Lino Brocka

Laurice Guillen's first attempt as a movie director resulted in a masterful portrayal by a powerful cast on the social changes that challenge the old...

A documentary TV special on the life of Lino Brocka, released in 1998 for Pinoy Blockbuster Original.

Documentary filmmaker Christian Blackwood profiles controversial Filipino director Lino Brocka, detailing his rags-to-riches rise in the mainstream...

Mario O'Hara's surreal debut film about a man recovering from mental illness.

A documentary on the life and work of National Artists Lino Brocka and Ishmael Bernal.

Film critic Tony Rayns interviews Lino Brocka and other prominent Filipino filmmakers.

Making-of documentary about Lino Brocka's 1975 film "Manila in the Claws of Light," featuring interviews and behind-the-scenes footage.

Signos (1984) is a Super 8mm film documentary that was a true product of its time, a collaboration by film artists and writers, who, in spite of...

With interviews with National Artists Lamberto Avellana and Lino Brocka and myriad talents from the Mowelfund community such as Nick Deocampo and...

A privileged teenager, disillusioned with the hypocrisy he witnesses in his small town, forms a bond with a lonely leper and a mentally unstable...

For love is our anthem, our dream and golden flame - to make beautiful tomorrows as we burn yesterday's sorrows.

For love is our anthem, our dream and golden flame - to make beautiful tomorrows as we burn yesterday's sorrows.

For love is our anthem, our dream and golden flame - to make beautiful tomorrows as we burn yesterday's sorrows.

Julio, a young fisherman from a provincial village, descends into social alienation as he arrives in Manila to search for his loved one.

Middle class school girl Bona (Nora Aunor) skips class to hang around the sets of bit actor Gardo (Philip Salvador). When her father attempts to beat...

Angela Delmar works as a waitress for one of the seedier bars in Manila. There she meets five patrons of the bar, who also turn out to be a gang...

A story about the life of a young girl living with her mother in the slums of Manila, which becomes unbearable when her mother's young boyfriend...

Poldo, a security guard at a publishing firm, becomes the personal bodyguard to his employer's son, Sonny. He later realizes that his boss is not the...

In this modern-day version of the biblical legend on Cain and Abel, strong-willed matriarch Señora Pina favors her younger son Ellis over the...

Pol moves to Manila for better opportunities after his American lover leaves. However, he gets drawn into the gritty world of gay prostitution and...

Coring, a gay beautician, is left with a baby by his former ward, Dennis. The baby grows up thinking that Coring is his real father. Everything seems...

Fragile as a teardrop - Powerful as a God-given Right.

This film probes into the minds and hearts of illegitimate children and their mothers.

A privileged teenager, disillusioned with the hypocrisy he witnesses in his small town, forms a bond with a lonely leper and a mentally unstable...

A laborer gets money for his wife's pregnancy from his boss on the condition that he will not join the union.

When her half-sister Emilia succeeded in seducing her boyfriend 20 years ago, Pura decided to fly to the United States. Now, she returns to her...

Set during the post-Marcos regime in a remote village of Dolores, chronicles the life of Jimmy Cordero, a political prisoner who have just been freed...

The setting is an Olongapo bar. Lolita Rodriguez is an ex-movie queen trying to earn a living for her son and herself. He is mortally embarrassed by...

The setting is an Olongapo bar. Lolita Rodriguez is an ex-movie queen trying to earn a living for her son and herself. He is mortally embarrassed by...

A stage mother drives her younger son to his ‘stardoom’ to make up for her downward slide from her bourgeois origins.

"Tatlo, Dalawa, Isa" is a compilation of three intimate stories directed by Filipino cinema legend Lino Brocka. The films show the perseverance of...

An aired tv movie about the relationship between a handicapped child and his parents.

Delfin is a doctor who returns to his hometown in the hopes of giving medical assistance to the people of Buena Vista who are suffering from leprosy....

A mother and daughter falls madly in love with mysterious stranger Emil Santos.

A stage mother drives her younger son to his ‘stardoom’ to make up for her downward slide from her bourgeois origins.

Lino Brocka's adaptation of Mars Ravelo's "komiks" melodrama about a successful businessman who is terrified of being exposed as a homosexual.

Lino Brocka's adaptation of Mars Ravelo's "komiks" melodrama about a successful businessman who is terrified of being exposed as a homosexual.

This is the story of Miguelito, his estranged mother Auring and the quest for justice against a powerful politician. After ten years of suffering in...

A Filipino immigrant travels the American west searching for his relatives. Although he doesn't speak much English, he winds up getting involved with...

Brocka's potboiler about the rise of a starlet is the quintessential rags-to-riches, prey-turned-predator story, brimming with true-life anecdotes...

A Channel 13 drama special about a cop whose one night of infidelity almost cost him his job and his life.

Three poor girls from the provinces of the Philippines are lured to the big city. In Manila they are tricked to work in the sex trade.

A nighttime attempt to sabotage a Japanese munitions store in the little town of Santiago goes wrong when Gonzalo (Fernando Poe, Jr.) discovers that...

A corrupt, lonely couple manipulates a naive, young couple using money, power, and lies.

