Leroy Salvador

Directing

Leroy Salvador

Known for

Directing

Credits

76 titles

Leroy Salvador was a Filipino actor and film director who began his career as a child star. He first appeared in the 1946 film Aladin, portraying the young version of the title character played by Jaime de la Rosa. Recognised as one of the most talented figures in Philippine cinema, Salvador later became known for his versatility both in front of and behind the camera. He was the eldest among the well-known Salvador family in the entertainment industry. In 1953, he earned the FAMAS Best Supporting Actor Award for his performance in Huk sa Bagong Pamuhay (1953), a role that also brought him international recognition when he received the Best Supporting Actor Award at the Asia-Pacific Film Fes…

Known for

Tuloy ang Ligaya poster
9.0

The most impossible dreams of a great musical come true with the nation's to radio stars, stage and television names.

Tuloy ang Ligaya

1958

Basta Bisaya poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Basta Bisaya

1970

Sana'y Wala Nang Wakas poster
7.0

Three women united by friendship. Three women connected by music. Three women divided by fame. They were three women struggling to make a living when fate smiled at them. From anonymity, they were thrust into a world of glittering lights and deafening adoration. But much that celebrity brought them good things, it too, began to destroy them. They became too consumed by their fame that, one day, without them knowing, the friendship that had been their anchor was fast crumbling down?

Sana'y Wala Nang Wakas

1986

Captain Barbell poster
7.0

Thin and awkward Teng-Teng gets a magic barbell as a reward for his good deed. It turns him into a muscular and powerful Captain Barbell, a superhero who fights the forces of evil.

Captain Barbell

1986

Jack & Jill Sa Amerika poster
4.0

Jack and Jill face a new whole adventure- this time in America! When they received a telegram from their dead uncle's lawyer they were prompted to go to the US immediately. Thinking she can have everything back, Jack decides to sell her jeepney and exhaust her savings to buy their plane ticket. But the day they are about to know the span of their uncle's riches they witness the murder of his lawyer! Jack and Jill must get out fast before the killers get to them first.

Jack & Jill Sa Amerika

1988

Unleash the Love Again poster
9.0

Cristy’s persistence and Jim’s longing for a child lead to an illicit relationship. However, too much love suffocates, and covetousness can breed hate.

Unleash the Love Again

1985

Film credits

1980s · 9 titles

Captain Barbell poster
7.0

Thin and awkward Teng-Teng gets a magic barbell as a reward for his good deed. It turns him into a muscular and powerful Captain Barbell, a superhero who fights the forces of evil.

Captain Barbell

1986

Jack & Jill Sa Amerika poster
4.0

Jack and Jill face a new whole adventure- this time in America! When they received a telegram from their dead uncle's lawyer they were prompted to go to the US immediately. Thinking she can have everything back, Jack decides to sell her jeepney and exhaust her savings to buy their plane ticket. But the day they are about to know the span of their uncle's riches they witness the murder of his lawyer! Jack and Jill must get out fast before the killers get to them first.

Jack & Jill Sa Amerika

1988

Through Thick and Thin poster
9.0

A young couple eloped, got married and then must cope with problems like money, living on their own, trying finish school and raising a baby. not to mention the fact that even young married couples do get bored sometimes.

Through Thick and Thin

1984

Like Father, Like Son poster
9.0

Two families with different characters swap lives to realize that all they need is a healthy balance of being book-smart and being street-smart.

Like Father, Like Son

1985

Three Faces of Love poster
9.0

Three stories of love starring Sharon Cuneta. The first, "I Love You, Moo-Moo" (directed by Leroy Salvador), is about a young bride who died on her honeymoon; the second, "Ang Silid" (directed by Lino Brocka) is about an interior decorator who investigates a forbidden room owned by a mysterious woman whose sister was murdered; and the third, "Katumbas ng Kahapon" (directed by Emmanuel Borlaza) follows a young woman torn between her abusive husband and her former lover who returned from the US.

Three Faces of Love

1988

No artwork available
3.3

A plucky middle-class girl gets pregnant out-of-wedlock but refuses to let her misfortunes dampen her spirit and love of life. Against all odds, Rosenda brings up her daughter all by herself, rejecting offers from Robert Cuevas, the father of her baby.

