
Acting
Charito Solis
Born 1935-10-06 · Tondo, Manila, Philippines
Rosario Violeta Solís Hernández, better known as Charito Solís (October 6, 1935 – January 9, 1998), was a FAMAS and Gawad Urian Award-winning Filipino film actress. Her most notable films include Kundiman ng Lahi (1959), Dahil Sa Isang Bulaklak (1967), Igorota (1968), Ina, Kapatid, Anak (1979), Kisapmata (1980), Manila by Night (1980), and Hinugot sa Langit (1985). Along with Nora Aunor and Vilma Santos, she is known for having garnered the most FAMAS Best Actress wins.
Acting credits
8.3A young womans gets married but her possessive father refuses to let her out of his sight.
Kisapmata
1981
5.8Sid Lucero, a 21-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.
Batch '81
1982
9.0Claudo thought that money was everything until Loida taught him that love is not on a cash and carry basis.
₱10,000 Pag-ibig
1957
8.0A bereaved wife searches for her lost husband, only to be found with no memory of her and a new woman in his life.
Wherever You Are
1993
7.0A rich old lady, who was dying, hired a detective agency to go in search of her long lost granddaughter. Lacking the manpower for the job, janitor Andrew was passed off as a private detective. He located the missing girl who was working as a sales lady.
Megamol
1994
7.2The hidden nightlife of ordinary people living in Manila unveils. Lovers and families conflict with each other as they live on the streets, which are rampant with drugs and prostitution.
Manila by Night
1980
5.8An anthology of three violent stories: three friends perform Spirit of the Glass and discover a tragic love triangle; a refrigerator seems to be 'alive'; and a teenager who courts a barrio lass without his knowledge that this lass is a monster, which eventually causes chaos to his family.
Shake, Rattle & Roll
1984
10.0An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (Cojoin Hong) turns his back on the old religion when people are starving needlessly and holy rituals include human sacrifices. During his meditations, he is tempted by erotic dancing women, demons, and the evil machinations of his criminal cousin. Devastate to attain the spiritual perfection and become the Buddha. He travels to convert followers by his kindness and wisdom, gaining a multitude of believers when he stops an elephant from crushing a local priest. Buddha of course goes on to become one of the great religious leaders of the world.
Buddha
1961
During World War II, the "dark years" in the Philippine history, Tacing is a woman involved in different love affairs which resulted in endless trials and tribulations.
You Cannot Trample Me
1984
8.0A humble provincial girl, Lily, ekes out a living selling flowers in bustling Manila when she musters the courage to present a single bloom to Miguel, a kind-hearted young architect. Their innocent romance blossoms amid family disapproval and the temptations of city life, but when a jealous rival schemes to tear them apart, Lily and Miguel must fight to protect the fragile beauty of their love “because of a flower.”
Because of a Flower
1967
8.0Dolzura Cortez has had several men in her life. One returns to her as an AIDS researcher and unwittingly, Dolzura becomes his subject. He encouraged her to come out in public so she can dispel the social stigma that comes with the disease.
Because I Love You
1993
8.0A lover's vow of eternal love is vigorously tested by time.
No Other Love
1982
4.0Three women who come from different backgrounds work hard to earn a living in Manila, but realize that they are victims of sexual exploitations. A television producer is forced to have sex with her boss in exchange for an opportunity to produce a new programme. That almost costs her marriage. A temporary teacher and her colleagues are sent by their principal to give a dance performance at a ministry officer's birthday party. They are gang-raped or almost gang-raped by the officer and his guests. A bus ticket seller accidentally kills one of the men who tries to gang-rape her, but all the bus passengers who witness the scene refuse to go to court to help her defending the charge of murder. Although the three women do not know each other, they end up taking the same bus leaving Manila and heading to the rural area.
Bayad Puri
1997
7.0A rich woman and a middle-class man have a happy marriage and five children, but petty jealousies begin to creep in, prompting the wife to flee.
Hindi Pa Tapos ang Labada, Darling
1994
5.5The film explores the sexual awakening and coming-of-age journey of a young woman named Niña. Growing up in a small town with her repressed mother, Turing, and her permissive, aging grandmother, Senyang, Niña begins to explore her sexuality. This includes both a lesbian relationship with her classmate Elsa and a subsequent charged, romantic tension with a newly arrived man named Ariel.
Sensual
1986
8.9There is trouble brewing in the world of Agimat and monsters are scaring and kidnapping children. The monsters seem capable of travelling in other worlds and Agimat is able to crossover with them to Encantasia, the world of Faye, Ina Magenta and our hero, Enteng Kabisote. The fairies wonder why monsters are able to cross worlds. Agimat is amazed of the other world and hopes that things in his world would turn out better. His dream one day is to have a happy family like Enteng’s.
Si Agimat at si Enteng Kabisote
2010
8.7The 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.
The Flor Contemplacion Story
1995
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Araw-Araw, Gabi-Gabi
1975
9.5A married couple who try to make their marriage work despite the fact that both of them are career-oriented and that there are tensions created by the prescence of their first-born child, Mike Jr., who turns out to have autism.
Ipagpatawad Mo
1991
6.9When Narcing brings home his wife Puring to their hometown Mulawin in the 1930s, it sets off a series of events that include parricide, infidelity, betrayal, guilt and redemption.
Of the Flesh
1983
NRA RESTLESS YOUNG WOMAN FAILS AS A WIFE AND MOTHER , LEAVES HER FAMILY FOR THE CITY, AND GETS INVOLVED WITH A NUMBER OF MEN. FRUSTRATED AT FINDING A SATISFACTORY RELATIONSHIP, SHE HEADS BACK FOR HOME BUT DEATH OVERTAKES HER.
Sinner or Saint
1984
8.5A vindictive Crisostomo Ibarra returns, and this time, disguised as a jeweler named Simoun, where he decides to solve the country's issues through violence.
El Filibusterismo
1962
8.0Rigor dies but in Marta's fear that Noel might turn out like his amoral father, she raises her son with an iron hand.
Pieta: Book 2
1984
5.0A Filipino fantasy/horror anthology starring Snooky Serna. In "Mga Puting Rosas ni Rosalie", Rosalie dies in a freak accident on the day of her wedding to Mike, who's only after her money. With the help of the white rose, she comes back to earth to correct what is wrong. In "Mga Pulang Rosas ni Rosanna", Rosanna is the daughter of a mausoleum caretaker who happens to be the soulmate of the mysterious heir, Ramil, the victim of a curse of Satan's disciple, Lucila. In "Mga Dilaw Rosas ni Rosario", Rosario or Osang, a maid with an ugly facade, falls in love with a man named Dio.
Rosa Mistica
1987