Sunshine Cruz

Acting

Sunshine Cruz

Born 1977-07-18 · Manila, Philippines

Acting credits

The Color of Ash poster
10.0

A pessimistic uninspired middle-aged artist finds spark with a millennial photographer who leads her on a path of creative and sexual reawakening.

The Color of Ash

2019

Greatest Performance poster
NR

During a film shoot where abuse is disguised as artistic direction, a comeback actress commits a devastating performance to survive, exposing how cinema can construct and legitimize violence. In Ang Lihim ni Teresa (Teresa's Secret), she enters a set where authority is absolute and cruelty is framed as discipline. As production unfolds, she loses control over body, emotion, and authorship, where survival is mistaken for consent. When violence escalates, she chooses to live, burying the truth as the director’s collapse is rewritten as myth. The set becomes a crime scene without witnesses. In the aftermath, she is praised for her “courage” while a sound technician retreats into silence. At a commemorative screening, celebration fractures, revealing cinema’s ability to transform violence into narrative and absolution. The myth of the Kataw appears briefly through Ang Lihim ng Kataw (The Secret of Kataw).

Greatest Performance

The Heiress poster
2.9

The Heiress centers on the story of Luna, a mambabarang or a powerful demon sorceress, who will stop at nothing to keep to herself her young niece, Guia.

The Heiress

2019

An Affair to Forget poster
3.6

A wife seeks the help of a young woman to find out if her husband is having an affair. The plot thickens when the young woman falls for the husband instead

An Affair to Forget

2022

Biktima poster
NR

A female TV reporter, Alice is thought dead from an ambush in Southern Philippines. Just when her husband Mark moves on with his life, Alice is found alive.

Biktima

2012

Adan Lazaro poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Adan Lazaro

1996

Sex In Philippine Cinema 1 poster
4.9

Arouse your curiosity. Take off your inhibitions. Disrobe your desires. Soak up in the most steamy scenes ever to scorch the screens. Revel on Rosanna, Sizzle with Sunshine. Jack it up with Joyce. Risk it with Rica. Mash it with Maui. Pant over Patricia. Go booba over Rufa. This is raunchfest at its best with the flaming femmes of the Philippine moviedom.

Sex In Philippine Cinema 1

2004

Mystified poster
NR

Four witches Althea, Kathalina, Helena and Adela find themselves in a new world trying to fit in a world where no one believes in magic anymore. How can this Coven of 4 defend the modern world from evil forces when their supernatural being and powers have been reduced to near extinction?

Mystified

2019

Just the Way You Are poster
7.3

Drake gets into a betting game with his best friend which involves courting the unsuspecting Sophia. When Sophia finally falls for him Drake must tell her that everything was just a game, a bet.

Just the Way You Are

2015

Virgin People 2 poster
9.0

Virgin People 2

Virgin People 2

1996

Mang Kepweng Returns poster
3.8

A remake of a funny quack doctor who was originally portrayed by the late comedian Chiquito in 1979. Its a story of the quack doctor's son and his adventures with the magical bandana.

Mang Kepweng Returns

2017

Ligalig poster
1.0

A series of murders takes place in the Metropolis in a span of three weeks, the latest of which happens on the night Junior, a taxi driver, makes love to a prostitute...

Ligalig

2006

Init ng Laman poster
3.3

Init ng laman: Directed by Tata Esteban. With Sunshine Cruz, Toffee Calma, John Apacible, Melissa Mendez.

Init ng Laman

1998

Liwanag sa Dilim poster
NR

A group of teens faces various horrors in a secluded provincial town.

Liwanag sa Dilim

2015

Ama Namin poster
8.0

The life and faith of a priest was put into test when his family was killed by the military who wrongly accused them of supporting the communist rebels. After being tortured by the military, he joined the rebels to avenge his family's death. Will he finally get the justice he never got when he was still a servant of God?

Ama Namin

1998

El Presidente poster
6.5

The film begins with his capture by Philippine and US forces under Frederick Funston's command in 1901, then flashes back to 1886, when an old woman gives Aguinaldo and his childhood friend Candido Tirona cryptic prophecies. Ten years later, Aguinaldo is inducted into the Katipunan and later assumes leadership of its Cavite chapter while becoming mayor of Cavite El Viejo. When the trouble breaks out in Manila in late August 1896, Aguinaldo tries to assure the Spanish provincial government of non-interference and covertly marshals his forces despite a lack of weapons. Learning that the Spanish mostly put their forces in Manila, Aguinaldo finally mobilizes his troops and take the command of the Katipunan forces in Cavite

El Presidente

2012

Ekis poster
3.7

Gene works for the local underworld syndicate but always treats his abductees with kindness. He begins a dangerous affair with ex-bar girl Dolor, who's routinely beaten by her rich husband. When the cops move in on Gene's gang and Dolor's husband winds up dead, the couple flees with the law and their enemies in hot pursuit.

Ekis

1999

No artwork available
NR

A terminally ill woman is looking for a perfect surrogate mother for her children. She challenges her estranged husband's mistress to prove to her that she can be that one.

Paano kung wala ka na

1987

Shake, Rattle & Roll IV poster
7.0

Three unrelated stories of horror include a substitute teacher who preys on a small school; neighborhood children being abducted by a tree-dwelling monster; and a group of Manila residents plagued by attacks from a Manananggal.

Shake, Rattle & Roll IV

1992

Mrs. Montero's Paramour poster
5.5

Loosely based on the controversial British erotic novel "Lady Chatterley's Lover" by D.H. Lawrence, the story chronicles the amorous exploits of a winsome young bride. When her affluent but crippled spouse fails to fulfill her physical desires, she seeks sexual satisfaction outside her marriage by taking a lover.

Mrs. Montero's Paramour

1999

Granny Prostitutes poster
NR

This is a dramedy that tackles the friendship of five ageing prostitutes who live together in an old house despite their ripe age, they continue being sex trade workers along the bridge that serves as a hang-out spot for customers who are oftentimes tagged as “outcasts”. the story unfolds from the viewpoint of dalena, the central character. by day, she works as an albularyo (traditional healer) outside church, but works as hooker by nighttime. they say she is possessed by mary magdalene. in the midst of their struggles, we get to see how the five friends tackle. life has never been any easy for them… but they live on for the better.

Granny Prostitutes

2024

No artwork available
3.3

Sgt. Bobby Aguilar is a good depiction of a young and dedicated soldier wherein he is devastated by a corrupt military organization, a gambling lord and an irresponsible father.

Sgt. Bobby Aguilar: You Only Have One Life!

1993

O-ha! Ako Pa? poster
8.0

A 1995 Filipino comedy starring Babalu, Jimmy Santos, and Ogie Alcasid.

O-ha! Ako Pa?

1995

No artwork available
NR

Greatest Performance is a film about making films—and about the power that hides inside that act. At its surface, it unfolds within a controlled production environment: a set, a director, actors, a camera. Everything appears orderly, professional, efficient. But beneath that structure lies a more unsettling question: Who controls the image? And what does that control allow?

The Greatest Performance