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  • Mike De Leon – Itim AKA The Rites of May (1976)

    1971-1980HorrorMike De LeonPhilippinesThriller

    PLOT: During a homecoming to his provincial home, a young man gets involved with a woman strangely haunted and ultimately possessed, by her sister’s spirit, paving the way to revealing the painful truth about her unsolved disappearance.Read More »

  • Lino Brocka – Insiang (1976)

    1971-1980DramaLino BrockaPhilippines

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    Jealousy and violence take center stage in this claustrophobic melo­drama, a tautly constructed character study set in the slums of Manila. Lino Brocka crafts an eviscerating portrait of an innocent daughter and her bitter mother as women scorned. Insiang leads a quiet life dominated by household duties, but after she is raped by her mother’s lover and abandoned by the young man who claims to care for her, she exacts vicious revenge. A savage commentary on the degradations of urban poverty, especially for women, Insiang was the first Philippine film ever to play at Cannes.Read More »

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