Directing

Cesar Gallardo

Known for

Directing

Credits

36 titles

Known for

Yakuza Contract poster
8.0

As current as today's headlines...the gripping saga of a small man's uphill fight against the dreadead Japanese mafia.

Yakuza Contract

1978

Hustler Squad poster
4.7

World War II: Allied Command learns that in 60 days three Japanese generals and an admiral party at a bordello on a tiny Philippine island. It's fortified and hard to attack, so a creative, cynical major gets the assignment to figure something else. With the help of Paco, a Filipino guerrilla leader, the major devises a plan to put four women assassins among the prostitutes. He must recruit and train them, convince his general that an unarmed woman can best a man, and get them on the island. The rest is up to them. An imprisoned killer, a nurse with a fatal disease, a chippie on the lamb from the mob, and a Filipina whom the Japanese assaulted are his team. Can they do it?

Hustler Squad

1976

No artwork available
7.0

Ancestral home to a wealthy family is being haunted by malevolent spirits. On other side of town, evil creatures are lurking.

Gabi ng Lagim Ngayon

1980

Kalibre .45 poster
9.0

The picture that SCREAMS with action.

Kalibre .45

1957

No artwork available
7.0

You'll Laugh, Cry and Cheer. As This Year's BEST Story Is Unfolded To You In All It's Realism And Tenderness.

Pandora

1955

The Flash Elorde Story poster
10.0

Gabriel "Flash" Elorde was born to a poor farmer's family in the town of Bogo, Cebu on March 25, 1935, the youngest of the 16 children. Renowned for his boxing skills, speed and ability to slip punches, the famed southpaw became an oriental champion at all weights from bantamweight to lightweight. To this day, Elorde holds the junior lightweight division for the longest title reign of nearly seven-and-a-half years, defending the crown he won with a spectacular 7th round knockout of Harold Gomes before 26,000 screaming fans at the inauguration of the Araneta Coliseum on March 16, 1960, 10 times against the top contenders. Elorde was the first Asian inducted into the New York-based International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1993 and was also enshrined in the World Boxing Hall of Fame. With his skills and humility both inside and outside the ring, "Flash" Elorde will always remain a tribute to the sport. He was a quintessential Filipino who "feared no man but was humble before all men."

The Flash Elorde Story

1961

Behind the camera

Yakuza Contract poster
8.0

As current as today's headlines...the gripping saga of a small man's uphill fight against the dreadead Japanese mafia.

Yakuza Contract

1978

Hustler Squad poster
4.7

World War II: Allied Command learns that in 60 days three Japanese generals and an admiral party at a bordello on a tiny Philippine island. It's fortified and hard to attack, so a creative, cynical major gets the assignment to figure something else. With the help of Paco, a Filipino guerrilla leader, the major devises a plan to put four women assassins among the prostitutes. He must recruit and train them, convince his general that an unarmed woman can best a man, and get them on the island. The rest is up to them. An imprisoned killer, a nurse with a fatal disease, a chippie on the lamb from the mob, and a Filipina whom the Japanese assaulted are his team. Can they do it?

Hustler Squad

1976

No artwork available
7.0

Ancestral home to a wealthy family is being haunted by malevolent spirits. On other side of town, evil creatures are lurking.

Gabi ng Lagim Ngayon

1980

Kalibre .45 poster
9.0

The picture that SCREAMS with action.

Kalibre .45

1957

No artwork available
7.0

You'll Laugh, Cry and Cheer. As This Year's BEST Story Is Unfolded To You In All It's Realism And Tenderness.

Pandora

1955

The Flash Elorde Story poster
10.0

Gabriel "Flash" Elorde was born to a poor farmer's family in the town of Bogo, Cebu on March 25, 1935, the youngest of the 16 children. Renowned for his boxing skills, speed and ability to slip punches, the famed southpaw became an oriental champion at all weights from bantamweight to lightweight. To this day, Elorde holds the junior lightweight division for the longest title reign of nearly seven-and-a-half years, defending the crown he won with a spectacular 7th round knockout of Harold Gomes before 26,000 screaming fans at the inauguration of the Araneta Coliseum on March 16, 1960, 10 times against the top contenders. Elorde was the first Asian inducted into the New York-based International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1993 and was also enshrined in the World Boxing Hall of Fame. With his skills and humility both inside and outside the ring, "Flash" Elorde will always remain a tribute to the sport. He was a quintessential Filipino who "feared no man but was humble before all men."

The Flash Elorde Story

1961

Salabusab poster
9.0

Tough, rugged, reckless, daring yet he's got a heart as gentle as a lamb.

Salabusab

1954

Geron Busabos: Ang Batang Quiapo poster
8.0

Deep in the heart of Manila, a young man lives loves and fights for survival he is Geron Busabos, ang Batang Quiapo.