Rosenda

1989

Dear Diary poster
6.5

Two teen stories in one movie. "Dear Partyline" tells the story of Badong who falls in love with a girl in a Coke commercial who happens to be the other half of their telephone party line. "Dear Killer" tells the story of Lenny and the mysterious disappearance of a girl who was considered the school's best Soprano singer.

Dear Diary

1989

Somewhere poster
6.2

Adapted from the komiks serial by Carlo J. Caparas, this film is about the fugitive, the singer, and the song that sparked their passion. A man escapes prison to kidnap a singer that he has become obsessed with and they embark a passion-filled life on the run.

Somewhere

1984

No artwork available
3.7

A view on the lives of four woman, married, widowed, mistress and "missed."

Sa Totoo Lang!

1985

1960s · 4 titles

1950s · 22 titles

Tuloy ang Ligaya poster
9.0

The most impossible dreams of a great musical come true with the nation's to radio stars, stage and television names.

Tuloy ang Ligaya

1958

Pasikat poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pasikat

1955

Charito, I Love You poster
NR

A story about a young man who falls in love with a girl named Charito.

Charito, I Love You

1956

Darling Ko poster
10.0

A marriage story of a young couple.

Darling Ko

1955

Pilipino Kostum No Touch! poster
NR

Upon the advice of his heart, Arturo searches for the girl with whom he should settle down.

Pilipino Kostum No Touch!

1955

Child of Sorrow poster
5.9

A war hero forced to participate in a smuggling ring meets a prostitute in the postwar ruins of Manila.

Child of Sorrow

1956

Malvarosa poster
6.5

A poignant story of a family’s struggles in life. It tells of Rosa, who lives in the slums near the railroad tracks, with her mother and five brothers. Her mother wallows in guilt and depression when her drunkard father is run over by a train. Though she is set to marry her fiancé, Rosa chooses to put her family’s needs before her own. Rosa’s brothers also carry their own burdens, except for one, the youngest, Avelino, who helps his sister shoulder the weight of the family’s problems.

Malvarosa

1958

Huk in a New Life poster
7.7

Carding, the anti-Japanese guerrilla turned Huk rebel when his family's land is taken over by the greedy landlord while Maxie, the communist recruiter who assures Carding that only a communist can be a true Filipino; however it was Jesus, Carding's brother-in-law who shoots Carding in the arm foiling his attempt to escape the military.

Huk in a New Life

1953

Korea poster
9.0

Korea is a 1952 Philippine war film about the Korean War directed by Lamberto V. Avellana. Produced by LVN Pictures, the film is considered to be lost. Benigno Aquino Jr. wrote the script who based it on his experiences in the war as a correspondent.

Korea

1952

Casa Grande poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Casa Grande

1958

Dama Juana Gang poster
NR

A story about a mischievous youth group.

Dama Juana Gang

1956

Badjao poster
7.2

Hassan, the son of a tribe chief of the Badjaos, a pagan, sea-dwelling Filipino tribe, meets and falls for Bala Amai, the niece of the chief of the Tausugs, an Islamic, land-dwelling tribe. Although the Hassan is willing to give up his lifestyle for Bala Amai and vice versa, the Tausugs plot to break up the union of the happy couple.

Badjao

1957

Anak ni Waray poster
9.0

Your favourite love team plus the Philippines' newest heart-throb and the scree's most seductive siren.

Anak ni Waray

1958

Waray-Waray poster
5.5

A young woman takes up a job as a cook in a wealthy couple's residence. Her employer, an elderly man is infatuated with her, much to the dismay of his arrogant wife.

Waray-Waray

1954

Bad Boy poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bad Boy

1957

Mr. Announcer poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mr. Announcer

1959

Singsing na Tanso poster
NR

A fantasy story about a man who acquires a copper ring that grants three wishes.

Singsing na Tanso

1954

Dagohoy poster
NR

Dedicated to the valiant Boholano hero Francisco Dagohoy, this film shows the real causes that impelled the Dagohoy Uprising.

Dagohoy

1953

Blessings of the Land poster
7.5

Maria and Jose, a young married couple begin life together in an orchard in the countryside. It isn't long until they have four children: Miguel, Arturo, Angelita, and Lito. The eldest, Miguel, is a deaf-mute. Life is good for the family and the children grow up and bring joy to the community. But trouble enters their lives when Jose makes an enemy of Bruno, a widower, much feared in the village.

