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8.5Wag Kukurap is a horror television series hosted by Dingdong Dantes. The show is broadcast every Saturday and is divided into two shows, each containing a true paranormal story from the best selling horror books True Philippine Ghost Stories and Haunted Philippines. During the intermission, a photograph of ghostly figures is shown and later on the background revealed. Contests are sometimes held where participants must decide which of two pictures is real. At the end, footage of "real life ghosts" encountered by people is shown.
Wag Kukurap
2004
6.6The daughter of a circumciser rebels and challenges the status quo when she is asked to take over her father's job.
Circumcision
2005
NRNarcisa "Sisa" Dalangin is a young Filipina during the Spanish Occupation & is a childhood friend of Jose Rizal.
Sisa
2008
9.0Alma and Teresa Carrillo are illigitimate children of Basilio who belongs to a rich clan, but they were never accepted by his mother Josefa and his wife Doreen. The sisters never expected any help from their father despite all their suffering. They suffered more when Alma's husband Teddy was killed, leaving in their care her two sons Abet and Jun. When Alma died, only their half-brother Raffy helps Teresa. Teresa fights back and confronts the Carrillos.
Araw Araw, Gabi Gabi
1995
8.0When plain orphan Elsa begins having visions of the Virgin Mary, the rest of the residents of her isolated village find themselves questioning their own beliefs and values. Soon, Elsa is healing people with a variety of ailments. As word of this phenomenon spreads, tourists, pilgrims, patients and a documentary filmmaker all arrive on a quest to partake in the miracle.
Himala
1982
10.0'Kakabakaba' is a weekly horror-fantasy series that was aired from 2000-2002 on GMA Network
Kakabakaba
2000
Film credits
2010s · 7 titles
1.8A young woman witnesses the beginnings of a revolution during Martial Law.
Ka Oryang
2011
9.0A 2012 documentary about the making and the legacy of the 1982 drama masterpiece directed by Ishmael Bernal that ended up being one of the greatest Asian films of all time. The revelations about the theory of "Who killed Elsa?" will be answered and also, the impact of the film to the Filipino culture and society.
Himala Ngayon
2012
4.0An erotic 16th Century period drama, the film examines the initial encounter between the Indios (natives) and their colonizers (Spaniards) and their conflicting views on love, passion, religion and sexuality.
Love and Death
2013
NRAn aging assassin hides in a facility for abandoned senior citizens to protect a daughter he left years ago.
Layang Bilanggo
2010
Melba is the wife of a slain farmer-leader whose murder is attributed to an incumbent governor. She goes to the city to appeal the case and to seek out a new life after the tragedy. Working as a staff member at the office of City Councilor, she is introduced to the life inside politics. Eventually she will be deeply involved, as her decision to marry the budding politician lays a carefully planned agenda.
The Corruption of Melba
2013
NRMabuti accidentally finds a stash of money that could bring an end to her family’s financial problems: is the solution that simple or is it loaded with complications?
Ang Kwento ni Mabuti
2013
NREvery night, Nana Lusing lies on her bed sleepless because she sees a dark figure looming in her room. Who is this shadow? Is this the devil? Her late husband? A manifestation of her anxieties? Or simply a figment of her imagination?
Diablo
2012
2000s · 14 titles
6.6The daughter of a circumciser rebels and challenges the status quo when she is asked to take over her father's job.
Circumcision
2005
NRNarcisa "Sisa" Dalangin is a young Filipina during the Spanish Occupation & is a childhood friend of Jose Rizal.
Sisa
2008
9.0Experiencing problems in their marriages, Dianne and Albert unexpectedly meet and fall and love.
Minsan, Minahal Kita
2000
8.0Ano Bang Meron Ka is a tightly woven modern love story between two of most unlikely lovers played in the film by Joyce Jimenez and Diether Ocampo. Joyce plays a high-living partygoing lifestyle writer and special events organizer who when she meets the more laid-back and unassuming bar owner, Diether, finds in the guy the exact foil to her want on ways - but whom romantically electrifies her to sweep her off her feet in the most unexpected ways.
