Rita Avila

Acting

Rita Avila

Born 1964-09-20 · Manila, Philippines

Acting credits

Black Magic poster
7.0

A story about a good-natured common man, one day the devil tempts him to give powers of sinister origin. However, the price is the former's soul.

Black Magic

1987

The Revolution Knows No Gender poster
3.0

With his family life in shambles amidst the government's war on drugs, a young man transitions from being an ordinary filmmaker to being a full-fledged member of the revolutionary movement, proving that conviction knows no gender.

The Revolution Knows No Gender

2021

Machete: Istatwang Buhay poster
4.5

A machete-wielding sculpture mysteriously comes alive helps people, fulfills the sexual fantasies of its sculptress and goes back to being lifeless again.a machete-wielding sculpture mysteriously comes alive helps people, fulfills the sexual fantasies of its sculptress and goes back to being lifeless again.

Machete: Istatwang Buhay

1990

Ang Tipo Kong Lalake (Maginoo Pero Medyo Bastos) poster
3.7

Boy and Dennis are ex-convicts who are trying to start a new life with their girlfriends. But soon their criminal past catches upon them.

Ang Tipo Kong Lalake (Maginoo Pero Medyo Bastos)

1995

The Time That Remains poster
6.6

Surrounded by a string of deaths, an older woman relives her romance with a mysterious, ageless lover as an inspector closes in on their dark secret.

The Time That Remains

2025

Rock-A-Bye Baby: Tatlo Ang Daddy poster
4.0

A young man leaves home and takes odd jobs when his parents djsapprove of his girlfriend. He later adopts a child which turns out to be his own.

Rock-A-Bye Baby: Tatlo Ang Daddy

1988

Heart of Christmas poster
9.0

Christopher cannot help but think that he is jinxed, but his luck changes when an impish Christmas elf appears, offering him and his siblings a wish.

Heart of Christmas

1998

Kokak poster
4.3

a film by Leroy Salvador.

Kokak

1989

The Commitment poster
4.5

Kasal is a slice of life drama of a gay couple whose resolve to stay together is challenged as they attend a wedding. It also is an examination on how a gay couple navigates through the different institutions in Philippine society.

The Commitment

2014

Walang Awa Kung Pumatay poster
NR

A decent man becomes a psychotic killer as he avenges the murder of his loved ones.

Walang Awa Kung Pumatay

1990

Masikip, Masakit, Mahapdi poster
4.3

A story about a group of impoverished people struggling to make ends meet while searching for happiness.

Masikip, Masakit, Mahapdi

1998

Padyak poster
NR

Noel is a young man who puts his dreams of college on hold to take over his father's pedicab route. While his mother constantly tells him that luck will eventually save them, Noel tries to save up what meager earnings he gets. But his passengers often take advantage of his naivete, leaving him with little to show for his suffering. To make things worse, the people around him seem to be falling into tragedy after another, making him question his purpose in life.

Padyak

2009

Leroy Leroy Sinta poster
3.3

Liwayway or Leroy will go to all lengths to protect his family.

Leroy Leroy Sinta

1988

The Flor Contemplacion Story poster
8.7

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.

The Flor Contemplacion Story

1995

Where Is Francis? poster
NR

An absurd, original and bawdy comedy about a hapless Boy, who tries to save his girlfriend, who is forced to work as a prostitute while trying to elude a drug dealer.

Where Is Francis?

2006

No artwork available
8.5

Femme fatale causing death to anyone she ever crossed paths with.

Stella Magtanggol

1992

Muling Umawit ang Puso poster
8.0

This is the story of a popular singer-actress (Aunor) who went into seclusion after the traumatic experience of watching her pregnant sister die in the wake of a stampede of her fans. Nearly twenty years later, she took in a young girl who wanted to be a star and tried to mold her into a copy of what she was before. With her she also picked up the pieces of the life she placed on hold and now was wishing to resume not as the star she was but as an involved caring and loving person.

Muling Umawit ang Puso

1995

Nang Gabing Mamulat Si Eba poster
4.3

No synopsis available yet.

Nang Gabing Mamulat Si Eba

1992

Kunin Mo ang Ulo ni Ismael poster
7.5

An action film starring Jestoni Alarcon based on the radio drama by Rey Langit serialized in DZRH.

Kunin Mo ang Ulo ni Ismael

1990

No artwork available
NR

A story about love, hope, giving, sharing, forgiving and three ducks.

Tatlong Bibe

2017

Shake, Rattle & Roll 12 poster
4.6

The first episode "Mamanyiika" plays on the words "mama" and "manyika" which literally means "mother doll". The story of a possessed doll. The second episode, is the tale of three girls, one of them the apple of the eye of a terrible engkanto, who then captures the girl. Punerarya the third story, is a story of a tutor teaching the children of the ghoul entrepreneurs of a funeral parlor.

Shake, Rattle & Roll 12

2010

Soltera poster
6.2

Sandra, a 35-year-old wedding coordinator who sees her uneventful life turned upside down when she falls for the much-younger Eric.

Soltera

1999

Akin Ka, Magdusa Man Ako poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Akin Ka, Magdusa Man Ako

1991

God… Save the Babies! poster
8.0

A notorious criminal held hostage 200 innocent babies.

God… Save the Babies!

1994