eternally.
Salve and Sion is a sister living with their grandparents. Trying to make ends meet, they take in any job even if it's not high paying. Ben is a long-time friend/ admirer of Sion. He supports her in her every endeavor. When Ben's cousin, Carding arrives to Ben's place, he meets Salve and is easily smitten by her charm, when he rescues her from trouble. One day both sisters come face-to-face with criminals, they try to run away from them and report to authorities.
A magical tree has a 7 dwarves taking care of it. The tree is bearing money and only good people can take it and prove that the tree has money on it.
In the heart of Manila, a rookie pickpocket crosses paths with Baldo, the so called "king of pickpockets". This action-comedy is the only film Maricel Soriano did with Fernando Poe Jr.
Lando is married to Lorna. He took on the huge responsibility of taking care of his widowed aunt Trixia and her two children, the youngest being a moron. Because of his obligations to his aunt's family, his relationship with his wife Lorna has not been as happy and ideal as they would have liked. Aside from being needy and dependent on Lando, Trixia has been very close to Lando, a fact that is very much seen by Lorna. A deep dark secret will be eventually revealed to Lorna: that Lando and Trixia is involved romantically and that Trixia's youngest child is Lando's. In the end, Lorna will be slowly relieved of the thorns that has been weighing down on her chest.
A story about a man who has lots of different women and families.
An erstwhile boatman wants to do a little more than paddle his own canoe in the town famed for its waterfalls. He leaves the village of his roots for the city and lands a job as a live-sex actor called toro in street lingo derived from the Spanish term for bull. Quick successes in his newfound profession delude him into regarding that the measure of a man is in his trousers. He has a partner on stage and off. Despite her cynicism and tough veneer, she sees in him a way out of the slums and the red light district.
American servicemen are still being held captive in Vietnam and it's up to one man to bring them home in this blistering, fast-paced action/adventure starring martial arts superstar Chuck Norris.Following a daring escape from a Vietnamese POW camp, Special Forces Colonel James Braddock (Norris) is on a mission to locate and save remaining MIAs.
A pregnant woman arrested for frustrated murder is sent to the Manila City Jail where she meets several women with shocking pasts.
The four children find each other after Elisa and her mother, were thrown out of the house by the evil mother-in-law. Left to fend for themselves, they end up living with the mother’s friend, a bar girl, in an informal settlement.
The movie stars Gabby Concepcion, Janice de Belen, Chichay, Bella Flores, Rez Cortes, Dencio Padilla, Bibeth Orteza, Rodolfo 'Boy' Garcia. Directed by Anthony Taylor.
50's melodies provide the soundtrack to this classic that had fans swooning and rooting for their respective idols, eventually rolling down the aisles towards the riotous ending.
Mario O'Hara's melodrama about an aspiring singer and her ex-convict sweetheart, an exhilarating cross between George Cukor's A Star is Born and Ringo Lam's Prison on Fire.
A 1979 drama film starring Christopher de Leon, Rudy Fernandez and Alma Moreno. Originally serialized in Wakasan Komiks
PX, short for Paula Xavier (Vilma Santos) was an illegal alien in New York City. She’s broke and waiting for her fiancé to fulfill his promise of marriage despite the fact that he has already married an American to secure a green card. Hiding from the authorities, PX met two men who are willing to take care of her but conflicts arise as the two want to maintain a serious relationship with her.
Dyesebel is unique among the merfolk for she is the only mermaid born of human parents from the surface world. A mermaid from birth, she is shunned by the superstitious due to her physical form. After her father is killed by an angry, superstitious mob, Dyesebel is taken to the ocean by her mother where she is sent into exile since her chances for survival are greater there than on land. The young girl-mermaid is found by Banak who adopts her and takes her to their kingdom where she is welcomed into their community.
In director Joey Gosiengfiao's satire on the Philippine showbiz industry, Alma Moreno plays Estelita, a young girl who dreams of becoming a movie star like her idol Stella Fuego. In the course of Estelita's rise to stardom, she gets entangled in the corruption of show business and makes enemies along the way.
Nelia leaves her poor town to work as a maid in the city. Perceived as a lower-class citizen, Nelia gets harsh treatment that she does not deserve from her employer. She toils day and night to fulfill the wishes of her family at the expense of working herself to death. Ultimately, it is also in the city where she discovers an opportunity to move to a better life in the arms of a lover.
A homeless woman died giving birth to her twin sons. One of the twins, Alitaftaf is adopted by a poor couple while the other, Facundo, is adopted by a middle class couple. The twins grew up in a contrasting lifestyle, so they both build different personalities. Alitaftaf has difficulty speaking, but is good-hearted while Facundo is spoiled and naughty.
Peter, a cute little boy who sells bread for his crippled mother meets Pete, an ex convict that wanted to have a new life.
Young Guillen and his mother were sold as slaves to a rich miner after their ship was captured by armed men who also killed their family patriarch. After Guillen escapes the enslavement and was marooned on an unknown island, he then plots his revenge to regain his family's honor.
A 1974 film from Ishmael Bernal about a man with seven wives.