Ano Bang Meron Ka?
2001
6.3Ding tells the story of his life and how it was shaped by three women which includes his godmother, her adopted daughter and his wife.
Laro sa Baga
2000
6.8Marco has found the perfect girl in Divina. Though they've only spoken on the phone, they're convinced they're meant to be together. One problem: Divina's living in 1957 and Marco in 2006.
Moments of Love
2006
7.0Their paths always cross but they never seem to meet. Eric is a very smart young man. Though he doesn't have the financial capabilities, he is strong-willed to succeed. He even takes a job as the school's janitor to work his way through night school. He finds inspiration in Pia, the most beautiful and wealthiest girl in their school. But all Eric could do is become Pia's "savior." When will Pia realize that Eric is more than her knight in shining armor? Maybe only them can they let the love begin.
Let the Love Begin
2005
4.1Mang Rudy, the widowed woodcarver, wields an iron hand over his three daughters: the fun-loving but rebellious Grace, the youngest, who goes through the throes of adjusting to married life; the feisty and headstrong Lourdes, the middle daughter, who succumbs to an extra-marital affair; and the subservient and discriminated on eldest, Jess, a lesbian who brings home her girlfriend to take care of the father after he succumbs to a heart attack.
Summer Heat
2006
4.7A young woman uses her grandmother's tarot cards to find her missing boyfriend.
Tarot
2009
7.0A Filipino romantic drama about love, loyalty, and the promise to stay together through difficult times. The story follows two people whose relationship is tested by hardships, misunderstandings, and circumstances that challenge their commitment to one another.
Mahal Kita, Walang Iwanan
2000
NRThe film, set in the 1980s, is centred upon a young student, from 1982 as a freshman and ending in 1986. The background is the last years of Martial Law in the Philippines where the Marcos dictatorship was at its peak.
Pisay
2007
3.3Separated as children, two brothers find themselves on opposing sides of the law as adults, with one working as a cop trying to take down the drug lord for whom his brother works.
Masamang Ugat
2003
4.0Film about the struggles of Filipino dancers who want to make it big in Japan.
I Love Dreamguyz
2009
NRPandanggo has three stories with parallel themes converging in one event, the Kasilonawan Festival in Obando: a career woman learning to dance tango who is torn between her dance partner and live-in partner has to choose the man who will satisfy her dream of raising a family; a wife whose wish to conceive a baby boy to make her husband happy brings her feet to the festival, but fate has other plans of bringing the child into her life; and a modern woman who, amidst her medical condition that might render her childless for the rest of her life, finds connection with an ancient lore about fertility.
Pandanggo
2006
1990s · 12 titles
9.0Alma and Teresa Carrillo are illigitimate children of Basilio who belongs to a rich clan, but they were never accepted by his mother Josefa and his wife Doreen. The sisters never expected any help from their father despite all their suffering. They suffered more when Alma's husband Teddy was killed, leaving in their care her two sons Abet and Jun. When Alma died, only their half-brother Raffy helps Teresa. Teresa fights back and confronts the Carrillos.
Araw Araw, Gabi Gabi
1995
5.6Curacha, a torera (live sex performer), finds herself trapped in an anomalous game of association between sex, life and death, and its political equivalent of sleaze, subservicence and power in drug-addled world. Every night, she sets off to join her fellow toreras for a midnight show of fun and kitschy live sex act. In one tuning point of her life, she bumps into a long-lost friend, Myrna, a former torera, who seems to have a lost grip on life. Curacha makes it her personal mission to save Myrna as she does some soul-searching herself. In the end, we see traces of hope glimmering somewhere, somehow, in a manner that escapes the restless Curacha.
Curacha: The Restless Woman
1998
4.7The moment the doctor confirms his wife's pregnancy Carlo felt a sign of a curse coming to life. It's the curse caused by his errant grandfather, the curse that doomed his father. The same curse that's about to destroy him. Advised by his doctor to rest, Carlo returns to his family's villa in Lucban and there, he meets Carmen, the woman destined to kill her.
