Philippines

  • Jeffrey Hidalgo – Eva (2021)

    2021-2030DramaJeffrey HidalgoPhilippinesRomance
    Eva (2021)
    Eva (2021)

    When Eva gets involved in a steamy threesome with a houseboy and her lady boss, she realizes she has to choose only one between them.

    A Housemaid’s Tale

    Eva, a house-help of a lady model, is a doll faced girl who loves her neighbour’s servant who always gets bullied by his master.

    Eva’s madam, the model, is a bi forces herself on Eva one day. This complicates things as Eva loves the man-servant & the madam likes Eva. So they all had a threesome where the servant leaves mid way as he loves Eva & does not want to share her with any other woman. Then it all bagins a long discussion about love, heart, lust etc… If u want to watch it, watch it for Angeli Khang, who plays the title role. She is a sweet doll faced lady.Read More »

  • Arden Rod Condez – John Denver Trending (2019)

    2011-2020Arden Rod CondezDramaPhilippines
    John Denver Trending (2019)
    John Denver Trending (2019)

    A 14-year-old farm boy’s life is suddenly upended when a video of him brutally attacking a classmate goes viral.Read More »

  • Roman Perez Jr. – Putahe (2022)

    2021-2030DramaEroticaPhilippinesQueer Cinema(s)Roman Perez Jr.
    Putahe (2022)
    Putahe (2022)

    When Euka arrives on the island, Jenny, a young barrio lass aspires to be like her. When Euka teaches her everything, Jenny realizes she has taken a dose of her own medicine.Read More »

  • Lav Diaz – Lahi, hayop AKA Genus Pan (2020) (HD)

    2011-2020ArthouseLav DiazPhilippines

    Quote:
    Taking leave from their jobs at a gold mine, three workers journey to their home village on foot through the spectacular yet unforgiving wilderness of the mythical island of Hugaw. As time passes and their conversations intensify, buried histories emerge and a sense of psychosis invades the scene. As ever, Lav Diaz’s exquisitely subdued black-and-white images and patient rhythm lend a Brechtian register to the drama; almost always filmed from the same fixed distance, each scene is an immaculate tableau vivant. Behind the film’s folkloric façade, Diaz once again taps into the collective memory of defiant struggles against the tyranny of both contemporary Filipino society and colonial brutality, centred on the timeless image of men walking – one of the key traits of Pan.Read More »

  • Lav Diaz – Pagsisiyasat sa gabing ayaw lumimot AKA An Investigation on the Night That Won’t Forget (2012)

    Lav Diaz2011-2020ArthouseDocumentaryPhilippines
    Pagsisiyasat sa gabing ayaw lumimot (2012)
    Pagsisiyasat sa gabing ayaw lumimot (2012)

    Quote:
    Erwin Romulo, the best friend of the late film critic Alexis Tioseco, recalls the events after the critic and his girlfriend Nika Bohinc’s murder during a burglary in their home in Quezon City. Lav Diaz makes use of one long take to allow Romulo an uninterrupted narration of the events.Read More »

  • Lav Diaz – Ang alitaptap AKA The Firefly (2013)

    2011-2020ExperimentalLav DiazPhilippinesShort Film
    Ang alitaptap (2013)
    Ang alitaptap (2013)

    A short film made for “Venezia 70 – Future Reloaded.”

    The day will come

    We shall set sail from the mysteries of mythologies
    And i shall be singing hymns to set you free
    All of the effort I put into 70 Hours Of Diaz and I somehow forgot that he had a short in Venice 70: Future Reloaded…

    Outside of experimental affair like Let Your Light Shine or Brakhage’s hand painted affair where the film is 100% dedicated to an aesthetic and that’s what the film must be judged on alone it’s hard to muster the same enthusiasm on a narrative level you would for a 77 second short that you would for say, a 9 hour film for example.
    GrimsChild (letterboxd)Read More »

  • Topel Lee – Tayuan (2023)

    2021-2030DramaPhilippinesTopel Lee
    Tayuan (2023)
    Tayuan (2023)

    Ella meets Rico, a bus conductor, on her way to work. Even after finding out that Rico is married, she still pursues him. As their affair turns to adoration, it becomes harder for them to let go.Read More »

  • Brillante Mendoza – Thy Womb (2012)

    2011-2020Brillante MendozaDramaPhilippines
    Thy Womb (2012)
    Thy Womb (2012)

    A Bajau midwife copes with the irony of her own infertility amid the deprivations of her gypsy community in Tawi-Tawi. A saga of island life stuck between the devil of passion and the deep blue sea of tradition.Read More »

  • Lino Brocka – Macho Dancer (1988)

    Lino Brocka1981-1990CrimeDramaPhilippinesQueer Cinema(s)
    Macho Dancer (1988)
    Macho Dancer (1988)

    Macho Dancer is a 1988 Philippine film, directed Lino Brocka, which explores the harsh realities of a young, poor, rural gay man, who after being dumped by his American boyfriend, is forced to make a living for himself in Manila’s seamy red-light district. Based on a true story, the film frank depiction of homosexuality, prostitution, drag queens and crooked cops, porno movie-making and sexual slavery, and drugs and violence caused the Filipino government censors to order extensive edits of the film, forcing an uncensored edition to be smuggled out of the Philippines and shown to a limited number of international film festivals. This print is now part of the permanent collection at The Museum of Modern Art in New York [Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film and Video. 1994. Raymond Murray]Read More »

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