A quiet man with a burning desire to live in peace and in freedom pulls a daring one-man crusade against a gangster clique.
A story about a guerilla hired who is tasked to liquidate collaborators and Japanese forces.
Nympha begins and ends with a scene in the cemetery where a group of people are standing around a tomb under the rain. The movie as a whole is an exposition of the events in Nympha’s life that lead to this scene. Nympha is a young girl reared and morally sheltered by a hypocritically pious elder female relative. The girl’s blind piety, however, is ripped apart by her sudden awareness of the sexually-charged environment and by her own first love affair. Eventually, she goes from man to man, driven by her demonic desires. Her unwanted pregnancy finally leads to a gory, fatal abortion.
A story about two young singers who fell in love when they both auditioned in a singing contest.
Joey, a resident of a Manila slum, is a GI baby. He doesn't know his American father. His mother, an ex-prostitute in Olongapo City (the American Military Base), is forcing the 17-year-old boy to capitalize on his good looks and bluntly tells him to marry a rich girl so that both mother and son will have a comfortable life - an idea he detests - and becomes the object of conflict between them.
The town's landed gentleman and unrepentant vampire Angustia has just feasted on a young female victim and is now pursued by an angry mob of torch-carrying villagers. Cornered in the grounds of his villa, Angustia is staked through the heart with a sharpened cross and left to die alone in agony. With the sound of a howling wolf in the distance, he is tended to by his distraught sweetheart, who removes the cross and buries him underneath it. Being mortal, she is also carrying the vampire's children – twins, one good and one inherently evil – and after her mother is thrown down her stairs by an unseen force (linked to the cobra curled around the vampire's grave marker!), she leaves one of the babies, flees the village with the other child, and heads in a trance directly for the sanctuary of Angustia's villa. (IMDB)
A 1968 Filipino fantastical romantic comedy starring Rosemarie, Pepito Gutierrez, and Ricky Belmonte.
An evil syndicate is set to conquer the world, and the mission is to stop them from fulfilling their viscious plans. The consequences of their failure may mean the destruction of all dissenting countries who stand in their way. All countries must bow to their power before the deadline of five days expires. The solution is sending in their best operatives; James Hika, and the dynamic duo of Batman and Robin. They are first detested with working with each other, but for the safety of the world, they join forces. Through thick and thin, they survive the syndicate's plan to dispose of them. They get closer to stopping the syndicate plan, but there is a traitor in their midst. Will this deter them from achieving their goal?
Together again Mr. and Miss No 1. The Much-Acclaimed Love Team. In the Most Sophisticated Comedy of the Year.
A 1961 Filipino drama starring Paraluman and Mario Montenegro.
Earthly love or the love of god? which must one choose in order to live in his shadow?
Bankruptcy drove Don Ramon to commit suicide leaving nothing to the family his wife, Rosa, and four children, Carmen, Gloria, Lolita, and Bobby. Carmen, the eldest, filled the gap left by her father and swore to send her siblings to school.
A story about the daughter of a department store owner who goes undercover to unravel the mystery of why the department store is failing.
A story of the boy Dumagit who grows up in the jungle with his guardian and animal friends. Dr. Joaquin Olivar and his pregnant wife Marina hide in a remote island after Olivar was accused of a crime and Marina feared being ostracized. Marina dies after giving birth to a baby boy, David. Olivar takes care of the baby on his own and gives him the nickname Dumagit. Later, Olivar is killed by a group of men who came into the island to hunt animals. Twenty years later, Federico Olivar, brother of Joaquin Olivar, comes to the island to look for his brother. This film is the Philippine version of Tarzan.
When a mother-in-law SCOLDS--that's ordinary, GOSSIPS--that's understandable, DESPAIRS--that's bearable. But when a mother-in-law just won't laugh--WHAT A MISFORTUNE.
St. Peter is exasperated with the antics of Kerubin, a mischievous little angel. So he sends Kerubin to Earth with the proviso that she cannot return to heaven until she makes one sad soul happy. Kerubin settles on Anastacis, a young housewife who wants to have a child but cannot and whose husband is beginning to have a wandering eye.
Here is the surging drama of three brothers - torn between two flags - Here is the story of Elias Tabak - the fire of vengeance burned in his heart, and - it took one woman to tame the fury of his "tabak".
Critically acclaimed as one of the three best pictures of the year, along with “Krimen” by Jun Raquiza and “Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang” by Lino Brocka, by the Philippines Daily Express, that merited a front-page year-end review written by Urian. Variety, the international entertainment trade paper, gave it similar praise. A three-part, social drama on parent-child relationships, it stars: the Philippine movies’ most beautiful face, Amalia Fuentes as the Phaedra-like, uppercrust stepmother who falls in love with her stepson, the adorable Boots Anson Roa as the slum mother who has to choose between her bastard son and her good-for-nothing love, the alluring Pilar Pilapil as the social climbing fashion model who belittles her sacrificing adoptive parent. The film, the Director and the three actresses were all nominated for the FAMAS and the Catholic Mass Media Awards (CMMA), but only the child actor, Angelito, won as best child actor.