Blessings of the Land

1959

Luneta poster
9.0

A story about a tomboyish girl who sells street foods and a vagrant boy who met each other at Luneta.

Luneta

1954

1-2-3 poster
7.4

No synopsis available yet.

1-2-3

1955

Dalawang Pag-ibig poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dalawang Pag-ibig

1953

Behind the camera

Basta Bisaya poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Basta Bisaya

1970

Sana'y Wala Nang Wakas poster
7.0

Three women united by friendship. Three women connected by music. Three women divided by fame. They were three women struggling to make a living when fate smiled at them. From anonymity, they were thrust into a world of glittering lights and deafening adoration. But much that celebrity brought them good things, it too, began to destroy them. They became too consumed by their fame that, one day, without them knowing, the friendship that had been their anchor was fast crumbling down?

Sana'y Wala Nang Wakas

1986

Captain Barbell poster
7.0

Thin and awkward Teng-Teng gets a magic barbell as a reward for his good deed. It turns him into a muscular and powerful Captain Barbell, a superhero who fights the forces of evil.

Captain Barbell

1986

Jack & Jill Sa Amerika poster
4.0

Jack and Jill face a new whole adventure- this time in America! When they received a telegram from their dead uncle's lawyer they were prompted to go to the US immediately. Thinking she can have everything back, Jack decides to sell her jeepney and exhaust her savings to buy their plane ticket. But the day they are about to know the span of their uncle's riches they witness the murder of his lawyer! Jack and Jill must get out fast before the killers get to them first.

Jack & Jill Sa Amerika

1988

Unleash the Love Again poster
9.0

Cristy’s persistence and Jim’s longing for a child lead to an illicit relationship. However, too much love suffocates, and covetousness can breed hate.

Unleash the Love Again

1985

Through Thick and Thin poster
9.0

A young couple eloped, got married and then must cope with problems like money, living on their own, trying finish school and raising a baby. not to mention the fact that even young married couples do get bored sometimes.

Through Thick and Thin

1984

Bound Heart poster
7.0

A young woman who all her life has lived under the shadow of her sister, a sister who is not only older but more assertive more intelligent and more appreciated. She knows that even with her best effort she cannot compete with her. Everything is fine with her she is after all more at peace with her kind of uncomplicated existence. But even the most submissive and most patient of people can only take so much. The day comes when she realizes that for her to live her own life she must end her meekness and learn to speak up.

Bound Heart

1986

Alabok sa Ulap poster
10.0

Eva is a dancer in a nightclub where Dom frequently stays. One night, Dom brings with him his best friend Winston to show Eva. Winston is smitten with her beauty and decides to pursue her without knowing that Dom is secretly in love with her. Eva and Winston eventually become a couple and Dom become their most trusted friend

Alabok sa Ulap

1987

Walang Karugtong Ang Nakaraan poster
10.0

A widower found a strong resemblance between his late wife and the tutor of his daughter. Because he never got over his loss he courted and married her and then proceeded to remake her in the image of his wife. Naive and very much in love she obeyed his wishes and only later realized that her husband was not really in love with her but only with a memory.

Walang Karugtong Ang Nakaraan

1987

Sagot ng Puso poster
6.3

A desperately poor young man is forced to avenge himself against the abusive rich and powerful who had oppressed him.

Sagot ng Puso

1990

Tinik sa Dibdib poster
4.0

Lando is married to Lorna. He took on the huge responsibility of taking care of his widowed aunt Trixia and her two children, the youngest being a moron. Because of his obligations to his aunt's family, his relationship with his wife Lorna has not been as happy and ideal as they would have liked. Aside from being needy and dependent on Lando, Trixia has been very close to Lando, a fact that is very much seen by Lorna. A deep dark secret will be eventually revealed to Lorna: that Lando and Trixia is involved romantically and that Trixia's youngest child is Lando's. In the end, Lorna will be slowly relieved of the thorns that has been weighing down on her chest.

Tinik sa Dibdib

1985

Pik Pak Boom poster
9.0

About young people learning that happiness comes from learning how to give of one's self. MANYIKA is about an enchanted doll who came to life and taught two orphans the value of love. BANANA-CUE is about a rich girl who found happiness in the company of a classmate who sold sweetened bananas in order to see himself through high school.

