Drama, Crime, Thriller
The story of the Filipina domestic helper who was hanged in Singapore for allegedly killing her fellow maid is chronicled in a film that operates on various personal, social, and political levels. Both controversial and critically acclaimed, it has brought Nora Aunor numerous citations for her intense portrayal as the fallen heroine of the story.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Killer Instinct
Palipat-lipat, Papalit-palit
One More Chance
Paano na Kaya
Virgin Forest
Framed
Working Girls
True Crime
Double Barrel
Pedro Calungsod: Batang Martir
Ang Anino Ni Asedillo
Darang
6,000 Enemies
Do Re Mi
Blink
Nakaw
Still
Bawod
Nakauwi Na
Grandma Loleng
SIMILAR MOVIES
Killer Instinct
IMDB 3.3 | May , 1988
For America, the Vietnam War is over. Johnny doesn't see it that way. This Special Forces soldier battles vicious Vietcong, a sadistic Russian advisor and his own peacenik girlfriend as he embarks on a deadly mission behind enemy lines.Palipat-lipat, Papalit-palit
IMDB 10 | May , 1982
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 journey. Being a male chauvinist, he expects his wife to understand his moves. Carissa seeks solace from his friend David, a gay composer. It turns out that David is in love with her husband.One More Chance
IMDB 6.7 | Nov , 2007
Popoy and Basha had been together forever. Their love story began when they first met as students at university. They had been inseparable and did everything together—eating, studying and attending parties. However, Popoy's incessant planning and nagging took a toll on their relationship leading Basha to break-up with him.Paano na Kaya
IMDB 4.4 | Jan , 2010
Mae and Bogs' long-time friendship gets tested when Bogs gets dumped by his girlfriend and Mae finally admits she's in love with him. The two get into a relationship, but Mae fears this is only Bogs' way of dealing with his previous heartache.Virgin Forest
IMDB 5.8 | Jan , 1985
A story set in the Philippine Republic in the 1900s where a lass, a Spanish mestizo, and a fisherman are caught up by Macabebe soldiers who are trying to capture Emilio Aguinaldo.Framed
IMDB 6.6 | Aug , 1975
Joe Don Baker plays a gambler who is framed for a crime he did not commit. A corrupt legal system leads him into a plea bargain and four years behind bars. By the time he gets out of prison, he's determined to put together the pieces of his frame-up and dole out the justice he was denied to those responsible.Working Girls
IMDB 6.3 | Jun , 1984
Women cope with various problems while earning a living in the city.True Crime
IMDB 6.5 | Mar , 1999
Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner is slated to die at midnight – a man Everett has suddenly realized is innocent.Double Barrel
IMDB 6 | Aug , 2017
A young couple who are so poor that they have to work as hired killers.Pedro Calungsod: Batang Martir
IMDB 4 | Dec , 2013
Pedro Calungsod, a young Filipino man, leaves his Visayan native roots to join the Spanish Jesuit priest Fr. Diego de San Vitores in his mission to the Marianas Islands (Guam) in 1668. The San Diego Mission arrives in the Marianas where the young Pedro, a trained catechist and mission assistant, begins work for Fr. Diego de San Vitores in baptizing the Chamorro natives, preaching the holy gospel and spreading the good news of salvation through the Christian faith amidst paganism, doubt and disbelief. Despite the longing for his father and the threats to their lives, even at the peril of death, Pedro and Fr. Diego continued their missionary work. They roamed the dangerous islands and baptized many more natives and continued to enlighten them about Christianity.Ang Anino Ni Asedillo
IMDB 0 | Jun , 1988
Asedillo, the modern day Robin Hood has been the icon of the poor. Needless to say, he had a lot of followers who wanted to do the same.. take the excess of the rich and give it to the less fortunate members of the society. But eventually, the group starts to fall apart, when everybody start to think of their own interests. And only those with honest intentions will prevail.Darang
IMDB 4.8 | Mar , 2010
Darang is a story about a girl named Akemi and her desire to fulfill her longing for Elmo, she found herself trapped in a prison of her own making. Until she met Samuel who has so much resemblance with Elmo, from the time Samuel lives with her as a boarder her sexual urges intensely awakened believing that Samuel can take the place of her long lost sweetheart, Elmo who has a brush with the law and gets killed in a shoot out when they were escaping…6,000 Enemies
IMDB 6 | Jun , 1939
A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself.Do Re Mi
IMDB 7.3 | Jul , 1996
Three girls divided by personalities, cultural backgrounds and principles have one thing in common, their love for music.Blink
IMDB 2.3 | Nov , 2008
An indie film about greed and corruption among small-time criminals in the streets of Manila starring GMA contract artist Sherwin Ordonez in his first mature role.Nakaw
IMDB 0 | Aug , 2017
Bateng, a boy who triggered a series of life-changing events when he stole an old woman's purse.Still
IMDB 9 | Dec , 2016
In a fishing village that’s been ravaged by a strong typhoon, the bond of twin brothers is disrupted by another young boy. Hilom follows the journey of the brothers, Andres and Gael, as they find healing against the harsh landscape of an island that’s also trying to recover.Bawod
IMDB 0 | Aug , 2017
On the eve of her school’s annual Talent Show in a small rural village in the mountains of Iloilo, twelve-year-old Thirdy is worried she will not be able to perform because she could not afford to rent a traditional costume and pay the required contribution. Her ailing but affable grandfather, Cesario, acts as her sole guardian. He works as a bamboo farmer, but they could barely make ends meet. In the midst of all these, Thirdy starts having visions of a mysterious man. She believes the apparition is that of her long dead father while everyone else dismisses her visions as nothing more than fantasies or illusions. On the day of the Talent Show, everything unravels as village problems and family secrets finally collide.Nakauwi Na
IMDB 0 | Aug , 2017
A brave battle against grief, anger and injustice. Mang Jerry finds ways to earn enough money to get his son, a victim of extra judicial killings, out of the funeral home.Grandma Loleng
IMDB 0 | Aug , 2017
A young woman goes back to her province in the countryside where she gets to once again meet her Grandmother Loleng - a distant relative and a senile parol (Christmas lantern) artisan. Together, they will explore Grandma Loleng’s landscape of memories, only to unearth her innermost secrets and wartime experiences. It is about memory and forgetting, both in the context of the personal and of the national consciousness.