Lolita Rodriguez

Acting

Lolita Rodriguez

Born — Died

1935-01-29 — 2016-11-28

Place of birth

Urdaneta City, Pangasinan

Known for

Acting

Credits

49 titles

Born Dolores Marquez Clark, the versatile actress better known as Lolita Rodriguez is considered one of the greatest actors in Philippine Cinema.

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 9 titles

Weighed But Found Wanting poster
7.5

A privileged teenager, disillusioned with the hypocrisy he witnesses in his small town, forms a bond with a lonely man with leprosy and a mentally distressed homeless woman.

Weighed But Found Wanting

1974

Your Daughter's Mother poster
7.0

A story about a husband who falls in love with his mother-in-law.

Your Daughter's Mother

1979

Happy Days Are Here Again poster
10.0

A compilation of film clips featuring dance and song performances culled from various films of the so-called big three - Sampaguita, LVN, Premiere.

Happy Days Are Here Again

1974

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday poster
NR

The setting is an Olongapo bar. Lolita Rodriguez is an ex-movie queen trying to earn a living for her son and herself. He is mortally embarrassed by her livelihood and sometimes refuses to acknowledge her as his mother. Bembol Roco is the son of a prostitute who has disappeared from his life. He is looking for his mother in the honky tonk bars. He meets Lolita Rodriguez whom he fancies as his lover. However, he thinks of her as a decent woman. But Lolita has financial problems. In order to pay for her debts, she is forced to perform a striptease. Bembol happens to be in the bar when she starts to gyrate, but she ignores his presence. This destroys his illusions. When they are alone together, she berates him and teaches him the value of survival and acceptance of one’s fate.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

1976

Mortal poster
8.0

A surreal film about a man recovering from mental illness.

Mortal

1976

Mother, Sister, Daughter poster
7.0

After 20 years, Pura returns to her ancestral home to meet her father. However, this soon reignites a bitter rivalry between her and Emilia, her half-sister, that impacts the entire household.

Mother, Sister, Daughter

1979

Three, Two, One poster
7.1

Three intimate stories showing the perseverance of hope despite a sense of despair, featuring a drug addict, an abandoned daughter and a repressed catholic.

Three, Two, One

1974

Stardoom poster
7.5

A stage mother drives her younger son to his ‘stardoom’ to make up for her downward slide from her bourgeois origins.

Stardoom

1971

Dipped in Gold poster
5.4

Benito is a married wealthy businessman. Unknown to his family, he is a closeted homosexual and is having a secret affair with his driver, Diego. Benito tries hard to keep his identity hidden, but Diego starts blackmailing him after losing money to gambling.

Dipped in Gold

1970

1960s · 16 titles

1950s · 21 titles

Gilda poster
9.0

Destroyed during a fire that ravaged Sampaguita’s archives. Gilda tells the story of a poor squatter who carried her invalid mother while begging on the streets for money. As she lives under the abusive hand of her mother’s lover, Gilda dreams of becoming a singer.

Gilda

1956

Condemned poster
8.0

Savage passions run wild - as violent as a condemned man on the loose.

Condemned

1958

Tres Ojos poster
10.0

A thrilling actioner of a meathead swashbuckling adventurer with a sensitive heart

Tres Ojos

1954

Veronica poster
10.0

The intriguing story of a strange love affair. Too thrilling for her to resist. Too lovely for him to forget. Too painful for one to remember.

Veronica

1957

Tanikalang Apoy poster
9.0

Rudil and Ester are now husband and wife, making Ester the newest addition to the affluent Rioblanca family. She slowly learns about how this family is run by their iron-fisted matriarch.

Tanikalang Apoy

1959

Kilabot Sa Makiling poster
8.0

A 1959 Filipino action drama starring Mario Montenegro and Lolita Rodriguez.

Kilabot Sa Makiling

1959

Sino Ang Maysala? poster
9.0

Bankruptcy drove Don Ramon Versoza to commit suicide leaving nothing to the family his wife, Rosa, and four children, Carmen, Gloria, Lolita, and Bobby. Carmen, the eldest, filled the gap left by her father and swore to send her siblings to school.

Sino Ang Maysala?

1957

Sa Dulo ng Landas poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sa Dulo ng Landas

1955

Ang Ating Pag-ibig poster
9.0

After studying medicine in the US, twin doctors Eddie and Mario Gomez return home as they are both commissioned by a hospital in the Philippines. The two have different personalities, with Eddie being a carefree playboy while Mario is reserved, his face being scarred after he figured in an accident. Mario makes a courtesy call to their benefactor Doña Dolores Villarama, only to discover she has passed on, leaving her blind granddaughter behind.

Ang Ating Pag-ibig

1953

Mga Anak ng Diyos poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mga Anak ng Diyos

1957

Jack and Jill poster
3.3

Siblings Benita and Gorio play twisted roles: she drives a jeepney, he does all the household chores; she gets into brawls with men, he prefers to be called "Glory." All these they do in support of their father, Mang Ambo, a driver for the rich and reckless Gardo, son of the elite Don Quinito and Doña Teresita. When Mang Ambo's health fails him, he introduces Benita to the family, disguised as a boy named Itoy. Gorio, on the other hand, runs away to look for a job and ends up being taken in and mistaken for an actual girl by Doña Teresita as her own "daughter." Living in totally new circumstances and with each bearing the secret of the other, how long can they keep up playing their game?

Jack and Jill

1954

Pitong Pagsisisi poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pitong Pagsisisi

1959

Batas Ng Alipin poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Batas Ng Alipin

1955

Binibining Kalog poster
7.0

A funny movie about a tomboyish girl and the pursuit of her crush.

Binibining Kalog

1955

Cofradia poster
NR

Cofradia is the subject of ridicule and humiliation from people around her. However, Cofradia turns into a beautiful young lady with the lighting of a mysterious candle.

Cofradia

1953

Pilya poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pilya

1954

Gabi at Araw poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Gabi at Araw

1957

Talipandas poster
9.0

Adapted from Espesyal Komiks.

Talipandas

1958

Dumagit poster
9.0

A story of the boy Dumagit who grows up in the jungle with his guardian and animal friends. Dr. Joaquin Olivar and his pregnant wife Marina hide in a remote island after Olivar was accused of a crime and Marina feared being ostracized. Marina dies after giving birth to a baby boy, David. Olivar takes care of the baby on his own and gives him the nickname Dumagit. Later, Olivar is killed by a group of men who came into the island to hunt animals. Twenty years later, Federico Olivar, brother of Joaquin Olivar, comes to the island to look for his brother. This film is the Philippine version of Tarzan.

Dumagit

1954

Sabungera poster
8.0

Yessiree, she's here. The film scream who will throw entire laughdom into a topsy-turvy condition: none other than that riotous, naughty-but-loveable "SABUNGERA".

Sabungera

1954

Busabos poster
7.0

Amando and Elvira are two young lovers unbeknownst to Elvira's strict, obsessive mother Aling Binday. Upon discovering their secret, Amando faces Aling Binday, and tragedy follows. Can love really endure and withstand it all?

Busabos

1957