Pik Pak Boom

1988

Pati ba Pintig ng Puso? poster
6.5

When Aldrin returns from the States, everyone is as ecstatic as his grandfather. But his reason for going home is not because of his lolo but his sister who is in an asylum. His vow is to take her away from their grandftaher who caused the early death of their parents. To avenge for what happened to his family, Aldrin plans a final revenge and that's when Jenna comes into his life.

Pati ba Pintig ng Puso?

1985

Inosente poster
4.5

The launching film of Akemi Roces

Inosente

1990

Inosente poster
4.5

The launching film of Akemi Roces

Inosente

1990

No artwork available
NR

Rio Locsin's favorite movie

Gising sa Magdamag

1979

Line of Life poster
8.0

Gloria Sevilla plays a woman who works hard to tend to her child and sick husband in the seaside town of Danao, Cebu. After an incident, the woman must face the court in this classic Visayan melodrama from 1969.

Line of Life

1969

Puto poster
8.0

A puto vendor had been selling cakes everyday after school to help his widowed mother. That was why all the kids in school had been calling him Puto. Puto was the constant butt of jokes but he remained good-natured helpful and kind to everybody. Taking pity on him a dwarf decided to give him special powers. This gave Puto the chance to realize his dream of winning the track and field race.

Puto

1987

No artwork available
9.0

The four children find each other after Elisa and her mother, were thrown out of the house by the evil mother-in-law. Left to fend for themselves, they end up living with the mother’s friend, a bar girl, in an informal settlement.

Mga Batang Yagit

1984

Huwag Mo Kaming Isumpa poster
8.2

A young man avenges his mother's fate in the hands of her philandering husband by seducing the latter's daughter from an earlier marriage.

Huwag Mo Kaming Isumpa

1986

Three Faces of Love poster
9.0

Three stories of love starring Sharon Cuneta. The first, "I Love You, Moo-Moo" (directed by Leroy Salvador), is about a young bride who died on her honeymoon; the second, "Ang Silid" (directed by Lino Brocka) is about an interior decorator who investigates a forbidden room owned by a mysterious woman whose sister was murdered; and the third, "Katumbas ng Kahapon" (directed by Emmanuel Borlaza) follows a young woman torn between her abusive husband and her former lover who returned from the US.

Three Faces of Love

1988

Si Inday sa Balitaw poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Si Inday sa Balitaw

1970

Mundo Man ay Magunaw poster
8.0

After more than a decade of imprisonment, Dolores is ready to start a new life again and rebuild the family she never had.

Mundo Man ay Magunaw

1990

Dear Diary poster
6.5

Two teen stories in one movie. "Dear Partyline" tells the story of Badong who falls in love with a girl in a Coke commercial who happens to be the other half of their telephone party line. "Dear Killer" tells the story of Lenny and the mysterious disappearance of a girl who was considered the school's best Soprano singer.

Dear Diary

1989

Jack & Jill poster
4.0

When the old man became ill Jack took over her father's job of chauffeuring for a handsome millionaire whose rather eccentric mother had decided to adopt Jill so she could fulfill her dream of having a daughter. But Jill was really Jack's sister or brother.

Jack & Jill

1987

Puro Labis Puro Kulang poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Puro Labis Puro Kulang

1962

Puro Labis Puro Kulang poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Puro Labis Puro Kulang

1962

First Lessons poster
10.0

A teenager experiences his first taste of physical intimacy with the opposite sex, courtesy of an elder, worldly-wise woman.

First Lessons

1989

Pangarap na Ginto poster
7.0

Pretending to be happy in a high school reunion, Sheila, Daisy, and Sandy find comfort and love with each other when they reveal about the sad realities of their lives.

Pangarap na Ginto

1990

M & M: The Incredible Twins poster
7.0

Marcelino is the son of a rich family who needs to look for his twin brother who was separated from him. If he does not find him in time, his parents will give his brother’s inheritance to his evil Uncle.

M & M: The Incredible Twins

1989

Kokak poster
4.3

a film by Leroy Salvador.

Kokak

1989

My Pretty Baby poster
9.0

A woman gets sold by her mother to predatory men.

My Pretty Baby

1991

Hindi Laruan Ang Puso poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hindi Laruan Ang Puso

1990

Basag poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Basag

1980

Beloved poster
9.0

A friendship turns south when one of them stole the others' fiance and then asks her to keep the relationship together.

Beloved

1985

Wow Na Wow!! poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Wow Na Wow!!

1966