A story about a husband who falls in love with his mother-in-law.

Chuck is a TV executive who feels he has achieved his goals far too early in life. He decides to leave his wife Carissa to go on a soul-searching...

A young man achieves success as a singer, affecting everyone around him.

A nun is ostracized by her superiors after a brutal encounter with a rapist leaves her pregnant.

A nighttime attempt to sabotage a Japanese munitions store in the little town of Santiago goes wrong when Gonzalo (Fernando Poe, Jr.) discovers that...

At the turn of the century, Maruja Isable Sevilla y Mira poisons herself when forced to marry a man she does not love. Several decades later, she is...

The rich and beautiful Rosita would do anything to win the love of the man she had become obsessed with. Still, neither her beauty nor all the money...

A riches story amidst the filth and squalor of the Smokey Mountain. A scavenger among the garbage who had to carry her crippled mother on her back...

Lydia, a prostitute, is caught between the love of her long-time partner, Sidro, who is a hired gun, and George Grace, an American soldier stationed...

Three stories of love starring Sharon Cuneta. The first, "I Love You, Moo-Moo" (directed by Leroy Salvador), is about a young bride who died on her...

A woman becomes the object of obsession of a man who will stop at nothing to possess her.

A successful couple decide to separate and see other people in this romantic comedy from Lino Brocka.

A teenage boy befriends a starlet who is having an affair with an ambitious mayor. As the elections are coming up, the mayor's wife wants him to get...

A nighttime attempt to sabotage a Japanese munitions store in the little town of Santiago goes wrong when Gonzalo (Fernando Poe, Jr.) discovers that...

Wanting a better life for his baby, a driver switches his son for his employers’ newborn girl, forever entwining the futures of both families...

Upon her retirement from being a school teacher, a mother slowly realizes that her children are already grown-up and she now is faced with the...

A street hustler falls in love with a bar girl. They get married, but separate when the guy gets meted a death sentence after gunning down a rich...

Famous TV commentator Maia Robles finds herself caught between having an affair with a politician and reporting on social issues, especially...

Salve, a content barrio lass, is married to Alfred, an aspiring politician. Alfred meets Via finds out that they can both be very useful to each...

This official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1983 directed by Lino Brocka and starred Carmi Martin, Phillip Salvador, Dennis...

A typical story of a hopeless Filipino worker whose last resort is to work abroad to save his family from poverty. Melo trudge the desert to look...

The story of an unsuccessful attempt to convict a congressman's son of rape takes an unexpected twist, as the accused pursues a friendship with the...

A simple love story between two souls, a beerhouse dancer and her lover, intensely in search for their place in the sun

Because his mother is too poor to feed her young children, Empoy is sent to work for his exploitative and cruel aunt.

Drama among family and friends unfold in Villa Miranda, a town in the world of false glories and true defeats.

The lives of a newly married couple and their mutual friend unravel after the wife becomes the victim of a gang rape during a honeymoon.

A strong-willed matriarch and her family leave their fishing village for Manila after an oil spill.

Corazon Rivera is a factory worker in a textile company owned by Cynthia Ocampo's family. Her live-in partner and co-worker, Robert de Asis, is an...

A mother and daughter falls madly in love with mysterious stranger Emil Santos.

After his expulsion from college Juni Locsin (Gabby Concepcion) is forced to continue studies at Eastern College Of The Republic, an ordinary...

Dreaming to be released from her miserable life of poverty, Aida, a waitress, abandons her bedridden father, her moralistic mother, her jobless...

An actress's past is unraveled after a fan starts stalking her.

After her mother dies in childbirth, a blind little girl has to learn to live with her wealthy father’s new wife—her new...

It tells of a couple, Dante and Elsa who hires a new governess, Carla to care for their four children. The governess quickly establishes rapport with...

It tells of a couple, Dante and Elsa who hires a new governess, Carla to care for their four children. The governess quickly establishes rapport with...

A girl grew up alone in a secluded island, ostracized by the people for being born out of wed lock. A young Hawaii-based Filipino-speaking tourist...

A driver sells his baby to his wealthy childless employers, causing consequences years later.

A 1984 erotic melodrama by Lino Brocka about a former softcore porn star ("bold star" in the Philippines), her abusive husband and their new...

Alice, Benjie and Andro are bank robbers who go into hiding in the jungle after one of them kills a civilian during a heist.

A 1982 drama by Lino Brocka set in the world of boxing, starring Phillip Salvador, Vic Vargas and Chanda Romero.

Classes clash in this 1981 teen romantic comedy by Lino Brocka about a streetwise college dropout attempting to win the heart of a privileged,...

Adapted from Mars Ravelo’s serialized “komiks,” this 1971 melodrama by Lino Brocka stars Rosemarie Sonora, Dante Rivero and Hilda...

In Lino Brocka's 1981 melodrama, a man's juggling of three women—his wife, his girlfriend, and the wealthy married woman with whom he begins a...

Diego and Gabriela Silang are landed Ilocos natives disaffected with the imposition of the indulto de comercio (a law giving right to Spanish...

A UNICEF-sponsored six-film anthology depicting childhood horrors around the world. "Hassane" - a malnourished child in Niger needs help from the...