Writing

Lualhati Bautista

Known for

Writing

Credits

16 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

The '70s poster
6.0

Set in the Philippines during martial law, the film follows the Bartolome family’s struggles over several years.

The '70s

2002

Sutla poster
6.2

Sutla starring Priscilla Almeda

Sutla

1999

Maricris Sioson - Japayuki poster
4.7

The quest for truth about the plight of a Filipina entertainer who went to Japan for greener pastures and was brought back to Manila dead.

Maricris Sioson - Japayuki

1993

Lea's Story poster
9.0

A fiercely independent and unflinchingly candid woman connected with a women's crisis and survival center has to raise her two kids with different fathers. Her first husband has left her when their career options failed to converge. She is now stuck in an extramarital arrangement with another man who cannot bring himself to respect and commit to their quite unorthodox relationship.

Lea's Story

1998

Should the Skies Clear poster
7.8

Catherine goes through all the travails of a young woman who must deal with a scheming stepfather out to dupe her of her inheritance.

Should the Skies Clear

1984

Mister Mo, Lover Ko poster
3.7

A film about sexual frustrations, middle-aged problems, workplace tensions, and other challenges that beset married and unmarried couples.

Mister Mo, Lover Ko

1999

Rizal in Dapitan poster
7.0

Dr. Jose Rizal was exiled in Dapitan from 1892-1896. These were his last four years. Dapitan served as his prison cell. He always compared it to “a beautiful cage” where he is imprisoned. This was the longest imprisonment Rizal ever had. He became so lost by those times, but still he did not lose his mind. Even there, he continued studying and discovering things. He continued his conversation with his friends, scientists and doctors outside the country.

Rizal in Dapitan

1997

Flowers of the City Jail poster
6.2

A pregnant woman arrested for frustrated murder is sent to the Manila City Jail where she meets several women with shocking pasts.

Flowers of the City Jail

1984

No artwork available
4.0

Christine is a university guidance counsellor trapped in a loveless marriage. Leo, her husband, a cruel and vicious politician refuses to set Christine free as he needs her when he runs for public office and hires Orlando, a private detective to get solid evidence against Christine's infidelity.

Gusto Ko Nang Lumigaya

2000

The Tenants poster
3.0

A sakada is a farmer who works in a sugarcane field. The film proceeds to document the stages of sugar production once in the mill, then shifts to the unrest outside where a sakada was shot to death by one of the hacienda's guards.

The Tenants

1976

Working Students poster
9.0

A 1992 Filipino comedy film directed by Ed Palmos.

Working Students

1992

Kadenang Bulaklak poster
10.0

Jasmin, Violy, Baby and Daisy are sisters that were separated in their youth.

Kadenang Bulaklak

1993

Kailan Dalawa Ang Mahal poster
NR

A 1993 Filipino film starring Snooky Serna, Gabby Concepcion, Ruffa Gutierrez, and Miguel Rodriguez.

Kailan Dalawa Ang Mahal

1993

No artwork available
10.0

Ike Jarlego Jr. and writer Lualhati Bautista's noir about a nightclub waitress raped while in prison.

Nena

1995

Madonna's Secret poster
3.9

A surreal melodrama about a deranged woman raising a child.

Madonna's Secret

1997

Bakat poster
4.3

Annie, an alluring lady, catches the eye of old widower Leoncio. The old man marries her after a short period of acquaintance. Leoncio's son Robert and daughter Marites disapprove of their father's single-handed decision, leading to a conflict that causes the old man's fatal heart attack. After Leoncio's death, Robert feels terribly sorry for Annie especially when he discovers that she is suffering from schizophrenia. Soon, Annie's condition helps Leoncio's children realize the essence of a family.

Bakat

2001