Movie Drama Philippine
On The Job
On the Job focuses on four men. Both of them as a group, each stood on either side of the law. Film explores the impact of their actions to their families.
A gritty crime-thriller about four men struggling to survive and a make living for themselves and their respective loved ones. Two are former prison inmates, hired as contract killers, and the two other are law enforcers and investigators, caught in the loop of corrupt government officials. Mario intends to go straight when he gets parole, and Daniel a younger inmate and Mario's apprentice, is set to replace him as hired killer. Joaquin and Francis are the police officers tangled in a moral conflict. The two groups inevitably collide
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1 year ago
Himala
In the forgotten town of Cupang in the Philippines, a young woman named Elsa announces that she has seen the Virgin Mary -- and then demonstrates a new-found ability to heal the sick. Soon the whole village has become the center of international attention as people come from all over for statues of the saints and bottles of the village's holy water. Among the hordes of visitors is a skeptical film director intent on visually recording Elsa's healing powers -- and without his knowing it, some frames capture a secret Elsa has kept from the world for a long time, a secret which led to her sister's suicide.
The film is both philosophical and political. The filmmaker seems to have been set up as a representation of the artist who believes his art is a simple transcript of reality and finds himself confounded by the morality of condoning “untruth” by his failure to expose the outrage on the “miracle-maker.” The political aspect, in retrospect, is a damning comment on the deceptions being foisted by the Marcos dictatorship on the Filipino -- the fiction that Martial law had brought about the “miracle” of eradicating poverty and unrest in Philippine society.
Himala won the Viewer's Choice Award for the Best Film of all Time from the Asia-Pacific Region in the 2008 CNN Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
This copy has been digitally restored and re-mastered by ABS-CBN Archives and Central Digital Lab in 2012.
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1 year ago
Tiyanaks
Something beyond comprehension is happening to Sheila. The signs are clear: evil has returned… older, stronger and there is nowhere to hide. Many believe that when a baby dies without baptism, it leads to the possession of evil. Sheila, Rina, Christian and Kerwin along with their friends do not believe in such stories. Against the advice of a concerned mythology professor, they decided to take an out of town trip during the holy week. They have other things in mind.
Christian wants to start courting Rina, Kerwin wants to beat Christian to it, Hanz wants to spend time with his boyfriend and Rex simply wants to have fun. In the beginning, it would seem like they made the right choice. Then certain events, all seeming to revolve around the dreams and premonitions of Sheila about young evil lurking in the area, are deeply disturbing: disappearance, mysterious children, a strange old woman… The troubling incidents multiply, pointing to something wrong - terribly wrong - and it seems they have no way out. Then tragedy strikes closer when one of them turns out to be evil himself. Now, they realize that some of them must make the ultimate sacrifice to prevent the unspeakable terror that awaits them all. Some of them have to die for some to live. Tiyanaks is a shocking horror story about devil possession of unbaptized babies.
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1 year ago
Butterflies Have No Memories
In a remote spot in the Philippines, the economic crisis has taken over and a group of men do not do much apart from drinking. That is, until an enchanting Canadian woman arrives.
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1 year ago