Geron Busabos: Ang Batang Quiapo

1964

Capitan Pepe poster
10.0

Is there a qualification to lead? Jose a.k.a. Pepe did prove to the people in their barrio that the real concern and love for your constituent is the key to good public service. Capitan Pepe is a story of the dirty and funny side of politics even in the small barrio and it was even made exciting when romance tried to find its place despite the conflict

Capitan Pepe

1969

Sugo poster
NR

Andy, a faithful and meek sacristan of Father Anselmo had his optic nerve severely damages when some armed men tried to rob the church one night. He's to become totally blind if not for Dan (a prisoner who was a victim of a frame up) who donated his eyes to him before he died after a usual prison riot. Having Dan's eyes, Andy was sent to a mission where he sees through dreams and instincts. He defends Dan's family even to the point of risking his life.

Sugo

1982

Blood and Love on a Piece of Land poster
7.5

The greatest, longest, most expensive film produced in the film history of the Philippines. Five segments with an all-star cast, directed by five directors with a running time of 3 hours and 20 minutes.

Blood and Love on a Piece of Land

1975

Postcards from China poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Postcards from China

1975

Bamboo Gods and Iron Men poster
6.0

The Jefferson’s honeymoon night in Hong Kong will be troubled by a number of people wishing to get hold of a Bouddha statuette that the husband offered her when window-shopping that day. When the going gets rough, it helps that Cal Jefferson is a top American boxer.

Bamboo Gods and Iron Men

1974

Puga poster
NR

Three fugitives struggle to survive life outside prison. They face a dilemma when they are forced to take on one last assignment.

Puga

1980

Bago Lumamig Ang Sabaw poster
7.0

A teacher and garbage collector fall in love.

Bago Lumamig Ang Sabaw

1976

This Is a Filipino poster
7.0

This is a Monumental Epic in the History of Filipino Movies.

This Is a Filipino

1966

Counter Spy poster
NR

Cesar Gallardo's secret spy drama

Counter Spy

1966

Dateline Chicago: Arrest The Nurse Killer poster
10.0

Based on the horrific 1970's murder of 8 nurses in Chicago by Richard Speck that paralyzed the city of Chicago!

Dateline Chicago: Arrest The Nurse Killer

1976

No artwork available
NR

Three locals, with different gripes with the town's landowner and former congressman team up to serve justice.

Ang Leon, ang Tigre, at ang Alamid

1979

Tundo: Isla Puting Bato poster
NR

The story is simple, yet gripping in its telling by master director Cesar 'Chat' Gallardo. It is essentially about the brutalization of a man by his environment. In a run-in with the ruling hoodlums of the place Nanding (Fernando Poe, Jr.) kills one them and is sent to jail. While he is in prison, his sister and mother suffer indignities from the criminal kingpin of Isla Putting Bato and Nanding bolts jail on a mission of revenge. While on his quest for vendetta he meets another victim of Putting Bato's brutal society, Charito Solis, and they find in each other the tenderness and solace each was denied before.—BGP

Tundo: Isla Puting Bato

1977

Big Boss poster
10.0

A story about two identical-looking men one a gang boss and the other a college student, their lives change after their fateful meeting.

Big Boss

1965

Mokong poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mokong

1978

Sampung Labuyo poster
NR

Directed by Cesar Gallardo. With Dolphy, Dolphy Jr., Liza Lorena, Victor Wood.

Sampung Labuyo

1969

Ransom! poster
10.0

This Filipino action thriller concerns a crime syndicate which specializes in holding people for ransom. Their most recent foray into crime succeeds in two cases but runs into difficulties when the kidnappers rape the daughter of their latest victim, a doctor. The doctor enlists the help of police Captain Alvaran (Joseph Estrada), who hunts the villains down with the able support of his loving wife.

Ransom!

1974

Matinik Lalong Kilabot poster
NR

Can a man who had fought too long and hated so much find love and peace among his fellowmen?

Matinik Lalong Kilabot

1962

3 Sisters poster
NR

Cora is Susie, happy, carefree teenager. Rosita is Sylvia, socialite who cannot make up her mind until she meets the right man. Nena is Salud, a helpless invalid who believes in just one love.

3 Sisters

1954

Ang Maton poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ang Maton

1959

Master Samurai poster
4.5

An ex-CIA agent is on the trail of a syndicate of human and drug traffickers in the Philippines.

Master Samurai

1974

Be My Love poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Be My Love

1958

Pagsapit ng Hatinggabi poster
NR

4 Stories of chilling, shocking, hair-raising horrors.

Pagsapit ng Hatinggabi

1960

No artwork available
NR

Only son of an overseer, Magno is much in love with Teresa, daughter of his father's boss, Don Marcos. But Don Marcos wants his daughter to marry Bernabe, a rich gambler, but apparently a gentleman. The town does not know he is the"Bat," a mysterious character who preys on the townsfolk. Teresa turns down Bernabe and in revenge Bernabe has Magno kidnapped and denounced as the Bat.

Batingaw

1960

Tatak: Double Cross poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tatak: Double Cross

1966

Kadenang Putik poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kadenang Putik

1960

Kadenang Putik poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kadenang Putik

1960

Ang Sakristan poster
NR

Dolphy stars as a sacristan who forms a close relationship with a young blind girl.

Ang Sakristan

1969

El pinoy matador poster
NR

El pinoy matador: Directed by Cesar Gallardo. With Dolphy, Pilar Pilapil, Panchito, Javier Arriaga.

El pinoy matador

1970