Mailes Kanapi

Acting

Mailes Kanapi

Acting credits

Typhoon Bheverlynn poster
1.5

Three months after a painful breakup, a woman's despair magically conjures up a powerful typhoon.

Typhoon Bheverlynn

2018

Mumbai Love poster
6.0

An Indian raised in the Philippines falls in love with a Filipina on business in Mumbai. She leaves unexpectedly, and he travels back to the Philippines to find her.

Mumbai Love

2014

Jesus Is Dead poster
4.8

When Iyay, a single mother, learns that her estranged husband has died, she drags the entire family on a road trip from Cebu to Dumaguete to attend the funeral.

Jesus Is Dead

2016

Dark Is the Night poster
NR

Filipino director Adolfo Alix Jr. returns to the Festival with this timely story of a couple caught up in Rodrigo Duterte’s violent war on drugs when their son goes missing.

Dark Is the Night

2018

Norte, the End of History poster
7.4

An embittered law student commits a brutal double murder; a family man takes the fall and is forced to take a harsh sentence; and a mother and her two children wander the countryside in search of some kind of redemption.

Norte, the End of History

2014

Rigodon poster
5.7

A heartbroken young woman begins a sexual relationship with a struggling artista, not knowing that her new beau is already married. As the truth comes out, obsession and jealousy bring pain into all their lives.

Rigodon

2012

Tisay poster
4.0

In the world of semi-pro basketball, a beautiful bookie recruits a naïve but promising player to the underworld of game-fixing.

Tisay

2016

Stone Heart poster
NR

“Pusong Bato” (Stone Heart) is about Cinta Dela Cruz, a middle-aged faded actress who tries to relive and remember her glorious days as a movie star in the 1970s. She does this by watching films at home everyday until one day, during an earthquake; something breaks into her window and wakes her up from her Hollywood dream.

Stone Heart

2014

Metro Manila poster
7.2

Looking for a brighter future in metropolitan Manila, Oscar Ramirez and his family leave their miserable life in the rice terraces of Banaue, in the northern Philippines. In the sweltering capital, where all kind of perils lurk in every corner, Oscar catches a lucky break when he is offered a steady work for an armored truck company and the senior officer Ong takes him under his wing.

Metro Manila

2013

The Mall, The Merrier poster
5.0

After the death of their parents, two estranged sisters must come together to save their family mall from ending up on evil hands.

The Mall, The Merrier

2019

Bar Boys poster
6.3

The misadventures of three young men who try their luck in the college of law. As their friendship, families, relationships and convictions are brought to breaking point, they must keep their heads and emotions together as they prepare for the big day.

Bar Boys

2017

The Healing poster
6.8

A community rushes to a faith healer after learning that one of them was miraculously healed from a deadly disease by the same person. They are torn apart afterwards as the healing brings them a terrible curse that wreaks harm and death.

The Healing

2012

From What Is Before poster
7.9

The Philippines, 1972. Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio. Wails are heard from the forest, cows are hacked to death, a man is found bleeding to death at the crossroad, and houses are burned. Ferdinand E. Marcos announces Proclamation No. 1081, putting the entire country under Martial Law.

From What Is Before

2014

Zombadings 1: Patayin sa Shokot si Remington poster
4.9

A boy cursed to turn gay when he grows up must sort out his feelings for the girl he loves and the boy – his best friend – he is suddenly lusting after, come to terms with his homophobia, and escape a pscho gay killer on the loose.

Zombadings 1: Patayin sa Shokot si Remington

2011

Manang Biring poster
8.0

Manang Biring is a feisty but terminally-ill old lady who has learned to accept her imminent demise. Until one day, she receives a letter from her long-estranged daughter abroad announcing of her return for the holidays.

Manang Biring

2015

Hustisya poster
2.0

A foul-mouthed woman fights for her soul in the belly of the city. Working for a human trafficking agency controlled by a powerful syndicate, she sees no evil, hears no evil. In a society like ours, you have only two choices—to be a victim or a victimizer. She makes her choice.

Hustisya

2014

Elena's Redemption poster
9.0

The film is based on the true story of a maid who was either seduced or raped and made pregnant by her Chinese employer; the baby was either killed by the employer's wife or by her own hand, depending on who you talk to.

Elena's Redemption

1996

Shake, Rattle, and Roll Fourteen: The Invasion poster
6.0

The first part follows four cousins who gathered together to receive their own 5 million peso inheritance from their dead uncle, and the responsibility of taking care of his comic book creations. The second part follows an army special unit trying to survive from a horde of zombies. The third and last part follows a couple who became survivors when the aliens invaded Earth.

Shake, Rattle, and Roll Fourteen: The Invasion

2012

Excuse Me, Miss, Miss, Miss poster
7.7

Vangie, a miserable contractual sales lady, is about to lose her job. But in her desperate attempt to convince her boss not to sack her, Vangie uncovers the ultimate jaw-dropping secret to regularization.

Excuse Me, Miss, Miss, Miss

2019

Imbisibol poster
NR

Four Filipino migrants in Japan—Linda, Benjie, Manuel, and Rodel—struggle and strive for a better life, bridging the gap between sacrifice and hope for their families back home.

Imbisibol

2015

Pastor poster
NR

Pastor Luis Aguila and his family are seemingly tested with their faith. Luis is an ex-convinct who is now the head of his church. Mildred, his wife, tries to hide her secret as she grapples between her family and church duties. Their youngest son Carlo wrestles with growing up and tying up his family together. All of them try to overcome these obstacles but things intensify when Pastor Aguila's daughter, Katrina defies her family when she falls in love with the mysterious Jigo.

Pastor

2017

Death of Nintendo poster
6.4

The story takes us into the colorful pop-culture world of these four 13-year old friends, back in the days when video games were still a novelty. Mimaw and her friends Paolo, Kachi and Gilligan go on a journey of self-discovery together as they play games and wrestle with new dilemmas – puppy love, circumcision and other horror stories.

Death of Nintendo

2020

Tahanan poster
NR

A Filipino drama film directed by Kristina Syfu.

Tahanan

2012

The Generation That Gave Up on Love poster
4.8

A "barkada" of five–Kurt, Ma-an, Denzel, Hadji, and Junamae experiences the various faces of adulting in a world that seems to be losing faith in the concept of love.

The Generation That Gave Up on Love

2019