194 Films & TV Shows Set In Philippines
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The Real Life of Pacita M.
🇵🇭 PhilippinesA mother attempts to pull the plug of her comatose daughter and as a result, she is being sued by her aristocratic mother-in-law.
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Days of Being Wild
🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇵🇭 Philippines The 1960sYuddy, a Hong Kong playboy known for breaking girls' hearts, tries to find solace and the truth after discovering the woman who raised him isn't his mother.
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Island of Fire
🇹🇼 Taiwan 🇵🇭 PhilippinesWhen you're looking for the living dead you start your search in hell! — Someone in a prison run by a corrupt warden fakes the deaths of convicts to later use them as expendable assassins. A police officer is sent into the prison to gather evidence of the corruption.
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Fatal Vacation
🇵🇭 PhilippinesA pleasent trip to the Phillipines is turned into tragedy when the tour bus is kidnapped by a group of rebels that want to exchange the prisoners for the Rebel Leader's brother...
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Tinikling, or The Madonna and the Dragon
🇵🇭 PhilippinesExposé of two news photographers covering the People's Revolution in the Philippines.
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Andrea, How Is It Like to Be a Mother?
🇵🇭 PhilippinesWhen it is time for her to give birth, Andrea, a communist insurgent seeks refuge in the city to her best friend Joyce. When Andrea's husband is reportedly killed, she temporarily leaves her son to their care. But before Andrea could return to her baby, she is arrested by the military. With no news of Andrea's whereabouts and presuming her to have been dead, the childless couple decided to keep the child and bring him to the United States. Upon returning to the country after seven years for a visit, Andrea confronts them and tries to claim his son back.
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Bilangin ang Bituin sa Langit
🇵🇭 PhilippinesA poor farmer's daughter dreams to go to college and become a doctor; to make this possible, her father mortgages his farm to a rich land owner. The girl finishes college and becomes and takes back her father's land.
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Isang Bala Isang Buhay
🇵🇭 PhilippinesDaniel is a hired assassin of Roman who is the leader of a criminal group. Daniel is torn between choosing to start a new life with Dolores or returning Roman's favors.
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Jones Bridge Massacre
🇵🇭 PhilippinesA 1988 Filipino action film starring Lito Lapid
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Zombie 3
🇵🇭 PhilippinesWhen a terrorist's body, infected with a stolen chemical, is recovered by the US military, the corpse is cremated, unintentionally releasing the virus/bacteria into the atmosphere over a small island. Soon the infected populace mutate into flesh-hungry zombies, and a trio of soldiers on leave must team up with a group of tourists and board themselves up in an abandoned hotel as they try to fend off the agile and aggressive living dead.
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Super Inday And The Golden Bibe
🇵🇭 Philippinesa film by Luciano B. Carlos.
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Agila ng Maynila
🇵🇭 PhilippinesMauro Reyes (Fernando Poe Jr.) is an ex-policeman tag as a sharpshooter to the lawbreaker that managed to cope up with the death of his family and became a rescuer ... In the verge of adversity that has happened to his family, he became so depressed, self-centered and hopeless in lif, until a heinous felony re-awakened his identity. Due to the different rape slays and murders that had arise in their place, he tried to unveil the hidden mystery of the cases... discovering in the end the involvement of the law enforcer in the transgression. Will he be able to resolve everything even if he's an ex-policeman?
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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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Women of Valor
🇵🇭 Philippines The 1940sA group of American Army nurses are captured by the Japanese in April 1942 and spend three years in a prisoner-of-war camp in Bataan. Lt Margaret Ann Jessup, the head army nurse, survives the camp and testifies against the Japanese in front of the United States Congressional subcommittee years later as a colonel.
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Magnum Muslim .357
🇵🇭 PhilippinesLt. Jamal (FPJ) is a Muslim undercover police officer, who is sent to Manila to help curb the runaway crime rate. Convinced of his (Jamal's) abilities as an undercover agent, he is summoned by Col. Castro to assist in unmasking the head of a big and vicious syndicate. In Manila, he is assigned as a bodyguard to a Police Major, who is also his contact, but two syndicate members beat him to the job.
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Iyo ang Tondo, Kanya ang Cavite
🇵🇭 PhilippinesTwo men leading similar lives; one from Tondo, the other from Cavite.Both loved and respected by their family and neighbors.They will also risk their lives to defend their town's honor even if it means putting their lives at stake.But when their paths cross and a misunderstanding errupts, their friendship is put to the test as punches are thrown and bullets fly.
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Ang Padrino
🇵🇭 PhilippinesEmong Sanchez is the defender of the people through peaceful means. He remains a quite man until he is pushed to violence.
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A Tired, Angry Moon On a Restless Night
🇵🇭 PhilippinesIssues of infidelity roam around the bourgeoisie of Manila. Is this love?
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An Officer and a Gentleman
Washington 🇵🇭 PhilippinesLife gave him nothing, except the courage to win...and a woman to love. — Zack Mayo is an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he arrives at training camp for his 13-week officer's course, Mayo runs afoul of abrasive, no-nonsense drill Sergeant Emil Foley. Mayo is an excellent cadet, but a little cold around the heart, so Foley rides him mercilessly, sensing that the young man would be prime officer material if he weren't so self-involved. Zack's affair with a working girl is likewise compromised by his unwillingness to give of himself.
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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.
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Far East
🇵🇭 PhilippinesA cynical Australian Vietnam War veteran runs a sleazy bar in the Philippines. His old flame enters his life again asking for help when her husband, an investigative journalist, is prosecuted by the junta for discovering too much.
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T-Bird at Ako
🇵🇭 PhilippinesThe clash of the sexes... in the most explosive story to hit the screen! — Stern, intelligent Sylvia, a lawyer, finally met her match. Only that the person is a woman, and was convicted of murder.
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Enter the Ninja
🇵🇭 PhilippinesWarriors of a lost martial art! Hired assassins ...human killing machines! — After completing his training of ninjutsu within Japan, an American Angolan Bush War veteran by the name of Cole visits his war buddy Frank Landers and his newly wed wife Mary Ann Landers, who are the owners of a large piece of farming land in the Philippines. Cole soon finds that the Landers are being repeatedly harassed by a CEO named Charles Venarius.
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