Katawan
1999
10.0Badong (FPJ) is an auto repair shop owner and a doting father to Joey (Judy Ann Santos), his pretty but tomboyish daugther. The protective father that he is, Badong disheartens every young man who tries to woo Joey.The real test in their father-daugther relationship comes when Badong meets and falls in love with a beautiful doctor. Thinking that she is losing her father's love to another woman, Joey agrees to go out with her boastful suitor to spite Badong.
Isusumbong Kita sa Tatay Ko
1999
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To Saudi with Love
1997
9.0Veronica lives a double life as a librarian during the day while secretly working as a disc jockey at night for the popular program. One day, Veronica receives a love letter from one her listeners who boldly professes his love for her and his desire to meet her personally. Will Veronica finally give in to love's call or will she once again cower away and retreat to her books and music.
Radio Romance
1996
8.0The story follows a village girl who is mysteriously spared when a platoon of soldiers led by Colonel Valderamma massacres her family, along with peasants accused of sympathizing with the communists. When the girl has grown up, her body has healed, but her mind is yet to recover from the horrible experience. She continues to thirst for revenge and crafts a scheme to exact retribution. She eyes the head of the military mission who instigated the carnage that she survived. He is now a well-admired retiring general who is about to cap his career with the service's highest honors.
Why Is There a Yesterday?
1996
8.0Childhood best friends Beverly and Maxine's picture-perfect relationship is strained when one of them is suddenly thrust into the world of marriage and motherhood.
Mula Noon Hanggang Ngayon
1996
10.0Two passionate teachers from an exclusive school named Robbie and Anna, try to inspire their students to gain confidence through their own shared passion for the arts and performance.
Hataw Na!
1995
NRA 1993 Filipino film starring Snooky Serna, Gabby Concepcion, Ruffa Gutierrez, and Miguel Rodriguez.
Kailan Dalawa Ang Mahal
1993
9.0The young Doray takes a job as a babysitter in an old house. It is home of the doctor Sagrado with his wife and the housekeeper Melba. Soon after her arrival happened strange things and she has nightmares. She received warnings from the young Hermie and his mother. The child is a demon, a so called Impakto.
Impakto
1996
7.0Gloria is a pretty laundress working for a rich young couple. Her male employer is sick and tired of his wife's negative ways, so he decided to use Gloria to rile her.
Gloria Gloria Labandera
1997
1980s · 3 titles
8.0When plain orphan Elsa begins having visions of the Virgin Mary, the rest of the residents of her isolated village find themselves questioning their own beliefs and values. Soon, Elsa is healing people with a variety of ailments. As word of this phenomenon spreads, tourists, pilgrims, patients and a documentary filmmaker all arrive on a quest to partake in the miracle.
Himala
1982
6.1A story set in the Philippine Republic in the 1900s where a lass, a Spanish mestizo, and a fisherman are caught up by Macabebe soldiers who are trying to capture Emilio Aguinaldo.
Virgin Forest
1985
8.2August 1950. The fortunes of three impoverished friends and their families abruptly change after an airplane crashes in a nearby mountain. They rush to the crash site along with all the villagers, not to help the victims but to plunder their valuables. A dead American passenger carried a large amount of money in his briefcase, which Mesiong, Ponsoy, and Jamin find and avariciously keep for themselves. But the town mayor gets greedy and, with his hirelings, abducts the three to divest them of their booty.
Joyful Mystery
1984
Series credits
8.5Wag Kukurap is a horror television series hosted by Dingdong Dantes. The show is broadcast every Saturday and is divided into two shows, each containing a true paranormal story from the best selling horror books True Philippine Ghost Stories and Haunted Philippines. During the intermission, a photograph of ghostly figures is shown and later on the background revealed. Contests are sometimes held where participants must decide which of two pictures is real. At the end, footage of "real life ghosts" encountered by people is shown.
Wag Kukurap
2004
10.0'Kakabakaba' is a weekly horror-fantasy series that was aired from 2000-2002 on GMA Network
Kakabakaba
2000
