9 Films & TV Shows Set In Philippines During The 1980s
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Zeroville
California 🇵🇭 Philippines The 1970s The 1980s The 1960sSex, cinema and punk rock. 1969 — A young actor arrives in Hollywood in 1969 during a transitional time in the Industry.
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Kuwaresma
🇵🇭 Philippines The 1980sDarkness will test the strength of this family. — Luis finds out that his twin has just died, and comes back home to find out the cause of her death. He soon realizes that the darkness in their house never left.
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Ang Dalubhasa
🇵🇭 Philippines The 1980s The 1990sJaime de Guzman, a military neurosurgeon, survives a massacre that killed his wife and daughter. He hunts down all perpetrators and is able to kill them except the boss. From returning to a normal life and to the death of a girl after performing a brain operation to her, he hides his guilt to his new life.
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Man on the Moon
New York 🇵🇭 Philippines The 1950s The 1970s The 1980sHello, my name is Andy and this is my movie. — The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.
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Alega Gang: Public Enemy No.1 of Cebu
🇵🇭 Philippines The 1980sIn 1985, jeepney driver Ulysses "Boboy" Alega loses his vehicle just as he needed money to pay his rent and buy medications for his child. After he accidentally shoots and kills a person during a fight, Boboy is then imprisoned and tortured by the police. With his release from prison, Boboy eventually joins a group involved in arms smuggling, and after some time its members come to consider him as their leader.
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Balweg The Rebel Priest
🇵🇭 Philippines The 1970s The 1980sConrado Balweg, dedicated himself to the service of God but while he was assigned as a parish priest in Cordillera in the Mountain Province, events transpiring around him forced him to take up arms to rescue his people from the greed of developers from the lowlands, and from a government who was unsympathetic to the plea of the indigenous tribes to save their ancestral lands. In the war which ensued with the arrival of the military forces, Fr. Balweg was forced out of his parish and into the mountains, where he later became one of the most charismatic of leaders, admired by the masses, hated by the government and loved by many women.
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Batch '81
🇵🇭 Philippines The 1980sA secret world... Where freedom is obedience and authority is violence. — Sid Lucero, a 26-year old pre-Med student is an aspiring neophyte of the Alpha Kappa Omega fraternity. Over a six-month initiation period, he and six other neophytes are subjected to severe physical and psychological torture in and outside the fraternity house. The neophytes come to accept the senseless violence as a requisite of their acceptance into the brotherhood. Only five of them survive the brutal, fascistic ordeal, due to the fraternity rumble with Sigma Omicron Sigma headed by Arvisu.
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Moral
🇵🇭 Philippines The 1970s The 1980sSomewhere in this movie you will find yourself. — Joey, Kathy, Sylvia and Maritess are not only classmates they are the best of friends. Joey is a drug user who sleeps around. Kathy is a mediocre singer who will stop at nothing to fulfill her dream of the big-time. Sylvia is a liberated woman who finds security in the love of her ex-husband who is now living in with another man. Maritess plays the role of a conventional housewife, who is reduced to a baby-making machine. In the span of three years from 1979 to 1982 the film traces the lives of these four women through their seemingly desperate but also interwoven experiences, and in their attempts to resolve their individual problems, are mirrored the different faces of the woman in our society today.