Movies: Filipino

This documentary paints the life of former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay (1953-1957), from being a simple mechanic, a wartime guerilla leader, and as president of the Philippines, leading up to his death in a plane crash in Mount Manunggal, Ce...

A Filipino immigrant struggles to maintain his façade of success in Vancouver when his family in Manila asks for a hard favour....

Set in 1992, a Filipino kid working at his father’s liquor store seeks community through the arcade game Street Fighter II, but finds himself clashing with a local bully....

Two old men, Jorge and James, hang out every day in a local coffee shop. As typical pensioned senior citizens, they laze around and talk to each other tirelessly inside the coffee shop with a habit of gossiping about the customers who enter, especial...

A group of campus journalists joined a jeepney modernization protest to cover a story. Unbeknownst to them, they would soon be the subjects of the story they were set out to cover....

Filipino-born Ella works as a nanny in a prosperous Moscow family. Day by day, she carries out the same routine actions: washing, cooking, cleaning, babysitting. But once she accidentally hurts her arm, her smooth repetitive life gradually gives a lu...

A surgery to finally fit in a literally new world bears a heavy risk, pushing an alien immigrant to make last-minute precautionary measures on the day of his surgery....

In a hidden paradise somewhere in the Philippines, two brothers share a simple but sufficient life. Things change when an unexpected visitor brings a new-found attention to their island home. With their idyllic island now on the tourism spotlight, th...

Bela, a first-generation Filipina immigrant, must face her parents' prejudice regarding her sexual orientation....

A teenager is resurrected as a plant-headed zombie, searching to find his past happiness and humanity. How long will it all last though, knowing that life may change again when the sun goes away?...

Ada is a shy gay man living in a small town in the Philippines. After many heartbreaks over many years, he has committed himself to a simple and single life. But when a magical stone from outer space transforms him into a flamboyant female superhero,...

An anthropomorphic cloud shares how it achieves small wins in this natural cycle of life, one that dwells on the commonality that suggests “mga ulap tayong nagiging ulan"....

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A Filipino mother's obsession with her teenaged son becoming famous turns into delusion when she sneaks into his play rehearsal....

The warm relationship between Mendel, an elderly Holocaust survivor, and his Filipino caretaker, Jose, is tested when Jose does not have a work permit and the police begin searching the neighborhood for illegal foreign workers....

‘TAKBO’ is a short experimental film that studies the realities by which young Filipino women live....

Benok, robbed off his childhood, had to work due to poverty. While his mother spends time on gambling. In his eyes, the world has changed where children work and adults play. Benok finds his way to experience how to become a real kid again....

A Filipino movie...